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单词 wild silk
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wild silk
a. Produced or yielded by wild animals or plants; produced naturally without cultivation; sometimes, having the characteristic (usually inferior) quality of such productions (cf. sense A. 3b). wild silk, silk produced by wild silkworms or an imitation of this made from short silk fibres. With ‘wild meat’ cf. Old Saxon wildflêsc, etc.; with ‘wild leather’ cf. Middle Swedish wilskin.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > natural or formed by nature
wildc1175
naturalc1450
spontaneous1732
unbuilt1882
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > types of > made from specific forms of silk fibre or thread > wild silk
wild silk1876
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3213 Hiss drinnch wass waterr..Hiss mete wilde rotess.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 Moren and wilde uni was his mete.
1519 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) II. 177 The kiching witht..ij pair of raxis. Item iij spyttis ane grit ane less and ane for wild met.
1528 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) 3 All maner of persouns that takis wylde meitt.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (1541) sig. R iv b There be also prunes called wylde prunes, ye whiche growe in the woddes.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. v. 2 He loked yt it shulde bring forthe grapes: but it broght forthe wilde grapes.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 75 These ships..are sowed together with ropes made of Cairo, & pitched ouer with wild incense.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ix. 340 Their flesh is hot and vnsauorie, and hath a wilde tast.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 338 Leather called wyld lether the daker, xxs.
1614 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 43 Lett not my leadie our mother trubll hirself in bying much vylde meitt to your sons bapttisme.
1777 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. (1789) I. 214 A dinner entirely of wild-meats.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 418 It is very rare in the present day that honey is found wild.
1876 B. F. Cobb Silk in Brit. Manuf. Industr. V. 171 The silks now generally recognized as tussahs,..are a description of wild silk [etc.].
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 40/1 The wild or Tussah silk.
1896 Daily News 26 May 6/4 The wild silks of India, known in commerce as ‘Tussore silk’, of which ladies' dresses and various articles are made.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 Apr. 14/2 The cargo was made up as follows: Raw silk, 960 bales; wild silk, 49 bales.
1963 R. Himmel It's Murder, Maguire vii. 46 I always suspected him of wearing wild silk underwear.
1972 J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic ix. 162 Her white wild-silk bikini.
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