单词 | barley-corn |
释义 | barley-cornn. 1. a. = barley n. (the plant or grain). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > grain for malting barley-corn1382 beer-corn1594 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > barley plant barley1303 barley-corn1382 drink1580 drink-corn1669 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. xiv. 30 The feelde of Ioab biside my feelde hauynge barli corn [a1425 L.V. ripe barli]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 25/1 Barly corne, ordeum. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xiv. 196 The juice of the vine or the barleycorn. b. Personified as John Barleycorn: see John n. Compounds 1b. 2. A grain of barley. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > a grain of barley-corn1588 1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. Civ Preferre not a Barly corne before a precious Iewell. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 38 A full barley corne will well serue, or a good wheat corne. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 206 A bantam cock..turning so scornfully from the barley-corns which Annie is flinging towards him. 3. The length of a grain of barley taken as a measure, 1/ 3 of an inch; formerly also 1/ 4 of an inch. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > minute unit of length barley-corn1552 poppy-grain1656 poppy seed1688 1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. T.iiii It is ordeined, that 3 barly cornes dry and rounde shall make vp the measure of an ynche. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grain,..a Barlie-corne, or the fourth part of an ynch. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 136 Barly Corn, is the length of 4 Poppy seeds, and 3 Corns make an Inch. 1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery i. 76 The Barley-corn (the fourth part of an Inch) is subdivided into 5 Poppy Seeds. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 21 If father..move his head one barley-corn, we are all dead men. Categories » 4. Building. ‘A little cavity between the mouldings of joiners' work..made with a kind of plane of the same name.’ Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753. 5. A gun-sight shaped like an inverted V. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of dispart1578 telescopic sight1674 plain sight1686 aim-frontlet1745 hausse1787 foresight1806 gloaming sight1817 night-sight1822 bead1831 leaf1832 backsight1847 globe sight1847 pendulum hausse1850 hindsight1851 tangent scale1859 tangent1861 tangent backsight1862 training pendulum1862 training level1863 peep sight1866 dispart-sight1867 notch sight1867 buck-horn1877 orthoptic1881 aperturea1884 pinball-sighta1884 dispart patch1884 sight bar1884 flap-sight1887 barley-corn1896 ring sight1901 riflescope1902 spotting scope1904 tangent sight1908 Aldis sight1918 wind-sight1923 scope sight1934 gyro-sight1942 1896 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. (ed. 6) xxxi. 736 Military Match Rifles..The fore-sight must be the simple reversed V, or barley-corn military pattern. 1901 Kynoch Jrnl. Apr.–May 76/2 In our opinion the best sights for target purposes are the barleycorn foresight and tangent backsight. 1904 Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 7/6 The Small Arms Committee..were of opinion that the barley-corn should be adhered to pending further trials with the other patterns of foresight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmasbarley-corn 2. spec. The small hard seed or fruit of a plant; now only with contextual specification or defining attribute, as in barley-corn, pepper-corn, etc. extracted from cornn.1 a. A seed of one of the cereals, as of wheat, rye, barley, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > a single grain cornc1000 grainc1380 pickle1552 rice grain1763 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 24 Hwætene corn [1382 Wyclif corn of whete; so 1611; 1881 grain of wheat] wunað ana buton hyt fealle on eorþan & sy dead. a1175 Cotton Hom. 241 Þis bread was imaced of ane hwete corne. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 191 Ha breken þe eares bi þe wei & gnudden þe cornes bitweonen hare honden. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 62 Þe weiȝte of þre cornys of wheete. 1496 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 5 Every Sterling to be of the Weight of xxxij Corns of Wheat that grew in the Midst of the Ear. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv The cornes be very great & white, and it is the best barley. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 The ant..was occupied in gathering wheat cornes together. 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 63 Suppose that 1 Corn produces the first Year 50 Corns. c1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 11 The ears had ninety corns each on an average. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 185 (Malting) A sprouted corn or two. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 185 (Malting) Broken and bruised corns. b. The seed or fruit of various other plants, as of an apple, a grape, pepper, coffee, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] corna700 kernelc1000 seedOE grain1377 pippina1382 acinusa1398 acine1597 seedling1675 vegetable egg1675 seedlet1754 pip1773 oilseed1887 a700 Epinal Gloss. 790 Ptysones, berecorn berendæ. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xv Se æppel..monig corn oninnan him hæfð. c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 74 Ȝenim..xvii pipor corn gnid to somne. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 31 The kyngdam of heuenes is like to a corn of seneuey. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C v a Take..the cornes of sporge and grinde it weell. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 24 Juniper whereon are manye berryes or cornes. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxii. 108 A few cornes of blacke pepper. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 98 Swallow five or six corns of White Pepper. 1876 S. D. Scott To Jamaica & Back 104 Each [coffee] berry contains two corns.. The corns slide through into other troughs of water. < as lemmas |
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