单词 | unmortised |
释义 | unmortisedadj.1 Now rare. That has not been mortised; esp. not made or attached with a mortise; having no recess to accommodate a tenon. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > with specific joint > not unmortised1599 untennanted1678 1599 H. Clapham Discr. True Visible Christian sig. Aviii Tymber [printed Tyber] and stone lying loose and vnapplyed togither..in such vnmortised estate may be termed the matter of an howse, but not called an howse. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 103 This Square Peece hath a square wide Mortess in it..to screw against that part of the Wooden Peece un-mortessed at the Top,..stiff against the fore-side of the un-mortessed Peece. 1836 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 28 May 380/1 The floor alone was unmortised. 1976 Pop. Mech. Nov. 123/3 (caption) Three washers, used as spacers to match thickness of the unmortised hinges, keep component panel flush with adjacent doors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unmortisedadj.2 Now rare (poetic in later use). Having had the joints unfastened or broken; undone, loose. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > disjoined, disunited, or disconnected disjointc1420 sejointc1440 dissolute?1541 unjointed1561 disunited1562 disjoined1591 disjunct1599 disjointeda1643 disunite1642 disjuncted1657 unmortised1736 broken1819 disarticulated1834 disc1916 1736 J. Theobald tr. Virgil Second Bk. Æneid iii. 51 Where disjointed lie Th' unmortis'd Beams. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xli. 158 An old, broken-bottomed cane couch,..unmortised, by the failing of one of its worm-eaten legs. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 402 in Idylls of King The wrist is parted from the hand that waved, The feet unmortised from their ankle-bones Who paced it, ages back. 1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message iv. i. 88 I'll rack him till..all his creaking limbs, unmortised, hang Like broken stalks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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