单词 | louping |
释义 | loupingn. The action of loup v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] leapingc1000 loupingc1440 loping1483 springing?1530 vaulting1531 saltion1541 jumping1565 exultation1599 bounding1607 exilition1646 saltation1646 salture1656 saliency1664 salitiona1682 upleaping1867 jumpery1882 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 316/1 Lowpynge or skyppynge, saltus. 1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 265 Aye houping, throwe louping, to win to libertie. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. ix. 193 Louping and laughing..would soon make the powder flee out of his wig. Compounds louping ague n. ‘a disease resembling St. Vitus's dance’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 496 A singular kind of distemper, called the louping ague, has sometimes made its appearance in this parish. louping ill n. ‘a disease of sheep, which causes them to spring up and down when moving forward’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ix*, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 200 The louping-ill's been sairer amang his sheep than ony season before. 1902 Dundee Advertiser 31 May Professor Hamilton..has..discovered the bacilli of loupin'-ill in sheep. louping-on stone n. a mounting-block. ΚΠ 1728 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxvi. 400 A petition given in by George Grant..To ye baillies and Councill..for ye liberty of building a louping on ston at the south side of the house in Newburgh he possesses. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vi. 113 He had..by the assistance of a ‘louping-on-stane’,..elevated his person to the back of..a broken-down blood-horse. View more context for this quotation 1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road I. 263 Mile~stones..resembling ‘louping on’ stones or ‘upping blocks’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1440 |
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