† lenyeadj.

Forms: Also 1500s lenȝe, linȝe, 1600s lenyie.

Etymology: < Old French ligne, linge, thin, slender (said both of textile fabrics and of a person's figure: see Godefroy) < Latin līneus made of linen, < līnum flax.

Scottish. Obsolete.

Fine, thin, slender.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective]

subtlea1382

subtilea1393

subtilec1392

smiltc1400

fine?a1425

thina1425

exile?1440

slender1444

tenuious1495

jimp?a1513

lenye1513

fine-spuna1555

nice1567

spindled1584

gracile1590

snever1640

tenuous1656

slim1657

gracilious1688

gracilent1727

twittery1819

flitterya1834

attenuate1848

spiry1849

low-profile1906

matchlike1906

slimline1949

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. i. 30 Rych lenȝe [L. tenues] wobbis natly weiffis sche.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. i. 73 A linȝe wattry garmond dyd hym vaill [L. eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu Carbasus].

1571 Barbour's Actis & Lyfe Bruce (Lekprevik) i. 387 His body wes weyll maid and lenȝe [text missing from 1489 Adv.; 1670 lenyie].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	lenye
释义	† lenyeadj. Forms: Also 1500s lenȝe, linȝe, 1600s lenyie. Etymology: < Old French ligne, linge, thin, slender (said both of textile fabrics and of a person's figure: see Godefroy) < Latin līneus made of linen, < līnum flax. Scottish. Obsolete. Fine, thin, slender. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective] subtlea1382 subtilea1393 subtilec1392 smiltc1400 fine?a1425 thina1425 exile?1440 slender1444 tenuious1495 jimp?a1513 lenye1513 fine-spuna1555 nice1567 spindled1584 gracile1590 snever1640 tenuous1656 slim1657 gracilious1688 gracilent1727 twittery1819 flitterya1834 attenuate1848 spiry1849 low-profile1906 matchlike1906 slimline1949 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. i. 30 Rych lenȝe [L. tenues] wobbis natly weiffis sche. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. i. 73 A linȝe wattry garmond dyd hym vaill [L. eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu Carbasus]. 1571 Barbour's Actis & Lyfe Bruce (Lekprevik) i. 387 His body wes weyll maid and lenȝe [text missing from 1489 Adv.; 1670 lenyie]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1513
随便看	to fence a band to fence off to fence out to fence the tables to fence with to fend and prove to fend back to fend for to fend for oneself to feoff one person to the use of to feoff to the use of to fere to god to ferret about to ferret out to ferret up and down to fester into to fet again to fet in to fet off to fetch a fetch to fetch a frisk to fetch a person over the hips to fetch a way about to fetch a windlass to fetch about