单词 | dorse |
释义 | † dorsen.1 Obsolete. 1. = dosser n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > cover for furniture > for seat banker?c1350 dosser1379 doss1475 dorsea1524 dossal1658 tidy1850 antimacassar1852 chair-back1858 sofa-back1878 a1524 Will of Sir R. Sutton in R. Churton Life 521 (T.) A dorse and redorse of crymsyn velvet. 2. The back of a book or writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > back dorsea1641 back1863 spine1922 shelf back1925 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 94 Without any reverse or privy seale on the dorse. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 484 Books..richly bound with gilt dorses. 1866 A. J. Horwood Yearbks. 32 & 33 Edward I Pref. 37 (note) Edward the Second's letter to the Friars Preachers on the dorse of the Close Roll of 19 Ed. II. 3. Pugilistic slang. The back. to send to dorse: to throw on one's back, throw down. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > knock down or out to knock (formerly also hit, etc.) out of time1821 to send to dorse1822 dorse1825 to knock out1883 to put out1895 stop1895 K.O.1922 kayo1923 starch1930 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 461 Sent to dorse in a bloodless fight by Painter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018). dorsen.2 A young cod. (Formerly supposed to be a distinct species, and named Gadus (or Morrhua) callarias.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus morhua (common cod) > small or young codling1304 morhwell1554 dorse1610 robin1618 skinner1816 sprag1874 tomcod1883 picker1895 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iv. iii. 83 Base, Dorce, Mackeril, Whiteing. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poisson S. Pierre, the Dorce. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 423 M[orrhua] callarias, Lin. The Dorse. Body gray, with brown spots in summer, and black in winter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † dorsev. Obsolete Pugilistic slang. transitive. To throw on the back. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > knock down or out to knock (formerly also hit, etc.) out of time1821 to send to dorse1822 dorse1825 to knock out1883 to put out1895 stop1895 K.O.1922 kayo1923 starch1930 1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 384 The straight hitting..soon dorses your round-about hand-over-head millers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1a1524n.21610v.1825 |
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