单词 | moring |
释义 | † moringn.1 Obsolete. 1. The action of more v.2; augmentation, increase; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waxingc1055 increasingc1340 increasec1374 echinga1382 creasing1398 augmentinga1400 alarginga1425 moringa1425 augmentc1425 incrementc1425 creasec1440 increasement1509 enlarginga1513 enlargement1564 amplification1569 accession1570 usury1576 enhancement1577 growth1587 creasement1592 accrease1598 crescence1602 improvement1607 excrement1608 majoration1626 heightening1629 auction1692 turgescence1806 outgrowth1837 steepening1868 prolating1919 upgrading1920 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 65 (MED) Þis was no morynge but lassyng of God. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2229 Drede & Schamefastness Han daunted Loue..And ben gret cause of moring of his peyne. c1452 J. Capgrave Treat. Augustine Orders in J. J. Munro Capgrave's Lives St. Augustine & St. Gilbert (1910) 148 The xj son hite Ioseph, and he is to say a moring or augmentacion. 1517 J. Skayman Skayman's Bk. 17 Nov. in Farming & Gardening in Late Medieval Norfolk (Norfolk Rec. Soc.) (1997) 131 The seid qwest cam downe..to se the moryng of the same pastur. 2. In plural. Extras; additional quantities. ΚΠ 1532 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 221 [Charge for] Necessaries yearly, without any further allowance for moreings or other, to be given by peticion. 1540 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 237 Likewise of Morens of Beefs & Muttons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). moringn.2 Now English regional (south-western). Apparently: the condition of being firmly rooted or established. (In quot. 1625 figurative.) Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [noun] > state of being based or settled radicationa1500 rootfastness1526 rootinga1620 moring1625 rootedness1625 fixture1809 rootage1823 basement1838 1625 J. Stradling Divine Poemes 211 For if these weedes, once root and moring get, They'll not be weeded cleanly from the graine. Compounds moring axe n. an axe designed for uprooting tree stumps (see more v.1 3); = grubbing-axe n. at grubbing n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1626 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 56 1 moringe axe with 2 lb. of old Iron, 1 clever and I payre of sheres. 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 277 [Gloucestershire] Moring Ax,..an Axe for cutting up the Roots of trees. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Moreing-ax, an ax for grubbing up the roots of trees. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Morin' axe, a two-edged axe for cutting the roots of trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1425n.21625 |
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