单词 | wolfs-head |
释义 | wolf's-headwolf-headn. 1. The head of a wolf; a figure of this, e.g. as a heraldic bearing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > parts of wolf's-headc1000 stern1575 wolf's-milk1847 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > wolf's head wolf's-head1586 c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 360 To slæpe, wulfes heafod lege under þone pyle. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1093 Alle falterde þe flesche in his foule lyppys, Ilke wrethe as a wolfe-hevede, it wraythe owtt at ones! 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 230 Hugh the firste Earle of Chester, was surnamed de Loupe, because he bare a Wolfes head in his shield. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xv. 145 Hee beareth Azure, two Barres, Argent, on a Canton Sable, a Wolues head Errased of the second. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 5 A young man holding a wolf's head high up in the air. 1891 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 7/2 Minnesota spent last year twenty-five thousand dollars in bounties on wolf-heads brought in. 2. Anglo-Saxon Law. A cry for the pursuit of an outlaw as one to be hunted down like a wolf; transferred (originally in to cry wolf's head) an outlaw.17th century law books have various corrupt forms, as wolferfod, woolfeshered, woolferthfod, wolfetchsod. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > in force [phrase] > cry for pursuit of outlaw wolf's-head?c1300 society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > outlaw outlawOE friendless manOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 banished man1495 broken man1528 proscript1576 horner1590 outlawed1644 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw flemeOE outlawOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 owl-hoot1934 c1000 Laws Edw. Conf. vi Lupinum enim gerit caput a die utlagationis sue, quod ab Anglis uulfesheued nominatur.] ?c1300 Mirr. Justices iv. iv. (Selden Soc.) 125 E point ne vient, qe des adunc le tiegne lem pur lou e est criable Wolvesheved, pur ceo qe lou est beste haie de tote gent. c1400 Gamelyn (Harl.) 700 Whan Gamelyn her lorde wolues-heed was cryed & made. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes vii. 1261 Out of ther court banyshed was prudence,..Cried woluis hed was vertuous sobirnesse. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 257 Now wols-hede and outhorne On the be tane! 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 55 By that time I shall be a wolf's head, and out of the law. 1914 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 95/2 Vengeance on these cruel wolfheads. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1000 |
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