| 释义 |
sheety, a.|ˈʃiːtɪ|
[f. sheet n.1 + -y1.]
Spreading in a broad sheet: chiefly of a stretch of water.
1748Collins Ode to Evening 29 in Dodsley Coll. I. 332 Then lead, calm Vot'ress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath. 1794T. Gisborne Walks in Forest vi. (1796) 98 Streams..down the hills Spread sheety o'er the slopes. c1816Fuseli Lect. on Art viii. (1848) 511 Oil, which rounds and conglutinates, spreads less than the sheety medium of fresco. a1834S. T. Coleridge in Cottle's Early Recoll. (1837) II. 255 The sheety burst Of lightning o'er the awaken'd midnight clouds. |