释义 |
lustihead arch.|ˈlʌstɪhɛd| [f. lusty + -head.] = lustiness in its various senses: pleasure, delight; vigour; lustfulness, libidinousness.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 27 Defaute of slepe and heuynesse Hath slayne my spyrite of quicknesse, That I haue loste al lustyheed. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. v. 63 Quhayr is now thy schynand lustyhed, Thy fresch figour, thy vissage quhyte and reid? 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 42 They..Passen their time..In lustihede and wanton meryment. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Ps. xc. 10 (1639) 137 Their pride, or prowesse, that is, the excellencie, or lusty-head of those yeeres, the bravest of them is but miserie. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. vii, A knight..Of actiue mind and vigorous lustyhed. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 62 And so all being said A little there we gathered lustihead. |