单词 | talbot |
释义 | talbotn.1 1. Name of a variety of hound, formerly used for tracking and hunting; a large white or light-coloured hound, having long hanging ears, heavy jaws, and great powers of scent. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > unspecified or other types of talbot1562 kibble1590 saluki1809 redbone1886 Plott1904 blue-tick1922 blue-tick coonhound1922 Basenji1933 Illyrian hound1964 Pharaoh hound1967 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 96 b A Talbot with coller and Lyame, these houndes pursue the foote of pray, by sente of ye same, orels by ye bloud thereof. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. 5 The black hound, the black laund,..or the milk white, which is the true Talbot, are best for the string or lyam, for they doe delight most in blood, and haue a naturall inclination to hunt dry-foot. 1654 C. Wase tr. Gratius Cynegeticon sig. B2v Then match them well; and thus a noble seed Derive, these parents will your Talbot [L. Metagonta] breed. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 23 Sagax, a Blood-hound, or Talbot. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Talbot, a kind of Hound or Hunting-Dog. 1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 290 The bold Talbot kind Of these the prime, as white as Alpine snows. 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1428 The talbot..is supposed to be the original stock from whence all the varieties of the scent hunting hounds are derived. 1906 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 381/1 The same white hounds were brought to England by the head of the Talbot family, and rapidly gaining credit for their qualities in the chase of the stag..were known as Talbots. 2. A representation of a hound or hunting-dog; esp. in Heraldry that which has been borne for many centuries by the Talbot family. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > animals boar1297 leopardc1330 lionc1330 lionceauc1450 unicornc1450 talbot1491 porcupine?a1549 musion1572 tiger1572 lyam-hound1591 coney1598 lioncel1610 lion-leopard1612 lionel1661 marcassin1727 1491 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 62 A standing cupp of silver parcell gilt with talbottes at the fete. 1537 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 145 ij paier of pottes with flatt Talbottes upon the cover, ij paier of pottes with standing Talbottes upon the cover. 1562 [see sense 1]. 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. C4v Behold the Eagles, Lyons, Talbots, Bears, The Badges of your famous ancestries. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xvi. 147 Hee beareth Or, a Fesse Dauncette, betweene three Talbottes Passant, Sable, by the name of Carrick. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 184/2 He beareth Gules, a Talbott, (or Blood-hound, or hunting hound) Or. 1884 Mag. Art Jan. 102 Another drinking vessel..is in form of a ‘talbot’, or dog, seated, and richly collared. ΚΠ c1430 Two Cookery Bks. 19 Talbottys.—Take an Hare, an fle hem clene; þen take þe blode, & Brede, an Spycery, an grynde y-fere, & drawe it vppe with þe brothe [etc.]. Compounds talbot-like adj. ΚΠ 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. 5 A large, heauy, slow, true Talbot-like hound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Talbotn.2 Optics. Talbot's law, the law that a flickering source of light, varying in either colour or intensity, will be perceived as if it were a constant light source exhibiting the mean value of the varying quantity, provided that the frequency of flickering exceeds the flicker fusion frequency of the eye; also called the Talbot–Plateau law [J.A.F. Plateau (1801–83), Belgian physicist] . ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > rapid flicker > fusion frequency or law regarding Talbot's law1895 fusion frequency1924 1895 E. C. Sanford Course Exper. Psychol. I. vi. 146 (heading) The Talbot-Plateau law. 1906 Bull. Bureau of Standards (U.S.) 2 2 Talbot's law is thus a statement of physiological rather than of physical phenomena, and depends for its explanation on the action of the eye. 1929 L. T. Troland in C. Murchison Found. Exper. Psychol. iv. 187 The Talbot-Plateau law..has been established very accurately. 1943 C. T. Morgan Physiol. Psychol. x. 198 As the [flicker] rate is lowered, the subjective brightness of a flickering light may considerably exceed that expected from Talbot's law. 1974 Sci. Amer. Apr. 93/1 The law of color fusion, also known as Talbot's law (although it actually goes back to Isaac Newton), enables us to predict what color will be perceived when two colors are mixed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1430n.21895 |
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