| 释义 |
▪ I. bating, vbl. n.1|ˈbeɪtɪŋ|
[f. bate v.1 2 + -ing1.]
The action of beating the wings, and (spec. in Falconry) fluttering off the fist or perch.
1456Bk. St. Albans A vj, It is calde batyng for she batith with hir selfe most oftyn causeless. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. 175 The crying of Crowes, and bating of Ducks foreshew raine. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, The bating of a hawk, alarum plausus.
▪ II. bating, vbl. n.2|ˈbeɪtɪŋ|
[f. bate v.2 6 + -ing1.]
Lessening, abatement.
1628Earle Microcosm. xxxix. 86 This bating shall in conclusion take away all he granted.
▪ III. bating, ppl. a.|ˈbeɪtɪŋ|
[f. bate v.1 2 + -ing2.]
Beating the wings impatiently, fluttering.
1587Gascoigne Herbes 138 The hooded hawke..fast tied, yet beats hir baiting wing.
▪ IV. bating, prep.|ˈbeɪtɪŋ|
Also 6 baiting.
[absolute use of pr. pple. of bate v.2 7; cf. similar use of barring, excepting.]
Abating, leaving out of account, excepting, except. † bating of: less than.
1568C. Watson Polyb. 73 b, Another tyme [they fought] with few baiting of seven hundreth. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal ii. 182 Nobler then..all that from the scaffolds saw the sport He made, not bating him that paid him for't. 1721Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 594 Bating this, I know nothing to the youth's disadvantage. 1817Byron Beppo v, For, bating Covent Garden, I can hit on No place that's call'd ‘Piazza’ in Great Britain. 1859Macaulay Jrnl. 16 Dec. in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. (1959) xv. 684 Bating the irregularity of the pulse, I suffered all that I suffered..in 1852. |