| 单词 | dance upon nothing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdance upon nothing e. dance upon nothing: an ironical expression for hanging (cf. dance v. 3b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] hanginga1300 hangmentc1440 gallows1483 gibbet1502 Tyburn checka1529 Tyburn stretch1573 caudle of hempseed1588 hempen caudle1588 swinging1591 rope law1592 rope-leap1611 cording1619 turn1631 nubbing1673 cravatting1683 gibbetation1689 topping1699 Tyburn jig1699 noosing1819 scragging1819 Tyburn tie1828 Newgate hornpipe1829 dance upon nothing1841 drop1887 suspension1909 1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 271 Just as the Felon condemn'd to die..From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes, To caper on sunny greens and slopes, Instead of the dance upon nothing. 1842 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 130 If a dance upon Sunday led so inevitably to a dance upon nothing! to dance upon nothing b. Grimly applied to the movements of the body in or after death by hanging; to dance upon nothing, to be hanged. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE hangc1000 anhangc1300 wagc1430 totter?1515 to wave in the windc1515 swing1542 trine1567 to look through ——?1570 to preach at Tyburn cross1576 stretch?1576 to stretch a rope1592 truss1592 to look through a hempen window?a1600 gibbet1600 to have the lift1604 to salute Tyburn1640 to dance the Tyburn jig1664 dangle1678 to cut a caper on nothing1708 string1714 twist1725 to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786 to streek in a halter1796 to straight a ropea1800 strap1815 to dance upon nothing1837 to streek a tow1895 1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) viii. 210 To see a fellow-being dancing in air after death, in the manner practised in England. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard III. iii. xxxi. 292 ‘You'll dance upon nothing, presently’, rejoined Jonathan, brutally. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iv. 322 This poor soldier, six feet three, your Majesty, is to dance on the top of nothing for a three-halfpenny matter! < as lemmas |
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