单词 | to lie full low |
释义 | > as lemmasto lie full low a. to lie low. Formerly also †to lie full low. extracted from lowadj.n.2 (a) To lie on or below the ground, or another surface; to lie prostrate or dead, to be buried; to lie down; to crouch, keep low; (of a structure) to be demolished or brought down; to lie in pieces. Also figurative (chiefly in early use): to be humbled, abased, or brought to an abject condition. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dead sleepc950 restOE liea1000 to be deadc1000 to lie lowa1275 layc1300 to be gathered to one's fathersa1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 to sup with our Saviour, with Our (the) Lord, with (Jesus) Christa1400 repose1586 slumber1594 to sup in heaven or hell1642 to turn one's toes up to the daisies1842 to be out of the way1881 to push up daisiesa1918 to have had it1942 RIP1962 the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > be humiliated [verb (intransitive)] to light lowc1225 to lie lowa1275 to carry (also bear) coalsa1529 to eat the (or one's) leek1600 to lose caste1828 to eat dirt1857 the world > space > relative position > posture > assume or hold a posture [verb (intransitive)] > low down to lie lowa1275 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > on or in the ground to lie full lowa1275 a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 47 (MED) Þou, wrecche beli, lists nu ful louwe [c1275 Calig. þu schald nu in eorþe liggen ful lohe]. c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) 131 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 50 Him þouȝte it was wel vuele i-do þat he lai so lowe þere, Þat he nere i-bured in herre stude. a1350 (c1307) in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 22 Aȝein þe heþene forte fyhte To wynne þe croiȝ þat lowe lys. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1649 (MED) I sal do þam lij ful lau þat letes sua lightly on min au. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xx. l. 10 That lucifers lordshup ligge sholde ful lowe. c1480 (a1400) St. Luke 80 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 248 Þe angel his trumpe sal blav, & ger þame ryse þat lyis law. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxviiv His auter is broke, and lowe lythe. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 297 The castell als thai gart it lig full law. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2 Behind the Bus (Lord) bot I liggit law. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N4v Beside a bubling fountaine low she lay. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 52 If he could right himselfe with quarrelling, Some of vs would lie low . View more context for this quotation 1651 C. Cob Sect every where spoken Against ii. 28 We were made to own, and bow, and lie under our conditions as undone Persons, if Mercy help'd not out: Thus we lay low for a time. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 979 But since yon' Rampart by thy Arms lay low, I scatter'd Slaughter from my fatal Bow. 1765 R. Whytt Observ. Disorders Nerv. Hypochondriac vi. 271 Lying low on her face seemed to give her still greater uneasiness than lying low on her back. 1810 P. B. Shelley Posthumous Fragm. M. Nicholson 7 Monarch thou For whose support this fainting frame lies low. 1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid ii. 730 Priam by the sword Lies low. 1918 N. L. McClung Three Times & Out xxi. 201 But she did not see us, as we lay low in the scrub. 1933 R. Jeffers Give your Heart to Hawks xi. 71 Your mother, whom I think you love, is just now Lying low between life and death, and you leave her To chase the wind. 1999 M. P. MacDonald All Souls vii. 156 She crawled fast over to Seamus and Steven, kept them lying low, and dragged them over to a corner of the house where there were no windows. (b) To be in a low place or position; (of land or its physical features) to lie at a low level; to lie close to or below sea level. Also: to be of little height. Cf. low-lying n. and adj. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > low position > be low in position [verb (intransitive)] to lie low1567 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 76 To ly rycht law in till ane Crib. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 171 It lyeth low, by reason whereof it is much indammaged by flouds. c1714 W. Sutherland in J. B. Hattendorf et al. Brit. Naval Documents 1204–1960 (1993) (modernized text) 268 The Edgar..had a hold abaft the mainmast, flat floored that the weight lay low. 1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 26 The word swamp is peculiar to America; it there signifies a tract of land that is sound and good, but by lying low is covered by water. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 316 But if the place or Mine lies low, it is usual to say, ‘He is gone to Moor.’ 1873 H. H. Jackson Poems 218 Dead lily-bells lie low, and in their place A rounded disk of pearly pink is seen. 1895 W. C. Wilkinson in G. C. Lorimer People's Bible Hist. (1896) xii. 635/1 We must remember that the lake lies low—680 feet below the sea. 1973 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1988) 609 Hillside grass where mushrooms lie low on Cow-Flops in Queensland. 2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 12 Fields lying low beneath Dark and sentinel trees, waiting For night to draw in. (c) colloquial (originally slang). Esp. of a criminal: to keep out of sight so as to avoid detection or attention; to keep a low profile. Also: to bide one's time. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > remain in hiding lurkc1300 to hide one's headc1475 mitch1558 nestle1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 to lay low1600 skulk1626 squat1658 to lie by1709 hide1872 to hole up1875 to lie low1880 to lie (also play) doggo1882 to hide out1884 to put the lid on1966 1845 G. Flagg Let. 10 Jan. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 91 To induce the Editors of Papers of both parties to either come out on favor of the new Constitution or if they could not do that to ‘lie low and keep dark’. 1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus (1881) ii. 20 De Tar-Baby, she sot dar, she did, en Brer Fox, he lay low. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/1 Mr. N——..has not really been dead at all, but only ‘lying low’ in Canada. 1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 475 Royalists who had lain low were showing signs of life. 1901 Scotsman 2 Mar. 9/4 To that end the opposition lay low. 1937 W. M. Raine Bucky follows Cold Trail iii. 24 ‘You lie low until the car gets to town.’ Young Cameron laughed. ‘I'm not on the dodge, Tim.’ 1998 I. Rankin Hanging Garden (1999) xxii. 260 He's lying low. I've been trying to talk to him for a week. < as lemmas |
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