Orchard
['ɔːtʃəd] or ['ɔrtʃɚd]
Definition
(n.) A garden.
(n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
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Definition
n. a garden of fruit-trees esp. of apple-trees also the enclosure containing such.—ns. Or′chard-house a glass house for cultivating fruits without artificial heat; Or′charding; Or′chardist.
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Dreaming of passing through leaving and blossoming orchards with your sweetheart, omens a delightful consummation of a long courtship. If the orchard is filled with ripening fruit, it denotes recompense for faithful service to those under masters, and full fruition of designs for the leaders of enterprises. Happy homes, with loyal husbands and obedient children, for wives. If you are in an orchard and see hogs eating the fallen fruit, it is a sign that you will lose property in trying to claim what are not really your own belongings. To gather the ripe fruit, is a happy omen of plenty to all classes. Orchards infested with blight, denotes a miserable existence, amid joy and wealth. To be caught in brambles, while passing through an orchard, warns you of a jealous rival, or, if married, a private but large row with your partner. If you dream of seeing a barren orchard, opportunities to rise to higher stations in life will be ignored. If you see one robbed of its verdure by seeming winter, it denotes that you have been careless of the future in the enjoyment of the present. To see a storm-swept orchard, brings an unwelcome guest, or duties.
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The small boy's Eden of today, in which the apple again occasions the fall.
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Examples
- Baird's division was accordingly sent from the right of Orchard Knob. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As I was with him on Orchard Knob, he would not move without further orders from me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Ahead the road turned off to the left and there was a little hill and, beyond a stone wall, an apple orchard. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He then came to me and said that if he could raise $4000 he could go into some kind of orchard arrangement out there, and would give me half the profits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I did not like to walk at this hour alone with Mr. Rochester in the shadowy orchard; but I could not find a reason to allege for leaving him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The garden and orchard alone need two or three men, and farming isn't in Bhaer's line, I take it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My mother says the orchard was always famous in her younger days. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Farebrother left the house soon after, and seeing Mary in the orchard with Letty, went to say good-by to her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The morning of the 25th opened clear and bright, and the whole field was in full view from the top of Orchard Knob. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Equally well remembered is a dangerous encounter with a ram that attacked him while he was busily engaged digging out a bumblebee's nest near an orchard fence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The old orchard wore its holiday attire. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As I have said, there was an apple orchard on the side of the hill occupied by the Confederate forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When I took the road again next morning, I found that it lay through a succession of hop-grounds and orchards. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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