单词 | weather-beaten |
释义 | weather-beatenadj. 1. Beaten or buffeted by wind and rain; that has been exposed to severe weather. Frequently as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > driven or beaten by bad weather weather-drivena1513 weather-beatenc1560 c1560 T. Mowntayne in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 210 Thence to Colchester, and there toke shypynge, thynkynge to have gone ynto Seland,..but we were so whether~beatyn that of force we were glad to returne bake agayn. 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iv. f. 102v Most of our shyps were thus broosed and weatherbeaten. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. C2v To rest our wearie and weather-beaten bones. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 16 The galleys of Sardegna being (by a great tempest) wether-beaten and driven to that shore. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 58 The Kings harassed, Weather-beaten, and half-starved Troops. 1722 S. Croxall tr. Æsop Fables xli. 76 The Sun..darted his warm sultry Beams upon the Head of the poor weather~beaten Traveller. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 141 It becomes harder and tougher in proportion as it is weather~beaten. 1882 ‘Ouida’ Bimbi 98 The tall old houses are weatherbeaten into the most delicious hues. 1904 Daily Chron. 16 July 9/2 Another weather-beaten pigeon sought rest on the brigantine Jantyre. 2. Expressing the result. a. Of things: Worn, defaced, or damaged by exposure to the weather. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > by action of weather weather-beatena1547 overweathered1600 weather-worn?1609 weather-beat?1615 weather-bita1616 weathered1789 withered1794 weather-scarred1876 weather-roughened1897 a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 92 Auncient walles to race..And of their wetherbeten stones to buylde some new devyse. 1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex 38 Pancras Church standeth all alone..old and wetherbeaten. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight i. sig. B3 Orators wiues shortly will bee knowne like images on water staires, euer in one wetherbeaten suite. a1618 W. Raleigh Observ. Royal Navy (1650) 27 They make their Ocum..of old seere and weather-beaten ropes. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3260/4 Wearing a Weather-beaten Periwig. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 6 A very small and weather-beaten old cow's-skin trunk. 1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough xii Under the weather-beaten winkers and shabby harness of a four-horse waggon. b. Of persons, their countenances, etc.: Bronzed, coarsened, toughened, hardened by exposure to all kinds of weather. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [adjective] brownc1384 nut-brownc1503 weather-beaten1530 tanned1564 tan-faced1614 tan-skinned1614 brown-complexioned1704 tanninga1717 brown-skinned1745 suntanned1796 well-tanned1815 weather-bronzed1837 bronzed1842 weather-tanned1853 saddle-coloured1854 bronze-faced1896 tan1963 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 844/1 Weather beaten, as men be that have lyen in the felde or see. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) viii. x. 199/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Harold answered, that they were not priests, but wether-beaten [1577 stalworth] and hardie souldiers. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. C1 Neyther they nor the weather-beatenst Cosmographicall Starre-catcher of em all. 1662 H. Hibbert Exercitationes Theologicæ 146 in Syntagma Theologicum Such was his undoubted resolution, that neither their great words, nor their high looks could daunt him, Weather-beaten-souldier (as I may so speak) in Christianity. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Emmariné Matelot emmariné, a case-hardened or weather-beaten tar; a veteran sailor. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 112 An old man, with a wooden leg and a weatherbeaten face. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. iii. 53 The scarred and weatherbeaten features of the old warrior. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 613 Two weatherbeaten old seamen who had risen from being cabin boys to be Admirals. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > by action of weather weather-beatena1547 overweathered1600 weather-worn?1609 weather-beat?1615 weather-bita1616 weathered1789 withered1794 weather-scarred1876 weather-roughened1897 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vi. 193 [Ulysses] So wet, so weather-beate. 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. xii. 3. 319 The teeth..standing like weather-beate stakes,..falling out one after another. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 198 The Devil he was so Weather-beat, He was forc'd to take to a Tree. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Weather-bet, weather-beaten. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [verb (transitive)] > assail or beat weather-beat1598 bestorm1743 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sbattere,..to thrash, to wetherbeate. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > condition of > stress of weather > fact of being buffeted by weather weather-beating1586 1586 Praise of Musicke vi. 75 Alas what pleasure could they take at the whippe and ploughtaile in so often and vncessant labours, such bitter weatherbeatings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasweather-beaten 10. With preceding noun in instrumental relation, as weather-beaten, wave-beaten, etc. See beat v.1 6. ΚΠ 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. Argt. His..winter beaten flocke. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados Ded. sig. A 2 Anchor of my poore Tempest-beaten state. 1620 F. Quarles Jonah (1638) 27 The weather-beaten Ship. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 9 An old man stood looking out on a desolate waste of rain-beaten sea. < adj.1530 as lemmas |
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