Forms: see WOOD sb.1: α. 1 -bind, -bend, 1–6 -binde, 4–7 -bynde, 5 -bende, 5–6 -bynd, 6– woodbind; β. 6 -byne, -bin, (9 dial. wid(a)bin), 6– woodbine. (Also with hyphen, formerly occas. as two words.) [OE. wudubind, -binde, also -bend, f. wudu WOOD sb.1 + root of BIND v. (bend-, band-); cf. Da. vedbende ivy, and, for the second element, WITHBIND. For the loss of final d cf. line for lind, rine for rind.
Similar formations are OE. widuwinde ‘volvola,’ ‘edera,’ ‘viburna,’ ‘convolvulus,’ widubindle ‘involuco,’ ON. viðvindill ivy, Norw. vi(d)vendel, vivendel, vibendel ‘caprifolium.’]
1. A name for various plants of a climbing habit; in early use (later only dial.), convolvulus and ivy; now chiefly (U.S.) the Virginia Creeper Ampelopsis quinquefolia, and the West Indian Ipomœa tuberosa (Spanish Woodbine).
α. c. 875. Erfurt Gloss., 1059. Volvola, uuidubindae. Ibid., 1032. Viburnum, uuidubindae.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark i. 6. Wudu huniʓ þæt wæxes on wudu binde [Rushw. wudebendum].
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 302. Ʒenim þysse wyrte wyrttruman þe man capparis & oþrum naman wudubend hateð. Ibid., II. 34. Wyrc eaʓsealfe wudubindes leaf.
c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 418/25. Hedera nigra, wudubind, eorþifiʓ.
c. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 30. Recipe—þe Iuyse of smalache or merch, wormode,… petite consoude, wodbynd.
1525. Grete Herbal, cccclxvii. (1529), Aa iv b. De Volubilis. Woodbynde.
1562. Pilkington, Expos. Abdyas, Pref. A a iij. The woodbinde … climbes vp & spreades it selfe ouer all the branches, vnto it haue ouergrowen and kylled the hole tree.
1562. Bullein, Bulwark, Bk. Simples (1579), 21 b. This is called Helxine, Smilax, or Campanella, or the Bell Wodbinde.
1570. Buchanan, Chamæleon, Wks. (S.T.S.), 44. As ye wod bind clymeth on ye oik and syne with tyme distroyis ye tre.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, Table Eng. Names, Blew Woodbind, or ladies bower.
1624. Capt. J. Smith, Virginia, V. 170. A kinde of Wood-bind … which runnes vpon trees, twining it selfe like a Vine: the fruit … eaten worketh … in the nature of a purge.
1625. Gordon, Pharmaco-pinax, 11. Baccæ Hederæ. Berries of Wood-bind.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 332. Woodbind, Spanish, Ipomoea.
β. 1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 97. Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physick…. 23 Stichwort. 24 Valerian. 25 Woodbine.
1846–50. A. Wood, Class-bk. Bot., 212. Ampelopsis quinquefolia … has long been cultivated as a covering for walls, and is best known by the name of Woodbine.
2. esp. The common honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum, a climbing shrub with pale yellow fragrant flowers; also extended to other species, as the N. American L. grata.
α. c. 1265. Voc. Plants, in Wr.-Wülcker, 556/39. Mater silua, i. cheuefoil, i. wudebi[n]de.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, III. 1231. As abowte a tre … wryþe the soote wode bynde.
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 14. Caprifolium, wodebinde.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 82. Wodbynde or Honysuckle … windeth it self about busshes.
1624–5. Shirley, Sch. Complement, II. (1631), 18. The Honey Wood-bind, Circling a withered Bryer.
1776. R. Graves, Euphrosyne, I. 159. See! how that woodbind round the door And lattice blooms!
1785. Martyn, Lett. Bot., xvi. (1794), 204. The Woodbind has … slender trailing branches, twining round the boughs of trees.
β. 1548. Elyot, Periclymenon, an herbe called woodbyne, whiche beareth the honysuckle.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. i. 251. I know a banke where the wilde time blowes,… Quite ouer-canoped with luscious woodbine.
1637. Milton, Lycidas, 146. The Musk-rose, and the well attir’d Woodbine.
1718. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to Abbé Conti, 19 May. The walls are in the nature of lattices; and, on the outside of them, vines and woodbines planted.
1847–60. Darlington, Amer. Weeds, 160. Agreeable Lonicera. Wild Honeysuckle. American Woodbine.
1856. Miss Mulock, John Halifax, ix. There was a yellow jasmine over the porch at one front door, and a woodbine at the other.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1588. Spenser, Virgils Gnat, 82. Others … brouze the woodbine twigges.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, III. i. 30. Beatrice … Is couched in the wood-bine couerture.
1599. Cutwode, Caltha Poet., lxxxiv. C 6 b. She commeth to the woodbind tree. Ibid., cxvi. E 8. She goes vnto the Woodbine Tree.
1704. Pope, Spring, 97. Haste to yonder woodbine bow’rs.
1713. Guardian, No. 125. To taste the odours of the woodbine grove.
1727–46. Thomson, Summer, 461. In the gelid caverns, woodbine-wrought.
1845. J. E. Carpenter, Poems & Lyrics, 93. The cottage … With porch—all woodbine-clad.
1855. Tennyson, Maud, I. XXII. i. The woodbine spices are wafted abroad.
1895. R. W. Chambers, King in Yellow, Street of Our Lady of Fields, ii. (1909), 232. A white house and woodbine-covered piazza.
1908. [Eliz. Fowler], Betw. Trent & Ancholme, 141. Across a woodbine hedge.
Hence Woodbined a., overgrown or adorned with woodbine.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, V. 104. The woodbined wall.
1895. ‘Cotswold Isys,’ Lyra Piscat., 109.
| She sees in sunshine of the summers gone | |
| Young eyes that in those woodbined oriels shone | |
| Scan the far meads for some belovèd one. |
