| 单词 | limetwig |
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : lime-twign. > as lemmasˈlime-twig ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (transitive)] > catch birds > with birdlime lime13.. lime-twig1646 bird-lime1657 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 87 You may be Lyme-twig'd with their errours and loose the Truth for a friend. 1671 L. Addison W. Barbary To Rdr. That the Ottoman Empire..reckon it among their Happinesses not to have their Consultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophisms of Philosophical Persons. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 148 Their mind is so illaqueated or lime-twigged, as it were, with the Idea's and Properties of corporeal things. 1815 C. Lamb Let. 28 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 149 Lord bless me—these ‘merchants & their spicy drugs’..they lime twig up my poor soul & body. 1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. II. i. 68 [Newton] He allowed his mind to be lime-twigged and ruffled and discomposed by words. < see also as lemmas |
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