单词 | muset |
释义 | musetn.1 Now English regional (Suffolk) (rare). A gap in a hedge or fence through which hares, rabbits, or other animals may pass; (also) the lair or form of a hare. Also in extended use. Cf. meuse n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > gap meuse1523 muset1594 musser1611 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > lair or breeding place formc1290 maze1486 meuse1585 squat1590 muset1594 stool1607 hare-warren1647 seat1735 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Eiij The many musits through the which he goes, Are like a laberinth to amaze his foes. 1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xi. sig. Civ Or with Hare-pypes (set in a muset hole) Wilt thou deceaue the deep-earth-deluing Coney? 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. xlix. 1015 To prevent those Thracian theeves that they should not hide themselves within their peakish holes & ordinarie covert musets. 1653 E. Chisenhale Catholike Hist. Ep. Ded. sig. A4 The Author..had no sooner escaped out of our English sheep-fold, but straightway he discovers the Muset thorow which he stole. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 134/2 A Hare [is lodged] in his Forme or Musett. a1903 F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 212/1 [E. Suffolk] Mussit [a gap in a hedge through which hares and rabbits pass, a ‘meuse’]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † musetn.2 Obsolete. rare. A shrew. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Soricidae > genus Sorex (shrew) shrewc725 mygalea1382 ranny1559 shrewmouse1572 hardishrew1601 muset1601 earth-shrew1607 sorex1607 spitemouse1668 hog mouse1743 wight1795 thraw-mouse1825 saddleback1948 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 375 Against the biting of these musets or hardi-shrews [Fr. musetz, L. muris aranei]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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