单词 | enfile |
释义 | † enfilev. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To put on a string or thread. Also, to enfile up: to hang up on a string, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > arrangement in (a) row(s) or line(s > arrange in (a) row(s) or line(s [verb (transitive)] > string together enfile1393 file1581 string1612 thread1633 bead1883 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 237 They taughten him [Sardanapallus] to lace a braide..and to enfile A perle. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 124 To cut the root..into thin roundles, and to keep them enfiled vp. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 133 The swine mushromes..are hanged vp to dry infiled vpon a rush running through them. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses x. 116 When they had slain my men, they them enfil'd..like Fishes hung in ranks. 2. Heraldry. In past participle. (See quot. 1830.) ΚΠ 1830 T. Robson Brit. Herald III. Gloss. s.v. When the head of a man or beast, or any other charge, is placed on the blade of a sword, the sword is said to be enfiled with whatever is borne upon it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1393 |
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