Defn: A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
Defn: Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
The primal age, which was beautiful as gold, with hunger made acorns savory, and with thirst every streamlet nectar.
Among foul hogs,[4] more fit for acorns than for other food made for human use, it first directs its poor path.
In the poorest spots the hedges were bowed with haws and blackberries; acorns cracked underfoot, and the burst husks of chestnuts lay exposing their auburn contents as if arranged by anxious sellers for the market.
Even then were they collecting the roots of the China briar [Note 1], and the acorns of the live-oak.
The latter made answer that he was only gathering acorns--the acorns of the live-oak are sweet food, and much sought after by the plantation-people.
Sooner than sell myself to such base love as yours, I should wander naked through the wild woods, and live upon the acorns of the oak.
The green summer foliage became brown and the acorns fell from the oaks; still he laboured on, and saw the ice and snow, and heard the wind roar in the old familiar trees without much thought of it.
As the old man looks back from the gate, the chill breeze whistles through the boughs of the oak above him, tearing off the brown dry leaves, and shaking out the acorns to fall at his feet.
In autumn their little fingers are employed picking up the acorns fallen from the oaks, for which the formers pay so much per bushel.
If they paused it was to gossip or to abuse the boys for not bringing more acorns to the sack.
They were acorn picking, searching for the dropped acorns in the long rank grass by the hedge, under the brown leaves, on the banks, and in the furrows.
The boughs of the oak spread wide--the glory of the tree is its head--and the acorns are found in a circle corresponding with the outer circumference of the branches.
Besides this, they made their women do all the work and cook the acorns and brew the honey into mead, while they went out to fish and hunt and fight.
Then, instead of its falling down, like acorns from the trees, more and better food shall come up from out of the earth.
Instead of acorns and the meat of wild game, they now enjoyed milk and bread.
Now among the wild people of the north, who ate acorns and were clothed in the skins of animals, there came, from the Christian lands of the south, a singer with his harp.
Now Sammy was very fond of big acorns and he had not had one for a long time.
They did not like acorns so they never opened the store-house doors.
Bobby followed Sammy and peeped into the hole where the ten acorns were hidden.
Then he would run round and round hunting for holes where he had hidden acorns away.
The hole was not very large, but Sammy hid ten acornsin it.
All the nuts and acorns were frozen into the ground so the squirrels could not dig them out.
In the fall they had stored away nuts and acorns in little holes in the ground.
The ten little acorns were just where he had put them.
It will not be a hard winter when acorns abound, and there are no hips nor haws: "If Noah's Ark shows many days together, There will be foul weather.
For food, they gathered acorns and dug roots in the meadows.
Guns, baggage, and provisions were lost; and the three voyagers returned to the Miamis, subsisting on acorns by the way.
No French cards hitherto discovered are of so early a date as those which have Bells, Hearts, Leaves, and Acorns as the marks of the suits.
When the canes are fed down and destroyed, and the acorns become scarce, the small corn-field and the rude cabin are abandoned, and the squatter goes in search of a place where all the original wealth of the forest is yet undiminished.
At the time of our journey, the acorns were falling in such quantities, that the ground for an extent of many acres was often seen almost covered with them.
It is remarked also, that the venison becomes fat somewhat in proportion as acorns are abundant.
In the autumn the people used to gather all the wild fruits they could get, and store them up for use in the winter--nuts and acorns and wild apples.
Also they pounded their corn and acorns and nuts in mortars of wood or stone.
Acorns are so bitter,” said he, “I wonder anyone could eat them at all.
There were nuts and acorns and corn of different kinds, but also crabs or wild apples that had evidently been split and dried.
By this time Gofa’s store of corn was low, and she used to put a handful or two of pounded-up acorns with the corn-meal when she made porridge or bread.
Their other belongings were of a useful sort, not large and heavy like furniture, but such things as cooking pots, the mealing-stone for crushing corn, and the big wooden mortar in which grain or acorns could be pounded into flour.
But Uncle John said they would not find many acorns in the Christmas holidays: the rooks and the squirrels would have taken care of that.
Joe said it would be great fun to have a real fire and collect acorns and roast them to see how they tasted.
Like all its clan, its diet of harmful grubs, beetles, and other insects makes it a desirable bird, and the small amounts of fruit and acorns it eats are never missed.
More than half of its vegetable food consists of acorns and other nuts or large seeds.
Even those species that attack acorns show a decided tendency to distinguish between oak species and confine themselves as groups very largely to particular species or botanical groups of oaks.
The nuts looked like acorns but when I picked them up I found them as hard as hickory nuts.
Drive out these swine, and throw down some acornsfor them to eat.
It was arranged that Edward should stay at home to assist in collecting the acorns for the pigs, and that Jacob should cross the forest alone to see after the puppies, and he set off the next morning.
Plenty to do, and hard work, Edward; the acorns are fit for beating down, and we want a great many bushels for the pigs.
Hundreds of the acorns were lying about, gnawed away at the cup end, where the shell was thinnest, many of them further broken and cleaned out by the birds.
Such baskets are frequently composed of sticks alternating withacorns or pine cones.
The making of baskets of this form is very simple, the only materials needed being straight sticks, acorns or pine cones and a little wire.
To this day, squirrels do not eat meat, but instead they nibble acorns and nuts.
If you have sharp eyes," added the grandmother, "you will find hollow places in the trees, where the squirrels hide their acorns and nuts.
You shall drink seawater; shell-fish, withered roots, and husks of acorns shall be your food.
If he had been allowed to grow up out of doors, he would have found plenty to do, planting acorns and nuts, nesting, and bringing up families.
On the north side the foliage is mostly oak, with acorns and numerous empty cups; sycamore and ivy filling the adjoining spandrels.
Are the acornsof the mountain sweeter than the esculent and nutritious bean of the Pale Face miner?
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