单词 | auster |
释义 | Austern. Chiefly literary and poetic. The south wind, frequently personified; (Roman Mythology) the god of the south wind. Cf. Notus n.In quot. 1535: the south. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > south south windeOE AusterOE southc1384 Notusa1398 souther1851 the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] > part or place southdealeOE south halfeOE southlandOE south endlOE southdalec1175 south sidec1325 southa1382 Auster1535 sun half1565 sunny quarter1574 south-away1893 OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) x. 94 Se oðer heafodwind is suðerne, Auster gehaten; se astyrað wolcnu & ligettu, & mislice cwyld blæwð geond þas eorðan. OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxxvii. 26 And awehte þa windas of heofenum, Auster ærest and þa Affricum [L. et excitauit Austrum de caelo et induxit in uirtute sua Africum]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. ii. 571 Þanne comeþ..Auster, þe souþerne wynde. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. met. iii. l. 997 Yif þe cloudy wynde auster [L. Auster] blowe felliche. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 354 Throw couetyce culd neuir ȝit be content Of all the Austure and the Orient. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 48 Auster or meridional vynd quhilk the vulgaris callis southyn vynd. 1603 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Second Day of First Weeke 13 She..might the anger-swollen cheekes disdaine Of Auster, who in parching heate delighteth. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 153 To dry the weeping Austers teares. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur v. 129 He [sc. the Emperor of the Winds] calls his wandring Subjects home, Eurus and Notus straight obedient come; Last, sluggish Auster, to his Den with wet And flabby Wings. 1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea iii. iii, in tr. Seneca Trag. 58 Cloudy Auster [L. Auster] where he pow'rs Forth Deluges of Winter Show'rs. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 21 Auster's resistless force all air invades. 1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 323 Those flatulent folks known in Classical story as Aquilo, Libs, Notus, Auster, and Boreas. 1860 W. D. Howells Poems Two Friends 125 At twilight Auster, like a gossip, came And told the secret to the listening leaves. 1917 A. K. Porter Lombard Archit. I. iv. iii. 368 Aquilo is the most helpful, Auster the most harmful, of winds. 1997 T. Hughes Tales from Ovid 6 Opposite, in the South, Auster's home Is hidden in dripping fog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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