| 释义 |
sireless, a.|ˈsaɪəlɪs|
[f. sire n. + -less.]
Having no sire; fatherless.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 583 The Beast is lust-less, sex-less, sire-less, mute. a1618― Triumph Faith iii. xxiii, That Mother-Maid, Who Sire-lesse bore her Sire, yet ever-Maid. 1790A. Wilson To D. Brodie Poet. Wks. (1846) 9 The sullen midnight tempest roars; Loud o'er my sireless dome it wildly howls. 1814Byron Address Caledonian Meeting 20 The sireless offspring and the lonely spouse. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 124 Them sireless see in dire starvation's gripe. |