单词 | quick flesh |
释义 | > as lemmasquick flesh 3. Of the flesh or a part of the body: living; †capable of movement (obsolete); capable of sensation, sensitive to pain. Chiefly in quick flesh. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to dead > of flesh or parts quickeOE the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [noun] fleshc1000 lirec1000 quick flesha1382 pulp?a1425 substance?a1425 meat1829 beef1851 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxv. 82 Gif þæt asweartode lic to þon swiþe adeadige þæt þær nan gefelnes on ne sie þonne scealt þu sona eal þæt deade & þæt ungefelde of asniþan oþ þæt cwice lic þæt þær na miht þæs deadan lices to lafe ne sie. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 167 As..basme [keeps]..þet deade licome..from rotunge, Al swa deð meidenhad meidenes cwike flesch wið ute wemmunge. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 61 His flesch was cwic ouer alle [a1250 Nero cwickest of alle] flesches. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xiii. 10 Whenne..þulke forsoþe quyk flesch apereþ, þe most oolde lepre hit shal be demed. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2624 A lyuyng mone Þat hadde be lette blode in a quyke veyne. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Cii The lame lymmes and membres..become quycke agayne. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. (1557) 225/2 We fare as doo the rauens and the carein crowes yt neuer medle with any quicke flesh. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. iii. 210 To cut and slice great mammocks of their quicke flesh. ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Faire is my Yocke in Poems My wasted Heart, Made quicke by Death, more liuely still remaines. 1702 J. Moyle Chirurgus Marinus (ed. 4) 137 You will..see a Chink, or parting between the quick flesh and the dead. 1784 T. Holcroft tr. Foucher d'Obsonville Philos. Ess. Foreign Animals 199 These parts then becoming gangrenous, formed hard and thick scabs, which kernelling and falling away from the quick flesh, left very deep ulcers. 1853 J. Hamilton Life in Earnest 32 Some persons..drag themselves to the inevitable task with remonstrating reluctance,..as if they expected the quick flesh to cleave to the next implement of industry they handle. 1888 Cent. Mag. Apr. 921/1 This presidential trust... Is terrible duties and responsibilities seemed rather a coat of steel armor, not only heavy to bear, but cutting remorselessly into the quick flesh. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xliv. 233 If such animals [sc. camels] were taken suddenly inland for long marches over flints or other heat-retaining ground, their soles would burn, and at last crack in a blister; leaving quick flesh..in the centre of the pad. 1956 D. Lessing in New Statesman 30 June 768/3 With quickflesh contest if you need: There is no argument with bone. 1992 L. D. Brodsky Gestapo Crows iii. 66 Chicken hawks scanning the sides of highways For signs of carrion or quick flesh. < as lemmas |
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