单词 | accipiter |
释义 | accipitern. 1. Originally (chiefly Falconry): a bird of prey, esp. a hawk. In later use spec. (in Ornithology): a hawk of the genus Accipiter (family Accipitridae), distinguished by short, broad wings and relatively long legs, adapted for fast flight in wooded country; (also Accipiter) the genus itself. Valid publication of the genus name: M.-J. Brisson Ornithologia (1760) I. 310. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [noun] bird of prey1340 fowl of chase1340 fowl of prey1340 fowl of ravin1340 accipitera1398 mittell1457 mittane?a1513 esalon1572 boyter1578 talenter1620 prey-bird1777 raptor1783 flesh-bird1796 raptorial1856 air pirate1885 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 143 The Goshauk..is I clepid ancipiter [L. accipiter] and raptour. ?1527 L. Andrewe tr. Noble Lyfe Bestes ii. iv. sig. kiiij/2 Ancipiter is a goshawke, and he is of foure maners. The first is this, great of body and wyll be sone tamed. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. ii. 178/1 Shee [sc. the goshawk] is a couetous foule to take other foules, and for the taking of other fowles..she is called Accipiter & Rapter, rauisher. 1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry v. f. 75v Twelve Hawks [that is,..Eagles, for of that kind were the sacred Accipitres of that Country]. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 54/2 The accipiter was worshipped as a divinity by the inhabitants of Tentyra, an island in the Nile. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 275 The genus Accipiter finds representatives in every quarter of the globe. 1918 Amer. Anthropologist 20 396 The seven erect feathers are eagle, accipiter hawk, duck, jay, flicker, sparrow-hawk, bluebird. 1968 J. K. Terres How Birds Fly xii. 111 A European sparrow hawk, an accipiter, or bird-killing hawk related to our American Cooper's hawk, and looking much like it, was flying full speed after a European finch. 2005 H. Peeters & P. Peeters Raptors of Calif. 178 It is generally agreed that accipiters are sprinters and seem to lack the staying power of falcons. 2. Medicine. A bandage applied over the nose, supposedly resembling or gripping like the claw of a hawk. rare (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] > bandage for specific part wristband1663 suspensory1699 etoile1706 scapular1739 scapulary1754 accipiter1813 frond1848 stapes1875 suspensor1896 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Accipiter,..a bandage for the nose, from the tightness of its grasp, or its hawk's-claw shape. 1889 H. E. Handerson tr. J. H. Baas Outl. Hist. Med. ii. 174 He [sc. Galen] handled the subject of bandaging in detail, and introduced the methods known even today as the accipiter, the sling, the testudo, the spica etc. 2007 J. Lloyd & J. Mitchinson Animal Ignorance 64 In English, an accipiter is a ‘nose-bandage’ from its resemblance to the beak or claw of a hawk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398 |
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