单词 | to stoop an eye on |
释义 | > as lemmasto stoop an eye on a. To bow (the head, †face, neck, knee); to incline (one's ear). Also to stoop an eye on (? nonce-use), to deign to glance at. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of bending > bend [verb (transitive)] > specific part of body clitchc1025 foldc1380 flexa1521 clutch1614 hingea1616 stoop1637 cock1698 cower1790 slouch1866 1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Thou fair moon..Stoope thy pale visage through an amber cloud. 1655 W. Hammond Poems 67 But stoop thine eare ill-councelld youth, and hark. 1771 ‘The Trifler’ Muse in Miniature 146 To him I stoop the penitential knee. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Prometheus Chain'd in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 56 Chorus. What, shall high Jove bend to a greater lord? Prometheus. And to a yoke more galling stoop his neck. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 236 With his face stooped against his hands. 1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders III. 172 He then stooped his lofty crest, and entered a lowly hut. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus I. xv He pushed his way through the foliage, stooping his head to prevent the branches striking him in the face. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 155 In getting through the rocks..I once had occasion to stoop my head. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche iii. xix. 34 Here Zeus, in likeness of a tawny bull, Stooped on the Cretan shore his mighty knee. 1904 S. J. Weyman Abbess of Vlaye xi This puling girl on whom the Captain of Vlaye had stooped an eye. < as lemmas |
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