单词 | dark-orbed |
释义 | > as lemmasdark-orbed 2. With modifying adjectives, as gold-orbed, dark-orbed, large-orbed, etc. See also full-orbed adj. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b, half-orbed adj. at half adv. Compounds. ΚΠ 1752 M. Browne Ess. on Universe (new ed.) iii, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 63 Jove, more remote, four large-orb'd Moons obtains. a1800 M. Robinson Poet. Wks. (1806) I. 253 So from the mournful Charlotte's dark-orb'd lids The sainted tear of pitying Virtue flows. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 71 Hid by the dark-orbed pines. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 487 Where..the gold orbed orange glows. 1929 ‘H. Faust’ Half-light & Overtones 28 Like a gold-orbed fruit The sun smolders amid sulphurous leaves. 1991 M. Dorris & L. Erdrich Crown of Columbus i. 8 Like one of those patrician busts of Roman senators, the eyes large-orbed and marble. 2001 R. Mollise Choosing & using Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (2004) vii. 192 The striking beauty of Saturn's golden-orbed, ringed visage. < as lemmas |
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