单词 | rhine |
释义 | Rhinen.1 Wine made from grapes growing in the Rhine valley.In modern use absol. of Rhine wine at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > German wines > [noun] > Rhine wine Rhinea1399 Rhine wine1495 Rhenish1603 a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 7 (MED) Potts de Ryne, c, j d. c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 1430 Euer scho drewe þam þe wyne, Bathe þe roche and þe ryne [v.r. reyn], And of þe gude maluesyne Filled scho þam þare. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn (1887) 280 Spycys & eke wyne Went round aboute, þe gascoyn & eke the ruyne. 1836 C. Crowninshield Diary 26 May (1956) 252 The father disappeared just before tea to drink a bottle of Rhine in a Wirtshaus. 1861 Baedeker's Handbk. Travellers Rhine p. xxiii The readiest solution we can offer the traveller..is to recommend him, should the table-wine not prove sufficiently palatable, to order a bottle of Rhine or Moselle at a thaler. 1902 N. W. Stephenson Beautiful Mrs. Moulton xiv. 112 On a pleasant afternoon, he would sit at a window, with his long glass of Rhine and seltzer at his elbow. 1990 R. S. Wheeler Yellowstone xvi. 158 He sucked greedily on the bottle of Rhine in his hand. Compounds C1. attributive. Designating wines made from grapes growing in the Rhine valley. Chiefly in Rhine wine. Cf. Rhenish adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > German wines > [noun] > Rhine wine Rhinea1399 Rhine wine1495 Rhenish1603 1495 A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 22 A stek off Ryne vyne. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades 249 You can make hypocras with either of the following liquors; viz. Spanish wine; Muscat, Rhyne-wine. 1785 A. Duncan Med. Comm. 9 295 He has used it with advantage in hydropic cases, even to half an ounce a-day, dissolved in a pint of Rhine wine. 1825 T. A. Boswell Jrnl. Exile II. xv. 48 I used to drink to their healths when I was there, in bright bumpers of Rhein wine. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 455/2 We find the most renowned of the Rhine-wines produced between 50° and 51°. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 235/2 The red Rhine-wines..are not nearly so much prized as the white. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 153/1 The white wines from Alsace and the Moselles and Hocks (or Rhine wines) of Germany are well worth trying. 1986 Gourmet June 44/2 A Palatinate Riesling, for instance, has a flavor that is more earthy, complex, and diffuse than that of other Rhine Rieslings. 2004 Tin House 6 208/2 Apollinaire's short list included: vermouth, beer, Rhine wines, absinthe. C2. Rhine daughter n. [after German Rheintochter: see Rhine maiden n.] = Rhine maiden n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > singer of specific part Rhine daughter1876 1876 Times 26 Aug. 4/1 The remaining characters—the Rhine-daughters accepted..—Wagner must have occasionally been at no small pains to fill up as he desired. 1922 T. S. Eliot Waste Land 59 The Song of the (three) Thames-daughters begins here... V. Götterdämmerung, III, i: the Rhinedaughters. 1994 S. Williams R. Wagner & Festival Theatre vii. 130 Among the most novel of the stage effects was the use of swimming machines for the Rhine Daughters and of projections in the scene beneath the Rhine. Rhine maiden n. each of three water maidens who are guardians of the Rheingold in Wagner's cycle of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen (first performed 1869–74) ( quot. 1854 probably represents an independent use, probably with allusion to the legend of the Lorelei or other traditions of water spirits in the Rhine); (allusively) a young woman, esp. one from Germany, who has the blonde hair and strong physique with which the three maidens are usually portrayed. [With reference to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen after German Rheintochter, lit. ‘Rhine daughter’; Wagner drew his inspiration for these mythological characters chiefly from water spirits encountered by the principal characters in the epic poem the Nibelungenlied.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > whiteness or fairness > [noun] > person fair1771 blonde1822 Rhine maiden1965 1854 Times 17 June 13/1 Popular vocal duets, by the Author and Composer of ‘What are the Wild Waves saying?’—The Changes of the Bells—The Depths of the Ocean—The Rhine Maidens—[etc.] 1899 G. Bell Let. 16 Aug. (1927) I. 51 We saw all the properties, and all the mechanism of the Rhine maidens. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 276 To those below what Brunhilde, what Rhinemaiden on what spurious river-rock of papier mâché. 1965 V. Canning Whip Hand xiii. 148 The blond Siegfried type..and Katerina and Lottie, a couple of hand-picked Rhine-maidens. 1966 B. Took & M. Feldman in B. Took & M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ (2000) 87/2 The barmaid, a buxom Rhinemaiden, brought me a beer stein and plonked it down on the beer-steined table cloth. 2004 Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 19/5 In providing his Rhinemaidens with blue pubic wigs one can but marvel at director Keith Warner's patient experimentation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rhinen.2 Now historical. More fully rhine hemp. A high quality hemp from eastern Europe. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the place of origin, as Riga rhine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of fimble hemp1484 carl hemp?1523 henequen1555 steel hemp1604 Rusband1633 Riga rhine1639 Russia hemp1663 pass-hemp1742 chucking1785 Manila1826 sisal1827 sisal hemp1828 moorva1855 outshot1858 pass1858 carl doddie1868 outshots1880 1639 W. Davenant Salmacida Spolia sig. C2 Powder of Menippus tree, & the Rine of Hemp to consolate those who have lost their money. 1641 S. Smith Herring-bvsse Trade 13 The best Rine and Rusband are these, Hempe brought in by the Eastland Merchants from the parts of Leiffeland and Prussia. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4598/4 Two Ships lading of..Russia Rhine Hemp. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 xxiii. 108 I have seen very good hemp, the growth of that country [sc. North America], not inferior to the best Riga ryne. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 94 Bolt Rope should be well made, of fine yarn, spun from the best Riga rhine hemp well topt. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 95 Riga Hemp..is distinguished by the Trade by the names of Rhyne, Outshot, Pass, and Codilla Hemp. 1855 A. H. Hassall Food & its Adulterations 17 Dutch Flax, Bombay Flax, Polish Ryne Hemp.., Bombay Hemp, [etc.]. 1882 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 3) 509/1 Bolt Rope.—The rope sewn around the edges of sails. It is made of the very best Riga Rhine hemp, dressed with Stockholm tar. 1912 C. E. Chadman Cycl. Law VIII. 29 The sale was of ten tons of sound merchantable hemp, and the buyer to purchase Riga Rhine hemp, a better article, the mistake having been made by the broker in describing the hemp to the buyer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rhinen.3 English regional (chiefly south-western). A large open ditch or drain. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch dikec893 gripa1000 ditch1045 fosselOE water-furrowlOE sow1316 furrowc1330 rick1332 sewer1402 gripplec1440 soughc1440 grindle1463 sheugh1513 syre1513 rain?1523 trench1523 slough1532 drain1552 fowsie?1553 thorougha1555 rean1591 potting1592 trink1592 syver1606 graft1644 work1649 by-ditch1650 water fence1651 master drain1652 rode1662 pudge1671 gripe1673 sulcus1676 rhine1698 rilling1725 mine1743 foot trench1765 through1777 trench drain1779 trenchlet1782 sunk fence1786 float1790 foot drain1795 tail-drain1805 flow-dike1812 groopa1825 holla1825 thorough drain1824 yawner1832 acequia madre1835 drove1844 leader1844 furrow-drain1858 1698–9 Act 10 Will. III c. 26 The present Roynes and Water Courses are not sufficient to Drain the same [sc. Sedgemoor]. 1714 J. Fortescue-Aland Note in Fortescue's Governance of Eng. 104 In Somersetshire they call the Streams and Rivulets between their Moors, which on Floods rise high, Rhines to this Day. 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 548 So much..is this flat cut up with rhynes and ditches, that [etc.]. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 608 But between them and the enemy lay three broad rhines filled with water and soft mud. 1886 Weston-super-Mare Gaz. 27 Nov. One of the footpaths in the parish of Brent Knoll was reported to have fallen into the rhyne. 1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 16 The rhines and hollows left by the turf-cutters support some rich and important plant associations. 1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. ix. 89 One [area]..was ‘natural’, consisting of rough meadows used as summer pasture and drained by rhynes, whereas the other..was pump-drained. 2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 64/2 Spring came late to the levels, waiting while winter drained into the peat, ten thousand years deep, where willows keep their roots and brace the banks of rhines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -rhinecomb. form < see also |
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