单词 | lyam |
释义 | lyamlymen. Obsolete exc. Historical and dialect. 1. a. A leash for hounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > leash for hounds leasha1300 couplec1400 lyamc1400 coupling1607 dog couple1649 swingea1661 c1400 Parl. Thre Ages (text A) 38 My lyame than full lightly lete I doun falle. c1400 Parl. Thre Ages (text A) 61 I hyede to my hounde and hent hym vp sone And louset my lyame and let hym vmbycaste. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 287 My Lord paied to Mason for lyemes for his howndes..xxd. 1528 MS. List of Jewelry (P.R.O.) ij doggs collers of scoolewerk with lyalmes sylk and gold. 1541 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 81 (note) One cople of houndes and ther lyomes. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 423 in Shorter Poems (1967) 34 Of goldyn cord wer lyamys [1579 Edinb. lyamis] and the stryngis Festnyt coniunct in massy goldyn ryngis. 1570 J. Caius De Canibus Britannicis f.11v Nam Lyemme nostra lingua Lorum significat. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. 96 Enter Eudon, & Busse leading in twoe lymes Byrtha & a Spaniell. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Traict,..a lime, or line wherin a Bloud-hound is led. 1612 J. Webster White Divel B iij Let her not go to Church, but like a hounde In Leon at your heeles. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 82 A Hound will draw better when he is held short, than if he were let at the length of the Liam. 1829 W. Scott Waverley Novels (new ed.) I. Gen. Pref. p. lxix A large blood-hound tied in a leam or band. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Leam, a leash or thong. 1897 D. H. Madden Diary W. Silence 23 The huntsman then held him [the bloodhound] short, pulling in the liam. 1898 Pall Mall Mag. Oct. 164 The second illustration shows the huntsmen with their hounds on the lyam seeking for deer. b. Heraldry. The representation of a lyam or leash. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > leash lyam1572 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 43 A Lyon Couchante, & three Lyams in chefe d'argent. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xli. xxx. 344 His cosin had a Lyme hound argent bright, His Lyme layd on his backe. 2. Short for lyam-hound n.N.E.D. cites Harmer's emendation Lym of Shakespeare's him (1608 quarto) and Hym (1623) ( King Lear iii. vi. 72). Johnson follows Shakespeare (‘Hym, a species of dog’), but Shakespeare's use is problematic. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > bloodhound bloodhoundc1330 limerc1369 lyam1486 brachell1488 lyam-hound1527 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Sute of a lyam. Compounds lyam-dog n. = lyam-hound n. ΚΠ 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. vii. 168 Stout Conrade, cold..Was by a woodman's lyme-dog found. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1400 |
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