2. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, hawthorns. ¹
3. Adjective. Full of hawthorns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawthorny
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawthorny
Literary usage of Hawthorny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of " Our Village, "
which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and ..."
2. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... “made him”: “Europe” (hawthorny), “Paste,” “The Middle Years,” “Broken Wings,”
etc. Part of the great man's work can perhaps only be criticized as “etc. ..."
3. Record of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble (1878)
"After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of " Our Village,"
which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and ..."
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