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单词 lewth
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lewthn.

/luːθ/
Forms: Also 1500s lothe.
Etymology: Old English hléowþ , hlýwð , < hléow lew adj.1: see -th suffix1.
Now dialect.
a. Warmth.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > warmth or moderate heat
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c1000 Hexam. St. Basil xx. (1849) 28 Ðonne him cælð he cepð him hlywðe.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 336/31 Apricitas, hleowð.
1825 J. Britton Beauties Wilts. III. 375 Lewth, warmth.
b. Shelter (cf. house-lewth n.).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter
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hele?1527
burrow1577
shelter1595
lown1603
umbrage1607
shield1615
lew1908
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 144 To neste bæron, heora briddum to hleowþe.
1554 Surv. Malling Church in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1869) 21 180 Cattell & swyne come daylye in to the churche, in the somer for hette, and now for lothe.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xv. 311 With the sun or against the sun, uphill or downhill, in wind or in lewth.
1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 204 In the lewth of a codlin-tree.
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