单词 | by spurts |
释义 | > as lemmasby spurts 3. by spurts: extracted from spurtn.1 a. In or with brief unsustained or spasmodic efforts; fitfully, spasmodically. †Also by fits and spurts, by fits and starts. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > intermittently by (formerly also at) startsc1422 startmeal?c1422 off and on1535 every otherwhile1542 by, or in, snatches1577 by fits and turns1583 by halves and fits1583 one time with another1591 fit-meal1593 by fits and spurts1605 planetarily?1609 scatteredly1612 startinglya1616 by snaps1631 intermittingly1654 from space to space1658 on and off1668 at (by) intervals1744 cessantly1746 by spells1788 fitfully1792 by fits and spasms1797 everylikea1800 intermittently1800 intermittedly1829 interjectionally1837 jerkily1839 at seasons1850 sporadically1852 parenthetically1860 spasmodically1877 snatchily1880 variously1892 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i [He] hath stolne, By his meere industry, and that by spurts, Such qualities as no wit else can match With plodding at perfection every houre. 1653 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 523 I am like to bee 3 or 4 months in a yeare at Claydon & that only by fits & spurts. 1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 21 Forsooth it is by spurts, and not long enough to be accounted a settled Magistrate. 1882 Atlantic Monthly L. 753 He [a negro] can work hard for a while by spurts. b. In intermittent jets. (Cf. spurt n.3 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [adverb] > in spurts by spurts1644 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [adverb] by spurts1644 a-spout1870 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvi. 234 When a wound is made in the hart, bloud will gush out by spurtes att euery shooting of the hart. 1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xlvii. 629 A sudden constriction takes place, and the urine is voided by spurts, and sometimes by drops only. < as lemmas |
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