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daisy

ˈdeɪzi
WordNet
Linen sideboard trimmed with lace with a pattern of daisies in pointed ovals. See also: BK-1972-159-a.
Linen sideboard trimmed with lace with a pattern of daisies in pointed ovals. See also: BK-1972-159-a.
  1. (n) daisy
    any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
Illustrations
Linen sideboard trimmed with lace with a pattern of daisies in pointed ovals. See also: BK-1972-159-b.
Linen sideboard trimmed with lace with a pattern of daisies in pointed ovals. See also: BK-1972-159-b.
Two ruffs in a window with a helmet from which leaves sprout. A daisy between the fighting cocks.
Two ruffs in a window with a helmet from which leaves sprout. A daisy between the fighting cocks.
A bunch of flowers with daffodils, lilies and daisies.
A bunch of flowers with daffodils, lilies and daisies.
Strip of black machined lace. The repeating pattern consists of a row of six-leaved daisies on the centerline that are connected with a wavy dotted line. The motifs are connected by a machine tulip soil. A very fine pearl frame forms a scalloped edge of semi-circular scallops under each flower. The scalloped edge is finished with picots. The top of the strip has a straight finish.
Strip of black machined lace. The repeating pattern consists of a row of six-leaved daisies on the centerline that are connected with a wavy dotted line. The motifs are connected by a machine tulip soil. A very fine pearl frame forms a scalloped edge of semi-circular scallops under each flower. The scalloped edge is finished with picots. The top of the strip has a straight finish.
Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen lace. Beneath a scattering pattern of 'daisies' is a row of flower sprays directed in one direction and below that are larger, hanging flower sprays, which fill the scallops. The motifs are made in linen stitch and provided with thicker and shiny contour threads. The motifs are connected by a fine grid ground, a Mechelen ground. The scalloped edge is finished with picots. The top of the strip has a straight finish.
Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Mechelen lace. Beneath a scattering pattern of 'daisies' is a row of flower sprays directed in one direction and below that are larger, hanging flower sprays, which fill the scallops. The motifs are made in linen stitch and provided with thicker and shiny contour threads. The motifs are connected by a fine grid ground, a Mechelen ground. The scalloped edge is finished with picots. The top of the strip has a straight finish.
Front side of envelope with image of a daisy
Front side of envelope with image of a daisy
Standing woman, seen from behind, with a cap decorated with daisies on her head. She wears a crepe 'tunique' with short sleeves and train. A long scarf around the right arm. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.
Standing woman, seen from behind, with a cap decorated with daisies on her head. She wears a crepe 'tunique' with short sleeves and train. A long scarf around the right arm. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, published by Sellèque, Paris, 1797-1839.
Pink daisy with double flowers. With a crane fly. Numbered top right: 320. Top left the name in five languages. Part of the fourth album with drawings of flowers and mushrooms. Eleventh of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Pink daisy with double flowers. With a crane fly. Numbered top right: 320. Top left the name in five languages. Part of the fourth album with drawings of flowers and mushrooms. Eleventh of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Daisy
    (Bot) A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is Bellis perennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.☞ The word daisy is also used for composite plants of other genera, as Erigeron, or fleabane.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) daisy
    A common plant, Bellis perennis, natural order Compositæ, one of the most familiar wild plants of Europe, found in all pastures and meadows, and growing at a considerable height on mountains. The daisy is a great favorite, and several varieties are cultivated in gardens. In Scotland the field-daisy is called gowan. See gowan.
  2. (n) daisy
    One of various plants of other genera to which the name is popularly applied. The wild plant generally known in the United States as the daisy is the Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum. (See oxeye daisy, below.) In Australia the name daisy is given to several Compositæ, especially to species of Vitadenia and to Brachycome iberidifolia of the Swan River region, which is occasionally cultivated; in New Zealand, to species of Lagenophora. See phrases below.
  3. (n) daisy
    Something pretty, fine, charming, or nice: as, she is a daisy.
  4. daisy
    Pretty; fine; charming; nice.
  5. (n) daisy
    A kind of sea-anemone, Actinia bellis.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Daisy
    dā′zi a common wild-flower, growing in pastures and meadows—the name given also to other plants, as the Ox-eye daisy, which is a chrysanthemum
Quotations
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
Goldie Hawn
Idioms

Oops a daisy - An expression used to indicate surprise.

Pushing up the daisies - If someone is said to be pushing up the daisies, they are dead.

Turn up one's toes to the daisies - If someone has turned up their toes to the daisies, it means that the person died.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. dayesye, AS. dæges-eáge, day's eye, daisy. See Day, and Eye

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A. S. dæges eáge, day's eye, the sun.

Usage in the news

Zanuck 's many films ranged from "The Sting" and "Jaws" to "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Alice in Wonderland.". hollywoodreporter.com

The company of Driving Miss Daisy surprised star James Earl Jones onstage Jan 17 with a birthday cake celebrating the actor's 80th birthday. playbill.com

Kaskade, seen at the 2012 Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, knows music and how to move a crowd with climaxes, transitions and melodies. lvrj.com

Steppin' Out: Demi Lovato, Daisy Fuentes, Jessica Alba and more. latina.com

Julissa Bermudez and Adrienne Bailon support fellow Latina Daisy Fuentes (center) at her Spring 2013 fashion show during Style360 in New York City on September 12, 2012. latina.com

"I think it's an amazing turnout of community members to take the time to bake something," said Neighborhood Center Director Daisy J Cox. atertowndailytimes.com

This, together with the observation that the beetles forage on plants (such as daisies) which contain a lot of these types of fatty acids, led to previous incorrect conclusions that the DHMA in soldier beetles was derived from their diet. rdmag.com

"A Meeting of the Hokes" Morgan Freeman Visits Driving Miss Daisy. playbill.com

The Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy celebrated its 100th performance Feb 10 with a "Meeting of the Hokes". playbill.com

Funeral service for Daisie Bleed , age 73, of Foley, will be held on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 11 AM at Estes Brook Evangelical Free Church with Rev. millelacscountytimes.com

Alberta 'pot' seized by police was late- blooming daisies. thestar.com

They called them Michaelmas daisies because they tend to be at peak bloom around the religious festival of Michaelmas on Sept 29. gazettenet.com

"Sonny" Cox Jr, and Daisy Thomas. thedailytimes.com

Shades of the "Daisy Ad". commonwealmagazine.org

'Driving Miss Daisy' steers into Cumberland County Playhouse. timesfreepress.com

Usage in scientific papers

The mask and charge-injection registers consist of small size daisy chained flip-flop’s (FF’s) and are implemented in each pixel cell. A high logic level stored in one of the mask FF’s disables the corresponding cell.
Single Event Effects in the Pixel readout chip for BTeV

Also it would be interesting to find explicit formulas for the polynomials g{Gn} for all daisy graphs, kite graphs, and other “natural” series of path-like graphs.
Faces of Generalized Permutohedra

To keep the the sensitive medium as compact as possible, the readout ASICs need to be tiny, embedded on the detector and connected with each using the electronics board itself thanks to a DAISY chain scheme.
CALICE Report to the DESY Physics Research Committee, April 2011

To keep small the number of connections between the ASICs and the DAQ system the ASIC digital readout signals were conceived to be linked to an open collector bus and hence daisy chained leading to only one connection.
CALICE Report to the DESY Physics Research Committee, April 2011

The beautiful spirals observed on sunflowers or daisies have puzzled scientists since it was realized that the numbers of these spirals belonged to the Fibonacci sequence.
Fibonacci numbers in phyllotaxis : a simple model

Usage in literature

The grass of the campagna, beyond the aqueducts, is powdered with daisies like a cake with sugar. "The Spirit of Rome" by Vernon Lee

But for Daisy there was neither school, nor play in the street, nor sitting in the sun. "IT and Other Stories" by Gouverneur Morris

That is just the sort to worry poor little Daisy out of her life. "Daisy" by Elizabeth Wetherell

Once Daisy Griggs nearly knocked me over. "Marjorie Dean" by Pauline Lester

Jolly expression that, 'She's a daisy. "A Romantic Young Lady" by Robert Grant

A family named Daisy bear three Daisies on their coat of arms. "The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare" by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Just as Daisy's last morsel of candle expired a voice sounded from afar: 'Daisy Watson, you are wanted in the house. "Hollyhock" by L. T. Meade

So again he led Prince home and put him in the stall beside Daisy. "Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm" by Helen Fuller Orton

I suppose he approves of Miss Daisy as much as I do. "Our Bessie" by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The next day, John hitched Daisy to the hay-rake and drove it up and down the field, raking the hay into long windrows. "Bobby of Cloverfield Farm" by Helen Fuller Orton

Usage in poetry
I watch you pass and pass,
Serene and cold: I lay
My lips upon your trodden, daisied grass,
And turn my life away.
A gentle wind, of western birth
On some far summer sea,
Wakes daisies in the wintry earth,
Wakes hopes in wintry me.
Fixed be the upward gaze,
The lifted eyes of trust;
The green looks up from the April ways,
The daisy from the dust.
For violets deep in the woodland,
The daisies bright and gay,
That scatter their snowy blossoms
LIke a lower milky way.
I took the daisy from her breast,
I flung it into Yarrow,
An doon the stream wi' heavy heart
I cam' wi' my sweet marrow.
Where daisies in the meadow toss,
The wind from morn till even,
Forever shepherd you across
The shining field of heaven.