| 释义 |
ox-eye, oxeye|ˈɒksaɪ|
Also 5 oxie, oxeghe, 6 oxei, Sc. oxee, 6–8 oxey.
1. The eye of an ox; an eye like that of an ox, a large (human) eye.
1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things, Vitiated Sight 258 If she had not had that sort of eyes, which..some call ox-eyes; for hers were swelled much beyond the size of human eyes. 1869C. Gibbon R. Gray viii, His ox eyes were rolling more stolidly. 1892M. Wynman My Flirtations i, A sallow, undersized Italian, with handsome ox-eyes.
2. A popular name of various birds: esp. the Great Titmouse (Parus major); also locally, the Blue Titmouse (P. cæruleus) or Blue Ox-eye, and Cole Titmouse (P. Britannicus) or Black Ox-eye.
1544Turner Avium G v b, Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 39 The oxee cryit tueit. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 188 Oxeys or great Titmice, feed, as ordinary Titmice do, upon Caterpillars, Blossoms of Trees, Bark-Worms and Flies. 1817Sporting Mag. L. 142 A bird of the oxeye species has this year built its nest in the valve of a pump.
b. Also, locally applied to the Ox-bird or Dunlin, Tringa variabilis; the Tree-creeper (also ox-eye creeper), Certhia familiaris; the Chiff-chaff, Phylloscopus rufus; the Willow Warbler, P. trochilus; in N. America, to the Black-bellied Plover, Squatarola helvetica, and the American Dunlin, Pelidna americana.
1589Rider Bibl. Schol., Birdes 1703 An Oxeye, or creeper, Certhia. 1649Perf. Descr. Virginia (1837) 17 Ducks..Widgeons..Dottrells..Oxeyes. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §4. 147 Those other Birds..a little bigger then a Wren called Ox-eye-creeper. 1806P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 4 A wild duck, ox-eyes, rails, fieldfares. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 193 Dunlin..Ox bird or Ox eye (Essex; Kent). 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Ox-eye, only name for both the chiff-chaff and the willow warbler. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 115 There was..the duck in all those varieties so well known to modern sportsmen, the canvas-back, the red head, the mallard, the widgeon, the dottrell, the oxeye.
3. Applied to various plants:
a. A species of the genus Buphthalmum (family Compositæ), of which the Central European species B. grandiflorum and B. cordatum, herbaceous perennials with bright yellow radiate flowers, are often cultivated in gardens.
b. The British wild plants Chrysanthemum segetum, the Corn Marigold or Yellow Ox-eye, and C. Leucanthemum, the White Ox-eye, Ox-eye daisy, Dog-daisy, or Moon-daisy; sometimes also (app. by confusion) applied to species of Anthemis with yellow or white flowers resembling these.
c. Applied by Lyte to Adonis vernalis (family Ranunculaceæ).
d. The American composite plant Heliopsis lævis with large yellow flowers.
e. The West-Indian composite plants, Creeping Ox-eye or West Indian Marigold, Wedelia carnosa, and Sea-side Ox-eye, Borrichia arborescens. (Treas. Bot. 1866.)
a.a1400–50Stockh. Med. MS. 210 Oxeye: oculus bouis. c1450Alphita 24/21 Butalmon uel butalmos, oculus bouis idem, anglice oxie [v.r. oxeghe]. 1551Turner Herbal i. G v, Buphthalmus or oxey..hath leues lyke fenel and a yellowe floure greater then Camomill, lyke vnto an ey, wherupon it hath the name. c1588Spenser Virg. Gnat 678 Oxeye still greene, and bitter Patience. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxlv. 606 The plant which we haue called Buphthalmum, or Oxe eie. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye, Buphthalmum.
b.1625B. Jonson Pan's Anniv., Bring corn-flag, tulips, and Adonis' flower, Fair oxeye, goldy-locks, and columbine. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 69/1 A wild Field Marygold..this is also termed an Oxe-Eye if Yellow, and a Wild Daisie if White. 1706Phillips, Ox-eye,..also an Herb otherwise call'd Great Margaret, good for Wounds and the King's Evill. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App., Ox-eye-daisy, a name sometimes given to the Leucanthemum of botanical writers. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Ox-eye of old Authors, Anthemis. a1795Aikin Even. at Home xvi, One of the great ox-eye daisies in the corn. 1846Sowerby Brit. Bot. (ed. 3), Great White Ox-eye. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 204 Her lap full of decapitated oxeyes. 1892Syd. Soc. Lex., Ox-eye chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria.
c.1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxxii. 189 This herbe..is called in Latine Buphthalmum and Oculus bouis... This is the right Oxe eye described by Dioscorides. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 380 Oriental Ox-eye with red and white Flowers.
4. Applied to a sparoid fish, Box or Boöps vulgaris; also to an elopoid fish, Megalops cyprinoides.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts vi. (1704) 534/1 The Ox-Eye, is like the Tunney, an excellent Fish; and looks like the Eye of an Ox [coast of Brazil].
5. Applied to several things likened to the eye of an ox, as
a. A drinking cup in use at certain Oxford colleges;
b. Naut. A small glass bull's eye (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867);
c. ‘A small concave mirror made, especially in Nuremberg, of glass’ (Cent. Dict. 1890);
d. An oval dormer window = œil-de-bœuf (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
1703in Hearne's Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 461 Abest Creedus, quia bibit Ox-Eyes cum Bedelli uxore. [See also Note to this.] a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 425 Oxford, All Souls... Their silver cups at the college are called ox-eyes, and an ox-eye of wormwood was a favourite draught there. 18..Oxford during Last Cent. 65 At Corpus Christi were drinking-cups and glasses, which, from their shape, were called ox-eyes.
6. Naut. = bull's eye 10: see quots.
1598Phillips tr. Linschoten (Hakl. Soc.) II. 240 A certayne cloude, which in shew seemeth no bigger than a mans fist, and therefore by the Portingals it is called Olho do Boy, (or Oxe eye). 1705C. Purshall Mech. Macrocosm 172 Those Dreadful Storms on the Coasts of Guinea, which the Seamen call the Ox Eye, from their Beginning; because at first it seems no bigger than an Ox's-Eye. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Ox-eye, a small cloud, or weather-gall, seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a severe storm.
7. Comb. ox-eye arch, a pointed or Gothic arch; ox-eye bean = horse-eye bean: see horse n. 28 c (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858); ox-eye camomile, daisy (see 3 b); ox-eye tom-tit (see 2 a).
1736Drake Eboracum ii. ii. 532 In the Anglo-Norman age, all their arches..were nearer to the Roman taste, than the acuter oxey arch. |