| 单词 | death weight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath weight death weight n. each of two small weights (esp. coins) placed on the eyelids of a corpse to keep them closed. ΚΠ 1832 North Amer. Mag. Nov. 104/2 With..a quivering hand, I pressed The death-weights on those orbs of thought, And bore thee to thy rest. 1850 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow v. iv–v They laid the death-weights on mine eyes. 1899 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 1 Apr. 3/2 They laid him in a sepulchre With death-weights on his eyes. 2001 M. Gilchrist Good Journey (2002) Prol. 11 I saved the Spanish milled coins until the moment the soldiers put him into the box, and that was the worst of it; placing death weights on his beautiful eyes. < as lemmas |
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