单词 | norland |
释义 | Norlandn.2 British. attributive. Designating a nurse or nanny trained at Norland College or its precursor, and training given under its auspices. Also absol.: a Norland nurse or nanny.A proprietary name in the U.K. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up > nurse nouricec1225 nursea1325 rockera1325 nourish1340 nursha1382 nursery nurse1494 nutrice1529 nurse-girl1596 dry-nursea1616 nursey1760 bonne1771 ayah1782 nanny1785 momma1803 nursery girla1812 mammy1837 nanac1844 day nurse1855 caretaker1858 nursekin1862 Norland1894 nounou1894 nurselet1894 Plunket1909 metapelet1950 1892 St. James's Gaz. 28 Sept. 12/2 It will be interesting to watch the experiment being made by Mrs. Walter Ward, who has just opened the Norland Institute for the training of kindergarten nurses.] 1894 Nursing Rec. & Hosp. World 7 Apr. 234/2 As a Norland Nurse, I have now had opportunity of seeing the value of the work to both employer and employée. 1899 West-End 23 Aug. 14/1 [The nurse] must receive a certificate, and do a further three months as probationer in a family.., before she dons her pretty neat brown uniform, and sallies forth as a fully-fledged Norland nurse. 1945 N. Streatfeild Saplings ii. 19 Lena would have liked..a young Norland or the equivalent, looking smart in her uniform. 1972 J. Gathorne-Hardy Rise & Fall Brit. Nanny vi. 178 From the first a Norland Nurse was forbidden to hit a child... This enlightened view..has remained a key feature of the Norland training. 1989 P. Gilliat What's it Like Out? (BNC) 116 The tangles were tugged at three times a day by a Norland nurse who attacked the mane in a moral spirit as though it were some disagreeable piece of showing-off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). norlandadj.n.1 Chiefly Scottish and poetic. A. adj. Belonging to the north, that comes from the north. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] northwardeOE northlyeOE northOE northenc1175 northerna1225 septentrionalc1392 Septentrion1541 septentrial1542 northerly1556 norland1577 northernly1594 septentrionical1654 northwardly1676 septentrionic1829 1577 Edinb. Test. V. f. 340, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane agit norland woman. 1644 in H. Lumsden Rec. Trades House Glasgow (1910) I. 237 30 ells of norlane tweill. 1786 R. Burns Poems 33 Erskine, a spunkie norland billie. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Oriana xi When Norland winds pipe down the sea. 1864 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. In these norland woods and groves. 1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 89 Electors by the Norlan' Firth, Your wisdom's equal to your wirth. 1923 V. Jacob Songs of Angus 50 O tell me what was on yer road, ye roarin' norlan' Wind? a1935 W. Watson Lyrics & Longer Poems (1936) 216 Their dark ships of norland pine. 1981 Eng. World-wide 2 7 The auld British leid..in the sooth, and Norse roon the eastern shores and the norland isles. B. n.1 1. A northern region, a land or country in the north; spec. the northern part of Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [noun] > part or place Thulec888 northdealeOE north halfeOE northwardeOE north endOE northlandOE northdalec1175 north sidec1275 northwardc1350 northa1500 northwards1574 norlanda1578 norwardc1612 northa1631 northing1644 a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 202 He was to ryde to the norland amangis his lordis. 1591 in C. Innes Sketches Early Sc. Hist. (1861) 528 For furnessing of schone sen ye come out of the norland. 1733 P. G. Elchies Lett. 86 She wou'd be reproach'd by her neighbours, shou'd she send any of her bairns to the norlands. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1707 in Poems I As the storm-wind blows bleakly from the norland. 1880 A. C. Swinburne Songs of Four Seasons i Our noisy norland. 1918 E. S. Rae Private John MʽPherson 30 He is sleepin' far he fell 'Mang the heroes o' the Nor'lan' that focht at Neuve Chapelle. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep xii. 235 In the Norlands life had always been on a razor's edge. 1998 D. K. Cameron Eng. Fair vi. 73 Northern and Highland beef, shaggy-coated kyloes from the west and norlands, equally lean, conveniently met speculative wallets anxious to buy beef. 2. A northerner; a person from the north, esp. the north of Scotland. Cf. Norlander n.1 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland ScoteOE Irish Scota1387 Irish Scot1521 Irishman1529 Moravian1577 Moravea1600 highlander1610 lowlander1621 trewsman1639 Whiglander1682 northland1698 Norlander1716 plaid1749 bonnet man1763 plaid-man1763 norland1768 Irish Gael1771 Galwegian1774 southern1812 Gallovidian1875 Fifer1887 Clydesider1921 teuchter1940 1768 J. Beattie in Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 June Its true, we Norlans manna fa' To eat sae nice, or gang sae bra', As they that come from far awa'. 1798 D. Crawford Poems 27 Kirsty was a Norlan' bred. 1817 J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 159 The journeyman carpenter..possessed all the quaint shrewdness which is among the Scotch implied in the word Norelin. 1852 M. Oliphant Adam Graeme xvi I hae nae broo o' thae keen Norlands. 1954 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI Norland, a person from the North or North-East of Scotland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21894adj.n.11577 |
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