yew-tree
(ˈjuːtriː)
= yew n. 1.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxi. (1495) V j/1 An Ewe tree..is a tree with venim & poyson. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 646/13 Hec taxus, hawtre [sic], newtre. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 507/2 V tree (K. uv tre), taxus. 1538 Turner Libellus, Taxus, an Vhe tre. 1593 in N. & Q. 1st Ser. (1852) VI. 64/1 Itm. for leadinge of earthe to y⊇ benche about the yewe tree,..ijs. iiij{supd}. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 554 The rotten part of Eue-tree. 1612 Webster White Devil i. ii. 261 Into a church-yard, where a goodly Eu tree Spred her large roote in ground. a 1697 Aubrey Surrey (1718) III. 46 In this Church-Yard is an Ew-Tree, ten Yards in Compass. 1750 Gray Elegy iv, Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles v. xix, The yew-tree lent its shadow dark. 1864 Tennyson En. Ard. 732 An ancient evergreen, A yewtree. |
| attrib. and Comb. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 52/1 He beareth Argent, a Yew Tree Branch Fructed. 1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall x. 145 A massive yew-tree-lined walk. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt Introd. 4 Its untidy kitchen-garden and cone-shaped yew-tree arbour. 1889 Science-Gossip XXV. 118/2 The poisonous nature of yew-tree leaves. |
Hence
yew-tree'd a., planted with yew-trees.
| 1872 Mrs. A. Gatty Bk. Sun-dials Introd. p. xxii, The quaint yew-tree'd garden. |