单词 | shail |
释义 | † shailn.1 Obsolete. rare. A scarecrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer scarlec1440 scare1530 blencher1531 shail1531 fray-boggard1535 crow-keeper1562 malkinc1565 clacket1594 scarecrow1606 clap-mill1613 field keeper1620 shaw-fowl1621 bean-shatter1639 clapper1660 dudman1670 clack1678 hobidy-booby?1710 worricow1711 cherry-clapper1763 flay-crake1788 potato-bogle1815 cherry-clack1824 feather-piea1825 flay-crow1824 gally-baggar1825 gally-crow1825 bogle1830 tatie-bogle1838 shewel1888 scare-string1889 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds buga1425 scarlec1440 scare1530 blencher1531 shail1531 fray-boggard1535 malkinc1565 clacket1594 bogle-bo1603 scarecrow1606 blinks1611 clap-mill1613 shaw-fowl1621 dudman1670 hobidy-booby?1710 cherry-clapper1763 flay-crake1788 potato-bogle1815 cherry-clack1824 feather-piea1825 flay-crow1824 gally-baggar1825 gally-crow1825 bogle1830 deadman1839 hodmandod1881 scarer1930 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiii. sig. Lvv The good husbande..settethe vp cloughtes or thredes, whiche some call shailes [1557 shayles],..to feare away birdes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). shailn.2 dialect. rare. A crooked gait; a shuffling, awkward manner of walking. First in a-shayle adv. moving or walking in a shuffling, awkward manner. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > awkwardly a-shayle1530 shamblingly1872 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward shailingc1440 shambling1681 slouch1725 slouchinga1764 shamble1826 shail1887 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 831/1 A shayle with the knees togyther, and the fete outwarde, a eschays. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † shailv.1 Obsolete. rare. intransitive. = skail v. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (intransitive)] bredeOE bespreadc1275 skaila1300 springc1390 shaila1400 spread1560 disperse1605 diffuse1655 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 18836 His hare..bi his eres shailande sumdele [Vesp. skailand] sumdele. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). shailv.2 Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. a. intransitive. To stumble, to walk or move in a shuffling, shambling manner. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk awkwardly shail?a1400 scamble1633 shamble1681 trollopa1745 staup1788 shammock?1857 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1098 Schovelle-fotede was þat schalke, and schaylande hyme semyde, With schankez unschaply, schowande to-gedyrs. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylyn, or scheylyn. (Disgredior.) 1483 Cath. Angl. 332/1 To Schayle [v.r. Schaylle], degradi & degredi. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iii Our thomasen she doth trip, our ienet she doth shayle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 700/1 I shayle with the fete, jentretaille des piedz. I never sawe man have a worse pace, se how he shaylleth. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3v The wayne for want of weight..Dyd hoyse aloft and skayle [1567 scayle] and reele, as thoughe it empty were. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lv. 155 They [sc. wild swine] set not their hinderfoote within their forefoote, and their gards fall straight vpon the ground and neuer shoyle or leane outwards. 1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 82 Other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxi. 193 Child [a young crab], (says the Mother) You must Use your self to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing so Every step you set. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 She may shail; but she'll never wamble. b. figurative. To blunder, be wrong. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] shail1528 blunder1711 floor1835 to make a bloomer1889 pull1913 to drop a brick1916 boob1935 to put up a black1939 goof1941 to screw up1942 to drop a bollock1948 to drop a clanger1948 to cock up1974 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avv Ye shayle inter enigmata And inter paradigmata. a1529 J. Skelton Womanhod 19 Good mastres Anne, there ye do shayle. a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iiv What Colyne there thou shales. Categories » 2. ? To blink. rare. (See shailing n. at Derivatives.) 3. dialect. a. intransitive. To glide or move in a slanting direction. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > move obliquely glentc1330 lean1398 slenta1400 glintc1440 skew1488 sklent1513 slanta1849 sashay1865 cater1873 diagonalize1884 shail1895 1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 78 High over-head some great grey gulls are ‘shayling’ in erratic flight, making seaward. b. transitive. To throw (a flat missile) with a gliding motion. [Possibly a distinct word.] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > a missile or projectile > flat quoit1525 shail1832 1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince III. v. 127 It is also no rarity for some one to throw the fragments of his ‘gouté’..on the heads of the people in the pit, or to shail them with singular dexterity into the boxes. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 44 Shail, to throw a flat missile, as a tile or an oyster shell. Derivatives ˈshailing n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward shailingc1440 shambling1681 slouch1725 slouchinga1764 shamble1826 shail1887 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking prinkOE twinklinga1300 blenching1393 twink14.. blenking?a1505 twinking1519 twinkle1548 connivance1596 winka1616 nictation1623 shailing1653 nictitation1794 blinking1871 blink1924 bat1932 saccade1953 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylynge (or scheylynge, loripedacio). 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) vi. 106 The word..was Hippos, which signifies a perpetuall shaeling of the Eyes. ˈshailing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > awkward or clumsy shailing1398 weltering1570 scambling1633 shambling1690 walloping1837 festoony1843 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. xii. (Tollemache MS.) Þe scrabbe is schaylynge beste [1495 a sheylynge, 1535 shelynge, 1582 shelling beest] and gooþ bakwarde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fauquet,..a shaling wry-legd fellow. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 237 This is too narrow a path, for many shaleing professours to walk in now adays. ˈshailer n. a person who shambles in his gait. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward > one who shailerc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylare. c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 395 Schey, or skey, or horsys or schyttyl scheylere, idem quod schaylare, supra. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/1 Schayler that gothe a wrie with his fete, boytevx. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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