| 单词 | powder of post |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder of post ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > worthless or quack empiric?a1425 empirical1656 powder of post1662 powder-post1790 snake oil1831 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 367 The pouder of mirre or burnt silke, fealt, or cloath, or anie olde post.] 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. v. xlii, in Playes Written 454 1 Maid. But Cordial Powders are made of Pearl, Amber, Corall, and the like. 2 Maid. 'Faith a little powder of posts serves as well: for they cannot be distinguish'd by their taste. 1769 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 258 Beware of swallowing ounce after ounce of indigestible powder, though it were powder of post. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 59 One of the powder-of-posts which the Pharmacopœia..is full of. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spar-dust, powder of post; dust produced in wood by the depredation of boring insects. 1869 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature 107 A borer, of similar habits, is not uncommon in Italy, and you may see in that country, handsome chairs and other furniture which have been reduced by this insect to a framework of powder of post, covered, and apparently held together, by nothing but the varnish. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。