单词 | spring born |
释义 | > as lemmasspring born d. Forming adjectives with past participles, with the sense ‘in the spring; of or by the spring’, as spring born, spring gathered, spring sown, etc. ΚΠ 1600 D. Lodge in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 413 Fiue louely sprigs..which featly sprout in length like spring borne friends whose prety tops, with fiue sweet roses ends. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxlviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 63 Northumberland, who like a Spring-taught Snayle Was crauling to haue Nibbled the fresh leafe. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 304 The spring-made cheese was tarter. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 128 Plant out spring-raised cabbages. 1855 J. C. Stretton Woman's Devotion II. 299 The fair shadowing green of the spring-touched larch. 1857 G. W. Thornbury Songs of Cavaliers & Roundheads 53 The sweet spring-gather'd flowers fall before his feet in showers. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 101 Winter's wan daughter Leaves lowland and lawn Spring-stricken. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 178 Each spring-impassioned tree Flames into green. 1925 G. Greene Babbling April 25 She waits without fear that spring-scented day. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August vii. 138 Into the bleak, clean room the springfilled air blew in fainting gusts. 1976 Arkansas City (Kansas) Daily Traveler 9 June 16/2 Spring-planted crops are not likely to make up the losses of winter grain. 2016 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 3 June We..will seek to increase our spring-sown areas of seed peas, borage and radish crops. < as lemmas |
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