单词 | horseflesh |
释义 | horsefleshn. 1. The flesh of a horse, esp. as an article of food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > horse horseflesh?1533 horsemeat1853 chevaline1868 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Div v Horse flesshe, cher de cheual. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 421 They preferre horse-flesh before other meats, esteeming it stronger nourishment. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 31 The Horseflesh comes to Market at Cachao very frequently, and is as much esteemed as Beef. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 59. ⁋6 They were reduced to eat Horse-Flesh. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 228 So early as the eighth of June horseflesh was almost the only meat which could be purchased. 2. Living horses collectively, usually with reference to riding, driving, or racing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > collectively stud?1316 horseflesha1400 cattlea1680 cavalrya1695 stringa1809 a1400–50 Alexander 2161 What aylez you nowe?.. Wheþer euer your hertes for horse-fleshez abaytez? 1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hors flesche is of suche a price here that my purce is schante able to bye on hors. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiv Herauldes spared no horseflesh in riding betwene the kyng and the erle. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 614 As for horse-flesh, I haue alwaies heard..That the breed of Italy passeth al others. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 157. ⁋7 A Person..profoundly learned in Horse-flesh. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship iv. 20 As honest a man as any that deals in horse flesh. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. vii. 122 Anything that horse-flesh is capable of, a real good Oxford hack..will do. a. Surgery (see quot. 1658). ΚΠ 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxvi. 175 The flesh holds the two ends of the [fractured] bone together, for that reason is it called Horse-flesh, because it is harder then other flesh. b. = dead horse n. at horse n. 19. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work charged but not done horseflesh1688 horse1770 hoss1968 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 122/1 (Printing) If any Journeyman set down in his Bill..more Work then he hath done that Week, that surplusage is called Horse Flesh. c. (In full horseflesh wood, horseflesh mahogany.) The sabicu tree, Lysiloma Sabicu, a native of Bahama. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 195 Horseflesh-wood, Rio Janeiro. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 813 Horse-flesh, or Bahama mahogany. Nassau. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 160 The timbers being of native hard wood (horse-flesh). Compounds C1. attributive, usually in reference to the colour, a peculiar reddish bronze. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red rustya1398 hepaticc1420 horseflesh1530 rubiginousa1538 iron1587 bricky1615 ferrugineous1633 sand-reda1639 brickish1648 ferruginous1656 lateritious1656 brick-coloured1675 blood bay1684 testaceous1688 rust-coloureda1691 brick-red1740 brick-dust-like1765 maroon1771 rufous1782 brick-dusty1817 rusted1818 worm red1831 brownish-red1832 brown-red1835 foxy1850 rust1854 henna-coloured1865 chestnut-red1882 terra-cotta1882 copper-red1883 fox-red1910 oxblood1918 tony1921 henna-brown1931 henna-red2002 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/2 Horse flesshe colour. 1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 97 Item iij dekyns of sylke one of blew another of grene and the other of horse flesh color. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 472 Some whereof are called Carnations, others Cloue Gilloflowers,..some Pagiants or Pagion colour, Horseflesh, blunket, purple, white..Gilloflowers. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 101 April..The Horseflesh Fly. This fly is taken all the month two hours before sun set till twilight. C2. horseflesh ore n. an ore of copper, bornite. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of red copper1507 misy1543 grey copper1590 yellow ore1630 grey orea1728 pitch ore1776 red copper ore1776 fahlerz1796 tile-ore1823 cuprite1850 lettsomite1850 velvet copper-ore1850 yellows1851 meneghinite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 horseflesh ore1868 plush-copper1881 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > copper iron sulphide pyrites1567 yellow ore1630 podar1778 magnetic pyrites1809 bornite1811 towanite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 homichlin1859 horseflesh ore1868 talnakhite1969 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 45 Crystalline varieties [of bornite] are found in Cornwall..called by the miners ‘horse-flesh ore’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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