| 释义 |
new-fallen, a.
[new adv. 3. Cf. ON. nýfallinn (Sw. nyfallen).]
1. Newly or recently fallen.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 354 As apt as new-fall'n snow takes any dint. 1621Quarles Div. Poems, Esther (1638) 91 Here lies a new-falne ranke and there a sheave. 1738Gray Tasso 14 A vestment unadorn'd though white as new-fal'n snows. 1847Tennyson Princ. vi. 119 Like a new-fall'n meteor on the grass. 1887Morris Odyss. xi. 194 Down on the leaves new-fallen. 1926J. Fergusson in Oxford Poetry 23 Like a shield New-fallen on a stricken field.
†2. Newly fallen to one. Obs. rare.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 44 You swore to vs,..That you did..claime no further, then your new-falne right. 1600― A.Y.L. v. iv. 182 Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie.
3. Newly dropped; new-born.
1684Caryll in Dryden's Misc., Virgil's Ecl. 3 This poor Mother of a new-fall'n Pair. 1714Gay Sheph. Week, Monday 16, I love thee more by half, Than..cows the new-fall'n calf. a1763Shenstone Progr. Taste ii. 24 He wink'd at many a gross design The new-fall'n calf might countermine. |