| 单词 | at, on, etc first blush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat, on, etc. (the) first blush 2. A glance, glimpse, blink, look. Obsolete except in at, on, etc. (the) first blush: at the first glance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] eie wurpc950 laitc1175 looka1200 lecha1250 sightc1275 insighta1375 blushc1390 castc1400 glentc1400 blenkc1440 regardc1450 ray1531 view1546 beam of sight1579 eye-beam1583 eyewink1591 blink1594 aspecta1616 benda1616 eyeshot1615 eye-casta1669 twire1676 ken1736 Magdalene-look1752 glimmering1759 deek1833 wink1847 deck1853 vision1855 pipe1865 skeg1876 dekko1894 screw1904 slant1911 gander1914 squiz1916 butcher's hook1934 butcher's1936 gawk1940 bo-peep1941 nose1976 c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 657 Aftur þe furste blusch we ne miȝte him bi-holden. c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 39 To many clerkis, at þe first bluysch, it myȝte seme þat þe witt of heeryng [etc.]. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) ciiii. sig. E*iii As the emperour loked in at a windowe..he had a blushe of Florence. a1563 J. Bale Sel. Wks. (1849) 572 The two horns are like the lambs horns at a blush. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B7 Hir Grace is..able at the first blush, to discearne truth from falsehood. 1611 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Nativity vi, in Wks. (1841) I. 94 Vidimus. And that not..‘at a blush’, passing by; but had a full sight. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. v. 82 This discourse hath a prettie shew at the first blush. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 33 And at first blush, she seemes, as if it were Some curious statue on a Sepulchre. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) vii. 402 Looking pale, wan, and meagre, that men might say of them at the blush, This man fasts to day. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 575 A fool may so far imitate the mien..of a wise man, as at first blush to put a man at a stand what to make of him. 1838 G. S. Faber Inq. Hist. & Theol. Anc. Vallenses & Albigenses 308 The very vagueness of the allegation..may well, even on the first blush, induce a full presumption that, etc. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. ii. i. 165 At the first blush, it would seem that little difficulty could be experienced. 1886 Bibliotheca Sacra XLIII. 618 This sounds, at first blush, very neat, if not even very profound. 1955 Times 11 May 18/1 It may, at first blush, seem invidious to single out anyone in particular for special comment. < as lemmas |
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