| 单词 | west isles |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswest isles ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] > islands west islesc1400 mainland1503 Western Islands1577 Western Isles1577 Zetland1577 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 6 (MED) Ennias þe athel & his highe kynde..patrounes bicome Welneȝe of al þe wele in þe west iles. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. x. 39/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Iles that lie about the north coast of..Scotland..are either occidentals, the west Iles,..or the Shetlands. 1607 Denmylne MSS in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 104 Anent the uest Yllis, thair is ane infeftment of few ferme past to the Erll of Ergyll of the landis of Kintyre. 1701 Syst. Geogr. 48 Argile, Lorn, Kintyre, and Lohaber, with some of the West Isles. 1860 Gentleman's Mag. June 603/1 Nothing more was known with regard to the consumption of wine in the West Isles during the seventeenth century, and it has long ceased to be used among the common people of the Hebrides. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。