chive

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
2. isim The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

   “Chive herb. (attributive use)”

3. isim The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.
4. isim A piece cut off; sliver.
5. isim The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron.

   “[…] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]”

6. isim A knife.

   “For when that he hath nubbed as, / And our friends tip him no cole, / He takes his chive and cuts us down, / And tips us into a hole.”

7. isim A file.
8. isim A saw.
9. fiil To stab.

   “Adieu to Haul-Cly, adieu to stopping Coaches, and adieu to all the hurry-scurry of Foot-Scampering, filing, chiving, milling, and sneaking[…]”

10. fiil To cut.