单词 | leed |
释义 | leedn.1 Scottish and northern dialect. a. †Language, ‘tongue’ = leden n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] speechc888 rounOE ledenc1000 tonguec1000 wordOE moalc1175 speaka1300 languagec1300 land-speecha1325 talea1325 lip1382 stevenc1386 languea1425 leed1513 public language1521 idiom1575 idiotism1588 lingua1660 lingua franca1697 receptive language1926 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 1 Strophades in Grew leid ar nemmit so. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 35 Than sall I wryte in prettie poetrie, In Latine leid. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 158 Alexander..was send to France to leairne the leid witht wther lettres. b. The speech of a person or class of persons, talk, utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology, ‘patter’. Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] speechc725 spellc888 tonguec897 spellingc1000 wordOE mathelingOE redec1275 sermonc1275 leeda1300 gale13.. speakc1300 speaking1303 ledenc1320 talea1325 parliamentc1325 winda1330 sermoningc1330 saying1340 melinga1375 talkingc1386 wordc1390 prolationa1393 carpinga1400 eloquencec1400 utteringc1400 language?c1450 reporturec1475 parleyc1490 locutionc1500 talk1539 discourse1545 report1548 tonguec1550 deliverance1553 oration1555 delivery1577 parling1582 parle1584 conveying1586 passage1598 perlocution1599 wording1604 bursta1616 ventilation1615 loquency1623 voicinga1626 verbocination1653 loquence1677 pronunciation1686 loquel1694 jawinga1731 talkee-talkee?1740 vocification1743 talkation1781 voicing1822 utterancy1827 voicing1831 the spoken word1832 outness1851 verbalization1851 voice1855 outgiving1865 stringing1886 praxis1950 a1300 Body & Soul 21 in Map's Poems (Camden) 334 Ȝwere is al thi michele pride, And thi lede that was so loud? c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1004 Tristrem..schortliche seyd in lede: ‘We no owe þe noþing’. a1400–50 Alexander 5007 In quatkyn manir of lede sall me þir treis sware? c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 68 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 182 Al langage spek he cane, & vndirstand al leyd of mane. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus Prol. sig. Aviv The ofter that ze it reid, Ze sall the better tak baith the sence, and leid. c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 179 Not using a rusticall corrupt leid, nor yett booke language. 1746 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) III. 305 Let faith get up its head and it will speak its own particular leed. 1790 D. Morison Poems 77 Let Matrons round the ingle meet..An' in a droll auld farran' leet, 'Bout fairys crack. 1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 22 To hersel' this leed she mutter'd. ‘Frae the east—fra the wast’ [etc.]. a1828 ‘Hynd Horn’ xviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1882) I. i. 207/1 Auld man, come tell to me your leed; What news ye gie when ye beg your bread. 1850 W. Jamie Stray Effusions (ed. 2) 146 Nae jockeyship kent he Nor ploughman leed. 1867 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 103 Leed..(2) One line of conversation or argument; as, ‘He got intil a leed, an oot o' that he cudna get’. c. poetic applied to the ‘language’ of birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > language of leden1340 leeda1350 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 Þe lutel foul haþ hire wyl on hyre lud to synge. 184. Laing in Whistle-Binkie (1890) I. (Sc. Songs) 374 That wonderfu calf Has Scripture by heart, as the gowk has its lied. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leedn.2 local. The grass Glyceria aquatica. ΚΠ 1607 W. Camden Brit. (rev. ed.) 360 Cum aquæ se in suos alueos receperint, lætissimo gramine & fœno crassiori (Lid vocant) ita luxuriat. 1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland x. 298 [After quoting Camden on Lid] This grass is most likely the Glyceria, formerly Poa aquatica..and is still usually known by the name of ‘White Leed’. It was once the principal grass of the Wash lands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1300n.21607 |
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