(n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Odemwingie had made no secret of his desire to leave the Hawthorns and link up with Redknapp in London, giving regular bulletins from his Twitter account as QPR had offers for him rejected.
(2) The next game, at West Bromwich Albion [on Monday week], he plays,” said Mourinho, who intends to pick the likes of Nathan Aké and Isaiah Brown at the Hawthorns.
(3) The Melbourne suburb of Braybrook, for example, has an average spend of $3,000 per person per year, compared with $145 in the nearby, richer district of Hawthorn.
(4) Goodes, who has been in the headlines all week after being the target of much jeering from Hawthorn fans during a rematch of the 2014 grand final, was again targeted vocally and loudly at the SCG.
(5) In other news at The Hawthorns, Albion have signed Scott Sinclair from Manchester City on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent deal.
(6) The medications were given mixture of Hawthorn and Motherworn.
(7) * * * On a fine spring day, I left the M1 at junction 14 and followed the broad dual-carriageway of the H5 grid-road into MK between banks of primroses and bright-green hawthorn.
(8) The Hawthorne, California-based company was founded in 2002 by Musk, who also serves as chief executive of Tesla , the electric car maker.
(9) Nigel Hawthorn, from cloud security company Skyhigh Networks, said: “Organisations need to investigate technologies such as encryption or risk being dragged through the courts by privacy advocates, customers or employees.
(10) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
(11) Hawthorn’s Shaun Burgoyne believes it to be a combination of all three factors, but whatever the motivation, he called for an end to it.
(12) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(13) And in Hawthorne's case it seems to bear little fruit.
(14) Thus, the initiation of a new therapeutic program, even using an inert agent, has a temporary benefit--a manifestation both of placebo effect and the Hawthorne effect.
(15) This article describes the selection of a control group, the Hawthorne effect and 'blindness' in information experiments.
(16) Wilshaw had never heard of the Hawthorne effect, but agrees "sustainability" will be the true test of his achievement at Mossbourne.
(17) The most improbable compliment to Nathaniel Hawthorne was paid by Ian Fleming when he recreated the motif of a poisoned garden from "Rappaccini's Daughter" in what is probably the best, and certainly the weirdest, of his Bond novels, You Only Live Twice.
(18) He was spotted and taken on by the West Brom Academy and, years later, it was Hodgson, when he was in charge at The Hawthorns, who promoted Berahino from the reserves to the first-team squad.
(19) Field experiments on integrated control of pests injuring Chinese hawthorn by some nonpollution techniques including agricultural biological and physical methods, were carried out in Xinglong County, Hebei Province during 1989-1991.
(20) In the green and pleasant English village of Warnham, the elderflower and hawthorn are in full, scented, creamy bloom and the sun umbrellas are up in the pub’s well-tended garden.
Mayflower
Definition:
(n.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 1940s as it was in the 1840s, as it had been ever since the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth laden with emboldening casks of wine and beer.
(2) We can do this.’ “Another woman from Florida told me her family’s history dates back to the Mayflower – and she said that welcoming others is part of what it means to be an American.” Several governors have said they do not want to accept Syrian refugees.
(3) The tales of pilgrims from the Mayflower who celebrated the harvest, shared and broke bread with the first Americans, are still used as inspiration and shared with children, teaching them the beauty of gratitude.
(4) Add white bleeding heart ( Lamprocapnos spectabilis ‘Alba’ ), mayflower ( Anemonella thalictroides ), with its clusters of anemone-like white flowers in early summer, or low-growing wild gingers ( Asarum canadense or Asarum europaeum ), with round, shiny leaves that create a carpet in rich, moist soil.
(5) He is an Israeli aristocrat, his link to Bentwich putting him on a par with those Americans who trace their origins to the Mayflower.
(6) Bundy, who is expecting the birth of his 60th grandchild, traced his lineage to Mayflower pilgrims.
(7) A merica’s burgeoning opiate problem is a tragedy, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise: it stretches back to the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620.
(8) He said they faced questions over their involvement in the collapse of several companies, including bus maker Mayflower, MG Rover and Christmas hamper firm Farepak.
(9) Nearly four centuries after the Mayflower set sail, the world is still full of pilgrims – men and women who want nothing more than the chance for a safer, better future for themselves and their families,” Obama said.