单词 | outsteal |
释义 | outstealv.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a person or slip away from aglya1250 outsteala1325 glide?1510 slip1513 betrumpa1522 to give (one) the slip1567 to get by ——1601 outslip1616 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1653 elude1667 to tip (a person) the picks1673 bilk1679 to tip (a person) the pikes1688 to give one the drop1709 jouk1812 double1819 sneak1819 shirk1837 duck1896 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] > move off or away > from outsteala1325 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2882 Qvað pharaun [to Moses], ‘ðu art min ðral Ðat hidel-like min lond vt-stal’. 1672 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 197 She..charg'd him not to goe but he out-stole her, and went. 1877 R. Browning tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon 56 Either some one outstole us or outprayed us—Some god—no man it was the tiller touching. 2. intransitive. To emerge slowly or tentatively; to slip away furtively. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] > move off or away steal1154 atslip?c1225 atcreepc1275 to steal one's wayc1385 glide1393 atslikec1400 fleetc1400 flinch1563 outsteala1586 leer1586 shift1594 shab1699 slive1707 ghost1833 to oil out1945 a1586 King Hart 825 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 280 Strenth is away, outstolling lyk ane theif. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare 38 His snorting giuing the signe that he was cock-sure, softly out-steales sir Paris, and to Helenaes teeth prooued himselfe a true Troian. 1843 T. Westwood Holly Tree in Beads from Rosary 104 Jests, from ruby lips outstealing. 1849 J. Kenyon Day at Tivoli 119 Or—if some tale of grief betide—As ready tear; which, while outstealing, She—shyly still—attempts to hide. 1882 P. H. Hayne Christ on Earth in Poems 324 Wild birds above him passed on reverent wing, And savage sovereigns of dark dune or den, Out stole to greet Him with mild murmuring. 1925 T. Hardy Human Shows 42 The houses stood confronting us afar, A livid line against the evening glare; The small lamps livened; then out-stole a star. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1325 |
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