单词 | amurca |
释义 | amurcan. Now Roman History. The lees or watery by-product of olives pressed for their oil.Also occasionally with reference to waste from the production of other oils. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxi. 1004 Þe berye þerof [sc. olyue] is compouned..of þe curnelle and fleissh and oyle and drastes þat hatte amurca and is bitter and naþeles profitable in medicyne. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 22 (MED) Amurte [L. amurce] i. groundez of oile. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 458 The water with the Amurca sinks to the bottom, and the oil swims above it. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Jamaica II. i. vi. 115 The Oil is made by the Pulp of the Fruit beat and mix'd with hot Water, the Amurca subsiding. 1848 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 63/1 Some rubbed in a wash composed of equal parts of boiled lupine juice, lees of old wine, and amurca. 1928 Agric. Hist. 2 139 All the waste from the olive oil presses, the amurca and the rotted lees were applied in the same way to fruit trees and vegetables. 2006 D. L. Thurmond Handbk. Food Processing in Classical Rome ii. 85 The vats..are flat vessels of stone or earthenware to hold the oil after it is removed from the pressroom to be separated from the amurca. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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