单词 | asiatic wild ass |
释义 | > as lemmasAsiatic wild ass a. A domesticated equid mammal, kept in many parts of the world mainly as a draught and pack animal, Equus africanus asinus, distinguished from the horse by its smaller size, long ears, and a tuft at end of the tail, and typically having a coarse grey or brown coat with a white underside; = donkey n. 1a. Also (in full wild ass): either of two wild animals of deserts and arid grasslands, Equus africanus (more fully African wild ass) of north-eastern Africa, from which the domesticated animal is thought to derive, and E. hemionus (more fully Asiatic wild ass), a yellowish or reddish brown equid of western and central Asia (also called onager); (occasionally, more fully striped ass) a zebra (now historical).In popular use, the name is now to a great extent superseded by donkey (a shift reinforced, esp. in North America, by a desire to avoid association with ass n.2); but ass persists in traditional, biblical, and proverbial contexts, and with reference to the wild species. Cf. burro n., cuddy n.3 1, field-ass n. at field n.1 Compounds 3, jackass n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus asinus (ass) assOE brayer1598 long-eara1774 OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 309 Onager, wilde assa. OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xxii. 23 Se assa [L. asina] geseah ðone encgel standende. OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 15 Nu þin cing cymþ uppan assan folan sittende. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 3 Heo nomen þe asse and here colt. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8337 Hii ete Hor hors..& assen [c1425 Harl. hassen] ar hii lete. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlv. 23 Tenn hee asses..& as feele sche asseȝ [a1425 L.V. Ten male assis..and so many femal assis]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1073 A ded has. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3152 Þe child he kest a-pon a nass. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 285 Oxen, Asses [c1410 Cambr. Dd.4.24 Assen], hors, and houndes. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) 6453 Fyftene hundryd asse Bar wyn and oyle. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 700/33 Hic onager, a wyld has. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job vi. 5 Doeth the wilde asse braye when he hathe grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hathe foddre? a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. i. 21 He shall but beare them, as the Asse beares Gold. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. iii. 49 A Traveller to Rome must have the backe of an Asse, the belly of a Hogge, and a conscience as broad as the Kings highway. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs i. 23 As the World goes, who has not Asses Ears [L. auriculas asini]? 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin li While he spoke, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear. 1843 F. E. I. Calderón de la Barca Life in Mexico I. xxi. 313 Those who are not fortunate enough to possess any wheeled conveyance, come out on horse, ass or mule. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad lxi. 646 A sorrier lot of horses, camels and asses than those that came out of Noah's ark, after eleven months of seasickness and short rations. 1918 K. Kohler Jewish Theol. xxvii. 162 Saadia accepts all the Biblical miracles except the speaking serpent in Paradise and the speaking ass of Balaam, considering these to be parables rather than actual occurrences. 1976 J. D. Dolmetsch Rebellion & Reconciliation 30/2 A zebra had been presented to the queen [sc. Queen Charlotte, c1760] and was housed in St. James's Park. It was quickly nicknamed ‘the queen's ass’. 1999 P. Olivelle tr. Pañcatantra iii. 112 The washerman, hoping to fatten up the ass, covered him in a leopard's skin and turned him loose at night in the cornfield. 2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Mar. 76/2 Asiatic wild asses organize themselves..with a dominant male controlling a territory near a critical resource. < as lemmas |
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