单词 | eared |
释义 | earedadj.1 1. a. Having ears (in various senses). Cf. auriculate adj.Earliest with reference to the handles of vessels; cf. ear n.1 7a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [adjective] > handle or stock > provided with earedOE handled1341 haftedc1440 started1468 staved1481 lugged1489 stocked1497 long-stealed1530 shafteda1598 ansated1736 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 62 Cratera, earede fæt. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. iv. 7 Þe eeryd [a1425 Corpus Oxf. eryd] chalycys to þe sacrificees of lycours to been held. 1434 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 101 A litill panne of brasse y-ered. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xii. f. 261v He is eared and tailed like a rat. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 103 This stone is..eared on both sides. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 128/1 The particular species of the Nautilus, as shells, are the paperaceous, the eared, and the umbilical. 1798 C. Abbot Flora Bedfordiensis xx. 212 Eared Willow.—S[alix] aurita. 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 256 Shell sub-orbicular..beaks approximate, eared. 1867 Athenæum No. 2094. 812/2 A white cap and eared head-dress. 1946 Artibus Asiae 59 27 The contents of a fifth-century B.C. Jin State tomb at Taiyuan include..a cauldron with loop handles and an eared cup and mirrors. 1975 Ñawpa Pacha 13 62 Frequently found on the stone sculpture of Pucara style..are undulating serpents or serpentlike creatures having eared heads. 1992 C. Hardyment Home Comfort (1997) vi. 106 (caption) Behind the tun can be seen an eared bucket for moving wort around. b. With defining word: having the specified type or number of ears; (Heraldry) having ears of a specified tincture (cf. eared adj.3).Recorded earliest in prick-eared adj. 1. See also long-eared adj., lop-eared adj., one-eared adj.1, white-eared adj., etc. ΚΠ a1425 in W. H. Hulme Middle-Eng. Harrowing of Hell (1907) p. xxv (MED) The horss hath..propertes..of a fox..prik-eryd, fayr-sided, schorte trottyng, and a litell hed. 1514 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Rec...for land at þe fower yeryd cros. 1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. D3 That good fat oxe, and that same large eard asse are my sonne sonnes. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 116 He [sc. Lyco] was very expert in all exercises, active and well made for a Wrestler, being thin-ear'd and well set. 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts 86/1 The Brasilians have their Cotias of the bignesse, shape, and taste of the Hare; yellowish, little eared, and almost no tail. 1682 J. Gibbon Introd. ad Latinam Blasoniam 115/2 A Dolphin imbowed Azure, crested and eared arg[ent]. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6324/3 A Cart-like Gelding..a little Wide Ear'd. 1772 Apollo (Dublin) 89 A cobler's wife..In plain stuff gown, and short ear'd coif. 1814 R. Southey Roderick vi. 85 The whole people heard, In their deep silence, open-ear'd, the sound. 1825 M. M. Sherwood Old Times 11 Her hair..was combed neatly under a round-eared cap. 1826 H. Chauncy Hist. Antiq. Herts. II. 89 Griffins head eraz'd argent, beaked, barbed and eared sable. 1897 C. Tsountas & J. I. Manatt Mycenaean Age App. 388 Two-eared vases with wide mouths, and one-eared skyphoi. 1911 Everybody's Mag. Dec. 794/2 Open-mouthed and closed-eared reporters. 2011 T. Bonyhady Good Living Street i. 19 Moriz was forty-two years old in 1901—balding, bearded, big-eared, and portly. ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 141 Dogges..are called..fierce, subtil, sounding, bold, eared for attention, affable, swift. Compounds eared grebe n. (originally) the horned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus (now disused); (in later use) the black-necked grebe, P. nigricollis, spec. the North American subspecies P. n. californicus. ΚΠ 1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 420 Eared Grebe. Faun. Am. Sept. 15. 1857 H. L. Meyer Colour Illustr. Brit. Birds VII. 17 Eared Grebe. Podiceps auritus. The Eared Grebe is a winter visitant in Great Britain. 1935 F. V. Dickey Familiar Birds Pacific Southwest 4 Other grebes which occur in winter on coastal and inland waters of the Southwest are the Eared Grebe and the Horned Grebe, both of which names come from the peculiar feather tufts worn by these birds in summer. 2002 High Country News 29 Apr. 9/2 Paul uses the eared grebe, which starts arriving from Canada in August, as an example of the lake's importance to birds. eared owl n. [after post-classical Latin noctua aurita (1555 in Gesner, or earlier)] any of various owls with ear tufts, (in later use) spec. one of the genus Asio. ΚΠ 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. i. 2 The eared Owl, yet hath it not ears properly so called, but only feathers sticking out on each side the head. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 118 Smooth-legged Eared Owl,..having the legs bare of feathers. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 281 The Virginian Eared Owl.—The facial disc is brown, edged with black. 1903 Auk 20 273 Brisson in 1760 gave names to these two groups, calling the eared owls Asio and restricting Strix to those without ears. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. i. 6/1 Typical Owls (Family Strigidae). This family includes the Tawny Owls, Eagle Owls, Snow Owls, and Eared Owls. eared pheasant n. any of the pheasants constituting the genus Crossoptilon, found chiefly in China, which have prominent white ear tufts. ΚΠ 1863 Proc. Zool. Soc. 118 Crossoptilon tibetanum. (Tibetan Eared-Pheasant.)... Crossoptilon auritum. (Pallas' s Eared-Pheasant.). 1918 C. W. Beebe Monogr. Pheasants I. 187 Once only was a glimpse permitted to us of the wonderful White Eared-pheasants. 1957 Condor 59 177 In the Eared Pheasant (Crossoptilon) the sexes are alike. 2007 Wilson Jrnl. Ornithol. 119 592/2 Tibetan Eared-pheasants inhabit shrubby vegetation in the Lhasa Mountains. eared seal n. any of the pinniped mammals constituting the family Otariidae, comprising the sea lions and fur seals, which are distinguished from the true seals by having small external ears and the ability to walk on all four limbs; = otariid n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Ostaridae (eared seal) eared seal?a1808 hair-seal1824 otary1834 otariid1871 ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. 3 568 (heading) The Eared Seal. With a conoid head; nose rather pointed; ears an inch long, very narrow and pointed. 1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 219 Northern fur seal..the habits and life-history of this animal are probably more accurately known than those of any other of the Eared Seals. 1966 Encycl. N.Z. III. 203 Three species of seals breed at present in the New Zealand region..: two are eared seals. 2011 New Yorker 21 Mar. 36/2 Sea lions are of the family Otariidae, the ‘eared’ seals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). earedadj.2 Now rare (archaic and regional). Ploughed. Cf. ear v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [adjective] > ploughed drivena1225 eareda1300 ploughed-up1639 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > broken > arable > ploughed drivena1225 eareda1300 fallow1530 ploughed1535 rift1635 subsoiled1840 bouted1864 tilthed1866 a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 270 In eried lond. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 3691 (MED) Sone þey maden eryed feld. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 485 Withouten tovne, or house or tree..or eryd londe. ?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 796/9 (MED) Hec virgata, a eryd lond. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 264 To these, the fierie Artizan, did adde a new-ear'd field Larg'd and thrice plowd. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iii. i. 60 Take the horns of wilde Rams, and beat them into very small powder, and sow them in eared ground. 1798 W. Richards Geiriadur Saesneg a Chymraeg 115 Eared-land, âr, tir âr. 1885 ‘E. Douglas’ Love's Perversity ii, in Queen of Hid Isle 175 To wear a skin Like an eared field with furrows. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xvii. 6 The furrows run, with strange Italic blood: For smitten was this battle, in eared field. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). earedadj.3 Of a cereal plant: having an ear or ears; in ear.Also in Heraldry, with complement: (of a depiction of a wheat stalk, etc.) having ears of the specified tincture; cf. eared adj.1 1b.In quot. 1590 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of cereal plants > having ears or in the ear eareda1398 eary1578 spiked1601 prick-eared1922 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. vi. 584 Dew igendred in corrupt eyre..corrumpiþ grene corne whanne it is i-eered [1495 de Worde eeryd; L. in spica]. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Exod. ix. 31 The barly was eared, and the flaxe was bolled. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3 A crop of toward youth, so well eared, that they put vs in hope alreadie of a timely haruest. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. ix. 111 Three Wheate stalkes, Bladed and Eared, all Proper. 1623 E. Wynne in R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 108 We have Wheate, Barly, Oates & Beanes both eared and codded. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia II. dccxxxiii. 1249 Triticum Spica multiplici,Triticum ramosum, the Branched, or manifold Eared Wheat. 1735 F. Nichols Irish Compend. (ed. 3) Suppl. ii. 50 Gules, issuing out of a Mount in Base proper, a Wheat Stalk, bladed and ear'd Or. 1870 J. Ruskin in Daily Tel. 7 Oct. If one could only consider it as much a victory to get a barren field sown as to get an eared field stripped. 1985 Plant Physiol. 79 1077/1 Increases of reduced N were detected in the whole shoot and plant parts, especially the stalk of the earless plants and grain of the eared plants. 2011 St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press (Nexis) 14 June Red-headed woodpeckers fed at our wooden and wire corncribs holding eared corn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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