单词 | sea-mall |
释义 | sea-malln. = seamew n.The form seamell is perhaps spurious, invented as a conjectural emendation of scamels in Shakespeare Tempest ii. ii. 176. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull) meweOE larea1425 sea-mawc1425 seamewc1430 mow1440 maw?a1513 sea-cob1530 camose1542 seagull1542 cob1574 mevy1616 sea-pigeon1620 tarrock1674 sea-mall1676 sea-moit1681 gor1697 seed bird1791 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 262 Larus cinereus minor. The common Sea-Mall. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 448 The lesser Gull, or Sea-mall... The deep, grey, Sea-mall. 1778 G. Steevens Note on Tempest in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakspeare (rev. ed.) I. 63 Theobald had very reasonably proposed to read sea-malls, or sea-mells. 1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Sea-mall, -mel, or -mew have been used indifferently for Gulls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1676 |
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