robin redbreast (robinredbrest)

[Early mod. E. robyn redbrest: see robin1.] 1. Same as robin1, 1. Robyn redbrest, He shall be the preest The requiem ma e to synge. Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe, 1. 399. No burial this pretty pair Of any man receives, Till Robin - red - breast piously Did cover them with leaves. Children in the Wood (Child's Ballads, III. 133). 2. Same as robin1, 2.-3. The American bluebird, Sialia sial is: an occasional misnomer. See bluebird, and cut under Sialia.-4. The old-timo Bow street runner: in allusion to the color of his waistcoat. [Slang, Eng.] - Robin-redbreast's pincushion. Same as bedegar. robin-ruddock (robin-rud'ok), n. Same as robin1, 1. Dyd you ever see two suche little Robin ruddockes So laden with breeches? R. Edwards, Damon and Pythias. IMG:content-2391.jpg:[graphic] woman and Oberon, king of Fairyland. He is analogous to the brownie of Scotland. It was from the popular belief in this spirit that Shakspere's Puck was derived. 2. As a general name, an elf; a fairy. Kottri, or Kibaldi; such as wee Pugs and Hob-goblins call. Their dwellings bee In corners of old houses least frequented, Or beneath stacks of wood and these conuented, Make feare full noise in But tries and in Dairies; Robin good - fellowes some, some call them Fairies. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 574. robing-room (rō'bing-röm), n. A room where robes of ceremony are put on and off; a vestiary: as, the peers' robing - room in the House of Lords. Robinia (ro-bin'i-a), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), named after the royal gardeners at Paris, Jean Robin (1550-1629) and his son Vespasien Robin; the latter introduced this genus into Europe, under the name Pseud acacia, in 1635.] A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs of the tribe Galegeæ, type of the subtribe Robinicæ; the locusts. It is characterized by a legume with thin valves, winged on its upper margin, and by papilio an naceous flowers with a broad reflexed standard, an IMG:content-2392.jpg:[blocks in formation] Flowering Branch of Locust ( Robinia Pseud acacia). a , pod; b, flower. shaped inflexed style terminating a stalked and manyovuled ovary, and surrounding these a long sheath of ten diadelphous stamens, one of them partly, or at length wholly, free. The branchlets and leafstalks are nearly smooth, bristly, or viscid-hairy. The leaves are unequally pinnate with stipulate leaflets, and are furnished with a pair of bristle-shaped stipules, or of short stout spines in their place. The flowers are white or rose-purple, borne in conspicuous racemes. There are 5 or 6 species, 2 of them little-known Mexican trees, the others native in the south rn and central United States. Of the latter the chief is R. Pseud acacia, the common locust or false acacia, widely planted and naturalized in the Northern States, also much planted in Europe, where it presents several varieties. For this and other species, see locust2, 1, and rose- acacia; also acacia, 3. Robinieæ (rob-i-ni'ē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1862), hej), n. Nepeta Glechoma; the bedstraw, Galium Aparine; rarely the bindweed, Convolvulus sepium; and the bittersweet, Solanum Dulcamara. [Prov. Eng.]