单词 | canceleer |
释义 | canceleern. Hawking. a. See quot. 1704. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [noun] > other actions checkc1430 tiringc1450 rifler1486 canceleer1599 coast1614 gurgiting1614 raling1618 stooping1653 casta1793 1599 J. Weever Epigrammes sig. E Nor with the Falcon fetch a cancelleere. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xx. 16 The fierce and eager Hawkes..Make sundry Canceleers e'r they the Fowle can reach. 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 155 Full swift she flew, till coming near Carthage, she made a Cancelleer, And then a stoop. 1704 Dict. Rusticum Cancellier..when a light flown Hawk, in her stooping, turns two or three times upon the Wing, to recover herself before she seizes. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 20 His cancellier, his fall being only from the first loft. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclvi, in Poems (1878) IV. 165 Enough if fame..Scorne to Stoope, in well-wing'd Verse, To Single Names, in fainting Canciliers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). canceleercancelierv. Hawking. a. Of a hawk: To turn (once or twice) upon the wing, in order to recover herself before striking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions tirec1220 beak1486 enseam1486 traverse1486 bind1575 crab1575 gleam1575 accost1596 canceleera1640 to wait on1773 to throw up1881 a1640 P. Massinger Guardian i. i. 337 in 3 New Playes (1655) The Partridge sprung, He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forc'd To cancellier. 1834 M. Edgeworth Helen II. i. 21 Now! right over the heron; and now she will cancelleer. b. figurative. To turn aside, to swerve or digress. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress overleapc1400 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 digress1530 traverse1530 decline?1543 square1567 rovea1575 deviate1638 to step aside1653 swerve1658 to sally out1660 transgress1662 to run off1687 canceleera1697 cantona1734 excurse1748 to travel out of the record1770 divagate1852 desult1872 sidetrack1893 a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) V. 407 I will take the Boldness to cancelleer, and give a general Description of those Parts of England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1599v.a1640 |
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