| 释义 |
▪ I. neighing, vbl. n.|ˈneɪɪŋ|
[f. neigh v. + -ing1.]
The action, on the part of a horse, of uttering its characteristic sound. Also transf.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) H 124 Hinnitus, hnaeggiung. c1000ælfric Gram. i. (Z.) 4 Hryðera ᵹehlow and horsa hnæᵹung. 13..K. Alis. 2091 There was gret naygheing of stede. 1382Wyclif Jer. xiii. 27 And aperede thi shen⁓shepe, thi vouteries, and thi neȝingus. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxii, The..furious neyhing of many bastard stede. 1481Caxton Godfrey cv. 161 Ther was so grete noyse..& so terryble neyhyng of horses. a1543Hall Chron., Edw. IV 217 b, What for neighyng of horses and talkyng of menne, none..could that night take any rest or quietnes. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 33 The neying of an horse caused Darius..to be made King. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 150 And with shrill Neighings fill'd the Neighbouring Plain. 1736Sheridan in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 165 The noise of guns, the neighing of the horses. 1859Tennyson Elaine 298 The strong neighings of the wild white Horse.
▪ II. neighing, ppl. a.|ˈneɪɪŋ|
[f. neigh v. + -ing2.]
That neighs; uttering a neigh.
1382Wyclif Jer. viii. 16 Fro the vois of his neiȝende fiȝteres to-stirid is alle the lond. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 207 Haue I not..heard Loud larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets clangue? 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. iii, What a neighing hobby-horse is this. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 5 The sprightly trumpet, from afar..Had rous'd the neighing steeds to scour the fields. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Neighing-Bird, a little Bird that imitates the Neighing of a Horse. 1810Clarke Trav. Russia (1839) 76/1 The flower of the Cossack army, in most sumptuous dresses, curbing their foaming and neighing steeds. a1821Keats Hyperion i. 184 Neighing steeds were heard, Not heard before by Gods or wondering men. |