单词 | sere |
释义 | † seren.1 Obsolete. A claw, talon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > foot with claws > talon or claw clawa700 clivera1000 naillOE cleafre?c1225 cleche?c1225 crook?c1225 clutchc1230 cleec1250 pawc1330 cromea1400 clawrec1400 pouncea1475 talons?a1475 ungle1481 ongle1484 gripe1578 sere1606 unce1609 pouncer1704 unguisc1790 griff1820 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 5 A payr of busie chattering Pies, Seeing some hardie Tercell, from the skies To stoop with rau'nous seres, feele a chill feare. 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks i. 318 The Hauke once, hauing trust vp in his Seres, The sweet-tun'd Nightingale. 1683 London Gaz. No. 1799/4 Lost near Cadnam.., a thorough mewed Falcon, the Feet and Sear very yellow. 1864 J. R. Lowell McClellan's Rep. in Wks. (1890) V. 94 Every excuse was invented..except the true one, that our chicken was no eagle after all. He was hardening his seres, he was waiting for his wings to grow [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). seren.2 Ecology. A series of plant communities, each naturally succeeding the previous one. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > [noun] > replacement of one species by another > sere lithosere1916 prisere1916 psammosere1916 sere1916 subsere1916 halosere1929 plagiosere1935 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession i. 4 A sere is a unit succession. It comprises the development of a formation from the appearance of the first pioneers through the final or climax stage. 1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 96 8 The seres which follow the destruction of climax vegetation in the alpine region [of the Himalayas] vary. 1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xi. 323 Such is succession, the developmental series of communities constituting a sere and leading up to a state of relative stability and permanence known as the climax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). seresearadj.1 1. a. Dry, withered. Now poetic or rhetorical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > withered sere824 withered1488 seared1538 forwithered1563 824 Grant in Birch Cartul. Sax. I. 515 Hit stent on þam sieran boc hagan. a1000 Gloss. Prudent. in Germania (1878) XI. 402 Steriles, seare. a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 4425 Þe spere crakeþ also þicke So on hegge sere stykke. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 28 Seyr and drye membyrs. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Oi And that apereth in ye tree of nature, which..in wynter..semeth seire [1531 seyre], drye, and in maner as deed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 19 He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere . View more context for this quotation 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes C 4 Will greene wood burne, when so vnapt's the seire? 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Thatching When they [Withs] are grown Sear they will fly and break. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude i. 6 Now here, now there, an acorn, from its cup Dislodged, through sere leaves rustled. 1901 F. H. Trench Deirdre Wed 12 Aghast, the woman Fumbled at her sere breast, and wept. b. transferred and figurative, and in figurative context. ΚΠ 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Gen. xlvii. f. lxxij (margin) To sucke out ye iuce of them with their poetrye, till all be seer bowes and no thinge greene save their awne comenwelth. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 93v Receyue me to thy carelesse Couch in sere and silent night. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 25 I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe. View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter ii. 13 The house that grows sere, needs supporters. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Sonn. to Southey Till sickly Passion's drooping Myrtles sear Blossom anew. 1837 N. Wiseman St. Eliz. of Hungary in Ess. (1853) III. 226 The rude materialities of life in this sear generation. 1880 O. W. Holmes Shadows 18 Some locks had got silvered, some lives had grown sere. c. absol. (Cf. quot. a1616 at sense 1b.) ΚΠ 1791 W. Taylor tr. Lessing Nathan iv. (1886) 133 In my sear of life An Assad blossoms for me. 1890 J. Watson Confessions Poacher (1893) 74 By the third week of October, the yellow and sere of the year has come. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [adjective] > other pallenOE richa1200 sere1523 fleecy1790 tortile1835 unwashable1839 suede1864 uncrushable1873 suede leather1882 flouncy1900 sewable1972 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn bare > threadbare threadbare1362 bare1483 bare (also) worn to the thread1483 peeled?a1513 sere1523 pilled1548 napless1596 thready1910 1523 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 35 An Olde Seer dyapur Towell. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Raça de panno The place where cloth is seere or thinne. a1631 J. Donne Elegies i, in Poems (1633) 44 If swolne with poyson, hee lay in his last bed, His body with a sere-barke covered. 1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 45 My coat is very sare. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 27 The roaring wind..shook the sails That were so thin and sere. CompoundsGeneral attributive. C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives. sere-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1901 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 2/1 The background of sere-coloured autumn foliage suggests the passing of a glorious summer day. sere-leaved adj. ΚΠ 1885 D. Lindsay in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 8th Ser. 337 Sear-leaved decline does o'er the woodlands steal. ΚΠ 1659 H. M. Pair Spectacles for Purblind Nation 4 Tell us you Sear-soul'd men that will swear pro and con, tell me what an oath is? C2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > excessively sere-dried1658 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 62 Hay, which if sear-dryed in the Sun, is half in half damnified. sere tree n. ΚΠ a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) iii. sig. E2 Old age like Seer trees, is seldom seene affected. sere wood n. ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 449 The Priest, with small sere wood Did sacrifice. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 398 The Lawrel-Champions..Serewood from the rotten Hedges took. 1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. 173 The wood-stealers always tell you they never take any but sear wood. C4. Obsolete. Sere month n. a name for August. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > August AugustOE Lammas-montha1387 Sere montha1697 a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 123 Proverbs... Item. Good to cut Briars in the Sere month (i.) August. C5. sereward adv. towards decay (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in decayed manner > towards decay sereward1901 1901 T. Hardy Poems Past & Present 142 The sun and shadows wheel, Season and season sereward steal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † sereadv.adj.2 Obsolete (? exc. dialect). A. adv. a. Separately, severally. sere twice, on two separate occasions. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > on two occasions, twice, or for a second time eftc825 eftsoonc1000 twicec1122 eft-sitha1300 secondly1382 twice1382 sere twicea1400 secondarilyc1475 eftersoonsc1540 secondarly1543 severallya1577 twicea1656 bis1877 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > individually (not collectively) sunderlyeOE sundryOE sundrilyOE sunderlepesOE serelepesc1175 serelya1375 severinglya1390 sunderlingc1390 properlya1393 serea1400 severally1399 departinglya1425 diviselyc1449 severately1470 sunderwisea1550 separately1552 disjunctively1590 semovedly1593 distributively1597 particular1599 dividedly1607 dividually1631 separatively1789 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > [adverb] > twice twiea900 twicec1122 sere twicea1400 two timesa1450 twicea1656 bis1877 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb] > apart or asunder sundereOE asunderOE asunderOE a-twoc1270 a-twin1303 in sundera1387 serea1400 disjointc1430 sunderwisec1440 bysondre1496 apart1608 a-twain1870 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4231 His oþer suns com ilkan sere For to mend þair fader chere. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1522 I haf seten by your-self here sere twyes, Ȝet herde I neuer of your hed helde no wordeȝ Þat euer longed to luf. c1440 York Myst. ii. 20 Þe water I will be set to flowe bothe fare and nere, And þan þe firmament, in mydis to set þame sere. b. ? ‘All told’, in all. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adverb] > in all or altogether albedenec1175 by sumc1540 altogethers1595 serea1600 altogether1653 a1600 Floddan Field (1664) iii. 30 The number did but mount To six and twenty thousand seere. B. adj.2 1. Separate, distinct; each in particular, single. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > individual or distinct sunderlyeOE sundryOE serec1175 proper1340 serelepesa1400 sundrylepesc1400 sunderlepesa1450 peculiar1509 several1533 unconfounded1577 well-distinguished1594 articulate1603 unconfused1609 inconfused1626 separate1691 demarcated1862 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > individual or single oneOE singularc1340 particulara1387 serea1400 serelepya1400 several1448 single?a1475 individual1593 numerical1643 versal1709 varsal1751 separate1907 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18653 Forr ser iss sune. & faderr ser. & ser iss þeȝȝre baþre. All mahhtiȝ gast. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5894 Men sal alswa yhelde rekkenynges sere Of al gudes þat God has gefen þam here. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5461 His suns blessed he on rau, He gaue ilkan seir benissun. a1400 Rel. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. v. 64 Jhesu, joyne þi lufe in my thoghte, Swa þat þay neuer be sere. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 1 Instrumentes for euery sere archer to brynge with him, proper for his owne vse. 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 130v Traditions in euery age with euery sere byshop [haue] varied. 2. Divers, various, sundry. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] sunderlyeOE manifoldeOE selcoutha1000 felefoldc1000 mislichOE alkinOE manykinOE fele-kync1175 serekina1300 sundera1325 sundrya1325 serea1340 divers1340 varyingc1340 variantc1380 muchfoldc1384 serelepesa1400 serelepya1400 multifaryc1460 sundryfoldc1460 multiplicate?a1475 variable?a1475 sundrilyc1480 diversea1542 particoloured1591 multifarious1593 Protean1594 daedal1596 choiceful1605 Daedalian1605 multiplex1606 variated1608 diversified1611 multiplicious1617 variousa1634 multivarious1636 mosaic1644 multiple1647 omnigenous1650 chequered1656 plurifarious1656 ununiform1660 variate1677 disuniform1687 Proteusian1689 unsteady1690 unequable1693 inequable1721 variegating1727 varied1733 multitudinous1744 multifold1806 polygeneous1818 unequalized1822 ruleless1836 varicoloured185. non-uniform1856 omnigener1857 polytypic1858 multiferous1860 variatious1871 variegated1872 polytypical1890 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective] > of several kinds manifoldeOE serea1340 several1509 various1696 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cl. 4 Orgyns þat is made as a toure of sere whistils. c1375 Lay Folks Mass-bk. (MS. B.) 70 I have synned largely, In mony synnes sere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2 And romans red on maneres sere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6840 Your land yee sal sau seuen yeir, And scer þar-of your corns seir. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 262 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 307 Þe boke hym calles a chorle of chere, That vylany spekes be wemen sere. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Biiijv That your vertew is singuler and seir May wholly all in them be also found. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words (E.D.S.) 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 426 Sere, several. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) 261. Compounds sere-coloured adj. parti-coloured. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 c1425 St. Mary of Oignies ii. i, in Anglia VIII. 151/5 A cote sere-colerd comynge to þe helys. sere-wise adv. (also on sere-wise) in divers ways. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb] manifoldlyeOE mislicheeOE sere-wise1340 in (also on, by) sundry wisea1393 in sundry waysa1393 manifolda1400 manifoldwise1440 multifarya1450 sunderly?a1450 multiplyingly1483 sundrilya1500 several1551 changeably1567 sundrywise1591 severally1605 variously1627 miscellaneously1639 multifariously1657 variedly1827 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3261 Þus sal þai on sere-wyse pyned be, Sum many wynter for þair syn. c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 515 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 62 Hyre prayere quhen scho had ser-wyse to god deuotely mad, a licht of hewine rathly schane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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