单词 | new-laid |
释义 | new-laidadj. Esp. of an egg: newly or freshly laid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [adjective] > fresh new-laid1528 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F j b Dyuers nouryshynge meates. The fyrst are newe layde egges. 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 101 Against the dropsie, take a new laid Eg. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. ii, in Wks. II. 117 Why should hee..hold your new-laid egge Against the fire, lest any charme be writ there? 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 39 Lovely Virgins..as white as new-lay'd Eggs. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 63 There's no Bolus to him comparable to a new-laid Egg. 1782 W. Cowper Fable 2 Her new-laid eggs she fondly pressed. 1833 C. B. Southey Tales of Factories 11 He raised his head..And turning, stampt down hard the new-laid sod. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xii. 100 Tumbled volumes of cloud..shredded away again and left the purple peak..downy and white with new-laid snow. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 576 This drop forms the whole embryo, and in the new-laid egg it has already divided into a disk of cells. 1987 S. Weintraub Victoria (1988) i. 19 The simplest gift reported was two new-laid eggs sent for the Queen's breakfast by an Irish farm woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1528 |
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