单词 | to blow the mort |
释义 | > as lemmasto blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort a. The note sounded on a horn at the death of the deer. Chiefly in to blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > call or signal [verb (transitive)] > sound a call to blow (the) prisec1300 strakea1400 to blow the (also a) deathc1425 to blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort1555 to sound the prise1803 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer > actions in deer-hunting huinga1250 assayc1400 lodging1525 mort1555 imprime1590 say?1611 essay1694 mort note1830 tufting1862 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > cadence or flourish on horn blas?c1225 forloinc1369 windc1374 strakea1425 strakinga1425 rechasec1425 rechasingc1425 recopec1425 seekc1500 mort1555 recheat1575 gibbet1590 senneta1593 relief1602 horn-call1632 call1677 stroke1688 tantivy1785 tralira1801 tra-la-la1886 1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Giiij Likewyse hunting in hys kind as..to blow the mort, called the mote, the retract, the chase [etc.]. c1560 Hunting of Cheviot 31 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 307/2 The blwe a mort [MS Ashm. 48 mot] uppone the bent. 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 28 Hee that bloweth the Mort before the fall of the Buck, may very well misse of his fees. 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. C.3v Presently, the Mort the Hunts-man blew. a1600 in T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis (1679) 170 As soone as the Bukks head is offered uppe all the kepers shall blowe a Morte three tymes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 120 And then to sigh, as 'twere The Mort o' th' Deere. View more context for this quotation 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 80 Then, having blown the Mort, and all the company come in [etc.]. 1737 Compl. Family-piece (ed. 2) ii. i. 292 Then sound the Mort or Morts. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. viii. 136 The horns again poured on her ear the melancholy yet wild strain of the mort, or death-note. 1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess xi, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 14/2 When horns wind a mort and the deer is at siege. 1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 263 That was the country fellow that turned up when we sounded the mort by Coln-Dene. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark iii. 76 They..had killed in the hollow east of Beckley... He had heard the mort sounded. < as lemmas |
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