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单词 new-yeaned
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new-yeanedadj.

Brit. /ˌnjuːˈjiːnd/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uˈjind/
Forms: 1500s–1600s new yeand, 1600s new-yeand, 1600s–1700s new-yean'd, 1800s new-yeaned.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adv., yeaned adj. at yean v. Derivatives
Etymology: < new adv. + yeaned adj. at yean v. Derivatives.
Now rare.
Of a lamb or goat kid: newly born or dropped. Also occasionally in extended use.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of or like a lamb > newly-born
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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 85v The bleating of a new yeand Lambe.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 290 Their bodies..Of new-yeand Lambs haue full the forme and guise.
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Bucolics vii. 17 Phyllis..might at home Shut up my new-yean'd Lambs.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. i. 136 The poor Squire was almost out of breath, and now and then drank deep draughts of salt water, which he puked up agen; (Simile of a new yeand Babe.)
a1689 A. Behn Land of Love (1717) 46 Of mournful Birds, the sad and tuneful Notes, The Bleats of struggling Lambs, and new-yean'd Goats.
a1711 T. Ken Sion i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 322 The new-yean'd Lambs he'll in his Bosom lay.
a1764 R. Dodsley Agric. in Trifles (1777) II. 146 Let Michael's feast Commemorate the deed; lest the cold hand Of Winter pinch too hard the new-yean'd lamb.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xi. 263 Some little new-yeaned lambs.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iii. 78 Yet from your chamber window you could hear The tiny bleat of new-yeaned lambs.
1900 T. W. H. Crosland Clerk of Weather in Pleasant Odes iv Sunshine beneath which Old and young may disport themselves Merrily and as new-yeaned lambs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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