单词 | spaying |
释义 | spayingn. The operation of excising the ovaries in female animals or in women. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying libbing1396 geldinga1398 spaying1575 splaying1607 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > spaying spaying1575 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie vii. 18 In spaying of hir, it shal not be good to take away all the rootes or strings of the veynes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chastrement, a gelding, libbing, speying. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 407 If pigs be cut..they ought not to be suffered to creep through hedges, lest the thread which sows up the spaying hole be drawn out. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sow As for the Spaying of a Sow, which is the Gelding of that Animal [etc.]. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 988 The spaying of the female calves..is an operation of greater nicety. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 26 The operation of spaying or excising the ovaries. 1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women iv. 44 Spaying, an operation which has been introduced recently into gynæcological practice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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