单词 | grando |
释义 | † grandon.1 Obsolete. 1. Medicine. A small, firm nodule, esp. on the eyelid; spec. a sty (hordeolum). Cf. chalazion n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > sty styanc1000 grandoa1400 styanyc1440 west1569 styea1625 chalazion1708 stithe1789 wisp1789 hordeolum1806 quat1876 meibomian cyst1895 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 252 (MED) Grando is as miche to seie as an hail stone..& þus comeþ in þe iȝe liddis. ?1587 A. H. tr. J. Guillemeau Worthy Treat. Eyes (new ed.) iv. xvi. sig. E11 They [sc. poriasis and lithiasis] are both caused principally by an hardnesse of humors, which are assembled and gathered in the eie-lidde, as if the second kinde of Grando afore-named should become drie and thicke. 1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick viii. 43/1 The affects of the Eyebrows are..II. That which we cal Grando [L. Grando], being a round little rising or swelling, transparent, and movable thither. 1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) 46 Venereal, or Pocky Wharts generally grow about the Prepuce..and upon the glans, and sometimes all over the Yard, Pocky grandoes are little hard knots, of the bigness of a Pea, appearing in the same places pocky Wharts do. 1780 G. Chandler Treat. Dis. Eye 100 The Grando, thought to resemble hail, is in reality a Hordoleum, but harder, schirrous, and immoveable, growing on the inside of the eyelid, and containing a pellucid body. 1864 Retrospect Med. 48 333 A disease for which the common tarsal tumour—the grando or chalazion of technologists—may be mistaken, is syphilitic tubercle of the lid. 2. Zoology. = chalaza n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > colour or texture > [noun] > granular body grando1650 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxvii. 151 Whether it [sc. the chicken] be not made out of the grando gallature, germe or tredde of the egge as Aquapendente..informeth us..doth seem of lesser doubt. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations xxiv. 133 The two yolks are distinct, and separate by their proper Coats, and are furnished with their Grandines, and Whites. 1821 Ann. Philos. 1 356 These bodies, from their supposed resemblance to hail, have gained the name of chalazæ, or grandines. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 64/1 The albumen, or white of egg, comprehends several layers of glairy, albuminous, semifluid substance deposited around the yolk, the chalazæ, or grandines, or twisted cords, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † grandon.2 Obsolete. = grandee n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > earl, count, or countess > [noun] > grandee almaçurc1400 grandee1593 grand1606 clarissimo1607 grando1608 adelantado1612 grandio1650 alconde1793 1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands vi. 262 The Earle of Rieux Lord Steward of his house was next.., then the Grandos and Noblemen of Spaine [Fr. les Seigneurs d'Espagne] with foure hundred horses barded. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2v In th' opinion of the best, Grandos, Dukes, Marquesses, Condes, and other Titulados. 1634 Noble Souldier ii. sig. C4 Grandoes..and Lords of Spaine be witnesse all What here I cancell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1a1400n.21608 |
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