单词 | inwash |
释义 | > as lemmasinwash (i) With nouns of action, with the sense ‘moving or directed inwards towards a point’, as in-blow, inpull, inpush, in-swerve, inwash. See also inburst n., incast n., income n.1, infare n., inpour n., inrush n., etc. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Josh. (Claud.) ii. 11 Aswearc ure mod, & ure gast forhtode to eowrum infærelde [L. ad introitum vestrum]. a1400 Psalter (Harl.) xvii. 18 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 149 In-sprout [a1400 Vesp. For þi snibbing..For onesprute of gast of wreth þine]. a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) f. 60 Þere were in þat place so many wondirful tornynges and wendingges. And þerfore it was yclepid Laberinthus, quasi labens intus, an inslippe, for a man myȝte slippe or slide in so fer he schulde neuere conne come out aȝen. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures vii. 32 Your puffe, your crosse-puffe, your expuffe, your inpuffe vppon the face of a tender infant. 1849 Paxton's Mag. Bot. 16 358 These shrubs stand as screens only, and effectually do they obstruct the ingaze of passers-by. 1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 374 This inpush from a freeze never occurs where a cellar is kept warm, but the retain or guard wall of an outside stairway, and other outdoor walls, are often thus pushed. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxx. 208 He rushed on Dyer, and with one full, clean in-blow stretched him stunned on the dock. 1911 ‘B. L. Putman Weale’ Unknown God ii. ii. 386 The rafts, swept nearer by the inpull of the bank, were now visible in every detail to the naked eye. 1933 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 Oct. 9/3 If a fast bowler desires to bowl an in-swerve or a ball swerving into a right hand batsman's body, it is necessary to grip the ball with the stitches running perpendicularly alongside the index finger. 2011 Palynology 35 147/2 Falling flowers, pollen clumps and surface inwash probably contribute a significant proportion of the pollen arriving in small forest hollows. < as lemmas |
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