单词 | oestrum |
释义 | oestrumestrumn.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus oestrus1589 oestrum1656 1656 S. Holland Don Zara i. iii. 22 Defying the eagerness of those sanguine-coated Æstrums. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Œstrum, or Œstrus, the Gad-Bee. 1744 Z. Grey in Butler's Hudibras (new ed.) I. 143 Œstrum..signifies..a Gad-bee or Horse-Fly, that torments Cattle in the Summer, and makes them run about as if they were mad. 1778 Sketches for Tabernacle Frames 26 Madd'ning Mares, by Lust or Oestron stung. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 186 The conduct of the poor thunny under the scourge of the sea œstrum. 2. figurative. Something that incites, stings, or goads a person into activity; a vehement impulse, passion, or frenzy; = oestrus n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > [noun] > specific type of inspiration or exaltation > of poets and prophets fury1546 rage1563 furor1589 oestrum1663 ecstasy1670 enthusiasm1677 oestrus1816 estro1848 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetic rage fury1546 rage1563 furor1589 elocationa1620 oestrum1663 oestrus1816 estro1848 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 110 What Oestrum, what phrenetick mood Makes you thus lavish of your bloud? 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiv. 257 Love is the peculiar œstrum of the poet. 1806 H. H. Brackenridge Gaz. Publ. 315 What oestrum or phrenetic fury, So underhandedly could spur ye, To bastinado me, and break My body from the rump to the neck. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich iii. 11 Other times, stung by the œstrum of some swift-working conception. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. ix. 83 When..the real divine oestrum descends upon him. 1937 Science 19 Feb. 197/1 Heape was not using the well-naturalized English word oestrum, which in English signifies any form of recurrent excitement (e.g., the poetic frenzy). 3. Physiology and Zoology. = oestrus n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > mating > rut rutc1381 rutsonc1425 pride1483 shaleur1509 rutting1575 orgasm1754 heat1768 oestrum1773 oestruation1857 oestrus1890 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 173/1 The times, in which animals of different species feel the œstrum, by which they are stimulated to the propagation of their respective kinds. 1878 G. Fleming Text-bk. Vet. Obstetr. 55 The rutting, heat, œstrum, or venereal œstrum of animals is analogous to ‘menstruation’ in woman. 1900 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 44 6 The period of œstrus is referred to by various writers as ‘Brunst’, ‘rut’, ‘heat’, ‘season’, ‘brim’, or ‘œstrum’. 1939 Brit. Birds 32 251 The ‘false œstrum’ which temporarily affects so many birds during this period. 1963 K. V. F. Jubb & P. C. Kennedy Pathol. Domest. Animals I. i. 11/1 Oestrum may not occur, or be irregular. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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