| 单词 | in a mending way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a mending way 2. U.S. regional in later use. on (also upon, in, of) the mending hand: = on the mend at mend n. 5. Similarly †at a mending hand, †in a mending way. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adverb] on (also upon, in, of) the mending hand1598 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. ii. 3 Giuing out that Augustus was on the mending hand. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xxiii. 291 Go on..till you see and perceave that the member is at a mending hand. 1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love Prol. First, to shew you're in a mending way, You'll often visit our Reforming Play. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 23 She was repurged with Success, whence they judged her in a mending Way. a1790 I. Putnam Let. in Ladies' Repository (1875) May 467/1 He had been quite unwel, but was on the mending hand, and hops [sic] soon to recover. 1809 R. Heber Let. 29 May in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. xi. 360 My parish goes on, I think and hope, rather on the mending hand, particularly in respect to the observance of Sunday. 1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xxi. 310 True, the hurt man is in a mending way, But must be crippled to his dying day. 1875 A. Porson Notes Quaint Words Dial. S. Worcs. 23 My ear seems on the mending hand. a1932 G. S. Wasson Notebk. in Amer. Speech (1979) 54 98 He's on the mending hand. 1942 Amer. Speech 17 130/2 On the mending hand (convalescent). < as lemmas |
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