| 单词 | scottish mist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScottish mist Scottish mist n. = Scotch mist n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > very wet mist Scottish mist1589 Scotch mist1639 Scots mist1648 dag- 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet Ded., in Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 394 We care not for a Scottish mist, though it wet vs to the skin. a1680 T. Shipman Carolina (1683) 4 This Scottish Mist wets all of us to th' skin; Some are so rain'd on they are dous'd within. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 526 The kilted goddess kissed Her son, and vanish'd in a Scottish mist. 1884 J. C. Brown Forestry in Norway viii. 77 Dry as is a London fog, a Scottish mist is a connecting link between this and the drizzling rain. 1999 D. Jaeckle in T. J. Summers & T. Pennyworth Eng. Civil Wars in Lit. Imagination 78 Forcing fair weather from a Scottish mist is no easy task even for a king. < as lemmas |
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