单词 | after-table |
释义 | > as lemmasafter-table (c) Prefixed to nouns, indicating secondary, inferior, or remote status, as after-kindred, after-table, after-wine, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 95 Sapa, æftereala. 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 79 Tak þe mylk of þe hasel notis. Boyl þe wite wyth þe aftermelk til it be dryyd..& þe ferst mylk cast þerto & boyle wel. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxxix. 1086 The after wyn þat is ywronge out of grapes. c1415 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Lansd.) (1872) §2565 Ȝoure kinred is bot after kinrede [c1405 Hengwrt a fer kynrede, c1410 Harl. 7334 litel kinrede] þat bien bot litil sibbe to ȝowe. 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xv. 108 The Ferrica-substantiæ is tougher then the liquour of the alter-slagg [sic], which when it is battred vnder the stroke and presse of the hammer, the after-slagge is squeased and pressed out. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. Ad. Mag. iii. 274 A wilful foreman that is made beforehand, and a messe of tame after-men..that dare not thinke of being wiser than their leader. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xx. 212 Here is a high table, and bread; and a by-board, or an after-table. 1780 W. Shaw Galic & Eng. Dict. I Iarbhleothan, after-milk. 1890 tr. A. Dal Piaz Utilization Wine Residues in Ann. Rep. Board State Viticultural Commissioners 1889–90 iii. 163 When the grapes get thoroughly ripe before picking, the after-wine may be made of very good quality. 1993 T. M. Charles-Edwards Early Irish & Welsh Kinship i. 49 The white-kindred extends to five men, the certain-kindred to nine men, the after-kindred to thirteen men, and the end-kindred to seventeen men. < as lemmas |
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