单词 | full-summed |
释义 | full-summedadj. Now rare. 1. Chiefly Falconry. Of a bird or its wings: having the feathers fully developed. Also (of a bird's feathers): fully developed.Cf. summed adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [adjective] > of hawk > in full plumage full-summeda1475 summeda1475 a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 11 (MED) If he [sc. the hawk] take colde ore he be full sommyd, for soth he schall gendre the crampe. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. aviiiv Thos same barris shall telle yow whan she is full summed. or full fermyd. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.viiiv Byrdes wynges ons full sumd byrdes wyll hardly be cacht. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xliv. 713 A cleere and bright plume, with ful summed feathers. 1758 T. Fairfax Compl. Sportsman 5 Having viewed them [sc. game cocks] well, and that they are sound, hard feathered, and full summed, put them into several pens. 1806 J. Jackson in J. Sinclair Coll. Papers Athletic Exercises 90 They [sc. cocks] are sound, hard feathered, and full summed. 1966 J. G. Mavrogordato Falcon in Field Gloss. 117 A hawk is full-summed when her feathers have reached their full length and are no longer in the blood. 1999 A. Walker Encycl. Falconry 48/2 Full-summed..Said of an eyass: having her first true feathers (after the downy stage) fully grown. Said of a hawk at a later stage: having her feathers full-grown after the moult. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers > of particular form > of form of antlers troched1413 tineda1425 full-summed1575 throstle-nest1785 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xiv. 37 When his head is full sommed. 1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting D It is then..hard to knowe him by his head, before it be full Soomned. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 12 Beware it be not when he is at Bay, and his Head full summed; for so you may indanger the lives of your Hounds. 3. figurative and in figurative contexts. Fully developed or accomplished. Cf. full-fledged adj. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [adjective] > completed fullfremedOE fulfilled1340 accomplished?1526 consummatea1527 perfected1552 consummated1565 fined1571 finished1582 full-summed1588 exact1633 completed1661 teleiotic1705 complete1731 1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xiv. 565 How each of these [remedies] began at the first and grew in time to be full summed, or how they shrunke agayne, and how their gaiest fethers were at last..pulled from them. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 358 [Demosthenes was] a full sumd or consumate Orator. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 14 Inspire..my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ'd to tell of deeds Above Heroic. 1748 W. Hamilton Poems 146 Blest my **** be the destin'd shade, Where childhood sported, of no ills afraid, Ere youth full-summ'd its daring wing display'd. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 156 These twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers. 1869 J. L. Tupper Hiatus viii. 192 We would rather think that these successive evolutions of involved but never absent human faculty, are earnest of a full-summed harmonious development yet to be. 1931 Social Forces 9 474/1 Our concern with the individual is to see him full-summed in his powers of adequate and appropriate response. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1475 |
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