单词 | hailscart |
释义 | hailscartadj. Scottish and Irish English (northern). Now rare. Free from harm or injury, unhurt. Sc. National Dict. (at Hail) records the word as still in use in Roxburghshire and Ulster in 1956. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > free from harm or damage unwoundedOE scathelessc1175 skerea1225 unhurta1225 harmlessc1290 soundc1290 unshent1303 wella1325 quartc1330 untouchedc1400 inviolatea1420 unscathed1425 dangerlessc1440 unshendc1440 undefiledc1460 unhurted1483 hailscarta1522 undefaced1537 unpairedc1540 uncloyeda1560 undamnified1576 undemnified1576 uninjured1578 unfoiled1579 salamander-like1593 unvulnered1613 undamaged1648 invulneratea1680 sincere1700 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. v. l. 72 And brocht hys ferys hailskarth to the cost. c1600 D. Moysie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1830) 126 And then brocht the said William away hailscart. 1829 R. Chambers Sc. Songs II. 347 Symon, and Janet his dame, Halescart, frae the wars, without skaithing, Gaed..away hame. 1874 Trans. Hawick Archaeol. Soc. 211/1 The young chield with the beggar on his back having made the round of the kirkyard ‘hailscart’, was on the point of returning. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 162 Hale-scart, unscratched, unhurt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1522 |
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