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单词 slain
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slainn.

Brit. /sleɪn/, U.S. /sleɪn/
Forms: Also slane, sleean.
Etymology: < slain adj. 3.
northern dialect.
Smut in grain; also concrete, smutty grains.
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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.

Brit. /sleɪn/, U.S. /sleɪn/
Etymology: See slay v.1
1.
a. That has been slain; killed, slaughtered.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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