| 单词 | the quick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto the quick a. With the. The highly sensitive area of a finger or toe covered by the nail plate; the sensitive structures of the foot of a horse or other ungulate; the proximal, vascular portion of the claw of an animal or bird. Also: any part of a wound, an ulcer, the body, etc., that is sensitive or painful (now rare). Frequently in to the quick. Cf. sense A. 3.In early use also without article in †at quick. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > touch organ > [noun] > sensitive part quick?a1425 liver1889 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > hoof > joint or sensitive part above quick?a1425 coffin-joint1683 ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 35v (MED) Also hit doþe a-way the blotts a-boue þe nayles in þe quyk. c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 70 (MED) Payre of the cornes to the whike and ley þeron of this salue. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvv An hurt yt cometh of yll showyng whan a smyth driueth a nayle into the quycke. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams iv. sig. Aiv Ytchyng and smartyng, both towch vs at quicke. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvi. 168 Fra tyme ye spur and hit him on the quik. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 96 + 10 But to the quick of th' vlcer, Hamlet comes back. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcvi. 384 A Horse is said to bee cloyed with a naile, or prickt with a naile, when the whole naile is stricken into the quick of the foote. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 64 They would fix upon my Nose or Forehead, where they stung me to the quick. 1767 J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 Nov. (1827) III. 293 Five nails were driven into the quick. 1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. IV. 350/2 Picking his fingers until he brought blood thro' the quick. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. x. 243 He was in the habit of biting his nails to the quick. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. 60 The newcomer darting between Houston and the raised hoof and clapping the shoe onto it and touching the animal's quick with the second blow of the hammer. 1993 Dog World Nov. 13/1 Clip the nail just below this vein, commonly called ‘the quick’, to avoid bleeding and injury to your dog. to the quick ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > closely (of resemblance) > with lifelike representation livelyc1405 livinglyc1475 quickly1477 to the quick1531 livelily?1565 to the life1604 naively1640 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adverb] > realistic to the quick1531 1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1941) II. 461 He commandit ane paintour..to paint hir visage to the quik. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xlviii. f. 93 In the principall of the sayd table was pictured a Bulle subtylly wroughte to the quycke, and vnder that a kynge was pyctured. 1563 J. Man tr. W. Musculus Common Places Christian Relig. 43 Images..with maruelouse deuice set forth to the quicke. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) To draw to the quick, (or to the life). 1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. 227 I think I have only to sit down and write it [sc. my father's life] off, and do it to the quick. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vi. 118 Our blood runs through it, our history in the quick. < as lemmas |
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