单词 | full-acorned |
释义 | > as lemmasfull-acorned (c) With adjectives in -ed formed on nouns, with the sense ‘fully or plentifully provided with (what is denoted by the noun)’, as full-acorned, full-spotted, etc., adjs. See also full-witted adj. at Compounds 1b.The sense is now more commonly expressed using fully as the first element: see fully adv. Compounds 1c. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Oeuf Harenc aux œufs, a full-rowed, or hard-rowed Herring. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 16 Like a full Acorn'd Boare. View more context for this quotation 1815 C. Lamb Let. 9 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 174 My full-happinessed friend is picking his crackers. 1828 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica iv. 512 The Full-spotted [Ermine moth]. 1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i. 7 The full-buckramed fancy dresses of the young gentlemen. 1838 T. Miller Royston Gower I. iv. 66 Thou who wert fat with impurities, even to the fatness of full-acorned swine. 1843 Magnet 16 Oct. 1/6 It was a very choice and full-meated dairy, and the cheese averaging about 120 lbs each. 1861 A. Smith Edwin of Deira iv. 154 A land all shadowed by full-acorned woods. 1871 L. P. Brockett Year of Battles xiii. 474 Behind all were the full-medalled veterans, invalids, old warriors, yeomen of the palace, and royal gendarmes. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 374 In November, when schooling begins, the fish are full-roed. 1910 Sat. Evening Post 19 Mar. 30/2 A full-freckled, husky, six-foot-two product of the locality came hulking in. 1940 Bull. Inst. Jamaica Science Ser. No. 1. 71 Specimens from the Kingston area vary from the full-spotted pattern to practically spotless. 1950 Times 5 Oct. 3/5 A dozen herring drifters..were all rewarded with good hauls of first-class full-roed herrings yesterday. < as lemmas |
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