单词 | round-beset |
释义 | > as lemmasround-beset a. Chiefly poetic. Modifying participial adjectives, as round-blazing, round-burning, round-rolling, round-turning, etc.; round-beset, round-fenced, round-girdled, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1540 Acta Dominorum Concilii et Sessionis XIII. f. 83 Ane round linkit chenȝe of gold. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 119 I see not how in those round blazing beames [etc.]. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 412 Though round fenc't with gard of armed Knights. 1611 Second Maiden's Trag. (1909) iii. i. 38 The howse is rownd beset wth Armed men. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B6v Round-turning whirlwinds on Olympus steep. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 19 Yet reddening, yet round-burning up the air, From the white cliff, her feet slow-rising glare! 1783 W. Cowper Epit. on Hare 29 Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away. 1878 O. Wilde Ravenna 5 A moon of fire Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 18 Am I not blind, at the round-turning mill? < as lemmas |
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