| 释义 |
shittim|ˈʃɪtɪm|
Forms: α. 4 sychym, sichym, sechym, 5 cetyne, 6 sethin, (seathin), 6–7 sethim, 7 Dicts. setim, sittim. β. shittim.
[a. Heb. shiṭṭīm, pl. of shiṭṭāh: see shittah. The α forms are from the L. setim (Vulg.), appearing in many corrupt forms in the MSS.]
1. (More fully shittim wood.) The wood of the shittah-tree, acacia wood.
Sometimes erroneously used for shittah tree.
α1382Wyclif Exod. xxv. 5 And trees of Sychym [1388 Sechym]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cl. (1495) 704 Sechym is a name..of a tree that is lyke to white thorne in leuys. 1481Caxton Reynard xxxii. (Arb.) 84 The tree in whiche this glas stode..was named cetyne hit sholde endure euer er it wold rote. 1588Greene Alcida (1617) G 2 b, The Sethim wood wil neuer be eaten with wormes. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Sethim, a kinde of tree like a white Thorne. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sethim or Setim. Sittim.
attrib.1592Lodge Euphues B j b, Her tongue of a Sethin leafe, that neuer wagges but with a Southeast winde. 1592Greene Philomela (1615) F 3, As if he had..eaten of the seathin roote, that maketh a man to be as cruell in heart, as it is hard in the rynde. 1594― Friar Bacon iii. i, In Frigats bottomd with rich Sethin planks.
β1611Bible Exod. xxv. 5 And shittim wood. 1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 330 Near this Halls end a Shittim Table stood. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. 68 The shittim-wood of the Tabernacle. 1862― Jew. Ch. (1877) I. vii. 141 The Ark was of shittim, or acacia.
2. U.S. (See quots.)
1884Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 41 Rhamnus Purshiana,..Shittim wood. Ibid. 102 Bumelia lanuginosa,..Shittim wood. |