| 单词 | beltane day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBeltane day 1. Scottish. The first of May, May Day. In early use also designating the day of the church festival closest to May Day, the Invention of the Cross (3 May). Also more fully Beltane day.Occasionally denoting each of the two dates of 1 May and 8 May, perhaps for the purpose of marking the beginning and end of the first week of May; cf. quots. 1685, 1927.From 1753 sometimes reckoned in the Old Style; cf. quot. 1793 at sense 3, and Old May-day at old adj. 11d. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1424 Acts Jas. 1 (1597) §19 And the nest be funden in the Trees at Beltane the trees sall be foirfaulted to the King. 1484 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 134/2 Vmfra sall deliuer & pay to the said Johne ix tidy ky..at beltan nixt tocum. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvii. ii. f. 245/1 On beltane day in the ȝeir nixt followyng callit the Inuentioun of the haly croce. a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 176 At beltane quhen ilk bodie bownis To peblis to the play. 1615 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 195 Aucht dayis befoir beltane last. 1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered xvii. 127 It is likewise a sort of Charm, which many Witches have prescrived namely to cut the Rouan-Tree between the two Beltan days. 1716 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. (ed. 2) 240 In the Highlands, the first day of May is still called La Baaltine—corruptly Beltan-day. a1733 Shetland Acts in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1892) 26 App. 6 That none fish with haddock lines within voes, from Belton to Martinmas, or so long as they can draw haddocks on hand lines. a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 107 Then haste thee round, blithsome beltan, For thou art my bridal day! 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 8 A gowk at Yule'll no be bright at Beltane. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood vi. 110 There's anither Beltane on the aught day of May, and till that's by we maun walk eidently. 1970 E. J. Marsh Inshore Craft Great Brit. I. ii. 39 The ‘haaf’, or deep-sea fishing, generally began about ‘Beltane’ Day, 1 May. 1980 A. Blair Rowan on Ridge 8 Leave it be till next Beltane's by. 2000 S. Blackhall Singing Bird 9 Mem'ries..O April sunlicht drappin gowd on Cluny's scentit trees; Blindrift's doonfa, saft Beltane's thaw, ower Tullich's rigs o green. < as lemmas |
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