| 释义 |
tongueless, a.|ˈtʌŋlɪs|
[See -less.]
1. lit. Having no tongue, without a tongue.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxxii. (Bodl. MS.), Amonge beestes of þe londe he [the crocodile] is tungles. 1570Levins Manip. 91/16 Tonguelesse, elinguis, e. 1611Cotgr., Gouttreuse, a certain white, long-beaked, and tonglesse bird [a pelican]. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 524/1, I doubt very much, whether a Tongueless Person, or one that is without a Roof to the Mouth, can Taste. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. in 18th C. I. iv. vi. 267 The miracle of the tongueless confessor is mentioned by Gibbon as resting on remarkably good evidence. 1879J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima & Brit. Guiana 171 note, Herodotus, too, who was a keen observer of the crocodile, repeats the idea that it is tongueless. 1907Q. Rev. July 201 The most revered objects in the ti are the bells, usually tongueless.
2. Without the faculty of voice or speech, dumb, mute; also, without speaking, speechless, silent.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 196 Why stonde ye thus stylle, be ye tunglees? 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 287 b, That persone, by whose benefite thou art made of a tounglesse bodye, eloquente. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Anagrams & Sonn. Wks. ii. 256/2 Now chirping birds are all turn'd tounglesse mutes. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. i. xxxi. (1670) 90 We go with our heads hanging,..our mouths tongueless. 1824J. Symmons tr. æschylus' Agam. 73 The mighty judges heard the tongueless plea.
b. Said of things.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 105 Euen from the toonglesse cauernes of the earth. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 92 The consent of the Church alone..ought to be of greater esteeme..than all mute and tonguelesse Bookes. a1822Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1852) I. 138 There is eloquence in the tongueless wind. 1868J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occas. 9, I cannot bear those sullen walls, Those eyeless towers, those tongueless halls.
†3. Not spoken of; unmentioned. Obs. rare.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. i. 92 One good deed, dying tonguelesse, Slaughters a thousand, wayting vpon that. |