| 释义 |
rearmouse, reremouse Now only arch. or dial.|ˈrɪəmaʊs|
Forms: α. 1 hrere-, hryremus, (2 reremus), 4–5 reremous, -mows(e, 6–7, 9 reremouse, (7 reere-, 7, 9 dial. reer-). β. 6–7 reare-, 7– rearmouse, (9 dial. rare-). γ. 6–7 pl. remice, -mise, 9 dial. ry(e)-, ray-, raa-, rawmouse.
[OE. hreremús, f. mús mouse.
The first element may represent the stem of OE. hréran to move, but the length of the vowel is not certain. It is also possible that the form is an alteration (by phonetic corruption or popular etymology) of the older hréaðemús, found in the earliest glosses and some later texts, and perh. represented by some of the existing dialect forms.]
= bat n.1 (Cf. flicker-, flinder-, flitter-mouse.)
αa1100Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 318/27 Uespertilio, hrere⁓mus. 1382Wyclif Lev. xi. 19 A lapwynk and a reremous. 1382― Baruch vi. 21 Aboue the hed of hem backis, or reremijse, and swalewis fleeȝen. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 272 Not to rewle as reremys, and reste on the daies. 1552Huloet, Backe or Reremouse which flieth in the darke, nicteris. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. ii. 4 Some warre with Reremise for their leathern wings. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 212 Reer-mice, or Bats so large as Gos⁓hawkes. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 24 One of the Seamen affirm'd that he had seen Flying Fishes, and that they had wings like a Rere-Mouse. 1863Wise New Forest 192 The bat is here called rere-mouse. 1864–in dial. glossaries (Dorset, Som., Glouc., Hants). 1886R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. Foreword 8 The rere⁓mouse flitted overhead with his tiny shriek.
β1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 504 We shall wander and straggle blindely..as wantes and rearemyce at the bright beames of the cleare Sunne. 1668Dryden Even. Love v. i, Some flying, and some sticking upon the Walls like Rear-mice. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iv. 129 These Brutes, whose language resembled the screeching of Bats, or Rear-Mice. 1835Browning Paracelsus iii. 391 Do the rear-mice still Hang like a fretwork on the gate? 1892Earl Lytton King Poppy Epil. 163 The rear-mice flit In the hard furrow.
γ1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 92 We in English language bats or remice call the same. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 544 Their lights are oftentimes put out with the..swarmes of remise flying about their eares. 1825Britton Beauties Wilts III. Prov., Rymouse, a bat. 1851,1893in Glouc. and Wilts glossaries (rye-, raa-, rawmouse).
†b. transf. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1611Cotgr. Rondole, the sea Bat, or Rearemouse of the sea; a flying fish. |