| 单词 | to blow great guns |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto blow great guns a. intransitive. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement, as ‘it blew a gale, a hurricane’. to blow great guns: to blow a violent gale. to blow up: to rise, increase in force of blowing. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] blowc1000 standc1275 waffc1440 respire?a1475 fan1600 suffle1622 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst > blow up or explode to blow up1697 to blow sky-high1823 poof1915 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly > increase rise?1520 fresh1599 to come up1647 freshen1669 ascend1715 to get up1834 to blow up1840 stiffen1844 to breeze up1867 to pipe up1901 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 55 Þonne ge geseoð suðan blawan. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 167 Lutel he hit scaweð..hu biter wind þer blaweð. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 101 Ȝef awint blaweð alute towart us. a1300 Cursor Mundi 532 Wynd þat blaws o loft. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xliii. 22 The cold northerne wind bleeȝ [a1425 L.V. blew]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 130 Il uente, it bloweth. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 765 I turne saile that waie as the winde bloweth. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 208 Heark how it rains and blows . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 112 All the West Allies of stormy Boreas blow . View more context for this quotation 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 146 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §313 It blowed very hard, especially on the night of lighting. 1802 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 166 Straws and feathers..show which way the wind blows. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack x. 60 The gale had blown up again. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 14 It soon began to blow great guns. to blow great guns P1. colloquial (now somewhat dated) to blow great guns: to blow a violent gale. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly besom?a1400 bluster1530 overblow1587 ruffiana1616 to blow great guns1779 to blow guns1833 1779 Let. 19 Sept. in Public Advertiser 23 Sept. To-day it blows great Guns intermingled with Rain. 1829 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 353 It blew great guns. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxiii. 124 It blows great guns, indeed. There'll be many a crash in the Forest to-night. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 389 At sunset, as is usual at this place, it blew great guns. 1936 B. C. Williams George Eliot iii. 17 She loved the wind, loved to walk when it was blowing great guns. 1979 J. Needle Fine Boy for Killing (2000) xi. 87 Blowing great guns out there my friend. < as lemmas |
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