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单词 gristle
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gristlen.

/ˈɡrɪs(ə)l/
Forms: Old English– gristle, Middle English grystil, gristyll, ( grusle), Middle English gristil, Middle English grystyl(le, 1500s gristel, gristell(e, gristill, grystell, gressell, 1500s–1700s grissel(l, (1600s crissel, cristle, grisle, 1700s grissle). β. Middle English northern girstelle, Scottish1500s girssill, 1700s girsle.
Etymology: Old English gristle = Old Frisian gristel, gristl, grestel, gerstel, East Frisian grössel, grüssel, Middle Low German gristel, Middle High German gruschel; cognate with Old English grost gristle (Leiden glosses); synonymous forms of similar sound are Old High German c(h)rustula, -ila, crostila, -ela, -illa; chrustilîn, crustili (Middle High German krostel, krossel, krosel, krustel; also kruspel, krospel). The mutual relation of these forms, and the etymology, are obscure.
1.
a. A tough flexible tissue, of a whitish colour, in vertebrate animals; = cartilage n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > [noun] > as substance
gristlea700
ground-sopec725
crushelc1440
cartilage?1541
a700 Epinal Gloss. 174 Cartilaga,..næsgristlae.
a800 Erfurt Gloss. 350 Cartilago, naesgristle.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 158/22 Cartilago, gristle.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 414/1 Gartilago, gristle.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lix. 175 Grystyll is tendernes of the bones and is callyd cartilago in latyn.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 213/2 Grystylle of the nose, cartilago.
1483 Cath. Angl. 157/1 A Girstelle, cartilago.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiii The hawe is a sorance in a horse eye, and is lyke a grystell.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxli. 126 The Eares are nothing else but gristill and skinne.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 943 Very thin bones and gristle bound or vnited by Synchondrosis.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 21 The soft spinal Gristle of his Back, He turns and winds.
1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 47 Leaves egg-spear-shaped..serratures like gristle.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. viii. 126 The ends of the bones which work against each other, are tipped with gristle.
1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. i. 42 Another tissue of which cells form the principal part, is that termed cartilage or gristle.
b. figurative with reference to the gristly nature of the bones in infancy. in the gristle: in an initiatory, unformed, or embryonic stage of existence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage
embryon1581
in (the) embryon1607
in embryo1631
in the bud1677
in the gristle1775
1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 14 A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
1865 Morning Star 22 May As yet, of course, this business is in the gristle.
1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 46 Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that ‘the United States was a giant without bones’. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
2.
a. A structure or formation consisting of such tissue; a gristly part; = cartilage n. 1b (Now rare in plural.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > [noun]
gristlea1240
gristle-bone1398
cartilage?1541
a1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Tadden and froggen þe freoteð ham ut te ehnen ant te nease gristles.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbysw. in Wright Voc. 145 Un tendroun, a gristel.
a1400 Coer de L. 2144 The emperour of evil trusle Carved off his nose by the grusle.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 23 A gristil is cold & drie, & is neischere þan a boon.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlii. 140 Ye grystell of his nose as grete as the mossell of an oxe.
1574 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 87 Gif thay happin tobe convicted, To be adiugeit tobe..burnt throw the girssill of the rycht eare wt ane het Irne.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 13 b/2 The synnues, Tendones, and Cartilages or grissells.
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. Gv Is this a pawe..To holde a tender hand in?.. Looke I pray, His armes are gristles.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxv. 152 The bones and crissels of the Nose.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xii. 126 Take six Pounds of good Pork, free from Skin and Gristles and Fat.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 11 To..fill our colons With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xii. 285 We would slit it [sc. the nose] up to the gristle.
b. In various transferred senses: (see quots.). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > nut > [noun] > kernel
nut kerneleOE
kernelc1000
gristle?1537
kern1570
nucleus1704
nut-meat1860
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > kernel
nut kerneleOE
gristle?1537
kern1570
almond1675
nut-meat1860
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [noun] > gum (resin) > specific
myrrheOE
balsamc1000
galbanec1000
draganta1300
sandragon1334
gum arabica1350
storaxa1382
galbanum1382
asafœtidaa1398
cinnabara1398
guttaa1398
frankincensea1400
labdanuma1400
opopanaxa1400
gum-arabicc1400
sarcocolc1400
ammoniacc1420
gristle?1537
ladanum1551
dragon's blood1555
benzoin1558
styrax1558
tragacanth1558
gum tragacanth1562
amber1565
anime1577
laser1578
benjamin1580
sarcocolla1584
bdellium1585
sagapenum1597
liquidambar1598
red gum1614
gamboge1615
laudanum1616
gum ammoniac1627
male incense1647
sandarac1655
flesh-glue1659
adragant1696
dammar1698
sagapen1712
gum-dragon1718
courbaril1753
gum-senegal1760
Jew's frankincense1760
guggul1813
angico1821
gum-kino1830
butea gum1832
piney varnish1832
Kuteera gum1838
acaroid1839
bumbo1839
thus1842
gum-juniper1844
piney dammar1846
acacine1855
mochras1856
talha1857
copalm balsam1858
gum benjamin1859
wattle-gum1863
Senegal gum1867
Suakin1874
Barbary gum1875
oliva1882
ledon1885
jatoba1890
mimosa gum1890
xylan1894
gum accroides1909
karaya1916
?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe ii. xiii. f. 32 The kernelles and gristell, whiche are in the rootes, if they be welle dygested, they make good nouryshement.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxv. 308 The best Ammoniacum..pure and without shardes, splinters, or stonie gristels or gravell.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. cxiv. 307 Galbanum is also a gumme or liquor..and the best is gristel, or betwixt hard and soft.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/1 The Gristle of the Walnut is that as lies between the two halves of the kernel, within the shell.
1786 R. Burns Poems 202 To conclude my lang epistle, As my auld pen's worn to the grissle.
c. Scottish. The nose.
ΚΠ
1790 A. Wilson Poems 209 Whyles a glass to heet my gab, An' snuff to smart my girsle.
3. figurative. A tender or delicate person. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.j Ah sir, be good to hir, she is but a gristle, Ah sweete lambe and coney.
1591 J. Lyly Endimion v. ii. sig. Iv Samias We will helpe you to find a young Ladie[.] Tophas I loue no grissels... I desire olde Matrons.
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. D I am a grissell, and these Spider fingers, Will neuer hold a Sword.
a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd v. ii. sig. G6v, in Five New Playes (1653) Alas y'are but a grissell, Weake picking meat.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as †gristle-ring.
ΚΠ
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 148 In þe fore partie of þe brest þere is sett þe canne of þe lungis, þe which is compounned of gristil ryngis bounde togidere wiþ pannicleris ligamentis.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 11/1 Four other eighty thousands not yet reached manhood and womanhood, or gone beyond the gristle stage.
C2.
gristle-bone n. Obsolete = sense 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > [noun]
gristlea1240
gristle-bone1398
cartilage?1541
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xii. 116 Whan the voys of thayer smyte to the grystil-boon, there it is gretly holpe.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106/1 Cruschylbone, or grystylbone, cartilago.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. T iij b While the poyson..gropes her gristlebones, and venim droppes her sences drinkes.
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