单词 | lesser wain |
释义 | > as lemmasLesser Wain 2. (Now with capital initial.) The group of seven bright stars in the constellation called the Great Bear: more fully Charles's Wain n. Lesser Wain: the similarly shaped group of seven stars in the Little Bear.Old English had wǽnes þísl or þísla, ‘pole or poles of the wain’. With Scott's ‘Arthur's slow wain’ cf. ‘Arthouris Plowe’, Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 682; Arthur here represents Arcturus, regarded as the teamster or wagoner of the plough or wain. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major > Charles's Wain wainc888 Charles's Waina1000 sistersc1425 chariot1555 Triones1594 north car1633 northern car1697 wagon1867 the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Minor > Lesser Wain Lesser Wain1669 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §3 Swa swa tunglu..þe we hatað wænes ðisla. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. met. v. 5 Who so þat.. wot nat why þe sterre Bootes passeþ or gadereþ his weynes. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 248v We iudged them to bee the chariotte or wayne of the south. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxii. 130 The starres about the North pole, called Septentriones, the Waines or Beares. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vi. 95 The..two Bears..Whose hinder parts and Tails contain The lesser and the greater Wain. 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 36 When Clouds conceal Boötes' golden Wain. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xvii. 19 Arthur's slow wain his course doth roll, In utter darkness, round the pole. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xiii. 7 The wain, that, in the bosom of our sky, Spins ever on its axle night and day. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcix. 152 At noon or when the lesser wain Is twisting round the polar star. View more context for this quotation 1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. The-wain-and-horses, sb., Ursa Major. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 105 Bright Arcturus, the showery Hyads, the Bear, and the Wain. < as lemmas |
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