单词 | scute |
释义 | scuten.1 1. a. An English name for the French coin called écu: see écu n., escu n. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > French coins > silver scutec1400 shieldc1405 tracent1524 French crown1542 franc1603 cardecu1605 escuc1663 target1671 silver lewis1689 écu1704 c1400 Three Kings of Cologne 100 As men clepe in þis contrey gold of biȝende þe see Scutys, Motouns or floryns. 1420 Treaty of Troyes in Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 916 The forsayd Katerine shall take and haue Douer in our Roiaulme of Englond..to the Somme of forty Mill. Scutes be Yere; of the whiche Tweyne algates shall be worth a Noble Englyssh. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 16 Scutes of the kyng [Fr. escutz du roy] Ryallis nobles of englond. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 167 With scutes and crownes of gold I drede we are bought and solde. 1549–50 King Edward VI Jrnl. Rem. (Roxb.) 251 The French to pay 200,000 scutes within three days after the delivery of Boullein. 1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll 4 The King of England demanded of the Emperor interest for fiue hundred thousand skutes which he had borrowed. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 641/2 Forty thousand sceutes, that is, two to a noble. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 80 Peter bought a maids kiss for a scute [L. scutato emit]. b. Used as a (? jocular) name for an English coin; ? a crown. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins baselinga1255 scute1472 basel1577 lundress1695 halfling1819 wire money1837 brabant1840 fifty-pence piece1969 twenty-pence piece1981 1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 446 I beseche yow to remember my brother to doo hys deueyr thatt I maye haue ageyn my stuffe,..how so euyre hee doo, thoghe I scholde gyffe xxti scutes by hys advyse to my lady Brandon. 1472 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 453 I thynke verrely in tyme to come to gyff hym xx scutys. c. Used vaguely for a coin of small value. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively > a small coin orkyn1542 liarda1549 solda1549 scute1594 orkey1648 sock1688 styca1705 dump1821 scuddick1823 bit1829 posh1830 rag1866 tosser1935 1594 T. Nashe Christs Teares (new ed.) To Rdr. *ij b Therein I imitate rich men who hauing gathered store of white single money together, conuert a number of those small little scutes into great peeces of gold, such as double Pistols and Portugues. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q The diuell a scute had he to pay the reckoning. 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. i. H 4 b And from a paire of Gloues of halfe a crowne To twenty crownes: will to a very scute Smell out the price. 1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde i. i. iii Five hundred marks—I'll bate you not a scute. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] shieldc1320 scutcheona1366 escutcheon1480 sinister1572 scute1575 cutchion1632 1575 G. Gascoigne Flowers in Posies 51 He..bare the selfe same armes that I dyd quarter in my scute. 3. A disk, small piece. Now only dialect, a small patch of leather on the sole of a boot or shoe; also, a metal heel- or toe-plate. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)In the first quot. 1635 probably merely transferred from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece fingereOE snedec1000 seed?a1200 morselc1300 bittlock?a1400 farthingc1405 spota1413 lipetc1430 offe?1440 drewc1450 remnantc1450 parcel1483 crap1520 flakec1525 patch1528 spark1548 a piece1559 sparklec1570 inch1573 nibbling?1577 scantling1585 scrat1593 mincing1598 scantle1598 halfpenny1600 quantity1600 nip1606 kantch1608 bit1609 catch1613 scripa1617 snap1616 sippeta1625 crumblet1634 scute1635 scantleta1642 snattock1654 cantlet1700 tab1729 pallion1738 smallness1818 knobble1823 wisp1836 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ix. 574 Round scutes of horne, and pieces of old leather. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Scute,..a small piece of leather set on a shoe. 4. Zoology. A large scale or bony plate, forming part of the integument of certain animals, as the tortoise, armadillo, echinoderms, various fishes, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale > large scale or bony plate cuirass1605 shield1704 carapace1835 scutcheon1846 scute1848 carapax1849 marginal1883 osteoderm1898 1848 R. Owen in Times 14 Nov. 8/6 Without scales, scutes, or other conspicuous modifications of hard and naked cuticle. 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds i. 10 The stiff epidermal scutes crossing the under surface of the body. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 278 The ‘scales’ of Fishes should rather be termed ‘scutes’. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 107/2 A scute is a hardening of the outermost portion of the dermis, with an investment from the deepest layer of the epidermis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scuten.2 Zoology. The name of any of a group of closely linked X-linked genes in Drosophila which act to reduce the number of scutellar bristles; also, a phenotype produced by these genes. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > gene > types of gene sex determinant1902 sex determiner1909 inhibitor1911 multiple factor1912 modifier1915 autosomal dominant1919 autosomal recessive1919 scute1923 gene1925 suppressor1928 rate gene1932 dominigene1938 buffer1939 polygene1941 switch gene1942 mutator1943 oligogene1943 sickle cell gene1946 supergene1949 ob1950 obese1950 regulator1960 regulator gene1960 regulatory gene1960 enhancer1967 oncogene1969 virogene1969 hedgehog1980 1923 C. B. Bridges & T. H. Morgan Third-chromosome Group Mutant Char. Drosophila Melanogaster 160 Scute arose in the line selected for increased number of scutellar bristles. 1923 Anat. Rec. XXVI. 397 In three of these species the closely linked [sc. to yellow] character ‘scute’ or ‘scutellar’ is also known. 1940 Genetics 25 566 The great phenotypic similarity of the three scutes in question is an expression of the extreme similarity of their gene arrangements. 1974 U. Goodenough & R. P. Levine Genetics xi. 500 The Basc chromosome..carries the Bar eye gene B.., the apricot eye color gene apr, and a double inversion involving the scute (sc) region of the chromosome. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1400n.21923 |
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