单词 | inland sea |
释义 | > as lemmasinland sea inland sea n. (a) a large body of salt water, entirely or nearly severed from the ocean: applied also to large lakes; (b) (see quot. 1891).extracted from inlandn.adj.adv.inland sea 3. A large lake or landlocked sheet of water, whether salt or fresh. Obsolete except in inland sea and in proper names, as the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Aral. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > large lake or inland sea seac893 inland sea1590 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §9 Þeah sume men secgen þæt [the Nile] þær wyrcð micelne sæ [vastissimo lacu exundare]. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 1 Æfter þyson for se hælend ofer þa galileiscan sæ, seo is tiberiadis. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 169 & þe swin ananricht urnen adun to þe sea & adrenhden ham seoluen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1123 Ðe swarte flum, ðe dede se. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 105 Iudea..haþ in þe souþe side þe dede Se. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1020 Þer faure citees wern set, nov is a see called, Þat ay is drouy and dym, and ded in hit kynde, Blo, blubrande, and blak..Forþy þe derk dede see hit is demed. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xv. 275 A myle wes betuix the seis. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 144 It is also called the dead sea, because the water moveth not..nether can..any fishe live there. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. 10 This wide Inland sea, that hight..the Idle lake. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 186 This [the Caspian], as other Seas, is a gathering together of perpetual Waters nourished with Springs. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 350 Deader than the dead-sea itself. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 176/1 The Caspian Sea..is the largest of those salt lakes or closed inland seas which may be considered as ‘survivals’ of former oceanic areas. < as lemmas |
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