单词 | anthill |
释义 | anthilln. 1. a. The mound or hillock raised over an ants' nest, consisting of earth, clay, pine needles, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > that form ant-hills > ant-hill anthilleOE ant bedeOE pismire hill1440 maur-hill?c1475 maur house?c1475 ant heap1591 molehill1610 ant-hillock1656 bank1667 sprout hill1766 formicary1816 ant mound1830 formicarium1834 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxviii. 191 Ðu slawa, ga ðe to æmetthylle, & giem hu hie doð, & leorna ðær wisdom. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5985 (MED) Þet lond oueral hii gonne fulle, As þikke as ameten crepeþ in an amete hulle. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xvii. 1155 Þe lyuour is yþrowe into an ampte hille. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 79 (MED) Set it in an Ant-hell. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Biij Burye it in a pyssemer hyll that some call an antehyl. 1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 49 We have good Husbands, who dung and Marle their Meadowes and Pasture-land, and throw downe all Mole and Ant-hills. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Ant Ant-hills are little hillocks of earth, which the Ants throw up. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ii. 22 The thronging thousands, to a passing view, Seemed like an anthill's citizens. 1878 Garden 21 Sept. 260/1 The method of using this trap is most simple. We need only place it over a wasp's nest or anthill so as to cover the opening. 1955 Times 28 May 7/6 On either side are the wide open savannahs, broken only here and there by..sandpaper bushes and groups of anthills. 2002 Guardian 17 Jan. ii. 15/1 Birds..lie out on an anthill and encourage the ants to crawl into their feathers. b. figurative. Something that resembles an anthill; esp. (a) a place that is full of people or animals, when these are thought of as being numerous, busy, small in size, etc.; (b) a small mound. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > small mound balkc885 bankc1175 hill1297 hillock1382 mow?1424 sunka1522 tump1589 anthill1598 pustule1651 mound1791 hag1805 moundlet1808 1598 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 60 This world [was] an Ant-hill made of creatures bolt-vpright. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 53 The foundation of all, the Trinity, undermined by those numerous, those multitudinous Anthills of Socinians. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. 49 All things that do pass, Upon this ant-hill earth. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xi. 103 They [sc. Eskimos] soon crowded back into their ant-hill. 1868 Belgravia Mar. 74 The dead errors and miseries are a very ant-hill of dry bones. 1902 H. Trench tr. D. S. Merezhkovsky Romance of Leonardo da Vinci xiii. 381 God only knows which is the worse, the crimes of a hero like Cæsar, or the virtues of our ant-hill of a republic. 1999 S. Grafton O is for Outlaw 204 New potatoes the size of fifty-cent pieces, topped with a dollop of sour cream and an anthill of black caviar. 2. = termite mound n. at termite n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Isoptera > member(s) of (termites) > nest anthill1781 termitary1826 termite hill1835 termite mound1854 termitarium1855 termite heap1867 1781 H. Smeathman in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 183 (note) These Ant hills are of a very small circumference in proportion to their height. 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 177 The country is dotted with anthills, which, when old, become hard as sandstone: they are generally built by the termite under some shady tree. 1860 Hunting Grounds Old World I. xi. 172 [Ant-bears] at work scraping up the earth of the ant-hill. 1914 M. W. Millett Jungle Sport in Ceylon xii. 183 I have sometimes come across these bears on my jungle travels in the act of feeding on white ants from anthills. 2006 Ireland's Own Feb. 48/4 Termites or White ants, are feared for their destructiveness to anything made of wood and build huge ‘ant-hills’ up to 36 metres high. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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