trifoly
English
Etymology
From Latin trifolium. See trifoliate, trefoil.
Noun
trifoly (countable and uncountable, plural trifolies)
- (obsolete) melilot; sweet clover
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson
- She was crowned with a chaplet of trifoly.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson
- (obsolete) The plant trefoil.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Browning to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trifoly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)