单词 | spean |
释义 | speann.1 Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of uvula spean1527 uvula1541 falling down of the palate1664 uvulitis1842 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Civ It is also good to be gargoled agaynste vuala that is the spene in the strote. 2. A teat or nipple, esp. of a cow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > nipple spean1573 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple papc1175 teat?a1200 pap-head?a1425 big?a1439 wartc1440 teat headc1500 nipplec1510 spin1525 dug1530 spean1573 bud1593 milk papa1616 niplet1648 dud1679 mamilla1684 duddlea1708 diddy1788 tittya1825 knob1941 nip1970 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > udder > parts of spean1573 whetstone1887 α. β. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 76 A Seen [1691 Speen] or spene: a cows pappe, Kent. [Hence in Worlidge (1681), Phillips, etc.]c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Speen, the teat of a cow.1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 118 The maid..milks two speens, while the calf sucks the other two.1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. Ii ij b To her tendre lippes in milkinge, downe their speanes he raught. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 38 It [sc. a bear] hath also foure speanes to her Paps. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 126 The Hinde hath vdders betwixt her thighes with foure speanes like a cow. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 138 The females..haue vnderneath their bellies great paps, with many speanes to sucke at. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 171/2 The Speanes, or the Paps, the four Dugs, by which the Milk is drawn from the Udder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). speann.2 southern dialect. 1. A prong of a fork. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > fork > prong of fork grain1486 forket1583 graininga1642 fork1677 prong1697 spear1742 spean1777 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 401 [Devon] Spanes...The Prongs of a Peek, a Hay Fork, or Dung Fork. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 550 On stiff soils..the flatter and broader forks or speens are best. 1889 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 79 A two-spean spud, or Canterbury hoe, with points instead of a broad blade. Categories » 2. A bar or rail of a gate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). speanv. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. a. transitive. To wean, in literal and figurative senses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > wean spean1595 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > wean weanc960 spanea1340 spean1595 ablactate1754 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Depello, to put away, to speane: lacte depellere. 1599 A. Hume Christian Precepts in Hymnes sig. K1 v Think not that thou art sufficiently mortified, and spained from the world. 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Spain, or spean, to wean. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 354 To Speean.., to wean, as calves or pigs. 1808– in Sc. and northern dial. glossaries and texts. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 75 in Farm-rep. The fields..not being eaten bare by the sheep, the scythe is passed over them as soon as the lambs have been speaned. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxix. 210 The vera winter that Benjie was spean't. b. In phrases implying the creation of extreme disgust, repression, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > horrible [phrase] spean1790 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > expressing extreme disgust or violent resentment [phrase] > very disgusting or frightening spean1790 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 160 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 But wither'd beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal. 1826 W. Scott Let. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 171 One of the ugliest countenances.., enough as we say to spean weans. 1895 R. B. Cunninghame Graham Notes Menteith i. 13 Slate-roofed cottages,..hideous enough to spean a bairn. 2. (See quot. 1829 and spane v. 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [verb (intransitive)] > grow or produce parts (of plants) grain1390 ear1442 spindle1577 to run to straw1660 tassel out1757 spean1829 spane1843 silk1878 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Young corn is said to be speaned, when the milky..juice of its grain is exhausted, and it is obliged to depend on the nutriment collected by its own roots. Derivatives ˈspeaning n. (also attributive in speaning brash, speaning time; cf. spaning n. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > weaning weaning1382 spaningc1440 speaning1831 the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant blast1750 speaning brash1872 reclamation disease1937 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 75 in Farm-rep. That the aftermath may be, at speaning time, open to recruit the weakset [sic] and worst fed lambs. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 78 in Farm-rep. The speaning was performed nearly a fortnight sooner than had been formerly practised. 1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 122 After a while the field of emerald loveliness looks suddenly sere and yellow... This remarkable change is caused by what the farmers call the ‘speanin brash’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11527n.21777v.1595 |
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