| 释义 |
hoven, ppl. a. (and n.) Now dial.|ˈhəʊv(ə)n|
Also hove.
[pa. pple. of heave v., q.v.]
Swollen, bloated, puffed out; esp. applied to cattle when swollen with over-feeding: cf. hoove. Also fig. and as n.
1555Will of J. Pyshe (Somerset Ho.), A brown hove cow. 1573Tusser Husb. xlix. (1878) 108 Tom Piper hath houen and puffed vp cheekes; If cheese be so houen, make Cisse to seeke creekes. 1599Broughton's Let. iii. 13 Your houen imaginations. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 143 Hoven⁓bread, zymites. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. v. 244/1 Bad Cheese..is..full of Eyes, not well prest but hoven and swelling. 1845S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 284 Glad you got through with the pock so well{ddd}its worse than horn-ail, hoven or core. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 419 Veterinary..stomach pump..for hove cattle. 1865H. H. Dixon Field & Fern V. ii. 38 Sometimes a whole lot will get hoven with clover. 1877Rep. Vermont Dairym. Assoc. VIII. 107 Hoven in cattle is caused by over-feeding upon succulent food like green clover. 1878[see bloat n. 1 b]. 1891[see blowing vbl. n.1 2 d]. 1902Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXCIX. A. 400 The symptoms of ‘hoven’ are not unlike those of prussic acid poisoning. 1962[see bloat n. 1 b]. |