单词 | lullaby |
释义 | lullabyv. a. transitive. To soothe with a lullaby; to sing to sleep. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] > by singing singa1500 lullaby1593 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > put to or cause to sleep > induce or lull to sleep > by singing byss1440 singa1500 lullaby1593 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > lull by singing singa1500 lullaby1593 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 194 No man could..lullaby the circumspectest Argus more sweetly. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 59 Sweet Sound that all mens sences lullabieth. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 19 It..lullabees the senses, yea, intoxicates the..soule, with a pleasing poyson. 1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 268 In Holland..he was..pourtrayed lying in his cradle lullaby'd and rock'd asleep by the Spaniard. 1818 W. Hazlitt Polit. Ess. (1819) 340 When we see a poor creature like Ferdinand VII..lullabied to rest with the dreams of superstition [etc.]. 1890 J. Middlemass Two False Moves III. xiv. 210 Ruth..kissed and lullabyed her to sleep. 1893 A. Austin Conversion of Winckelmann (1897) 157 Then I..lullaby my pain with plaintive song. b. absol. or intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > sing to sleep lullaby1603 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing other music organOE chantc1425 madrigal1593 lullaby1603 paeanize1629 holler1852 threne1890 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xix. 31 No song of birds, no musikes sound Can lullabie to sleepe profound. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 101 Waves..beautifully humming and lullabying on that fine long sandy beach. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lullabyint.n. 1. a. int. A soothing refrain, used to please or pacify infants. Also gen., any soothing refrain. (Sometimes preceded by lulla.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > lulling refrain [interjection] lullac1450 lullaby?1577 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [interjection] > soothing refrain lullac1450 lullaby?1577 ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 245 When my maistrisse lay in & we sange lulley by baby & bore ye. 1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. D The good wife learned to sing lullaby at home with her yong babe. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 29 Whiles hounds and hornes, and sweete mellodious birds Be vnto vs as is a Nurces song Of Lullabie, to bring her Babe a sleepe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 15 Sing in our sweete Lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby, Neuer harme, nor spell, nor charme, Come our louely lady nigh. So good night, with lullaby. View more context for this quotation 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 300 King James conquering all enmity, spake Peace abroad and sang Lullaby at home. 1739 A. Nicol Poems 14 Where once, of late the Nurse's Lull-a-ba Made all the Place delightful to the Eyes Now all's dispersed. 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 112 And, hollow blasts, which never cease to sigh, Hum to each care-struck mind their lulla-lulla-by! 1807 Salmagundi 27 June 252 She with ‘lulla-by-baby’ beguiles it [a child] to rest. 1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 162 Lullaby, oh, lullaby! The brat will never shut an eye. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell > at night lullaby1599 night-night1866 nighty-nighty1876 nighty-night1888 night1912 1599 W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. C4 Then lullaby the learned man hath got the Lady gay, For now my song is ended. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 41 Marry sir, lullaby to your bountie till I come agen. View more context for this quotation 2. a. n. A song sung to children to soothe them to rest. Also, any song which soothes to rest. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > lullaby cradle-song1398 lulling1398 lullaby1592 balow1619 dormitory1656 berceuse1876 1592 R. Greene Pandosto (new ed.) sig. Bivv Alas sweete infortunate babe,…Shalt thou haue the whistling winds for thy Lullabie. 1779 Burney in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 60 206 In Italy the ninne nonne, or lullabies, are fragments of elegant melodies. 1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni 24 You thought you heard the lullaby which a fairy might sing to some fretful changeling. 1900 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 247 The feeling of quietness evoked by an evening landscape or by a lullaby. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] fickling?c1225 flattering?c1225 oluhningc1225 glozec1290 glozing1297 losengery1303 blandishingc1305 blandingc1315 flatteryc1320 glotheringc1325 soothinga1400 honey word?1406 faginga1425 flatrisec1440 smekingc1440 blandishc1475 blandiment?1510 glavering1545 coggingc1555 good1563 milksop1577 court holy water1583 glavery1583 blandishment1591 lipsalve1591 court holy bread1592 flatter1593 colloguing1596 sooth1597 daub?1602 blandation1605 lullaby1611 court-water1616 butter1618 blandiloquy1623 oil1645 court-element1649 courtshipment1649 courtship1655 blandiloquence1656 court-creama1657 daubing1656 fleecha1700 Spanish money1699 cajole1719 whiting1721 palaver1733 butter boat1747 flummery1749 treacle1771 Spanish coin1785 blancmange1790 blarney1796 soft corn1814 whillywha1816 carney1818 buttering up1819 soft soap1821 flam1825 slaver1825 soft solder1836 soothing syrup1839 soft-soaping1840 plámás1853 sawder1854 soap1854 salve1859 taffy1878 plámásing1897 flannel1927 smarm1937 flannelling1945 sweet talk1945 schmear1950 smarming1950 1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 10 Hee that would please the time must learne to sing lullaby to Folly, and there is no musicke so delightfull as the smoothing vp of sinne. 1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 11 Rockt asleepe in desperate securitie, with a lullabie of peace and safety, hee derides all happie admonition. 1679 Vindic. Sir T. Player 2/2 The rest of his Sheet consists of Wheadle and Lullabies. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 124 Would not this warm language of high indignation have more of sound reason in it..than all the lullabies of flatterers? 1819 S. Rogers Human Life 7 The bees have hummed their noon-tide lullaby. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as lullaby-song, lullaby-sound, lullaby-speech, lullaby-strain. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > specific disorders or faults tongue-tiedness1598 plateasm1656 tongue-tying1762 paraphonia1772 lullaby-speech1822 cleft palate1847 paralalia1848 logoneurosis1857 zetacism1860 alogia1864 lallation1864 lambdacism1864 semi-mute1864 heterophemy1875 agrammatism1877 bradyphrasia1877 heterophasia1877 logopathy1877 paragraphia1877 paralexia1877 paraphasia1877 paraphrasia1877 verbigeration1877 recurring utterance1878 word blindness1878 word deafness1878 scanning1887 sigmatism1888 idioglossia1891 staccato utterance1898 word salad1904 palilalia1908 paragrammatism1924 idiolalia1930 dysprosody1947 Broca's aphasia1959 1687 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii Lullaby, a Lullaby-Song. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music i. 63 That these lullaby strains should be exclusively adhered to. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 501 The Greeks, from the letter λ (lambda), denominated this lamdacismus; the Romans with more severity, lallatio, or lullaby-speech. a1849 E. A. Poe Annie in Poet. Wks. (1859) 118 Water that flows With a lullaby sound. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 158 Still-life lullaby poetry. C2. lullaby-cheat n. Cant a baby. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] childOE baban?c1225 fauntekin1377 infant1382 babea1393 fauntelet1393 babyc1400 lakinc1440 mop1440 chrisomer1574 tenderling1587 chrisom1596 childling1648 flosculet1648 bratling1652 lullaby-cheat1665 strangera1674 child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675 hoppet1695 tot1725 bambino1761 weanie1786 tiny1797 dot1800 trudgeon1814 toddle1825 toddles1828 yearnling1829 dab1833 toddler1837 baba1841 arrival1846 teeny-tiny1849 toddlekins1852 mite1853 trot1854 babelet1856 nestler1866 spoon-child1868 bubby1885 chavvy1886 bub1889 kiddy1889 toddleskin1890 newborn1893 kidlet1899 kidling1899 bubba1906 bundle of joy1924 liddly1929 mammet1932 snork1941 kiddywink1957 sproglet1987 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. C3v His Doxy..carried at her back a Lullaby cheat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1593int.n.?1577 |
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