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Whitten. World English Historical Dictionary

Whitten. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whitten dial. Also 6 Sc. veyton, 7 whitting, whiting, 9 witten. [Usually whitten-tree, repr. OE. hwítingtréow, f. hwíting (of identical formation with WHITING sb.) + tréow TREE.] A name for the water elder or wild guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), and the wayfaring-tree (V. Lantana). Also (by confusion with whicken, QUICKEN sb.1), the mountain-ash or rowan (Pyrus aucuparia), and some allied plants.

1   Whitten pear-tree, the service-tree (Pyrus Sorbus): see quot. 1833 s.v. WHITTY.

2 c. 1100.  Ælfric’s Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 139/1. Uariculus, hwitingtreow. [Identified by Cockayne as Pyrus Aria, White-Beam-tree.]

3 1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 67. I sau veyton, the decoctione of it is remeid for ane sair hede.

4 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, VI. lxxx. 761. Of Marris Elder, Ople, or Dwarffe Plane tree…. I take this to be a shrub that is called in Englishe, Whittentree, whereof are two kindes.

5 1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, III. lxxii. 1237. The water Elder is called … in English Marish Elder, and Whitten tree, Ople tree, and Dwarffe Plane tree.

6 1636.  Johnson, Gerarde’s Herbal, Table Eng. Names, Whicken tree, i. wilde Ash…. Whitten tree, i. water Elder, or wilde Ash.

7 1668.  Phil. Trans., III. 857. The Whitting or Quicking-tree, (Lat. Fraxinus Sylvestris, and by some Fraxinus Cambro-Britanica).

8 a. 1697.  Aubrey (Royal Soc. MS. lf. 137), in Britten & Holland, Plant-n., About Cranbourn chace growes … a tree with a white leafe … no bigger than a cherry tree; they call it Whiting or Whitewood.

9 1847.  Halliwell, Whitten, the wayfaring tree. Kent.

10 1868.  Archaeologia, XLII. 125. The Rowan or Quick-bean,… popularly termed the Mountain Ash…, and, in some counties, the Whiten-tree and the Witty.

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