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Webster 1913 Edition


Woodbine

Wood′bineˊ

,
Noun.
[AS.
wudubind
black ivy; – so named as binding about trees. See
Wood
, and
Bind
,
Verb.
T.
]
(Bot.)
(a)
A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (
Lonicera Periclymenum
); the honeysuckle.
(b)
The Virginia creeper. See
Virginia creeper
, under
Virginia
.
[Local, U. S.]
Beatrice, who even now
Is couched in the
woodbine
coverture.
Shakespeare