Vine

sb. Forms: α. 4 vygne (7 vigne), vinyhe, 5 vyny. β. 4–6 vyne (4–5 vyn, 5 viyn), 4– vine (5 vijne); 4, 6 wine, 5–6 wyne. γ. 6 vinde, vynde. [a. OF. vigne and vine (mod. F. vigne, = Pr. and Pg. vinha, Cat. vinya, Sp. viña, It. vigna):—L. vīnea vineyard, vine, etc., f. vīn-um wine.]

  I.  1. The trailing or climbing plant, Vitis vinifera, bearing the grapes from which ordinary wine is made (= GRAPE-VINE); also generally, any plant of the genus Vitis.

13[?].  K. Alis., 5758 (Laud MS.). In eueryche felde rype is corne; Þe grapes hongen on þe vyne.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XIV. 30. Þough neuere greyne growed ne grape vppon vyne.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., VI. 57. Now vyne and tre that were ablaqueate, To couer hem it is conuenient.

1535.  Coverdale, Judg. ix. 12. Then sayde the trees vnto the vyne: Come thou and be oure kinge.

1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 168 b. [It] is lyke vnto a gumme, and waxeth thicke aboute the bodye of the vinde.

1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 75. Get doong, friend mine, for stock and vine.

1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iii. 586. There, th’ amorous Vine calls in a thousand sorts (With winding arms) her Spouse that her supports.

1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, VI. xxii. 774. Olde writers are not of one minde concerning the first originall and inuention of the vine.

1671.  Salmon, Syn. Med., III. xxii. 440. Vitis,… the Vine, the leeues bind strongly [etc.].

1708.  J. Philips, Cyder, I. 16. Everlasting Hate The Vine to Ivy bears.

1776.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., ii. (1782), I. 64. In the time of Homer, the vine grew wild in the island of Sicily.

1811.  Scott, Don Roderick, III. ii. The land … was rich with vine and flock.

1856.  Stanley, Sinai & Pal., iii. (1858), 164. The elevation of the hills and table-lands of Judah is the true climate of the vine.

1867.  H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., ix. (1870), 186. The vine is one of the most graceful of plants.

  b.  A single plant or tree of this species or genus.

  α.  a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter civ. 31. He … smate þar vinyhes and figetres in-twa.

c. 1315.  [see 2 a].

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 510/1. Vyny, or vyne, vitis. Ibid., 510/2. Vyny, þat bryngythe forþe grete grapys, bumasta.

1604.  E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, IV. xxxii. 296. Peru and … Chillé, where there are vignes that yeeld excellent wine.

  β.  1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 882. Euery ȝere at þe florysyngge, whan þe vynys shulde spryngge, A tempest … fordede here vynys alle.

1340.  Ayenb., 43. Þe zenne of ham þet uor wynnynge … destrueþ þe vines oþer cornes.

1340–70.  Alex. & Dind., 847. Ȝe telle vs þat ȝe tende nauht to tulye þe erþe,… no plaunte winus.

1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 168. For he fond … how men scholden sette vines.

1422.  Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 244. In al regions the hettes bene encreschid,… the wynes growyth, the cornes wixit rippe.

c. 1450.  Mirk’s Festial, 20. He taketh a branche of a vyne, and puttyth yn Thomas hond.

1535.  Coverdale, Gen. xl. 9. I dreamed that there was a vyne before me,… and the grapes therof were rype.

1562.  Winȝet, Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 45. The vnclene baris, quha … infectis the tender burgeounis of the ȝong wynis.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 54. A Porch with rare deuice, Archt ouer head with an embracing vine.

1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 269. The vines … which we have had in Britaine … rather for shade than fruit.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 388. Raisins from the Grapes of Psythian Vines.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, Those in the Plains … Sow a Hole of Melons between Vine and Vine.

1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xv. The vines were torn down from the branches that had supported them.

1830.  M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., I. 17. It is quite clear that wine could not have been first known at an Egyptian town, if the Egyptians had no vines.

1870.  H. Macmillan, True Vine, v. (1872), 190. The celebrated vine of Hampton Court is a most productive bearer.

  c.  A representation of a vine in metal, embroidery, etc.; also, in mod. use, an ornamental figure cut by a skater on the ice.

a. 1400.  Sqr. lowe Degre, 207. With vines of golde set all aboute Within your shelde,… Fulfylled with ymagery.

a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 3667. Be-twene þe pelers was piȝt with precious leuys, Gilden wynes with grapis of gracious stanes.

1506.  Lincoln Wills (1914), I. 44. A whyte pece with a coveryng wroght with grapes or vynes on it.

1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XI. xlii. Agneia … spying Methos fenc’t in ’s iron vine, Pierc’t his swoln panch.

1886.  Sheldon, trans. Flaubert’s Salammbô, 9. These cups were embellished on each of their six golden faces by an emerald vine.

1891.  G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav. (1900), 460. When you have a pair of skates on, and an admiring circle of spectators to excite you into developing your most exquisite ‘vines.’

  d.  collect. Vine-plants. rare^–1.

1779.  Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 382. The Chinese keep the ground very clean between the rows of vine.

  2.  fig. a. Applied to Christ, in renderings or echoes of John xv. 1 and 5.

c. 1315.  Shoreham, I. 804. For iesus seyþ þe vygne he hys, And eke þe greyn of wete.

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., A. 628. In þe water of babtem þay dyssente, Þen arne þay boroȝt in-to þe vyne.

1382.  Wyclif, John xv. 5. I am a vyne, ȝe ben the braunchis.

c. 1450.  Myrr. oure Ladye, 281. I as a vyne haue fruited the swetnesse of smelle…. In this Chapyter, oure lorde ys lykened to a vyne.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 222 b. For in that our lorde is as a vyne, and all chrystyans be as the braunches of the sayd vyne.

1568.  Lauder, Godlie Tract., 395. Christ Iesus, the faithfull wine.

1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lvi. (1611), 308. That true Vine whereof wee both spiritually and corporally are branches.

1870.  H. Macmillan, True Vine, 26. Its full significance was not known until Christ, the True Vine, made it known.

  b.  In allusion to Ps. cxxviii. 3.

1787.  M. Cutler, in Life, etc. (1888), I. 289. He … has married a wife, who bids fair to be a fruitful vine, for she has had three children in four years.

1807.  Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. 477. Now of that vine he’d have no more increase, Those playful branches now disturb his peace.

  c.  In miscellaneous uses.

1590.  [see ELM sb. 3].

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., IV. ii. 60. Grow patient, And let the stinking-Elder (Greefe) vntwine His perishing roote, with the encreasing Vine.

1639.  S. Du Verger, trans. Camus’ Admir. Events, 149. Zotique … had like a furious wild Boare made a prodigious spoyle in the vine of many womens honesty. [Cf. Ps. lxxx. 8, 13.]

1643.  [see ELM sb. 3].

1784.  Cowper, Task, VI. 969. He … recompenses well The state, beneath the shadow of whose vine He sits secure. [Cf. 1 Kings iv. 25.]

1820.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. iv. 64. That vine Which bears the wine of life, the human heart.

1887.  Meredith, Ballads & P., 42. The training of Love’s vine of flame Was writ in laws.

  3.  Applied, with distinguishing epithets, to some species of Vitis distinct from the ordinary grape-vine, and to many plants of other genera which in manner of growth, or in some other feature, resemble this: a. Wild vine, the fox-grape, Vitis Labrusca (now rare or Obs.); also, one or other of several wild climbing or trailing plants, esp. bryony and traveller’s-joy.

  In quot. 1382 (and similarly in later versions) vine is a literal rendering of the original text; the plant intended is app. the colocynth.

1382.  Wyclif, 2 Kings iv. 39. And oon … foond as a wijld vyne, and he gederde of it wijld gourdis of the feeld.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), vii. 26. Þai er lyke vnto wylde wynes. Ibid., xviii. 83. Pepre growez in maner of wilde wynes be syde þe treesse of þe forest.

14[?].  in Wr.-Wülcker, 629. Oliaster, wyld vyne. Labrusca, wylde vyne.

1548.  Turner, Names Herbes (E.D.S.), 45. Labrusca … may be called in englishe a wild vine. Ibid. (1562), Herbal, II. 168. Of the seconde kinde of Vitis syluestris, called wild vynde.

1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, VI. xxii. 774. Grapes … like vnto them which the wilde vine (called of vs Labrusca) doth now bring forth.

1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 372. Take of the stalkes of Vitis alba, otherwise called Brioni, or wilde Vine, two … handfuls.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, The Wild Vine, commonly called the Claret Grape. This Sort of Grape is pretty well known in England.

1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Vitis, The species of Vine enumerated by Mr. Tournefort, are these: 1. The common, or wild Vine.

1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), II. 67. Redberried Bryony. Wild Vine.

1814.  Scott, Lord of Isles, I. xxviii. As the wild vine in tendrils spread, Droops from the mountain oak.

1855.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., I. 18. Clematis vitalba.… Country people call it … Wild Vine. Ibid., II. 312. A very pretty climber is this Wild Bryony,… called also Wild Vine.

  b.  In other special names, chiefly of non-British plants.

  Alleghany vine, an American biennial plant (Adlumia fungosa), also called ‘climbing fumitory.’ Arbor vine: see SPANISH a. 9. Balloon vine, an Australian plant (see quots.). Bean vine, Phascolus diversifolius (see BEAN 8). † Black vine, black bryony. Burdekin vine, an Australian species of Vitis (see quot.). Caustic vine (see quot.). Climbing vine, † (a) the Virginian creeper; (b) a cinchonaceous plant, Psychotria parasitica. Condor vine, Gonolobus Cundurango. Cypress vine, quamoclit. Deer vine, the twinflower (Linnea). Granadilla vine: see GRANADILLA b. Harvey’s vine, an Australian plant, Sarcopetalum Harveyanum. Hungry vine, the green brier or cat-brier (Smilax). India-rubber vine, Cryptostegia grandiflora. Isle of Wight vine, bryony or black bryony. Lawyer vine: see LAWYER 6. Link vine, a West Indian species of vanilla (V. articulata). Madeira or Mexican vine, the climbing plant Boussingaultia baselloides, a native of the Andes. Matrimony vine: See MATRIMONY 7. Mignonette vine: see MIGNONETTE 3. Milk vine, (a) the Southern European plant Periploca græca; (b) a Jamaican plant, Forsteronia floribunda. Negro vine, a hairy-leaved species of Vincetoxicum. Pea vine: see PEA-VINE. Pepper vine: see PEPPER sb. 5. Pipe vine: see PIPE sb.¹ 11 b. Poison vine: see POISON sb. 5 b. Potato vine: see POTATO 7. Red-bead vine, Abrus precatorius (India). Rubber vine: see RUBBER sb.¹ 12 b. Sand vine, Gonolobus lævis (N. America). Scrub vine, Austr. (a) the dodder laurel (Cassytha); (b) the native rose (Bauera rubioides). Seven-year vine: see SEVEN-YEAR. Silk vine, = milk vine (a). Sorrel vine: see SORREL sb.¹ 7 c. Spanish arbor-vine: see SPANISH a. 9. Strainer, Virginia(n, Water, White vine: see these words.

  Many of these names appear to be first recorded in the Treas. Bot. (1866, and Suppl., 1874) and in American dictionaries. In Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. (1753), Tournefort’s species of Vitis, twenty-one in number, are enumerated.

1889.  Maiden, Useful Pl., 13. Cardiospermum halicacabum,… ‘Heartseed,’ ‘Heart-pea,’ ‘Winter-cherry,’ *‘Balloon Vine.’ Ibid., 161. ‘Balloon Vine’ (because of its inflated membranous capsule).

1552.  Huloet, *Blacke vyne, apronia.

1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 331. Vine, Black, Tamus.

1898.  Morris, Austral Eng., 490/1. *Burdekin Vine. Called also Round Yam, Vitis opaca. Ibid., 84/1. Caustic-Plant, or *Caustic-Vine,… Sarcostemma australis.

1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 331. Vine, *Climbing five-leaved, of Canada, Hedera.

1846–50.  A. Wood, Class-bk. Bot., 443. Quamoclit vulgaris. Bindweed. *Cypress Vine. Ibid., 449. Lycium Barbarum. *Matrimony Vine.

1866.  Treas. Bot., 231/1. Some of the Australian species [of Cassytha] are called *Scrub-vines.

1898.  Morris, Austral Eng., 22/1. Bauera rubioides,… the Scrub Vine, or Native Rose.

  4.  The stem of any trailing or climbing plant. Also collect. without article.

1563.  Hyll, Art Garden. (1574), 124. And if not on this wise, then may you let their [sc. gourds’] vine run along on the earth, if you list.

1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), I. 179. On the outside of this Floor the Pickers [of hops] sit, and pick them into Baskets after the Vines are strip’d from the Poles.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Melon, When your Melons begin to appear upon the Vines.

1779.  Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 382. They do not let the vine, which bears the pepper, twist round a chinkareen tree, as is the custom on Sumatra.

1844.  Welby, Poems (1867), 163. When sweet jasmine vines their wreaths were looping Around her bower.

1855.  Delamer, Kitchen Garden (1861), 117. Leading points in growing frame cucumbers are, to pinch off the shoot … to keep the frame clear of useless vine.

1898.  Jean A. Owen, Hawaii, iii. 79. A hero … who descended by means of a long rope, made of convolvulus vines, into the abyss.

  b.  dial. A straw rope.

1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., 28. Rye … strawe is gentle and flexible, seruing for Vines.

1884.  Jefferies, Red Deer, v. 97. The farmers … hang a vine of straw along from stake to stake…. A vine is a rope of twisted straw.

  c.  U.S. A trailing or climbing plant.

1842.  Longf., Slave in Dismal Swamp, ii. Where … the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake.

1856.  A. Gray, Man. Bot. (1860), 2. Ranunculaceæ…. Herbs (or woody vines) with a colorless acrid juice.

1879.  Boddam-Whetham, Roraima & Brit. Guiana, 9. Nearly every house has a garden, and passion-flowers, morning glory, and other vines creep up the pillars and over the piazzas in great profusion and brilliancy.

1886.  C. D. Warner, Summer in Garden, 114. The bean is a graceful, confiding, engaging vine.

  II.  † 5. A vineyard. Obs.

  So AF. vine, vyne (Gower).

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., A. 507. Þe lorde ful erly vp he ros To hyre werkmen to hys vyne. Ibid., 521. Gos in-to my vyne.

1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xxxi. 16. She beheeld a feeld, and boȝte it; of the frut of hir hondis she plauntide a vyne.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), x. 111. The cursed Queen … that toke awey the Vyne of Nabaothe.

1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, II. xxxi. (1554), 67. Trust [that] He will not refuse thyne axing, But thee receiue to labour in his vine.

1484.  Caxton, Fables of Æsop, I. x. A man was som tyme whiche fond a serpent within a Vyne.

1514.  Bainbridge, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. I. 227. Boith in the Citie and also in vynes and garthynges withoutt the Citie.

1560.  Bible (Genev.), Song Sol. i. 5. Thei made me the keper of the vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.

  6.  A grape. Obs. or poet.

a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 56. If þai be rede þai ar called uve, i. grapez, and þai haue þe schap of a rede vyne or grape.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., X. 54. Ah! that your birth and bus’ness had been mine—To pen the sheep, and press the swelling vine!

  7.  Roman Antiq. = VINEA. rare.

1563.  Golding, Cæsar (1565), 51 b. He made Vines [marg. an instrument of war made of timber & hurdles for men to go vnder safelye to the walles of a towne], and began to make prouision of thinges meete for the siege.

a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 480. The Romans … plyed their mines,… their vines and other engines against the walls and gates.

a. 1656.  Ussher, Ann. (1658), 142. Some say, those Engines of Battrie, as Rams, and Vines, and Galleries, were there first invented.

1862.  Kington, Fredk. II., II. 191. Various warlike Machines…. The Sow, the Vine, and the Cat.

  III.  attrib. and Comb. 8. a. Simple attrib., as vine-arbour, border, -bough, -bower, -bunch, etc.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, Care is to be taken … not to mingle with them the Grapes of the *Vine-Arbour.

1839.  trans. Lamartine’s Trav., 147/1. Houses … lying under the shade of vine-arbours or plane-trees.

1842.  Loudon, Suburban Hort., 467. The most valuable manure that can be deposited in a *vine border.

1867.  Morris, Jason, XIII. 222. A golden *vine-bough wreathed her golden head.

1848.  trans. Hoffmeister’s Trav. Ceylon, etc., xii. 462. A few *vine-bowers appear somewhat lower down.

1832.  Tennyson, Œnone, 177. Between the shadows of the *vine-bunches Floated the glowing sunlights.

1886.  Conder, Syrian Stone-lore, vi. (1896), 221. A door sculptured with vine-bunches.

1611.  Florio, Vineto, a *vine-close, a vine-plot.

1865.  J. H. Ingraham, Pillar of Fire, I. xiii. 152. There were wines from the *vine country of Helbona.

1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 238/2. The success of *vine-culture in … the Canary Islands.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 530. Strengthned with the wood of *vine-cuttings.

1782.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2), X. 8725/1. From whence Columella gives the title of malleolus to the vine-cuttings.

1857.  Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., vi. 405. Each vat is filled with vine cuttings, and rapes.

1846.  Keightley, Notes Virg., Terms Husb., 358. The cross-pieces in the *vine-espaliers.

1847.  Darlington, Amer. Weeds, etc. (1860), 81. Vitaceæ. (*Vine Family.)

1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, VI. xxi. 769. To gather the greene grapes from of the *vine frames.

1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, s.v. Pampinus, A *vyne garlande.

1587.  Golding, De Mornay, xxv. (1592), 382. Assigning to one … the Corne countrie, and to another the *vinegrounds.

1818.  Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 324. The vine-grounds being nothing but black earth and dry sticks until the middle of summer.

1611.  Cotgr., Vendange,… vintage, *vine-haruest.

1733.  Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., 158. The Ancients were perfect Masters of the *Vine-Husbandry.

1841.  Lever, C. O’Malley, lii. 262. A little weak wine savouring more of the borachio-skin than *vine-juice.

1886.  Mrs. Flor. Caddy, Footsteps Jeanne D’Arc, 25. One should make a point of seeing these *vine-lands in October.

1861.  Bentley, Man. Bot., 495. Vitaceæ or Ampelideæ.—The *Vine Order…. Usually climbing shrubs with a watery juice.

1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vitis,… the *Vine-plant.

1843.  Penny Cycl., XXVI. 342/2. Some of the finest of the soil is put into each hole, and the vine-plants … are carefully inserted.

1856.  R. Knox, trans. Edwards’ Man. Zool., § 328. In the timber of the hedge-rows, of fruit-trees, and of *vine-poles.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. Table s.v., *Vine props and railes which be best.

1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 251. First was carryed … a pine apple, and a vine-prop.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, Others make use of a Vine-prop, or some other Piece of Wood.

1815.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xiv. (1816), I. 438. The upright putrescent espaliers or vine-props.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 99. Digge aboute þe *vyne rotis, and dunge hem wel.

1424.  E. E. Wills (1882), 56. Also I wull he haue my maser of a vine rote.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 545. To open a sluce … for to overflow their Vine roots with the river.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., Table (1896), 15. *Vyne sciouns, to sette.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 529. In setting a nource-garden with vine-sions. Ibid., 527. A *vine-set or cutting, that hath joints standing thin.

1648.  Hexham, II. Een wijngaerdt-scheute, a *Vine-shoote, or Sprigge.

1793.  Holcroft, trans. Lavater’s Physiog., i. 5. Though these vine-shoots look well, they will bear but few grapes.

1647.  Hexham, I. A *vine slip, een Wijngaert-snijtsel.

1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v., Vine-slips … being put into the Ground will easily take Root.

1854.  Whittier, Poems Nature, Fruit-Gift, 22. Perchance our frail, sad mother plucked…. A single vine-slip.

1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 48. Now on the merry *vine-spray swell the buds.

1872.  Head, Sel. Grk. Coins in Electrotype Brit. Mus., 38. Rose with bud, and vine-spray with bunch of grapes.

1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Sarment, To bridle himselfe with a *vine-sprig; be so drunke that he cannot speake.

1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xlix. She found the old woman within, picking *vine-stalks.

1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 237. The conformation of the *vine stem has elicited a vast amount of explanatory comment.

1531.  Tindale, Exp. 1 John (1537), 94. He y^t is cut from y^t *vynestocke … can not but abyde vnfruteful.

1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xxxiv. 497. The Italians graft it [sc. olive-tree] vpon the vine, boring the vine stocke neer vnto the earth [etc.].

1690.  Temple, Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learn. (1909), 19. A large Table at Memorancy cut out of the thickness of a Vine-stock.

1868.  Morris, Earthly Par. (1870), II. III. 3. Above them did they see the terraced way, And over that the vine-stocks, row on row.

1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, 462. The male worm is characterised … by the peculiar *vine-tendril-like tail.

1846.  Louisa S. Costello, Tour Venice, 192. There is … no want of gardens and *vine-terraces.

1848.  Clough, Amours de Voy., III. 16. Ah! that I were far away … Under the *vine-trellis laid.

1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. i. 3. A Golden *Vine-Tub of Mozaic work.

1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Wicker, a *Vine Twig, an Osier Twig.

1776.  J. Bryant, Mythol., III. 229. The soft pliant vine-twigs, moving round In serpentine direction.

1883.  Browning, Ferishtah’s Fancies, Shah Abbas. I weep like a cut vine-twig.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 404. A great standing cup or boll to be seene of *Vine wood.

1700.  trans. Danet’s Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq., s.v. Templum, A Pair of Stairs made of Vine-wood.

1818.  Keats, Endym., IV. 257. I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown Before the *vine-wreath crown!

  b.  Objective and obj. genitive, with agent-nouns, as vine-cutter, -grower, -planter, etc., and vbl. sbs. or ppl. adjs., as vine-bearing, -dressing, -growing, etc.; also vine-prop adj.

  (a)  1388.  Wyclif, 2 Kings xxv. 12. He lefte of the pore men of the lond vyntilieris, and erthetilieris.

a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, II. xv. (1912), 247. The King one morning … saw a vine-labourer, that finding a bowe broken [etc.].

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 501. Yet kind it is and wholesome for the Vine-planter and husbandman.

1611.  Cotgr., Vendengeur, a Vintager, or vine-reaper.

1648.  Hexham, II. Een … wijngaerdenier, … a Vine-gardener.

1801.  trans. Gabrielli’s Myst. Husb., II. 119. One of our vine-cutters was telling yesterday [etc.].

1835.  T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., App. 245. A metaphor which the vine-growers of Athens easily appreciated.

1884.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 928/1. Vine puller, a machine for extracting vines.

  (b)  c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., Table (1896), 16. Vyne couerynge and vindage apparayle.

1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Binement, a vine working, weeding.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 8. The sayling Pine, the Cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop Elme.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, Table s.v., Vine planting and pruning.

1791.  Cowper, Iliad, II. 613. Arne claims A record next for her illustrious sons, Vine-bearing Arne.

1848.  Buckley, Iliad, 111. An enclosure of land,… pleasant, vine-bearing, and arable.

1867.  Augusta Wilson, Vashti, i. Had Timour been trained to cabbage-raising and vine-dressing.

1888.  Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 237/1. A vine-growing country hitherto free from Phylloxera.

  c.  With pa. pples. and adjs., chiefly in instrumental sense, as vine-adorned, bordered, -clad, -covered, -crowned, etc.; also vine-like adj., vine-wise adv.

1878.  J. Fergusson, Temples of the Jews, II. x. 170. Between the time of Herod and Chosroes there existed the tradition, if not the continuous practice, of a style of tall-roofed, *vine-adorned buildings.

1868.  Morris, Earthly Par. (1870), I. II. 457. He saw a man draw nigh Along the dusty grey *vine-bordered road.

1854.  J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), I. ix. 162. The luxuriant valleys and *vine-clad hillsides.

1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 115. Among the luscious slopes of vine-clad Burgundy.

1791.  W. Roscoe, in H. Roscoe, Life (1833), I. 108. The *vine-cover’d hills and gay regions of France.

1840.  Hood, ‘Ye Tourists & Trav.,’ vi. Old Castles you’ll see on the vine-covered hill.

1743.  Francis, trans. Horace, Odes, III. xxv. 27. When *Vine-crown’d Bacchus leads the Way.

1851.  S. Jackson, trans. Krummacher’s Elisha, vi. 90. From the sea-coast to the vine-crowned banks of the Jordan.

1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, IV. xviii. 306. Behold, with frolicke stirre comes Bacchus here, In’s *Vine-deck’t Chariot high.

1825.  Praed, Poems (1865), II. 158.

1746.  Francis, trans. Horace, Sat., II. iv. 55. The *Vine-fed Goat’s not always luscious Fare.

1871.  Palgrave, Lyr. Poems, 90. Lines of white, *vine-garlanded.

a. 1835.  Mrs. Hemans, Shepherd-Poet of Alps, 54. The cabin’s *vine-hung eaves.

1835.  Willis, Pencillings, II. lviii. 147. The same square, *vine-laced, perfectly green pastures and cornfields.

1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 107. For thee, With *vine-leafed autumn laden blooms the field.

1822.  Hortus Anglicus, II. 208. *Vine-leaved Kitaibelia.

1727.  P. Blair, Pharmaco-Bot., V. 215. Viticulated, or *Vine-like Leaves.

1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., 345. Stories … of the climbing from earth to heaven by a tree or vine-like plant.

1740.  Dyer, Ruins Rome, 35. The *vine-mantled brows The pendent goats unveil.

a. 1593.  Marlowe, Ovid’s Eleg., II. xvi. 33. Although *vine-planted ground Conteines me.

1848.  Buckley, Iliad, 39. Vine-planted Epidaurus.

1809.  J. Montgomery, West Indies, etc. (1810), 34. On pure Madeira’s *vine-robed hills of health.

1839.  Bailey, Festus, 143. A *vine-shadowed cottage door.

a. 1869.  Rossetti, House of Life, xc. Upon the broad *vine-sheltered path.

1876.  Lanier, Psalm West, 183. O Stars wreathed *vinewise round yon heavenly dells.

1791.  Cowper, Iliad, VI. 159. They their wands *Vine-wreathed cast all away.

1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. IV. (1863), 71. Working at her needle under the vine-wreathed porch.

  9.  Special Combs.: † vine apple (see SQUASH sb.² 1); vine-bamboo, a species of panic-grass (Panicum divaricatum); † vine-bind (see quots.); vine-black (see quot.); vine-bower, a species of clematis (Clematis Viticella); vine-disease, one or other disease attacking vines, esp. vine-mildew and the vine-pest (Phylloxera); † vine dragon [ad. F. drageon], (see quot.); vine-feeder, any insect living on vines; vine-fly, ? = vine saw-fly; vine-fungus, = vine-mildew; vine gall-insect (see quot.); vine-garden, † -garth, a vineyard; vine-grub, = VINE-FRETTER; vine-hook, -knife, implements used in pruning vines; vine-leek, round-headed garlic (Allium ampeloprasum); vine-louse, the phylloxera; † vine-man, master, a vine-dresser or vine-grower; vine-mildew, a disease of vines caused by the fungus Oidium Tuckeri; the fungus or mold itself; vine-moth, a species of pyralis infesting vines; † vine-pear (see quots.); vine-pest, the phylloxera; † vine-press, a wine-press; vine-rake U.S. (see quot.); vine-rod, a rod of vine-wood, spec. as the staff of a Roman centurion; vine-sawfly, a species of sawfly, the larvæ of which feed on the vine; vine-scroll, an ornament representing a vine; vine-scrub, in Australia, scrub abounding in various species of Vitis; vine-snail [F. escargot des vignes], the Roman snail; † vine-wand, = vine-rod; † vine-water, the sap that issues from vines when pruned; vine-weevil, a small weevil destructive to vines; vine-worm (see quot.); vine-worts, the order Vitaceæ.

  Also, in recent American dictionaries, vine-beetle, -borer, -chafer, -curculio, -flea beetle, -gall, -gall-louse, -hopper, -inch-worm, -procris, -root-borer, -stug, -sphinx, etc.

1871.  Kingsley, At Last, viii. Overhead, sprawled and dangled the common *Vine-bamboo, ugly and unsatisfactory in form.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 402/1. *Vynbynd, cornubus.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 537. A certaine hearbe, which the Sicilians in their language call Ampelodesmos, (i. Vinebind).

1860.  Ure’s Dict. Arts (ed. 5), III. 966. *Vine black, a black procured by charring the tendrils of the vine and levigating them.

1852.  Johnson, Gard. Dict., *Vine Bower, Clematis Viticella.

1854.  Forrester in Proc. Royal Soc., VII. 156. On the *Vine-Disease in the Port-wine Districts of the Alto-Douro.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 536. The manner of … planting by a trees side a *Vine Dragon (for so we use to call the old braunch of a Vine past all service, which hath done bearing many a yeare, and is now growne to be hard).

1855.  Zoologist, XIII. 4680. Speyer gives Agrotis aquilina as a *vine-feeder.

1661.  Walton, Angler (ed. 3), 97. Now for Flies;… I will name you but some of them, as … the cloudy, or blackish flie, the flag-flye, the *vine-flye.

1668.  Charleton, Onomast., 47. Ips,… the Vine-Fly.

1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Fishing Fly, Natural Flies are innumerable:… the Tawny-Fly, the Vine-Fly, the Shell-Fly.

1857.  Henfrey, Bot., § 636. The *Vine Fungus appears to be a plant of this tribe [Oidium], rarely producing perfect fruit.

1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., *Vine Gallinsect, an insect of the gallinsect class, principally found on the Vine, though capable of living on some other trees.

c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., III. xvi. 383. Whanne money is paied to … a laborer in a *vyne gardein for his day labour in the same vyne gardein.

1839.  W. Chambers, Tour Rhine, 57/1. A tolerably long reach of the river, between banks richly clad with vine gardens.

c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 201. When þai come þer, þe *vyne-garth, at no frute was in befor, was growyng full of rype grapis.

1687.  Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Vine-fretter, or *Vine-grub.

1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vine-grub, a kind of Worm that gnaws the Vine.

1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v., Reaumur observes, that … both the winged and the unwinged Vine-grubs are females.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 547. Men are wont to take their *Vine hookes when they be newly ground & sharpened [etc.].

1615.  Thomas’ Dict. (ed. 10), Averrunco,… to purge vines with a vinehooke.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 402/1. A *vyne knyfe, falx, falcicula.

1611.  Cotgr., Serpette, a Vine knife, or Gardeners knife.

1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v. Vintage, You must also provide Paniers, Dressers, Vine-Knives, Shovels and Rakes.

1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, I. lxxxviii. 139. The *Vine Leeke groweth of it selfe in vineyards, and neere vnto vines in hot regions, whereof it both tooke the name Vine Leeke and French Leeke.

1852.  G. W. Johnson, Cottage Gard. Dict., 24/2. A[llium] ampeloprasum (vine-leek).

1882.  Gard. Chron., XVII. 20. The new *Vine-louse Convention, held at Berne.

1550.  Coverdale, Spir. Perle, vi. Wks. (Parker Soc.), I. 115. The heavenly *vineman bringeth the Christians unto the winepress.

1579–80.  North, Plutarch (1612), 368. In the morning … he went out … with his vine-men to labour in his vineyard.

1588.  Fraunce, Lawiers Log., I. i. 2 b. The word … is metaphoricall being borrowed of the *Vinemayster.

1855.  Ogilvie, Suppl., 283. Oidium tuckeri is the *vine-mildew, parasitical upon the leaves and green parts of vines.

1867.  Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 800/2. The vine disease, or vine mildew,… has of late years made great ravages.

1842.  Loudon, Suburban Hort., 111. A … very efficient mode of destroying the *vine-moth in France.

1704.  Dict. Rust. (1726), *Vine-Pear, or Damsel-Pear, is gray, reddish, round, and pretty big.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Pyrus, Poire de Vigne, i.e. The Vine Pear.

1887.  Westm. Rev., June, 364. The ravages of the *vine-pest with the terrible name of Phylloxera vastatrix in France.

1897.  Outing, XXIX. 434/1. Then came the terrible vine-pest, and on its heels came ruin.

1587.  Greene, Euphues, Wks. (Grosart), VI. 237. Alaying the heate of Bacchus *vynepresse, with the sweete conserues fetcht from Myneruaes Library.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., X. 459. A Vine-presse house, standing alone amongst Vineyards.

1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 125. As grapes are squeezed in a vine-press.

1846.  Keightley, Notes Virg., Georg., II. 4. The vinepress, or vat in which they trod the grapes.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2710/2. *Vine-rake, an implement for pulling sweet-potato or other vines off from the ridges preparatory to the digging of the ground.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 406. For the Centurion hath the honour to carie in his hand a *Vine-rod.

a. 1661.  Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 263/1. They may get a vine-rod, that is, a centurion’s place.

1856.  Merivale, Rom. Emp., xlii. (1871), V. 145. Some sbowed him the scars of their wounds, others the marks of the centurion’s vine-rod.

1852.  T. W. Harris, Insects Injur. Veg., vi. (1862), 512. Fir Saw-Fly.—*Vine Saw-Fly.—Rose-bush Slug. [Ibid., 522. A kind of saw-fly which attacks the grape-vine,… named Selandria Vitis. The saw-fly of the vine is of a jet-black color.]

1886.  Conder, Syrian Stone-Lore, ix. (1896), 357. The *vine-scrolls and grape-bunches on the oldest mosaics of the Dome of the Rock.

1881.  A. C. Grant, Bush-Life, xxii. Impenetrable *vine-scrubs line the river-banks at intervals.

1889.  Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, 24. Along the streams vine-scrubs often abound.

1831.  J. Davies, Mat. Med., 413. Some animals of an inferior class, such as bull-frogs, the *vine-snail, turtle, viper, crayfish, &c.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 406. The *Vine wand is now entred into the campe, and by it our armies are raunged into battaillons.

1736.  Bailey, Household Dict., s.v., The *vine-water without distilling, will have the same effect.

1882.  Garden, 11 March, 172/1. Specimens of the black *Vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus), a very destructive insect.

1896.  Lodeman, Spray. Plants, 280. Fire-worm; Cranberry-worm; *Vine-worm; Blackhead (Rhopobota vacciniana).

1846.  Lindley, Veg. Kingd., 439. The propriety of placing Leea along with *Vineworts has been questioned.

1870.  H. Macmillan, True Vine, vii. (1872), 296, note. The vine-worts, distinguished for their wholesome and nutritious qualities, seem closely allied to the Umbelliferæ.

  Hence Vine v. trans., to graft (in or into a vine); intr., to develop tendrils like a vine.

1579.  W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, 15 b. The vine braunch is to be vined in the vine. Ibid., 16. Neither doth the Greeke or Latin translation afford any such termes of vinyng into a vine, as ye seme to import.

1796.  C. Marshall, Gardening, xv. (1813), 247. Sticking pease is to take place as soon as they begin to vine (or put forth tendrils).