| 单词 | pairing, breeding, close, etc season |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspairing, breeding, close, etc. season 5. The time of year when an animal is in heat, pairs, breeds, migrates, is killed for food or hunted, etc. (Also pairing, breeding, close, etc. season.) †of (the) season = in season (see Phrases 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [noun] seasona1425 grease-season?a1562 grease-time?a1562 game season1783 open season1846 cover-day1902 the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > when an animal behaves a specific way or is hunted seasona1425 pairing season1836 song period1884 breeding-season- the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > mating > season seasona1425 riding seasonc1425 belling1553 breeding-time1711 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting time > [adverb] in the time (also season) of greasec1330 in season1473 of (the) seasonc1613 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) iii Þere [sc. the bucks'] seson dureth fro þe moneth of May into þe mydle of Septembre. 1486 Bk. St. Albans e v The seson of the fox [is] fro the Natiuyte Tyll the annunciacion of owre lady fre. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 238 The seasons of all Chaces. c1613 (c1490) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 86 I..desire and pray you to caus a bucke of season to be taken. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 152 I warrant you Bucke, And of the season too. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 87 Euen for our kitchins We kill the fowle of season . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 99 Six Seasons use; but then release the Cow, Unfit for Love, and for the lab'ring Plough. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋5 The Day was fix'd for the Entertainment, which was in Venison Season. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. Index 14 Not to leap many Mares in a Season. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 184 My neighbours were not as birds of the season; they neither despised nor forsook me because of my poverty. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 43 Then touch'd upon the game, how scarce it was This season. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1112 Its effect upon the skin may also interfere with the coming of the season upon the ewe. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 72 Others went after butterflies and birds'-eggs in their seasons. < as lemmas |
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