单词 | to shoot the red |
释义 | > as lemmasto shoot (also sport) the red P3. to shoot (also sport) the red: (of a turkey poult) to develop caruncles and red coloration on the head. Now rare. ΚΠ 1848 E. S. Dixon Ornamental & Domest. Poultry 43 A safer rule may be fixed at the season called ‘shooting the red’, a ‘disease’, as some compilers are pleased to call it. 1871 W. M. Lewis People's Pract. Poultry Bk. 103 The following prescription..[is] an invaluable tonic for debilitated birds, especially in the mortality which is apt to prevail when ‘shooting the red’. 1897 K. B. B. De La Bere New Poultry Guide ii. 56 Turkeys require considerable attention..until they ‘sport the red’, as it is termed, i.e., develop the red colouring to the face and wattles. 1932 Somerset Year Bk. 83 When they'm shuttin' th' reds they'm pin-near zartain ta die. to shoot the red b. transferred. Chiefly of an animal, etc.: To put forth (limbs, etc.); also figurative of immaterial things. to shoot the red: of a turkey-cock (see red adj. and n. Phrases 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [verb (transitive)] > grow or reproduce (a part) shoot1739 reproduce1743 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 238 Quhen this Pelagian hæresie..appeired to schute out the hornes ay wyder and wyder. 1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. Introd. 31 The callous Edges softening, will, without any great Assistance, shoot out a Cicatrix. 1865 Englishman's Mag. Feb. 155 He throbs and tingles as the new wings shoot their feathers. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 875 These..masses of epithelium..do not shoot downwards the root-like processes so characteristic of epithelioma of the malignant type. < as lemmas |
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