单词 | sneezing |
释义 | sneezingn. 1. a. The action of the verb; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > sneezing neezinga1382 sneezing1495 sternutation1540 sneeze1646 neeze1656 sternutament1677 snick-up1692 achoo1883 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. cxxxi. 688 Powder therof [sc. of pepper] makyth snesynge [Bodl. MS. fnesinge]. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxvi Farthermore she must be prouoked to sneesynge. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Esternuëment, a sneesing. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 523 In sternutations or sneezings. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 200 Aristotle hath a Probleme, why sneezing from noone unto midnight was good, but from night to noon unlucky. View more context for this quotation 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 220 Sneesing promotes the Motion of the Blood, and excites the Pulse. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 300 A sneezing was heard from the right. 1818 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (1820) 203 Contagious inflammatory fever with sneezing. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiv. 184 He was taken with a violent fit of sneezing. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 98 Abnormal visceral or reflex movements, such as..sneezings, yawnings, or hiccoughings. b. plural. Matter emitted in sneezing. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > mucus excreted > [noun] collop1589 sneezings1607 exsufflation1666 sputum1684 sixpence1773 candle1858 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 555 The sneezings of a muske-cat is an excellent remedy against the resolution of the sinnewes or the palsie. a. A preparation or powder inducing sternutation; an errhine or sternutatory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > errhine nasal?a1425 sternutorya1425 sternutation1547 sneezing-powder1611 sneezing1621 errhine1626 sternutatory1634 sternutative1666 snuff1861 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. ii. iv. 468 Sneesings, masticatories and nasalls, are generally receiued. 1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 61 A sneezing of pepper, Hellebore. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 119 Of the administration of gargarisms, or sneezings, and such like. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] sneeze1632 sneezing1648 smutchin1650 snush1671 snuff1683 nose gunpowder1706 pulvil1706 sneeshing1714 macouba1827 dip1853 snoose1912 snous1962 1648 Dunfermline Kirk Sess. Rec. (1865) 25 Those that offers and takes snising in the kirk. 1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 7 Who euer sels Ale, Tobacco, Sneezinge Broges, &c. is an Irish Merchant. ?c1680 F. Sempill in Poems Sempills (1849) 70 A mill of good snizing to prie. 1735 J. Swift tr. H. MacGauran Irish-Feast in Wks. II. 297 Give us a Pinch Of your Sneezing. Compounds C1. a. attributive and in other combinations, as sneezing-coffer, sneezing-maker, sneezing-mill, sneezing-powder, sneezing-tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > errhine nasal?a1425 sternutorya1425 sternutation1547 sneezing-powder1611 sneezing1621 errhine1626 sternutatory1634 sternutative1666 snuff1861 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sternutatoire, a sneezing medicine, or powder. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Knight of Malta ii. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkkk4v/1 Bring a little sneezing powder in your Pocket. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §38 Sneezing-powder and other powders or Liquors (which the Physitians call Errhines). 1643 Dunfermline Kirk Sess. Rec. (1865) 12 Those who..taks yr sneising tobacco in the most remott..pairt of ye said yle. 1659 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 377 Walter Denune, sneisin maker. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 134 And there his Sneezing Milne and Box lyes. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 207 Sneezer or Sneezing-Coffer, a snuff-box. 1979 Guardian 25 Aug. 12/6 Soup..always tastes the same when you have accidentally emptied the pot of fine grey sneezing powder into it. 1982 London Mag. June 31 Once he bought sneezing-powder from the joke-shop in New Oxford Street. b. sneezing gas n. = sneeze gas n. at sneeze n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous gas carbonic oxide1802 poison gas1816 cyanogen1823 carbon monoxide1868 sneeze gas1918 sneezing gas1918 Lewisite1921 sternutator1922 blister gas1936 nausea gas1936 Zyklon1939 harassing agent1968 1918 H. H. Tudor Let. 13 Nov. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. i. 415 The shell you speak of may be sneezing gas, which is not deadly. 1939 H. F. Thuillier Gas in Next War xvi. 145 The General Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations sitting in 1932 sought to divide the known chemical war agents into..two categories [lethal and non-lethal], and to obtain agreement for the use of the non-lethal kind, i.e. the lachrimatory (tear gases) and the sternutatory (sneezing gases) in war. sneezing-wort n. = sneezewort n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > sneezewort hulworta1300 pellitory1544 Ptarmica1597 sneezewort1597 sneezing-wort1611 goose-tongue1738 greenwort1854 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > errhine > plant-derived neezing powder1544 neezing wort1591 sneezewort1597 sneezing-wort1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Esternuer Sneesingwort, or sneesewort of Austria, wild Pellitorie of Spaine. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece iii. 219 With long sharp leaves, with streight Nerves, in shape like Sneezing Woort. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 325 You have now in Flower the..double Ptarmica or Sneezing-wort. C3. sneezing brick n. (see quot. 1887). ΚΠ 1887 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Sneezing Brick, one of the names given to the burnt bricks which case the clamp before burning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈsneezing ˈsneezing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [adjective] > sneezing sneezing1642 sneezy1839 sternutatory1842 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E8v Swift as the levin from the sneezing skie. < as lemmas |
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