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单词 drow
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drown.1

Brit. /draʊ/, U.S. /draʊ/, Scottish English /drʌʊ/
Etymology: perhaps < participial stem drow- of dree v. to endure, suffer, undergo, which is phonologically suitable.
Scottish.
A fit of illness; a fainting fit; a qualm.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > bout or attack of
onfalleOE
cothec1000
bitc1175
accessc1300
attacha1400
shota1400
swalma1400
storm1540
excess?1541
accession1565
qualm1565
oncome1570
grasha1610
attachment1625
ingruence1635
turn1653
attack1665
fit1667
surprise1670
drow1727
tossa1732
irruption1732
sick1808
tout1808
whither1808
spell1856
go1867
whip1891
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon
swimeOE
swooningc1290
swowa1325
swooningc1330
swoon1390
soundc1400
trancec1405
sweamc1415
swoundc1440
sweltingc1460
swarf1488
dwalm?a1513
sounding ecstasy?1565
sounding1580
pasme1591
death1596
lipothymy1603
deliquium1620
delique1645
fainting fit1714
drow1727
faint-fit1795
faint1808
blacking out1930
blackout1934
greyout1942
pass-out1946
1727 P. Walker Life A. Peden 63 (Jam.) There was a drow of anxiety overwhelmed her about him.
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Drow, a fainting fit. Angus.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 175 Down he tummlet in a drow.
1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xxxv. 409 Inquiring..how he felt after his drow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

drown.2

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Scottish.
‘A cold mist approaching to rain; a drizzling shower’ (Jamieson).
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a1614 J. Melville MS. Mem. 115 (Jam.) Comes off the hills of Lammermoor edge a great mist with a tempestuous showre and drow..It pleased God..to drive away the showre and calm the drow, so that it fell down dead calm.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 199 A sort o' drow in the air.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

drowv.

/draʊ/
Etymology: Aphetic < adraw adv., adrowe (in adrowe v.), Old English adrúgian. Compare drought n.
Now only south-western dialect.
transitive. To dry up. In quot. 1393, figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)]
dryc888
adroweOE
drow1393
exsiccate1540
siccate1570
desiccate1575
unsteep1598
siccicate1639
exsicce1657
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xv. 22 Connynge and vnkynde rychesse..Droweþ vp dowel and distruyeþ dobest.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 38 Drow hem wyl in þe Sonne, þat þey ben drye.
1746 ‘Devoniensis’ Let. in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 406/1 To Drou, to dry.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Drow, to dry. (Always.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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