| 单词 | nine ways |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnine ways (at once) b. nine ways (at once): asquint, askew; in all directions. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > oblique or askew at travers?a1400 to look nine ways1542 nine ways (at once)1542 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adverb] > squinting asquinta1398 squint1398 agoggle1510 nine ways (at once)1542 awkward?1589 squintingly1593 strabismally1893 1542 N. Udall tr. Homer in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 180v (note) Squyntyied he was, and looked nyne wayes. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cccxxvi, in Poems (1878) III. 218 Passion flyes Squinting, and, as wee say, Nine wayes at Thrice. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. 44 Of all the Eyes in the World he envies those that squint, because they can look nine ways at once. 1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. iii. ii. 26 Ay, I'll make her look nine ways at once before I have done with her, by Conscience. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote II. xxxv. 312 I see you bounce Your Head full butt against the Stones, And made 'em fly nine Ways at once. 1727 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day: 1722 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. iii. 157 First, nine Ways looking, let her stand With an old Poker in her Hand. 1847 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 520 An uncommon operation she performed upon the chairman of one of the committees,—that of making him look nine ways at once,—a compound strabismus of singular pathological interest we can barely allude to. 1993 H. Carruth Coll. Longer Poems 58 Cometh the child exploded running nine ways at once an egg dropped a cup spilled a universe erupting hell on wheels. < as lemmas |
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