单词 | breachy |
释义 | † breachyadj.1 Obsolete or dialect. Brackish. (In Chandler, perhaps ‘of alkaline taste’.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > brackish or briny bracka1522 brackisha1552 bracky1582 brinish1594 briny1612 breachy1662 brak1793 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 158 Writers have distinguished..Odours, and Savours, as sweet, bitter, salt, sharp, breachy, soure. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 21 Breachy, brackish, applied to water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). breachyadj.2 Chiefly U.S. 1. Of horses and cattle: Apt to break fences, and get out of enclosures. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > not broken in or trained uncorsayeda1400 undaunted1422 unbroken1538 rough1542 unhandled1558 unbacked1593 unmade1632 unbrokea1716 breachy1780 outlawed1893 1780 E. Parkman Diary (1899) 275 To my sorrow, my Oxen have been breachy at Mr. Isaac Parker's and let in Cattle with them into his Cornfield. 1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 258 McKinney's horses were breachy. 1810 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 628/2 I never saw a breachy Tunis sheep. 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. 141 They are the most breachy of the two and ought to go to pound themselves. 1846 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st ser. vii. 61 Pledges air awfle breachy cattle. 1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. ii. 66 They [sc. sheep] become breachy and trespass upon neighbors. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 378 The cows are unusually gentle... Never knew one to be breachy. 1899 A. Brown Tiverton Tales 133 That cussed breachy cow..hooked it [sc. a fence] down. Categories » 2. Characterized by breaches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.11662adj.21780 |
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