单词 | at the tail of |
释义 | > as lemmasat (†after) the tail of b. at (†after) the tail of, at the back of, in the rear of, following; in the tail of, in the train of; so †to follow the tail of. Cf. 6. ΚΠ 13.. K. Alis. (Bodl. MS.) 2142 Siweþ me after [Weber at] my taile. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy v. xxviii, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 155 Folys doe folow them at the tayle. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 283v After his taille should come his owne souldyours. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Biii The heauens gan roumble sore: In tayle thereof, a myngled showre wyth hayle. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Di That ye wyll geue youre byshoppes charge yer they go home..to se your maiesties iniunctions better kepte, and sende youre visitours in theyr tayles. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. ii. §4. 177 In the taile of these Horses the Regiment of foote marched. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiii. 197 Peggy with the infantine procession at her tail. 1891 H. Caine Scapegoat I. vii. 142 She..had..come to Morocco at the tail of a Spanish embassy. < as lemmas |
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