单词 | bowed |
释义 | bowedadj.1 1. Bent, curved, crooked; (see the verb).The ordinary northern word for ‘bent’, as a bowed pin, a bowed street. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] crooked?c1225 roundc1300 ybentc1330 bentc1374 cambera1387 curvate?a1425 curve?a1425 curved?a1425 bowingc1440 crumped1480 bowed1483 bended1495 bowlanda1522 compass?1523 curbed?1541 compassed1551 compassing1576 curvated1598 orbed1598 curving1609 ridgill-backed1611 incurved1623 inflected1646 incurvate1647 curvous1661 incurvated1665 swayed1688 bending1697 circumflex1707 curval1730 sweeping1772 bendy1800 curvatureda1810 curvative1846 hooped1852 swept1903 1483 Cath. Angl. 38 Bowed, clinatus, deuexus. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.iii Boude wands serue for sumwhat. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Contents The springiness of..boughed bodies. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. 30 And if the Leaf have but one main Fiber, that also is postur'd in a bowed or Lunar Figure; as in Mint and others. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 A runt was like a sow-tail Sae bow't that night. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour vii. 114 These shields were generally ‘bowed’ on their front face, that is, they generally presented a convex external contour. 1885 Times 4 June 10/2 He [a horse] had been under suspicion on account of a ‘bowed tendon’ from his earliest appearance on the turf. 2. a. Bent down under a load, weight of years, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of bending > [adjective] bowea1500 devexed1562 flexed1572 cernuous1653 bowed1848 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. xi. 134 How you'll welcome us, Returned in triumph, bowed with paynim spoils. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 38 Enoch was so brown, so bow'd, So broken. 1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. 18 A mute smoothing of his bowed shoulders. b. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > encumbering > burdening > burdened ycarked1340 bowed1382 loaden1542 ladenc1595 burdenous1614 laded1630 undisburdened1659 undischarged1671 burdened1697 lade1724 beladen1850 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch ii. 18 The soule that..goth bowid, and meekid. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 228 Nay, do not pine thus, bowed beneath my burden. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bowedadj.2 Furnished with a bow (in various senses); played with a (violin) bow. In Heraldry = embowed adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > with bow bowed1425 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [adjective] > bay or oriel window orielleda1823 bowed1823 embayed1834 bay-windowed1836 bow-windowed1849 embowed1864 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [adjective] > with a bow bowed1837 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > played with bow bowed1838 bow-played1852 arco1955 1425 Acts Jas. I (1597) §60 Ȝeamen..sufficientlie bowed and schafted, with sword and buckler and knife. 1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill The window is to the west, large and bowed. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 88 The young women, in cotton gowns and braided and bowed hair. 1838 G. Hogarth Mus. Hist. II. 153 Quartets, and trios, for bowed instruments. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 4/1 The ‘bowed’ passages were much too rapid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). bowedadj.3 Furnished with a bow; probably only in combinations. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > having a prow > having specific type of bow or prow bluff1627 bowed1747 bold1793 spurred1805 bluff-bowed1833 fiddle-headed1851 bluff-headed1867 figure-headless1877 spoon-bowed1900 1747 Fool (1748) II. 300 Full-bowed Ships..will make better Way through the Water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.11382adj.21425adj.31747 |
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