Acorn meaning7/4/2023 ![]() There was a pleasing inequality in the table, which produced many mishaps to cups and plates, acorns dropped in the milk, little black ants partook of the refreshments without being invited, and fuzzy caterpillars swung down from the tree to see what was going on. My food is not that of man I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. ![]() "I guess the princess gave him a posy, and opened the gate after a while," said Laurie, smiling to himself, as he threw acorns at his tutor. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) The acorn, or oaknut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. "I haven't heard Frank laugh so much for ever so long," said Grace to Amy, as they sat discussing dolls and making tea sets out of the acorn cups. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) “Something that a sailor needs even more than that,” answered the admiral, and turning it over he tilted a pile of acorns on to his palm. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) Acorn is used to understand consumers lifestyle, behaviour and attitudes, together with the needs of communities and is important to both private sector and public service organisations. (First-ever fossil monkey found in North America, NSF)įood, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. ![]() One theory is that the monkeys weren't used to eating the continent's food: They were unwilling to trade South America's tropical fruits for northern acorns. ![]()
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