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Definition of Osieries
1. osiery [n] - See also: osiery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osieries
Literary usage of Osieries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Planter's Kalendar, Or, The Nurseryman's & Forester's Guide in the by Walter Nicol (1820)
"Hollows, the soil of which is composed of rich, soft, earthy particles, and which
can be laid dry, are the most eligible for converting into osieries; and, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... seeks marshes, humid places, osieries, and even reeds, A^ter the fine season
it quits them, and, previously to its departure, visits hedges and gardens, ..."
3. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"osieries, meadows, orchards, cultivated or artificial grassland, and brushwood,
are all sources of profit, and thus are properly included in a cadastre of ..."
4. The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane (1846)
"The oak is mentioned in Domesday Book only once ;* a grove of ash trees occurs
in one county, and many osieries existed. "Wood for the hedges" is often ..."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Hollows, the soil of which is composed of rich, soft, earthy particles, and which
can be laid dry, are the most eligible for converting into osieries; and, ..."
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