单词 | erne |
释义 | ernen. An eagle; in modern use chiefly the golden eagle or the sea-eagle (see eagle n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > eagle erneOE eaglec1350 king of fowlsc1475 king of birds1575 bird of Jove1612 iron1623 yearna1797 kingbird1840 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > eagles > genus Haliaetus > species albicilla (white-tailed eagle) erneOE pygarga1398 sea-eagle1668 white-tailed eagle1678 OE Cynewulf Elene 29 Urigfeðera earn sang ahof, laðum on laste. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiv. 28 Swa hwær swa hold byð, þæder beoð earnas gegaderude. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6056 Forr ærn maȝȝ fleȝhenn i þe lifft full heȝhe towarrd heoffne. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 146 Ure wiðerwines beo swiftere þenne earnes. c1325 Chron. Eng. 156 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 276 Ther spac an ern [a] prophecie. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 35 As þe eerne clepynge hise briddis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13444 For-þi to þe arn lickest es he. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. v. 63 For Iovis fowle, the ern, com sorand by. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 315 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 104 Ernes ancient of air kingis yat crovnd Is. 1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 287 Erens or eagles. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 76 The scarefull Erne With hooked talants trussing vp a Hare among the Ferne. 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 62 There are very large Eagles, which they call Earns. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 169 Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing yearns. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. ix. 106 He saw..A sight that scared the erne away. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xiv. 344 Men told..how..ravens and ernes sat on the stern of every ship. Compounds erne-fern n. the brake ( Pteris aquilina). erne-hued adj. having the colour of an eagle. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1698 Erne hwed he watz & al ouer-brawden. erne-stone n. = aetites n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > occult medicine toadstone1558 erne-stone1587 amulet1718 amuletic1753 muti1860 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > stone with mythical properties > others lectoryc1275 honey stone1567 erne-stone1587 sunstone1874 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > occult medicine > amulet against disease or to aid healing > stone achatea1398 aetitesa1500 toadstone1558 erne-stone1587 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. xii. ii. 79 At this season there are found in England the Aetites (in English called the ernestone). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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