单词 | strong-beating |
释义 | > as lemmasstrong-beating C1. With present participial adjectives, as strong-beating, strong-growing, strong-smelling, etc. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. cxvi. 1266 Þe worme..toucheþ nouȝt þynges þat beþ ybawmede wiþ bitter þinges and stronge smellynge. c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) l. 474 (MED) The water ther is so vigerous And so stronge rennynge in his cours. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 52 (MED) He haþ greet pous, strong betynge & swift, neische & ful of blood. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Heate of the weather Both garlike and the wylder tyme strong smelling herbes doth beate. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 203 Furious, as a strong ronning streame. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 347 The Ram for Phisike takes strong-senting Rue. 1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision D 7 In her [sc. woman's] strong-drawing fraile society. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B6 That large strong-beating flood That gars the Poet write. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Hyacinthus At which Time you must separate all the strong flowering Roots. 1761 R. Glover Medea iii. vi. 52 The strong-constraining spell hath tam'd The restif blast. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. iv. 48 Strong-smelling and stinking, as hedge nettle. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 423 The stronger-growing plums, such as the Washington. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 260 He..held her..tight pressed against his strong-beating heart. 1880 ‘Brooksby’ Hunting Countries ii. 212 Mounted on a bold, strong-jumping horse. 1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 227 The hares in this district are remarkably big and strong-running. 1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. 21/2 ‘Budtha’, an aboriginal word meaning strong-smelling. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) xiii. 276 Yarrow.., Knapweed and other strong-growing weeds abounded. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IX. 581/1 Proton and electron accelerators based on this strong-focusing principle are called alternating-gradient synchrotrons. 1972 D. Barthelme Sadness 132 Silver strings tethered the loud-roaring strong-stinking animals. 1996 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 29 Apr. 19/1 The 12–1 shot..stayed on gamely to defy strong-finishing Proud Sun (12–1) by a length and a quarter. < as lemmas |
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