| 单词 | to take one's lair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's lair 3. That whereon one lies down to sleep; a bed, couch. †at or to lair: in or to bed. †to take one's lair: to take to one's bed. Now chiefly with some reference to sense 5. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > [noun] restOE bedc995 laira1000 couch1340 littera1400 libbege1567 pad1703 spond1763 fleabag1811 dab1812 snooze1819 downy1846 kip1879 the hay1903 Uncle Ned1925 rack1939 fart sack1943 sack1943 pit1948 uncle1982 the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > take to bed to lay up1554 to take one's lair1633 to lie up1850 to take to one's bed1883 a1000 Wife's Compl. 34 Frynd leger weardiaþ þonne ic on uhtan ana gonge. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 103 He beð neðer þanne he er was, alse fro sete to leire. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29091 In askes and in hare, And weping and vneses lair. c1425 Dispute Mary & Cross 96 in Leg. Rood (1871) App. 200 My love I lulled vppe in hys leir. 1494 Acta Dom. Conc. (1739) 372/2 His wiff wes liand in cheld bed lare. 1619 H. Hutton Satyricall Epigrams in Follie's Anat. sig. C3 Robin has for Tobaccho sold his chaire, Reseruing nothing but a stoole for's lare. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 9) 192 The Physitian comming to his patient, enquires..the time when he tooke his Layre. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 24 The shepherd..on the sloping pond-head lies at lair. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 8/1 Wretchedness..shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 255 There were ‘lairs’ among the underwood—constructed of branches. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 160 The villainous den beneath the top-gallant-forecastle, far in the fore-part of the ship, which is the lair of seamen in most English ships. < as lemmas |
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