单词 | dampy |
释义 | dampyadj. a. Full of, or of the nature of (noisome or gloomy) vapour or mist; foggy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adjective] > of poisonous gas or noxious exhalation dampish1577 dampy1600 damp1637 irrespirable1822 the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > of or relating to or of nature of noxious vapour dampish1577 dampy1600 mephitic1623 damp1637 mephitical1704 mephitized1794 miasmic1822 miasmal1832 miasmatic1835 miasmatical1855 miasmatous1861 miasmous1884 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B2 O see how dampy shewes yond' torches flame. 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D4v How like blacke Orcus lookes this dampy caue. ?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H6v The dampy mist From earth arising. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 284 Dispers'd, the dark and dampy vapours fly. b. Of a mine: Infested with ‘damps’ or noxious gases. ΚΠ 18.. Weale in Encycl. Dict. When foul gases do not move freely by the ordinary natural ventilation in a colliery, it is said to be dampy. 2. Affected with moisture; somewhat damp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] moista1382 moistfula1398 undriedc1440 wak1513 mocha1522 humorous1526 humidc1550 dabby1581 fat1598 unparched1599 moistish1610 dampisha1642 weakya1642 rafty1655 dampya1691 damp1706 mochy1794 danky1820 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] > made slightly wet dampya1691 humidified1921 a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) VI. 397 (R.) Very dampy vapours about the mouth of the baroscope. 1710 A. Philips Pastorals iii. 42 His beauteous Limbs upon the dampy Clay. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 677 The clay-hole you live in, cold, dirty and dampy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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