| 释义 |
seizer|ˈsiːzə(r)|
Also 5 sesour, 6 seysere, -our.
[f. seize v. + -er1.]
One who or that which seizes; spec. †a. a canine tooth (obs.); b. a person authorized to seize persons or certain goods, = seizor; c. a sporting dog trained to seize the animal hunted.
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xv, A good alaunt shuld renne also faste, as a grehounde, and any that he may comme to, he shulde holde wele with his sesoures and not leue it. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 16 One halfe of the price of the saide horse..shalbe to the vse of the seysour and arrestour of the same. 1693Dryden's Juvenal iv. (1697) 80 The Boatman than shall a wise Present make, And give the Fish before the Seizers take. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan iv. 1162 Full at his [the Serpent's] Throat the nimble Seizer flies. 1809Simond Jrnl. Gt. Brit. (1815) I. 2, I overheard the head seizer asking the Captain whether he preferred having his wine or his spirits seized. 1854Baker Rifle & Hound in Ceylon viii. 200 The pack..comprising..a few couple of immense seizers, a cross between bloodhound and greyhound. |