= prec. (in various senses).
13[?]. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS. fol. ccxxvii.). Þis ilke Sicomours [sic] tre In wȝuche clomb vp Zachee.
1382. Wyclif, Luke xix. 4. He rennynge bifore, stiȝede in to a sycamoure [1398 sicomoure] tree.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 715/43. Hic cicomorus, a cycomyrtre.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, III. cxii. 1300. The great Maple, not rightly called the Sycomore tree … is a stranger in England.
a. 1600. in Chappell, Pop Music (1855), I. 207. The poor soul sat sighing by a sicamore tree.
1611. Bible, Ps. lxxviii. 47. He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost.
1872. Schele de Vere, Americanisms, 413. Buttonwood is the popular name of the so-called Sycamore-tree (Platanus occidentalis).
1898. Morris, Austral Eng., Sycamore Tree.… In New South Wales, the name is given to Brachyc[h]iton luridus.
1908. R. M. Watson, in Athenæum, 4 April, 418/3. The west shone pale through the boughs of the sycamore tree As the rooks sailed home to their haunt in the dusky park.
