| 单词 | glassy calm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasglassy calm 3. Of water, etc.: (a) lustrous and transparent as glass; (b) having a surface like glass, smooth, unruffled. Hence also glassy calm, glassy quiet. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > not rough stillOE plainc1330 smoothc1374 demure1377 calmc1440 softa1450 glassy1535 sleek1603 eddyless1621 oily smooth1803 waveless1804 foamless1821 undimpled1821 rippleless1832 the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > lustrous or transparent like glass glassy1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rev. xv. 2 And I sawe as it were a glassye see [1382 Wyclif a glasen see, 1611 a sea of glasse], mingled with fyre. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D3v Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassie streames. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 619 The cleer Hyaline, the Glassie Sea. View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Truth 259 His conscience, like a glassy lake before, Lashed into foaming waves, begins to roar. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxi. 63 Pointing to the glassy water, which, as it rose and fell, reflected the golden glow of the sky. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xix. 267 Stilled into a glassy calm. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 24 All the weary way From outer ocean unto glassy quiet here. < as lemmas |
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