单词 | curn |
释义 | curnn. northern and Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] corn871 curnsa1400 frumentc1440 stuff1461 victual1473 plough-meat1580 fourment1601 breadstuff1793 white victual1799 cereal1832 corn-chandlery1883 mutt-eye1946 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7158 To her tailes fire he bond..þourȝe þe felde he made hem fle..And so her curnes dud he brenne. 2. a. Scottish. A grain. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > a grain or granule grainc1290 curn1474 quern1503 granule1652 granula1694 1474 Act. Audit. 35 (Jam.) Of ilk chalder the thrid kurne. c1540 D. Lindsay Kitteis Confess. 90 Curnis of meil, and luffillis of Malt. 1759 J. Lauder Decisions I. 334 (Jam.) The seed, which is excepted from the multure; this is the 4th pickle or curne. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 310 If there be a drap mair lemon or a curn less sugar than just suits you. 1882 ‘J. Strathesk’ Bits from Blinkbonny vii. 137 I boil'd their meal an' put a ‘curn’ o' spice in't. b. transferred. A small number or quantity; a few. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > some but not much fewOE a little1540 something1654 curn1785 1785 Jrnl. from London to Portsmouth 8 (Jam.) I saw a curn of camla-like fellows wi' them. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 72 I frae the neuk fesh coals an' sticks, An' i' the chimly cast a curn. 1820 St. Kathleen IV. 143 (Jam.) Only a curn bubbles brak on the tap. 1847 H. Miller Geol. Bass Rock 109 Yonder's a curn o' rough hills. 1891 A. Matthews Poems & Songs 54 Among a curn claikin' wives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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