单词 | ingrain |
释义 | † ingrainn.1 Obsolete. A quarter of a chaldron of coal given in for every five chaldrons purchased. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > discount > [noun] > goods ingrain1730 premium1928 1730 Act 3 Geo. II c. 26 §10 By ancient Custom in the Port of London, one Chaldron of Coals is allowed in to every Score brought on board Ship..which is called Ingrain; notwithstanding which many Persons dealing in Coals do load the same from on board Ship bare Measure without the aforesaid Ingrain. 1765 London Chron. 16 May 470 The action was for not delivering to the buyers the ingrain of two fives, as metered from on board ship, but took three sacks out of each five. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). ingrainadj.n.2 A. adj. 1. a. Dyed in grain; dyed with fast colours before manufacture; dyed in the fibre; thoroughly dyed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > fast dyed in grainc1386 grained1455 engrained1598 fast1658 standing1716 ingrain1766 fixed1791 fast-dyed1815 colourfast1851 wash-fast1963 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 428 4 pink ingrain calimancoes. 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 44 1 yd. Ingrain marking cotton, No. 100. b. Applied (chiefly in U.S.) to carpets of the Kidderminster type, in which the pattern goes through and through and appears on both sides, as distinguished from those (such as Axminster or Brussels) in which it appears on the upper surface only. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet ingrain1836 thick-piled1853 Yarkand1880 Tekke1900 washed1911 Transylvanian1915 Herati1931 Lotto1931 Seljuk1931 shag pile1946 tufted1960 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 314/1 Kidderminster..carpets, or, as the Americans more descriptively term them, in-grain carpets. 1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston III. 285 Bute had bought a brownish ingrain carpet. 1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 132 I urge you not to wait till I can exchange this ingrain drugget for a Turkey carpet. 1899 Correspt. Ingrain carpets are generally of inferior quality; but they can be made of very high qualities. 2. a. Of qualities, dispositions, habits, etc.: Inborn, inherent, firmly fixed, inveterate, ingrained. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > innate or natural i-cundeeOE fleshly971 kindlyOE kindc1175 naturalc1275 kindc1390 innatea1420 nativea1425 inborn1513 innative1513 habitual1526 ingenerate1531 instincta1538 innated1545 inset1545 of one's nativity1582 inbreda1592 connatural1599 prognatec1600 ingenious1601 ingenit1604 congenite1610 connativea1618 intuitive1621 infusive1630 habituous1633 veined1633 genial1646 connatea1652 relollacean1654 relollaceous1657 relolleous1662 congenial1664 complanted1668 ingrown1670 ingenerated1677 unborrowed1704 cogenite1712 born1741 naturable1771 unacquired1793 congenerous1813 congenital1848 ingrain1852 indigenousa1864 ingenital1886 wired-in1957 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > inveterate (of habits or attitudes) rootedc1400 infested1536 settled1556 inveterate1563 radicated1631 entrenched1642 radicate1656 ingrained1821 engrained1843 ingrain1852 chronic1861 infibred1879 serial1947 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xix. 191 His old court pride..was ingrain, bred in the bone. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xiv. 135 Too old for changing of ingrain, long-nurtured habits. 1888 T. W. Higginson Women & Men 307 The shy graces of character must be something that is ingrain and permanent. 1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip i. 19 A proof of the ingrain humanity of his soul. b. Thorough, out-and-out, to the backbone. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of a person or his character utterc1420 complete1526 entirea1533 throughout1532 in grain?1577 consummate1603 essential1604 perfecta1616 thorough1625 thorough-paceda1628 thoroughbred1701 throughgoing1830 through and through1831 thorough-souled1842 ingrained1851 ingrain1865 1865 Daily Tel. 29 May The most perfect type of the ingrain, hardened criminal. B. n.2 1. a. ‘A name given to yarns, wools, etc., dyed with fast colours before manufacture’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). Categories » b. (U.S.) = ingrain carpet: see A. 1b (Funk 1893.) 2. That which is ingrain or inherent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > something intrinsic or inherent inherent1610 inexistency1768 ingrain1899 1899 J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul vi. 49 The natives of the Australian North-West were a fine race physically, and, he judged, had an ingrain of Malay blood. 1918 P. T. Forsyth This Life & Next v. 55 It is the holy as what might be called the ingrain, the tissue, the physiognomy of eternal love. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > see alsoalso refers to : engrainingrainv.1 < n.11730adj.n.21766 see also |
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