| 释义 |
† moth-eat, v. Obs.
[Back-formation from next.]
trans. To eat away by or as by moths.
1598Florio, Carolare..to worme or moth-eate. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 61 From whence ruine and neglect have moatheaten her. 1721Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. (1829) II. ii. xiii. 498 The younger ministers did either motheat or too much suffer to be motheaten by the Vulgar the reputation of such who did not follow their way. |