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单词 most hand
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most hand
b. Of a thing: chief, main, principal. most hand: almost entirely, chiefly; (also as n.) the most part. Now Scottish and English regional (Yorkshire). Conc. Sc. Dict. (1985) records this sense as still in use. The adverbial phrase most hand is recorded by Sc. National Dict. (1965) as still in use in north-eastern Scotland and Shetland in 1962.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2867 Þatt wass..Þe maste þing. forr whatt ȝho wass. Þatt time cumenn þære.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10734 Þiss iss þe þridde kinne mahht. Þatt soþ meocnesse shæweþþ..& itt iss mast & heȝhesst off hemm alle.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxii. 38 This is the firste and the most [L. maximum] maundement.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 192 (MED) I was most cause of her confusioun.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 65 (MED) The most thinge that greuid her was her good and gay clothing.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) i. iii. 14 Ryght dere lord and kynge, the grettest and most thinge that I desire is that thou haue..a gloryous and vertuous lyf.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 10799 (MED) Þere his moste dwelling shal be Wel may men calle it her cuntre.
a1500 How Good Man taught his Son (Harl.) 186 in Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philol. (1889) 2 35 The moost þyng þat certeyn ys.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. iii. 15 Turffe and seacole is theire most fewell.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 51 Dunnotyre..maist mansione of the Erles of Marchel.
a1784 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherd 122 in Sc. National Dict. at Maist But can ye now of her nae cuttance gie Or where about her maist resort may be?
1835 D. Webster Orig. Sc. Rhymes 4 The maist thing that troubled the bodies, I think was their hungry wames.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. xii I hae been thinkin' o' a plan for maist han' toomin' hell.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Maist-hand, for the most partly, chiefly.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby For t' maist hand.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 80/1 He'll a getten t'maisthand on't lest week.
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