单词 | to run the lines |
释义 | > as lemmasto run the lines a. A limit, boundary; more fully, line of demarcation. to draw the line (see draw v. Phrases 9); also, with similar meaning, to †lay, form a line. to run the lines (U.S.): see run v. 67. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] goalc1350 bounda1387 list1389 finea1400 frontier1413 enda1425 limit1439 buttal1449 headroom1462 band1470 mete?1473 buttinga1475 bounder1505 pale?a1525 butrelle1546 scantlet1547 limesa1552 divisec1575 meta1587 line1595 marginc1595 closure1597 Rubicon1613 bournea1616 boundary1626 boundure1634 verge1660 terminary1670 meta1838 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. E7v And now the night grew neere her middle line. a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) i. iv. sig. B1v Of Heauen the middle Line, That makes of equall length both day and night. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Line Line of Demarcation, or Alexandrian Line. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 210 And middle Natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass th' insuperable Line! 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 67 Their different principles compose some of the strongest political lines which discriminate the parties even now subsisting amongst us. 1770 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) iii. 33 It is this intellectual dignity..that ennobles the Painter's art; that lays the line between him and the mere mechanic. 1840 H. H. Wilson Mill's Brit. India (ed. 4) I. i. iii. 69 To form a line between them and the Company, it was ordained, that [etc.]. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 30 The line which bounded the royal prerogative. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vii. 366 Hold on and hit away, only don't hit under the line. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xviii. 303 The lines of separation of the great watersheds. < as lemmas |
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