[f. FIR + TREE.] = FIR 1.

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1382.  Wyclif, Isa. xiv. 8. Fyrre trees also gladeden vp on thee, and the cedris of Liban.

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1430–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 335. There be bryddes whiche thei calle bernacles, lyke to wylde gese, whom nature producethe ageyne nature from firre trees.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. (1586), 101 b. In the mountaines delighteth the Fyrre tree.

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1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 196. A little after the Equinox, prune Pine and Fir-Trees.

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1712.  trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 148. They grow in Clusters upon a Kind of Turpentine or Fir-Tree.

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1855.  Longf., Hiaw., VII. 63.

          Give me of your balm, O Fir-Tree!
Of your balsam and your resin,
So to close the seams together
That the water may not enter,
That the river may not wet me!

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