单词 | black-horned |
释义 | > as lemmasblack-horned black-horned adj. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 128 The best [bullocks] commonly haue these properties: large, well knit, and sounde lyms, a long, a large, and deepe sided body, blacke horned, [etc.]. 1606 T. Pierson in W. Perkins Combat Christ & Diuell (ed. 2) 1st Ep. Ded. sig. A2v It may be he hath seene the plaiers and the painters Diuels, some blacke horned monster with broad eies, crooked clawes or clouen feet. 1728 A. Ramsay in Poems (1844) 60 The devil's..Appearing sometimes like a black-horned cow, Aft-times like bawty. 1834 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 452/2 Black-horned Highland cattle. 1912 Irish Rev. 2 207 It was a grand black-horned Eland, leaping like a horse. 2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 2 Dec. 8 An artiste in leather pants madly charcoals a sketch of a black-horned being with flames erupting from its head. < as lemmas |
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