| 单词 | in a person's beard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (also to) a person's beard P1. in (also to) a person's beard: in (or to) a person's face; openly, resolutely. Now rare.Also in phrases such as †to be (also meet, run) in a person's beard: to oppose a person openly or resolutely (cf. beard v. 3). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adverb] barelyc950 beforeOE openlyOE nakedly?c1225 in a person's bearda1250 opelyc1275 apertly1297 commonlya1325 opena1325 overtlyc1325 pertlya1375 plainc1380 in (also on) opena1382 in apertc1384 plainlyc1390 in open (also general) audiencea1393 aperta1400 in commonaltya1400 outa1400 without laina1400 in commonc1400 publishlyc1400 pertc1410 in publicc1429 on higha1450 in pert1453 to a person's facea1470 into heightc1480 forthward?1504 but hidel?1507 publicly1534 uncolouredly1561 roundly1563 famously1570 vulgarly1602 above board1603 round1604 displayedly1611 on (also upon) the square?1611 undisguisedly1611 broadly1624 discoveredly1659 unveiledly1661 under a person's nose1670 manifestly1711 before faces1762 publically1797 overboard1834 unashamedly1905 upfront1972 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > defy stout1303 to be (also meet, run) in a person's beardc1380 to face and brace1447 to stout it1570 to bid defiance1629 to stout it outa1639 bravado1801 to breast it out1815 a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 279 Þen mon him for schendlac i þe beard spitted. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3066 Þay [sc. the French] gunne to pryke vaste toward hure [sc. the Saracens'] logyngge, And þe Sarsyns aȝen hem..þan þus doþþepers of fraunce torndem to þat ferde, Boþe wiþ swerd, axe, & launce þe [emended in ed. to þey] mette hem in the berde. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 5082 Þe cuntre sone he fond in his berd redy ran. ?1506 Lytell Geste Robyn Hode (de Worde) sig. B.iv Thou arte euer in my berde sayd the abbot. a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) i. f. 43v Was not this a sedicious harlot to tell them this to their beardes? to their face? 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. iii. 245 Thou to my beard wast bold to say, That thou couldst prove, Bear-baiting equal With Synods, orthodox and legal. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 271 Shamed as we have been, to th' very beard. 1875 ‘B. De Garçon’ Kishoge Papers 6 Fierce was the Sacristan's rage when he heard The Enemy tempting him thus to his beard. 1958 W. S. Merwin tr. L. de Rueda Eufemia in Tulane Drama Rev. 3 ii. 58 She told me to my beard that the Penalosas as a lineage were superior to the Ortizes. < as lemmas |
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