单词 | foulder |
释义 | † foulderv.1 Obsolete. transitive. To send (something) forth with a flash or clap in the manner of a thunderbolt. Also intransitive: to flash forth like a thunderbolt. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] upheavea1300 rearc1400 raisea1425 foulder1559 trumpet1729 uplift1816 blast1932 blare1939 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Mortimer iv Which forced enuy foulder out the rust That in mens hearts before did lie and smother. 1594 W. Percy Sonnets to Fairest Coelia x. sig. Biijv From the leads of that proud citadell, Do foulder forth two fierie culuerines. 1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices ii. 79 Which flaming like rockes of carbuncles (euen as in the violent eruptions of Vesuuius or Ætna) foulder and evomite the cannon stones of their indignation and vengeance vpon those tyrannous aduersaries. Derivatives fouldering adj. that flashes forth in the manner of a thunderbolt. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > too or extremely roaringOE violenta1398 vehement1545 fouldering1590 sundering1624 screaming1847 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O2v Lowde thunder..Did rend the ratling skyes with flames of fouldring heat. 1797 C. Newton Poems 55 Hurl forth thy fouldering bolts and rift the shuddering skies! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021). † foulderv.2 Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To crumble. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > undergo separation into constituents [verb (intransitive)] > cease to cohere > disintegrate > into small pieces fitterc1380 foulder1610 shred1647 shoal1733 fritter1794 fragment1961 1610 P. Holland in tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 251 When the leaues were touched they fouldred to dust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.11559v.21610 |
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