单词 | bask |
释义 | baskn. rare. a. A ‘bath’ or suffusion of genial warmth. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > suffusion of genial warmth bask1790 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > warmth or moderate heat > genial geniality1782 bask1790 1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life I. 239 However, that bask of sunshine did not last. 1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 308 Pike..when on the bask, or in sunning humour, distribute themselves along the margin..of floating weeds. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xxxvi. 654 A perfect bask of sunshine lying over it. b. figurative. The ‘sunshine’ or ‘warmth’ (of favour, popularity, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > condition or atmosphere of sunshine1584 bask1762 sunlight1864 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. Pref. p. ix Milton and Fontaine did not write in the bask of court-favour. 1779 H. Walpole Let. 16 Sept. (1904) 26 Lord Temple..had grown up in the bask of Lord Chatham's glory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † baskadj. Obsolete or dialect. Bitter, acrid, ungrateful or irritating to the senses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > bitter baskc1175 to do amerec1400 fell?c1425 gallyc1530 rhubarba1586 bitterish1605 acrimonious1617 acrid1633 rodent1633 absinthiana1635 gallish1648 acroamare1657 absinthiala1857 absinthine1862 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6698 Itt iss full bitterr. & full beȝȝsc. ?c1300 MS. Cott. Faust. B. vi. f. 123 b The froite..is soure And baiske and bittere of odoure. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) III. 42 Pride and covetise..ben bask or bittir synnes. a1550 Clapperton Wa Worth Maryage Of boure-bourding baith bask and bair. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) ‘A bask day,’ a day distinguished by drought with a withering wind (Dumfriesshire). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). baskv.ΘΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (intransitive)] bathec1200 washa1382 dipa1387 bask1393 swelter1595 laver1607 dap1886 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 290 The child lay bathend in her blood..And for the blood was hote and warme He basketh him about therinne. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. xxxvii Seynge his brother baskynge in his bloud. 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Aiiv Basked and baththed in their wylde burblyng..blode. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 444/1 I baske, I bathe in water or any lycour, Je baigne (Lydgate). 2. transitive. To expose to a flood of warmth, to suffuse with genial warmth. (Cf. bathe v. 4a.) Chiefly reflexive; = 3. ΘΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to genial warmth beekc1230 baska1616 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (reflexive)] > to genial warmth beekc1230 summer1568 baska1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 15 A foole, Who laid him downe, and bask'd him in the Sun. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 The Lubbar Fend..Basks at the fire his hairy strength. 1678 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (ed. 2) i. i. 3 To go..and bask himself on the sunny side of the Globe. 1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 157 Other Birds bask themselves in the Dust. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 542 The Seer..Basks on the breezy shore..His oozy limbs. 3. a. intransitive. To expose oneself to, or disport oneself in, an ambient flood of genial warmth, as in the sunshine, the rays of a fire; to lie enjoying the heat which radiates upon one. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > be comfortable or easy [verb (intransitive)] > expose oneself to genial warmth summer1568 bask1694 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > bask in genial warmth beekc1400 summer1568 toast1614 bask1694 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 33 Where basking in the Sun-shine they may lye. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 198 Antenor..Lean'd on the Walls, and bask'd before the Sun. 1819 S. Rogers Human Life 8 Basking in the chimney's ample blaze. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. iv. 76 The swarthy children basked naked in the sun. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 109 A large pike was basking over the weeds. b. figurative of the ‘sunshine’ of love, favour, prosperity. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > be happy [verb (intransitive)] fleet1598 bask1647 1647 A. Cowley Change in Mistress i Love in her Sunny eyes does basking play. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 27 Basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 420 Traitors basking in the smiles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1762adj.c1175v.1393 |
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