单词 | scry |
释义 | † scryn.1 Obsolete. 1. Crying out, shout, exclamation, clamour.Quot.a1450 was misunderstood by Skinner (Etymologicon, 1671), who interpreted ‘scrye of foules’ to mean a flock of wild fowl. The error was repeated by Blount 1674, and appears in many dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > outcry or clamour reamOE ropeOE brack?c1200 utas1202 hootinga1225 berec1225 noise?c1225 ludea1275 cryc1275 gredingc1275 boastc1300 utasa1325 huec1330 outcrya1382 exclamation1382 ascry1393 spraya1400 clamourc1405 shoutingc1405 scry1419 rumourc1425 motion?a1439 bemec1440 harrowc1440 shout1487 songa1500 brunt1523 ditec1540 uproar1544 clamouring1548 outrage1548 hubbub1555 racket1565 succlamation1566 rear1567 outcrying1569 bellowing1579 brawl1581 hue and cry1584 exclaiming1585 exclaim1587 sanctus1594 hubbaboo1596 oyez1597 conclamation1627 sputter1673 rout1684 dirduma1693 hallalloo1737 yelloching1773 pillaloo1785 whillaloo1790 vocitation1819 blue murder1828 blaring1837 shilloo1842 shillooing1845 pillalooing1847 shriek1929 yammering1937 1419 Ordin. War. xii, in Black Bk. Admir. (Rolls) I. 462 For unlawefull scryes..that none escrie the whiche is called mount. 1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 16 With the which the ladis, and all the wemen, mayd a sorowfull skrye. a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 5 The blastes of hornys and the scrye of foulis. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 675 The scry sone rais, the bauld Loran was dede. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. xi. 33 Thayr was also engravyt all at rycht The syluer ganer, flyghterand wyth lowd skry. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 41v Towardes that parte where the skrye was heard. 1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 54 Euerie one to help other to arme and diligentlie to resort to the place of seruice, at scrie or larum vpon paine. 1616 Barbour's Actes & Life Bruce (Hart) 387 The noyse soone raise, and als the skry [1487 St. John's Cambr., 1489 Adv. cry]. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 137 Wi' skirl, and skry, and rallion-shout, Stood thick and far the rabble-rout. 2. An attack; a reconnoitre. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] fiend-reseOE frumresec1275 assault1297 sault1297 inracea1300 sailing13.. venuea1330 checkc1330 braid1340 affrayc1380 outrunningc1384 resinga1387 wara1387 riota1393 assailc1400 assayc1400 onset1423 rake?a1425 pursuitc1425 assemblinga1450 brunta1450 oncominga1450 assembly1487 envaya1500 oncomea1500 shovea1500 front1523 scry1523 attemptate1524 assaulting1548 push1565 brash1573 attempt1584 affront?1587 pulse1587 affret1590 saliaunce1590 invasion1591 assailment1592 insultation1596 aggressa1611 onslaught1613 source1616 confronta1626 impulsion1631 tentative1632 essaya1641 infall1645 attack1655 stroke1698 insult1710 coup de main1759 onfall1837 hurrah1841 beat-up of quarters1870 offensive1887 strafe1915 grand slam1916 hop-over1918 run1941 strike1942 society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > reconnaissance scouringc1471 scry1523 discovery?1574 reconnaissance1779 reconnoitre1781 reconnoissance1802 outwatch1852 exploitation1871 recco1917 recon1918 photoreconnaissance1920 recce1941 photo-recce1946 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 24 Euery nyght the Englisshe oste made good and sure watche, for they doubted makyng of skryes. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 249 To make a skrye in the Scottes hoste. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 813/1 On a daie the Frenchmen made a skrie toward the English campe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). scryn.2 Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). A kind of sieve. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > sieve sievec725 riddereOE hair-sievea1100 riddlelOE sift1499 try?a1500 searcer1540 range-sieve1542 ranging sieve1548 cribble1565 cribe1570 screen1573 sifter1611 scryc1615 clensieve1623 cernicle1657 incernicle1657 ranch-sievea1665 duster1667 drum1702 fry1707 harp1788 lawn-sieve1804 trial1825 separator1830 lawn1853 shaker1906 chinois1937 microscreen1959 c1615 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 347 Winnowed corne is..made cleane by the fanne and scrie, for the masters owne vse: so though our enemie sift vs, his scrying is but our trying. c1615 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 428 He must be like the scry, keeping the good seed but casting away the dust and vnprofitable darnell. 1892 Auction. Catal. Kent Farm Sale Manure scry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scryn.3 Something ‘scried’ in a crystal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > [noun] > picture seen by crystal-vision1829 scry1898 1898 A. Lang Making Relig. v. 95 The ‘scries’ which came right were sometimes those of which the ‘agent’, or person scried for, was consciously thinking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † scryv.1 Obsolete. transitive. To describe. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] sayOE devisec1300 readc1300 to make (a) showing ofc1330 counterfeitc1369 expressc1386 scrievec1390 descrya1400 scrya1400 drawa1413 representc1425 describec1450 report1460 qualify?1465 exhibit1534 perscribe1538 to set out1545 deline1566 delineate1566 decipher1567 denotate1599 lineate16.. denote1612 givea1616 inform?1615 to shape out1633 speaka1637 display1726 to hit off1737 a1400 Sir Degrev. 1859 I knewe never mane so wys, That couth telle the servise, Ne scrye the metys of prys Was servyd in that sale. c1440 Bone Flor. 333 That men myght mewse on many a yere, Or he hyt scryed wyth stevyn. 1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 26 I neede no scribe to scrie my care, in restlesse rigour spread. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). scryv.2 1. transitive. To descry, see, perceive. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > succeed in seeing or catch sight of underyetec1000 aspya1250 kenc1275 ofyetec1275 choosea1300 akenc1300 descrivec1300 ofkenc1300 readc1300 espyc1320 descryc1330 spyc1380 discernc1405 discover1553 scan1558 scry1558 decern1559 describe1574 to make out1575 escry1581 interview1587 display1590 to set sight of (in)c1595 sight1602 discreevec1650 glance1656 to catch a glimpse of1679 steal1731 oversee1735 glimpse1779 twig1796 to clap eyes on1838 spot1848 sky1900 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii. sig. G.iiij Whom Phebus token trees & starres of heauen, hath taught to skrie. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiijv Landmarkes..from the sea, well hable to be skried. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 57 Our Generall..was the first that scryed a sayle. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. ⁋43 147 The most that any close Inspection can scry out of, it is that a Party was found that would oppose the Exclusion Bill. 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 41 Forth frae the bit they scry'd it furst, Agean the demon springs. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 149 ‘I scried it lang afore I com at it’. 2. intransitive. To see images in pieces of crystal, water, etc. which reveal the future or secrets of the past or present; to act as a crystal-gazer.Revived in the 19th cent. as a technical term: cf. scryer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > practise crystal-gazing [verb (intransitive)] scry1528 crystal-gaze1895 1528 W. Stapleton Confess. (P.R.O.) His said boye did scrye unto him, which said spirytt I had after myself. And for a tryall..he caused his servaunt to goo hyde a certeyn money in the gardeyn, and I shewed for the same and oone Jakeson scryed unto me, but we could not accomplisshe our purpose. 1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 223 Thus the conditions under which the scryer can scry, are, as yet unascertained. 1897 A. Lang Bk. Dreams & Ghosts iii. 61 In using the ball she..succeeded in seeing..persons..familiar to people for whom she ‘scried’, but totally strange to herself. Derivatives ˈscrying n. crystal-gazing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > [noun] scrying1587 crystallomancy1613 crystal-vision1829 crystal seeing1845 crystal-gazing1883 1587 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) ii. 4 I thereupon appointed with my self to bring the Childe to the place, and to offer him, and present him to the service of Seeing and Skrying from God. 1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 212 The practice of ‘scrying’, ‘peeping’, or ‘crystal-gazing’ has been revived in recent years. 1902 F. Podmore Mod. Spiritualism II. iv. vi. 297 The substances commonly used for scrying—crystal, glass, water,..etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scryv.3 Obsolete exc. dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). transitive. To sift (corn, etc.). In quot. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] fandc893 costeneOE afondOE provea1200 fraista1300 assay1330 sayc1330 try1362 approvec1380 examinea1382 winnowa1382 tempt1382 tastea1400 assailc1405 essay1484 scryc1615 sensea1688 test1748 trial1981 dogfood1997 c1615 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 428 He must scry the Sermons of the Prophets and try the spirits, examining all things, and then holding that which is good. Derivatives ˈscrying n. ΚΠ c1615 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 347 Winnowed corne is..made cleane by the fanne and scrie, for the masters owne vse: so though our enemie sift vs, his scrying is but our trying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). scryv.4 Scottish and northern. transitive. To proclaim (a sale, etc.). ΚΠ 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. (at cited word) To skry a Fair, i.e. to proclaim it. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xi. 81 If Samie Pikeshule had a roup to ‘scry’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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