rhubarb

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rhubarb englanniksi

1. Any plant of the genus (taxfmt), especially (taxlink), having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).

2. (quote-journal), or (smallcaps), at the option of the Candidate, being the Premium offered for cultivating the True (smallcaps), was this Session adjudged to Mr. (smallcaps), of Fish-street-hill, from whom the following Papers were received. Mr. (smallcaps) made choice of the pecuniary Reward.|journal=Society of Arts|Transactions of the Society Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with the Premiums offered in the Year 1798|location=London|publisher=Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, Hill, London|Snow-hill. ...|year=1798|volume=XVI|page=213|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA213|oclc=912775948|passage=If every the cultivation of Rhubarb in this kingdom becomes ſo extenſive as to ſuperſede the neceſſity of its importation; to the Society for the promotion of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, will the community be indebted for an advantage, the magnitude and importance of which cannot be too highly appreciated. From whatever cauſe, which it is unneceſſary here to inveſtigate, certain it is the conſumption of this valuable drug is increaſed, and continues to do ſo to a very great degree.

3. (quote-book).|title=The Vegetable Cultivator: Containing a Plain and Accurate Description of All the Different Species and Varieties of Culinary Vegetables; with the Most Approved Method of Cultivating Them by Natural and Artificial Means, and the Best Mode of Cooking Them; Alphabetically Arranged. Together with a Description of the Physical Herbs in General Use, &c. Also, Some Recollections of the Life of (w), F.R.S. Gardener to the Society of Apothecaries|Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Physic Garden|Chelsea|location=London|publisher=Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Row|Paternoster-Row|year=1839|pages=265 and 271–272|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JCgaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265|oclc=78055399|passage=&91;page 265&93; In addition to the qualities of the rhubarb above mentioned, it is allowed by all medical men to make one of the most cooling, wholesome, and delicious tarts sent to table; many persons prefer it indeed either to green gooseberries or apples. In the early part of the season the stalks of rhubarb are cut up and mixed with these fruits; with the former before they have obtained their flavour, and with the latter after losing it by long keeping. (..) &91;pages 271–272&93; Hot-beds, frames, or pits, where a gentle heat can be kept up, will do extremely well for forcing rhubarb, provided the glasses are kept darkened. (..) The advantages of blanching the stalk of rhubarb are twofold; namely, the desirable qualities of improved appearance and flavour, and a saving in the quantity of sugar necessary to render them agreeable to the palate, as the leaf-stalks when blanched are infinitely less harsh than when growing under the influence of light, in open situations.

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5. (quote-book) For a tropical foliage effect on a grand scale, substitute rhubarbs as cold-hardy alternatives to ''Gunnera''; similarly, rhubarbs thrive alongside ponds and streams.

6. The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as ''Rheum × hybridum''), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc.

7. (quote-book)|year=2014|page=142|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfDDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|isbn=978-0-7627-9176-7|passage=June is normally pie time, because it's when the strawberries come in. The summer before Dad died they were unusally plentiful at our local farmers' market, and Mom made almost a dozen of her strawberry rhubarbs—the ones with the tapioca mixed in—because she knew it was his favorite.

8. The dried rhizome and roots of (taxlink) (Chinese rhubarb) or (taxlink) (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative.

9. (RQ:Lovell Panzooryktologia) if the ſperm be hot & ſharp, by phlebotomy, rhubarb, myrobalans, ſuccory, the foure greater cold ſeeds, anointing the ſpine and loines, with refrigerating unguents, the cerot of ſaunders, and comitiſſæ; (..)

10. (quote-book)|year=1666|page=200|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSsaHy7izD8C&pg=PA200|oclc=180715463|passage=(..) If you would have them Purging, put Honey to them inſtead of Sugar; and if more Laxative, for Choler, Rhubarb; for Flegm, Turbith, for watry Humours, Scammony: but if more forcibly to bind, uſe the unripe Quinces with Roſes, and Acacia, or Hypociſtis, and ſome torrefied Rhubarb.

11. (quote-book)&93;|tlr=Obadiah Justamond|John Obadiah Justamond|chapter=Book V. Trade of Denmark, Ostend, Sweden, Prussia, Spain, and Russia, to the East Indies. Some Important Inquiries Concerning the Connections of Europe with India.|title=A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. ... In Eight Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for Strahan|Andrew Strahan; and Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell, in the London|Strand|year=1788|volume=III|page=176|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA176|oclc=740854415|passage=The rhubarb is a root which has the property of purging gently, of ſtregthening the ſtomach, of facilitating digeſtion, and of deſtroying worms in children. It is a tuberoſe root, rather ſpongy, brown on the outſide, yellow internally, and ſtreaked with reddiſh veins. Its taſte is bitter and aſtringent, its ſmell acrid and aromatic.

12. (n-g) operations by aircraft (fighters and fighter-bombers) involving low-level flight to seek opportunistic targets.

13. A ditch alongside a road or highway.

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14. Of the colour of rhubarb: either brownish-yellow (the colour of rhubarb rhizomes and roots used for medicinal purposes), or pale red (often the colour of the leafstalks of common rhubarb).

15. Of aircraft: to fire at a target opportunistically.

16. (senseid) General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word ''rhubarb''; ''hence'', such noise in other settings.

17. (quote-book)'' wasn't ''actually'' a silent film; there were sound effects, but the dialogue was a rhubarb-ish series of grunts and mutters.

18. Nonsense; false utterance.

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20. An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event.

21. A brawl.

22. Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word ''rhubarb'' to create the sound of indistinct conversation; ''hence'', to converse indistinctly, to mumble.

23. (quote-book) David John Moore Cornwell|chapter=11|title=A Perfect Spy|location=London|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=1986|isbn=978-0-340-38784-9|edition2=1st Pocket Books trade paperback|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Pocket Books|year2=January 2003|page2=349|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukCiQluEcwsC&pg=PA349|isbn2=978-0-7434-5792-7|passage=At Rick's side our local Liberal Party Chairman is smacking his yeoman's paws together and rhubarbing ecstatically in Rick's ear.

24. To articulate indistinctly or mumble (words or phrases); to say inconsequential or vague things because one does not know what to say, or to stall for time.