| 释义 |
spayed, ppl. a.|speɪd|
Also 6 spaied, spaide, 7 spaid, spead(e, spade, 8 speyed.
[f. spay v.]
Having the ovaries excised.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xi, And also oo spayed bycche lasteth longer in hir bonte þenne oþer two þat be not spayed. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 154 b, The spaide Bitches do bite sorest. 1607Markham Cavel. v. ix. 50 If they be speade or gelte mares, they be the worst of al. a1658Cleveland Poems (1677) 39 The Groom is Rampant, but the Bride is Spade. 1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1906/4 Stolen.., a Spaid Bay Mare about 15 hands high. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 408 Such a sow was worth less by two shillings..than a spayed sow. 1779Phil. Trans. LXIX. 286 When they are preserved it is..for all the purposes of an ox or spayed heifer. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 23 Attended only by his two faithful spayed bitches. 1851H. Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) I. 256/2 A quey-calf whose ovaries have been obliterated, to prevent her breeding, is a spayed heifer, or a spayed quey. 1859Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 573/1 The spayed animal continued to breed until she was six years old. |