| 单词 | cosset lamb |
| 释义 | > as lemmascosset lamb 1. A lamb (colt, etc.) brought up by hand; a pet-lamb, cade-lamb. Also attributive as cosset lamb. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb > pet lamb cadec1450 pet1539 house lamb1574 cosset1579 sock-lamb1838 hob-lamb1847 poddy1983 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 42 I shall thee give yond Cosset for thy payne. 1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe i. sig.C6 The best Cosset in my fold. 1626 N. Breton Fantasticks Apr. The cosset lamb is learned to butt. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 62 A Cosset lambe or colt, &c. i.e. a cade lamb, a lamb or colt brought up by the hand, Norf. Suff. 1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 77 A cossart-lamb in Hertfordshire is one left by its dam's dying by disease or hurt before it is capable of getting its own living; or is one that is taken from a ewe that brings two or three or four lambs at a yeaning, and is incapable of suckling and bringing them all up. 1883 Sat. Rev. 56 109 The character of cosset lambs is notoriously bad; and..the pet horse is, as a rule, a somewhat uncertain animal in stable. < as lemmas |
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