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VETCH. 165 VETERANIZE.
apese. a 1513 Fabvan Chron. vii. 612 For this scarcyteof
whete in Englande, in many places the people made them
brede of fetche^^ pesyn, and benys. 1533 in Archeuologia
XXV. 519 Feichys bought for sedc.ij combe of fetchys.
155a Cooper Elyot's Diet., Eruufn..is greater and
httterour then a fech. 1615 Latham Falconry (1633) 95
Take of allocs the quantity of a Fetch unwashed. 163a
Rowley ll^oman never vexi u. 26 You may Imagine it to
be 'I'welfc-day at night, and the Beane found in the corner
of your Cake, but 'Tis not wrprth a fetch I'l assure you.
1661 Petit, for Peace 11 The Tetches are beaten out with
a staff.
0, 1388 Wyci.if Ezek. iv. 9 Take thou-.beenys, and tilUs,
and mylic, and vetchis [1382 vetche]. xy^'Y^VL-e.wsK Barth.
De P. R. XVII. xcv. (Bodl. MS.), Amonge codware,.,
titles & vacches be^ smalleste in quantite. c 1483 Caxton
Diai. 22 Otes, vessches, Benes, pesen. 1539 Elvot Cast.
Heithe 84 b, Some is lyke lyttelle redde vetches. 1578 Lvte
Dodoens 482 Afterward there come vp long flat coddes,
wherein are Vetches. 1617 Moryson Itin. in. 112 English
Merchants bring into Italy . . Conny skins, Veches, Kersies,
and sometimes English Corne. 171X Addison Sped, No. 59
f 4 Cicero., was marked on the Nose with a little Wen like a
Vetch. «7S6J- Kennedy C«r/W. IVilton House (17&6) 65
The Busts of Cicero,, .with the Mark of the Cicer or Vetch
on his Face. 1790 Cowper /Had xiii. 715 As vetches or
as swarthy beans Leap from the van and fly athwart the
floor. By sharp winds driven, 1866 C. C. Felton A>tc. ^
Mad. Cr. I. vi, 406 Beans, lupines, radishes. Vetches,
wild pears, when we can. And a locust now and then. 1870
Brvant liiad xiir. II. 32 The swarthy beans Or vetches
bound before the whistling wind. 1901 Daily Ne^vs 12 Mar.
8/6 Some large Swedish gore-vetches are now offering at
attractively low rates.
t b. = FiTC'H j^.l 3 (q, v.). Obs.
2. //. Plants l>elonging to the genus Vicia^ esp.
to the species Vicia sativay the common tare.
Frequently with special reference to the produce.
a. a 1387 Sinon. Bartlwt. (Anecd. Oxon.) 43 Vesces^ \.
fecches I**/ mou-^ pese. 1388 Wvclif Isaiah xxviti. 25 He
schal not sette wheete bi ordre, and barli. .and fetchis in his
coostis. c 1440 Fnllad. on Husb. 1. 237 Lupyne and fetches
slejn, and on thaire roote Up dried, arc -isdounging landes
boote. x6io Shaks. Temp. iv. \. 61 Rich Leas Of Wheate,
Rye, Barley, Fetches, Oates and Pease. 1:1640 J. Smyth
LiTes Berkeleys (i^Zi,) I. 303 From hence also came their
great proportions of wheat, rye, barly, . .and ffetches, apples
and pears, a i66t Fuller H^orlAies, Leicester 11. (1662)
126 Whereas lean land will serve for puling peas and faint
fetches. 1879 Miss Jack.son S'Ard/fA. ^^ord-bk. 145.
^. 155a HuLOEr, lares or vetches, a kinde of pulse or
Ktayne, eruii.i, erunirt, orobum. 1575 in Phillipps Wills
U 1830)457 Corne in thefelde.. .Item,9acresof peaze. . . Item,
la acres vetches. 1576 Fleming Pojtopl. Epist. 352 With
Wlieatc,. . with Vetchesse, with Millette, & all other kinde
of pulse. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 572 Vetches also doe
manure and fat the ground where they be sowed. 1688
R. Holme Armoury 11. 97/2 Vetches, Lentils, Tares, have
leaves like Pease. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. i. no Where
Vetches, Pulse, and Tares have stood, And Stalks of
Lupines grew. 1765 Museum Rust. IV. 386 Beans, Peas,
and Tares or Vetches- I79» A, Voung Trav. France 7 A
piece of wheat ; a scrap of lucerne ; a patch of clover or
vetches. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 28
The vetches attained by the 4th of July a height of ten
inches. 188a * Ouida ' Maremma 1. 188 Amidst the maiden-
hair and the vetches about the orifice of the warrior's tomb.
3. In generic use as a plant-name (or, in early
use, as that of a grain), usually without article or
with the ; also occas., with a and pi., one or other
species of the genus Vicia.
tjBa Wyclif Ezek, iv, 9 Take thou.. bene, and lent, and
mylie,and vetche, 14.. l^oc. in Wr.-Wijlcker 619 K;V/rt,
a wecb. Ibid. 625 IJicia, vache. C1440 Promp. Parv.
153/1 Fetche, corne, or tare, ..vicia. c 153a Du Wes introd.
Fr. in Palsgr. 915 Fetche, uesche. «55> Huloet, Vetche,
fetche, or tAie,passilus. 1578 Lvte Dodoens 482 The Vetche
hath stalkes of a sufficient thicknesse. 1649 J- Ogilbv
yirg. Georg. I. 241 Wouldst thou the Ground sliould Vetch
and Fasels bear. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 139
The Chich, Fetch or V"ctch are of several sorts, but the
most known are the Winter and the Summer Vetch.
1750 SHKNsroNE Rural Elegance 204 The tangled vetch's
purple bloom. 1797 Washington Writ. (1892) XIII. 407
Tiic Vetch of Europe has not succeeded with me. i8ai
Clare F/V/. Minstr. II. 144 Heath's creeping vetch, and
glaring yellow brooms. x866 Treas. Bot. 662/2 The true
Laihyri. . are herbs . . with fewer and larger leaflets than in
the vetches, 1867 Baker Nile Tribut. viiL (1B72) 125 A
peculiar species, that resembles a vetch, bears a circular
pod as large as a horse-bean. 1890 D. Davidson Mem.
Long Life viii. 211 In a field of toor (a kind of vetchj,
we saw a fine buck antelope lying pretty well concealed. |
b. With distinguishing names, denoting various
species of Vicia, \
a 1711 Lisle Obsery. Husb. (1757) 125 The pebble-vetch
is a summer-vetch, different from the goar-vetcn and not so
big ; they call it also the rath-ripe vetch. 17*5 Pam. Diet.
S.V., The most known [sorts] are the Winter and Summer
Vetch. 1731 MiLLKR 6"fln/. Dict.s.v. KiV/a, Common Vetch
or Tare. .. White Vetch. .. Many flowcr'd Vetch. 1753
Chambers' CycL Suppl. s.v. Vicia, The species of Vetch,
enumerated by Mr. Tournefort are these: r. The common
cultivated Vetch... 4. The great wild bush Vetch.. . 12. The
white- flowered hairy wild Vetch [etc.]. 1777 Jacob Catal.
Plants 122 Vicia saliva. Common Vetch. .. /^iV/a sepium^
Bush Vetch. Vicia lathyroides, .. Wild Vetch. 1777
LiGHTFOOT Flora Scot. (1789) I. 394 Vicia cracca. Tutted
Vetch. 1796 Withering Brit. PL fed, 3) III. 638 Vtcia
lathyroides. Strangle Vetch. Ibid. 639 V. lutea. Yellow
Vetch. . . V. hybridt. Bastard Vetch. . . V. bithynica. Rough
[see Tufted a. 3 J. 1813 (see Tare sb.'^ 4I.
Vetch. 180s
i8a9 Loudon KncycL PL (1836) 622 (Alany species]. 1843
Penny Cycl. XXVl. 396 [Biennial, Pca-like, Bush, Roughpodded
Yellow and Purple Vetch, etc.]. 1846-50 A. Wood
Class-bk. Bot. 220 ViLia Americana. American Vetch...
V. Carolinians. Carolinian Vetch... K. /^/r/w/crwa. Slender
Vetch. 1850 Mlss Pratt Comtn. Things Seaside 78
The rough-podded Yellow Vetch {Vicia lutea). Ibid. 79
The smooth-podded Vetch (Vicia lan'igata). . .The rare
rough-podded purple Vetch {Vicia Bithynica).
4. Applied, with distinguishing terms, to plants
of various genera more or less resembling vetches.
See also milk-vetch Milk sb. 10 b, wood-z>etch.
Ii56»-i7»7 (see Ax-fitch).] 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl.
App.^ •Ax-vetch, in botany, the English name of a genus
of plants, called by authors secnridaca. 1760 J. Lee Introd.
Bot. App. 330 Ax Vetch: see Hatchet Vetch. 1819 Louimjn
EncycLFl. (1836) 636 /"^aca. * Bastard Vetch. ^^SiCha^^l•
bers* CycL Suppl. s.v. Aphaca, 'I'here i.s only one known
species of Aphaca, which is the yellow vetchling, called by
* bind -weed- leaved vetch. 1578 Lvte Dodoens ^-z
some the
Of the "bitter Veche called in Greeke Orobus, and in latine
Eruum. 1507 Gerarde Herbal 1051 Cich, or true Orobus
..: in F^nglish it is called bitter Vetch. x66i Lovkll Hist.
Anim. rKj.
i8sa Hortus Anglicus II. 243 Lathyrus Nissolia. Crimson
Lathyrus, or Grass Vetch. 1846^ * Hairy Vetch (see
Creeping z'ctch]. 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1055 The first
kinde of "hatchet Fetch, haih many small branches trailing
..vpon the ground. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Peleeinus
or Pelecinum,., Hatchet-vetch, a Weed that grows amidst
Corn. 1728 Bpadlev Diet. Bot., Hedysarum,..\n English,
Hatchet Vetch, or Sickle-wort. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot.
App. 331 Hatchet Vetch, Coronilln. Ibid,, Clusius's foreign
Hatchet Vetch, Biserrulet^ iSag Loudon Encyct. /*/. (1836;
628 Coronilla Secnridaca. Hatchet- Vetch. Ibid. 638
Biserrula Peleeinus. Bastard Hatchet Vetch. 1640 Parkinson
Theat. Bot. logi The greater *Horse shooe Vetch.
Ibid., Many codded Horse shooe Vetch. 1671 Skinner
Etymol. Ling. .4ngl. LIll, Horshoe Vetch, Ferrum Equinum.
ty6o }.hER Introd, Bot. App, S3t Horse-shoe Vetch,
Hippocrepis. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. ^x-j Galega...
Some with us call it "Italian Vetch, but most commonly
Goates Rue. 1718 Bradley Diet. Bot. s.v., Italian Vetch,
or Goats-Rue, in Latin, Galega. 1597 Gerarde Herbal
1060 "Kidney Vetch hath a staike of the height of a cubite.
Ibid., The Starrie Kidney Vetch, called Stella leguminosa.
S640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1094 Bladder Pease or Kidney
Vetch of Spaine. Ibid., Crooked Kidney Vetch of Candy.
17S3 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Vulneraria, The common
yellow- flowered Vnlneraria^ called kidney-vetch, and
ladies finger. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. .-Xpp. 331 Kidney
Vetch, Anthyllis. 1865 GossE Land ff Sea (1874) 7 The
kidney vetch or lady's finger. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot.
1098 The most common "Licoris Vetch. 1751 Miller Gard.
Diet., Apios, the knobbed rooted Virginian Liquorice-
Vetch. Ibid,, Astragalus, Wild Liquorice, or Liquorice
Vetch. 1753 Chambers^ Cycl. Suppl. App. s.v., Liquorice*
Vetch, the English name of a genus of plants, known
among botanists by that of glycine. 188a [see Liquorice
41- '597 Gerarde Herbal 1064 Onobryehis montana...
Mountain 'Medick Fetch. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl.
App. S.V., Medic-Vetch, the name by which many call the
onobryehis. 1760 J. Lre Introd. Bot. App. 331 Medic
Vetch, Hedysarum. 1731 Miller G^rrf. Diet. s.v. Orobus,
Broad'leav d Creeping Orobus, with a small Pod, commonly
caU'd, 'Venetian Vetcn. 1741 Compl. Fam. -Piece 11. iii, 367
Persian Lilly, Lichnis, Venetian Vetch. 1578 Lyte Dodoens
485 The "wilde Vetche [Galega a/^rraj. .serueth onely but
for pasture, and feeding for cattell. 1597 Gerarde Herbal
'053 Of the yellow wilde Fetch, or Tare euerlasting. 1640
Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1067 Aphaca. The yellow wilde
Vetch. 1715 Fam. Did. s.v-, The Seed of the Wild Vetch
is bitter.
5. attrib. and Comb.j as velck flower, -grass,
'leaf, seed; vetch-ieaved, -like adjs.
1715 Fain. Did. s.v.. Vetch Flower mixt with Honey, .will
lake away Freckles. 1731 Miller Gard, Dict.%.\. Orobus,
Wood Orobus, with Vetch-Leaves. 1753 Chambers' Cycl.
Suppl. S.V. Onobryehis, The great, vetch-leaved onobryehis.
Ibid., The Stone onobryehis, with long, and narrow, vetchlike
leaves. Ibid., App.^.\. Grass, Vetch-grass, the English
name of a distinct genus of plants called by authors nissolia.
1831 J. F. .South tr. Otto's Path. Anat. 455 One [knot] as
large as a date seed . . and a third of the size of a vetch seed.
1845-50 M rs. Lincoln Led. Bot. 184 Vicia saliva. Common
vetch-tare. 185a Mundy W«///*(»//« (1857) i4TheKennedya,
with a purple vetch-like blossom.
Vetch, southern diaL variant of Fetch v.
Vetchling (vetjlig). Bot, Also 6 vitchelinge,
7 fetchling. [f. Vbtch -f- -ling.]
1. A plant or species of the genus Lathyrus
(falso Hedysat-um) ;
the genus itself.
1578 Lyte Dodoens 485 Galega altera.. mAy also be wel
called.. in English Small wilde Vetches or Vitchclinges.
1640 [see buckler vetchling in 2]. 1753 Chambers' C^cl.
Suppl. App., Vetchling, the English name of a distinct
genus of plants, known among botanists by that of aphaca.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 331 Vetchling, Hedysarum.
i8aa Hortus Anglicus IL 243 Lathyrus Apkacn. Yellow
Lathyrus, or Vetchling. 184a C. W. Johnson Farmers
Encycl. 1 216/2 There are seven indigenous species of vetchling,
or everlasting pea. 1861 S. Thomson IViid Fl. (ed. 4)
III. 200 We have a good many., vetches and vetchHngs. 1894
Daily News 5 June 6/5 Mineral manures, including potash,
give a great development of clover, vetchlings, &c.
2. With distinguishing terms.
1777 Jacob Catal. Plants 57 Lathyrus Pratensis, Tare
everlasting, or common yellow ''bastard Vetchling. 1640
Parkinson Thent. Bot. 1082 Onobryehis elyPeata asjAera
minor. The lesSer 'buckler Fetchling. 184a Hooker Brit.
Flora L 90 L. A^mo//a,..*crimson Vetchling, or Grass
Vetch. 1796 Withering Brit. PI. (ed. 3) IIL 635 Lathyrus
paitistris. Chickling Vetch. *Marsh Vetchling. Ibid,
634 Laihyms pratensis. Common Yellow, or *Meadow
Vetchling. 1834 Brit. Husb. L 511 Lathyrus pratensis, or
meadow vetchling, furnishes a copious, succulent and tender
herbage, 1903 Cornish Naturalist Thames 174 Meadow
vetchling and the tall meadow crowfoot. 1578 Lvte Dodoens
484 Saint F'oin. *Medick Vetcheling. 1731 Miller Gard.
Did, S.V. Onobryehis, Smaller Cock*s-head, with rough
Fruit or Medick Vetchling. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App.
331 Medic Vetchling, Hedysarum. 1843 Hooker Brit.
Flora 89 Lathyrus hirsutus, L., *rough-podded Vetchling.
1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Aphaca,. .\\v^ ^yellow vetchling.
1775 Essays Agric. 426 The common yellow vetchling,
Lathyrus pratensis, or everlasting tare. 1863 GossE
in Intell. Observer III. 318 The hedgerows are still gay with
flowers; the abundant yellow vetchling, two species of St.
John's wort, the toad-flax ..and hawkweeds supply the
golden colours. 1880 Jefferies Gt. Estate 138 The yellow
vetchling had climbed up from the ditch.
Vetchy (ve'tji),a. rare, [f. Vetch -t- -v.] Composed
of, abounding in, vetches.
1579 Spensf-R Sheph. Cat. Sept. 256 If to my cotage thou
wilt resort, ..There mayst thou Hgge in a veichy bed. 1806
J. Grahame Birds o/Scot. 26 The blooming, vetchy ridge.
Vete, obs. Sc. form of Wet v.. Wit v.
Veteran (veteran), sb. and a. Also 6-7 veterane,
7 -ant, veterean. [a. older F. veteran (F,
vetirany = It., Sp., Pg. veterano), or ad. L. veteranus,
i, veler-j vetus old.]
A. sb. 1. One who has had long experience in
an old soldier.
1509 Hawes Past. Pleas, xxvii. (Percy Soc) 132 The
military service ;
sturdy knight well named Fortitude. With the noble vetcrane
syr Consuetude. 1681 tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Whs.
Vocab., Veterans, old soldiers. 1700 Astrv tr. Saavedra-
Faxardo II. 248 Even Veterans, who had never kept Guard.
1758 Johnson Idler No. 8 F9 A sound that will force
the bravest veteran to drop his weapon, and desert
his rank. 1769 Junius Lett, xxxiv. (1788) 170 Military
governments, which were intended for the support of
worn-out veterans. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xix. Veterans
of early fields were there. Whose helmets press'd
their hoary hair. 1843 Pbescoti Mexico 111. ix. (1864) 190
Then came the Spanish infantry, who in a summer's campaign
had acquired the discipline and the weather-beaten
aspect of veterans. i88a Rhys Celtic Brit. iii. 80 Ostorius
establishes a strong colony of veterans at Camulodunon.
2. One who hns seen long service in any office or
position ; an experienced or aged person.
1597 Hooker Eccl, Pol. v. xlii. §5 The Arrians for the
credit of their faction take the eldest, the best experienced,
the most wary and the longest practised Veterans they had
amongst them. 1721 Wollaston Relig.Nat. ii. 34 Asiurdy
veteran in roguery. 178a Miss Bubnev Cecilia 11. ii. 152
The servants were all veterans, gorgeous in their liveries.
1857 Dickens Dorrit 11. vi. Miss Fanny. .said the usual
nothings with the skill of a veteran.
trans/. 1774 Goldsm. Nat, Hist. {1776) III, 22 The new
backely [South African ox] is then joined with one of the
veterans of his own kind, from whom he learns his art.
1837 Whewell Hist, Induct. Sci. I. 422 Sending into the
field a reserve of new physical reasonings on the rout and
dispersion of the veterans.
Comb. 1850 R. G. Gumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902)
95/1 Several of the adjacent veteran- looking trees.
B. adj» L Of soldiers: Having much experience
in warfare or military matters ; long practised or
exercised in war.
161X Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. 2 Veterant Souldiers,
most of which were of skill sufficient to be Commanders
themselues. 165a Earl Monm. tr. Bentivoglio's Hist.
Relat. 170 The Veteran Souldiery of the United Provinces.
1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 55 The veterane Janizaries
were all cither slain or dead. 1759 in loM Rep. Hist. AISS.
Comm. Apj). I. 316 So much has the present War drain'd
them of their Veteran Troops, 1781 Gibbon Decl. lir F. xviii.
(1787) II, 121 The loss of a veteran army, sufficient to defend
the frontiers. 1839 Scott Anne of G. xxxiii, Here report
said, that Adrian de Bubenberg, a veteran knight of Berne,
commanded. 1849 Macaulav Hist. Eng, iv. I. 460 His professional
skill commanded the respect of veteran officers.
1870 Emerson Soc. ^ Solit., Courage Wks. (Bohn) III. 108
It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon,
can step aside from the path of the ball.
2. Of persons in general : Grown old in service
experienced by long usage or practice.
X7a8 Chambers CvcL s.v., A Veteran Counsellor has a
Voice and Seat at Audiences. 1789 Belsham Ess. II. xl.
502 Did it never occur to this veteran politician that there
are degrees of misconduct? 1814 Dibdin Libr. Comp.
528 The veteran English author was not slow to reply.
1849 Macaulav Hist. Eng. il I, 255 Godolphin had, .early
acquired ail the flexibility and the self-possession of a veteran
courtier. 1883 B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence II. xxviii, 532
The veteran Viceroy walked round to the sacred spot.
trans/. 1847 Stoddart Anglers Comp. 250 Give me, , the
rush of some veteran water-monarch, or the gambol. .of a
plump new-run grilse.
3. Of things : Old ; long-continued, rare.
1653 Gauden Hterasp. 44 Our old bottcls and veterane
Wines. .are sound, sweet, well-refined, and full of spirits.
1710 Prideal'x Grig. Tithes iv. 208 The payment of Tithes
was grown to be a Veteran and thorough settled Constitution
of this Kingdom. 183a Longf. Coplas de Manrique
Ixvi, By great And veteran service to the state,.. He stood
. .The proudest knight of chivalry.
Hence Veterancy, the state or condition of
being a veteran. Ve'teraness, a female veteran.
Te*teranise v. U.S, a. trans. To render a
veteran, b. inlr. To re-enlist as a soldier.
190a Daily Chron. 23 July 5/3 This cricketer. .is now, in
his 'veterancy, both batting and bowling better than ever
before. x88o Sat. Rev. 8 May 588 On the platform, .many
heroines gathered, some of them "veteranesses in this war
and others recruits to the cause. 1884 A. jf. Johnson's