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单词 styth
释义 I. stythe, styth dial.|staɪð, staɪθ|
Also 8 stith, 9 stithe.
[Of obscure origin; perh. altered from *stive cogn. w. stive v.3]
1. Foul air in a mine; = choke-damp.
1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 23 He may loose his Life by Styth, which is a sort of bad foul Air.1765Phil. Trans. LV. 240 The choak-damp, or stith, found in the coal-mines.1818W. Phillips Geol. 101 The after-damp or stythe, which follows these blasts, is a mixture of the carbonic acid and azotic gases.1863Tyneside Songs 12 But did they face the deadly styth, where scarce a single breath Held life..!1885Standard 5 June 3/4 They have..succumbed to the effects of the stythe.
2. A suffocating smell.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Stithe. Rhyming to tithe... ‘The stithe is very oppressive.’1850T. Bewick Howdy & Upgetting 15 She thout she wad ha' been skumfeesht wi the steyth.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 968 In burning off the old paint there is usually considerable stithe.
II. stythe
obs. form of stithy.
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