| 释义 |
mouthed, a.|maʊðd|
[f. mouth n. + -ed2.]
1. Having a mouth, or a mouth of a certain kind (in various senses of the n.).
13..K. Alis. 6125 Rowgh they weore so a beore, They weore mowthed so a mare. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 12 A grysie rablement; Some mouth'd like greedy Oystriges; some faste Like loathly Toades. 1637T. Morton New Eng. Canaan (1883) 204 The Beaver..[is] mouthed like a cunny. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. i. 296 Which this Sort will do, having Courage and a thick Skin, as participating of the Cur, and mouthed from the Beagle. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 270, I..sat me down, and took a mouthed shell.
†2. Gaping, open-mouthed. Obs.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. iv, Reflect: what meanes hee by that mouthed waue. c1600Shakes. Sonn. lxxvii, The wrinckles..Of mouthed graues will giue thee memorie. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 81 As mouthéd Peasants (throng to see the state,..And Gape vpon the Gowne,..) magnifie Merit. Ibid., Hen. IV, cclxviii.
3. In parasynthetic derivatives.
1390Gower Conf. II. 144 A janglere, an evel mouthed oon. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 126 For hit aren murye-mouthede men mynstrales of heuene. 1551Bible Exod. iv. 10 But I am slowe mouthed and slowe tongued. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 6 And every head was..bloody mouthed with late cruell feast. 1593Markham Horsmanship ii. F j, But if he [your Horse] be..gentle mouthed, then shall the cheeke of your Bytte be made but vppon one degree. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 95 Seuentie mouthed Volga. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 316 He prefers a Cry of Lawyers at the Bar before any Pack of the best mouthed Dogs in all the North. 1853Markham Skoda's Auscult. 139 A single-mouthed fistulous opening. 1899F. T. Bullen Way Navy 68 An occasional blast from our bull-mouthed siren is also inimical to slumber. 1905Holman Hunt Pre-Raphælitism II. 295 A many-mouthed chorus began. |