单词 | to raise a reek |
释义 | > as lemmasto raise a reek c. figurative. Something likened to smoke, esp. in its tendency to spread or dissipate; spec. (chiefly Scottish) a tumult, a disturbance, a dispute (frequently in to raise a reek). ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2744 (MED) O sodome haue i herd þe cri..þe reke [Trin. Cambr. reech, ?c1400 Arms reeche] es raght vn-to þe heuen. a1450 York Plays (1885) 220 (MED) His romour in þis reme Hath raysede mekill reke. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. liii. f. 36v (MED) Riȝt so, þi sowle whan it findiþ no confort in þi self bute blak reek of gostli blindnes. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 372 (MED) She that is most meke..she can rase vp a reke, if she be well nettyld. 1580–92 King James VI & I Lusus Reg. 45 His aire it flyes in uanished reike, his earth in cendres fallis. a1617 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 32 Already I see the reak of thy glory spred athort the luft in dust. a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 956 It is a sewr reik quhair the gude wife dings the gudeman. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' 14 After he's rais'd a needless reek, Syne he begins to grow mair meek. 1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Sept. 313 Ye may as weel gi'e a dunt upo' that door wi' your steekit nieve, an' syne raise a reek whether it was your hand or the door that made the din. a1904 B. Kirkby in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 77/2 They'd a bit ov a reek ower t'dikes. 1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust i. 113 Feeling is all; Name is mere cloud and reek Clouding Heaven's light. 1982 M. Seide Common Wilderness (1983) vi. 145 She is a reek, a shimmer, a slithering in man's mind, no more. < as lemmas |
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