单词 | flabel |
释义 | † flabeln. Obsolete. a. A fan. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan werela1390 whiskerc1425 flabel1552 ventile1555 waffer1592 ventoy1602 ventilow1653 fan1835 thermantidote1840 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Flable and fanne idem. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eii/2 A Flabel, flabellum. 1628 T. Venner Treat. Tobacco (1650) 402 The lungs which are the flabel of the heart. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Flable [1670 Flabel], a Fan. b. Entomology, in grasshoppers (see quot. 1658). ΚΠ 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 992 They [Grashoppers] sing not with their mouth..but by the reverberation of a little membrane under the flabells; (so they call those two coverings behinde the hinder thighs cleaving to the belly). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † flabelv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To fan. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow upon gently fan1600 flabel1653 winnow1801 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > freshen (air) [verb (transitive)] > supply with fresh air or ventilate > fan fana1616 flabel1653 befan1674 punkah1825 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxix. 176 It is continually flabbell'd [Fr. éventé], blown upon, and aired by the north winds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1552v.1653 |
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