| 单词 | horn lantern |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorn lantern C2. attributive passing into adj. Made of horn, as horn bow, horn cup, horn lantern, horn ring, horn spoon, horn ware; formed naturally of horn, as horn foot, horn sheath. Hence parasynthetic compounds, as horn-footed, horn-handled, horn-sheathed adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [adjective] hoofed1513 horn-footed1611 hoofya1674 hoof-footed1721 ungulated1822 ungulate1839 hoplopodous1854 subungulate1889 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > having feet of horn horn-feet?1596 horn-footed1611 horn-foot1627 c1440 York Myst. xvi. 124 An horne spone. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 50 Wear it not in deed that horns be so plenty, hornware I beleue woold be more set by than it iz. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Corne-pied, hoofed, horne-footed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 600 Not a Ribbon..Shooe-tye, Bracelet, Horne-Ring. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour ii. i. 15 The frighted Satyrs..their horn-feet ply. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 357 They draw their Bows with the Thumb armed with an Horn Ring. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. ii. 16 The horn cup, which the host set down beside the tankard. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ix. 176 The porrich..must be eaten with a horn spoon. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 31 Horn-handed breakers of the glebe. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 276 This edentulous and horn-sheathed condition of the jaws. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 251 Horn Chalices were forbidden. 1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber (1883) 201 If it is a horn lantern you've got. 1885 J. S. Stallybrass tr. V. Hehn Wanderings Plants & Animals 408 Horn-bows were used as well as those of yew. 1885 Ld. Tennyson Tiresias 10 Tramp of the hornfooted horse. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 590 A blunt hornhandled ordinary knife with nothing particularly Roman or antique about it. 1925 W. de la Mare Connoisseur (1926) 51 His horn-handled and gold-mounted umbrella. < as lemmas |
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