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单词 lentil
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lentiln.

Brit. /ˈlɛnt(ɪ)l/, U.S. /ˈlɛn(t)l/
Forms: Middle English–1500s, 1700s lentille, Middle English lentylle, 1500s lintell, lyntell(e, 1500s–1700s lintel, 1500s–1800s lentile, 1600s lentill, lintile, lintle, Middle English– lentil.
Etymology: < French lentille < popular Latin *lentīcula (= classical Latin lenticula ), diminutive of lent- : see lens n.The other Romance forms represent the classical Latin word with unchanged quantity: Spanish lenteja, Portuguese lentilha, Italian lenticchia.
1.
a. Chiefly plural, in early use occasionally collective singular. The seed of a leguminous plant ( Ervum lens, Lens esculenta); also the plant itself, cultivated for food in European countries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil
lentila1325
chicha1382
Cicer1382
till1398
chit1541
chickpea1542
ram-ciche1597
ram's head ciche1601
chickny pea1693
gram1702
garbanzo1712
fasels-
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil
lentila1325
chicha1382
Cicer1382
lent1382
till1398
chickpea1542
chit1559
ram-ciche1597
fen lentil1601
ram's head ciche1601
lentil-pulse1660
chickny pea1693
gram1702
garbanzo1712
chana1838
lint1888
chana dal1895
fasels-
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1488 Iacob an time him seð a mete, Ðat man callen lentil gete.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/25 Hec lens, lentylle.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viijv Lentilles are sowen in corne fieldes and growe as Tares do.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 153 Horssecorne, I meane, beanes, otes, tares and lintels [etc.].
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xxiii. 11 A piece of ground full of lentiles . View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. i. ii. 504 The Burre and the Lintle cannot endure one another [L. lappa lenti adversatur].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 331/1 The dreggs of Chaff, and the small Seeds of Tares & Lintels which are in it.
1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 260 Spots, which are here sometimes as big as a lentille.
1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 47 Beans, pease, vetches, lintels.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 159 Our black bread, and black puddings, and lentils!
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 58 His corn was exhausted, and his men were obliged to have recourse to lentils!
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. xv. 222 [In the bazaar] there were booths for Egyptian lentiles.
b. A name for duckweed n. (Lemna). More fully, water lentil [= French lentilles d'eau] . Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies
endemetea1387
duckweedc1440
frog's foot1526
greens1526
duck's meat1538
water lentil1548
grain1578
fen lentil1601
Pistia1754
lemna1789
lentil-dew1800
water lettuce1847
Jenny Greenteeth1852
creed1880
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viijv Lens palustris..is called in english Duckes meate or water Lentilles, in duch wasser linse.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 612 Water lintels, which the Romanes take for a token of death and mourning.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 355 Kanker to kil, apply water Lentils with Barrows greace.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 680 Ducks meate..some terme it after the Greek water Lentils.
2. plural. Freckles or spots on the skin. (Cf. lentigo n.) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > freckle
freckenc1386
frecklec1400
lentigoc1400
specklec1440
sprote?c1450
fernticle1483
mase1527
chit1552
lentils1558
summerfold1668
summer spot1685
form-speckle1702
ephelis1756
heat-spot1822
1558–68 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes 30 There is neither spotte nor lyntell or any kynde of redde burgeons in the face of a man, the whiche being washed with this water..will not go out.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxiv. 365 The iuyce of the roote [of Thapsia] with honie, taketh away all lentils and other spots of the face.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 118 Wheate flower..clenseth the face from lentills and spots.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. iv. 889/2 The Face, or other parts of the Skin troubled with Lentils.
3. A lentil-shaped metal disc. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 365 This pendulum, which is no other than a simple steel rod fixed to a lentille, made at Para 98740 oscillations in 24 hours of mean time.
4. A lens-shaped bulb in an apparatus for rectifying alcohol. (In modern dictionaries.)
5. Geology. A mass of rock distinct in character and having the shape of a bi-convex lens; spec. one regarded as a subdivision of a formation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > lens
lentil1895
lenticle1898
lens1903
1895 J. W. Powell in A. Keith Descr. Knoxville Sheet (U.S. Geol. Survey Atlas) The kinds of rocks are indicated..by appropriate symbols... The following are generally used..Limestones..Lentils in strata.
1903 Amer. Sci. May 344 In the southwestern belt there is a line of Devonian limestone lentils.
1910 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 19 177 The gray sandstone of the Grès Noirs more than 20 feet thick, containing a thin irregular lentil of coal.
1953 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 37 2410 Formations may be subdivided into members, lentils, ‘tongues’, beds, et cetera.
1970 Earth-Sci. Rev. 6 275 Examples of informal rock units are:..(b) beds (e.g., quarry layer, coal beds, oil sands, tongues, lentils, etc.).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
lentil-broth n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses
lentil-pottage1649
bean-broth1702
pea soup1703
pease-soup1706
lentil-broth1820
lentil-soup1820
bean-soup1837
1820 W. Tooke in tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 (note) The lentil-broth was boiled and served up with fowls and vegetables in it.
lentil-form n.
lentil-ore n.
ΚΠ
1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals Lentil-ore, an early name for liroconite, because its crystals are lentil-shaped.
lentil-porridge n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 275 Vpon fish-dayes we had a messe of lentill porrige.
lentil-pottage n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses
lentil-pottage1649
bean-broth1702
pea soup1703
pease-soup1706
lentil-broth1820
lentil-soup1820
bean-soup1837
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 27 He prefers a dish of red lentill pottage before a venison.
lentil-powder n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii Lentil-powder, Pharm., a powder made of the pulverized seeds of the lentil.
lentil-pulse n. Obsolete = 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil
lentila1325
chicha1382
Cicer1382
lent1382
till1398
chickpea1542
chit1559
ram-ciche1597
fen lentil1601
ram's head ciche1601
lentil-pulse1660
chickny pea1693
gram1702
garbanzo1712
chana1838
lint1888
chana dal1895
fasels-
1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. (at cited word) A Lentil pulse, or lentle; Lentille.
lentil-seed n.
ΚΠ
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 102 Certayne smaule graynes of golde no bygger then lintell seedes.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 84 Take thereof the quantity of a lintell seed.
lentil-shell n. Zoology the genus Ervillia.
ΚΠ
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 313 Ervilia, Turton. Lentil-shell.
lentil-soup n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses
lentil-pottage1649
bean-broth1702
pea soup1703
pease-soup1706
lentil-broth1820
lentil-soup1820
bean-soup1837
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 That the cook may..from inadvertence pour the fish-brine into their lentil-soup.
C2.
lentil-grey adj.
ΚΠ
1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/6 Lady A...was dressed in lentil-grey cloth.
lentil-shaped adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex
lenticular1658
lentiform1706
lentular1761
lentile1763
lentil-shaped1796
lenticular-shaped1835
lentoid1879
lensoid1930
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 11 Tubercles lentil-shaped.
C3.
lentil-dew n. [ < French lentille d'eau] Obsolete = sense 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies
endemetea1387
duckweedc1440
frog's foot1526
greens1526
duck's meat1538
water lentil1548
grain1578
fen lentil1601
Pistia1754
lemna1789
lentil-dew1800
water lettuce1847
Jenny Greenteeth1852
creed1880
1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 345 Lentil-dew, a name given to the duckweed..in old herbals.
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