单词 | mid-part |
释义 | > as lemmasmid-part mid-part n. and adv. (a) n. a middle part; †(b) adv. as far as the middle, halfway (obsolete). ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337 Myddys, or the myd part of a thynge, medium. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 8 Her lylye armes myd parte and more aboue the elbowes bare. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 388 Or ever the preiching was midpart done. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 214 In the umbelique or mid-part of this spatious Court is a quadrangular Tanck or Pond. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 128 Their mid-parts are circled with a Zone of vari-colored plad. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i, in Wks. (1882–92) XIII. 220 But to raw numbers, and unfinished verse, Sweet sound is added now, to make it terse: ‘'Tis tagged with rhyme, like Berecynthian Atys, The mid-part chimes with art, which never flat is’. 1957 J. C. Adams Outl. Fractures v. 96 There is pain during the mid-part of the range of abduction. 1990 T. Cunliffe Easy on Helm iii. 20 Camber is best checked by looking up at the mid-part of the sail. < as lemmas |
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