单词 | mutess |
释义 | † mutessv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. Of a hawk: to discharge faeces; = mute v.1 1.The work cited in quot. 1595 is Markham's edition of Bk. St. Albans. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > excrete slicec1450 mutea1475 mutessa1475 spice1682 the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of hawk, etc. mutea1475 mutessa1475 to put overa1475 feat1508 to check at the fista1529 feakc1575 souse1589 to clip it1616 embowel1618 unenterpen1647 gather1674 enterpen1736 scatter1771 a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 31v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Mutesen For þe wete craye, þi hawke wyll euer be mutesyng..be ware þat sche drawe no blode at hir tewell with hyr beke..for A non As sche haþe mutesyd sche wyll with hyr beke tyll hir tewell. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. aiijv An euell callid the Cray..that is whan an hawke may not muteyse. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. avv Take porke and..fede the hawke therwith, and that shall make her mutyse att the best. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cvijv When yowre hawke may not metese [1496 muteyse] then she hathe thatt sekenes calde the stoon. 1595 G. Markham Gentlemans Acad. f. 3 v You shall say your Hawke mutesseth [1486 mutessith], or muteth, and not skliseth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.a1475 |
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