单词 | roof of the mouth |
释义 | > as lemmasroof of the mouth a. In full roof of the mouth. The upper surface of the oral cavity; the palate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > palate gumc825 roofOE palatea1382 palacea1450 OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 169 Palatum uel uranon, goma uel hrof þæs muðes. OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 33 Palati et faucium : hrofes & gomena. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Royal 5 E.xi) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 2/2 Palato : muþes roue. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 67 En la bouche amount est palet [glossed] rof [v.r. rof of the mouth]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 257 Men of myddel londes [sowneþ her wordes] in þe roof of þe mouþ. c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 78 Kutte a Swan in the rove of the mouthe. a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) f. 14 (MED) Wasch his hedde þerwith & do sum in the ruffe of his mouthe. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 78 If a man have..sor teeþ or sor in þe rofe of þe mowþe þat be full of bleders, take þe wyȝt corall & g[r]inde him small, [etc.]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxix. 9 When their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalms (1963) xxii. ix. 47 My cleaving tongue, close to my roofe doth bide. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Aluette,..a little peece of flesh in the roofe of the mouth. 1644 Z. Boyd Garden of Zion II. 102 The tongues of all did cleave unto their roof. 1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones ii. 141 The Base of the Nostrils and Roof of the Mouth. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xl. 549 An old Horse's Mouth being naturally harsh and thin of Flesh upon the Roof. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 56/1 The roof of the mouth and the tongue are black. 1868 Daily News 26 Aug. A gold roof for false teeth. 1917 Nature 4 Oct. 96/1 Palatography..consists in using a special kind of artificial palate, in order to find out what parts of the roof of the mouth are touched by the tongue in the production of different speech sounds. 1982 N.Y. Times 9 Aug. c16/2 The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. 2004 C. P. Shaw Whisky (new ed.) 59 Apart from the anatomical meaning—the roof of the mouth—a palate refers to the sense of taste, but the roof of the mouth does play an important role in discerning a taste. < as lemmas |
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