| 单词 | eye of a bean |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye of a (also the) bean i. eye of a (also the) bean: a small dark hollow in an incisor (esp. the third incisor) tooth of a young horse; = mark n.1 20a. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. i. at Mark A Horse Marks, that is, he shews his Age by a Black Spot call'd the Bud or Eye of a Bean [Fr. germe de féve], which appears about five and a half in the Cavity of the Corner-teeth, and is gone when the Horse is eight years old; then he ceases to mark, and we say, he has raz'd. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Eye of a Bean, a black speck..in the cavity of the corner-teeth of a horse. 1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. I. 7/3 A horse that marks still shewing the eye of the bean in his corner tooth. < as lemmas |
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