| 单词 | in fine, good, high, etc, feather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin fine, good, high, etc., feather b. In figurative phrases. in fine, good, high, etc., feather: in good condition of health, spirits, etc. in full feather: see quots. Of the weather: high feather = brilliant condition. †a man of (the first) feather: one of (very) showy parts. to cut out of all feather: to take all ‘the shine’ out of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > smart person a man of (the first) feather1592 pink1602 smart1709 flasher1755 swell1786 dasher1807 smarty1847 city slicker1914 Roy1960 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > showily or fancily dressed > in specific way in full feather1834 Sundayfied1852 Sundayed1873 partified1928 power-dressed1984 the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > healthy wholeeOE isoundOE i-sundfulc1000 ferec1175 soundc1175 fish-wholea1225 forthlyc1230 steadfasta1300 wella1300 safec1300 tidya1325 halec1330 quartc1330 well-faringc1330 well-tempered1340 well-disposeda1398 wealyc1400 furnished1473 mighty?a1475 quartful?c1475 good1527 wholesomea1533 crank1548 healthful1550 healthy1552 hearty1552 healthsome1563 well-affected?1563 disposed1575 as sound as a bell1576 firm1577 well-conditioned1580 sound1605 unvaletudinary1650 all right1652 valid1652 as sound as a (alsoany) roach1655 fair-like1663 hoddy1664 wanton1674 stout?1697 trig1704 well-hained1722 sprack1747 caller1754 sane1755 finely1763 bobbish1780 cleverly1784 right1787 smart1788 fine1791 eucratic1795 nobbling1825 as right as a trivet1835 first rate1841 in fine, good, high, etc., feather1844 gay1855 sprackish1882 game ball1905 abled1946 well-toned1952 a hundred per cent1960 oke1960 the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > condition of fairness1574 brightness1656 fineness1721 high feather1878 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2 v You shall heare a Caualier of the first feather. 1668 J. Dryden Secret-love v. i. 52 A man of Garniture and Feather is above the dispensation of the Sword. 1781 G. Selwyn Let. in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1897) App. vi. 505 He [sc. C. J. Fox] is in high feather. 1834 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. 2nd Ser. I. 149 A lady in full feather approached the sentinel on the sward. 1842 H. Lawrence Let. 20 June in H. B. Edwardes & H. Merivale Life Sir H. Lawrence (1872) I. ix. 389 Havelock, in great feather, showed us round the fields of battle. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit liv. 615 Todgers's was in high feather. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour iii. xiii. 65 Our friend..was now in good feather; he had got a large price for his good-for-nothing horse. 1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie 476 No words can describe the serene effulgence of the Heartsease appearance, when in full feather, and high spirits. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxxii. 286 I'm in wonderful feather. 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 138 In full feather, rich. 1865 W. Scott in Reader No. 121. 452/3 She cut me out of all feather. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 327 Full feather, attired in best dress or uniform. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. i. 8 In summer days of highest feather. 1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal xxiv Never was Mr. Rigsby in finer feather than at Court Royal. 1886 Graphic 30 Jan. 130/2 Watty, by reason of his office [of butler], was of course always ‘in full feather’. < as lemmas |
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