| 释义 |
ness, n.|nɛs|
Forms: 1 næs(s-), ness-, 5 nasse, naisse, (4) 6–7 nesse, (6 nes, nesch), 6– ness.
[OE. næs (nes) masc. = ON. nes (Sw. näs, Da. næs) neut., LG. nesse fem., related to OE. nasu nose nase: cf. nese n. 2. In ME. app. retained only in place-names, from which the later use is probably derived. The normal representative of the OE. form would be nass (cf. glæs glass, græs grass); ness may be due either to the unstressed position in place-names, to dialect variation, or to Scand. influence.]
A promontory, headland, or cape.
Beowulf 1912 Hie Ᵹeata clifu onᵹitan meahton, cuþe næssas. Ibid. 2805 Se scel..heah hlifian on Hrones næsse. 956in Birch Cartul. Saxon. III. 149 Of þam wylle be ᵹemære on scearpannesse. a1000Andreas 1710 (Gr.) Hie ða ᵹebrohton æt brimes næsse..wiᵹan unslawne. [c1050O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 1049 Þa oðre foron on East Seaxon to Eadolfes næsse. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2805 Ilk del in-tyl Katenesse Held Brenne of Belyn, more ne lesse.] 14..Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc.) 12 Yif ye go oute of Orwell waynys to the Naisse ye must go south⁓west fro the Nasse to the merkis of the spetis. 1491Rolls of Parlt. VI. 441/2 Within the Nasse and Haven of Orford.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 38 All fra ane nes lyis far within the se. 1538Leland Itin. (1769) VII. 143 Running ynto a Poynt yt standeth as an Arme, a Foreland, or a Nesse. 1587Golding De Mornay viii. (1592) 108 That great Nesse which conteyneth both Brasilie and Perow. 1618Bolton Florus (1636) 314 The points or nesses of the Ambracian Bay. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 68 When we first make a Ness at Land too, it seems more a Ness than when we are less off at Sea. 1851Woodward Mollusca i. iii. 13 The myriads of small shells which the sea heaps up in every sheltered ‘ness’. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. Prol. 55 We stood Somewhat off shore to fetch about a ness. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, Coastwise Lights ii, From reef and rock and skerry—over headland, ness, and voe.
Hence † ness v. intr., to form a ness. Obs.—1
1538Leland Itin. (1769) VII. 143 The Marsch Land beginneth to nesse and arme yn to the Se. |