单词 | yeanling |
释义 | yeanlingn. archaic. a. A young lamb or kid. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > kid ticchenc950 kidc1175 kiddy1579 kidling1586 yeanlinga1644 goatrel1688 goatling1707 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 a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) i One of my weaker yeanlings hapt to stray. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. ix. 283 As he milked his ewes.. All in their turns, her yeanling [he] gave to each. 1862 C. Norton Lady of La Garaye iv. 411 Still to the schools the ancient chiming clock Calls the poor yeanlings of a simple flock. 1869 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. May 551 Take the young ones to the teat, Left in yeanlings' penfolds pent. b. appositive or as adj. That is a yeanling; young or new-born: esp. of a lamb. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young new-fallena1618 yeanling1658 squab1706 subadult1844 weaner1865 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 1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 495 The common Epithets expressing the nature of this Beast [sc. the lamb] are these, rough, yeanling [1607 (ed. 1) yearling], weak, unripe, sucking, tender. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 434 The flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids. View more context for this quotation 1765 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) I. Pref. p. xxvi The yeanling Kids and cooing Turtles. 1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 33 239 To surround himself with ushers, proportioned to the number of boys, and more advanced in acquirement than these yeanling monitors. 1870 R. W. Buchanan Book of Orm ii. 33 By the yeanling lambkin's side. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1644 |
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