| 单词 | under the wand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder the wand a. A young shoot, a slender stem of a shrub or tree, a sapling; a slender branch or twig. Obsolete exc. poetic (rare) and dialect. †under the wand: in the greenwood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] sproteeOE wiseOE spronkOE wrideOE brodc1175 wanda1300 breerc1320 scion?c1335 spraya1387 spriga1398 springa1400 sprouta1400 spiringc1400 shoota1450 youngling1559 forth-growing1562 spirk1565 sprouting1578 surcle1578 chive1583 chit1601 spurt1601 sprit1622 germen1628 spurge1630 spirt1634 brairding1637 springet1640 set1658 shrubble1674 underling1688 sobolesa1722 branchlet1731 springlet1749 sproutling1749 sprang1847 shootlet1889 the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > flexible and slender rodc1275 wanda1300 wicker?1507 whip1585 switch1616 sway1630 withe1817 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adverb] under the wand?a1500 sylvanly1800 a1300 Cursor Mundi 1418 Þe pipins war don vnder his [Adam's] tung, Þar ras o þam thre wandes yong. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1161 At vche wende vnder wande wapped a flone. c1400 Melayne 1213 Þe Messangere bare a wande Of ane Olefe in his hande. c1400 26 Pol. Poems xv. 60 For al þe body beren þay [sc. man's legs], As a tre þat bereþ wandes. c1440 York Myst. xii. 78 Vpponne þat wande sall springe a floure. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 537 A toppe of hit [the fig] to sette other a wonde Is holdon best right in Aprilis ende. 1457 J. Hardyng Chron. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1912) Oct. 746 Men chastyse ofte grete courours by hakenayse, And writhe the wande while it is yonge and grene. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 179 in Poems (1981) 10 Scho tuke in mynd hir sister vpon land, And langit..To se quhat lyfe scho led vnder the wand. 1559 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1565 390/1 Rungis and wandis of hissill and sauch. 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D4v They..bent the tree while it was a wand. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T7 Into a bird it chaung'd, and from him past, Flying from tree to tree, from wand to wand. View more context for this quotation 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. K1v A Hasle wand a midst a wood of Pynes. 1850 W. Allingham Poems 41 The heart is new As the green wand fresh budded on a fir. 1919 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 645/1 The stem bends like a hazel wand. under the wand ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under control > under the rule or control of under the yardc1275 under the wandc1400 (to have, hold) under one's girdle1541 c1400 Rule St. Benet ii. 6 Wide summe sal tu faire speke, and summe gete wid chastiment & haue þam under wand. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 99 The Emperour has mony syndry kynde of peple vnder his wand. 1575 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 125 Thair is sum brether quhilk ar nocht under the vand of the prouest and bailyeis of the burgh. 1609 J. Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. in Regiam Majestatem xx Sa lang as her husband was livand, she was vnder his wand and power. < as lemmas |
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