| 释义 |
foisonless, a. Chiefly Sc.|ˈfɔɪz(ə)nlɪs|
Also fison-, fishion-, fissen-, fiz(z)en-, fusion-, fushionless.
[f. foison n. + -less.]
Wanting substance, strength, or ‘sap’; weak, ineffective, both in a material and immaterial sense. Of grass: Wanting in succulence or nourishing properties.
1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 104 Fair Folk is ay Fisonless. a1796Burns ‘The Deuk's dang o'er my Daddie’, An' he is but a fusionless carlie. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 328 Old rusty and fizenless sword. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, And puir thin fusionless skink it was. 1837Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 3 Our very Biographies, how stiff-starched, foisonless, hollow. 1864Athenæum No. 1921. 234/2 The fusionless bog hay. 1870Pall Mall G. 27 Sept. 11 These fusionless idlers who never derange themselves for anything. 1888R. F. D. Palgrave in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 745 The ‘wild⁓fire’ proved a very fizzenless mixture. |