单词 | parching |
释义 | parchingn. The action of parch v. (in various senses); an instance of this; (also) the condition of being parched. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field parchinga1398 tedding1481 making?1523 winning1844 fielding1848 windrowing1970 the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > action or condition of parching parchingness1727 parch1870 parching1898 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > parching quality > fact of being parched parching1898 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 242v Of pepir is þre maner kynde..som is blak and ryueled wiþoute wiþ parchyng and rostyng of þe hete of þe fuyre. c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 29 (MED) Tak hauyr & parche it wele in a panne, & strenkill it wele in þe parchynge with water. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 90 A burning or parching. Ambustio. 1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 137 The field Pease..are onely for boyling and making of leape Pease, or parching. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 288 They have several methods of preparing the maize; one is by parching. 1785 J. Byng Diary 2 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 206 Wettings by rain are preferable to parchings by sun. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 4/1 Convalescents or cures of Alpine parching..apostrophize tenderly their ‘beloved Davos’. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 11 A severe cold in the chest, with deep-seated rawness, soreness and parching. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 230 Parching made the chaff more brittle and easy to shed. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. vii. 72/1 By roasting and parching..inedible or indigestible foods could be made palatable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parchingadj. 1. That parches; drying to excess; scorching. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > drying > parching parching1562 1562 T. Norton Confitemini Domino in Whole Bk. Psalmes v. 266 To shroude them fro the parching heat A cloude he did display: And fire he sent to geue them lyght, when night had hid the day. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Acer Sol acer, parchyng hoate. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 56 Whilest I..to Sunnes parching heat display'd my cheekes. View more context for this quotation 1686 J. Hillier Let. Dec. in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) (1697) 19 694 We had a dry North, and North-Easterly Wind, call'd an Hermitan..it was parching, but rather colder than ordinary. 1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (1721) II. 206 Having of water at hand..especially in dry parching Times. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Dungeon in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 139 Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up By ignorance and parching poverty. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxi. 163 Then will this parching thirst be quenched at last. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 80 That dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xi. 272 She was awakened by a sense of a parching and suffocating heat. 1992 M. Bishop Count Geiger's Blues lxvii. 356 His lungs swelled and ached, and his genitals shriveled—it seemed to Xavier—like scuppernong clusters under a parching southern sun. 2. Becoming excessively dry and hot; extremely thirsty, parched. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > becoming excessively dry and hot searing1665 parching1697 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injuriously > parching parching1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 121 The slow creeping Evil..Consumes the parching Limbs. View more context for this quotation 1820 J. Keats Ode on Grecian Urn in Lamia & Other Poems 115 A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. 1844 T. Hood Captain's Cow in Hood's Own Mar. 308 The parching seamen stood about, Each with his tongue a-lolling out, And panting like a dog. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lvi. 607 That treacherous fruit that promises refreshment to parching lips, but turns to ashes at the touch. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 403 Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are..parching. Derivatives ˈparchingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adverb] > in a parching or parched manner parchfully1582 parchedly1598 parchingly1847 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adverb] > in a parched or parching manner parchfully1582 parchingly1847 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Parchingly, scorchingly. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ci. 497 Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading. 2000 Pensacola (Florida) News Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Oct. 4 a Lackluster crops..are just the most visible reminder of the parchingly hot and dry weather that plagued the Panhandle this year. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > action or condition of parching parchingness1727 parch1870 parching1898 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [noun] > exposure to injurious heat or fire > parching quality parchingness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Parchingness, burning &c. Quality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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