单词 | staling |
释义 | stalingn.1 The action of urinating; †concrete urine, esp. of horses or cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun] migeOE addleOE lantc1000 urinec1325 pissa1387 stalea1400 watera1400 stalingc1420 lage1567 urine-river1633 emiction1666 sig1691 tea1693 piddle1870 number one1902 pee-wee1909 pee-pee1923 widdle1925 wee-wee1937 pee1957 wee1968 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > urine stalingc1420 stale1548 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > urine staling1613 stalea1616 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > urine stalea1400 staling1765 c1420 Prose Life Alexander (1913) 68 Sum ware at so grete meschefe þat þay dranke þaire awen stalynge. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlii. 222 Their [mares'] staling is no hinderance to their pace in running their carriere, as it doth the horse who must needs then stand still. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 311 A fountaine of water, which they say, sprang vp of the staling of Chederles horse. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 185 That the staling of them [cattle] may not waste in its course. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 327 Mix a small quantity of salt with the food when feeding on furze, particularly for horses, as it..will sometimes affect their staling, which the salt will counteract. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2020). † stalingn.2 Obsolete. rare. = stale n.3 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > decoy bird stalec1440 stall?a1500 chanterelle1601 staling1601 gig1621 fetcha1640 call bird1686 caller1725 stool1825 playbird1878 brace-bird1885 jacky-bird1897 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination pissinga1398 urine1561 urination1599 staling1601 miction1663 urining1668 piss?1837 piddle1870 micturating1879 pee1880 pee-wee1909 wet1925 peeing1929 leak1934 Jimmy Riddle1937 wee-wee1937 tinkle1939 run-off1944 slash1950 No. 11965 wee1968 widdle1969 gypsy's kiss1971 Jimmy1971 whizz1971 gypsy's1972 void1980 wazz1994 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 230 [Like to] the craftie bird-catcher: who (while the silie poore birdes sit prying at, and playing with the whirligig, or staling before them) doth cunningly clap them..in his net. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). stalingadj. Botany. Of fungal products: diverting or inhibiting fungal growth. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [adjective] > inhibiting growth of staling1916 fungistatic1922 1916 A. H. Graves in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. VI. 326 The problem was now to obtain..this substance, which we may for convenience call the ‘staling substance’, free from mycelium. 1948 Nature Mar. 422/2 A similar effect is obtained when the metabolism of the latter [sc. a wound parasite of a plant] leads to the formation of substances (‘staling substances’) which by and by inhibit growth; hence the formation of lesions of limited size. 1979 Experientia 35 200/2 This may possibly be due to reduction of growth of both interacting colonies caused by diffused staling products. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1c1420n.21601adj.1916 |
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