单词 | second head |
释义 | > as lemmassecond head second head n. Hunting (see quots. and cf. head n.1 Phrases 1g(b)); also allusively. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its fifth or sixth year stag?c1185 second head1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 99 The old stags usually shed their horns first..; those of the second head, (namely, such as are between five and six years old) shed their horns about the middle..of March. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 316 The buck of the second-head, for a buck of the first-head he was not, had hitherto been slapping his boots with his switch-whip. < as lemmas |
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