| 单词 | summer's tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer's tide b. A more or less definite point or season in the course of the year, of life, etc., usually defined by a prefixed word; as April-tide, June-tide; New-Year's tide, summer's tide, winter's tide, etc.; also autumn tide n. at autumn n. Compounds 5, spring tide n., summertide n., wintertide n., etc.: = time n. 14a archaic or poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] tidea900 timeOE yearOE season1340 the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of New Yearc1175 New-Year's tide1556 New Year mass1588 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xxix. [xxviii.] 366 Þa ne com ðær nænig grownes up ne wæstm, ne furðum brordes oð sumeres tid. c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 444 Swa swa on lengctenlicere tide, rosena blostman and lilian hi ymtrymedon. c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1006 In þære midde wintres tide. 1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 312 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For bryngyng a bore at Newe Yere tide, ij s. iiij d. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 57 Item at Newyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the testornes. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3v Thy wife brought me Last new yeares tide, a couple of fat turkies. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 Gifts at new-year's-tide formed a charge of no small amount in the privy-purse expenses of royalty. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 307 When April-tide was melting into May. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 105 High over all the yellowing Autumn-tide. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 2/3 The green woods under the Junetide skies Slope and gleam to the Solent strand. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 9/1 The profits at Coronation-tide are expected to be heavy. < as lemmas |
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