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▪ I. noose, n.|nuːs|
Also 7–8 nooze.
[Of obscure origin: in common use only since 1600. If quot. a 1450 belongs here, it may be a. OF. nos, nous, nuz, etc. (:—L. nodus), nom. sing. of no, neu, nu, etc. (:—L. nodum), later noud, mod. nœud. Prof. Skeat suggests that the equivalent Prov. nous may have been the source (Notes Eng. Etym. 198).]
1. A loop, formed with a running knot, which tightens as the string or rope is pulled, as in a snare, lasso, hangman's halter, etc.; a loop, a folding or doubling of a string or rope. running noose: see running ppl. a.
a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 8 Double the lyne & frete hyt fast yn þe top with a nose [1496 bowe] to fasten an your lyne.
1600Holland Livy xxxviii. xxix. 1001 It went..away, as sent and driven out of the noose of a stone-bow. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 293 To lay grins for birds, to set snares to allure them with nooze or pipe. 1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. x. 188 On this Crook is slipt the Noose of a Leather Thong. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 80 Behind he lags, doom'd to the fatal Noose. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 86 The hunter..fixes a noose round the horns of the tame gazelle. Ibid. VII. 151 The sportsman..fastens his nooze round its neck. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) App. iii. 42 They will catch another horse with a noose and hair rope, when both are running full speed. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 64, I wore The rope..Twisted as tight as I could knot the noose. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 145 The Plataeans dropped nooses over the ends of these engines and drew them up.
transf.1812[see noose v. 1]. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 456 When this viscus is a noose of intestine. 1859FitzGerald Omar Khayyám i, The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of Light.
b. In references or allusions to hanging.
1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 116 Where the Hangman does dispose To special friends the Knot of Noose. 1813Scott Rokeby vi. xvii, He..looked as if the noose were tied, And I the priest who left his side.
2. fig.
a. The marriage tie.
c1600Timon ii. iv. (1842) 33 Wilt thou putte thy necke Into a marriage nooze? 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. ii. i, [They] desire that you would sooner commit your grave head to this knot, than to the wedlock nooze. 1693Dryden Juvenal (1697) 118 To choose to thrust his Neck into the Marriage Noose! 1709Steele Tatler No. 77 ⁋4 Your Marriage-Haters, who rail at the Noose. 1746Smollett Advice 6 Divorc'd, all hell shall not re-tie the noose! 1826T. I. Wharton in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. I. 112 They are usually married before they are 20 years of age; and when once in that noose, are for the most part a little uneasy.
b. A snare or bond.
1624Fletcher Rule a Wife iii. iv, Am I trickt now? Caught in mine own nooze. 1652Tatham Scotch Figgaries iv. i, I fall Into the noose of taverns like a pigeon. a1687H. More in Norris Lett. 181 Methinks you run yourself into an unnecessary noose of Fatality. 1800Weems Life Washington ix. (1877) 102 To choke the colonies by a military noose.
▪ II. noose, v.|nuːs|
Also 7 nooze.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To secure as by a noose; to ensnare.
c1600Distr. Emperor v. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 240 Am I then noosd!..am I lymed! 1665Manley Grotius's Low C. Wars 547 He endeavours by this League..to noose as many of us as he can. 1694Crowne Regulus iv. 37 Pox o' your tricks, you have noos'd me. 1710Palmer Proverbs 127 He, that loves at first sight, nooses himself by vows. 1765Foote Commissary iii. i, When once he is noos'd, let him struggle as much as he will, the cord will be drawn only the tighter. 1812W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXIV. 235 Her from the noose of death I freed, And noos'd her soul for aye. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. V. xix. vi. 557 Amherst..is diligently noosing, and tying up, the French military settlements.
b. In allusions to marriage.
1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. vii. Wks. 1709 III. 60 Those who are not Noos'd in the Snare, will thank me for giving a Comical Description of it [sc. marriage]. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 18 July, i. ⁋5 Where there was a parson who dealt in this branch of commerce, and there they were noosed, before the Irishman ever dreamt of the matter. 1813Examiner 17 May 319/1 When I was noosed, my father began to equivocate. 1821Combe Syntax, Wife v, On the third or fourth day after: They were both noos'd in Hymen's garter.
2. To hang; to put to death by hanging.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 192 If they catch him horse⁓coursing, he's noozed. 1676Shadwell Libertine iv, Oh! I am noos'd already; I feel the Knot, methinks, under my left ear. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 127 This unfortunate Prelate was noos'd up in the pontifical robes he happened to have on. 1809Scott Poacher 16 Our buckskinn'd justices expound the law,..And for the netted partridge noose the swain.
3. To catch or capture by means of a noose; to cast or put a noose round.
1748Anson's Voy. i. vi. 66 In the same manner they noose horses, and..even tygers. 1784Cowper Task iv. 462 Oh for a law to noose the villain's neck Who starves his own. 1808Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) ii. 159 We equipped six of our fleetest coursers with riders and ropes, to noose the wild horses. 1843Marryat M. Violet xxi, G. had..noosed the animal with his lasso. 1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. in Jungle xxxi. 369 Trying to noose a deer.
transf.1823Lockhart Sp. Ballads, Zara's Ear-rings iv, Some other lover's hand, among my tresses noosed.
4. To make a noose on (a cord); to place round in a noose; to arrange like a noose or loop.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. xxv, ‘He plays the mute.’ ‘Then noose a cord.’ a1860Alb. Smith Med. Student (1861) 92 A piece of whipcord is then noosed round the victim's neck. 1886Athenæum 27 Feb. 303/2 The sleeves are noosed and laced over the shoulder and arm.
Hence noosed |nuːst|, ppl. a.; ˈnoosing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 231 Bradford was suddenly caught by the leg in a *noosed Rope. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. ix. iv. 473 No arms or apparatus of any kind, except a noosed rope.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, I am going to let you into a secret—a plot—a *noosing plot. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 310 Finding it impossible to get within noosing distance.
1840Hood Kilmansegg, Marriage v, There's nothing so draws a London mob As the *noosing of very rich people. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 163 Here the art of noosing lingers; the loop being..slipped over the bird's head while at roost. |