| 单词 | the gapes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe gapes 3. the gapes: extracted from gapen. a. A disease in poultry, etc., of which frequent gaping is the symptom. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of poultry roup1551 squeck1577 gargil1614 roup1614 the gapes1799 garget1817 snifters1844 white comb1853 bumble foot1854 wry-tail1880 blackhead1894 bacillary white diarrhoea1909 limber-neck1910 (avian or fowl) leucosis complex1922 pullorum1929 perosis1931 fowl paralysis1932 scissor beak1934 blue comb1939 hexamitiasis1941 pullet disease1941 Marek's disease1947 new wheat disease1950 X disease1950 sour crop1951 fowl cholera- 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 204 There is a disease prevalent among the gallinaceous poultry in this country, called the gaps. 1864 Intellectual Observer No. 33. 197 Every keeper of poultry is acquainted with the ‘gapes’. 1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 158 The most destructive disease prevalent among partridges is that which is commonly known by the name of the ‘gapes’. b. humorous. A fit of yawning or staring. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > gaping or yawning > fit of the gapesa1817 a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. viii. 161 Another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed. View more context for this quotation 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. iii What gave me the gapes was the scenes [at the theatre]. < as lemmas |
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