Willow

Definition:

  • (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.
  • (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
  • (v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.

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pasture vs. willow

willow vs. willowed

helicin vs. willow

willow vs. willowish

lithe vs. willow

salicin vs. willow

willow vs. willowy

tumbril vs. willow

capsule vs. willow

sallow vs. willow

fusain vs. willow

cleanse vs. willow

open vs. willow

cotton vs. willow

drum vs. willow

hemisphere vs. willow

salix vs. willow

genus vs. willow

shrub vs. willow

tree vs. willow

deciduous vs. willow

wicker vs. willow

bluff vs. willow

willow vs. withy

catkin vs. willow

sally vs. willow

willow vs. willy

osier vs. willow

wand vs. willow