单词 | wartwale |
释义 | wartwalen. Obsolete exc. dialect. A growth or loose piece of skin at the base of the finger-nail; an agnail.In the 3rd quot. apparently used for: The root of a cock's spur. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > disorders of nails > [noun] wartwalec1325 flaw1574 liverage1598 pterygium1601 hangnail1678 mormal1685 agnail1737 onychia1814 defluvium1817 onychogryphosis1833 liver-sick1836 ingrowing1852 backfriend1864 onychomycosis1865 white lie1899 koilonychia1902 c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. (1857) 172 Coupet des cisours des ungles les eles [glossed the wortewale (nailes)]. a1400 Nominale (Skeat) Deiez cieles et galeyns Fyngres wortwales and ȝespons. 14.. Songs & Carols (Warton Club) 31 I have a gentil cook crowyt me day,..His spores arn of sylver qwyt into the wortewale. c1450 J. Metham Wks. 138 Naylys the qwyche..that..hath no wurtewalys..be most repreuabyl. 1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) A v b Pterigium, wartewale [1525 ed., a water whele]. 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 77v/1 A wertwale, pterigium. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qiii/2 A Wartwayle, pterigium. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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