单词 | braird |
释义 | brairdn. Properly Scottish./brerd/, /brird/, but now sometimes used by English writers: the first shoots of grass, corn, or other crops. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > grain > the first shoots braird?a1500 a1500 R. Henryson in tr. Æsop Fables Prol. l. 10 in Poems (1981) 3 The corne abreird. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1796 in Poems (1981) 70 Now is it lint; now is it hie on breird. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 77 The cornys croppis and the beris new brerd. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 328 There is no breard like midding breard. 1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 10 Hares surprised..among the early braird. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. i. i. 25 The delicate braird that springs after the surface has been annually burnt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). brairdv. intransitive. Of corn, etc.: To sprout, to appear above the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [verb (intransitive)] > come into existence awakenc885 waxc888 arisec950 beOE comeOE aspringc1000 atspringOE growOE to come upOE inrisea1300 breedc1385 upspringc1386 takec1391 to come in?c1430 engender?1440 uprise1471 braird?a1500 risea1513 insurde1521 insurge1523 spring1538 to start up1568 exsurge1578 upstart1580 become1605 born1609 the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > sprout or put forth new growth spriteOE wrideOE brodc1175 comea1225 spirec1325 chicka1400 sprouta1400 germin?1440 germ1483 chip?a1500 spurgea1500 to put forth1530 shootc1560 spear1570 stock1574 chit1601 breward1609 pullulate1618 ysproutc1620 egerminate1623 put1623 germinate1626 sprent1647 fruticate1657 stalk1666 tiller1677 breerc1700 fork1707 to put out1731 stool1770 sucker1802 stir1843 push1855 braird1865 fibre1869 flush1877 a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1904 in Poems (1981) 74 The wickit thocht beginnis for to breird. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. viii. 60 With schynand skyn new brerd. 1865 Carter's Gard. & Farmer's Vade-M. ii After the seed has brairded, it may be well to cover it by hand-hoeing. 1883 Trans. Highl. Soc. Agric. 4th Ser. XV. 38 The potatoes..came up..not quite as straight as a line when brairding. 1884 Times 20 June 4 Present sowings [in swedes and turnips] may braird well. Derivatives brairded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [adjective] > bearing corn well-corned1652 brairded1854 1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar 35 The freshly brairded fields. brairding n. (also breirding) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] sproteeOE wiseOE spronkOE wrideOE brodc1175 wanda1300 breerc1320 scion?c1335 spraya1387 spriga1398 springa1400 sprouta1400 spiringc1400 shoota1450 youngling1559 forth-growing1562 spirk1565 sprouting1578 surcle1578 chive1583 chit1601 spurt1601 sprit1622 germen1628 spurge1630 spirt1634 brairding1637 springet1640 set1658 shrubble1674 underling1688 sobolesa1722 branchlet1731 springlet1749 sproutling1749 sprang1847 shootlet1889 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 11 Sept. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 156 I finde a little breirding of God's seed in this town. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.?a1500v.?a1500 |
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