单词 | sea-breeze |
释义 | sea-breezen. 1. A breeze blowing from the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the sea sea-wind1604 sea-turn1627 out-wind1676 tropaean winds1686 sea-breeze1697 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 348 Taking the advantage of the Land breezes by night, and the Sea breezes by day. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 160 A Sea-Breeze came in, and blow'd so hard that we were obliged to weigh. 1769 W. Stork Descr. E. Florida (ed. 3) 25 The sea-breezes keep it in constant agitation. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 359 Before a strong sea-breeze. 1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 28 The chill sea-breeze made him shiver. 1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 130 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet. 2. ‘Also, a cool sea-drink’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). Derivatives sea-breezed adj. having sea-breezes, or blown on by sea-breezes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blown (upon) by wind > by specific wind sea-breezed1760 west-winded1851 1760 M. Hildesley in W. Hanbury Hist. Rise Charitable Found. Church-Langton (1767) 114 Plants or trees..suitable to this sea~breez'd island [sc. Isle of Man] and its sandy gravelly soil. sea-breeziness n. figurative the condition of being breezy or having sea-breezes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > liveliness quicknessc1230 livelihood1566 vivacity1762 undullness1793 sea-breeziness1837 lifesomeness1845 liveliness1855 1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 581 A sea-breeziness that we really dreaded to lose in a work written under the anti-Atlantic inspiration of Germany. 1903 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/4 There is a sea-breeziness about it [sc. the book]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmassea-breeze ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tahon, a Brizze, Brimsee, Gadbee, Dunflie, Oxeflie. Tahon Marin, the sea Brizze; a kind of worm found about some Fishes. sea-breeze b. Extended to include the counter-current of air that blows from the land by night; hence sea-breeze and land-breeze. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land > at night breeze1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 400 From Land a gentle Breeze arose by Night. 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Breez, a fresh gale of wind blowing from the sea or land alternately for some certain hours of the day or night only sensible near the coast. 1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 9 A land-breeze shook the shrouds. 1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 31 The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's massy fold. < n.1697 as lemmas |
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