| 释义 |
snowish, a.|ˈsnəʊɪʃ|
Also 4–5 snowisse, 5 -ych, 6 -yshe, snawishe, 7 Sc. -isch.
[f. snow n.1]
†1. Resembling snow in whiteness; snowy, snow-white. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1250 Her snowisse throte, hir brestis rounde and lyte. 1433Lydg. S. Edmund App. 189 A dowe with snowych fetherys whight. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxvii. 9 This angellis weid wes snawith [read -ich] in cullour. 1540Palsgrave Acolastus ii. ii, O Festyuall daye, worthy a snowyshe lytell stone. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xx, Her Snowish necke with blewish Vaines. 1603Philotus lxi, Ȝour snawisch cheiks lyke quhytest Allabast.
2. Characterized by the presence or prevalence of snow; somewhat snowy.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. ii. vi. H vj b, Though whiskinge wyndes do shaue the earth, and though the snawishe day Be shorte, and sharpe.
†3. Covered with snow. Obs.—1
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 75 Tanais floud all snowish (or all ouerlaid with snow), And grounds at no time void of frosts. |