| 单词 | lining out |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslining out 3. Tracing of lines. lining out: see quot. 1823. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > drawing in specific manner purfling1601 outlining1795 lining1823 sketching1824 free-hand1841 model-drawing1843 cartooning1846 line-work1895 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 587 Lining-out; drawing lines on a piece of timber, &c. so as to cut it into boards, planks, or other figures. 1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 663 Some wood engravers are but too apt to pride themselves on the delicacy of their lining. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding viii. 144 When the lining-out had been completed the beam-arms were punched out. lining out 4. The giving out of a hymn (by the precentor) line by line. Also lining out. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > [noun] > giving out by line lining1863 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing of hymns > action of precentor lining1863 1863 ‘S. L. Jones’ Life in South I. xvii. 355 Next follows a hymn of alternate singing and ‘lining’. 1883 G. W. Curtis in Harper's Mag. Dec. 14/2 The ancient leading and lining of the hymn gave way to modern psalmody. 1894 N. Dickson Auld Sc. Precentor 20 This practice was called ‘lining out’, or ‘reading the line’. 1917 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 27/2 In the ordinary parish churches metrical Psalms only were sung. ‘Lining out’ by the ‘clerk’, or precentor, was the order, singing in unison without organ accompaniment the rule. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues ii. 82 ‘Lining out’ in which a lead singer paces a line and the congregation follows with the same line or a refrain response with a linear reply. < as lemmas |
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