单词 | to do off |
释义 | > as lemmasto do off to do off 1. transitive. To put off, take off, remove (something that is on). Cf. doff v. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing to do offeOE to lay downc1275 to weve offc1290 stripc1320 doffa1375 loose1382 ofdrawa1393 casta1400 to take offa1400 warpa1400 to cast offc1400 to catch offc1400 waivec1400 voidc1407 to put off?a1425 to wap offc1440 to lay from, offc1480 despoil1483 to pull offc1500 slip1535 devest1566 to shift off1567 daff1609 discuss1640 to lay off1699 strip1762 douse1780 shuffle1837 derobe1841 shed1858 skin1861 peel1888 pull1888 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxvi. 86 Do þonne of þa rinda. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxxviii. 14 Ða dyde heo of hyre wydewan reaf..& scrydde hi mid oðrum reafe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8364 Alle heo..duden of claðes. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2781 Moyses, moyses, do of ðin s[h]on. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 20211 Of dud she hir cloþes. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 71 Dauid dide of the armure. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) x. 27 Huon..dyd of his brothers gowne. c1557 Enterlude of Youth (new ed.) sig. Bii Euery pore felowe..Will do of his cap and make you curteisie. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 156 As wee use to veile bonet or do of our hats. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 313 He did off all his rich array. 2007 L. McM. Bujold Sharing Knife: Legacy 272 She wriggled up to do off her boots and belt. 2. transitive. U.S. To finish off with decoration or ornament; to array, deck out. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out perfurnish1375 enflourish?a1400 varnish14.. perform1420 to pick outc1429 polish?1440 trimc1516 to set out1523 trick?1532 face1542 trick1545 prank1546 tricka1555 bawdefy1562 tickle1567 prink1573 finify1586 deck1587 decore1603 betrima1616 fangle1615 beprank1648 prim1688 to garnish outa1704 decorate1782 to do off1794 dizen1807 tricolatea1825 fal-lal1845 1794 tr. P. N. Chantreau Philos., Polit., & Lit. Trav. Russia II. xiv. 213 Such [houses] as are of wood are done off in the outside with so much art, that they exceed the stone houses in beauty. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxiv. 227 I..reconnoitred the company who were ‘done off’ (indigenous,) ‘in first-rate style’, for this important occasion. 1909 Pop. Electr. Nov. 462/1 Perhaps the finest room of all is the French Room, done off in beautiful brown wood. 3. transitive. To sketch or dash off in a piece of writing. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > present by literary treatment > by specific kind of literary treatment hitch1749 to do off1819 kill1867 tea-table1938 1819 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Jan. 14/2 This is beautiful, and quite done off in the style of a court pastoral. 1879 J. C. Shairp Robert Burns viii. 195 In this..poem you have the whole toiling life of a ploughman and his horse, done off in two or three touches. 1921 J. F. A. Pyre Formation Tennyson's Style iii. 47 Milton, Shakspere, and Dante are done off in one stanza. 4. transitive. U.S. To set (a room) aside for a particular purpose; spec. to partition off. Now rare. ΚΠ 1861 Beauty of Holiness Feb. 52 He..had a room done off for a ‘praying room’. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 514 I have also one small room done off for storing butter in the fall. 1919 W. H. Bishop Anti-Babel 134 Her laboratory was a bright room neatly done off from the cottage veranda. < as lemmas |
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