单词 | hazeled |
释义 | hazeledadj. 1. Reddish- or greenish-brown, of a hazel colour; (also, esp. of a cow) roan; flecked with hazel. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut nut-browna1400 hazeled1548 nut-brown1575 hazel1580 nut-brown1586 chestnut-coloured1636 chestnut1656 chestnut-brown1656 castaneous1688 nutty brown1839 chestnutty1893 nutmeg1965 1548 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 54 I wull that Agnes Mallom have one hessilld whie, one stirke, one yowe, and one lambe. 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iii. viii. 159 Hazled cocks [L. gallorum ruforum], which are quick for motion,..strong to fight. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Hazled, speckled red and white, or rather with the hairs of these colours intermixed, so that it is hard to say in some cases which predominates. 1891 E. Arnold Light of World iii. 134 Full and soft the beard, Forked, of the hazelled colour of His hair. 1904 W. M. Rossetti in C. Rossetti Poet. Wks. p. lix Her eyes were originally a blueish-grey (portraits show this); but in adult years they might rather be called a greyish hazel, or a richly hazelled grey. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 59/1 T'maist o' ma beas is haazzled yans, ye see Ah've getten a haazzl'd bull. 2004 J. Fancher & ‘C. J. Cherryh’ in L. Abbey Enemies of Fortune (2006) 281 Startlement in those newly hazeled eyes. 2. literary. Covered or lined with hazels; full of hazels. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [adjective] > of or pert to particular nut-trees > of or relating to hazel > full of hazels hazeled1763 hazelly1793 1763 W. Woty Blossoms of Helicon 82 I too can love The church-yard walk, the gloom of hazel'd copse, And rooky grove. 1841 Metropolitan Dec. 352 Up yon hazled slope the farmer loudly rallies Reapers to their morning task. 1887 R. L. Stevenson Underwoods 7 The brooding boy, the sighing maid, Wholly fain and half afraid, Now meet along the hazel'd brook To pass and linger, pause and look. 1899 J. Buchan Grey Weather 280 He had a dim memory of a fragrant hazelled knoll above the rocky Gled, which looked up and down three valleys. 2011 M. D. O'Kelly Altarpieces v. 205 Old woods Are too hazeled for virgin hypotheses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1548 |
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