单词 | yean |
释义 | † yeann. Obsolete. A young lamb, yeanling. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb lambc725 yean1408 lambkin1579 baa-lamb1599 eanling1600 lambling1605 yeanlinga1644 sheepling1654 wool-bird1825 baa-ling1853 1408 Wycl. Bible Ps. cxliii. 13 (Fairf. 2) Þe sheep of hem ben wþ ȝeeene [v.rr. ȝene, ȝeene, ene, eene, yn]. 1408 Wycl. Bible Isa. xl. 11 (Fairf. 2) He shal bere sheep wiþ eene eþer wþ lombe [v.rr. yene, ene]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). yeanv. Now archaic and dialect. 1. a. transitive. Of a ewe: To bring forth (a lamb); also said of goats and occasionally other beasts. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to bearOE whelpc1175 kindle?c1225 hatcha1350 yeana1387 calvea1425 producea1513 dam1577 cast1587 rewhelp1605 render1607 store1611 drop1662 warp1738 kit1758 kitten1824 throw1824 cub1864 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [verb (transitive)] > give birth eanOE yeana1387 ewe1579 lamba1642 tup1721 sling1750 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 303 Alle þe splekked lamberne and kedes þat schulden be i-ȝened. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xliiii A Lambe was yenyd hauynge .ii. perfyte bodyes with all Members, and but one heed. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx An ewe gothe with lambe .xx. wekes & shall yeane [printed eyane] her lambe in the .xxi. weke. 1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 319 There is a riuer in Assyria..which causeth the sheepe that drinke thereof to yeane blacke lambes. a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vii They'l conspire To yeane their jolly lambs within thy cot. 1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 32 The ewes yean the polled lamb with the least danger. 1800 W. Wordsworth Pet-lamb in Lyrical Ballads (ed. 2) II. 141 The dam that did thee yean Upon the mountain~tops. 1806 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 4 51 To record the day and hour when a sheep died, a lamb was yeaned, or one of the flock stolen. 1862 R. C. Trench Visit to Tusculum in Poems 15 Watching the white goats..their young Tending, new yeaned. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 154 What grim lioness yeaned thee, aneath what rock's desolation? b. figurative. To produce, give birth to. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] > give birth forthbring971 akenOE haveOE bearOE to bring into the worldOE teemOE i-bereOE to bring forthc1175 childc1175 reara1275 ofkenc1275 hatcha1350 makea1382 yielda1400 cleck1401 issue1447 engenderc1450 infant1483 deliver?a1518 whelp1581 world1596 yean1598 fall1600 to give (a person or thing) birth1615 to give birth to1633 drop1662 pup1699 born1703 to throw off1742 beteem1855 birth1855 parturiate1866 shell1890 to put to bed1973 bring- 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E7 Yon's one hath yean'd a fearefull prodigie. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 69 Trendrant time behoves to hurry All to yean and all to bury. 2. intransitive. To bring forth young, as a sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > bring forth young belittera1325 whelp1398 fawn1481 litter1484 kitten1495 kittle1530 yean1548 dam1577 farrow1580 cub1755 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Adasia, an olde yewe, whiche hath lately yeaned or had a lambe. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 99 Like an ewe when she is yeaning and wringeth for deliueraunce. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31 Eawes ready to yeane, craues grownd rid cleane. a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 945 The time when mountain Goats and Hindes Doe yean and calue. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 22 To see a woman calve, or a cow yean. 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 17 By the time all the ewes have yeaned. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. vi. 212 The ewes yean twice a year. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 232 The ewes yean in a yard or standing pen. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 51 The ewes yean thrice within the full circle of a year. Derivatives yeaned adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of or like a lamb > newly-born new-yeaned1567 yeaned1567 yeanling1658 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 85v The bleating of a new yeand Lambe. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 290 Their bodies..Of new-yeand Lambs haue full the forme and guise. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Bucolics vii. 17 Phyllis..might at home Shut up my new-yean'd Lambs. a1711 T. Ken Sion i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 322 The new-yean'd Lambs he'll in his Bosom lay. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xi. 263 Some little new-yeaned lambs. 1866 Copley Agric. ix. xvi. 487 Late yeaned lambs..are generally delicate. ˈyeaning n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of a ewe > giving birth yeaning1574 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > giving birth lambing1573 yeaning1574 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 405 His Eawes to haue good yeaning. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 139 The shepheard must be as careful as a midwyfe in the yeaning time. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 258 Within thirteen months she brought 4 Lambs at three yeanings. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 93 The yeaning Ewes prevent the springing Year. View more context for this quotation 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 309 The she bear takes an old large hollow tree for her yeaning winter-house. 1776 Compl. Grazier (ed. 4) xxvi. 144 It is necessary she [sc. a ewe] should at her yeaning have the benefit of springing grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1408v.a1387 |
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