Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
mistletoe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
mistletoe .
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- noun Archaic form of
mistletoe .
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Examples
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To the ancient inhabitants of Italy the misletoe was a sacred emblem; and the golden branches of Virgil were none other than those of the misletoe.
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When the misletoe berries were ripe, the Druids invited the people to a great feast, and the oldest Druid, dressed in white, climbed up the trees where the misletoe grew, and with a golden sickle cut it down, while the other Druids sang and prayed.
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But the misletoe was only one of many articles they had possessing occult virtue.
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The misletoe is supposed to be the golden bough which
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He changed himself into the form of an old woman, and, inquiring the cause of Baldur's invulnerability, was told by Frigga that all things, animate and inanimate, had sworn not to harm him, with the exception of one little shrub, the misletoe.
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One priest would climb to the branch on which the misletoe was growing and cut it with a golden knife, while another priest stood below and held out his white robe to receive it.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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This parasitical plant has a trailing stem, not unlike the common ivy, but not so woody, by which it attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and sucks the moisture which their bark derives from the lichens and other cryptogamia, but without drawing nourishment from the tree itself, like the misletoe and loranthus.
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We have various accounts of the misletoe, and of the strange superstitious proceedings in gathering it.
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Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy.
A Love Story A Bushman
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As the oak and misletoe were sacred to the Druids, so were they to the
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