单词 | hippomane |
释义 | hippomanen.α. 1500s hyppomanes, 1600s– hippomanes. β. 1800s– hippomane. 1. Originally: †a fleshy excrescence believed to occur on the forehead or in the mouth of a newborn foal and to act as an aphrodisiac (obsolete). In later use: a small flat mass, typically white, yellow, brown, or black in colour and primarily composed of cellular debris, found in the allantoic fluid of equids. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > aphrodisiac > specific cantharides?1541 potato1565 hippomane1580 potato finger1609 hippomane1756 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > foal > parts of hippomane1580 milt1587 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 63v There is..in the head of a young Colte, a bounch named Hippomanes,..so effectuall for the obtaining of loue, that who so getteth [it].., shall winne anye that are willyng. 1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times 730/1 A Gentleman..often shewed mee one of these Hippomanes, which he wore about his necke, in a case of Christall. a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 130 (Comm.) Cæsonia the wife of Caligula..whom she drench'd with the love-cup made of the hippomanes, a tender peice of flesh taken from the brow of a young foal. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 171/1 The substance of these hippomanes was divisible into several thin laminæ. 1789 W. Williams Primitive Hist. iii. 55 A foal's hippomanes mix'd with the lover's blood, or the virus of a stud mare..are powerful philtres. 1843 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. IX. ii. 113 Poison was compounded, according to the declaration of the wizard, of adders' skins, toads' skins, and the hippomanes in the head of a young foal. 1873 G. Fleming tr. A. Chauveau Compar. Anat. Domesticated Animals (ed. 2) 898 It is difficult to explain the presence of the hippomanes in the allantoid sac. 1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. viii. 208 In its cavity [sc. the uterus] are found floating large oval bodies, often very hard, known as hippomanes. 1967 Jrnl. Anat. 101 277 Pregnant uteri from twenty Common Grant's zebra.., ten Grevy's zebra.., and twenty horses..were dissected..and observations made on the relation of the hippomanes to extra-embryonic fluids and membranes. 2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 June 56 Foal's Bread (a common name for the hippomane, part of the mare's placenta that can be present after birth). 2. A mucous vaginal secretion occurring in a mare in heat, formerly thought to act as an aphrodisiac or to provoke madness. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > aphrodisiac > specific cantharides?1541 potato1565 hippomane1580 potato finger1609 hippomane1756 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > female > mare > mucus discharged by hippomane1756 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 298 Lifting vp the taile, changing of the voice, and sending forth of her secretes, a certaine thin humour, somewhat like the seede of a horsse, which is called Hippomanes. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks iii. 87 Hence flows thick poison from the groines of these, Which Shepheards truly call Hippomanes, Hippomanes, which oft bad stepdames use, And charming words, and banefull herbs infuse. 1694 J. Dryden tr. Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 31 The Shepherd..calls by Name Hippomanes [L. hippomanes], to note the Mother's Flame. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 170/2 The Hippomanes has been distinguished under two species; the one a liquor distilling from a mare, during the time of her heat. 1820 C. Symmons in tr. Virgil Æneis (ed. 2) I. Notes 381 The other hippomanes was a fluid distilling from mares under a strong impulse of the procreative instinct: and of this Virgil speaks as of the true hippomanes. 1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 June 602/1 The substance called hippomane, described..by others, as of a much more disgusting nature (‘virus destillans ab inguine equæ coitum maris appetentis’). 1957 Hudson Rev. 10 87 Whatever philtres Circe and Medea listed,..Along with hippomanes that drip from loins of mares in heat. 1995 Moscow Times (Nexis) 6 June Caligula went mad from hippomanes, an elixir from pregnant mares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1580 |
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