| 释义 |
ˈspiriting, vbl. n.
[f. spirit n. or v.]
1. The action or work of a spirit or sprite; the ministering of spirits. Also fig.
In mod. use only in echoes of the Shaksperian passage.
1768Shakspere's Temp. i. ii. 298 (Capell), I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting [fol. spryting] gently. 1841Moore Lalla Rookh Poet. Wks. VI. Pref. p. xvii, Quick as Fancy required the aid of fact, in her spiritings. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. cvi. III. 16 Like lawyers, they are ready to do their spiritings with as little of personal bitterness as human nature will admit. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls Ser. ii. 120 As I am free to do my spiriting.
2. Inspiration.
1845Mrs. Browning in Lett. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 37 We turn to you..for comfort and gentle spiriting.
3. techn.
a. A solution of spirits with which carpets, lace, etc., are treated in their manufacture.
1883Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 146 When it [sc. a curtain] has been well worked in this [soap liquor], handle it directly out of the soap into the spiriting.
b. The application of a spirit, as a finishing process in french polishing. Also with off.
1933C. Crampton Canework (ed. 6) iii. 36 The last operation in french polishing, which gives the final gloss, is known as ‘spiriting off’. 1960C. H. Hayward Staining & Polishing ix. 55 Purpose of spiriting. The idea of this process is gradually to burnish the surface of semi-soft shellac. |