单词 | to stretch one's length |
释义 | > as lemmasto stretch one's length a. transitive. To prostrate (oneself, one's body); to extend (one's limbs) in a reclining posture; reflexive to recline at full length. Also with †along, †down (obsolete), out. Phrase, to stretch one's length. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > stretch out stretchc900 astretchc1000 i-stretchec1000 thinc1000 to-tightc1200 reacha1300 spreada1382 extendc1386 to lay outa1400 streeka1400 outstretcha1425 rekea1425 stentc1430 outreach?1440 inch out1878 the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (transitive)] stretchc900 recline?a1425 recline1615 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xxi He..hine wæs in gebed streccende [L. prosternens se] æt lichoman þæs Godes weres. c1200 Vices & Virtues 63 Þat he lið istreiht upe ðare bare ierðe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12973 He..adun lai bi þan fure & his leomen strahte. c1325 Chron. Eng. 756 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II So schert he [the stone coffin] was ywroht, Istraht ne myhte he ligge noht. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cciv. 300 They fylle doun flat and stratched in the chirches they kyssed..therthe. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2050 in Poems (1981) 79 He..straucht him doun in middis off the way; As he wer deid he feinȝeit him. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccl And these wordes sayde, she streyght her on length and rested a whyle. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 10 Why rather sleepe liest thou in smoaky cribbes, Vpon vneasie pallets stretching thee. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 235 There lay hee stretch'd along like a Wounded knight. View more context for this quotation c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 236 A Conceited Chayre to sleepe in with the Leggs stretch'd out with hooks & pieces of wood to draw out longer & shorter. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 1 Stretch'd at Ease you sing your happy loves. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xxvi. 10 There at the foot of yonder nodding beech..His listless length at noontide wou'd he stretch. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ix. 131 While I was stretched on my straw. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xii. 256 On the hearth were several dogs stretched in sleep. 1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. 59 Here stretch thy body at full length. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. i. 424 We stretched our length upon the grass, and soon fell fast asleep. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. v. 108 Daniel Quilp..climbed on to the desk..and stretching his short length upon it went to sleep. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 202 Scarce fresher is the mountain sod Where the tired angler lies, stretch'd out. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 350 He was generally to be found stretched..upon a rug before the fire. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert vii. 77 He stretched himself on his desk-chair. < as lemmas |
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