单词 | mutessing |
释义 | † mutessingn. Obsolete. rare. The voiding of excrement (by a hawk); (also) the excrement itself. Cf. mute n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > excreting or excretion of mutessinga1475 sliming1614 a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 29, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Mutesing To knowe sekenes of þi hawke be mutesyng: yf sche mutes also whyte as chalke with A lytyll blake in þe myddes, than is sche wele in þe bowell & also in þe hede. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. ciiijv Hir metessing [1496 mutessing] will defowle hir foundement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1475 |
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