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noun

Holly n.

(Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. Note: The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and rejoicing. It is an evergreen tree, and has a finegrained, heavy, white wood. Its bark is used as a febrifuge, and the berries are violently purgative and emetic. The American holly is the Ilex opaca, and is found along the coast of the United States, from Maine southward.

(Bot.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.

Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak.

Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers (Turnera ulmifolia).

Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

adverb

Holly adv. Wholly. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Holly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the Commons had agreed to a retrospective penal law against the whole Tory party, and that, on the tenth, that law would be considered for the last time. The whole kingdom was moved from Northumberland to Cornwall. A hundred knights and squires left their halls hung with mistletoe and holly, and their boards groaning with brawn and plum porridge, and rode up post to town, cursing the short days, the cold weather, the miry roads and the villanous Whigs. The Whigs, too, brought up reinforcements, but not ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... preparations for a project that she had long had in her mind. Going to her room, she put on the plainest and most inconspicuous hat she could find; she also donned a long cloak and concealed face and hair in a thick veil. Unlocking a box, she got out a cross made of holly, which she concealed under her cloak. Then, after listening to see if the house were quiet, she went downstairs in her stockings, and carrying the thick boots she purposed wearing. Arrived at the front door, the bolts and bars ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... attempt was to compare the sensibility of different plants to the effect of lowered temperatures. For this purpose I chose three specimens: (1) Eucharis lily; (2) Ivy; and (3) Holly. I took their normal response at 17 deg. C., and found that, generally speaking, they attained a fairly constant value after the third or fourth response. After taking these records of normal response, I placed the specimens in an ice-chamber, temperature 0 deg. C., for twenty-four ...

— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose

... up. And from the more or less porousness of the skins or rinds of Vegetables may, perhaps, be somewhat of the reason given, why they keep longer green, or sooner wither; for we may observe by the bladdering and craking of the leaves of Bays, Holly, Laurel, &c. that their skins are very close, and do not suffer so free a passage through ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... regular hands will give you a chance of getting much. There's Sam Holly and Jerry Dabble. One's a bully and the other's ...

— The Wizard of the Sea - A Trip Under the Ocean • Roy Rockwood

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