单词 | castling |
释义 | † castlingn.1 Obsolete. 1. The offspring of an untimely birth, an abortion. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > abortion > [noun] > aborted fetus castling1580 abortion1581 abortment1614 effluxion1643 abortus1687 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Avorton, that which is brought forth before the tyme, a castling. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cadel, a castling, a starueling. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 84 We should rather relie upon the urine in a Castlings bladder. View more context for this quotation 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 106 Castling Foles of Balams Ass. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Wet-Glover Castling skins..are slender, thin and gentle. 2. The second (or third) swarm which leaves a hive in the season; = cast n. 18. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > second of season after-swarm1609 castling1634 casta1661 piper1884 1634 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (new ed.) i. 5 17 [queen bees]: one whereof went forth with the prime swarm, 5 were browght out ded fowr days before the Castling rose, other five came forth with the Castling. 1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees 27 When you have a second swarme or castling (as some call it). 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B4 Those Countries were of an elder Plantation, than to be a second or third Castling of some other Swarm. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §11. 562 Not to have been that ancient people but rather some latter Castlings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). castlingn.2 Chess. The action of castle v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > strategy > specific strategies or tactics unpinning1607 defence1614 fork1656 attack1733 backgame1750 castling1813 exchange1823 pin1868 fringe-variation1898 fidation1910 sacrifice1915 unpin1922 pawn storm1926 Siesta variation1935 liquidation1965 sac1965 1813 Monthly Rev. LXXII. 355 His games are drawn up as if Castling was not in use. 1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 586 Castling is a compound move of king and castle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11580n.21813 |
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