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Barnaby. World English Historical Dictionary

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Barnaby. 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. 1888, rev. 2024. Barnaby [a. F. Barnabé, ad. L. Barnabas.] By-form of the name Barnabas; whence Barnaby-day, Barnaby bright, or long Barnaby, St. Barnabas’ Day, the 11th of June, in Old Style reckoned the ‘longest day’; Barnaby-thistle, the Centaurea solstitialis, so named from its flowering about the 11th of June.

1 1595.  Spenser, Epithal., 266. This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright.

2 1645.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 49. This short December day, It would spin out, to make my Readers say, Long Barnabie was never halfe so gay.

3 1650.  Fuller, Pisgah, II. xii. 255. Staying the Sun in Gibeon … This was the Barnaby day of the whole world.

4 1670.  Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 32. Barnaby-bright would be much too short for him to tell you all that he could say.

5 1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, IV. iv. It was but last St. Barnabright They sieged him a whole summer night.

6 1598.  Florio, Calcatrippa, Star-thistle, or Saint Barnabaes thistle.

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