| 单词 | to lay, bend, take level |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay, bend, take level a. The action of aiming a missile weapon, aim. to give level to: to aim (a gun). to lay, bend, take level: to take aim, to aim. Also, the line of fire, the range of the missile. Often in figurative context. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > aim cast1340 aimc1380 set14.. to lay, bend, take level1548 butt1553 vizyc1600 to level one's aim1667 to make aim1796 sight1842 the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot shot1455 shoot1545 level1548 reach1572 range1588 scope1830 carry1851 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > aim or aiming level1548 targeting1961 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > range of missile mesc1390 level1548 range1588 flight1608 effective range1844 the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at > aim (a blow, weapon, etc.) reachOE seta1300 shapec1400 ettlec1450 charge1509 bend1530 level1530 aimc1565 butt1594 levy1618 to give level to1669 wise1721 intenda1734 train1795 sight1901 to zero in1944 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > aim or direct (missile) > aim (missile weapon) level1530 to give level to1669 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvjv They shotte out of their towers peces of ordinaunce & hurt such as came within there leuell. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 388 The thing whereat you lay the levell of your thoughtes and purposes. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 17 (Missing our marcke) wherat we directed our leuell. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1320/1 Hir statelie seat is set so high, as that no leuell can be laid against hir walles. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cvi. 6 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 166 O blessed they whose well aduised sight Of all their life the leuell straight doe bend, With endlesse ayming at the mark of right. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 102 As if that name shot from the deadly leuel of a gun Did murder her. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F If you discharge but one glance from the leuell of that set face: O, you will strike a wench. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. ii. 80 My Life stands in the leuell of your Dreames. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 156 I am not an Impostrue [sic], that proclaime My selfe against the leuill of mine aime. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre Ded. 2 All his leuels are at true Pietie. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 78 How by the Table to give Level to a Piece of Ordnance, without the Gunner's Rule. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 128 But in what Quarter of the Cops it lay, His Eye by certain Level could survey. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 475 Be the fair level of thy actions laid, As temperance wills, and prudence may persuade. < as lemmas |
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