单词 | tarand |
释义 | † tarandtarandren. Obsolete. a. A name given to some northern quadruped, at length identified with the reindeer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Rangifer (reindeer) reindeerc1440 rein1555 tarand1572 buff1607 caribou1609 maccarib1672 bucka1674 woodland caribou1854 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 57 The fielde is of the Topaze, a Tarandre tripping, Rubye, unguled Diamonde. Tarandrus is a beaste in bodye like a great Oxe, hauing an head like to an harte, and hornes full of branches. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 22v The Tarandule is a beaste commonly called a Buffe, which is like an Oxe, but that he hath a bearde like a Goate. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 559 The Tarandus is a Beast somewhat resembling an Oxe, in quantitie, a Hart in shape. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tarandus, in zoology, a name given by Agricola and some other authors, to the rein-deer. b. Said to have, like the chameleon, the power to ‘change himselfe into the thing he toucheth or leaneth vnto’ (Florio); so Rabelais iv. ii. Also figurative.It is not certain that tarand (applied scurrilously to Christ) in quot. c1440, is the same word. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing weathercocka1300 wind?a1513 Proteus1528 chameleon1586 moon's man1598 vane1598 mooncalf1607 remover1609 tarand1641 inconstant1647 mutables1652 changeablea1711 kaleidoscope1819 phantasmagoria1822 palimpsest1845 variable1846 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Chamaeleonidae > member of (chameleon) chameleon1340 camlec1400 tarand1641 c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 381 (iii Miles) All þin vntrew techyngis þus taste I, þou tarand. 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. xi. 218 Like the Tarrand, which walking in a Garden, represents the colour of every flower on his skin. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. ii. i. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 363 As the tarand changes its colour with every plant that it approaches so the wise man adapts himself to the several humours and inclinations of those he converses with. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1440 |
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