单词 | unwinnowed |
释义 | unwinnowedadj. (un- prefix1 2. Cf. unwindowed adj.1) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [adjective] > not winnowed unwinnowed1552 undight1574 unwindowed1578 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vnwinewed wheate, acerosum frumentum. 1624 J. Ussher Serm. 48 The graine [is] the same, but winnowed now, unwinnowed then. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes ii. vii. 89 The world's a Heape, whose yet unwinnowed graine Is lodg'd with chaffe. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unwinnowed, not winnowed.] 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 273 The unwinnowed heap is becoming less. 1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-Mother ii. i. 47 We are the chaff, The gross unwinnowed husks of your fanned wheat. 1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 443/1 The unwinnowed sweepings of English haymows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1552 |
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