单词 | pumiced |
释义 | pumicedadj. 1. Rubbed smooth with pumice; (of smoothness) effected by such means. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pomaysed, pumigatus. 1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. I. 456/1 They who have pumiced faces and perfumed hair. 1890 New Englander &Yale Rev. Apr. 322 One sees a contempt for pettiness and prettiness, for pumiced smoothness, and all that appeals to the mediocre or bourgeois intelligence. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 32 172 [Folios] 107b–113b are ruled and pumiced but left blank. 1957 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 7 July c5 Gilded wood lamps on pumiced wood lamp tables. 1997 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 25 Mar. a6 Barbra Streisand... Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Bridges are still lovingly nipping at her pumiced heels. 2. Of a horse's foot: having a dropped sole (and typically also a rough and porous hoof wall, likened to pumice). Also: †designating a shoe made for such a hoof (obsolete); having such hooves (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of feet or hooves broken-hoofed1362 afounded?a1425 foundered1543 pumiced1566 hoof-bound1598 fretished1607 incastellated1611 wired1614 gravelled1630 grease-fallen1688 greasy1701 incastled1706 greased1710 scratchy1710 retraised1725 hot-footed1740 twitter-boned1760 quittered1778 thrushy1831 1566 T. Blundeville True Arte Paring & Shooyng xiii. f. 6, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of paring the flat houe, otherwise called the pomised houe. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 324/2 A flat or pomised shooe, having one side thick and the other thin,..is used for flat and pomised Hoofs. 1720 E. R. Experienc'd Farrier (ed. 4) 69 A flat Hoof that is pumiced, shews Foundring. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 349 With well-bred hunters, pumiced feet are, nineteen times in twenty, the effect of fever. 1866 Harper's Mag. Mar. 508/2 I thought that Tantrums seemed a little tender about the fore-hoofs, as if he had once been pumiced, or now had sand-crack. 1997 M. A. Belknap Equine Dict. 139/1 Dropped sole, also known as pumiced foot or prolapsed sole; a condition of the hoof in which the sole has dropped to, or beyond, the level of the bearing surface of the hoof wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1552 |
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