单词 | number seventeen |
释义 | > as lemmasnumber seventeen 3. The seventeenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventeen. Usually as number seventeen, or with specification, as chapter seventeen, verse seventeen, etc. ΚΠ 1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) xvii. cxvi. f. cclxxvii/2 Palma is a tree of victorye, and hathe that name, as Isydore sayth lib. xvii. for ther with the victours honde is ornated. 1615 N. Byfield Expos. Epist. Coloss. sig. Mm4 The particular salutations concerne either the Laodiceans verse 15:16: or the Colossian Preacher: who is not only saluted, but exhorted, verse 17. 1630 Wine, Beere, Ale, & Tobacco (ed. 2) sig. Dv 16. Nose your tobacco. 17. Puffe up your smoake. 1794 Act 34 George III in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1799) X. liv. 422 Six lots east-side of Sackville-street, number twelve to number seventeen, inclusive. 1849 G. W. Francis Art of Modelling Waxen Flowers 20 To Put a Downiness or Powdering upon Fruit.—One of the powders mentioned on page 17 is adapted for this purpose. 1966 G. Lyall Shooting Script xix. 150 Room 17, I think you said? And the desk knows I'm coming? 1998 B. Comfort Pair for Queen xi. 94 This lady wants to visit the patient in seventeen. 2003 J. Dawson & S. Propes 45 RPM vii. 45 His funereal ballad got as high as No. 17 on the national pop charts. < as lemmas |
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