Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
witch-elm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.), obsolete The wych-elm.
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Some people have conjectured that it was a corruption of _white elm_, and so called from the silvery whiteness of its leaves when the sun shines upon them; but this is hardly probable, as Sir F. Bacon in his "_Silva Silvarum_, or Natural History, in Ten Centuries," speaks of it under the name of _weech-elm_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various
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