单词 | keb |
释义 | kebn.1 local. A ewe that has lost her lamb, or whose lamb is still-born. Also keb-ewe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > whose lamb is lost or dead keb1470 1470–73 in Rec. Andover 20 Recd pro viij ovibus ecclie vocat[is] Kebbys viijs. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Baytht ȝouis and lammis kebbis and dailis. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 431 b Full of sicknesse, and like an olde kebbe full of wrinckles. 1822 W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farming 60 Of lambs, the superabundance of twins has far exceeded the loss by kebbs. 1824 Gallovid. Encycl. Keb-Ewes. Compounds keb-house n. (see quot. 1886). ΚΠ 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 118 Such a shed..is termed a keb-house,—a ‘keb’ being a ewe that has lost her lamb, and the house the place where she may be confined while being made to adopt another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † kebn.2 Obsolete. A cavalier; = Cab n.1 ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause > supporter of rattle-head1641 cavalier1642 delinquent1642 long head1642 malignant1642 Cab1644 cavy1645 kebc1645 rattlepate1646 cave1661 heroic1682 c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 45 Ye whole body charging, the Kebs were put to a second retreat. 1664 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 118 Hee would banish both the informer and all his like, kebbs as they were. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † kebv.1 Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To boast, brag. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- c1315 Shoreham 96 Wanne he aldey swereth ydelleche, In kebbynge and in caute. c1315 Shoreham 111 Ȝef that kebbede eny of ous, Ich woȝt wel that he leȝ. c1315 Shoreham 111 Wyth kebbynges aperte. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2018). kebv.2 dialect. intransitive. Of a ewe: a. To cast a lamb prematurely, or dead. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [verb (intransitive)] > to conceive or give birth > give birth prematurely keb1816 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 41 The witch who frequented these hill.., causing the ewes to keb. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Keb, to drop a dead lamb. b. to keb at, to refuse to suckle (a lamb). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > refuse to suckle lamb to keb at?1771 ?1771 Whole Proc. Jocky & Maggy v. 28 She wad keb at it as the black ew did at the white ews lamb. Derivatives kebbed adj. /kɛbd/ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of or like a lamb > that died at birth kebbed1824 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of a ewe > giving birth > having produced lamb(s) > that died at birth kebbed1824 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 181 A kebbed ewe is one whose lamb dies. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words When a lamb dies in birth it is called a kebbed lamb and the mother a kebbed yow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.11470n.2c1645v.1c1315v.2?1771 |
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