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单词 easle
释义 ˈeasle dial.
Also 1 ysle, 4 his-, huysseles, 5 iselle, isyl, ysyle, 6 Sc. isill, 8–9 Sc. aizle.
[OE. ysle (app. wk. fem.), cogn. w. ON. usli wk. masc., embers, perh. f. Aryan root *eus to burn, whence L. ūr-ĕre. The mod. forms easle (17th c. eːz(ə)l), aizle, are phonetically anomalous.]
Hot ashes or cinders; see quot.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 2553 (Gr.) Bearwas wurdon to ascan and to yslan.a1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 146 Fauilla, ysle.c1325Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 171 De falemetches, from hiseles [v.r. huysseles].c1440Promp. Parv. 266 Isyl of fyre, fauilla.c1483Cath. Angl., Aiselle, favilla, or a sperke.1513Douglas æneis x. i. 125 Had sytten still, amang the assys cauld And lattyr isillys of thar kynd cuntre.1691Ray N.C. Wds. Pref. 4 (E.D.S.) We in Essex use Easles for the hot embers (or as it were burning coals) of straw only.1785Burns Halloween xiii, She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt..An aizle brunt Her braw new worset apron.1874N. & Q. 10 Oct. 290 So as to receive and enclose the falling aizle, as well as the wax or tallow of the candle.
Hence easle-cake, a cake baked in the ashes.
c1440Promp. Parv. 261 Isylkake, or chesekake, or eykake bakyne vndyr askys.
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