| 释义 |
plim, v. Chiefly dial.|plɪm|
[Known only from 17th c.; connected with the root of plum v. Plim adj. ‘filled out’ is used in dialects from Rutland to Devon.]
a. intr. To swell, fill out, grow plump.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. vi. 62 Yet plimming by a generous heat, That always by one Pulse did beat. 1691Locke Lower. Interest Wks. 1727 II. 38 [He] first discovered himself to be out of his Wits..by boiling a great Number of Groats with a Design, as he said, to make them plim, i.e. grow thicker. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 147 The barley⁓straw..broke off..before the grain was full plimmed. 1883G. Allen in Nature XXVII. 442/2 The leaves..plim out at once into a larger rounded type. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1892) 22 Don't that make your bosom plim?
b. trans. To swell, inflate.
1881G. Allen Evolutionist at Large xv. 149 The wings [of a butterfly] are by origin a part of the breathing apparatus, and they require to be plimmed by the air before the insect can take to flight. 1881― Vignettes fr. Nat. iv. 32, I saw an orange-tip plimming its unexpanded wings and displaying its beautiful markings on a blade of grass. |