单词 | fire fang |
释义 | fire fangn. Damage resulting from excessive heat or too rapid drying; = fire-fanging n. at fire-fang v. Derivatives. In early use also: †malt damaged in this way (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heated condition > excessively effervency1670 effervescency1681 fire fang1689 parboiledness1862 1689 Gazophylacium Anglicanum sig. I8v Fire-fang, Malt that hath a snatch of the fire. 1765 Compl. Maltster & Brewer 50 A fire-fang is a wet scorch, which comes by not turning the malt in time. 1838 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 88/1 When she heats the milk..she only ascertains if it is of due temperature by her hand or finger. Hence the reason of so many cheeses having the firefang taste—a most disagreeable flavour. 1855 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 16 ii. 328 Suppose the oxygen had been supplied to the decaying mass..would there have been any firefang? 1910 L. Woolverton Canad. Apple Grower's Guide ix. 49 All danger of fire fang is avoided. 1986 H. J. Hudson Fungal Biol. (1992) 168 Often the compost becomes powdery white, caused by what has been called ‘fire fang’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1689 |
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