Willow

['wɪləʊ] or ['wɪlo]

Definition

(noun.) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers.

(noun.) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix.

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Definition

(n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.

(n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.

(v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Osier.

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Definition

n. any tree or shrub of the genus Salix having slender pliant branches: the wood of the willow: a cricket-bat.—v.t. to beat with willow rods as in cleaning cotton &c.—adj. Will′owed abounding with or containing willows.—n. Will′ow-herb a perennial herb (Epilobium) of the evening primrose family—also Rose-bay Bay-willow French or Persian willow.—adj. Will′owish like a willow slender and supple.—ns. Will′ow-machine′ a machine for extracting dirt from hemp cotton &c.—also Will′ow; Will′ow-moth a common British night-moth; Will′ow-war′bler -wren a small European sylviine bird; Will′ow-weed one of various species of Polygonum or knot-weed: the purple loose-strife.—adj. Will′owy abounding in willows: flexible graceful.—n. Weep′ing-will′ow a very ornamental species a native of the East much planted in Britain on account of its beautiful pendent twigs.—Bedford willow a species whose bark is especially rich in salicin and in tannin; White or Huntingdon willow the largest of British species reaching a height of eighty feet.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of willows, foretells that you will soon make a sad journey, but you will be consoled in your grief by faithful friends.

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