| 释义 |
viny, a.|ˈvaɪnɪ|
Also 6–7 vinie, 7, 9 viney.
[f. vine n. + -y.]
1. Of or pertaining to, of the nature of, vines; composed or consisting of vines.
1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. 54 Fast vpon his head a crowne of vinie leaues is wounde. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xxxiv. 498 Both the nourishment and vinie qualitie of the stocke of the said vine. 1624Trag. Nero i. iii. in Bullen Old Pl. (1882) I. 19 Not Bacchus drawn from Nisa downe with Tigers, Curbing with viny rains their wilful heads. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 143/2 Coloquintida is a Fruit..that grows upon a climbing or viny Plant. 1715Pope Iliad ii. 701 Whom strong Tyrinthe's lofty walls surround, And Epidaure with viny harvests crown'd. 1816Ann. Reg., Chron. 539 The cranberry is of the low and viny kind. 1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 213 Who enter are by kindest angels clad..in robes Woven of sunset clouds, while viny wreaths Gemberries bearing form their coronals.
b. fig. Of an embrace: Clinging, close.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1605) 395 These unfortunate louers..not forgetting with vinie embracements, to giue any eye a perfect moddell of affection.
2. Abounding in, full of, or covered with vines; bearing or producing vines.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xv. 109 The Skeld, the goodly Mose, the rich and Viny Rheine, Shall come to meet the Thames. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. ii. xiii, From thence he furrow'd many a churlish sea, The viny Rhene, and Volgha's self did passe. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Germany (1685) 115 Wurtzburg,..environed with Meadows, Gardens, and Vinie Downs. 1729Fenton Ded. Lady Harley 104 Wks. (1790) 375 Trophies, atchiev'd on Gallia's viny plains. 1735Thomson Liberty i. 58 Baiæ's viny coast; where peaceful seas..ever kiss the shore. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 277 The steepest, but most lovely of pleasure⁓paths, conducts through viny woods and white villas to [etc.]. 1854F. Tennyson Days & Hours 87 Whisper of viny hills, and sands of gold.
3. Comb., as viny-crowned adj.
1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 122 'Twas too sad For viny-crowned Thalia. |