单词 | cleam |
释义 | cleamclemev. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. a. transitive. To smear, anoint, bedaub, plaster; to rub, or daub (sticky matter) on, or (a place) with sticky matter. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance smear971 dechea1000 cleamc1000 besmearc1050 clamc1380 glue1382 pargeta1398 overslame?1440 plaster?1440 beslab1481 strike1525 bestrike1527 streak1540 bedaub1558 spread1574 daub1598 paste1609 beplaster1611 circumlite1657 oblite1657 fata1661 gaum?1825 treacle1839 butter1882 slap1902 slather1941 nap1961 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance) cleamc1000 smeara1400 spread?a1425 strike1525 splet1530 dab1592 stroke1594 sponge1607 daub1647 wipe1738 plaster1799 teerc1850 slather1866 cake1944 a1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Iclem hall þ[e] seames mid tirwan. a1000 B. Thorpe tr. Ælfric Homilies I. 20 Geclæm ealle ða seamas mid tyrwan.] c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxviii. 165 Lino, ic clæme. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 110 Clæm on ðone cancer, ne do nan wæter to. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 93 Crist clemed [v.r. clammyde] cley on his eyen. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 312 Make to þe a mancioun..þenne clemme hit with clay comly withinne. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 125 Cleme uppon the wounde oxe dounge aboute. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 50 The Cream of Milk, which may be clamed or spread as Butter. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Clame, to spread unctuous matter; as salve on a plaster, butter on bread. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 31 Clame, to spread or smear on a surface, as lime..or butter. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (E.D.S.) Claim. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) Cleam..‘Cleam me a buttershaave’, spread me a slice of bread and butter. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Clamme or clame. b. intransitive. [To adhere, stick to.] N.E.D.'s reading ‘cleame’ is based on an earlier version of this quotation: ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere cleavec897 to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330 sita1398 clinga1400 clengec1400 engleim?1440 adhere1557 clag1563 clasp1569 clencha1600 clung1601 clam1610 yclingec1620 affix1695 clinch1793 to stick (to one) like wax1809 cleam- a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 112 If they should ramme it [sc. a clay floor] presently it would cleave to the beater. 2. transitive. To agglutinate, cause to stick, clag with glutinous matter; to stick up, together, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > cause to cohere binda1000 cleama1340 coagulec1400 congeal1563 coagulate1610 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xliii. 27 [xliv. 25] Clemyd is in erthe oure wambe. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. lxvi. 185 Of clemyng of humour that is there. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. lxxiii. sig. ll.i/2 Butter is kyndely hote and moyste: clemynge [a1398 BL Add. clensyng] & fatte. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 10 To Cleam..in Lincolnshire..to glue together, to fasten with glue. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Clamm..in some provinces to cleam [1818 Todd (adds) written also sometimes clem], to clog with any glutinous matter. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 31 To clame, to stick, to cause to adhere, as paper against a wall; clamed up, advertised or posted. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Cleam..‘the wind was so strong that it cleam'd me to the wall’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.c1000 |
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