单词 | fountainless |
释义 | fountainlessadj. Without fountains. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture > without fountains fountainless1671 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 264 Barren desert fountainless and dry. View more context for this quotation 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 105 Like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert. 1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 20/1 A..wilderness..every where fountainless. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1671 |
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