单词 | slain |
释义 | slainn. northern dialect. Smut in grain; also concrete, smutty grains. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition > grain affected by slain1703 smut-ball1745 smut1799 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants > smut fungus smut1665 slain1703 blacks1844 ustilago1857 the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition ustilago1578 smit1585 smutting1621 smuttiness1659 smut1665 bragc1682 burnt-eara1722 slain1788 dust-brand1850 stinking rust1861 stinking bunt1889 loose smut1890 stinking smut1891 dust1897 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 424 Leyse, to pick the slain and trucks out of wheat. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Sleean (that is, slain), the smut of corn. 1829– in northern glossaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). slainadj. 1. a. That has been slain; killed, slaughtered. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > killed slaina1225 mortificatea1425 killedc1440 murderedc1450 amortizeda1626 unlived1626 fallen1871 outed1919 zapped1962 a1225 Leg. Kath. 199 As te keiser stod bimong þat sunful slaht of þat islein ahte deouele to lake [etc.]. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 95 Swa schulen eft aquikien hire isleine briddes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. vii. 8 The preest that offreth the slawn offryng of brent sacrifice. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms ci. 21 For to vnbynde the sones of slayn men. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxii. E Dauid..offred burntofferynges & slaynofferynges. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 12 In all the Romaine conquest, hardest thou euer of a slayne Poete? c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 122 The dead body was a calfe yslaine. 1628 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 292 Our people, who wanted not will to have revenged the slaine mans cause. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 From the slain Victims pour the streaming Blood. View more context for this quotation 1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad Introd. p. cli (note) Homer and Virgil's lists of slain warriors. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous i, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 14 The slain game affording a plentiful supply for roasting or broiling. 1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §223 The wearing of the skins of slain animals. b. absol. Usually plural. ΚΠ c1340 R. Rolle Psalter 522 Of the blode of slayne. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxxv. 19 The nyȝ kynne of the slayn. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxxii. 30 All the prynces of the north, with all the Sidonians, which are gone downe to the slayne. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 439 Their God who hath deliver'd Thee Samson..into thir hands..who slew'st them many a slain . View more context for this quotation 1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 452 The slaine were most of them Mendip-miners. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vii. 274 In hot frenzy of triumph, of grief and vengeance for its slain. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vii. 231 For the slain, I give consent to burn them. 2. letter(s) of slains, in older Scots Law, ‘letters subscribed by the relations of a person who had been slain, declaring that they had received an assythment, and concurring in an application to the Crown for a pardon to the offender’ (Bell). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > acquittal or clearing of accusation > [noun] > pardon > application for letter(s) of slains1473 1473–4 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 4 Componit wytht Will Scot for a remissione for the slachter of Johnne Crossate, for the quhilk he schew a lettre of slanys of the partj. 1546 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 34 To gif ane plane letter of slains to the said Capitane for the slauchteris committit upoun him and his freindis. 1661 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 3rd Ser. I. 10 The said Barbra Turner, her only dochter, who hes granted the foresaid letter of slayans and discharge. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 549 If the party doth willingly grant a discharge of all grudge, or revenge, in the crime of murder, this discharge is called a letter of Slanes. 1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iv. iv. §105 In the case of slaughter, it behoved the wife or executors of the deceased..to subscribe letters of slains, acknowledging that they had received satisfaction. 1769 W. Robertson View State of Europe Proofs in Hist. Charles V I. 301 By the letters of Slanes, the heirs and relations of a person who had been murdered, bound themselves..to forgive, pass over, and forever forget, and in oblivion interr all rancour, malice [etc.]. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. i. 7 You are aware the blood-wit was made up..by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains . View more context for this quotation 1906–7 Juridical Rev. 18 197 Other and later Statutes provided that the Remission was of no effect unless it proceeded on Letters of Slains—a discharge of all claims for assythment by the party injured to the party accused. 2001 Albion 33 386 Each would give the other letters of slains (i.e. of peace) over the June 1593 slayings in the kirkyard. 3. dialect. Of grain: Affected by smut or blight. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease rustyc1503 smutty1597 smutched1620 slaina1642 smutty1667 sooty1697 rusted1763 spurred1763 smutted1766 leaf spot1846 fly-speck1855 ergotized1860 tagged1892 mummied1893 mummified1895 conky1905 rhynchosporium1918 Alternaria1924 Sigatoka1925 pasmo1926 sclerotinia1926 oak wilt1942 silver-leaf1946 wildfire1971 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 56 When your barley is infeckted with slaine corne yow must endeavour by all meanes possible to leade it dry. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 An ear which is smutty is called a ‘slain ear’. 1800 J. Tuke Gen. View Agric. N. Riding Yorks. (new ed.) 111 In order to prevent wheat from being smutty or slain, brine..has been generally used. 1825– in northern glossaries. 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