| 单词 | to fall by |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall by to fall by ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > not obtaining or acquiring > not to obtain [verb (transitive)] mistec1275 missa1325 tinea1325 fail1377 losea1387 to come short of1570 to fall by1614 1614 T. White Martyrdome St. George sig. B2v His arme now thrusting forth..To latch the stripes for feare of falling by. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] > be missing or mislaid to be out of the way1580 to fall by1640 to go missing1845 to go (on) walkabout(s)1944 to go walkies1971 1640 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) ii. xxix. 491 Christ's papers of that kinde cannot be lost or fall by. 1672 M. Crawford in Welch's Popery Anatomized (ed. 2) Pref. sig. *7 I delivered it [sc. the petition] to his Majesty, but he was in a passion, and it seems it hath fallen by, for I have not gotten an answer. 1738 in H. Paton Minnigaff Parish Rec. (1939) 618 To William M'Kie..under his necessity by two precepts, the precepts falen by but consistent with memory. 1832 A. Henderson Sc. Prov. 70 A' is no tint that fa's bye. 3. intransitive. Scottish. To become ill; to stay in bed or at home through illness; (also) to be confined to bed for the birth of a child. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at Fa) records this sense as still in use in north-eastern Scotland in 1950. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. To fall by, to be sick, or affected with any ailment... In a more definite sense, to be confined in childbed. 1845 G. Murray Islaford 121 And when a servant-lass fa's by, Her comrades pass her with a sigh. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlix. Some jots o' wark at the Manse offices, that's been lyin' owre sin' he fell bye. < as lemmas |
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