| 释义 |
liny, liney, a.|ˈlaɪnɪ|
[f. line n.2 + -y1.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling a line or streak, thin, meagre.
1807Opie in Lect. Paint. (Bohn 1848) 254 Somewhat that is stiff, crude, ‘liney’, and harsh in respect to anatomy. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 207 The narrow liny clouds, which a few minutes ago lay like soft vapoury streaks along the horizon. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 146 The architraves..are cut away, and made to look weak and liny. 1855Ecclesiologist XVI. 365 It looks thin, ‘liney’, and attenuated. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd viii, Shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light.
2. Full of lines, marked with lines.
1817Keats Sleep & Poetry 364 Then there rose to view a fane Of liny marble. 1835T. Walker Original vi. (1887) 65 The brooding affections of the mind..make the countenance fallen, pale, and liny. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iii. §22. 90 The leaf being..rendered liny by bold markings of its ribs. 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 356/2 To give the grounding a liney appearance. |