| 单词 | to cry wolf's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cry wolf's head 2. Anglo-Saxon Law. A cry for the pursuit of an outlaw as one to be hunted down like a wolf; transferred (originally in to cry wolf's head) an outlaw.17th century law books have various corrupt forms, as wolferfod, woolfeshered, woolferthfod, wolfetchsod. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > in force [phrase] > cry for pursuit of outlaw wolf's-head?c1300 society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > outlaw outlawOE friendless manOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 banished man1495 broken man1528 proscript1576 horner1590 outlawed1644 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw flemeOE outlawOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 owl-hoot1934 c1000 Laws Edw. Conf. vi Lupinum enim gerit caput a die utlagationis sue, quod ab Anglis uulfesheued nominatur.] ?c1300 Mirr. Justices iv. iv. (Selden Soc.) 125 E point ne vient, qe des adunc le tiegne lem pur lou e est criable Wolvesheved, pur ceo qe lou est beste haie de tote gent. c1400 Gamelyn (Harl.) 700 Whan Gamelyn her lorde wolues-heed was cryed & made. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes vii. 1261 Out of ther court banyshed was prudence,..Cried woluis hed was vertuous sobirnesse. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 257 Now wols-hede and outhorne On the be tane! 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 55 By that time I shall be a wolf's head, and out of the law. 1914 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 95/2 Vengeance on these cruel wolfheads. < as lemmas |
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