单词 | marc |
释义 | marcn. 1. The refuse remaining after the extraction of juice, etc., from fruit or other plant material; spec. that resulting from the pressing of grapes. Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > mass of grape-skins or refuse marc1601 pressing1607 mother of grapes1611 murk1675 grape-cake1830 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. i. 147 As many as have lien among wine-Marc. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 530 The marre [1634 mare] or refuse of grapes after they be pressed. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) viii. 56 The Lees, or Marc of the Pressing [oil from walnuts] is excellent to fatten Hogs with. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xlv The Marc or remainder of the Sugar Canes after the juice is squeezed out. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 138 Marc of Olives after they are press'd. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 293 Bruise six gallons of either fruit; press out the juice; on the marc pour seven gallons of water. 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 45 The marc, or pressed cake, which still retains some tannin, is made to yield it. 1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 10/2 The juice and the refuse (‘marc’) are fermented. 1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô i Little dogs fattened on olive-marc. 1960 Times Rev. Industry June 84/2 Flowers [of pyrethrum] are..gristed [and] the remaining grist, known after treatment as ‘marc’, is..sold as cattle food. 1990 Decanter Mar. 60/3 It is important for the macerating must to have as much contact with the ‘marc’ as possible, but..one should avoid moving the marc around too much, as it gives the wine a herby taste. 2. A spirit distilled from the marc of grapes; a drink of this. Also in marc brandy, marc de Bourgogne. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > types of brandy Nants1653 French brandy1655 snapdragon1676 Cognac brandy1687 guildive1698 aguardiente1752 cognac1755 Armagnac1797 Jew brandy1817 pisco1825 Cape smoke1846 marc1848 fine champagne1864 burnt brandy1880 dop1889 grape-brandy1892 grappa1893 beno1903 V.S.O.P.1907 jackass brandy1909 fine1923 Napoleon brandy1930 Remy Martin1932 framboise1933 mampoer1934 witblits1934 Metaxa1938 Soberano1963 Napoleon1968 1848 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 2) 436 The fusel-oil of marc-brandy of the south of France. 1934 O. Sitwell Let. 15 Aug. in M. B. Lowndes Diaries & Lett. (1971) 126 We settled them with a glass each of the strongest Marc-de-Bourgoyne. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xvi. 252 Ramon and Alban sat inside, drinking marc. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xvi. 253 Ramon ordered three more marcs. 1956 J. Baldwin Giovanni's Room ii. 44 I ordered black coffee and a cognac, a large one. Giovanni was far from me, drinking marc. 1993 Enroute (Air Canada) Feb. 56/2 The best way to toast the end of this culinary odyssey is with a digestif—perhaps the very French Marc de Bourgogne. 1994 Church Times 25 Nov. 18/2 I..had difficulty finding pear-flavoured eau-de-vie;..you could use marc or grappa..instead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasMARC MARC n. Brit. /mɑːk/ , U.S. /mɑrk/ Library Science machine-readable cataloguing, a standard format for the encoding and representation of bibliographic information in machine-readable form.ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > book list > [adjective] > machine-readable cataloguing format MARC1965 society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > action of listing or cataloguing books > machine-readable cataloguing format MARC1965 1965 Proc. 2nd Conf. Machine-Readable Catal. Copy (U.S. Libr. Congress) 23 The eventual expansion of MARC and its importance for foreign-area acquisitions and bibliographic control programs. 1968 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Aug. 198/2 The single objective of the MARC Project is to supply to any library catalogue data for current books in magnetic tape form so that the receiving library is not only relieved of the necessity of cataloguing and classification but can also reformat the data to suit its own purposes. 1987 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Aug. (Vacancies Suppl.) p. ccxxx/1 Experience of AACR2 and UK MARC are essential. 1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing. 6 4/2 The MARC formatting could..facilitate the eventual uploading of the database from our office IBM PCXT to a mainframe library catalogue. < n.1601 as lemmas |
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