| 单词 | hell-mouth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-mouth hell-mouth n. the mouth or entrance of hell (chiefly without article). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > entrance to hell-doorOE hell gateOE gates of hellc1000 hell-mouthOE mouthOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxi. 202 [Seo swearte nywelnyss þe ðu gesawe mid þam ormætum þeostrum and fulum] stence, seo is helle muð. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 239 (MED) Wat sceol se wrecce don þe..iseȝð..under him helle muð open. a1450 St. Balaam (Bodl.) 483 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 127 (MED) Þe dragon in þe pittes ground, helle mouþ it is. ?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. D But after that this detestable opinion was inuented, this vnhappie custome proceded out of it as out of an hell mouthe. a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iv. iii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 62 Hell-mouth be with thee. 1701 J. Dunton tr. Homer in Merciful Assizes 281 We hate him worse than Hell-Mouth, that utters one thing with his Tongue, and keeps another in his Brest. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 196 The belly of a tortured star blood-red in Hell-Mouth light. 2001 Art Bull. 83 420/2 In the Winchester Psalter..the Hell mouth is shown as a great scaly sea monster. < as lemmas |
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