Walnut
['wɔːlnʌt] or ['wɔlnət]
Definition
(noun.) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell.
(noun.) any of various trees of the genus Juglans.
(noun.) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling.
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Definition
(n.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
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Definition
n. a genus (Juglans) comprising seven or eight species of beautiful trees of natural order Juglandace—the wood of the common walnut is much used for furniture and gunstocks; its ripe fruit is one of the best of nuts and yields an oil used by artists &c.—Black walnut a North American walnut the timber of which is more valuable than that of common walnut though the fruit is inferior.
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To dream of walnuts, is an omen significant of prolific joys and favors. To dream that you crack a decayed walnut, denotes that your expectations will end in bitterness and regretable collapse. For a young woman to dream that she has walnut stain on her hands, foretells that she will see her lover turn his attention to another, and she will entertain only regrets for her past indiscreet conduct.
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Examples
- The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was very little in the room except a couple of walnut roller-top desks--which were very generally used in American offices at that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The old-fashioned chairs were very bright, and the walnut-wood table was like a looking-glass. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On the 19th General Taylor, with is army, was encamped at Walnut Springs, within three miles of Monterey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My Austrian sniper's rifle with its blued octagon barrel and the lovely dark walnut, cheek-fitted, schutzen stock, hung over the two beds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We retreated to get out of fire, not backward, but eastward and perpendicular to the direct road running into the city from Walnut Springs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To the north, between the city and Walnut Springs, stretches an extensive plain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our camps at Walnut Springs, three miles away, were guarded by a company from each regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sherman's line of march led him to the very point on Walnut Hills occupied by the enemy the December before when he was repulsed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was regimental quartermaster at the time and was ordered to remain in charge of camp and the public property at Walnut Springs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If Beaufort-- Archer sprang up, his fist banging down on the black walnut-edge of the writing-table. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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