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whortle
whortle (ˈhwɜːt(ə)l) Also 7 wortle: see also hurtle n.2 [Short for whortleberry.] = whortleberry.1597 [see hurtle n.2]. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 131 The people vse to eat the Wortles in creame and milke. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 219 Fen-berries..are of like temper and faculty with our...
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Whortle's Hope
Whortle's Hope is a dark fantasy novel for children by British author Robin Jarvis. Young Whortle longs to win the competition, but not if it means his friends are going to sabotage the other competitor's chances.
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whortleberry
whortleberry (ˈhwɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also (8 whirtle-), 8–9 wortleberry. [South-western dial. form of hurtleberry: cf. whort. Used by Lyte, a Somerset man, in his translation of Dodoens' Herbal, whence app. by later writers on plants, so as to have become at length the usual ‘book-name’.] The blue-black fr...
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Euura myrsiniticola
The larvae feed internally in a gall formed on the leaves of whortle-leaved willow (Salix myrsinites). Description of the gall
The pea-sized gall is smooth and globular and occurs on whortle-leaved willow (Salix myrsinites).
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hurtle
▪ I. † hurtle, n.1 Obs. or dial. [? related to hurt n.1, or to F. heurt a blow, the mark of a blow: see hurt n.2] A swelling upon the skin.1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 74 Vpon whose palmes such warts and hurtells rise As may in poulder grate a nutmegge thick. c 1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. v. (...
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Gaylussacia brachycera
Salisbury referred to it as V. buxifolium in 1805, and this remained the prevailing name for the next forty years; the common name "box-leaved whortle-berry
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nummock
nummock variant of nummet.1875 Sat. Rev. 3 Aug. 140/1 Our whortle-gatherers..sit down for their ‘nummock’ of bread and whortleberries, washed down by..water.
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William Edmunds (actor)
Whortle (uncredited)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) - Moonshee (uncredited)
Swamp Fire (1946) - Emile Ledoux
Nobody Lives Forever (1946) - Mission Priest
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slippy
▪ I. slippy, a.1 (ˈslɪpɪ) Also 6 slyppie, 6–7 slippie. [f. slip v.1 + -y1; cf. MHG. slipfec, -ig, obs. G. schlipfig. Not directly connected with OE. slipiᵹ viscid.] 1. = slippery a., in various lit. and fig. senses.(a) 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xix. 154 It pleased him..to mocke the glory of ...
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The Fairy's Dilemma
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Clarissa Whortle – Dorothy Grimstone
Mrs. Meanwhile, however, Aloysius is in love with Clarissa Whortle, the daughter of a judge.
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mutchkin
mutchkin Sc. (ˈmʌtʃkɪn) Also 6 mych-, mutskin, musking, 7 mutchin, mwching, 8 mutchken, -kine, muchkin. [a. early mod.Du. mudseken (now mutsje), app. an irregular diminutive of mud(de mud n.2] A measure of capacity for liquids (or for dry substances of a powdery or granular character); the fourth pa...
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Sydney Valentine
In 1904 he played Justice Whortle in W. S. Gilbert's The Fairy's Dilemma at the Garrick Theatre.
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cow-berry
ˈcow-berry [f. cow n.1: app. a rendering of the Latin vaccīnium, f. vaccīnus of or pertaining to cows, applied to some plant, supposed to be the Bilberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus), and now taken as name of the genus.] A book-name, of recent bestowal, for the low shrub Vaccinium Vitis-Idæa, and its fruit...
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List of The Deptford Mice characters
After Hodge, Whortle and Jenkin are mysteriously murdered, the fieldmice begin to think that Audrey had killed them. Whortle Nep
Whortle Nep first appears in The Crystal Prison, but is the main character in Whortle's Hope, which takes place the summer before the events
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uva
uva (ˈjuːvə) Pl. uvæ (ˈjuːviː). [L. ūva grape, uvula, etc. (whence It., Pr., Sp., Pg. uva, F. uve).] † 1. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1. App. an error for, and misunderstanding of, uvea.1562 Turner Herbal ii. 67 Oliue..is good for the diseases of the ey called vua, and for wheles. [Hence in Langham Garden...
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