单词 | hawking |
释义 | hawkingn.1 The sport or practice of chasing birds or small animals by means of trained hawks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [noun] riverc1300 hawkingc1374 falconry1818 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1779. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 120 Theyr fader was a hawkyng vppon the ryver. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xii. 35 Desyryng me to ryde with hym an hawkynge. ?a1600 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Cambr.) l. 279 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 222 Quhar-throw of halkinge ande of huntinge Haboundanly thar hade þe kynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 42 Dost thou loue hawking ? View more context for this quotation 1660 H. Adis Fannaticks Mite 7 He runs not to Hawkings nor Huntings. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 126 Hunting and hawking were common and favourite diversions of the Arabs. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. Relating to or used in hawking, as hawking-bag, hawking costume, hawking-gauntlet, hawking-glove, hawking language, hawking-pole, hawking-pouch, hawking spaniel. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Falconiera, a faulkners bagge, a hauking pouch. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xx. 16 The Falkoners take their Hawking-poles in hand. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 185 His Tongue is not acquainted with the hawking Dialect. 1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. ii. 73 I can seclude Æolus and his sons in a Hawking-bag. 1676 London Gaz. No. 1124/4 A large well made Hawking-Spaniel. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 21 A hawking gauntlet on his left hand, though he carried no bird. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. ix. i. 255 Behrám took advantage of Akber's absence on a hawking party. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. i. 8 The Chelsea lady in hawking costume. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Hawkingn.2 Physics. attributive. Designating or relating to the process by which particle–antiparticle pairs form spontaneously in the vicinity of a black hole, usually recombining but sometimes with one of the particles being absorbed by the black hole while the other is radiated away, causing the hole to lose mass over time. Chiefly in Hawking radiation. ΚΠ 1976 Physical Rev. D. 13 2170/1 The sum over all modes of the star will..produce the Hawking radiation with its thermal characteristics. 1983 Sci. Amer. Dec. 111/1 Because the quantity of radiation emitted by an object depends on its temperature, the Hawking radiation from an astrophysical black hole is utterly negligible. 1990 J. Gribbin & M. Rees Cosmic Coincidences (1991) vii. 189 Like a black hole evaporating away its mass through the Hawking process, but much more rapidly, a loop of vibrating cosmic string will lose energy and shrink away. 1994 P. Davies Last Three Minutes vii. 87 The Hawking effect would be strongest for microscopic black holes. 2001 Nature 25 Oct. 778/1 He states that black holes are definitely not black because they give off Hawking radiation—this despite the fact that Hawking radiation has not yet been observed in an astronomical object. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hawkingadj.1 That hawks; addicted to the sport of hawking. In Shakespeare 1601, ‘hawk-like, keen’ (Schmidt). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconer > [adjective] hawking1600 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxii. M6v Me thinkes a drunken Cobler, and a meere hawking Gentleman ranke equally. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 93 His arched browes, his hawking eie. View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 770 His sarcastic remarks on the hunting, hawking boors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020). > as lemmasˈhawking ˈhawking n.2 and adj.2 ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > itinerant selling pedlary1531 hawking1542 bogginga1555 peddling1591 pedlarism1699 pedlaring1839 doorstepping1909 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 §3 No..couerlet-makers..shall..vse the said craft of haukynge, or go as haukers. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hawking, going about Town and Country, with Scotch-Cloth, &c. or Newspapers. 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body v. i. 62 Those little Hawking Females that traverse the Park, and the Play-house to put off their damag'd Ware. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. vi. 45 I call it hawking and peddling, that going round the country with your goods on your back. It aint trade. hawking hawking n.3 and adj.3 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > sputum > coughing or spitting up reachingeOE retching1542 hawking1582 expectoration1615 expectorating1662 expectorating1832 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > clearing throat rokinga1398 hemming1470 retching1542 reach?1578 hawking1582 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [adjective] > coughing > clearing throat hawking1831 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiijv In suche hauking wise..[as if] hee were throtled with the chincoughe. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iii. 10 Shal we clap into't roundly, without hauking, or spitting, or saying we are hoarse. View more context for this quotation 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 149 A gawky..bilious, hawking Frenchman. 1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata xx. 307 The violent hawking of a man clearing his throat. < n.1c1374n.21976adj.11600 as lemmas |
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