| 单词 | braxy-sheep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbraxy-sheep 2. as adj. Characterized by this disease, as braxy-sheep, braxy mutton; also absol. the flesh of a braxy sheep, or, generally, of one that has died by disease or accident. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems 213 While moorlan herds like guid, fat braxies. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) ix. 165 Two tall pyramids of braxy mutton heaped up each on a corn-riddle. 1863 N. Macleod in Good Words 503 The occasional dinner luxury of Braxy,—a species of mutton which need not be too minutely inquired into. 1880 Cornhill Mag. June 691 Braxy is the flesh of sheep which have died a natural death, by flood, drift, or disease. < as lemmas |
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