| 释义 |
▪ I. swallowing, vbl. n.|ˈswɒləʊɪŋ|
Also 4 zuelȝing, swolwyng, 5 swelluing, swelwyng(e, swellyng(e.
[f. swallow v. + -ing1.]
I. The action of the verb swallow.
1. Deglutition; † devouring: see swallow v. 1.
c1400Apol. Loll. 55 Þe deuowring or swelluing of alle bestis of þe feld. c1440Promp. Parv. 482/2 Swelwyynge of mete (K., P. swellynge of mete and drynke), degluticio. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 903 The swalowyng, lauailer. 1725Lond. Gaz. No. 6349/3 His Swallowing is easier. 1780Mirror No. 73 The swallowing of much strong liquor produces a temporary madness. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 293 The difficulty of swallowing, known by the name of Dysphagia. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 736 There is rarely any affection of swallowing.
attrib.1881Cable Mme. Delphine vi. 27 She..began a faltering speech, with a swallowing motion in the throat.
†b. Tasting, sense of taste: see swallow v. 2.
1340Ayenb. 91 Be zyȝþe, be hyerþe, be smellinge, be zuelȝynge, and be takynge. c1440Jacob's Well 218 Þe iij. gate of þi pytt is tastyng or swelwyng.
2. fig. (also with up): see swallow v. 4, 10 c.
1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (Bohn) 318 The oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self. 1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1853) 604 Which exactions here are swallowed up by the aristocracy and their dependents; but which swallowings are imputed to every one bearing the name of parson.
II.
†3. A whirlpool: = swallow n.2 2. Obs.
Used like OE. pr. pple. swelᵹend to render L. vorago.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 65 Þere beeþ many swolwynges and whirlynges of wateres by þe see brynkes. Ibid. II. 51 Woodnesse of swolwynge and of whirlynge water.
▪ II. ˈswallowing, ppl. a.
Also 4 swelwyng.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That swallows; usually transf. or fig.: see the verb.
a1400Prymer (1891) 24 (Benedicite) Fier and swelwyng⁓hete blesse to the lord. 1548Elyot, Voraginosus.., full of gulfes or swalowyng pittes. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 193 These blind and swalowyng sandes. a1586Sidney Ps. v. iv, Their throate it is an open swallowing grave. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 128 Almost shouldred in the swallowing gulph, Of blind forgetfulnesse. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 53 Euery swallowing waue threatned our death. 1806J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life i. i. (ed. 3) 13 What is the Country, but a sandy desart at one season or a swallowing quagmire at another? 1852M. Arnold The Future 16 Whether he first sees light Where the river..winds through the plain: Whether in sound of the swallowing sea. |