单词 | horse-foot |
释义 | horse-footn. a. A horse's foot. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot horse-foot1489 spear-foot1753 stirrup-foot1753 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 362 Knychtis..Wndyr hors feyt defoulyt yar. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5834 The Troiens..Harlet hym fro horsfet, had hym away. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 666 Tvssilago or Folefoote, hath..many great broad leaues..fashioned like an horse foote. b. attributive. (See Hippocrene n.) ΚΠ 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 271 The sacred springs of horsefoot Helicon. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > coltsfoot horse-hoof1398 foalfoota1400 wowellc1450 Tussilago1510 coltsfoot1552 bull-foot1562 colt's-hoof1565–73 colt-herb1587 coughwort1597 horse-foot1597 flap-dock1846 clay-weed1878 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 666 Of Coltes foote, or Horse foote. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 814 This plant..I haue thought good to name in English Horsefoot, for that the leaues exceed Colts-foot in bignesse, yet are like them in shape. 3. a. A crustacean of the genus Limulus, also called horseshoe-crab or king-crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of king crabc1612 horse-foot1672 Molucca crab1681 sea-louse1681 horse-hoof1699 horseshoe1775 saucepan crab1863 horseshoe-crab1865 fiddle-fish1867 xiphosurid1969 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 13 They feed..upon a shell-fish called a Horse-foot. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Horse-Foot,..a crustacean found in our waters from Massachusetts to Virginia, and in some places so abundant as to be used for manure. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 12/1 [The eels] are fed regularly every day on ‘horse-feet’, a peculiar shell-fish. b. A fossil molluscan shell ( Hippopodium ponderosum) found in the Lias, so called from its shape. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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