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单词 highs and howes
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highs and howes
2. A high place, region, or point; a height, an eminence. Now chiefly Geology and Scottish (esp. in highs and howes: heights and hollows).In quot. a1382 spec.: = high place n. 1.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > high place or part
highnesseOE
highOE
altitude?a1475
haut1502
excelse1610
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke i. 78 Per uiscera misericordiae dei nostri in quibus uisitauit nos oriens ex alto : ðerh ðoht miltheortnise godes uses in ðæm gesohte us ariseð of heh uel of heofnum.
OE Order of World 83 Swa teofenede, se þe teala cuþe, dæg wiþ nihte, deop wið hean, lyft wið lagustream, lond wiþ wæge.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings x. 13 Forsoþe he cesede to prophecyen & cam to þe heȝe [a1425 L.V. an hiȝ place; L. ad excelsum].
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 391 Harez, herttez also, to þe hyȝe runnen.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1146 Þai tiltin togederz..Fro þe heghe of þe hyll vnto þe harde roche.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. xii. f. cxviv They came to the highe of the mountaigne and were in the viewe and sight of the ennemyes all ready to fyght.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 416 b There must be a thyrd place..in the highe betwixt heaven and hell I suppose.
1721 A. Ramsay To Ld. Dalhousie 52 She..scours o'er heighs and hows a' day.
a1822 Sir A. Boswell Sheldon Haughs in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Sc. Poems (1862) 168 Frae heighs and hows, frae hames and ha's.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 24 We enter Kirkcoman parish among heighs and howes.
1906 J. F. Fergus Carmina Urbis Et Ruris 64 There 'mid its bonny heighs and howes, 'Mid flower-strewn dells and bosky knowes, Ye reigned supreme.
1949 K. Patchen Red Wine & Yellow Hair 64 Is life the meat that swings the falcon down from his highs? Yes, a poisoned bait in the trap of a vicious fancier.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 931 The Azores Platform, a topographic high associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 37° and 40° North.
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