单词 | eaning-mood |
释义 | > as lemmaseaning-mood ˈeaning n. the action or an act of bearing lambs, lambing; also attributive, as in eaning-mood, eaning-tide, eaning-time. ΚΠ 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. xiii. f. 38/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Our sheepe likewise for..abundance of increase, (for in many places they bring foorth two or three at an eaning) giue no place vnto any. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 24 Your selfe-conceiuing phantasie, being euer in the eaning mood. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. iv. 10 in Wks. (1640) III And both [ewes and rams] doe feed, As either promist to increase your breed At eaning time. View more context for this quotation 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 88 Salt is to be given to them after eaning. 1770 A. Young Course Exper. Agric. II. xiii. iii. 478 Ewes should not be well fed while they are with lamb;..the lambs within them growing so much that many are lost in eaning (bringing forth). 1882 Leisure Hour 31 242/2 At eaning-tide it is still customary in Northamptonshire..to regale the shepherds with pancakes. 1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 150/2 Eaning-time, lambing-time. < as lemmas |
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