单词 | a right half |
释义 | > as lemmasa right (also left) half 7. Expressing position with reference to a place or thing: on, at, chiefly in a right (also left) half, a this (also that) side; = on prep. 4. Now English regional.a God's half: see half n. Phrases 1b(c). a seaboard: see seaboard n. 2. a to-side: see to adj. c. ΚΠ c1175 (?OE) Royal Charter: Æðelred II to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1636) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 982 Wite he hine silfne amansumod fram Gode, & fram eallen his halgen mid ða foreworppenen inne domusdeie a Cristes winstre hand geloged. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 141 Þe rede see..þer stod a richt halue and a luft, alse an castel wal. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 156 (MED) Þe kueade..byeð ase a þe left half, uor hy byþ a þe worse zide. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1680 (MED) A þes half Mantrible, þe grete Citee, ys þe brigge y-set. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 336 In the daies of princis a this side the Emperour Constantyn. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lv. 80 And bothe..wente, and leyd them self a bothe his sydes. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxviii. 1108 Eft at one side and eft a tother. 1610 Carnegie Lett. 343 Tua legues a this syd off. 1719 A. Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 126 I'd better been a yont side Kairn-amout. 1827 H. R. Mosse Woman's Wit & Man's Wisdom II. v. 169 We're twa as bonnie lasses as might be glinted at a this side the Tweed. 1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands 52 As for deer, that's all a no sich thing: there arnt no deer a this side of Duck-seedar's. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at A Let-n vall out a thick zide. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) A, on. ‘A this side’. 1987 F. Graham New Geordie Dict. 5 A this side—on this side. < as lemmas |
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