单词 | glace |
释义 | † glacen.1 Obsolete. rare. Ice. on a glace: frozen. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] iceeOE crystalOE frosta1400 glacea1400 water-ice1861 a1400–50 Alexander 3002 Alexander..asperly rydis To þe grete flode of Granton and it on a glace [Dublin MS. as glas] fyndis. 1540 Pate in State P. Hen. VIII (1849) VIII. 346 That the verite cummyng in place must nedes vade away, even as the glace by the fervor of the sone. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Glace, Ice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † glacen.2 Obsolete. A swift or glancing blow; a wound, graze. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > glancing blow glacec1400 scuff1824 sideswipe1857 c1400 Melayne 1347 What! wenys thou..þat I faynte bee For a spere was in my thee, A glace thorowte my syde. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 268 1 Tortor. We haue gyfen hym a glase...2 Tortor. Sir..With knokys he is indoost. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 139 Vxor. It were a fowll blott To be hanged for the case. Mak. I haue skapyd..Oft as hard a glase. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). glacev. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. intransitive. To glance, glide; to move lightly or quickly (cf. glance v.1, glent v.). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > continuously > and rapidly or forcibly > and lightly glacea1400 whisk?a1500 a1400 Hymns Virg. 108 Ay let gabbynges glyde and gon A-wey wher þei wol glace [Lamb. MS. glase] or glent. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 171 Suche gladande glory con to me glace, As lyttel byfore þerto watz wont. 2. Of weapons: To glance off, to slip, to fail in giving a direct blow; also, to glide, pass easily through. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike (of weapon) [verb (intransitive)] > glance off glace13.. glancea1500 13.. Sir Beues 4177 (MS. A.) Doun of þe helm þe swerd gan glace And karf riȝt doun be-fore is face. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxii The head of stele..Through plate & mayle mightly gan to glace. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1208 It glased down by his sheelde And carfe his stedes neke a-sonder. c1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 5067 Hys swerde glasedde lowe And stroke vpon the sadull bowe. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. i. (1482) 5 And as this brute shold shete unto an hert his arowe myshapped and glaced and so there Brute quelled his fader. 3. transitive (dialect) (See quot. 1876.) ΚΠ 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Glease or Gleaze, to glide past. ‘I just gleas'd it’, as an object is nearly hit by a stone thrown at it. [So glaze in West Scotland (Rev. W. B. R. Wilson).] Derivatives ˈglacing n. ΚΠ c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 197/1 Glacynge, or wronge glydynge of boltys or arowys (S. glansyng, P. glaunsinge of shetinge), devolatus. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 72 A Gleasing, a hot pursuit, a sweat. ‘I have had a good gleasing after him’, a sharp run. And in a legal sense, ‘He has had to bide a bonny gleasing’, sustain the heavy charges of a law suit. Also in the general meaning of loss or deprivation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1a1400n.2c1400v.13.. |
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