单词 | november |
释义 | Novembern. 1. a. The eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, containing 30 days and falling between October and December.In the northern hemisphere now usually regarded as the last month of autumn. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > November NovemberOE OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 32 On wintres timan, þæt is fram þan anginne þæs monðes, þe is nouember gehaten. OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) xxxix. 249 Nimon heora werreaf to sancte Martinus mæssan, and oferslipas to eastron, and heora gescy on þam monðe nouembre. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 1414 Þe þreottuðe dei of Nouembres moneð. c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 103 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 302 (MED) Seint Miȝhel In nouembre hath ȝeot an-oþur dai. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11036 (MED) Þe quene ssenche deide..in nouembre & ibured was. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1167 That is Novembre which I meene, Whan that the lef hath lost his greene. a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 15 (MED) Þe tyme of wintir..es fra þe Kalandis of nouembir til þe paskys. c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 35 (MED) In januari be þe signe þei clepe aquari..in novembir be þe scheter, in december be þe gote. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 312 Enprynted the xx day of nouembre the yere a forsayd. c1500 in J. Harley et al. Rep. MSS R. R. Hastings (1928) I. 421 (MED) xxxti days hath Novembre, June, Aprill and Septembre. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 264 The last day of Nouembere. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants ii. i. iii. 68 The Root of Dandelion being cut in November, seems to bleed both a Milk and a Lympha. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 72 I cannot but admire the address of the Druids, in fixing this ceremony..to the beginning of November. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 467 When now November dark Checks vegetation in the torpid plant. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. Introd. 3 November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. 1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes xii Our Aprils are considerably worse than our Novembers. 1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) xvi. 253 The hurricanes of the West Indies occur most frequently from June to November. 1997 Farmers Guardian 19 Sept. 26/9 (advt.) Wintering Wanted for 150–200 fell hogs. Beginning of November to end March preferred. b. poetic. The month of November personified. ΚΠ 1719 R. Pack Burlesque Imitation First Ode Horace in Misc. Verse & Prose 73 November shall her Ides advance, To grace my Birth-Day ev'ry Year. a1752 T. Fitzgerald Winter's Evening in Poems (1781) 79 From the Year are all its Honours fled, And dull November rears his gloomy Head. 1801 J. B. Burges Richard First ii. 60 November leads her wintry train, And stretches o'er the firmament her veil Charg'd with foul vapours, fogs and drizzly rain. 1886 O. F. Adams Post-laureate Idyls 148 November's step was heard Along the leafstrewn ways, and, blown by winds And drenched by autumn rains, October fled. 1890 G. Barlow From Dawn to Sunset 226 Can November sing one song of May's? Can the winter with the spring hold parley? 1992 M. McGuckian Marconi's Cottage 102 November will dance his night-journey towards me, Playing his headlamps in a round robin From leaf to target-leaf. c. Chiefly poetic. With allusion to November's position at the end of the year, and to the characteristic greyness, gloominess, etc., associated with it in the northern hemisphere. ΚΠ a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. x. 207 If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind. View more context for this quotation a1845 L. Blanchard Invitation to Sit in Poet. Wks. (1876) 331 Ye Authors, men of dazzling mind, Perchance with faces foggy as November's. a1855 C. Brontë Ring in Poems (1984) 199 The friend of one brief summer day Forgotten in her life's November. a1962 R. Jeffers George Sterling in Coll. Poetry (1988) I. 236 Who could have known he drew so near his November, The power and the song not wearying; and now he is gone. a1963 W. C. Williams Design for November in Coll. Poems (1986) 141 Let confusion be the design and all my thoughts go, swallowed by desire: recess from promises in the November of your arms. a1984 A. Mitchell John Keats eats his Porridge in Heart on Left (1997) 130 Grey as November, united as the kingdom, but the longer he stared into that dish of porridge [etc.]. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > oporinia dilutata (November moth) November moth1766 November1775 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types > himera pennaria (November moth) November moth1766 November1775 1775 M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 37 November [moth]. 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 319 November [moth]. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. Index 266/1 November, (Harr.) See Feathered Thorn [Himera pennaria]. November, (Haw.) See Autumn Border [Oporabia dilutata]. Compounds C1. General attributive and appositive, as November chill, November day, November mist, November month, November night, etc. ΚΠ OE Tables of Lucky & Unlucky Days (Calig.) in K. Malone & M. B. Ruud Stud. in Eng. Philol. in Honor of F. Klaeber 267 On Nouembermonðe se v dæg and ær his ende se iii. a1425 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1912) 128 288 (MED) Nouember þonder toneth plente of frute and yoyful yer. 1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families 56 In November Month to speak the truth, It was our woful fate. 1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night ii, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 146 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. viii. 216 A November mist overspread the little valley. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 33 The chill November dawns and dewy-glooming downs. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 87 It was about November-tide. 1937 ‘J. Curtis’ You're in Racket, Too i. 9 It would be no fun doing a skipper on a November night. 1976 S. M. Gault Dict. Shrubs in Colour 139/1 Florida flowering dogwood... Very popular in the Eastern U.S. and considered the finest November-time flowering tree. 1991 Alaska June 30/1 She does not know yet if this November day will be good for flying. C2. November moth n. either of two European geometrid moths of the genus Epirrita which fly in November, E. dilutata, a light brown to grey moth with darker forewings, and the paler E. christyi; (formerly also) †the feathered thorn, Colotois pennaria, a light reddish-brown geometrid moth (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > oporinia dilutata (November moth) November moth1766 November1775 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types > himera pennaria (November moth) November moth1766 November1775 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 79 (heading) November Moth. 1874 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 109 The November Moth [Oporabia] appears on the wing in November, and is common everywhere in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) iv. 53 The melanism of the November Moth..is..due to a large number of genes whose action is small and additive. 1984 B. Skinner Moths Brit. Isles 39/1 Pale November Moth... Melanic forms occur frequently in both industrial and rural districts, but rarely become dominant as in the last species [sc. the November Moth, Epirrita dilutata]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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