单词 | seasoning |
释义 | seasoningn. 1. The action of season v. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [noun] pregnation?a1425 seasoning1511 fecundation?1541 impregnation1605 fructifying1638 adosculation1682 foetification1720 fertilization1837 1511 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for sesnyng of iij sowys jd. ob. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Admissura, the acte or tyme whan beastes doth their kinde in generation. Seasoning. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxv. 471 This time, our rusticall peasants call the Seasoning, when as Nature..is in the rut and furious rage of love. b. The imparting of a flavour to a dish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [noun] powderinga1400 seasoning1601 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 83 The nobilitie is very gallant,..spending more then their reuenues in diet and apparell, and the seasoning of their meates. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 260 Vegetables used in Seasoning, as Thyme, Savory. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 210 To stimulate their cannibal appetites..by variety and seasoning . View more context for this quotation c. The maturing of wood by drying, etc.; †also, tempering, hardening (of metals). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > seasoning or preserving beathing1591 seasoninga1642 natural seasoning1856 impregnation1872 Burnettizing1885 fuming1893 haskinization1899 Rueping1904 full-cell1909 Powellizing1913 pressure treatment1914 pressure-treating1924 fixation1968 boucherizing- society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing hardening?c1425 nealing1612 tempering1661 annealing1662 seasoning1731 lighting1831 anneal1868 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 117 Firre deales are accounted better for bordeninge with then oake that hath not had time for seasoninge. 1731 S. Savery Magnet. Observ. in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 330 I imagine it must be owing to some..Difference in seasoning, it being almost impossible to make both Ends equally hard. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 136 The rafters also are favourite places for small articles that require seasoning. d. The process by which a person becomes hardened or inured to a strange climate, acclimatization. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate > acclimatization acclimation1801 seasoning1807 acclimatement1823 acclimatation1825 acclimatization1826 climation1846 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming > by adaptation to circumstances shakinga1382 acclimation1801 acclimating1805 seasoning1807 acclimatizing1817 acclimatement1823 acclimatation1825 acclimatization1826 1807 Salmagundi 16 May 198 Strangers always..undergo a seasoning as europeans do in the West-Indies. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. iii. 111 It is a prevailing notion, that to be sick the first summer, is what every settler must expect... In some parts of the territory..this seasoning is severely paid. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxix. 229 This was merely the seasoning which people who passed from one country to another must expect. 1897 Daily News 30 Mar. 6/5 Anglo-Saxons who have had no tropical seasoning. e. Hence, an attack, more or less severe, of ague or some kindred disease suffered by those who take up their abode for the first time in a tropical district. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > attack of > at first time in tropics seasoninga1629 seasoning distemper1701 seasoning disease1802 seasoning fever1814 1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 17 The Climate hath such an affinity with that of England, that..the name of seasoning..hath never there been known. 1774 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 67 About a fourth part more [of the slaves] die at the different islands, in what is called the seasoning. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 145 Its more common name, however, in the present day..is yellow fever: and, when the attack upon new-comers is slight, seasoning. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] nourishingc1325 nurturec1330 afaitementc1400 nurseryc1400 nortelryc1405 alterage?c1450 nouriturec1450 rulec1525 upbringingc1525 education1527 nourituring1555 nutriture1567 breeding1577 nurturing1578 nuzzling1586 rearing1611 frame1632 seasoning1649 nurtureship1837 child-rearing1842 paedotrophy1857 raising1929 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. i. 38 It concerns the Parents care, in order to a vertuous and vitious life of the childe, to secure its first seasonings. g. The process whereby a transported slave becomes inured to the conditions of slavery. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming > by adaptation to circumstances > to slavery seasoning1771 1771 A. Benezet Some Hist. Acct. Guinea xiii. 130 At a moderate computation of the slaves who are purchased by our African merchants in a year, near thirty thousand die upon the voyage and in the seasoning. 1786 T. Clarkson Ess. Slavery & Commerce Human Species iii. iv. 139 This seasoning is said to expire, when the two first years of their servitude are completed; It is the time which an African must take to be so accustomed to the colony, as to be able to endure the common labour of a plantation, and to be put into the gang. 1804 R. Bisset Def. Slave Trade 88 Instead of thirty-three in the hundred dying, as asserted by the author of the ‘Concise Statement’, not three in the hundred die of the seasoning. 1977 Time 7 Feb. 59/3 The passage took longer, with ‘seasoning’ camps at the beginning, usually on an island off the African coast. h. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the lapidary's mill with diamond dust and oil; the charge itself. ΚΠ 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 299/1 The charge of diamond dust or seasoning. i. The application of a solution of blood and logwood to leather prior to blacking. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 358 Fig. 97 shows a form of seasoning machine which is largely used for all kinds of glazed kid. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 360 The quality of work that a machine will do depends so much on the condition of the skins and the seasoning. j. The application of one of various finishes to leather after tanning. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > other processes of treating leather curryc1430 currying1481 fire-curing1844 buffing1856 boarding1870 pebbling1875 skivinga1884 nourishment1897 seasoning1897 samming1909 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 358 A seasoning mixture is applied to the surface after tanning and before coloring. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia X. 763/2 In unpigmented seasoning [of leather], a simple glazing finish or seasoning may contain egg albumin, water, and gylcerin. 2. concrete. Something added to a dish which gives it a distinctive or appetizing flavour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > [noun] > seasoning or flavouring powder1381 condimentc1420 season?a1505 seasoning1580 seasoner1620 haut-goût1645 farciment1657 conditementa1670 furnitures1693 seasonagea1716 flavour1785 flavouring1845 Japanese pepper1861 flavourer1884 ve-tsin1927 zaatar1963 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Assaissonnement, a seasoning. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §14. 13 Our Palates like the Seasoning and Cookery they are set to. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper ii. 39 Rub them well with your Seasoning. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxx. 320 Nice seasonin' for sassages, is trousers' buttons, Ma'am. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 175 It is necessary to prepare them [snails] with strong seasonings—as with plenty of ham, anchovies [etc.]. Compounds attributive and in other combinations: seasoning disease n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > attack of > at first time in tropics seasoninga1629 seasoning distemper1701 seasoning disease1802 seasoning fever1814 1802 Eng. Encycl. IX. 293/1 All seasoning diseases are of the inflammatory kind. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > attack of > at first time in tropics seasoninga1629 seasoning distemper1701 seasoning disease1802 seasoning fever1814 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 12 It does not welcome its Guests and Strangers with the seasoning distempers of Fevers and Fluxes. † †seasoning fever n. Obsolete = sense 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > attack of > at first time in tropics seasoninga1629 seasoning distemper1701 seasoning disease1802 seasoning fever1814 1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity (1823) I. 627 He was attacked by the seasoning fever. seasoning room n. a store-room where tobacco is kept until matured. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place where tobacco is stored or processed > [noun] tobacco house1611 prise house1732 stemmery1859 seasoning room1890 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Aug. 2/1 I..followed the tobacco from its arrival in the bale, through the seasoning room, to the wetting and sorting tubs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). seasoningadj. That seasons, that adds a flavour or relish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > [adjective] > seasoning or flavouring seasoning1560 savouring1857 condimental1864 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xxiv. sig. Aviii No seasonyng lyckour, can season it well. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 Sparingly they steep [cheese] With seas'ning Salt, and stor'd, for Winter keep. View more context for this quotation 1760 J. Woolman Jrnl. (1971) vii. 112 The Lord..was pleased to favour with the seasoning virtue of Truth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1511adj.1560 |
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