单词 | lune |
释义 | lunen.1 Hawking. A leash for a hawk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > leash creance14.. loync1400 lunea1470 leash1497 line1590 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 282 Than was ware of a faucon..and longe lunes aboute her feete. 1486 Bk. St. Albans B v b The lewnes shulde be fastened to theym, with a payre of tyrettis. 1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. Lv In fancies lune I fast was cought. a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. E3 The closer shee couered the sparke, the more it kindled: yea, in seeking to vnlose the Lunes, the more shee was intangled. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Longe,..a hawkes lune or leash. 1895 ‘Q’ Wandering Heath 230 A gerfalcon lying with long lunes tangled about his feet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lunen.2 archaic. plural. Fits of frenzy or lunacy; mad freaks or tantrums. (Cf. line n.2 29.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness widden-dreamOE resea1300 ragec1330 lunacy1541 raving1549 fit1594 moon1607 ravening1607 lunesa1616 rapturea1616 widdrim1644 raptus1740 brain storm1890 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. ii. 33 These dangerous, vnsafe Lunes i'th'King, beshrew them. View more context for this quotation 1778 S. Johnson Let. 14 Nov. (1992) III. 140 My Master is in his old lunes, and so am I. 1799 C. Lamb John Woodvil iii Let him alone. I have seen him in these lunes before. 1867 J. H. Stirling in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 381 This is the central weak point, the special lunes of the De Quincey nature. 1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Lit. in Renaissance in Italy II. ii. x. 97 Their tales for the most part are the lunes of wanton love. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lunen.3 1. Geometry. The figure formed on a sphere or on a plane by two arcs of circles that enclose a space. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > lune lunula?a1560 lunular1570 lune1704 lunule1737 meniscus1817 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Lunes or Lunulæ. 1839 in Penny Cycl. XIV. 199. 1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) xxxiv. 119 Her [the moon's] crescent..now presents the appearance of a lune. 1891 A. Cayley Coll. Papers (1897) XIII. 205 The two lunes ACB and ABD of figure 6. 2. Anything in the shape of a crescent or half-moon. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent lunary1610 sickle1657 crescent1672 lune1709 demilunea1734 lunette1774 semi-lune1862 1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) ii. 235 Faithful Janizaries..Fall'n in just Ranks or Wedges, Lunes or Squares. 1805 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 36 This made them [the globules] gradually assume the shape of half moons..The dark part of these little lunes..did not appear sensibly less than the enlightened part. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1470n.2a1616n.31704 |
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