单词 | swooning bed |
释义 | > as lemmasswooning bed attributive, as swooning bed, swooning fit, swooning passion, swooning state; † swooning-ripe adj. Obsolete ready to swoon.† swooning-water n. Obsolete a ‘water’ used as a remedy for fainting. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > restoratives for faintness swooning-water1574 sal volatile1654 melancholy water1670 salt of hartshorn1680 sal1706 salt1740 eau-de-Luce1756 restorative1825 smelling-salts1841 salts-bottle1847 Preston salts1858 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon > about to faint faintc1320 fainty1530 faintful1589 swooning-ripe1652 faintish1834 1574 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 447 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 To Mrs. Banyster for a swoninge water for my Mrs...vs. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 346 The Falling-sicknes, and pale Swouning-passion. 1645 J. Milton On University Carrier ii, in Poems 29 On his swooning bed outstretch'd. 1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. i. 6 But swooning ripe he backward fell in bed. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. v. 180/2 Essentia Regia,..a most odoriferous Essence..takes away Fainting, and Swooning Fits. 1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna in Dramatic Idyls 90 First moon-eclipse.., first swooning-fit which puzzled sore The early sages. < as lemmas |
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