单词 | buist |
释义 | buistn.1 Obsolete exc. Scottish. A box, a casket = boist n. 1; a chest. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] shrinec1000 boist?c1225 busta1250 cofferc1300 coffinc1330 buist1393 boosta1400 pyx1609 pyxis1708 box1751 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 247 To open a buist she him badde. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 292 A strong poison..Within a buist. 1451 Act Jas. II (1597) §33 Quhill the Wardane haue..put it [the money] in his buist. 1483 Cath. Angl. 49 Buyste [v.r. Bust], alabastrum. 1801 R. Gill Tint Quey in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Sc. Poems (1862) 173 And frae the willow buist did scatter A tate o' meal upo' the water [note, Willow buist, a rustic basket, in which meal is usually held]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). buistn.2 Scottish. A mark of ownership made with tar or paint upon sheep or cattle; also figurative. ΚΠ 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. Bust, Boost, tar mark upon sheep, commonly the initials of the proprietor's name. 1807 J. Ruickbie Wayside Cottager 112 (Jam.) I'll..catch them in a net or girn Till I find out the boost or birn. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. x. 282 He is not of the brotherhood of Saint Mary's—at least he has not the buist of these black cattle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † buistv.1 Scottish. Obsolete. To put in a box, or as in a box; to box, shut up. ΚΠ c1600 A. Montgomerie Sonn. to R. Hudsone This barme and blaidry buists up all my bees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019). buistv.2 Scottish dialect. transitive. ‘To mark cattle or sheep with the proprietor's distinctive mark’ (Jamieson). Hence buisting-iron, buist-mark. ΚΠ 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 39 Adamson..with the buisting-iron which he held in his hand struck a dog. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 94 The sheep around recall it by their ‘beesting’ mark. 1864 A. Jeffrey Hist. Roxburghshire IV. viii. 261 Tar for buisting sheep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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