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单词 mildew
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mildewn.

Brit. /ˈmɪldjuː/, /ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/
Forms: Old English meledeaw, Old English mildeaw, Middle English mildeu, Middle English–1500s myldew, Middle English–1500s myldewe, Middle English–1600s meldewe, Middle English–1700s (1900s– English regional (Herefordshire)) meldew, Middle English– mildew, 1500s mildeawe, 1500s milldewe, 1500s myldeawe, 1500s–1600s mildewe, 1600s mieldew, 1600s–1700s milldew, 1700s mealy-dew.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Saxon milidou (Middle Low German mēldouw , mēldouwe ), Old High German militou (Middle High German miltou , German regional (Bavaria) Miltau , German Meltau honeydew, Mehltau mildew), probably < the Germanic base of Gothic miliþ honey (see mell n.2) + the Germanic base of dew n.If the assumption is correct that the first element of the word is cognate with Gothic miliþ , the word probably originally denoted the sweet, sticky substance on plants caused by greenfly, subsequently coming to be used more widely of other substances that coat the leaves of diseased plants; application to the white, powdery leaf-coating caused by certain fungal infestations may have led in continental Germanic languages to reanalysis of the first element as showing the reflex of the Germanic base of meal n.1 (the two forms being distinguished in modern German as Meltau honeydew and Mehltau mildew). Dutch meeldauw (1778), Swedish mjöldagg (1731), Danish meldugg , Norwegian mjøldogg , (Bokmål) meldogg are later formations after German Mehltau or Middle Low German mēldouw, mēldouwe. English forms with -e- perhaps show sporadic interchange of e and i before l plus consonant, although the isolated Old English form meledeaw is difficult to explain. (In Old English both forms, meledeaw and mildeaw , occur once only.) In form mealy-dew after mealy adj.; in form mieldew in quot. 1658 at sense 1 probably after French miel honey. French mildiou (1881; 1874 as mildew) is a late borrowing of the English word.
1. = honeydew n. 1, 2. Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar
mildeweOE
honeydew1533
nectar1555
honeysuckle1607
honeysuck1608
nectar flood1610
nectar fountain1611
honey-rore1632
honey1733
the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > nectar or honey-dew
honeyeOE
nectar1609
mildew1658
stroke1742
bee-wine1818
aphis-sugar1842
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > substance excreted
honeydew1526
spittle of the stars1577
mildew1658
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 326 Nectar, hunig vel mildeaw.
OE Phoenix 260 No he foddor þigeð,..nemne meledeawes dæl gebyrge, se dreoseð oft æt middre nihte.
a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 269 (MED) Swetter is munegunge of þe þen mildeu o muðe.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 53v Ther is another kind of swete dewes, that falleth in England called the meldewes, which is as sweet as hony.
1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. T She..with sweete Mel-dewes doth anoint her face.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. lxi. 31 While on the Christian Lords Downe fell the mildew of his sugred words.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 The Honny of Bees is longer kept pure and fine, then any Manna or Meldew.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 908 A kinde of heavenly Ambrosia falls down upon the leaves of plants (which they call honey dew, but I rather mieldew).
1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 273 Mildew, a certain Dew, falling in the moneths of June and July, which being of a viscous nature, much impedes the growth or maturation of Wheat, Hops, &c.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 198 It..is more subject..to lodge the Honey-dews, or what some call Mill-dews.
2.
a. As a mass noun: a growth (typically a whitish and fluffy coating) of fungal mycelium and fructifications on the surface of a plant; plant disease characterized by this type of growth; a similar growth on paper, cloth, leather, etc., esp. after exposure to damp. As a count noun: an attack of such disease; a specific disease of this type; a fungus (esp. an ascomycete of the order Erysiphales or an oomycete of the family Peronosporaceae) that causes such a disease. Frequently with distinguishing word.corn-, downy, hop-, powdery, vine-mildew, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > mould or mildew
fenOE
mildew1340
moulda1400
moul1440
vinny1538
hoar1548
mouldingc1610
vinegar-plant1797
moulder1817
mucor1818
vinegar mother1839
leaf rust1859
wood-mould1869
Isaria1874
grease mould1882
brown mould1883
pourriture noble1911
fumagine1913
1340 Inquisitiones Nonarum (Record Comm.) 334b Maxima pars frumenti in parochie seminati distruebatur..hoc anno..per quendam rorem qui vocatur mildew.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 6 Seuen eeres burgound in o stalk, full & feyr, & oþer as feel eerez, þynn & smyten with myldew [v.r. meldew; L. uredine] wern growen.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337/2 Myldew, uredo.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiiiv They [sc. pasture-sheep] syldome rote but with myldewes.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iii. f. 39 Iudocus doth defende the corne, from myldeawes and from blast.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings viii. 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence,..mildew . View more context for this quotation
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 246 If the place be subject to the annoyances of Smutting, Meldews, Birds, &c.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 234 Field Lands are not exempted from Milldews.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry II. 411 The rust of corn, the honey-dew, the mealy-dew.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 The common orange-red mildew of the Berberry is Æcidium Berberides.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 225 Damp started on the walls... Mildew and mould began to lurk in closets.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany x. 153 Damp and moss and mildew are not such deadly enemies to art as the chisel of the modern stonemason.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 293/2 The mildews of damp linen and of paper are saprophytes.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 136/4 The latter method, while it may kill aphids and some mildew, will do little to prevent the dreaded black spot.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 263 Shirlan is also much used for protecting cotton against mildew attack.
1992 Atlantic Dec. 141/1 Madeira had just recovered from two blights—oidium, a mildew that struck in 1852, and phyloxera, a louse that wiped out most European vineyards.
b. figurative.
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1640 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 9 Nov. 7 [It] hath fallen againe upon the Land..in Hailstones and Milldews, to batter and prostrate..our liberties, to blast..our affections.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 290 Neither the blasts of arbitrary power could break them off, nor the mildew of servile opinion cause them to wither.
1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 138 Something of the mildew of time is stealing over the Waverley Novels.
1960 D. Lodge Picturegoers (1991) (BNC) 114 He had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it—when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
mildew-blast n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1637 J. Milton Comus 22 Of soveraine use 'Gainst all inchantments, mildew blast, or damp.
mildew-drop n.
ΚΠ
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xviii. 97 The mildew drops fell one by one, With tinkling plash, upon the stone.
mildew-plant n.
ΚΠ
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 209/2 Every precaution should be taken to prevent the spores of the mildew-plants from being communicated to the soil.
1857 Littell's Living Age 27 Dec. 809/2 Gardeners become more intimately acquainted with..the structure of the plants which constitute their crops, and with the mildew plants which ravage them.
b.
mildew-resistant adj.
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1977 Kitchens & Bathrooms (Time Life Bks.) i. 27/1 (caption) Use a caulking gun..to grout between sheets of pregrouted tile with mildew-resistant silicone seal.
1991 Southern Living May 107/2 (advt.) Seasonite provides a mildew-resistant coating that also helps reduce splitting, swelling, cupping and warping.
C2.
mildew-gangrene n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-mortification n.
ΚΠ
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mildew Mildew gangrene, gangrene produced by diseased grain, such as Gangrenous ergotism.
mildew-grass n. Obsolete grass affected with mildew.
ΚΠ
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiiiv Myldewe grasse is nat gode for shepe.
mildew-mortification n. Obsolete rare gangrenous ergotism; cf. mildew-gangrene n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of
fever sore1731
white gangrene1753
hospital ulcer1799
hospital gangrene1813
mildew-mortification1817
caseation1868
phosphorus necrosis1869
gaseous gangrene1882
coagulation necrosis1883
phossy jaw1889
phos1892
gas gangrene1896
1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 274 Necrosis ustilaginea. Sauv. Ergot F. Mildew-Mortification.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mildewv.

Brit. /ˈmɪldjuː/, /ˈmɪldʒuː/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌd(j)u/
Forms: 1600s melldew, 1600s– mildew, 1700s milldew.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mildew n.
Etymology: < mildew n., perhaps after earlier mildewed adj.
1.
a. transitive. To affect or taint with mildew.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > make corrupt or putrid [verb (transitive)] > make musty or mouldy
moul?c1430
mildew1552
vinny?1608
mould1635
must1707
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > make mouldy or musty > taint with mildew
mildew1552
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylle dewed, rubiginosus.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 107 Hee..mildewes the white wheate. View more context for this quotation
1689 A. Behn Hist. Nun 92 His Crops of Wheat and Barly, and other Grain, tho' manag'd by able and knowing Husbandmen, were all, either Mildew'd, or Blasted, or some Misfortune still arriv'd to him.
1747 B. Franklin Let. 16 July in Wks. (1887) II. 76 A great deal of hay has been lost, and some corn mildewed.
1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 161 Bleak winds descend, and drizzly Autumn weeps, Mildewing the harvest as the ears unfold.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 541 The Licensing Act..detains valuable packages of books at the Custom House till the pages are mildewed.
a1867 D. M. Dolben in Poems (1911) 75 The greening fields of my delightsome land, Mildewing every tender bud to blight.
1981 H. Carpenter W. H. Auden (1983) i. iv. 64 He kept on his mantlepiece a decaying orange, thoroughly mildewed on the side that faced the wall.
b. transitive. figurative or in figurative context.
ΚΠ
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies i. 4 Whole Summer nights long hee lyes on his backe, as if hee were melldew'd or Planet-strucke, gazing on the starrie gallerie.
1807 J. Montgomery Molehill 72 Tyrants, the comets of their kind, Whose withering influence..smote and mildew'd man.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. i. 47 Nor are the members of the Institute, with all their learning, recluses mildewed in the dust of folios.
1937 V. Woolf Diary 29 Aug. (1984) V. 110 Why does any showing off mildew everything?
1955 E. Bowen World of Love i. 18 Blight had cut short her early beauty, apathy mildewed what might have remained.
1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 110/1 Alfredo Garcia has flies buzzing on the sound track, hit men in flared pants, Warren Oates mildewing the screen like a problem stain.
2.
a. intransitive. To become tainted with mildew.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > become corrupt or putrid [verb (intransitive)] > become musty or mouldy
vinnyOE
moul?c1225
mould1530
must1530
foisty1572
hoar1573
musty1631
mildew1651
to grow whiskers1977
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty > become mildewed
mildew1651
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 18 Rank Land, where Corne is apt to lodge, and consequently to Mildew.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xiii. 482 Authors sometimes detain proofs so long, that the paper allotted for those sheets will mildew.
1860 Amer. Agriculturist 19 363/3 A few of the leaves on one vine became a little rusty, thus showing a slight tendency to mildew.
1982 Observer 5 Sept. 7/3 It's sad, like coming upon an intricately worked trade union banner,..its colours now fading, its edges ragged and its folds beginning to mildew.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Nov. 17/1 The hardback is now out of print, vanished entirely off the planet, except for the 100 remaindered copies mildewing in my basement.
b. intransitive. figurative.
ΚΠ
1855 C. Dickens Out of Town in Househ. Words 29 Sept. 193/2 The last man..sitting on a post in a ragged red waistcoat, eating straw, and mildewing away.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 71 These old pheasant-lords,..Who had mildew'd in their thousands, doing nothing.
1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn xv. 239 Bad year or not, it's better than mildewing on the coast.
1978 Church Times 10 Feb. 12 The thing which principally prevents me from gently mildewing in this place is the lively response of you, the readers.

Derivatives

mildewer n. Obsolete rare
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1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 389 The man..is a noted mildewer on the profits of the noblest verse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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