forlornadj.n.

Brit.

/fəˈlɔːn/, U.S.

/fərˈlɔrn/

Forms: see forlese v.

Etymology: past participle of forlese v.

A. adj.

†1. Lost, not to be found. Obsolete: see the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost

tinta1340

forlostc1374

withlosena1400

unrecovered1433

lost1526

forlorn1577

imbecilea1677

missed1763

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ix. i. 190 To the end they should lie no more in corners as forlorne books and vnknowne.

†2. Morally lost; abandoned, depraved. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > morally or spiritually ruined or lost

forlorn1154

tinta1340

losta1533

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > immorality > immoral person > [adjective] > and abandoned

forlorn1154

reprobate1557

forsaken1572

self-losta1586

unprincipled1644

1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 Hi [the lawless barons in Stephen's time] weron al forcursæd, & forsworen & forloren.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 546 Migti men and figti, [and] for-loren.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25074 Þe quick þe godmen er and chosen, þe ded þe wick þat ar for-losen.

1578 Gude & Godlie Ballates 30 The Forlorne Sone, as it is writtin in the xv. Chapter of Luk.

1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 49 He that's in all the worlds blacke sinnes forlorne.

1683 Apol. Protestants France ii. 20 They hire forlorn Wretches to go to the Sermons of the Protestant Ministers.

†3.

a. ‘Lost’, ruined, doomed to destruction. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition > having fallen

forlornc1386

fallen1550

ruinous1558

ruinate1562

declined1591

ruinated1592

ruined1596

lapsed1667

prolapsed1698

broken-down1816

decadent1837

c1386 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 309 Lord Phebus, cast thy merciable eye On wrecche Aurilie, which that am for-lorne.

c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. xxxviii As thou were a forloor man.

1554 Traves in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxxiii. 88 As though ye were a man forlore.

1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David vi. 1 And spare a Wretch forlorn.

1719 E. Young Busiris v. 56 What urge these forlorn Rebels in Excuse For chusing Ruin?

†b. forlorn boys (= French enfants perdus), forlorn fellows, etc.: men who perform their duty at the imminent risk of their life. forlorn fort: one held at extreme risk. See also forlorn hope n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > victim-hero

forlorn hopes1539

forlorn fellows1577

forlorn sentinel1579

salamander1705

victim-hero1962

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > fort held at risk

forlorn fort1700

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1773/2 Fortie or fiftie forlorne Boyes.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 17 He shall set abroad certaine forlorne Sentinels without the Word.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 206 Some new band of forlorne fellowes appeared.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Schweitzer Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 298 To march to a Forlorn Fort..six Leagues from [etc.].

c. Desperate, hopeless.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adjective]

ormodeOE

ortroweOE

aerwenec1275

wanlessa1300

desesperatc1384

despairedc1400

wanhopelyc1425

lornc1475

desperate1483

wanhope1549

hopelost1570

despairfula1586

forlorn1603

despairinga1616

hopelessa1616

unhopinga1628

lost1709

au désespoir1766

unanticipative1847

unhopeful1850

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 591 Euerie thing..seemed as altogither lost and forlorne.

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. Introd., in Wks. (1871) I. 137 [We] sit down in a forlorn Scepticism.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1732 I. 37 In the forlorn state of his circumstances.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 183 Having seen these three adventurous bands depart upon their forlorn expeditions.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 6 The home of great and forlorn causes.

a. Of persons or places: Abandoned, forsaken, deserted; left alone, desolate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > forsaken

forsakenc1305

abandoned1477

desert1480

forlorn1535

waived1577

forlorn1579

deserted1629

relinquished1635

derelict1649

desolated1803

1535 Goodly Primer (1834) 120 An old forlorn house.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xvii To help King Henry vtterly forlorne.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 152 Whither fly'st thou? leauing me for-lore.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 180 Yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde.

1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 739 To the Winds I mourn, Alike unheard, unpity'd, and forlorn.

1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) ii. 79 Dreading an accident in so forlorn a place, I..stood out to sea again.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxx. 131 A wretch forlorn and captive.

1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 111 Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lviii. 84 The little village looks forlorn .

1863 F. Locker Reply to Invit. Rome in London Lyrics ii Perhaps you think your Love forlore Should pine unless her slave be with her.

b. Const. of, †from: Forsaken by (a person); bereft, destitute, or stripped of (a thing).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived

forlornc1150

bereaved?a1200

destitute14..

private?a1425

devoidedc1430

disgarnished1484

destituted1550

deprived1552

deprivate1575

berapt1581

bereft1586

bereaven1592

dispossessed1599

ungraced1602

privated1656

viduated1660

disfurnished1670

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > forsaken

forsakenc1305

abandoned1477

desert1480

forlorn1535

waived1577

forlorn1579

deserted1629

relinquished1635

derelict1649

desolated1803

c1150 Departing Soul's Addr. Body v Eart thu forloren from al that thu lufedest.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. f. 11^v Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 921 Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 208 The good old Man, forlorn, of human Aid, For Vengeance..pray'd.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 51 He went, like one that..is of sense forlorn.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 51 Mournful Œnone wandering forlorn Of Paris, once her playmate.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Love's Nocturn ii Dreamland lies forlorn of light.

a. In pitiful condition, wretched.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched

un-i-selieOE

drearyOE

unseelyOE

wretcha1122

usellc1175

unselea1200

wretcheda1200

misease?c1225

un-i-sele?c1250

wanlichec1275

miseasyc1300

wrackfulc1311

unblessed1340

wretchfula1382

wretchedful1382

caitiff1393

loddera1400

unhappena1400

pilledc1400

miserable?c1422

vengeablec1430

unhappyc1440

meschant?1473

miserousc1475

unselc1480

miser1542

forlorn1582

villainous1582

skybala1585

unblestful1608

despicable1635

haveless1868

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective]

unledeeOE

sorryOE

evila1131

usellc1175

wanlichec1275

bad1276

sorry1372

meana1375

caitiff1393

loddera1400

woefula1400

foulc1400

wretched1450

meschant?1473

unselc1480

peevisha1522

miser1542

scurvy?1577

forlorn1582

villainous1582

measled1596

lamented1611

thrallfula1618

despicable1635

deplorable1642

so-and-so1656

poorish1657

squalida1660

lamentable1676

mesquina1706

shan1714

execrable1738

quisby1807

hole in the wall1822

measly1847

bum1878

shag-bag1888

snidey1890

pathetic1900

1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xiii Such as lay with pestilence forlorne.

a1628 F. Greville Alaham iv. iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 66 Nothing can come amisse to thoughts forlorne.

1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 454 They saw so great a man in so forlorne a plight.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 549 His forlorn appearance.

1866 D. M. Mulock Noble Life xii Ay, be it the forlornest bodily tabernacle in which immortal soul ever dwelt.

b. Of a wretched appearance, meagre.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin

leanc1000

thinc1000

swonga1300

meagrea1398

empty?c1400

(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405

macilent?a1425

rawc1425

gauntc1440

to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450

leany?a1475

swampc1480

scarrya1500

pinched1514

extenuate1528

lean-fleshed1535

carrion-lean1542

spare1548

lank1553

carrion1565

brawn-fallen1578

raw-bone1590

scraggeda1591

thin-bellied1591

rake-lean1593

bare-boned1594

forlorn1594

Lented1594

lean-looked1597

shotten herring1598

spiny1598

starved1598

thin-belly1598

raw-boned1600

larbar1603

meagry?1603

fleshless1605

scraggy1611

ballow1612

lank-leana1616

skinnya1616

hagged1616

scraggling1616

carrion-like1620

extenuated1620

thin-gutted1620

haggard1630

scrannel1638

leanisha1645

skeletontal1651

overlean1657

emaciated1665

slank1668

lathy1672

emaciate1676

nithered1691

emacerated1704

lean-looking1713

scranky1735

squinny-gut(s)1742

mauger1756

squinny1784

angular1789

etiolated1791

as thin (also lean) as a rail1795

wiry1808

slink1817

scranny1820

famine-hollowed1822

sharp featured1824

reedy1830

scrawny1833

stringy1833

lean-ribbeda1845

skeletony1852

famine-pinched1856

shelly1866

flesh-fallen1876

thinnish1884

all horn and hide1890

unfurnished1893

bone-thin1899

underweight1899

asthenic1925

skin-and-bony1935

skinny-malinky1940

skeletal1952

pencil-neck1960

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 94 The trees though summer yet forlorne and leane.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 307 A was so forlorne, that his demensions to any thicke sight were inuincible.

1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 338/2 Forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt.

†B. n. Obsolete.

1. A forlorn person.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn > person

widoweOE

orphan1483

forlorna1525

waif1785

a1525 Crying ane Playe 165 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 154 The Gret Forlore Of Babylon.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 26 Henry..Is..forc'd to liue in Scotland a Forlorne .

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 210. ⁋6 [An old maid writes] I am surrounded with both, though at present a Forlorn.

1814 Forgery ii. ii There, poor forlorns, divide the little there.

2. Short for forlorn hope n.; a body of troops detached to the front, a front line, vanguard. Also plural, the men forming a forlorn hope.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > advanced guard

forlorn hope1579

point1589

forlorn1645

advanced guard1677

advance party1686

advance guard1690

advance1780

1645 O. Cromwell Let. to W. Lenthall 14 Sept. Captain Ireton with a forlorn of Colonel Rich's regiment.

1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) ii. 181 The Forlorne of our Forces.

1688 J. S. Mil. Discipl. 54 The General must send his Forlorns to post themselves on the highest places.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 50/1 Four Companies of these were drawn out as Forlorns.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 305 I..rid up to the Forelorn.

figurative and in extended use.1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 10 The fearful are in the forelorne of those that march for hell.1666 London Gaz. No. 68/4 12 or 14 as the Vauntguard or Forlorn of their Fleet.1680 R. L'Estrange Seasonable Memorial 4 There started out a Party upon the Forelorn, to make Discoveries, and try the Temper of the Government.1681 J. Crowne Thyestes v. 48 Sometimes they'l..stand A flight of beams from the forlorn of day.1684 J. Dryden Epil. Opening New House in Misc. Poems 289 Criticks..Who..still charge first, (the true forlorn of Wit).1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) iv. cxliii. 49 Next these, a large Brigade was marshalled, For whose forlorn first march'd the hardy Boar.

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单词	forlorn
释义	forlornadj.n. Brit. /fəˈlɔːn/, U.S. /fərˈlɔrn/ Forms: see forlese v. Etymology: past participle of forlese v. A. adj. †1. Lost, not to be found. Obsolete: see the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost tinta1340 forlostc1374 withlosena1400 unrecovered1433 lost1526 forlorn1577 imbecilea1677 missed1763 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ix. i. 190 To the end they should lie no more in corners as forlorne books and vnknowne. †2. Morally lost; abandoned, depraved. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > morally or spiritually ruined or lost forlorn1154 tinta1340 losta1533 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > immorality > immoral person > [adjective] > and abandoned forlorn1154 reprobate1557 forsaken1572 self-losta1586 unprincipled1644 1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1137 Hi [the lawless barons in Stephen's time] weron al forcursæd, & forsworen & forloren. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 546 Migti men and figti, [and] for-loren. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25074 Þe quick þe godmen er and chosen, þe ded þe wick þat ar for-losen. 1578 Gude & Godlie Ballates 30 The Forlorne Sone, as it is writtin in the xv. Chapter of Luk. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 49 He that's in all the worlds blacke sinnes forlorne. 1683 Apol. Protestants France ii. 20 They hire forlorn Wretches to go to the Sermons of the Protestant Ministers. †3. a. ‘Lost’, ruined, doomed to destruction. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition > having fallen forlornc1386 fallen1550 ruinous1558 ruinate1562 declined1591 ruinated1592 ruined1596 lapsed1667 prolapsed1698 broken-down1816 decadent1837 c1386 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 309 Lord Phebus, cast thy merciable eye On wrecche Aurilie, which that am for-lorne. c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. xxxviii As thou were a forloor man. 1554 Traves in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xxxiii. 88 As though ye were a man forlore. 1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David vi. 1 And spare a Wretch forlorn. 1719 E. Young Busiris v. 56 What urge these forlorn Rebels in Excuse For chusing Ruin? †b. forlorn boys (= French enfants perdus), forlorn fellows, etc.: men who perform their duty at the imminent risk of their life. forlorn fort: one held at extreme risk. See also forlorn hope n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > victim-hero forlorn hopes1539 forlorn fellows1577 forlorn sentinel1579 salamander1705 victim-hero1962 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > fort held at risk forlorn fort1700 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1773/2 Fortie or fiftie forlorne Boyes. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 17 He shall set abroad certaine forlorne Sentinels without the Word. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 206 Some new band of forlorne fellowes appeared. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Schweitzer Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 298 To march to a Forlorn Fort..six Leagues from [etc.]. c. Desperate, hopeless. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adjective] ormodeOE ortroweOE aerwenec1275 wanlessa1300 desesperatc1384 despairedc1400 wanhopelyc1425 lornc1475 desperate1483 wanhope1549 hopelost1570 despairfula1586 forlorn1603 despairinga1616 hopelessa1616 unhopinga1628 lost1709 au désespoir1766 unanticipative1847 unhopeful1850 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 591 Euerie thing..seemed as altogither lost and forlorne. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. Introd., in Wks. (1871) I. 137 [We] sit down in a forlorn Scepticism. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1732 I. 37 In the forlorn state of his circumstances. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 183 Having seen these three adventurous bands depart upon their forlorn expeditions. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 6 The home of great and forlorn causes. 4. a. Of persons or places: Abandoned, forsaken, deserted; left alone, desolate. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > forsaken forsakenc1305 abandoned1477 desert1480 forlorn1535 waived1577 forlorn1579 deserted1629 relinquished1635 derelict1649 desolated1803 1535 Goodly Primer (1834) 120 An old forlorn house. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xvii To help King Henry vtterly forlorne. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 152 Whither fly'st thou? leauing me for-lore. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 180 Yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde. View more context for this quotation 1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 739 To the Winds I mourn, Alike unheard, unpity'd, and forlorn. 1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) ii. 79 Dreading an accident in so forlorn a place, I..stood out to sea again. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxx. 131 A wretch forlorn and captive. 1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 111 Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lviii. 84 The little village looks forlorn . View more context for this quotation 1863 F. Locker Reply to Invit. Rome in London Lyrics ii Perhaps you think your Love forlore Should pine unless her slave be with her. b. Const. of, †from: Forsaken by (a person); bereft, destitute, or stripped of (a thing). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > suffering loss > deprived forlornc1150 bereaved?a1200 destitute14.. private?a1425 devoidedc1430 disgarnished1484 destituted1550 deprived1552 deprivate1575 berapt1581 bereft1586 bereaven1592 dispossessed1599 ungraced1602 privated1656 viduated1660 disfurnished1670 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > forsaken forsakenc1305 abandoned1477 desert1480 forlorn1535 waived1577 forlorn1579 deserted1629 relinquished1635 derelict1649 desolated1803 c1150 Departing Soul's Addr. Body v Eart thu forloren from al that thu lufedest. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. f. 11^v Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 921 Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 208 The good old Man, forlorn, of human Aid, For Vengeance..pray'd. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 51 He went, like one that..is of sense forlorn. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 51 Mournful Œnone wandering forlorn Of Paris, once her playmate. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Love's Nocturn ii Dreamland lies forlorn of light. 5. a. In pitiful condition, wretched. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched un-i-selieOE drearyOE unseelyOE wretcha1122 usellc1175 unselea1200 wretcheda1200 misease?c1225 un-i-sele?c1250 wanlichec1275 miseasyc1300 wrackfulc1311 unblessed1340 wretchfula1382 wretchedful1382 caitiff1393 loddera1400 unhappena1400 pilledc1400 miserable?c1422 vengeablec1430 unhappyc1440 meschant?1473 miserousc1475 unselc1480 miser1542 forlorn1582 villainous1582 skybala1585 unblestful1608 despicable1635 haveless1868 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective] unledeeOE sorryOE evila1131 usellc1175 wanlichec1275 bad1276 sorry1372 meana1375 caitiff1393 loddera1400 woefula1400 foulc1400 wretched1450 meschant?1473 unselc1480 peevisha1522 miser1542 scurvy?1577 forlorn1582 villainous1582 measled1596 lamented1611 thrallfula1618 despicable1635 deplorable1642 so-and-so1656 poorish1657 squalida1660 lamentable1676 mesquina1706 shan1714 execrable1738 quisby1807 hole in the wall1822 measly1847 bum1878 shag-bag1888 snidey1890 pathetic1900 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xiii Such as lay with pestilence forlorne. a1628 F. Greville Alaham iv. iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 66 Nothing can come amisse to thoughts forlorne. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 454 They saw so great a man in so forlorne a plight. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 549 His forlorn appearance. 1866 D. M. Mulock Noble Life xii Ay, be it the forlornest bodily tabernacle in which immortal soul ever dwelt. b. Of a wretched appearance, meagre. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 94 The trees though summer yet forlorne and leane. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 307 A was so forlorne, that his demensions to any thicke sight were inuincible. View more context for this quotation 1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 338/2 Forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt. †B. n. Obsolete. 1. A forlorn person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn > person widoweOE orphan1483 forlorna1525 waif1785 a1525 Crying ane Playe 165 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 154 The Gret Forlore Of Babylon. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 26 Henry..Is..forc'd to liue in Scotland a Forlorne . View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 210. ⁋6 [An old maid writes] I am surrounded with both, though at present a Forlorn. 1814 Forgery ii. ii There, poor forlorns, divide the little there. 2. Short for forlorn hope n.; a body of troops detached to the front, a front line, vanguard. Also plural, the men forming a forlorn hope. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for guard duty > advanced guard forlorn hope1579 point1589 forlorn1645 advanced guard1677 advance party1686 advance guard1690 advance1780 1645 O. Cromwell Let. to W. Lenthall 14 Sept. Captain Ireton with a forlorn of Colonel Rich's regiment. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) ii. 181 The Forlorne of our Forces. 1688 J. S. Mil. Discipl. 54 The General must send his Forlorns to post themselves on the highest places. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 50/1 Four Companies of these were drawn out as Forlorns. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 305 I..rid up to the Forelorn. figurative and in extended use.1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 10 The fearful are in the forelorne of those that march for hell.1666 London Gaz. No. 68/4 12 or 14 as the Vauntguard or Forlorn of their Fleet.1680 R. L'Estrange Seasonable Memorial 4 There started out a Party upon the Forelorn, to make Discoveries, and try the Temper of the Government.1681 J. Crowne Thyestes v. 48 Sometimes they'l..stand A flight of beams from the forlorn of day.1684 J. Dryden Epil. Opening New House in Misc. Poems 289 Criticks..Who..still charge first, (the true forlorn of Wit).1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) iv. cxliii. 49 Next these, a large Brigade was marshalled, For whose forlorn first march'd the hardy Boar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1150
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