单词 | lib |
释义 | † libn.1 Obsolete. A charm. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > charm or amulet lib1577 periapt1584 charm1590 telesm1597 amulet1601 gamahe1638 talisman1638 adder-bead1694 porte-bonheur1874 a700 Epinal Gloss. 711 Obligamentum, lybb [Erfurt libb, Corpus lyb, lybsn]. 1577 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 77 [In Perthshire] ane commoune usare of sorcerie, libbis, and charmes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † libn.2 Cant. Obsolete. Sleep. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] sleepc825 swevenOE swevetOE repasta1382 slumberc1386 lib1665 the land of Nod1738 balmy1841 shut-eye1899 beddy-byes1906 dreamland1912 sleepy-bye1925 sack drill1946 sack duty1954 zed1973 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. sig. C7 Bien Darkmans then, Bouse Mort and Ken, The bien Coves bings awast, On Chates to trine by Rome-Coves dine, For his long lib at last. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). Libn.3 Politics colloquial (originally British). = liberal n., in various senses. Frequently in combinations with the name of another political party: see also Lib-Lab adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > a Liberal Liberal Party1814 liberal1819 Lib1885 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [adjective] > Liberal Lib1885 1885 Punch 8 Aug. 61/1 ‘Tory-demmycrat’ sounds nice and harmless, but if it means simply cold scran From the Rad's broken-wittel bag, drat it! far better the Libs' Grand Old Man. 1910 Lloyd George Let. 15 Dec. in Family Lett. (1973) 154 One Lib gain on balance today—so we are now one ahead. 1959 Punch 28 Oct. 360/3 Are you now in favour of a Lab-Lib hook-up? 1966 Listener 24 Nov. 781/3 His plots are banal, his views a wishy-washy lib-con pink. 1973 Washington Post 5 Jan. b1/1 He seems to think the senatorial libs just couldn't get it through their thick heads that in reality the Family Assistance Plan was another three banana jackpot for bureaucratic liberalism. 1986 Sun (Melbourne) 10 Jan. 8 (heading) Libs create an albatross for their electoral necks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022). libn.4 colloquial. = liberation n. Frequently preceded by an adjective (as gay lib) or a noun in the genitive (as men's lib, women's lib): see the defining words. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery or legal restraint emancipation1785 lib1970 1970 Atlantic Mar. 116 The Lib Movement was rich in documentation of the conditioning processes. 1971 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 7/2 Children's lib. notwithstanding, it would be hard to write a children's book without setting up some sort of standard for the child reader to admire. 1973 Guardian 3 Feb. 13/1 Lillian Thomas is a member of the Suffrage Fellowship Movement..and is delighted with the Libs. 1973 Black World Dec. 12/1 The various ‘lib’ movements, therefore, are white derivatives of the Black movement. 1974 Listener 25 Apr. 520/3 With Scots Lib, as with Women's Lib, it's no good the oppressors expecting the past to be forgotten when convenient. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † lib.n.5 Pounds sterling. ΚΠ 1442 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 8 The sowm of iiijxx of lib. 1528 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 121 Tuenty lib. Scottis. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 333 Ane hunder libs stirling. 1655 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xx. 238 8 lib. of pledge in money. 1705 Hearne in Rel. Hearn. (1869) passim. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). libv.1 a. transitive. To castrate, geld, ‘cut’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > castrate geldc1225 lib1396 stone1584 caponize1654 alter1821 twitchel1826 doctor1834 neuter1903 fix1930 capon- the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > castrate geldc1225 lib1396 cut1465 castrate1609 delumbate1609 enervate1610 unstone1611 gliba1616 evirate1621 emasculate1623 capon1630 eunuchize1634 eunuchate1646 caponize1654 unpollux1654 eunucha1658 unman1657 dismember1697 saturnized1846 nut1916 knacker1936 1396 [see libbing n. at Derivatives]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 116 Thair wyffis..baid tham betteis som abyd Att haem and lib tham of the pockis. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Dj The steirkis..ar..libbit to be oxin. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. vii. 44 Who pares his nailes, or libs his swine. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 324 They haue vsed to lib their Horsses and take away their stones. 1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks 37 The bellowing Bullock lib, and Gote. 1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. i. sig. D2 I am libde in the breech already. 1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour iv, in Dramatic Wks. (1873) III. 164 Sure he is lib'd; he hath certainly No masculine business about him. a1733 Shetland Acc. 28 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 200 That none libb any beast upon Sunday. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 340 To Lib, to geld male lambs and calves (horses and pigs are ‘gelded’). 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 148 Scribb'd and Libb'd, farmers' terms, or rather they are used as one word,—castrated. b. figurative. (Cf. castrate v. 4.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [verb (transitive)] > expurgate, excise quotes or portions of book geld1575 lib1577 1577 W. Fulke Two Treat. against Papistes ii. ii. v. 250 In the latter end where he libbeth of the conclusion of Origens wordes, he translateth [etc.]..when he hath clipped, shauen, pared, gelded, and falsified all that he can [etc.]. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 419 Aristotle..wrote cxxvi. Bookes, or thereabout, περὶ πολιτειῶν..and yet none of these were libbed by Abbreuiators. Derivatives libbed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > castrated or spayed geldedc1225 spayeda1425 geltc1440 unpizzled1554 splayed?1611 libbed1616 spaded1648 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated geldedc1225 cutted1438 geltc1440 chaste1526 evirate1606 castrated1609 memberless1611 unpaveda1616 libbed1616 cut1624 eunuched1627 caponed1630 untesticled1668 castrate1704 eunuch1817 emasculated1830 eunuchal1878 neuter1893 eunuchoid1894 1616 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) II. A libbed gilt. 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 8 What a terrible sight to a lib'd breech is a sow gelder? 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 256 Like a libbed Eunuch. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 505 How libbet Italy was singin. ˈlibbing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying libbing1396 geldinga1398 spaying1575 splaying1607 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration libbing1396 geldinga1398 castrationc1420 eviration1603 eunuchism1620 emasculation1623 evirating1657 mutilation1728 orchotomy1753 eunuchry1864 orchidectomy1870 asexualization1888 orchidotomy1892 1396 Whitby Abbey Rolls (Whitby Gloss.) Pro libbyng porcorum 10d. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 116 Sum..hes forsaekin all sic gammis That men callis libbin of the pockis. 1627 Hist. Fryer Bacon sig. A3v When the best libbing is. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). libv.2 dialect. (Suffolk.) ‘Of a child or young animal: To suck persistently’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΚΠ 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 83 The growing child that lies libbing oftenest at the breast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † libv.3 Cant. Obsolete. intransitive. To sleep. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] sleepc825 swotherc1000 lib1567 peep1699 caulk1818 to pound one's ear (also pillow)1894 flop1907 to catch some z's1963 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiiv In what lipken hast thou lipped in this darkemanes; whether in a lybbege or in the strummell. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K4v Oh I wud lib all the lightmans. Oh I woud lib all the darkemans. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lib, to Tumble or Lye together. 1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum s.v. (F.) The coves lib together, the fellows sleep together. 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