单词 | silver-scaled |
释义 | silver-scaledadj. Having silvery scales. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales > having silvery scales silver-scaled1430 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) viii. xxv. 18 Bryght siluer scaled domageth the dragon. c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 674 Whysperyng tounges of taast moost serpentyn, Silvir scalyd whoos mouth is ful of blood. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 55 The syluer scalyt fyschis on the greit. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 37 The silver-scaled fish that softly swim Within the sweet brooks chrystal, watry stream. View more context for this quotation 1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 235 Will the ocean afford you the silver-scaled salmon of the Awe? 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 403 A silver-scaled twenty-pounder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmassilver-scaled 1. Having or furnished with scales, as a fish or a serpent; scaly. Now rare except as second element of combinations, as silver-scaled, and Heraldry. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales scaleda1400 scaly1528 plateda1560 squamy1592 squamigerous1656 squamose1661 shielded1662 squamous1668 squamated1752 scutated1802 loricate1826 scutate1826 squamate1826 scutulate1827 loricated1871 scutulated1885 a1400–50 Alexander 3865 Scalid neddirs. c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 614 Formyd lyke a dragon, scalyd harde as glas. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie i. 235 The creatures chelled, named Conchilia, and also of those that are scaled (called insecta). 1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 232 Euphrates..hath diuers sorts of fish in it, but all are scaled. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 96 A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. View more context for this quotation 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 155 The scal'd Crocodile, out-weep Thee can. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 455/1 An Indian scaled Hedghog. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 32 Fish are described as being scaled and finned. < as lemmas |
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