| 释义 |
▪ I. syce, sais|saɪs|
Forms: 7 seis, 7–8 seise, 7– sais, 8 scise, 9 sayse, sâees, saice, sice, syce, 20 saïs.
[ad. Arab. sā'is, f. sūs to tend a horse; in the 18th and 19th centuries, adopted from Hindustani into Anglo-Indian use.]
In parts of Africa and Asia, and esp. in India, a servant who attends to horses, a groom; also, an attendant who follows on foot a mounted horseman or a carriage.
1653Greaves Seraglio 141 The..Master of the horse hath the charge..of all his other horses, mules, camels, and all his cattle..having..many ordinary grooms which are to look to them, and see that the Seises keep them in good case. 1675Covel in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.) 172, I had my servant, and a seis or groom, to look after my horse. 1779in H. E. Busteed Echoes Old Calcutta (1882) 230 The bearer and scise..came to the place where I was. 1815Mrs. Sherwood in Life xxvi. (1847) 437 The Sais, or horse-attendant,..took charge of my horse. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. iii, The gallant aide-de-camp mounted his little Arabian, and followed by his sice at full speed, galloped away to head-quarters. 1832Marryat N. Forster xxxviii, Syces were fanning the horses with their chowries. 1854Thackeray Newcomes lxvi, The Course is at Calcutta..he calls his grooms saices! 1887Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1888) 28 He..deserved a V.C., if it were only for putting on a sais's blanket. 1896‘H. S. Merriman’ Flotsam xxii. 254 The carriages rolled up to the cathedral doors, and the syces..cried frantically to the throng to make room. 1924L. Eckenstein Tutankh-aten ii. 24 The saïses running on either side of the chariots as only outrunners in Egypt can run. 1927R. J. H. Sidney In Brit. Malaya Today 143 The Malay saises will all be playing cards. 1936W. H. S. Smith Let. 26 June in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 11, I said good-bye to Peter and his sais yesterday morning. 1953J. Masters Lotus & Wind viii. 113 I'll walk back to your bungalow with you. My sais can bring Beauty along. 1975T. Dinesen My Sister, Isak Dinesen v. 56 The sais (horse-keeper) was to bring the horses up after us.
▪ II. syce
obs. form of sice, size n.1, n.3 |