单词 | adder-coloured |
释义 | > as lemmasadder-coloured b. Parasynthetic and instrumental, as adder-bitten, adder-coloured, adder-headed, etc. ΚΠ 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 218 Hangit, mangit, eddirstangit. 1596 F. Sabie Olde Worldes Trag. in Adams Complaint sig. D2v Pale enuie left her Adder-haunted den, And rul'd on earth as supreame Queene of men. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. cviii Heare one was going, and in going spide By Adder-haird Medusa, and so stayes. ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. X. 344 The adder-headed loach. Specific character, head very long, with scales on the top disposed like those on the heads of adders. 1819 J. H. Reynolds Peter Bell Pref. p. vii That fiend-like, vulture-souled, adder-fanged critic. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. xiii. 182 What could sting you so, What adder-headed thought or venomous dream? 1898 O. Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol 7 The gallows-tree With its adder-bitten root. 1946 L. B. Lyon Rough Walk Home 29 Crunching the adder-coloured dung. 2005 C. R. Daileader Racism, Misogyny & Othello Myth i. 31 Her adder-haired, Moorish lover. < as lemmas |
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