| 单词 | yolk of an egg | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasyolk of an egg  a.  In the eggs of birds and reptiles: the yellow internal part of the egg, which is surrounded by the white or albumen, is rich in protein and fat, and provides nutrition to the developing embryo. Also as a count noun: the quantity of this substance contained in a single egg, typically as a single globule surrounded by a yolk membrane. Frequently in  yolk of an egg; also (as mass noun)  yolk of egg(s). Cf. vitellus n. 1.The yolks of eggs (separated from the whites) are frequently used in cookery, esp. in baking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > 			[noun]		 > egg-yolk yelloweOE yolkeOE spring1600 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > 			[noun]		 > ovum or ootid > yolk yolkeOE spring1600 vitellary1650 vitellus1728 food-yolk1850 vitellin1857 trophoblast1886 vitelline1891 ovovitellin1906 α.  β. a1325    Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth 		(Arun.)	 		(1857)	 150  				Le mouwel [glossed] the yelke [a1325 Cambr. Gg.1.1 yolke].a1400    tr.  Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie 		(Ashm.)	 		(1894)	 53  				Wiþinne þe wounde leie þe ȝelke of an ey.a1450    Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses 		(1978)	 107 (MED)  				Take..vitriole & vertegrece, whit ellebore & blak, erþenotes, & ȝelkes of hard-soden eyren.1539    T. Elyot Castel of Helthe 		(new ed.)	 69  				Mylke hotte from the vdder,..ruen chese, swete almondes, the yelkes of rere egges.1562    P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 46v, in  tr.  N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre  				Oyle of the yelkes of egges.1600    R. Surflet tr.  C. Estienne  & J. Liébault Maison Rustique  vii. lxv. 895  				Putting thereto the yelkes of two egs and a little saffron.1650    Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 		(ed. 2)	  iii. xxvii. 150  				That a Chicken is formed out of the yelk of the egge,..the people still opinion.a1684    J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 		(1955)	 II. 471  				He abounded in things petrified, Walnuts, Eggs, in which the Yealk rattl'd.1728    E. Chambers Cycl. at Egg  				In the middle of the inner White, is the Vitellus or Yelk.1756    C. Lucas Ess. Waters  i. 73  				[These] divided and inviscated by the yelk of an egg become miscible in..water.1812    G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 70  				O! butter'd egg!.. I bid your yelk glide down my throat's red lane.1864    Reader 5 Nov. 572/2  				The embryos of man [etc.] are nourished..by the mother's blood,..and those of birds by the yelk of the egg.1884    Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 39  				The leather is..soaked in liquor made of the yelks of eggs.1913    Lancet 29 Mar. 884/2  				Tea, with lemon, or a few drops of cream sweetened with saccharin, or black coffee with the yelk of an egg.1994    in  Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. 		(2012)	 V. 1126/1  				My father, who grew up in southeastern Iowa, calls the yellow part of an egg the ‘yelk’.eOE    Bald's Leechbk. 		(Royal)	 		(1865)	  i. ii. 38  				Wiþ þeoradle on eagum..hænne æges geolocan & merces sæd & attrum. OE    Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. 		(Royal)	 		(1997)	 ii. 196  				Sceawa nu on anum æge, hu þæt hwite ne bið gemengd to ðam geolcan, & bið hwæðere an æg. c1300    St. Michael 		(Laud)	 635 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 317  				Ase þe ȝwyte of þe Eye goth a-boute þe ȝeolke. a1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum 		(BL Add. 27944)	 		(1975)	 I.  xii. xix. 629  				Þe chikoun is ibredde of þe white and inorischid wiþ þe ȝolke. a1425						 (a1400)						    Prick of Conscience 		(Galba & Harl.)	 		(1863)	 6446  				Alle erthe by skille may likend be..tille an egge yholke. a1475    Sidrak & Bokkus 		(Lansd.)	 		(1998)	 I. l. 5203 (MED)  				God made þe worlde of þe liknesse Of an egge..By þe white wiþynne vnderstonde I Þat is bitwene þe erthe and sky; By þe ȝolke..Take I þe erthe þat is lowest. 1486    Bk. St. Albans sig. bviv  				Tempere it with clere wyne and with the yolke of an egge. 1561    J. Hollybush tr.  H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 36v  				Geue hym also to eate suppes of Almonde, and the yolkes of soft egges potched in hote water. 1604    J. Marston Malcontent  ii. iv. sig. Dv  				Seauen and thirty yowlks of Barbarie hennes eggs. 1666    J. Davies tr.  C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands  i. xxi. 135  				These [Tortoise] egges are round, and about the bigness of a Tennis-ball; they have white and yolk like Hens-egges, but the shell is not so hard, but soft, feeling as if it were wet parchment. 1667    Third Advice in  Second & Third Advice to Painter 18  				An Addle-egg with double Yoalk. a1756    E. Haywood New Present 		(1771)	 158  				Beat up the yolks of three eggs. 1774    O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 29  				At each end of this are two ligaments, called chalazoæ..which..keep the white and the yolk in their places. 1842    Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in  Poems 		(new ed.)	 II. 43  				A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret, lay,..with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. 1877    E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 376  				Remoulade..may be..described as a Mayonnaise made with hard-boiled yolks of eggs. a1933    J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman 		(1934)	 II. 920  				Vitamin A, soluble in fat, occurs in liver, oils, butter, yolk of egg, and many vegetables. 1991    R. C. Noble in  Egg Incubation 		(1995)	 ii. 20  				The yolks of the two reptilian eggs appear to show notable differences in their distributions of the major fatty acids. 2008    Pastry Art & Design Apr. 32/1  				Make a crème anglaise with mascarpone, yolks and sugar. < as lemmas  | 
	
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