单词 | skeleton-hand |
释义 | > as lemmasskeleton-hand a. In sense 1, as skeleton-chief, skeleton-hand, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adjective] atomizeda1628 skeleton1811 skeletal1854 skeletonian1879 skeletonic1880 skeletonized1976 1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne ii. 50 Her skeleton form the dead Nun rear'd, Which dripp'd with the chill dew of hell. 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 371 The plants which waved their broad, white umbels.., like skeleton-trophies of death. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xv. 156 He was high-shouldered and bony;..and had a long, lank, skeleton hand. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 82 It was an army of skeletons—a skeleton chief at their head and skeleton horses to bear them onward! < as lemmas |
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