单词 | dryth |
释义 | drythn. Now only southern dialect. a. Dryness, dry condition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > aridity or lack of moisture droughta1100 dryness1398 drytha1533 squalora1637 aritude1656 aridness1731 aridity1796 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ll.v By heate of the sonne and drythe of the powdre. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xi. f. 20 By reason of the drieth of his bodye. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 15 Moysture and dryeth, heat and cold. 1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 10 Agreeing with heat and drith. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 3 Dryth and Moisture. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 175 Dry'th. 1889 Temple Bar Feb. 178) (dial. ‘What the old man do want is nourishing food and dryth.’ b. Dry weather, drought. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] droughtc1175 dryc1200 dryth1571 rainlessness1848 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 106 b Bee you well assured of greate drieth. 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Victory in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 53 But now for drieth the fields were all undone. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) Drythe never yet bred dearth. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 294 The end of a week's dryth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [noun] thirstc1000 dry1377 drought1393 thirstingc1500 drynessa1535 dryth1557 thirstiness1583 thirst-longing?1617 droughtiness1720 a spark in one's throat1721 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. R.ii The dropsy dryeth, that Tantale in the flood Endureth aye. 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 86 His dryth and thirst he slakes. d. Drying. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > becoming dry resiccation1615 arescation1628 updrying1658 dry-up1873 dryth1881 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1588 To harden it and promote quick dryth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1533 |
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