单词 | running toad |
释义 | > as lemmasrunning toad a. A tailless amphibian of the genus Bufo; primarily the common European species Bufo vulgaris; thence extended to many foreign species of the genus or of the family Bufonidæ. running toad, the natterjack. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Bufonidae (true toads) > member of (toad) toadc1000 marine toad1802 toad-frog1861 α. β. 11.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 544/7 (Ru)beta, tadde.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Þer wunieð in-ne..Blake tadden.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Ah liggeð þer uppon, alse þe tadde deð in þere eorðe.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Schal inhelle wurðen him toaden & neddren.1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 18 A womman þat hadde a fende wiþ inne her..caste up tweȝ blake taddes.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) xvi. lxxi This stone is take oute of a tadde heed.γ. a1300 Cursor Mundi 23227 Fell dragons and tades [v.r. tadis] bath.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xc. 13 Þe snake werpis and þe tade nuryssis þe eg, and þarof is broght forth þe basilyske.c1440 York Myst. xi. 271 For tadys and frosshis we may not flitte.c1440 Alphabet of Tales 240 He drew oute a grete whik tade.a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 578 in Poems (1981) 130 Heir I beteiche my corps and carioun With wormis and with taidis to be rent.1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 209 Tigiris, serpentis and taidis [a1586 tadis] will remane In Dumbar wallis.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii Mixt wi' the venom of black taids and snakes.1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 114 A taed may sit on her coffin the day.1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxix. 277 Ye would as soon think of likening a yird tead to a patrick.1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 353 Now, Geordy, my lad, sit as mute as a tyed.δ. 12.. St. Patrick's Purg. 274 in Horstm. Alteng. Leg. (1875) 188 Eddren furi vpen hem sete, and toden grete al so.c1325 Song Mercy 56 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 120 Þou seȝe me a monge todes blake Ful longe in harde prisoun lyng.1370–80 XI Pains of Hell 60 in Old Eng. Misc. 224 As Fissches þei were in þat flod þo, Todus, Neddres, Snakes mony mo.a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 152 Thay hym yaue pryuely a lytill toode in a drynke.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tode, crapault.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 16 Nesorpora is a stone of Pontus..found in a Todes heade.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 116 Findyng there a most venemous toade.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 13 Sweet are the vses of aduersitie Which like the toad, ougly and venemous, Weares yet a precious Iewell in his head. View more context for this quotation1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 800 Him there they found Squat like a Toad, close at the eare of Eve. View more context for this quotation1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 16 Marking her noisome road With poison's trail, here crawl'd the bloated Toad.1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 115 Few animals have ever suffered more undeserved persecution as the victims of an absurd and ignorant prejudice than the toad.1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 126 Natter-jack Toad.1895 P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland 392 The Running Toad..has a yellow stripe down his back.1909 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 503/2 She was already on friendly terms with my mice and my toads and my snake.c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 122/11 Buffo, tadige. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 321/23 Rubeta, tadie. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。