| 释义 |
unˈlaid, ppl. a. and n.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. ON. úlagðr; also Du. ongelegd, G. ungelegt (of eggs).]
1. a. Not laid, placed, or set.
1468–9Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 124 The lenger that it [sc. the roof-tile] lythe unleyd the wers it wyll be. 1570Levins Manip. 197 Vnlayd, non positus. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvi. §5 The first foundation of the world being as yet vnlayd. 1656Osborne Adv. Son Lett., Wks. 1722 l. B 5, The severest Curse remaining in the custody of Fortune, yet unlaid upon me. 1872Daily News 12 Aug., The spot where the final stone of the great structure yet hung unlaid.
b. ? Laid out (as a corpse); laid in the grave.
c1635B. Jonson Underwoods, Petition Chas. I, Parts of me they judg'd decay'd; But we last out still unlay'd.
c. Of a hedge: (see lay v.1 6 b).
1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 255 If..the shoots are cut toward the bottom growth of the wood as downward in an unlaid one, or against the leaning direction of the layers in a laid hedge.
d. Of a woman with whom no one has had, or a particular person has not had, sexual intercourse. slang.
1962‘E. McBain’ Like Love (1964) iv. 56 What it all meant was: 1. Gaspipe. 2. Sober. 3. Unlaid. 1977Sunday Times 27 Mar. 42/2 A thousand places visited and not absorbed, a thousand paperbacks unread, a thousand unlaid airhostesses.
2. Of spirits: Not laid by exorcism.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 278 Guid. Ghost vnlaid forbeare thee. Arui. Nothing ill come neere thee. 1634Milton Comus 434 No evil thing that walks by night,..Blew meager Hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost,..Hath hurtfull power o're true virginity. 1780Burke Œcon. Reform Wks. III. 297 Ghosts of unlaid accountants, haunt the houses. 1806Moore Epist. viii. i, Pagan spirits, by the Pope unlaid. 1831Wordsw. ‘The forest huge’ 11 The feudal Warrior-chief, a Ghost unlaid, Hath still his castle. 1888(title), Unlaid Ghost: a Study in Metempsychosis.
3. Not laid open, out, etc.
1608Shakes. Per. i. ii. 89 How many worthy princes' bloods were shed, To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 62 Though they be unlaid out in themselves, they may be laid out by body laid in.
4. Not covered or plated with something.
1648Hexham ii, Ongebleckt, Vnlaid with plates of Lettine.
5. In technical uses, e.g. of a rope (see lay v. 37), of paper (see laid ppl. a.), etc.
In recent dicts.
6. n. A blanket made from untarred wool. Sc.
a1869J. Younger Autobiog. (1881) iv. 38 He rolled up his pipes, bag and all, in the blankets above him..—which bag imparted that election-dinner stain to her best white unlaids. |