单词 | queest-dove |
释义 | > as lemmasqueest-dove The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus. Formerly also †queest-dove. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba palumbus (wood-pigeon) cushata700 culverc825 wood-culvera1100 wood-dovec1386 queest?1440 ringed dove?1533 ring-dove1538 wood-quest1543 wood pigeon1668 ring pigeon1776 woodie1947 α. β. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 244/2 The Stock Dove..is also termed by us a Quees or Quiese.1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Queece.1895 B'ham Weekly Post 16 Feb. 4/8 A wood-pigeon, or ‘quice’, as it is commonly called.1896 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 4/1 Sitting with his gun waiting for quoice. The quoice were disappointing.1897 Badminton Mag. iv. 423 Another very wary bird, the voracious woodpigeon (or ‘quice’, as the country-folk call it), often avails itself of the rooks' protection.1969 D. Griffiths Talk of my Town 28 Queece, wild pigeon. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 758 (MED) So hoot is no donge Of foul as of the dowue, a quyshte [c1450 Bodl. quysht; L. gloss. palumbe; L. palustrium] out take. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 8 Take quystes an stoppe hem wyth-in wyth hole pepyr. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Quiste To mak quystis, tak a pece of beef or of moton and wyne and water and boile it and..then stop the quistes within with whole peppur and cast them in a pot..and let it stewe welle..and put them in faire disches, one or ij in a dische, for a maner of potage, and when they be serued furthe, tak alitill brothe and put in the disches among the quystis and serue it. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 342 Coists or Stockdoues. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Phavier, a Ringdoue, Queest, Coushot, Woodculuer. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxvii. 174 The hornes of a roe-buck..the feet of foure queest-doves. 1719 in W. M. Middelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1931) II. 410 87 Partriges, 16 woodcokes, and 3 quists, at 3d a peice. 1772 G. White Jrnl. 12 Nov. (1970) v. 60 The ring-dove, or queest,..breeds with us, & stays the whole year round. 1800 Gentleman's Mag. 1 106 The ring-dove or quiest. 1843 Zoologist 1 213 Hiding himself in a barn, waiting for ‘queests’. 1870 M. Collins Vivian II. iii. 35 As pensive as a quoist. 1935 A. W. Boyd Country Diary Cheshire Man (1946) ii. 98 A neighbour told me an old Cheshire rhyme which adequately imitates the ‘queest's’ song: ‘A pianet's a foo; A stick or two's enoo.’ A ‘pianet’ is a magpie, whose bulky domed nest the wood-pigeon is supposed to regard with scorn. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 87 Quist, Queest, a wood pigeon. < as lemmas |
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