单词 | out-win |
释义 | † out-winv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To get out or escape. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > succeed in getting out out-wina1425 the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > from confinement atburstc1000 outbreakOE strayc1330 aventc1375 twinc1386 out-wina1425 to break away1535 disengage1647 to break bounds1816 to cut loose1828 a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4462 (MED) A qwene..haldes þam in, Thurgh stre[n]gthe, þat þai may noght out wyn. ?a1500 Hunting of Hare in H. Weber Metrical Romances (1810) III. 285 (MED) The hare thoght che wold owt wyn, And hit Jac Wade apon the schyn. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2447 in Poems (1981) 91 With proud plesour quha settis his traist thairin, But speciall grace lychtlie can not outwin. 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xxi, in Wks. sig. Ccijv She treadth so outward, that if she out wyn, She wyll by hir wyll, neuer treade foote within. a1688 [see out-winning n. at Derivatives]. 2. transitive. To get (something) out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by force, effort, or contrivance to draw outOE outdrawlOE drawc1300 win out1362 out-wina1425 windc1535 extract1628 exact1647 exforcipatea1834 to winkle out1942 a1425 Life St. Alexius (Laud 463) (1878) 450 (MED) Eufemian adoun beyȝ; þat writ he drow & ȝerne tey; he ne myght it out-winne. c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) 1582 (MED) He..wery and sore wondede was, And fastande dayes three; Be þat tyme he myghte note wele a worde owt-wyn. 3. transitive. To get out of (a place). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out of [verb (transitive)] > succeed in getting out of out-win1596 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. i. sig. A5v It is a darksome delue farre vnder ground, With thornes and barren brakes enuirond round, That none the same may easily out win . View more context for this quotation DerivativesΚΠ a1688 J. Renwick Choice Coll. (1777) 301 But there is no escaping or out-winning through all eternity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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