单词 | muzzled |
释义 | muzzledadj.1 1. Having a muzzle of a particular shape, colour, etc. Chiefly as the second element in compounds. ΚΠ a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 (MED) Then ther com..scroude mosselde cattus. c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 421 (MED) Fox—smale moseled, pryke eryd, and fayr sterede. 1716 C. Johnson Cobler of Preston i. 21 How? are you giving your Advice again, Sirrah? Zounds! you smutty muzzled Dung-Broker! 1843 W. M. Thackeray Men's Wives in Fraser's Mag. 27 355/1 Her little yowling black-muzzled darling of a Fido. 1876 J. Greenwood Low-life Deeps 267 A den where congregate grim-muzzled ruffians. 1887 W. Kirby Canadian Idyls 17 He..saw..a gun wheeled in the gate, Black muzzled, pointed on the crowded green. 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 209 A blunt-muzzled beast that sat upon its haunches. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio ii. xiii. 194 I first saw his big, square-jowled, short-muzzled head peering out between some low cornel bushes. 1988 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts (1992) 294 A brown-muzzled black bear clasps chokecherry bushes and eats off them thirty yards away from me. 2. a. Fitted with or wearing a muzzle.In Heraldry (with postmodifying adjective): depicted with a muzzle of a specified tincture. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > muzzled or bridled muzzled1530 bronked1580 1530 in Ancestor (1904) Oct. 182 A beyres hede sable mouseled geules. a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 4 3 beares' heads erased arg: musled or. 1561 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 502 Sche..suld beir..azur thre beirheidis siluir mussalit sable..as in heir vnder depaintit. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 249 And then our Armes, like to a muzled Beare, Saue in aspect, hath all offence seal'd vp. View more context for this quotation 1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 39 Led by the Nostril, walks the muzled Bear. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 118 Morville bears the Fretty fleurs-de-lis..Brito, three bears' heads muzzled; Fitzurse, three bears passant, in allusion to his name. 1862 G. Moore Man & Motives xiv. 278 Our employment will amount to no more than..slaving on in greater degradation than a muzzled ox under the sharp stimulus of the goad. 1897 K. Coleman To London for Jubilee 93 Big war-dogs were out, muzzled and innocuous, for a holiday. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 12 (caption) A bear sejant erect sable muzzled gules. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 10 May 16/1 Yelping, muzzled, hyperactive Afghan hounds are to be seen chasing an electric hare. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective] > restricted in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 immurate1593 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 throttled1677 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited > in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 They would faine be at something were like the Masse that will not bite; a muzzled Religion. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. iii. 20) Those misled and muzled souls. 1664 T. Killigrew 2nd Pt. Thomaso v. i, in Comedies & Trag. 444 Such tame Dons, such muzled Knights that dare onely be furious when women displease you, and yet let these wandring strangers put Bits in your mouths. 1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 455 Now thou has got thy Daddy's chair, Nae hand-cuff'd, mizl'd, haff-shackl'd Regent, But, like himsel', a full free agent. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village i. 39 Safe beneath the muzzled mouths Of yon twin parapets, whose weighty tubes Menace the deep below. 1993 This Mag. Aug. 15/1 The connection between industry-linked Southam directors and muzzled reporters is not a direct one. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > muffled or wrapped muzzled1581 bemuffled1582 mobled1603 wrapped1793 1581 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 38 Certain ‘musselled men’. 1582 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 495 Certane uther musalit men on horsback, in weirlike maner, with pistolettis. 1588 T. Churchyard Sparke of Frendship sig. C3v The musled faces couered with counterfaite good maners. 1616 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 383 The said Williame Scott being than mussellit. 1635 Lieut. Hammond Relation Surv. W. Counties in Camden Misc. (1936) XVI. iii. 42 At his feet [sc. in a tomb] is the Bugle mussled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † muzzledadj.2 Obsolete. rare. Speckled, brindled, dappled, variegated. Cf. muzzle adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > speckling > speckled > speckled with white or grey muzzled1630 muzzle1691 1630 Tincker of Turvey 3 His blacke Lockes dangling downe, Curld, and Knotty, muzzeld beard. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. ii. iv. 154 The beauty of the horse provoked the boy's admiration: it was a dark muzzled brown, of that fine old-fashioned breed of English roadster, which is now so seldom seen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1a1475adj.21630 |
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