| 单词 | new-laid | 
| 释义 | new-laidadj.  Esp. of an egg: newly or freshly laid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > 			[adjective]		 > fresh new-laid1528 1528    T. Paynell tr.  Arnaldus de Villa Nova in  Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F j b  				Dyuers nouryshynge meates. The fyrst are newe layde egges. 1563    T. Hill Arte Gardening 		(1593)	 101  				Against the dropsie, take a new laid Eg. 1631    B. Jonson Divell is Asse  ii. ii, in  Wks. II. 117  				Why should hee..hold your new-laid egge Against the fire, lest any charme be writ there? 1687    A. Lovell tr.  J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant  i. 39  				Lovely Virgins..as white as new-lay'd Eggs. 1707    E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 63  				There's no Bolus to him comparable to a new-laid Egg. 1782    W. Cowper Fable 2  				Her new-laid eggs she fondly pressed. 1833    C. B. Southey Tales of Factories 11  				He raised his head..And turning, stampt down hard the new-laid sod. 1872    ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xii. 100  				Tumbled volumes of cloud..shredded away again and left the purple peak..downy and white with new-laid snow. a1933    J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman 		(1934)	 I. xx. 576  				This drop forms the whole embryo, and in the new-laid egg it has already divided into a disk of cells. 1987    S. Weintraub Victoria 		(1988)	 i. 19  				The simplest gift reported was two new-laid eggs sent for the Queen's breakfast by an Irish farm woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < | 
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