单词 | lightfoot |
释义 | lightfootn.adj. A. n. In later use poetic. A hare; (also) a deer.With reference to the speed or agility of these animals; see also etymology and cf. sense B. 1.Often used as a name or form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) harea700 wimountc1280 wood-catc1280 babbart?a1300 ballart?a1300 bigge?a1300 goibert?a1300 grasshopper?a1300 lightfoot?a1300 long-ear?a1300 make-fare?a1300 pintail?a1300 pollart?a1300 purblind?a1300 roulekere?a1300 scot?a1300 scotewine?a1300 side-looker?a1300 sitter?a1300 westlooker?a1300 wort-cropper?a1300 break-forwardc1300 broom-catc1300 swikebertc1300 cawel-herta1325 deuberta1325 deudinga1325 fern-sittera1325 fitelfoota1325 foldsittera1325 furze cata1325 scutardea1325 skikarta1325 stobherta1325 straw deera1325 turpina1325 skulker1387 chavarta1400 soillarta1400 waldeneiea1400 scutc1440 coward1486 wata1500 bawtiec1536 puss1575 watkin1585 malkin1706 pussy1715 bawd1785 lion1825 dew-hopper- the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] deera1131 venison1338 wild fee?a1500 lightfoot?1640 cervine1832 cervid1889 nubbin1978 ?a1300 Names Hare (Digby 86) in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (1935) 6 350 (MED) Þe hare..Þe liȝtt-fot, þe fernsittere. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxviii. 1220 The hare hatte lepus, as it were leuipes ‘light foot’, for he renneth swiftliche. ?1640 Pleasant Ballad Miller of Mansfield & King Henry II (new ed.) i. Wife (quoth the Miller) fetch me forth light-foot, That we of his sweetnesse a little may taste, A faire Venison pasty then brought she forth presently. 1659 J. Gamble Ayres & Dial. 67 No need of Dog to fetch our stray, our Lightfoot we may give away. 1815 Sporting Mag. 45 169 If light-foot elude the snare, not less than half a dozen of Chanticleer's family can compensate for the disappointment. 1903 B. Carman Poems II. 11 Tawny light-foot, sleepy bruin, Bright-eyes in the orchard ruin. 1993 B. Cox Mesa Verde in Coll. Poems 12 I watch you, lightfoot, downtrail through pinyon pine. B. adj. poetic. 1. Treading lightly; swift, fleet, nimble; = light-footed adj.Particularly common in the 16th and 17th centuries.Sometimes used spec. as an epithet for a deer; cf. sense A. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > light-footed lightOE light-footeda1425 lightfoot1440 feather-footed1565 tripping1567 nimble-footed1592 soft-foot1598 light-heeled1600 soft-footed1603 soft-footed1607 nimble-heeled1656 quick-foot1658 feather-heeleda1674 tickle-heeled1740 nimble-stepping1832 tripsome1846 twinkle-toed1960 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 304 Lyghte foote [a1500 King's Cambr. liht fotyd], levipes. 1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia ii. i. sig. D.iijv Light foote deere, for lyfe that fling amaine In tangling gins entrapt, that safely holde. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. June 26 And lightfoote Nymphes can chace the lingring night. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 371 Some light foote friend, post to the Duke of Norff. View more context for this quotation 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xxxvi. 100 The victor spurr'd againe his light-foot stead. 1649 T. Wincoll Plantagenets Tragicall Story 8 The rich caparison'd courser dreads no foes, But chaseth Foxes, or the lightfoot Does. 1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso III. xxiv. 174 Through the deep covert of the tangled wood The nimble goat or light-foot deer pursu'd. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 122 Light-foot Iris. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad liv. 83 By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid. 1912 M. J. Cawein Poet, Fool & Faeries 134 The light-foot maiden, with her eyes so vision-laden. 1993 C. Revard Eagle Nation 87 Sewed it tight with sinews taken From lightfoot deer who leaped this stream. 2. figurative. Passing or moving quickly or lightly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective] > passing rapidly from place to place runninga1382 lightfoot1591 1591 Honorable Entertainem. Queenes Maiestie at Eluetham sig. B3v Lightfoote Howrs, the guardians of heau'ns gate. 1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies sig. D4v Howres, chac'd with light foot minutes, end. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Prelude in Songs before Sunrise 185 By rose-hung river and light-foot rill. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts II. iii. x. 275 The lightfoot hours dance by. 1962 S. Kunitz After last Dynasty in Poetry 101 62 Thanks to your lightfoot genius no Eighth Route Army kept its lines more fluid. 1986 A. D. Melville tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (1998) 16 But she Flies swifter than the lightfoot wind nor stops To hear him calling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : light-footv. < n.adj.?a1300 see also |
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