Meaning of narciss | Babel Free

Definitions

Narcissus.

obsolete

Examples

“Come⟳ hyther O thou sweete face⟳ boy: see⟳ see⟳, to thy selfe heere / How fayre Nymphes in baskets full doo bring⟳ manie Lillies: / White violets sweete Nais plucks and bloomes fro the Poppies, / Narcyss, and dyll flowres most sweete that sauoureth also.”

“Nor are all taken at the ſame time, as he ſeems to intimate; for Narciſſes and Crocuſſes are commonly taken up firſt, generally when the flower is gone, the leaf withered, and the Bulb full, it is the beſt ſeaſon to take⟳ them up; […]”

“Musk Narcisse. Narcissus moschatus.”

“Dear Muse, for whom twin’st thou this vocal wreath? / For whom this garland gay of flowers that breathe⟳? / These Meleager culled—to friendship due / Diocles won these flowers of various hue. / Thy lilies Anyte,—and loved Myro’s / Fair buds—and Sappho’s scant but blooming rose— / The rich narciss of Melanippides— / The vine’s young shoot⟳ from green Simonides— / Thine iris, Nossis, on whose cup are shed⟳ / Sweet-breathing scents, and love’s own⟳ perfume spread⟳— / And Rian’s buds, with marjoram soft imbued— / Erinna’s crocus white and virgin-hued, / Alcæus, speaking hyacinths he weaves, / Samius his laurel’s bright and sable leaves.”

“In other sections of the narciss family yellow is the predominant colour. […] This term is never applied to a narciss.”

“Many hundreds of the choicest varieties of tulips, narcisses and crocuses, with squills and other bulbs, sent up their delicate flowers during the early spring⟳.”

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