单词 | glade |
释义 | † gladen.1 Obsolete. to go to glade: to set, sink to rest (said of the sun). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > set nipeeOE grindc1050 to go to gladec1200 settlea1375 fall?c1400 shaftc1400 rebash1481 to go to1584 sinka1586 welk1590 wave1592 verge1610 sit1621 western1858 c1200 Winteney Rule St. Benet (1888) 25 Ær sunne go to glade. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 189 In the Ester eve whanne þe sonne ȝede to glade [L. sole occidente]. c1475 Partenay 992 Thys Joustes dured till sonne went to glad. After to euessong went euery wyght. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. viii. 18 Now the sunne was gone to glade. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. j Likening her Maiestie to the Sunne for his brightnesse, but not to him for his passion, which is ordinarily to go to glade, and sometime to suffer eclypse. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G7 Phoebus now goes to glade. a1788 A Yola Zong (Wexford Dialect) in Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. v. 26 Tel ee zin [= till the sun] go t'glade. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). gladen.2 1. a. A clear open space or passage in a wood or forest, whether natural or produced by the cutting down of trees.The earlier examples often explain the word as meaning a light or sunny place. From the latter part of the 17th cent., when the word had perhaps become merely literary, many writers have associated it with shade. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing sladec893 riddingOE wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 laund1340 cockshoot1353 gladea1535 cock-glade1574 nether vert1598 cock-roada1613 opening1678 opening1743 patana1854 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xv. sig. Q.iiiiv His folke..grubbe vp these..busshes of our earthly substance, & cary them quite awaye from vs that the woorde of God sowen in oure heartes, maye haue rowme therin, and a glad rounde aboute for the warmesome of grace to come to it. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 99 I came by 2. fayre Woodes on the Hill Sides, and passed in a Glade or Bottome betwixt them. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie G 252 To make a Glade in the middest of the wood: to lopp or cut away boughes where they let ye light. 1589 H. Upchear In Laudem Authoris in R. Greene Menaphon sig. *3 Yet neuer viewd I such a pleasant Greene As this, whose garnisht gleades, compare denies. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 203 Thorow a large glade betweene two hils, we leisurely descended for the space of two houres. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 Or solitary Grove, or gloomy Glade: To shield 'em with its venerable Shade. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 146 He bursts the thickets, glances thro' the glades. 1788 J. May Jrnl. 11 Aug. (1873) (modernized text) 103 This morning very cold, and considerable frost in the glades. 1836 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 33 The bright glades of the forest pleased her not. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §6. 87 The Red King was found dead by peasants in a glade of the New Forest. b. An opening in a wood, etc., utilized for snaring birds. (See quot. 1617.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > place for catching birds cockshoot1353 cock-glade1574 cock-roada1613 glade1617 glodea1625 finchery1887 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 111 Italian Gentlemen much delight in the art to catch birds, and in gardens fitted to that purpose, with nets, bushes and glades. a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) v. iv. 53 'Bless me: what Thing is this? two Pinacles, Upon her pate! Is't not a glode to catch Wood-cocks? 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. i. Addit. iii. 33 We in England are wont to make great Glades through thick Woods, and hang Nets across them; And so the Wood-cocks shooting through these Glades..strike against the Nets, and are entangled in them. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Gallivolatium, a cockshoot or cockglade.] 2. U.S. a. (See quot. 1859 and cf. Everglades n.) ΚΠ 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 649 Interspersed through the other parts, are glades of rich swamp. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Glades, everglades; tracts of land at the South covered with water and grass. So called in Maryland, where they are divided into wet and dry glades. b. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Glade..2. In New England, an opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Glade, smooth ice. (New England.) [In recent American Dicts. stated to be Local, U.S.] a. A clear or bright space in the sky; a flash (of light or lightning). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] coruscation1490 glade1558 skylight1574 meteor1597 phasm1656 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > light from the sky > a light or bright patch in the sky glodec1400 glade1558 streak1597 under-bright1824 storm-light1843 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of laitc900 slaughta1300 levinc1300 fire-slaughta1400 flaughta1400 thunderboltc1440 fudder1513 fire-flaughta1522 flag of firea1522 bolt1535 strokea1542 lightning bolta1560 lightning1560 fire-bolt?1562 fulgur1563 fulmen1563 thunder-thump1563 light-bolt1582 fire-flash1586 blaze1590 flake1590 clap1591 blastc1665 glade1744 streak1781 thunder-ball1820 leader stroke1934 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > flash of laitc900 flakec1400 fire-flaughta1522 flag of firea1522 lightning1560 fire-flash1586 blaze1590 fulguration1614 fulgurity1623 flaughta1724 glade1744 streak1781 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. sig. F.i Down from heauen by shade A streaming star descends, and long wt great light makes a glade. 1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2220 This Glade of Light..was much like the Tail of a Comet, but pointed at the upper End. 1734 J. Eames in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 248 The white Pyramidal Glade, which is now entitled by the Name of the Aurora Borealis. 1744 T. Short in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 628 It went all over this Country..pretty sharply, but nothing near so quick as a Glade of Lightning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > gleam of hope gladec1522 c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 79 Than geueth he some false glade of escapyng that sickenes. Compounds C1. glade-broken adj. ΚΠ 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 367 Thence to Calgarth is all one forest—yet glade-broken, and enlivened by open uplands. C2. glade mallow n. U.S. a tall herb, Napæa dioica, of the family Malvaceæ. ΚΠ 1849 A. Gray Genera Floræ Americæ II. 55 Glade Mallow. Flowers diœcious. 1963 H. A. Gleason Illustr. Flora Northeastern U.S. ii. 529 Napaea L. Glade Mallow... A monotypic genus. glade-net n. (see quot. 1678 at sense 1b). ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Glade-net. Derivatives glade-like adj. ΚΠ 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xi. 86 Glade-like terraces of yew trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gladev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To make a glade or clearing in (a forest). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > in forest assart1523 rubbishc1602 glade1621 disforesta1668 essart1675 disafforest1842 de-afforest1848 deforest1880 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 100 Fountaines without water, forrests grubd up and gladed, trees without fruit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1c1200n.2c1522v.1621 |
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