Of a much-branched shrubby habit, the Shrubby Cinquefoil (page 29) forms a small bush from two to four feet in height, with pinnate leaves and entire hairy oblong leaflets.
A native of the Northern Hemisphere, this cinquefoil produces flat-headed inflorescences of yellow flowers throughout the summer months.
On the south side the westernmost Perpendicular bay, up to the triforium, is solid and covered with cinquefoil panelling.
The panels are pointed and divided each into two cinquefoil divisions.
Here the round arch, which is again flanked by two panels, comprises three cinquefoil lights, and the mullions are carried up through the head.
Gules, seme of crosses flory, and a cinquefoil or.
Men were for Montfort or the king, and those that were for De Montfort very probably took and used his badge of a cinquefoil as a party badge.
The origin of the cinquefoil has yet to be accounted for.
In the head of the largest arch is a cinquefoil opening ornamented with cusps and dog-tooth moulding.
Under the windows runs an arcade of blind tracery, two lights to each division, with a cinquefoil ornamented with a sculptured boss above.
Above the two arches is an acutely-pointed gable, within which, supported by the arches, is a circle withcinquefoil tracery.
The porch is vaulted with stone, and is entered by an obtuse arch, over which is an elliptical window, divided by mullions into six lights under cinquefoil arches, which are again subdivided in the head into lesser arches.
Mr. Dollman holds that the cinquefoil tracery occurred in both divisions, but has omitted it from the upper lights in his drawing of the west elevation, as it appeared before it was finally destroyed.
The details are varied and graceful, with the design of each pair coupled under a pointed arch with a cinquefoil in its head, which is again surmounted by a high crocketted gable.
The central doorway is divided by a clustered shaft, where from spring two cinquefoil arches.
The raspberry-bine was there, and the great oak with the seat around it, and the carpet of cinquefoil and wild strawberry.
Beyond it there was only an upward-climbing fringe of grass, starred with cinquefoil and wild strawberry--and then the precipice.
The shafts of the arcade support trefoiled arches, with a cinquefoil ornamented with a sculptured boss.
At the base of the reredos are three arches, and above five arches, with cinquefoil headings, and above these a triplet window.
Similarly the roots of the cinquefoil are helpful when boiled down to a third, in wine or vinegar; however, they must first be washed in salt water or brine.
In each of the last two bays of the presbytery the triforium has five small cinquefoil arches.
In a niche of the east wall of the choir, behind an arcade of three pointed arches with cinquefoil heads, is a Purbeck marble effigy (39) of a bishop supposed by many to represent Richard Poore.
The west wall is panelled in three main arches, with an upper story reaching to the height of the triforium base, and containing an arcade of four arches, subdivided each into two smaller trefoiled ones, with cinquefoil heads.
The right to bear Cinquefoil was considered an honourable distinction to him who had worthily conquered his affections and mastered his senses.
In former days, Cinquefoil (Potentilla) much prevailed as an heraldic device; the number of the leaves answering to the five senses of man.
In wet weather the leaves of the Cinquefoil contract and bend over the flower, forming, as it were, a little tent to cover it--an apt emblem of an affectionate mother protecting her child.
Cinquefoil was formerly believed to be a cure for agues; four branches being prescribed for a quartan, three for a tertian, and one for a quotidian.
The caterpillar feeds in July and August on the flowers of cinquefoil (Potentilla), and is said to eat bramble blossoms also.
The Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla replans) grows also abundantly on meadow banks, having astringent roots, which have been used medicinally since the times of Hippocrates and Dioscorides.
The common cinquefoil of the meadows, with bright yellow buttercup-like flowers.
B) Marsh Five-finger; Purple Cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris) is in character quite like the foregoing species.
B) Silvery Cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea) is a common and very handsome species found in dry, barren ground throughout our range, but most abundantly near the coast.
Purple Cinquefoil grows in swamps or cool bogs, from Labrador to Alaska and south to N.
The leaves on this cinquefoil are usually compounded of one terminal and four side leaflets that are narrowly oblong, an inch or less in length, and silky hairy.
Although the shrubby cinquefoil prefers swamps and moist, rocky places to dwell in, it wisely adapts itself, as globe-trotters should, to whatever conditions it meets.
We may also notice a new oaken lectern or reading desk near the pulpit, containing a beautifully carved figure representative of the first beatitude, under a cinquefoil canopy, the gift of the Very Rev.
They are placed under a comprising pointed arch, just beneath the point of which, and over the central lancet, is a cinquefoil opening.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cinquefoil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
