The small cherry, both black and red, common in gardens, is in Scotland, never in England, termed gean (Fr. guigne), from Guigne, in Picardy. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character]
This gean should never be introduced to wild populations, recessiv or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Shot: Fainting animals] Reference
The double gean is one of the latest cherries and, being double, it hangs on to its flowers longer than most. From Wordnik.com. [London's fragrant front gardens] Reference
It filled the wood of Kincreggan with sounds, with the rasping and creaking of branches and the rustle of leaves, and the road by the river under the gean-trees was strewn with the broken blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Rain was beating on the open leaf of plane and beech, and rapping at the black doors of the ash-bud, and the scent of the gean-tree flourish hung round the road by the river, vague, sweet, haunting, like a recollection of the magic and forgotten gardens of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The gean isle occupied by Mr. Phoebus was of no inconsiderable dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
A little wood I know has in May among its oaks and beeches many white pillars of gean trees, each with its own air round it. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
The fruit of the gean-tree is rather harsh till fully ripe, and then becomes somewhat vapid and watery, yet it is very grateful to the palate after. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852] Reference
But the voice of that careful seneschal was heard above the tumult, “Oh, stop sirs, stop — turn bridle, for the luve of Mercy; add not loss of lives to the loss of warld’s gean!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
1 5 - Fogla feada. drai - gean, trom, feorus, fin - coll crithach, caithne crandfir, dairt andire cachal. From Wordnik.com. [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus] Reference
But the voice of that careful seneschal was heard above the tumult, "Oh, stop sirs, stop -- turn bridle, for the luve of Mercy; add not loss of lives to the loss of warld's gean!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
"Yon laad Flemin ',' at preached i 'the Baillies' Barn aboot the dowgs gaein 'roon' an 'roon' the wa's o 'the New Jeroozlem, gien he had but hauden thegither an' no gean to the worms sae sune, wad hae dung a score o '' im. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
Is gean, alas!. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
Lang taam we've gean astray. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
Ya hauf o 't' winter's gean at Yule. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
In hot weather I wore gean pants and shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives] Reference
You will know the place by the gean trees. '. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Where on the & Aelig; gean shore a city stands. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book] Reference
Ceux www absolu casino com www gean casino …. From Wordnik.com. [MVN] Reference
She's better gean! "said she. From Wordnik.com. [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference
Ya, flupor, gaige, gair, gairige, gean. From Wordnik.com. [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus] Reference
Ir. Foirneart, eigean, foirei - gean, f forkar, farrau, htt2. x. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
IHm, ruifgim, kaircim, liuram, flii - okm, kaniikim, plionkam, kairlim, knagam, Ipailam, funkam, gean - gani, gavam ar. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
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