hornbeam

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tree of the genus Carpinus, having smooth grey bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, found in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

   “The Horn-beam, in Latine the Carpinus, is planted of Sets; though it may likevviſe be raiſed from the Seeds, […] Thus it vvill advance to a conſiderable Tree.”

2. isim Especially, the American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), which is common along the banks of streams in the United States.
3. isim Especially, the common hornbeam or European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus).
4. isim The wood of these trees or one species of them; (countable) a sample of such wood.
5. isim Synonym of beam (“the principal stem of the antler of a deer, which branches grow out from”).
6. isim A beam or ray of light emanating from the head of a deity like a horn.

   “With toole ſharp poincted wee boarde and perced his one light [the single eye of the Cyclops Polyphemus], / That ſtood in his lowring front gloommiſh malleted onlye. / Like Greekiſh tergat gliſtring, or Phœbus his hornebeams.”