| 单词 | to hunt, run, go counter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hunt, run, go counter 1. In the opposite direction, back again. to hunt, run, go counter: i.e. in a direction opposite to that which the game has taken; following the scent or trail of game in the reverse direction. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > in the opposite direction againOE againwardlOE againwardslOE counterc1446 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [adverb] > following the scent counter1575 c1446 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 224 Now ye han founde parfite, love welle your game; For and ye renne countre thenne be ye to blame. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 243 When a hounde hunteth backwardes the same way that the chase is come, then we say he hunteth Counter. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 108 How cheerefully on the false traile they cry. O this is counter you false Danish dogges. View more context for this quotation 1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems (1717) 203 Forwards they went, on either hand, and back Return'd they counter. 1650 J. Milton Tenure of Kings (ed. 2) 57 Sometimes they seem..to march on, and presently march counter. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 213 The great Skill in Hunting the Buck, is to keep the Hounds from hunting Counter or Change. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iv. 122 Hunting counter, or running a false scent. < as lemmas |
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