单词 | happing |
释义 | happingn.1 1. Something that covers a person, as a wrap, shawl, coat, etc., or a coverlet or bed-covering. Also: a rug. Occasionally figurative (see quot. ?c1400). Now chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > outer cover coverture?c1225 chalon1301 coverlet1382 coverlida1400 quiltpointc1400 pane1405 counterpointa1475 liggera1483 happing1503 counterpane1626 palampore1676 spread1750 duvet1759 mata1894 suggan1907 eiderdown1950 ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) Or. Ab. 20 (MED) Þou nackend hym to þe necke, þat is, þou reft hym alle þe happyng þat he had of þi chosen menne. a1450 York Plays (1885) 257 (MED) Hendely hille on me happing. 1503 in N. H. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta (1826) 454 Stuffe of bedding..a quilt happing..a square happing, white and black... A chike happing. 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 375 Manie haue accustomed to lay of a rammes skinne aloft, & to charge the head with manie happings. 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 134 How fraile a Carkasse..is shrouded under so gorgeous Happings. 1674 S. Fell Househ. Acct. Bk. 20 Feb. (1920) 45 Pd him more, for workeing a happin Mothers acct. 1746 M. A. Cathcart Lett. to Sir John Houstoune 4 July 2 I was once wet through all my Hoods and Happings. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 303/1 She insisted on my pitting on a better happing to screen me from the cauld. 1893 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 23/2 Her head smothered in the bed-happings. 1908 W. S. Sparrow Eng. House 181 In the sixteenth century ox-houses in Yorkshire still contained beds, blankets, sheets, mattresses, pillows, bolsters, and happings, or coarse coverlets. 1957 W. Mayne Grass Rope xiii. 120 ‘Where were you when you blew the horn?’ ‘In bed... Under the happings.’ ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 515 Wappynge, happynge, or hyllynge, coopertura, coopericio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † happingn.2 Obsolete. rare. Good fortune, success. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] speedc725 speedinga1300 exploitc1300 happingc1440 succeedingc1450 proof1574 successa1586 joy1945 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3958 (MED) Here es þe hope of my hele, my happynge of armes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmashapping ΚΠ 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ (P.R.O.: SP 12/289) i. pr. vi. f. 22v Thinkes thou that this world is wheeled by rash & happing chaunce [L. fortuitisque casibus]? a1625 (a1598) A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Harl.) in Poems (1910) 171 With..happing hairs blowin withershines Aback. < as lemmas |
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