| 单词 | tender bread |
| 释义 | > as lemmastender bread a. Soft or delicate in texture or consistence; yielding easily to force or pressure; fragile; easily broken, divided, compressed, or injured; of food, easily masticated, succulent. †tender bread, newly baked bread (obsolete).Formerly (and still dialect) used in wide sense as a synonym of soft (e.g. of stone or coal). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] tender?c1225 feeble1340 infirmc1374 slight1393 weakc1400 sperec1440 silly1587 unsound1590 immaterial1609 paper1615 unsubstantiala1617 reedy1628 slighty1662 insufficient1700 flimsy1702 bandbox1727 unconfirmed1752 insubstantial1767 gossamery1790 thread-paper1803 gossamer1806 slimsy1845 unendurable1879 bandboxy1891 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective] lithec888 merroweOE neshOE tender?c1225 softa1250 unharda1300 supplec1325 melchc1350 unsad1398 slobbery?a1425 lushc1440 mulch?1440 gentle1555 mellow1577 softly1589 tenerous1598 siddow1601 maumy1728 frush1848 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 91 For his flesch wesal quic as is þe tendre echȝe. 13.. Coer de L. 3413 Eet theroff..As it wer a tendyr chycke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18844 Forked fair þe chin he bare And tender berd wit mikel hare. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 630 A calf..Þat watz tender & not toȝe. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxxiii. 150 Þe tendre erthe was remowed fra his place and þare become a valay, and þe hard erthe habade still. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 247 Tendyr brede makyd of the floure of Whete. c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 2529 Beuys..hyt the dragon vnder the wynge,..There was he tender wythout skale. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 26 The Skout..being sodin,..is maist tendir. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 186 Their bones being yet tender, soft, and cartilaginious. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 111 The tender Grass, and budding Flower. View more context for this quotation 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 39 He bites very freely, but is often lost when struck, his mouth being very tender. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §272 Moorstone..being a tender kind of stone in respect to the union of its component parts. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 281 Many tender and fragile shells. 1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 15 The ware up to this point..is most tender, and can only be handled with the greatest care. < as lemmas |
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