| 单词 | straight-limbed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraight-limbed Having limbs. Nearly always with adverb or adjective prefixed, as straight-limbed. Cf. well-limbed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [adjective] > having limbedc1320 membereda1425 well-limbedc1425 large-limbed?1440 dolichomorphic1930 c1320 Cast. Love 624 Hose now I-seȝe heere A child þat riht I-limed nere, Þat þreo ffeet and þreo honden beere. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. xiii. 26 The Cheruscians being a great limmed people. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xviii. 694/1 Little of stature, ill-limmed, and crook-backed. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 456 Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, Limb'd and full grown. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 78 Strong limb'd and stout, and to the Wars inclin'd. View more context for this quotation 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 339 These Indians are a bold, strong, well-limbed people. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 173 It was a colt about two years old, well grown, finely limbed. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 12 A man..straight-limbed, and sinewy in frame. 1899 Echo 9 Mar. 1/4 Every reader of Dickens remembers the frail ex-prisoner of the Bastille, white-haired and feeble-limbed. 1954 T. Gunn Fighting Terms 44 My hate throbs yet but I am feeble-limbed. straight-limbed straight-limbed adj. ΚΠ 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 246 Hee was a Comely Personage, a little aboue Iust Stature, well and straight limmed, but slender. 1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 102 Robert Car was a poor but handsome young Scot,..straight-limbed, well-favoured,..and smooth-faced. < as lemmas |
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