单词 | lough |
释义 | † loughn.1 Obsolete. a. A lake, pool. In Middle English alliterative poetry sometimes used for: Water, sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] mereeOE laya1000 lakec1275 poolc1275 watera1325 loughc1330 loch1427 broad1659 Mediterranean1661 Mediterrane1694 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1423 Þe grete Lough of Rusticiadan. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10197 In þat louh ar sexti iles. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 119 Alle þe loȝe lemed of lyȝt. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxi. 95 In þat ile also es a deed see; and it es in maner of a lowgh... Beside þat logh growez redez of a wonderfull lenth. c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Taylor) 31 He ladde þat lady so longe by that loghe sydus. c1420 Anturs of Arth. 83 Thare come a lowe one the loughe..In the lyknes of Lucyfere. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 49 Divers Springes cummeth owt of Borodale, and so make a great Lowgh that we cawle a Poole; and ther yn be iii. Isles. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 65 Nymphea..ii sorts..grow both in meres loughes lakes and in still or standyng waters. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 173 About Turwan in Fraunce..you shall finde in Loughes and Rayne waters..great abundance of Fishe. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. x. 12 Haerlam Mere, a huge Inland Lough. 1725 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. II. i. 121 There is a little Lake or Lough of Water in the Middle of it [sc. Litchfield]. [In ed. 7 (1769) II. 416 this passage is altered as follows: There is a kind of slow, sluggish Lough, or Water, which runs, or rather glides heavily through it, and so on for four or five Miles farther into the Trent.] 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Lough, a lake. b. Scottish./lux/ = loch n.1 ? Obsolete.Cf. the Scottish form louch (14–16th centuries) under loch n.1; also the plural lowis (16th centuries). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea fleetc893 pillOE arm of the seaOE sounda1300 lougha1387 bracec1400 lough1423 firthc1425 loch1427 resort1477 estuarya1552 inshot1555 mere1574 portlet1577 fret1587 frith1600 sea-gate1605 creek1625 sea-lochc1645 wick1664 fjord1674 voea1688 backwater1867 strait gulf1867 ocean-arm1871 ria1887 fjard1904 geo1934 α. β. 1423 Reg. Great S. 31/1 Fredome to fysche in al our lowis about Louchmabane.c1480 (a1400) St. George l. 49 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 177 In þa[t] low lurkit þat tyme a serpent fel,..& of þe low, as hym thocht gude, wald cum fore to get his fude.1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 153 Swannys swouchis throw owt the rysp and redis Our al thir lowys.1539 in Rec. Peebles (1872) 57 Woddis, lowis, fischingis [etc.].1550 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894) I. 8 The violent eictioun [sic] of the said Stevyn furtht of..the Loichtwod, lowis thairof and fisching thairin.1786 R. Burns Poems 57 Wi' you, mysel, I gat a fright Ayont the lough [rhyme sough]. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 149 When to the loughs the Curlers flock. Compounds attributive: lough-diver n. (also plough-plover) names for the female smew. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) > female or young lough-diver1678 weasel-coot1804 weasel-duck1885 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 338 The Female is described by Gesner under the title of Mergus glacialis, which Mr. Johnson Englisheth the Lough-diver. 1829 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 11 A lough diver, or female smew. lough-leech n. = loch leech n. at loch n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of (leech) leecha900 water leechc1350 bloodsuckera1387 lough-leech1562 loch leech1579 sanguisuge1585 censur1597 leech-worm1794 hirudinean1835 sangsuea1849 snail-leech1865 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 31 Horsleches or lougheleches. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. ccii. 305 Loughleaches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021). loughn.2 Anglo-Irish. A lake or arm of the sea; equivalent to the Scottish loch n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea fleetc893 pillOE arm of the seaOE sounda1300 lougha1387 bracec1400 lough1423 firthc1425 loch1427 resort1477 estuarya1552 inshot1555 mere1574 portlet1577 fret1587 frith1600 sea-gate1605 creek1625 sea-lochc1645 wick1664 fjord1674 voea1688 backwater1867 strait gulf1867 ocean-arm1871 ria1887 fjard1904 geo1934 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 349 He wolde sende hir hym to þe Lowe Lacheryn. 1512 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 395 The fishers of the logh bringe to the market thre dais in the wicke. 1567 in E. P. Shirley Hist. Monaghan 88 (note) That fortification..is in ‘sartin ffreshwater loghes’ in his country. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. xliv. 10 Whom Ireland sent from loughes and forrests hore. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2540/2 Several Ships arrived that day in the Lough of Carrickfergus. 1708 Brit. Apollo 20–22 Oct. There is a Lough in the North of Ireland, call'd Neugh. 1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden-party 230 On the other side of the lough..lay the green hills. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 580/1 Down in Mayo I had ridden out..to fish for white trout in a little lough that lies at the foot of Nephin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † loughn.3 Obsolete. = loch n.2 Also attributive in lough-water n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] dalea800 piteOE dike847 hollowc897 hole946 seathc950 delfOE hollc1050 ditchc1275 lakec1320 holetc1380 slacka1500 dell1531 vault1535 pit-hole1583 delve1590 lough1672 sinusa1676 gap1696 self-lough1700 scoop1780 cup1819 1672 J. Flamsteed Let. 23 July in Corr. (1995) I. 172 Lough-water... Tis found in the midst of a firme stone in the lead-mine. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Eiij With this..we Chissel the Ore out of Loughs in Pipe Works. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † loughv. Obsolete. transitive. To stack (turf). ΚΠ a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) 11 Then drying and loughing those turfs into burrows, and so burning them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1c1330n.2a1387n.31672v.a1640 |
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