单词 | archer |
释义 | archern. 1. a. One who shoots with bow and arrows, esp. one who uses them in war; a bowman. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer archer1297 bowman1297 longbow1386 bowyerc1440 bow?c1510 fletcher1529 bender1590 bow-bearera1600 bow-bendera1697 sagittary1834 bowstringer1839 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archer archer1297 toxophilite1813 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 199 Archers and vot men. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 45 An archier to faile of the butte is no wonder. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 151 Thair archaris [1489 Adv. archeris] furth to thame thai send. 1553 Four Supplic. 100 Shepeherdes be but yll artchers. c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 Of fifteen hondrith archars of Ynglonde went away but seuenti and thre. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 69 Draw archers draw your arrowes to the head. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 361 If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an Archer . View more context for this quotation 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 53 The Payment of the Grand Provost, and his Archers. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xvii. 267 But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire men are stern of mood. b. attributive, as in archer-craft, archer-god, archer-queen, archer-rank. ΚΠ 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxiii. 253 They rush'd among the archer ranks. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. 73 Little could avail Their archer craft. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 2 Apollo, archer-god. ΚΠ c1400 Rom. Rose 4191 Springolds, gonnes, bowes, and archers. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 91 One of them, with a bow and archer, smote sir Gawaine. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > pieces > bishop alphin1562 bishop1562 prince1562 archer1656 1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 2 A Bishop, or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven. 4. The ninth zodiacal constellation, Sagittarius. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Sagittarius shooter1386 sagittar1390 Sagittarius1390 sagittary1413 archer1594 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxiv. f. 157v Sagittarius, that is to say the Archer..hath his head towardes the North. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 58 Near Heaven's Archer, in the Zodiac, hung. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 328 Then partly in the Milky Way, the Archer. 5. Ichthyology. A fish ( Toxotes jaculator Cuvier), found in Java and Sumatra, which has the power of shooting a drop of water at insects that rest near. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Toxotidae (archer) jaculator1765 shooting-fish1803 archer1834 rifle fish1897 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 272/2 The drop seldom fails to hit the mark and precipitate the insect into the water, where it is, of course, within reach of the archer. 1847 Nat. Encycl. II. 14/2 The archer..is of a yellowish colour, marked in the back with five brown spots. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants sea-purslane1548 frog-bit1578 heartwort1578 milkwort1578 water dragon1578 water-liverwort1578 water milfoil1578 water milfoil1578 water radish1578 arrowhead1597 saltwort1597 water archer1597 calla1601 water-rocket1605 sea rocket1611 water archer1617 water chickweed1633 water purslane1633 arsesmart1640 water hyssop1653 water thyme1655 water serpent1659 Myriophyllum1754 least water plantain1756 mud-weed1756 Thalia1756 water-leaf1756 marsh liverwort1760 bastard plantain1762 wool-weed1765 Ruppia1770 goat's foot1773 pipewort1776 blinking chickweed1777 mudwort1789 arrowleaf1805 water-target1814 water willow1814 felwort1816 water shield1817 mermaid weed1822 mud plantain1822 hydrilla1824 blinks1835 crystalwort1846 naiad1846 waterwort1846 arrow weed1848 willow-thorn1857 lattice leaf1866 marsh flower1866 bonnet1869 lattice plant1877 sea-ash1884 alligator weed1887 water parsley1891 water hyacinth1897 lirio1926 neverwet1927 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 493 Water Archer, or Arrowhead..because it is good to pull out arrows. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) Water archer, Sagittaria. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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