单词 | redding |
释义 | reddingn.1 rare. 1. The fact or process of becoming red, spec. blushing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > blushing with shame or modesty > [noun] reddingOE blushing1581 blush1595 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [noun] > becoming red reddingOE blushing1581 rubescence1799 rubricity1800 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > physical feeling resulting from emotion > reddening of face > action of reddingOE blushing1581 crimsoning1789 OE Monastic Canticles (Vesp. D.xii) (1976) xvi. 7 Pro vestra dupplici confusione et rubore : for eowre twifealdre scame & readunge. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A redding, growing..red, rubrication. 1993 Re: Math Class Story in alt.folklore.college (Usenet newsgroup) 15 Nov. When you stick your dick, disk (a lot of laughter and the redding of our professors face) in the drive you can pick up a virus. 2. The action of making red. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [noun] > making red rubefaction?a1425 redding1503 rubrification?1541 rubrication1658 rubification1661 rubricating1705 rubefacience1804 1503 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary at Hill, London in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 104 For thred and for reddyng of the wynddow. 1572 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 149 Payd for xvj li. of rede lede for the redinge of the churche. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A redding,..making red, rubrication. 1927 D. Corley House of Lost Identity iv. 88 The proper redding of ivory and the embellishment of leather. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reddingn.2 1. a. Red ochre used esp. for marking sheep; = ruddle n.1; (also occasionally) the action of marking sheep with this. Now chiefly English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > earths as colouring matter red stoneeOE red eartheOE redding1292 raddlea1350 ruddle1353 rubric?1440 red ochre1481 sinoper1501 red1538 red chalk1538 sinople1548 terra sigillata1563 almagre1598 majolica1598 minium1613 orell1614 reddle1648 India red1668 Indian red1672 riddle1681 smit1728 Persian earth1735 red marl1748 abraum1753 Terra Sienna1760 tivera1825 kokowai1836 sinopia1844 sinopis1857 1292 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) x. 158 [A pound of] redying..[for decorating the walls of the chamber]. ?1355 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 55 (MED) Redyngg..pro bidentibus consignandis. a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 10 (MED) Redynge or oker, hors charge, ob. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 427 Redynge, colowre, rubiculum, rubratura. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Red leade, ruddle, red okre, or redding. 1729 Seasonable Remarks Trade 98 The Goods which they take from these Dominions are Coals,..Clay, Redding [etc.]. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Chew Magna That red bolus, called Redding, which is used for the marking of sheep. 1798 R. Burroughes Farming Jrnl. 8 June 1995 102 They were all..redded together with the lambs except 7 wethers that escap'd redding. 1825 Times 15 Aug. 3/4 Since that he marked his sheep with redding. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. ii. 15 A reddleman—a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 1958 Econ. Hist. Rev. 11 110 Tar, pitch and redding for marking them [sc. sheep]. 2002 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 12 Nov. 37 They were coloured on the outside with reddle (or redding), a red powder quarried until recently at Winford. b. spec. U.S. Red ochre or a similar compound used to redden the hearth and sides of a fireplace. Now rare. ΚΠ 1839 Amer. Housewife 131 For brick hearths, use redding, mixed with thin hot starch and milk. 1869 C. E. Beecher & H. B. Stowe Amer. Woman's Home 368 Wash the bricks which are nearest the fire with redding and milk, using a painter's brush. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 301 Redding, a compound used to redden the jambs and hearth of an open wood-fireplace. Red ochre. 1958 L. Cochran Fool of God 289 The hearth bricks were washed with redding. 2. Any of several varieties of red-skinned apple; a tree producing such fruit. Now rare or disused. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cider apples ruddock1600 redding1611 stocking-apple1629 Harvey1640 genet-moyle1655 moil1657 winter queening1657 must1662 redstreak1662 redstreak apple1664 eleot1676 peeling1676 Sodom apple1676 stire1699 woodcock1700 underleaf1707 coccagee1727 white sour1727 sheepnose1817 Tom Putt1831 cider-apple1875 Slack-ma-girdle1885 sheep's nose1936 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rouveau, Pomme de rou, the Ruddocke, Redding, Summer Goulding. 1761 T. Arnold Bailey's Compl. Eng. Dict. (German ed.) I. 286/2 Golding, (Apple)..Redding. 1898 A. T. Slosson Dumb Foxglove 55 The little Denison reddings, all crimson and shining outside. 1938 L. Grebenc Time of Change 85 Now there were Denison reddings on every farm, grafted year after year for generations from those first twigs brought long ago across the wide seas. 1940 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 22 July 8/5 Today the tree produces Baldwins, Greenings, Grevensteins, McIntosh, Golden Sweetings, Denison Reddings,..and no less than 11 other popular varieties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reddingn.3 Originally and chiefly Scottish. 1. The action of arranging, tidying, or clearing up; an instance of this. Also: the action of fixing or delineating a border. Now only with out and up. Also Irish English (northern) and U.S. regional (Pennsylvania) in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > putting in order or making tidy redding1450 reding1493 trimming1519 fettling1847 setting-to-rights1847 slicking1855 tidying1867 snugging1886 1450 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) II. 85 The uphaldyn and the reddyn of the myl laid. 1488 in C. Innes Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (1832) 406 To gif thaim consale anentis the redding, perambuling and marching of the ald richt markis, marchez and diuisis. 1496 Sc. Treas. Acc. 15 Oct. Item, for redding of the werkhous in the Castel to hous the artailȝery, xijd. 1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 84 To the schip werk and redding of the schip callit Collumb. 1596 in J. Melvill Autobiog., etc. (1842) 381 With whome the King enterit in actioun for redding of merches. 1618 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 95 At the redding of the munitioun hous quhen the peices were drawin in. 1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 37 He should also be every Night at the Redding of his Barns, and Lock in the Doors thereof himself. 1812 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) I. 293 My aunt..has been..exercising her peculiar talent for redding-up. 1826 T. Beveridge Pract. Treat. Forms of Process II. ix. viii. 608 In the case of redding of marches..a similar commission and diligence will be granted. 1832 Reformers' Gaz. 21 July 56 What a thinning and a redding of the Pitt vermin! 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 212 In order that the bulk of the ‘redding-up’ may be done before crossing the line. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xiv. 238 That is a fine report on a minister of God, and it will want some redding up, Mr Sempill. 1986 Advertising Age (Nexis) 26 May 18 Scrubbing, sweeping, trimming, mowing and generally ‘redding up’ is a universal function far closer to Godliness here [sc. in Pennsylvania]than almost anywhere else. 2001 M. Regan Midden i. ii. 35 Aileen that's just rubbish piling up. Those drawers need a good redding out. 2008 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 16 Feb. Set aside a couple of months and adopt a total zero tolerance attitude to dirt of any kind... In everyday terms, a complete redding out. 2. The action of separating combatants. Now only in redding stroke n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > parting of combatants ridding1500 redding1529 1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 353 Euerilk lord did stryue for stait, That all the realme mycht mak no reddyng. 1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum 671 in Wks. (1931) I. 164 Wer not Frenchemen come to the redding Thair had bene mekill mair blude shedding. 1609 in A. Shearer Extracts Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1951) 71 The..convocatting of sundry gentlemen..to the redding & sundering of thame. 1851 J. Grant Bothwell II. iv. 49 Those warlike weapons which every householder was bound to have at hand for the ‘redding’ of frays. CompoundsΚΠ 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry (Gloss.) at Red Redding blow or Redder's part, a blow or hatred from both parties. redding-comb n. a hair-comb. Cf. redd v.2 8, reding comb n. ΚΠ 1801 J. Thomson Poems Sc. Dial. 110 He also had a reddin' kame, To redd his wither'd lock. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. ii. 28 Ye might as weel give it a ritt with the teeth of a redding kame. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 317/1 Redding comb, An ordinary coarse comb, with which the mountain woman reds out her hair. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Redding-comb, a small-toothed comb. redding stroke n. a blow received by a person trying to separate combatants; also figurative. ΚΠ a1649 in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 384 I hope Jesus Christ shall give death the redding stroke. 1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. 29 He that meddles with Toolies comes in for the Redding streak. 1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. xxvii. 278 (note) The redding straik..is proverbially said to be the most dangerous blow a man can receive. 1957 Times 23 Nov. 7/4 ‘Beware of the redding straik’ said Meg Merrilies, that is of the blow received by the peacemaker interfering between two combatants. 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