| 释义 |
ˈblack-neb dial.
[See neb, beak, bill.]
1. A popular name for various black-billed birds, as the Crane and the Common Crow.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 47. 1837 Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 516. 1884 Chamb. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 204/2 Swarms of diminutive ‘black nebs.’
†2. Sc. A person charged with democratic sympathies at the time of the French Revolution. Obs.
1816Scott Antiq. vi, Take care, Monkbarns! we shall set you down among the black nebs by and by. 1821Galt Ann. Parish 269 (Jam.) Many of the heritors considered me a black-neb. 1864McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 107. |