| 单词 | to make dice of bones |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make dice of (a person's) bones ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] to shed blood?a1100 to let blood?c1225 to be (a person's) priesta1450 shortena1535 kill1535 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587 to make dice of (a person's) bones1591 to put out (also quench) a person's light(s)1599 account1848 to fix1875 1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 103 They wil make dice of their bones, but they will haue the extremitie of them. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. iii. 522 We will not relent,..till we haue confounded him and his, made dice of his bones as they say, see him rot in prison. 1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 22 We say proverbially ‘make dice of his bones’, the meaning whereof is, that if a prisoner die in execution, after the Crowner has viewed his body, the creditor hath dice delivered him at the Crowne Office as having all that he is likely to have. < as lemmas |
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