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Dill   /dɪl/   Listen
Dill

noun
1.
Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning.  Synonym: Anethum graveolens.
2.
Aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning.  Synonym: dill weed.



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"Dill" Quotes from Famous Books



... is nearly level, but it falls away a little and becomes broken and pretty where the river Dill runs through the park, about half a mile from the house. There is a walk called the Pleasance, passing down through shrubs to the river, and then crossing the stream by a foot-bridge, and leading across the fields towards Dillsborough. This bridge is, ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... gife a barty: We all cot troonk ash pigs. I poot mine mout to a parrel of beer, Und emptied it oop mit a schwigs. Und denn I gissed Madilda Yane Und she shlog me on the kop, Und de gompany fited mit dable-lecks Dill ...
— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various

... household burdens fell largely upon Nance Molloy's small shoulders, and if she wiped the dishes without washing them, and "shook up the beds" without airing them, and fed the babies dill pickles, it was no more than older housekeepers were doing all ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... other Blues are excellent fillings for your favorite vegetable stalk, or scooped-out dill pickle. This last is specially nice when filled with snappy cheese creamed ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown

... livid, and the eyes tearful, and he will look downwards. Give him this for a leechdom: Everthroat, cassuck, the netherward part of fane, a yew berry, lupin, helenium, a head of marsh mallow, fen, mint, dill, lily, attorlothe, pulegium, marrubium, dock, elder, fel terrae, wormwood, strawberry leaves, consolida; pour them over with ale, add holy water, sing this charm over them thrice [here follow some long charms which I need not extract]; these ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... common herbs includes the following: Anise, balm, basil, borage, caraway, catnip, coriander, dill, fennel, horehound, hop, hyssop, lavender, pot marigold, sweet and pot marjoram, parsley, pennyroyal, rosemary, rue, sage, savoury, tansy, sorrel, thyme, and wormwood. It would be of little use to plant all of these, even to see what the plants were like. I would suggest your trying lavender, ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... see if they would not leave the table for a moment so he might jump out and steal a piece. As he waited another little girl lifted out of her basket some nut cookies and big, thick slices of angel cake, while a third arranged some stuffed eggs and big dill pickles. ...
— Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier • Frances Trego Montgomery

... the presence of saltpetre makes tinder burn more hotly and more fiercely; and saltpetre exists in such great quantities in the ashes of many plants (as tobacco, dill, maize, sunflower), that these can be used, just as they are, in the place of it. Thus, if the ashes of a cigar be well rubbed into a bit of paper, they convert it into touch-paper. So will gunpowder, ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton



Words linked to "Dill" :   Anethum graveolens, herb, dill weed, herbaceous plant, dill seed, dill pickle



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