| 单词 | liver sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliver sea liver sea n. now historical a sea in which the water is said to be so thick or coagulated as to impede navigation (cf. livered sea at livered adj. 1). [In quot. c1600 probably after Middle Dutch leversee or Middle Low German lēversē; compare Middle Dutch levermere, Middle Low German lēvermēr, in same sense; in later use after German (now hist.) Lebermeer (Middle High German lebermer, Old High German lebarmeri, lebirmeri, libermeri).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > thick livered sea?a1300 liver seac1600 c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 97 Past the perillous gredy gulfe of Perse And levir sees that syndry shippis devoirs. 1891 Littell's Living Age Nov. 421/2 It is the Kleber Meer (Sticky Sea), or the Leber Meer (Liver Sea), as Hans Sachs..semi-fabulously calls it. 1996 A. Hall tr. R. Simek Heaven & Earth in Middle Ages v. 68 The Old High German poem, Merigarto,..tells of a ‘Liver-sea’, ‘a fabulous, dangerous coagulated sea in which the ships could not move’. < as lemmas |
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