ˈfir-tree
[f. fir + tree.]
= fir 1.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. xiv. 8 Fyrre trees also gladeden vp on thee. 1430–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 335 There be bryddes whiche thei calle bernacles..whom nature producethe ageyne nature from firre trees. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 101 b, In the mountaines delighteth the Fyrre tree. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 196 A little after the Equinox, prune Pine and Fir-trees. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 148 They grow in Clusters upon a Kind of Turpentine or Fir-Tree. 1855 Longfellow Hiaw. vii. 63 Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree! |