| 单词 | fausen-eel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfausen-eel A kind of eel. Applied variously to a fresh or saltwater eel, and to a small or large eel (see quots.). Also fausen-eel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types pimpernol1251 shaft-eel1411 kempc1440 snig1483 stub eel15.. fausen1547 shafflin1553 muraena1555 scaffling1589 grig1611 long-fish1611 stone-grig1666 sea-serpent1752 bed-eel1769 sniggle1863 slipper1866 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xliv Take the fatnes of a valson ele. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31 Of Eeles there are two sorts: the one Valsen, of best taste, comming from the fresh riuers..the other, bred in the salt water & called a Conger Eele. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 190 The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish Did shoal. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 A fauson, or great fat eele. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 325/1 An Eel [is] first a Fausen, then a Grigg. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais iv. lx Fausens, and Griggs. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Fazen adj. The fazen eel is a large brown eel, and is so called at Sandwich in contradiction to the silver eel. < as lemmas |
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