| 单词 | death bone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath bone death bone n. (a) (in plural) the bones of a dead person or dead people, or (in quot. 1933) of someone about to die; (b) among Australian Aboriginal people, a bone intended to cause death when pointed at someone (cf. bone n.1 5b and see to point the (death) bone at point v.1 10d). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] lichc893 dust?a1000 holdc1000 bonesOE stiff onea1200 bodyc1225 carrion?c1225 licham?c1225 worms' food or ware?c1225 corsec1250 ashc1275 corpsec1315 carcass1340 murraina1382 relicsa1398 ghostc1400 wormes warec1400 corpusc1440 scadc1440 reliefc1449 martc1480 cadaverc1500 mortc1500 tramort?a1513 hearse1530 bulk1575 offal1581 trunk1594 cadaverie1600 relicts1607 remains1610 mummya1616 relic1636 cold meat1788 mortality1827 death bone1834 deader1853 stiff1859 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell > malignant enchantment or curse > pointing-bone death bone1834 bone1878 pointing stick1901 pointing bone1904 1834 Boston Pearl 22 Nov. 90/1 Those death bones once contained an immortal spirit! a1875 T. Wade in W. R. Nicoll & T. J. Wise Lit. Anecd. 19th Cent. (1895) I. 114 In majesty Of words like pyramids o'er death-bones rising. 1891 E. C. Brewer Hist. Note-bk. (1892) 102/1 They went in procession..with chaplets of death-bones at their girdles. 1898 Nature 29 Sept. 530/1 The ghost..of some one departed can so initiate an individual into the mysteries of the craft of doctor or medicine man as to enable him, by use of a death-bone apparatus, to produce sickness and death in another. 1933 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 46 15 Many hillfolk claim to hear another sound called the ‘death bones’ shortly before someone dies. An old woman once said to me: ‘I heerd Lucy's death bones a-rattlin' this mornin', so I reckon she'll be dead afore night.’ 2010 M. Olszowska in B. Goldsmith & G. Lealand Directory of World Cinema: Austral. & New Zealand 46/2 The victim was murdered by an old aboriginal man, Charlie, who used the ‘death bones’. < as lemmas |
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