单词 | drow |
释义 | drown.1 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 Scottish. ‘A cold mist approaching to rain; a drizzling shower’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 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. 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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