walnotet

A Middle English form of walnut. walnut (walnut), n. [Formerly also wallnut, wallnutte; The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary walnut United States. 6813 Armenia to the mountains of northern India, and is ex sphinx. feet high, with a ma ive trunk and broad spreading top, and bears pinnate leaves with few smooth leaflets. It produces the well-known sweet-seeded nuts of this name, in America distinguished as English walnuts. These are surrounded with a thin, brittle, and easily separated husk. The shell is thin in different degrees, or in the wild state thicker. The kernel yields some 50 per cent. of oil, Walnut-tree ( Juglans regia ). which is largely expre ed in France and other parts of Europe, as also in Asia. That of the first pre ing is used for food, like olive-oil, though ranked le highly; that of the second pre ing, called fire - drawn, the cake having been submitted to boiling water, is more siccative even than linseed-oil, and hence is by some artists the most highly esteemed of all oils; it is a good lamp-oil, and is available for making soft-soap, etc. The whole fruit when quite young makes a good pickle. The shell of a large va riety, called double walnut, is used in France for making purses, cases for jewelry, etc. The leaves and of the fruit are used in Europe for various medicinal purposes. Walnut-wood is light, tough, and handsome, plain or with a bur; before the introduction of mahogany it was the leading cabinet-wood of Europe, and is still pre ferred to all other wood for gunstocks. As on a walnot with-oute is a bitter barke. Piers Plowman (B), xi. 251. ... many goodly rowes of wall nutte trees. Coryat, Crudities, I. 25. I observed 2. In the United States, frequently, same as black walnut and rock - walnut (the fruit, the tree, or its wood). See below. -3. In parts of New York, New England, and some other localities, same as hickory - nut or hickory. This is sometimes distinguished as shagbark or shell bark walnut. - Ash-leafed walnut. Same as Cauca sian walnut.- Belgaum walnut. Same as Indian walnut. - Black walnut, a North American tree, Juglans nigra, or its timber. The tree ranges, in rich bottomlands and on hillsides, through a large part of the eastern half of the United States, but is becoming scarce. It grows from 90 to 140 feet high, with a trunk from 6 to 9 feet in diameter. The wood is heavy, hard, and strong, easily worked, and susceptible of a beautiful polish; it is purplish-brown when first cut, but becomes darker with age. It is more generally used for cabinet-making, inside finish, and gunstocks than any other North American tree. ( Sargent.) The nuts are edible, but not very choice; the shell is hard, the husk thick and difficult to remove. The tree grows rapidly, and is more or le planted on the prairies. They have a sort of walnut they call black walnuts , which are as big again as any I ever saw in England, but are very rank and oily, having a thick, hard, foul shell, and come not clear of the husk as the walnut in France doth; but the inside of the nut, and leaves, and growing of the tree declare it to be of the walnut kind. Beverley, Hist. Virginia, iv. 14. Caucasian walnut, the tree Pterocarya ( Juglans ) fraxi nifolia, marked by its two-winged fruit. - Country walnut. Same as Indian walnut. - Double walnut. See def. 1.-English walnut, European walnut. See def. 1.- Highfiier walnut, a variety of the common walnut, said to be the best in England. - Indian walnut, the candleberry, Aleurites Moluccana ( A. triloba ). Also called Belgaum, country, and Otaheite walnut. - Jamaica walnut, a low West Indian tree, Pic rod end ron Juglans, bearing a small ovoid-globose orange-yellow fruit. - Lemon walnut. See lemon - walnut. - Otaheite walnut. Same as Indian walnut. - Rock-walnut, a moderate or small tree, Juglans rupestris, found from Texas - where it is generally reduced to a low much-branching shrub- to California, growing along streams and in mountain cañons. Its wood is of a dark-brown color, susceptible of polish. Its nuts are small, sweet, and edible. - Shagbark or shellbark walnut. See def. 3.- Titmouse walnut, a variety of the common walnut with a shell so thin as to be broken by the titmouse and other birds. - Walnut case-bearer, an American phycitid moth, Acrobasis ju gland is, whose small green larva constructs a black case between the leaves of the walnut. - Walnut catchup. See catchup. Walnut leaf-roller, either of two tortricid moths, Tortrix riley an a and Lophodera jug land an a, whose larvæ roll the leaves of walnut and hickory in the United States. See cut under Tortrix. - Walnut sword-tail, a dull-brown tree-hopper, Uroxiphus caryæ, occurring on the foliage of walnut and hickory in the United States.White walnut, the butternut, Juglans cinerea, sometimes called oil - nut and lemon - walnut.