单词 | in prime of grease |
释义 | > as lemmasin prime (also pride) of grease b. Chiefly in Hunting. The fat of a boar, hare, hart, etc. in the time (also season) of grease: when the game is fat and fit to kill. in grease, in prime (also pride) of grease: fat and fit for killing; also transferred of a hawk or horse. deer of grease, goose of grease, hart of grease (see hart n. b), hen of grease, etc.: a fat deer, goose, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [adverb] in the time (also season) of greasec1330 in season1473 of (the) seasonc1613 the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [adjective] > proper for hunting pernablea1393 chaseable1393 in grease1607 in the time (also season) of grease1614 runnable1845 huntable1857 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 64 Whan Harald or þe kyng wild com þider eftsons In þe tyme of g [r] ese, to tak þam venysons. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 658 That nane werreye my wylde, botte Waynour hir seluene, And þat in þe sesone whene grees es assignyde. c1440 Ipomydon (1889) 3571 A noble dere off gresse. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 409 Capon & hen of hawt grees þus wold þey be dight. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.vv Capon or henne of grece. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxvii. 217 I have termed their fatte, greace, & so is it to be called of all beastes which praye. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 400 Foundering commeth when a horse is heated, being in his grease and very fat. 1614 S. Latham Falconry i. xii. 42 When shee [sc. your Hawke] is in the prime of her grease, the least heat shee can take is all too much. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 The fat of a Boare and Hare is termed Greace. c1650 Carle off Carlile (Percy) l. 64 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1868) III. 279 They gray hounds..drew downe the deere of grasse. 1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 42 Cram'd Capons, Pea-hens, Chickens in the grease. 1678 J. Ray Summary of Falconry v, in tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 409 There is a scurvy quality in some Hawks proceeding from pride of grease, or being high kept. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 188/1 Prime of his Grease [is] a term used to a Boar when he is full Fat. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hounds For entring the Hound at a Hart or Buck, let him [sc. the Hart or Buck] be in prime of Grease. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xii. 168 The roe..never being in what is called pride of grease, he is also never out of season. View more context for this quotation 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 509 The harts are ‘in grease’ from August to the middle of October. < as lemmas |
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