Lawn
[lɔːn] or [lɔn]
Definition
(n.) An open space between woods.
(n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Edited by Karl
Definition
n. a sort of fine linen or cambric.—adj. made of lawn.—adj. Lawn′y.—Lawn sleeves wide sleeves of lawn worn by Anglican bishops.
n. an open space between woods: a space of ground covered with grass generally in front of or around a house or mansion.—ns. Lawn′-mow′er a machine for cutting the grass on a lawn; Lawn′-sprink′ler a machine for watering a lawn by sprinkling from a hose with perforated swivel-collar; Lawn′-tenn′is a game played with a ball and rackets on an open lawn or other smooth surface by two three or four persons.—adj. Lawn′y.
Editor: Rebekah
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy and great prosperity. To join a merry party upon a lawn, denotes many secular amusements, and business engagements will be successfully carried on. For a young woman to wait upon a green lawn for the coming of a friend or lover, denotes that her most ardent wishes concerning wealth and marriage will be gratified. If the grass be dead and the lawn marshy, quarrels and separation may be expected. To see serpents crawling in the grass before you, betrayal and cruel insinuations will fill you with despair.
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Examples
- There had been a man in the room, and he had crossed the lawn coming from the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In his case a trailer of ivy had given way under his weight, and we saw by the light of a lantern the mark on the lawn where his heels had come down. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We passed round the lawn to the outside of the young diplomatist's window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But instead, he crossed the lawn and turned toward the box-garden. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The gate was opened by one of the rosy maids, and on the lawn were the Newfoundland dog and the man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The lawn was the reception room, and for several minutes a lively scene was enacted there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They all trailed out on to the lawn. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We looked again, and saw, through the arbor, an endless stretch of garden, and shrubbery, and grassy lawn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In front, it looked over a lawn, over a few trees, down to a string of fish-ponds in the hollow of the silent park. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lunch was served on the lawn, under the great tree, whose thick, blackish boughs came down close to the grass. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was looking out on the lawn, with melancholy meditation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The window is a long French one, which really forms a door leading to the lawn. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Green lawns with flower-beds are before the terrace, and the whole is encircled by the park. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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