单词 | quicking |
释义 | quickingn.1 Now rare. = quickening n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] heartingOE coolingc1350 refreshinga1382 recreationa1393 easement?a1400 rehetinga1400 freshing1422 refrigery?a1425 refectionc1450 refreshmenta1470 refrigeration1502 corroborating1530 recreating1538 comfortation1543 repast1546 rousing?a1563 refocillation1570 refresh1592 inanimationa1631 recruita1643 irrigationa1660 quicking1661 invigoration1662 reinvigoration1663 recuperation1703 rally1826 recruiting1840 energizing1841 recreance1842 inspiriting1846 animation1855 recruitment1862 inspiritment1886 pepping up1916 c1450 (a1400) R. Lavynham Treat. Seven Deadly Sins (Harl. 211) (1956) 24 Ȝif þt ilke lust be not for bore..fro þe child quyking to þe purificacion. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 54 (MED) Þe principale and þe finale wark of Crist..is þe quiking of soulis. 1617 Bruce's Way to True Peace & Rest iii. 83 The Institution of Christ is the quicking of the whole action. 1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems sig. R4 He did fall Whose influence gave quicking to us all. a1707 T. Doolittle Treat. Lord's Supper (1735) 42 Do you not often need the Means of spiritual warmth and Quickings? ?1792 J. Reece Views Two Kingdoms 69 As we are prone to cleave so much to the earth, and the earth unto us, how do we stand in need of quicking, according to the word of God. 1967 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 20 Apr. 11 a/1 Objective opinion in Washington and Wall Street now holds that there will be a quicking of pace of rise after midyear. 1971 Internat. Organization 26 701 This will lead to a quicking of old fears over the proliferation of international organizations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quickingn.2 The action or process of planting a quickset hedge (usually hawthorn). Also concrete: the plants used to make such a hedge collectively. Cf. quick n.1 4, quick v.2 Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip planteOE plantingeOE quickwoodc1383 graffa1393 sarmenta1398 slivingc1400 springc1400 clavec1420 sleavingc1440 talionc1440 quick1456 quicking1469 graft1483 quickset1484 slip1495 setlingc1503 set1513 pitchset1519 slaving?1523 truncheon1572 stallon1587 crosset1600 marquot1600 sliver1604 secta1616 offset1629 slipping1638 side-slip1651 slift1657 cutting1691 pitcher1707 mallet-shoot1745 root cutting1784 stowing1788 stool1789 pitch1808 heel1822 cutling1834 piping1851 cutback1897 stump plant1953 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > of living plants > plant forming > collectively quickwoodc1383 quick1456 quicking1469 quickset1484 quickfrith1536 the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > making of quickset hedge quicksetting?1523 quicking1664 1469–70 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 244 Et sol.2 s. pro le qwyking sepium unius clausure. 1485–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 649 Pro le qwhykkyng circa clausur..7s. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 402 I find most do greatly affect the vulgar way of Quicking. 1727 in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1951) 46 327 For quicking at fos bridge. 1785 T. Stone Ess. Agric. 220 The doubt principally lies with poor, thin-skinned clays, unfavourable to the growth of turnips.., where little or no improvement can be made..to answer the expenses of..building, fencing and quicking. 1825 R. Milnes Warning Voice Hermit Abroad 28/1 No crop taken to be paid for..also for tillage and half tillage, which implies upon fallows plowing, harrowing, quicking, and all other labour. 1981 Econ. Hist. Rev. 34 247 The Marquis of Buckingham incurred bills on a number of his estates many years after the enclosures were complete, bills for quicking, ditching, mounding, for gates and for drains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quickingn.3 The action or process of coating metal with mercury or a solution containing mercury so as to facilitate the adherence of a layer of gold or silver to the metal surface. Also: a solution containing mercury used for this purpose. Cf. quick v.3 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > coating with metal > with specific metals leadingc1440 tinningc1440 foilinga1582 quickening1738 electroplating1840 zincing1841 retinning1843 palladiumizinga1851 acierage1852 platinizing1853 nickelization1857 quicking1863 brassingc1865 copperingc1865 nickel plating1870 nickelling1875 steel-facing1884 brazing1886 aluminizing1890 sherardizing1901 calorizing1930 aluminization1932 stelliting1934 anodizing1936 anodization1952 flame-plating1954 1790 W. Richardson Chem. Princ. Metallic Arts 102 The articles to be gilt are put into the solution and stirred about with a brush till they become white. This is called quicking. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 719 Sometimes the amalgam is applied to the surface to be gilt, without any quicking, by spreading it with aqua-fortis. 1863 Brit. Patent 1512 1 This Invention consists in preserving the silvering or quicking applied on glass and objects made of silvered or quicked glass. 1923 W. R. Cooper W. G. McMillan's Treat. Electrometall. (ed. 4) vi. 117 The quicking-solutions more commonly used are: the per-nitrate or proto-nitrate of mercury..or the cyanide of mercury. 1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 114 Mercury may be left as a residue of preparation process for electroplating known as ‘quicking’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quickingn.4 English regional (northern) Now rare. The action of quick v.4; the removal of ‘quicks’ or weeds from an area of land. Frequently (and in earliest use) attributive, in the names of agricultural implements, as quicking-drag, quicking-rake. ΚΠ 1794 J. Tuke Agric. N. Riding Yorks. 74 Quicking-drag. In the northern part of the vale of York, a drag on an excellent construction is used, for cleaning the land from quicks. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Whicking is the act of plucking it [sc. couch-grass] up. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Whicking, Clearing land from whicks, or couch grass and other weeds. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 155 Whickin-rake, a iron riak fer cleanen aboot t' dike boddum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1450n.21469n.31790n.41794 |
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