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单词 hares-foot
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hare's-footn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhare's-foot.
1. A species of clover ( Trifolium arvense), with soft hair about the flowers. Also called hare's-foot trefoil. See also hare-foot n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 26 Lagopus maye be called in Englishe Haris foot or rough clauer.
1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 62 Its blush Flowers stand in a round flusey Head, like our Haresfoot.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 109 Trifolium arvense (Hare's-foot Trefoil).
2. The Corkwood tree ( Ochroma Lagopus) of the West Indies and Central America; so called from the dehiscent ripe fruit with the cotton of the seeds protruding from it. ( Treasury Bot. 1866.)
3.
a. A hare's foot used in applying rouge, etc., to the face.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply
hare's-footc1800
c1800 C. Mathews in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) I. xv. 305 Camel's hair pencils, hare's feet, whiting, burnt corks.
1827 L. T. Rede Road to Stage 38 Burn a cork to powder, wet it with beer (which will fix the colouring matter), and apply it with a hare's-foot, or a cloth.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 206 The young lady with the liberal display of legs, who is kindly painting his face with a hare's foot.
1859 E. Winstanley Shifting Scenes Theatr. Life xxi. 200 There are pots of rouge, hare's feet, powder~boxes.
1877 ‘Haresfoot & Rouge’ How to ‘Make-up’ 13 Then with a hare's foot apply a colouring of Rouge to the cheeks.
1888 J. Ker Hist. Preaching (ed. 2) 281 A hare's-foot brush to touch the dust of holy statues.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1097/1 Theatrical make-up... Hares' feet.
b. See hare-foot n. 1.

Compounds

hare's-foot fern n. a name of Davallia canariensis; also extended to other species, as (in Australia) D. pyxidata.
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hare's-foot fern1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Davallia, a..genus of polypodiaceous ferns..They have scaly creeping rhizomes, which feature has given rise to the name of Hare's Foot Fern, applied to D. canariensis.
1882 Garden 29 Apr. 301/3 Davallia Fijiensis Plumosa [is] a very elegant Hare's-foot Fern.
hare's-foot sedge n. Carex lagopina.
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1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 27 Hare's-foot Sedge..a very rare plant.
hare's-foot trefoil n. see sense 1.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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