The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . d rhet-oric. For a notice of Skeltons laureation at Oxford the Bliss obligingly searched the archives of that unlversity, hut without success. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. 268, not* laurel (larel or lorol), n. and a. [Formerlyalso lau-reli: < ME. laurel, loral, hiryel, lawriall,lorycl, var. of laurer, lorer, loryger = D. lauricr, laurel < OF. laiiricr, F. laurier = Pr. Sp. laurel = , laurel, < ML. *l(turariiis, prop, adj., < L
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . d rhet-oric. For a notice of Skeltons laureation at Oxford the Bliss obligingly searched the archives of that unlversity, hut without success. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. 268, not* laurel (larel or lorol), n. and a. [Formerlyalso lau-reli: < ME. laurel, loral, hiryel, lawriall,lorycl, var. of laurer, lorer, loryger = D. lauricr, laurel < OF. laiiricr, F. laurier = Pr. Sp. laurel = , laurel, < ML. *l(turariiis, prop, adj., < , the bay-tree, laurel: see /a«re.] I. «.1. The bay-tree or bay-laurel, Laurus is the truelaurel of the an-cients and thepoets. The bole [of a treej was of bright gold, bret to the niyddes,Largior then a law- riall & lengur with 0/ Troy[(E. E. T. S.),(L 4960. The antique Gre-cians used to liealong at then- meals. . upon beds thatcircled three pai-tsof the table, . .in their feastingscrowned with chap-lets of flowers andgarlands of , Travailes,[p. 01. 2. Any sjiecies. Branch of Laurel ^Lctiirns tiobilis), wiUi male ;7, male flower wiUi base of the inflores* two involucrnl leaves; b, fe-male flower i ir, stamen, showing the ot the anther ; d, fruit. of the genus Laurus.—3. Any one of many diverse plantswhose leaves suggest those of the true English gardens tlie common laurel, or cherry-laurel,more properly laurel-cherrtf, is Prmiua Lauro-Cerasiis (seechern/i); the Portugal laurel is P. Liiyifanica. The copse-,spurge-, or wood-laurel of England is Daphne lainel is the genus Kal,,nn, imludiiii, tin- itmun-tain-laurel uf the eastern llnitL-d .stiitis 1 A, lulijuila), thelambkill or shecp-lauiel {K. niii}usfiJUa), and tlie jialelaurel or swamp-laurel (K. glauca). (Sec cut under Kal-mia.) The great laurel ot the same region is the nifixinimn; and
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