| 单词 | wroth as wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswroth as (the) wind 7. In comparisons, as a type of violence or fury (†phr. wroth as (the) wind), swiftness, freedom or unrestrainable character, mutability or fickleness, lightness or emptiness (cf. 15). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > one who or that which moves swiftly > typically wind1377 swallowc1380 quicksilver1562 shoes of swiftness1787 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > wind as typical of wind1377 the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing weathercocka1300 wind?a1513 Proteus1528 chameleon1586 moon's man1598 vane1598 mooncalf1607 remover1609 tarand1641 inconstant1647 mutables1652 changeablea1711 kaleidoscope1819 phantasmagoria1822 palimpsest1845 variable1846 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 350 ‘I may no lenger lette’, quod he,..And went away as wynde. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 410 He wex as wroth as þe wynde towarde oure lorde. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv Schir golograse for greif his gray ene brynt. Wod wraith as [printed ad] the wynd. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 259 Purpos dois change as wynd or rane. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviiiv All dependeth of a thyng that is more lyght than is the wynde. c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 83 A man of the winde, and false fellowe. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iv. 100 Vaine fantasie..more inconstant than the winde . View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 94 About the wood, goe swifter then the winde . View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 250 Speake frankly as the winde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 502 Thou shalt be as free As mountaine windes . View more context for this quotation 1785 C. Wilkins tr. Bhăgvăt-Gēētā vi. 66 I esteem it as difficult to restrain as the wind. 1855 H. W. Longfellow My Lost Youth i A verse of a Lapland song..‘A boy's will is the wind's will’. < as lemmas |
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