单词 | to spit white |
释义 | > as lemmasto spit white ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > cough or spit up to spit white1600 yesk1664 expectorate1882 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. ii. sig. E2 Ri...We dyd but a little parboile our liuers, they haue sod theyrs in sacke these fortie yeeres. Hal. That makes them spit white broth as they doo.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 212 If it be a hot day, & I brandish any thing but a bottle. I would I might neuer spit white again. View more context for this quotation 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. H Had I bin a Pagan stil, I could not haue spit white for want of drinke. 1664 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) ii. xiii. 108 They that are thus, spet white and froathy and speak with difficulty and stammer, because their Tongues (as they say) stick to their mouthes. 1784 J. Stockdale in Shakspeare: Dramatic Wks. 478 (note) To spit white, being the consequence of inward heat. < as lemmas |
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