Beechen

Additional confirmation seems afforded by the fact that in certain places in England boys call beechen tops "bacons." ❋ Various (N/A)

Spring's dewy hand on this fair summit weaves The downy grass, with tufts of Alpine flowers, And shades the beechen slopes with tender leaves, And leads the Shepherd to his upland bowers, Strewn with wild thyme; while slow-descending showers, Feed the green ear, and nurse the future sheaves! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Apparently it comes from “beech” as in beech tree because the Saxons and Germans usually wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I did not doubt the fact when I read of it under the level boughs of the beechen tree with J. W., sixty years ago, by the green woodland light of the primeval forest which hemmed our village in, and since I am well away from the Alhambra again I do not doubt it now. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Others on this occasion talked very much of antipathies, and produced a thousand instances of such strange effects; for example, the sight of a ram quiets an enraged elephant; a viper lies stock-still, if touched with a beechen leaf; ❋ Unknown (2004)

Since the venomous rage of vipers is assuaged if you but touch them with a beechen bough. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And a snowdrift 'neath a beechen bough Her neck and nut-brown hair. ❋ Unknown (1999)

When Sam awoke, he found that he was lying on some soft bed, but over him gently swayed wide beechen boughs, and through their young leaves sunlight glimmered, green and gold. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

The family name, Bacon, then, undoubtedly signifies "of the beechen tree," and is therefore of the same class with many others such as ash, beech, &c., latinized in ancient records by De ❋ Various (N/A)

From Grimbaldus, downwards, it does not appear that these _beechen_ men ever signalized themselves by ❋ Various (N/A)

Before the day was passed there came a beautiful black steed, upon which was a beechen saddle, and a suit of armour, both for man and horse. ❋ Henry Gilbert (N/A)

A beechen implement, resembling somewhat our potato masher, and called the "brayer," was used to manipulate the ink as it lay on the table; an iron shovel, known as the "slicer," being used to portion out from the mass of ink such quantities as were needed from time to time for the brayer. ❋ Various (N/A)

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: beechen; russet; train; jet; unapt. ❋ Christine M. Keck (N/A)

"Bacon, that is, 'of the beechen tree,' anciently called Bucon; and whereas swines 'flesh is now called by the name of bacon, it grew only at the first unto such as were fatted with Bucon or beech-mast." ❋ Various (N/A)

And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In vain Waring and Peter showered tremendous blows upon his head with their beechen clubs, and even the heavy axe of Orloff fell upon his natural helmet of air-distended skin, with a violence whose only effect was to increase the anger of the enraged amphibia, and fill the scene of the strife with hollow sounds, like the hoarse booming of a big drum. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)

The _Saxon_ word _bacon_ is, without doubt, simply and purely _beechen_ -- pertaining to, or relating to the beech tree. ❋ Various (N/A)