| 单词 | glaze one's houve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto glaze one's houve 1. transitive. To fit or fill in (a window, etc.) with glass, to furnish (a building) with windows of glass, to cover (a picture, etc.) with glass. to glaze in: to enclose with glass. †to glaze one's houve: to provide with a head-covering of glass, hence apparently to mock, delude, befool (see houve n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > work with glass [verb (transitive)] > glaze glazec1369 englassc1425 glass1540 glazen1566 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330 to glaze one's houvec1369 to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529 to make a fool of1534 to give (any one) the bobc1540 to lead (a person) a dancea1545 to make (someone) an ass1548 to make (a person) an ox1566 to play bob-fool witha1592 to sell any one a bargain1598 to put the fool on1649 to make a monkey (out) of1767 to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869 to string (someone) along1902 to swing it on or across1923 c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 323 With glas Were all the wyndowes well yglased. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 469 Fortune his howve entended bet to glase [cf. ii. 867]. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. 50 Woldustow Glase þe Gable and graue þerinne þi nome, Siker schulde þi soule ben for to dwellen in heuene. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 198/1 Glasyn' wythe glasse, vitro, vel vitrio. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvii. x The rofe was wrought, curyously and well; The wyndowes glased marvaylously to tell. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 237 The houses of our princes..were often glased with Berill. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxxvi. sig. Y8 The soule, hath nothing, no not her windowes glased. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 406 Raph Astrie..new roofed this Church..and beautifully glased it. ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 83 For glasing the two windows. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 59 This instrument is subscribed by John Codurz..and some others. It is glazed for its better preservation, it being certainly a piece which should by all means be transmitted to posterity. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 53 The windows are so well glazed, as not to admit the least air. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 204 Persons..have baskets of glass of various sizes sent to them from the towns, and glaze their own windows. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 668 Greater facility for repairing or glazing than those [lamps] of the ordinary sort. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic li Somebody saw a portrait framed and glazed At Croisic. 1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 11 Dec. 17/2 The back wall on either side of the central door is glazed in and forms a case in which is arranged a vast collection of ancient arms and armour. to glaze one's houve to glaze one's houve, give him a houve of glass or glasen houve: to mock, delude, cajole. See Skeat Chaucer, Notes to Canterbury Tales p. 237.extracted from † houvehooven.< as lemmas |
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