| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Expression | 1. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel , under Mountain .[Websters]. | |
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Common Expressions: IVY BUSH
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| Ivy bush | (Bot.) See Mountain laurel , under Mountain . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: IVY BUSH
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| Ivy bush | Literature | 1: The moping owl doth to the moon complain 2: Stanzs 3. 3: Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, 4: Molest her ancient solitary reign." 5: "From yonder ivy-mantled tower 6: Like an owl in an ivy-bush. Having a sapient, vacant look, as some persons have when in their cups; having a stupid vacant stare. Owls are proverbial for their judge-like solemnity, and ivy is the favourite plant of Bacchus. Gray, in his Elegy, refers to the Owl and the Ivy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Ivy bush | Slang in 1811 | IVY BUSH. Like an owl in an ivy bush; a simile for a meager or weasel-faced man, with a large wig, or very bushy hair. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Owl in an ivy bush | Literature | 1: None but the owlet that cries `How, how!' " 2: (Like an). Very ugly, a horrible fright [of a fellow]. Said of (or to) a person who has dressed his head unbecomingly, or that has a scared look, an untidy head of hair, or that looks inanely wise. The ivy bush was supposed to be the favourite haunt of owls, and numerous allusions to this supposition might be readily cited. 3: "Good ivy, say to us what birds hast thou? 4: Carol (time Henry VI.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Owl in an ivy bush | Slang in 1811 | OWL IN AN IVY BUSH. He looks like an owl in an ivy bush; frequently said of a person with a large frizzled wig, or a woman whose hair is dressed a-la-blowze. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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