单词 | soile |
释义 | soilen. Cornish dialect. The common seal. Cf. swile n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca vitulina (common seal) sealc893 sea-calfa1387 sea-dog1598 soile1602 harbour seal1766 doter1770 ranger1771 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 34v The Seale, or Soyle, is in making and growth, not vnlike a Pigge, vgly faced, and footed like a Moldwarp. 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 34 The Soile or Sea Calf, a Creature that brings forth her young ones upon dry land. 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 107 On the Rocks near the Lands end they often find the Phocæ (which they call Soils) sleeping. 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 107 They distinguish between Soils and Sieles: the Siele they affirm to be a Fish..much less then the soile, and not taken upon our Coasts. 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 284 Among the quadruped reptiles we may reckon the seal or sea-calf, vulgarly called in Cornwall the Soyle. a1863 J. T. Tregellas Cornish Tales (1868) 61 Haling the soils up from the say. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 53/1 Soile, a seal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1602 |
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