单词 | quaining |
释义 | † quainingn.2 Obsolete. G. M. Hopkins' name for: angularity. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] angularity1642 angulosity1659 angulization1665 angularness1670 angulationa1687 edginess1822 quaining1871 1871 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 205 And if you look well at big pack-clouds overhead you will soon find a strong large quaining and squaring in them which makes each pack impressive and whole. 1871 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 206 Below it [sc. the bud]..is a half-moon-shaped sill as if once chipped from the wood and this gives the twig its quaining in the outline. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > as lemmasquaining ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12495 Quen iesus herd þis quaining gret. < n.21871 as lemmas |
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