单词 | slime-browned |
释义 | > as lemmasslime-browned a. In sense 1, as slime-bank, slime-bath, slime lagoon; slime-browned, etc. ΚΠ c1602 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies iii. v. sig. E2 Floud with red-growne slime bankes. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 241 Here is also..a muddy bath. [margin] Slime bath. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 370 Each joyful sailor..with firm tugs the rollers from the brine, Reluctant dragg'd, the slime-brown'd anchors raise. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. ix. 148 I saw the boat..waiting for them at the slime-washed stairs. 1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest i. ii. 23 The crocodile,..slime-begotten of old. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 338 More specimens of those awful slime lagoons. < as lemmas |
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