| 单词 | quick-spring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick-spring quick-spring n. now English regional and literary (rare after 17th cent.) a running spring. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] welleOE walma897 spring?1316 spring wellc1340 water springc1450 source1477 fountain1490 quick-spring1530 eye1535 fountainhead1585 fount1594 springlet1661 keld1697 urn1726 spout head1733 spout1778 seep1824 1530 G. Joye tr. M. Bucer Psalter of Dauid f. 165v He sendethe forthe quycke sprynges into ryuers: which run downe betwene the hylles. 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles l. 332 Moyses opened the veines of quicke springs out of the hard rockes. 1622 A. Court Constancie i. 33 Hence as from a quick-spring did flow that Constancie. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 89 You need but open that very place to your quick-spring, and give it a clear vent, and certainly your bog would decay. 1882 Times 2 Sept. 7/4 The fact that the creative impulse in this direction has been so strong and so abiding in our particular branch of the Anglo-Saxon race, should be sufficient to make us pause in our endeavours to dam up any quick-spring of poetry that may still be left to us. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) You moän't ride that poäny across here, sir, theäre's wick-springs e' th' boddum, an' you'll be stuck fast if you do. < as lemmas |
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