单词 | sharn |
释义 | sharnn. dialect and Scottish. Dung, esp. dung of cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung sharnc825 thostc1000 dungOE dirta1300 croteysa1425 lessesa1425 grotesc1450 pillc1450 fumishing1527 trattles1547 fiants1575 dunging1582 dropping1596 soil1607 soiling1610 stercoration1694 pellet1884 mire1922 pat1937 scat1950 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (piece of) dung sharnc825 chip1744 ox-chip1857 c825 Vesp. Ps. lxxxii. 11 Forwurdun gewordne werun swe swe scearn eorðan. c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xiii. 83 Fimus scern. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 92 Gose scearn. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxiv. 1353 Þe lapewynke leiþ and sitteþ on brode on dritte, schere [read scheren; 1495 de Worde sheren; L. stercora], and vnclene þinges. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 406 They fand the shit all beshitten in his awne shearne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. x. 509 They should be well soked or infused in soft beast shearne or thin dung. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xiv. 518 Mixed togither with oxe or cow shearn. 1644 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 595 Quhilk stinked and tasted of sharn a long tyme. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 173/1 Shorn is the Dung of Oxen and Cows. 1728 A. Ramsay Daft Bargain 26 Frae this tale, confed'rate states may learn To save their cow, and yet no eat her sharn. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) x. 101 A poor palace without a door, A bed of state, all wet with shern. 1811 A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1872) 150 Tho' he's coupit i' the shearn 'Troth I ken nought ill about him. 1824 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (1886) II. 286 Shouting, jostling, cursing in the midst of rain and shairn and braying discord. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 30 But oor minister..hae garred anither thrawn stick o' a farmer body lift his een abune the nowt an' the shairn. Compounds C1. General attributive. sharn-smeared adj. ΚΠ ?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. Pref. sig. Bv The execrable cytezens of Gomorra wt their shorne smered captaines, wyll sturre abought them. C2. sharn-fly n. a fly used by anglers as bait. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies stone-flya1450 ant-fly1653 hawthorn-fly1653 mayfly1653 oak fly1653 wall-fly1653 pismire-fly1670 cow-lady1676 mayfly1676 owl fly1676 brown1681 cow-turd-fly1684 trout-fly1746 orl fly1747 hazel fly?1758 iron-blue fly?1758 red spinner?1758 Welshman's button?1758 buzz1760 Yellow Sally1766 ash-fly1787 black caterpillar1787 cow-dung fly1787 sharn-fly1787 spinner1787 woodcock-fly1787 huzzard1799 knop-fly1799 mackerel1799 watchet1799 iron blue1826 knob fly1829 mackerel fly1829 March brown1837 cinnamon fly1867 quill gnat1867 sedge-fly1867 cob-fly1870 woodcock wing1888 sedge1889 olive1895 quill1899 nymph1910 green weenie1977 Montana1987 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 115 The Shorn-Fly. Comes on about the same time as the Canon-fly... They are generally found in mowing grass. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 199 Shorn Fly, Hazel Fly, Marlow Buzz,..by all of which names this little beetle is known. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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