单词 | ogress |
释义 | ogressn.1 Heraldry. A solid black circle forming a charge, supposed to represent a cannonball; a roundel sable, gunstone, or pellet. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > circular device > of specific tinctures pelletc1425 plate1466 bezant1486 cake1486 gunstone1486 ogle1486 talent1486 torteau1486 tortlet1486 wastel1486 ogressa1550 golpe1562 guze1562 orange1562 pomeis1562 plat1592 fountain1610 tortey1688 a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 3 Barnestaple Towne: Arg: a triple turreted tower gul: betweene 3 ogresses. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory f. 150v He beareth Or, iii Ogresses in Fesses. These are Pellettes of gunnes, and are neuer other colour, then Sable. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 37v Beareth Verte, fiue Fermaulxz in Crosse D'Or, a Border d'Argent, charged with eight Ogresses: or, after the French blazon, ‘Ogressèe de huit pieces’. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Ogresses [1706 or Agresses], certain round figures in Heraldry resembling Pellets, always of a black colour. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2525/4 A Fesse Argent between Estoiles charged with 3 Ogresses. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pellets In Heraldry, a Name given those Roundles which are Black; call'd also Ogresses and Gun-stones. 1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1787) Dict. Ogress, term used by English Heralds only, to express the black Roundelets, which are also called Pellets and Gunstones. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 23 The Pellet, or Ogress. 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide Heraldry iv. 66 Pellets, black roundels, also known as gunstones and ogresses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ogressn.2 A female ogre; (in extended use) a cruel or terrifying woman. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > ogre orc1605 ogre1713 ogress1713 ogrillon1860 1713 tr. Arabian Nights I. 78 He perceiv'd that the Lady..was a Hogress, Wife to one of those Savage Demons call'd Hogres, who stay in remote places, and make use of a thousand wiles to surprize and devour Passengers. [So ed. 1785.] 1729 R. Samber tr. C. Perrault Histories iv. 51 He must not play tricks with an Ogresse. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 6 Three Ogresses, or female cannibals. 1806 J. W. Croker Amazoniad ii. v. 41 Hogress.—A ferocious being described in the Arabian tales, who fed upon young men. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ix. 287 Like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young traveller. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. ii. 19 Why, Phineas, you are making her out to be an ogress. a1941 V. Woolf Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble in Haunted House 169 It was said a great ogress had them in her toils... She had a face like the side of a mountain. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain xiv. 380 He has lain in stores that would be excessive for a pair of ogresses. 1995 Observer 15 Jan. 24/4 Egged on by the press, the public have come to see her as an ogress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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