单词 | to lie barren, hid, waste |
释义 | > as lemmasto lie barren, hid, waste 8. To remain unworked, unused, untouched, or undiscovered. Often with complement, as to lie barren, hid, waste (see also fallow adj.2, lea adj.); also in to lie on one's hands, to lie at a stand.Cf. sense 4, where the subject is a person or a personification. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > remain unused [verb (intransitive)] atliec1000 lie1377 to lie by the wall (or walls)1579 to lie by1642 sit1839 society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > not sell > remain unsold to lie on one's hands1548 to go (or have been) a begginga1593 stick1729 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > be unproductive [verb (intransitive)] to lie at a stand1622 to thresh (over) straw1844 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 165 Worth neuere plente amonge þe poeple þer-while my plow liggeth. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6841 Your land yee sal sau seuen yeir... þe seuend ye sal it lat lij still. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxiijv Wherfore all brode Clothes, Kerseis, & Cottons, laye on their handes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clv Through our mens wrytinges, sondrye articles are called agayne to lyght, whiche laye before hidde in darkenes. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D3v Letts goe and make cleane our bootes which lie foule vpon our handes. 1622 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 211 This hath made matters to lie a little at a stand. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) Ep. to Rdr. sig. A6 This worke hath lyen above twice five [years]. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iii. 88 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Turris, an ancient City..which had been sack'd by Barbarians, and layen long wast. a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 68 To make them buy their currantes (which lay vpon their handes). 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life i. 9 'Tis pitty, that any thing of Christ should lye hid from his people! 1862 W. E. Gladstone in Daily News 26 Apr. 2/2 Rarely, within the living memory, has so much of skill lain barren. < as lemmas |
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