单词 | ripener |
释义 | ripenern. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine promoting suppuration or maturation maturativea1398 ruptorya1400 suppurative?a1425 riper?a1450 digestive1543 ripener1585 suppurator1657 suppuratory1657 suppurant1659 maturant1661 rumpent1661 diapyetic1706 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 322 While it [sc. the wound] is vnripe, it is to be wrought vppon with ripeners or suppuratiues. 1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 88 For Ripeners these simples are accounted good, Mallowes, Marshmallowes, violetts, comfrey. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxxv. 493 Suppuratives or Ripeners as they are stiled. 1786 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) at Attrahent Attrahents are the same with what we otherwise call drawers, ripeners, maturantia, etc. 1839 N.-Y. Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 1 259 Among ripeners and drawers, are fat of a dog and fat of a man. b. gen. A person who or thing which causes ripening. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature > one who or that which causes ripeness riper?a1450 ripener1587 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature > one who or that which causes maturer1863 ripener1871 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 111/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The moone which is ladie of moisture, & chiefe ripener [1577 riper] of this liquor. 1591 Legh's Accedens of Armory (new ed.) f. 4 v She [sc. the moon] is the ripener [1562 riper] and increaser of fruites. 1621 R. Cleaver Godly Forme Houshold Govt. sig. E3 This obseruation, and pondering of euents, with the causes that went before, is the ripener of wit. 1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. 243 For else the Archeus should not be a transchanger, but onely a ripener and cook. 1741 tr. Cicero Orations I. 28 For why should Milo bear to Clodius, that Source, that Ripener of his Glory, any other Resentment than what every Patriot ought to bear to every Ruffian. 1871 S. Smiles Character iv. 107 The best ripener of the energetic vitality of strong natures. 1917 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 17 362 When they had seen the Jensen pasteurizing vat and the Jensen cream ripener..they readily responded to the invitation to luncheon. 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 34/2 (heading) Ethylene as fruit ripener. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 Nov. v. 10/5 Mr. d'Alos, whom most consider the best affineur, or ripener, of cheeses in the country, carries on the city's gastronomic traditions. 2. With modifying word, as early, late, slow, etc.: a fruit, plant, etc., that ripens at the time or in the manner specified. Occasionally (by extension) of a person. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature > that which becomes ripe ripener1726 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > maturity > [noun] > one who comes to maturity ripener1862 1726 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry & Gardening (rev. ed.) II. ix. 187 I have tried also the Imperial Plum, which though it is a late Ripener naturally, In this Case does Wonders. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis The Corinth Grape..is an early Ripener. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 280 Those late ripeners will keep..till May or June. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 24 We may suppose the boy slowly advancing (for he is one of the slow ripeners). 1909 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 12 Feb. 234/1 Our wheats are nearly all slow and late ripeners. 1946 Times 5 Dec. 10/1 A prolonged drought..prevented the plants, especially the early ripeners, from attaining their usual degree of maturity. 1989 C. Clark Amer. Wines of Northwest i. iii. 90 Merlot..[is] an earlier ripener than Cabernet, and when allowed to ripen too much it produces flabby, high-alcohol wine that tends to flame out early on. 2000 Wine May 39/1 It's a late ripener which was either picked too early (which gave green flavours) or too late (which gave volatile, baked, prune juice wines). 3. In honey-making: a tank or other device in which honey is allowed to stand until it is ready to be put in jars. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > honey container > for standing honey ripener1891 1883 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 11 209/2 The above simple arrangement..will combine that of a honey-extractor and a honey-ripener in one compact piece of apparatus.] 1891 Sessional Papers Province Ont. XXIII. No. 66. 23 I was referring only to ripeners for honey exposed to the outside air. 1905 Instruction in Bee-keeping (Dept. Agric. & Techn. Instruction for Ireland) 20 The ripener..is a tinned iron cylinder about 19 inches in depth by about 8½ inches in diameter, and fitted with a treacle tap at the base. 1930 W. Herrod-Hempsall Bee-keeping I. ix. 525 The ripener was so named because at one time both the unsealed and sealed honey used to be extracted together, it was then run into the ripener and allowed to stand for some time in a warm room. 1980 Bee Craft 62 26/2 Because a honey tank, or ripener, has a tap, it is also a very convenient appliance for mixing sugar syrup. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1585 |
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