| 释义 |
† drop vie, drop-vie, phr. Obs.
[f. drop v. + vie n.: but sometimes treated as a compound vb.]
To drop pieces of money or the like in competition or rivalry, trying which can outdo the other; to compete in alternate efforts, to bid against each other, to vie.
1598Florio, Rinuitare, to reuye it againe at any game, to drop vye, to bid againe. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 For numbers..of honest housholders..and substantiall graue Burgers, Yarmouth shall droppe vie with them to the last Edward groate they are worth. 1605Camden Rem. 191 When twoo Monkes were at drop-vied Bezantines..before him for an Abbey. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. i, He there would sit, and withe the well drop vie That it before his eyes would first run drie.
Hence † drop-vie n. Obs., a competition in which each tries to outdo the other.
1598Florio, Rinuito, a reuye, a drop vye at any game. |