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单词 lisk
释义 lisk Now dial.|lɪsk|
Forms: α. 3 Orm. lesske, 5–7 leske, 6 Sc. leisk, 7– lesk. β. 6– lisk, (7 liske, lysk). γ. 5–6 laske, 8 lask.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin: cf. MSw. liuske, liumske (mod.Sw. ljumske) masc., Da. lyske, MDu., Flemish liesche fem. (mod.Du. lies fem.); a form lesca ‘inguen’ in the Werden Glosses (Gallée O.S. Texts 360) may possibly be OE. (for *léosca), but the sk (instead of sh) of the ME. and mod. forms shows that they do not descend from this.]
The loin or flank; also, the groin.
αc1200Ormin 4776 Lende, & lesske, & shulldre, & bacc.a1400Morte Arth. 1097 Lyme and leskes fulle lothyne.c1440Promp. Parv. 298/2 Leske (or flanke), inguen.1483Cath. Angl. 214/1 A Leske, ypocondria.1513Douglas æneis x. x. 103 At his left flank or leisk [1553 lisk] persyt tyte.1615Crooke Body of Man 32 In the leske or groyne are the Emunctories of the Liuer.1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xxi. §255 In the lesk, under the groin or share, are the privities or secrets.1847Halliwell, Lesk, the groin or flank.1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Lesk, My husband's broke his body, and it presses on his lesk.
β1508Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 121 Lene larbar, loungeour, baith lowsy in lisk and lonȝe.1603in Pitcairn Crim. Trials II. 417 Be the straik of ane sword in the lisk and the wambe.1679Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xciv. 163 Wounded..in the groyn or lisk with a partizan.1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2575/4 A white Mare,..blew Spots about the Lysk, bob-tail'd.1709Jacob. Songs (1887) 57 Ane proddit her in the lisk Anither aneath the tail.1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. xxiv. 93 There was but one point on which he could not bear being attacked, like a horse which will not stand being touched in the lisk.
γ14..Harl. MS. 219, lf. 150 (in Promp. Parv. 298) Mes flanks, my laskes.1552Huloet, Laske or flancke, pyga.1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves 92 Gloss., Lisk, or lask, the flank.
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