单词 | throated |
释义 | throatedadj. 1. Having a throat, esp. of a specified kind. Also: having a voice of a specified kind (cf. throat n. 4, full-throated adj.). Chiefly as the second element in parasynthetic compounds.Frequently compounded with colour terms in the names of birds or other animals; cf. black-throated adj., red-throated adj., white-throated adj., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [adjective] throated1530 guttural1594 jugulary1626 gutturine1692 oesophagal1778 oesophageal1786 throatal1847 oesophagiac1858 oesophagean1882 perioesophageal1890 tracheo-œsophageal1897 oesophagogastric1954 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [adjective] > front of neck > having throated1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 327/2 Throted, gorgé. 1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 27v Hercules..draweth the three-throated Cerberus out of Hell. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A4 Yon same dry throated huskes Will suck you vp. a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle ii. i. sig. C5v in Five New Playes (1653) Unhappy chance of Law!..That hast into thy Hydra-throated mawe Gulp'd up my lives supportance. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. ii. 53 Give me, the Harpy-throated Glutton cries, In a large Dish a Mullet's mighty Size. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. viii. 99 The Scarlet Throated Diver may be distinguished by its name. 1792 Earl of Buchan Ess. Lives & Writings Fletcher & Thomson 269 All our once noble-throated guardians of the house and fold will be succeeded by a mean courtly race. 1803 W. Wordsworth Addr. Kilchurn Castle 1 Child of loud-throated War! 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 102 Sooth-tongued singers, throated like the bird. 1914 D. Barnes in A. Berry New York (1989) 169 The women are frail, slender-throated, swathed in the dainty trickery of silk and crepe. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 157 The spur-throated grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthracridinae), which have short spur on the prosternum. 1962 Condor 64 144 Lampornis amethysinus salvini. Amethyst-throated Hummingbird. 2004 Earth Island Jrnl. Autumn 34/3 It is the rufous-throated solitaire, a bird..that owes its life here to the high-profile role the elusive Jacquot has played. 2. That has been provided with a throat (in various senses of throat n. II.); designed or shaped so as to include a throat. Also as the second element in parasynthetic compounds: provided with a throat of a specified kind. Cf. throat v. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > door or window ornament architraved1664 throated1841 1841 C. Davy Architect. Precedents iv. 9 All windows to have forest stone, weathered, throated, and worked sills. 1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 Sept. 174/2 Dr Arncott connects this kind of fireplace with a very narrow-throated chimney, so as to increase the draught. 1891 Hub Feb. 900/1 For the pleasure carriage the oval-throated spoke with the long triangular face is the only form that should be used. 1913 Arms & Man 14 Aug. 398/1 The latest contributions directed to me on the subject of throated barrels and elongated chambers. 1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 216/1 The section of the sill as given is quite a common one and would be described as double-weathered, throated and sunk. 2001 Laxton's Building Price Bk. 2002 (ed. 174) 28 Weathered and throated capping and bed in cement mortar (1:3) to seal top of stack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1530 |
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