单词 | round and sound |
释义 | > as lemmasround and sound P2. round and sound: well-rounded; healthy, in good condition. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 80 The graffe must be round and sound, not full of pith, but full of buddes, and thicke of ioyntes. 1652 tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote (new ed.) ii. xiii. f. 159 I marry Sir, you are a true legall Squire, round and sound, royall and liberall. 1764 D. Garrick Let. 23 Aug. (1963) II. 424 I am sure you have look'd a little into my affairs at Hampton & that all is round & sound. 1839 New Sporting Mag. Apr. 287 The thicker trout gut should be of the diameter of ordinary sewing-silk; whilst the thinner sort may be almost the very finest you can procure, provided it be ‘round and sound’. 1883 Furnit. Gaz. 13 Jan. 24/3 Pieces four feet and upwards long, round and sound, four inches and upwards in diameter, would sell readily at from £6 to £8 per ton. 1926 Eng. Jrnl. 15 102 I assume the view that a round and sound general education is better for a boy. 2007 T. Grundner HMS Diamond vi. 88 Cherries here. Round and sound, five pence a pound. Cherries here. < as lemmas |
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