单词 | basking |
释义 | baskingn.1 The action of exposing oneself to genial warmth. Also attributive, as in basking-hole. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter houseOE denOE holdc1275 lying-placea1382 coucha1398 homea1398 logis1477 starting-hole1530 cabbage1567 lodge1567 lair1575 lay1590 squat1590 hover1602 denning1622 start-holea1641 bed1694 niche1725 shed1821 lying1834 basking-hole1856 lie1869 homesite1882 holt1890 lying-ground1895 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiii. 134 Until the seals begin to form their basking-holes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018). † baskingn.2 Obsolete. Beating, flagellation; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 137 Full of tedious accusations, and baskings of herselfe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). baskingadj. 1. That basks or suns himself. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adjective] > exposing oneself to genial warmth basking1742 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > oneself to genial warmth basking1742 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 6 Take Phœbus to yourselves, ye basking Bards! 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 303 The basking pike's abode. 2. basking-shark n. the largest species of shark ( Selachus maximus), called also Sun-fish and Sail-fish, found in the Northern Seas: see quot. 1803. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of family Cetorhinidae (basking shark) fish-mariner1605 sail-fish1605 pricker1701 sunfish1734 basking-shark1769 bone shark1802 hoe-mother1805 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 78 The Basking Shark..has been long known to the inhabitants of the south and west of Ireland. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 186 The Basking Shark..has derived its name from its propensity to lie on the surface of the water, as if to bask itself in the sun. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 149 The huge basking-shark of six-and-thirty feet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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