ˈwhin-bush
Forms: see whin1 and bush n.1; also 6 wyn-, 7 wine-.
A furze-bush.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 416/1 A Whyn buske..salivnca, saliuncula, paliurus. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 1728/1 He tost a faggot at his face..and set a wynbushe of thornes vnder his feete. 1644 W. Cavendish (Dk. Newc.) Let. Life (1886) 352 Through some fields of furze and whin bushes. 1721 Ramsay To the Whin-Bush Club 19 To come beneath your Whin-Bush Shade. 1881 J. Grant Cameronians iv, Masses of whin-bush (or gorse as it is called in England). 1889 Conan Doyle Micah Clarke x, The gentle murmur of the breeze amongst the whin-bushes. |