单词 | excorticate |
释义 | excorticatev. a. transitive. To pull or strip off the bark from (a tree), or the shell from (a nut, seed). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark bipilc1230 unrinda1382 slipe?c1390 hull1398 pill1440 husk1562 flay1574 unhusk1598 decorticate1611 depilate1620 rind1623 excorticate1657 disbark1659 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. I4 The unctious seeds..are excorticated by a knife. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 69 Moss is to be rubb'd and scrap'd off with some fit instrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. v. 53 Looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Refut. Calumnious Relation Conf. vi. 31 in Briefe Replie to Libel To make his eloquence seeme more admirable, he doth excorticate certaine Latin words according to his Romish fashion. Derivatives exˈcorticated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin, husk, or bark pilleda1382 peeled?a1425 unrinded1581 excorticated1657 decorticated1798 1657 Physical Dict. Excorticated, fleyed or pieled. 1693 Sir E. King in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 863 (Whole Oatmeal, or) an Excorticated Oat. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Diahexapte Take Juniper-Berries unexcorticated, and Bay Berries excorticated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1600 |
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