| 单词 | aff loof | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasaff loof   The palm of the hand. to creesh one's loof: see creesh v.   aff loof adverbial phr. = off hand. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > 			[noun]		 > palm of loof13.. palmc1300 doll1567 handhole1767 flat1828 palmar1890 13..    S. Erkenwolde 349 in  Horstm. Altengl. Leg. 		(1881)	 274  				Þene wos louynge oure lorde with loves vp haldene. a1400–50    Alexander 		(Ashm.)	 2569  				Þe licor in his awen looue [Dublin MS. lofe], þe lettir in þe tothire. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Cleanness l. 987  				Wyth lyȝt louez vplyfte þay loued hym swyþe. c1400    Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 26  				Take a litill bawme and lay it on þe lufe of þi hand. a1500						 (a1460)						    Towneley Plays 		(1994)	 I. iii. 44  				I may towch with my lufe The grownd evyn here. a1500    R. Henryson tr.  Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2072 in  Poems 		(1981)	 79  				I sall off it mak mittenis to my lufis Till hald my handis hait quhair euer I be. 1513    G. Douglas tr.  Virgil Æneid  viii. ii. 5  				And in the holl luffis of his hand, quhair he stude, Dewly the wattir hynt he fra the flude. 1562    W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 108  				They be as big as a man can grype in the palm or loofe of his hande. 1573    in  J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation 		(1891)	 I. xxxix. 203  				The suddartis luiffis wes as ouirlaid wt lyme. 1637    S. Rutherford Lett. 		(1863)	 I. 198  				We are fools to be browden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand. a1653    Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers 		(1855)	 54  				If in your loof yee all this silver had. 1721    A. Ramsay Lucky Spence xii  				Wi' well-creesh'd loofs I hae been canty. 1728    A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 62  		(1877)	 II. 8  				A canty tale he'd tell aff loof. 1792    R. Burns in  J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 389  				Auld baudrans by the ingle sits, An' wi' her loof her face a washin'. 1830    J. Galt Lawrie Todd III.  vii. vii. 75  				Though the case were as plain as my loofe. 1855    F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 107  				Give us thy lufe, not thy fist. 1896    J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy xix. 215  				Using the loof of his hand as a spoon. < as lemmas  | 
	
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