| 释义 |
▪ I. linn1 Chiefly Sc.|lɪn|
Forms: 1 hlynn, 6 lyn(n, 6–8 lin, 8– linn.
[Two words seem to have been confused: OE. hlynn str. fem., torrent (? related to hlynn masc., ‘clangor’, hlynnan, hlynian to resound), and Gaelic linne = Irish linn, earlier lind, Welsh llyn, Cornish lin, Breton lenn.]
1. A torrent running over rocks; a cascade, waterfall.
c975Rushw. Gosp. John xviii. 1 Se hælend eode..ofer þah hlynne þe mon Cedron nemneþ. 1513Douglas æneis xi. vii. 9 The ryveris..Brystand on skelleis our thir demmyt lynnis. 1536[see leap v. 2 d]. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 118 Watter [that] fast rinnis ouer ane lin, Dois not returne againe to the awin place. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Between twa birks out o'er a little lin The water fa's. 1785Burns Halloween xxv, Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 99 The roar of the linn On the night breeze is swelling. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 311 A linn falling from a height to which foot⁓paths had been made. 1892Standard 8 Jan. 5/2 In Wales and Scotland there are linns which could render Manchester and Dundee independent of the pitmen of the Black Countries.
2. A pool, esp. one into which a cataract falls.
1577–87Holinshed Chron., Descr. Scot. xii. 18/1 A loch, lin, or poole there. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 80, I saw an river rin Out ouir ane craggie rok of stane, Syne lichtit in ane lin. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. v. 118 Toothy, tripping downe from Verwin's rushie Lin [marg. note, A Poole or watry Moore]. 1790A. Wilson Suicide Poet. Wks. (1846) 130 Driven by mad despair..To poison, dagger, or the engulphing linn. a1802Earl Richard xxii. in Child Ballads II. 153/1 The deepest pot in a' the linn They fand Erl Richard in. 1865Kingsley Herew. I. Prel. 3 He..sees nixes in the dark linns as he fishes by night.
3. A precipice, a ravine with precipitous sides.
1799Med. Jrnl. II. 356 It is found at the bottom of a deep and narrow ravine, or linn. 1808Scott Marm. i. Introd. 3 Gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in. 1818― Hrt. Midl. l, If you come here again, I'll pitch you down the linn like a foot-ball. 1856Bryant Count of Greiers v, They dance through wood and meadow, they dance across the linn.
▪ II. linn2 Now dial. and U.S.
Also 5 lyn, 8 lin, 8–9 lynn.
[Altered form of lind n., the vowel being shortened as is usual in the first element of a compound.]
The linden or lime; also, the wood of this tree; attrib., in linn-bark, linn-board, linn-tree.
c1475Cath. Angl. 217/2 (Addit. MS.) A Lyn tre, tilia. 1674Grew Veget. Trunks vii. §4 Some Woods are soft, but not fast; others are both, as Linn. 1787W. Sargent in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. IX. 158 Lynn,..a light white wood very proper for finishing the inside of dwelling houses. 1796in Morse Amer. Geog. I. 577 The more useful trees are, maple,..lynn tree. 1796Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) II. 331 Lin; tilia europæa, the lime or linden tree. 1799J. Smith Acc. Remark. Occurr. (1870) 30 A cover was made of lynn bark which will run even in the winter season. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) i. App. 54 The banks of the Mississippi are still bordered by the pines of the different species, except a few small bottoms of elm, lynn and maple. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 104 The timber is not such as is usually found in swamps, but fine oak, ash, olive, linn, beech, and poplar of enormous growth. 1819E. Dana Geogr. Sk. Western Country 84 Sugar maple, black and white walnut,..lynn, sycamore, cotton wood. 1819E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 299 Here are the lynn tree, gum tree, [etc.]. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 56 Linn Boards, or White Boards for Shoemakers. 1839in Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. (1855) VI. 263 The table lands are mostly timbered with the varieties of oak, beech, maple, lynn, hickory. 1847Halliwell, Linn-tree, a lime-tree. Derb. 1849E. Chamberlain Indiana Gazetteer (ed. 3) 170 The other forest trees..are ash, walnut,..lynn, [etc.]. 1860M. Curtis Woody Plants N. Carolina 79 Southern Linn. (T[ilia] pubescens, Ait.)—This is confined to the Lower Districts of the Southern States. 1884C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 514 A good deal of black cherry, lin, and locust. 1886Harper's Mag. June 58/2 Ropes are made of lynn bark. |