单词 | rinsing |
释义 | rinsingn. 1. The action or an act of rinsing something. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] cleansingc1000 rinsinga1400 abstersion?a1425 mundification?a1425 detersion1607 mundifying1610 mundation1633 fowing1636 cleaning1662 detergency1710 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > [noun] > rinsing rinsinga1400 rinse1837 sluicing1839 sind1899 a1400 (?c1300) Lay Folks Mass Bk. (Royal) (1879) l. 576 (MED) When þo preste has rinsynge [a1450 Corpus Oxf. rynsyng, c1450 Newnh. the rensynge] done, opon þi fete þou stonde vp sone. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 434 Ryyncynge [King's Cambr. rynsinge of vessell], rigacio. c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. viii, in Anglia (1885) 8 i. viii. 141 She toke wyne in þe rynshynge after þe sacrament. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 101 To haue veraye greate neede of a secounde rynsyng, wherwith eftsons to bee scoured, and made clene. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 90 Such a rinsing and scouring Dauid prayed for. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 167 Th' enteruiew, That..like a glasse Did breake ith' wrenching. 1732 R. Dodsley Muse in Livery 52 Such eating, drinking, and devouring; Such washing, rinsing, scrubbing, scouring. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Ablution, the rinsing of chymical preparations in water, to dissolve and wash away any acrimonious particles. 1804 D. Woodard Narr. Capt. D. Woodard & Four Seamen Introd. p. xxxv The moistening of the mouth alone, or the rinsing of it..have in many cases been found to produce the most salutary effects. 1817 W. Mariner & J. Martin Acct. Natives Tonga Islands I. ix. 306 The salt water, without using such rinsing afterwards, is apt to produce in hot climates a cutaneous eruption. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxx. 110 We..had a new supply of rain-water, in which we had a grand rinsing. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 209/2 The rinsings after each operation should be thorough. 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children 10 438 She was directed to supervise the rinsing of the diapers. 1956 S. O'Casey Green Crow ii. 240 I remember..drinking water..that had been swished from a zinc bucket that never knew the necessity of a rinsing. 2007 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 24 Dec. The rinsing of the mop was done at the sink. 2. a. The liquid with which something has been rinsed. Chiefly plural. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > liquid with which anything is rinsed rinsing1703 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > waste water > that has been used for washing washingsc1330 washc1440 dishwater1484 dish-wash1592 rinsing1703 dish-washings1771 sindings1823 wash-water1853 bath-waste1936 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions > rinsing water rinsing1703 sindings1823 1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 146 [He] drinks off the rincings of my Nostrils as heartily as if it had been a Sherbet made on purpose for a Cooler. 1778 C. Wiseman tr. L. G. de Antisco Narcissus 49 Do not wash your mouth with wine or water, and spurt forth the rinsings in the presence of anyone. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 179 The beadle..washed down the greasy morsel with the last rinsings of the pot of ale. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 Feb. 393/1 A scum that was like the soapy rinsing of sooty chimneys. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxix. 312 The very pigs..in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings. 1915 H. B. Cotterill Medieval Italy v. 493 It was reported..that the fatal poison had been administered by a Domenican priest in..the rinsings of a sacramental chalice. 1963 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 78 562/2 Dr. Rosenbaum had rinsed the can with saline and injected the rinsings..into a mouse. 2002 Sci. News 161 340/2 The researchers washed wasps in solvent and painted small glass pellets with the rinsings. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. With negative connotation, and in plural with of. Leftovers, ‘dregs’. Cf. fag end n. 1. Now rare.Common in 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted leaving1340 leavingc1350 beleavingc1440 residence?1545 afterings1609 refuse1665 fleeting-milka1670 tailings1764 rinsing1812 1812 C. Phillips Emerald Isle 103 In the church,..he fades away before the excrescences of wealthy ignorance or the rinsings of decayed nobility. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 150 These were..the very dregs and rinsings of the human intellect. 1855 C. G. F. Gore Mammon II. viii. 83 He had dabbled..in politics,—such politics as are created by the rinsings of many administrations. 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 12 In some of the alehouse corners the drink was flavoured by a dingy kind of infidelity, something like rinsings of Tom Paine in ditch- water. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 71 Being drenched with the rinsings of an unclean imagination. 1913 F. H. Newman Out of Bondage 42 They have thinned the crimson warrior-flood With the rinsings of their gains. 1933 C. Day Lewis Magn. Mountain 33 Isn't it grand Where the offal of action, the rinsings of thought From a stunted peer for a penny can be bought? Compounds General attributive, as rinsing appliance, rinsing machine, rinsing tub, rinsing water, etc. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 12 The Lye-Trough and Rincing-Trough he places towards some corner of the Room. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Clear-starching Pour a little of it into the rincing Water, then put your Hand into the rincing Water, and stir it about. 1781 P. C. Moore in Inventory Hartlebury Castle (1960) 80 A large rencing tub 6 Wash tubs on stands & a draining tub. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 526 For soaking and rincing operations. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Bottle Washing, Brushing, and Rinsing Appliances. 1914 E. Conley Princ. Cooking i. 10 Have the dishpan half full of hot, soapy water, the rinsing pan half full of clear hot water. 1959 S. P. Davies & K. G. Ecob Mentally Retarded in Society ii. xvii. 211 His work was to take clothing out of hot water and put it into a rinsing vat. 2001 R. Ferguson in D. A. Poirier & K. L. Feder Dangerous Places i. v. 59 Rubber boots can also be used, provided there is a rinsing facility on site. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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