Synonyms:
mistletoe, Loranthus_europaeus
Meaning: shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks
Synonyms:
mistletoe, Viscum_album, Old_World_mistletoe
Meaning: Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
Synonyms:
mistletoe, false_mistletoe
Meaning: American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe
Usage examples
MISTLETOE.
When she reached Mistletoe there were people going and coming every day, so that an arrival was no event.
She would have her one day's hunting, and she had secured the presence of Lord Rufford at Mistletoe for Sunday.
I am going with the Fitzwilliam." Now Mistletoe was in Lincolnshire, not very far from Peterborough, not very far from Stamford, not very far from Oakham.
She did not see Lord Rufford before dinner, and at dinner sat between Sir Jeffrey and an old gentleman out of Stamford who dined at Mistletoe that evening.
She could not recollect that, on any of those annual visits which she had made to Mistletoe for more years than she now liked to think of, she had ever had five minutes' conversation alone with her aunt.
The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, -- so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe.
And yet she had to remember that her coming campaign with Lord Rufford must be carried on in part beneath her aunt's eyes. When she had come to Mistletoe she had fondly hoped that none of the family there would know anything about Mr. Morton.
She began gradually to understand various things;--why Arabella Trefoil had been so anxious to come to Mistletoe just at this time, why she had behaved so unlike her usual self before Lord Rufford's arrival, and why she had been so unwilling to have Mr. Morton invited.