单词 | to shut close |
释义 | > as lemmasto shut close a. gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut lokenOE yclosed1377 luckena1400 speareda1400 closec1400 shut1474 yschutte?a1475 parrocked?1510 closed1526 folded1570 occluse1601 shut-up1614 steeked1709 1331 Literæ Cantuar. 24 Nov. (Rolls) I. 410 Vous mandoms une lettre close et patente.] c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 183 Wyth yȝen open & mouth ful clos. 1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 46 The close carre. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11152 Þe troyens..Þe toun ȝatys Keppit full cloyse. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxxiii Vnder a vaute..or any close house. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §351 Stop the Hole close. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 144/2 Zenobia..compared Logick to a close hand, and Oratory to the same hand opened. 1721 New Help to Discourse 135 A close mouth catcheth no flies. 1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 247 Including..the inflammable materials in closs vessels. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. viii. 63 I've brought a close carriage for him. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 88 Sched. 1 Hatches with open gratings, instead of the close hatches..usual in merchant vessels. < as lemmas |
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