单词 | unringed |
释义 | unringedadj. 1. Not wearing a ring or rings; esp. (of a pig) not fitted with a nose-ring; (of a bird) not bearing a ring (ring n.1 3f). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > not having nose ring unringed1459 unrung1548 1459 Rec. Montrose Baillie Court 29 Oct. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Onringit The swyn gangand lowse onringit. 1510 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 42 For þe wrangwis worttyne of þar swyne, & wnryngyt. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. F.iij Like rude vnringed swine. 1624 in H. Maclean Watermillock Reg. (1908) 157 Sub poena for every swine so unringed iiijd. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 89 Is't fit, [it] should..Be forc'd t' empeach a broken hedg, And Pigs un-ring'd. 1733 in E. J. Climenson Hist. Shiplake (1894) 307 No person..shall suffer his hogs to go unringed. 1792 Laws New-Hampsh. 322 The swine going at large unyoked and unringed shall be impounded. 1837 Penny Mag. 13 May 183/1 The unringed snouts of a few pigs. 1880 F. H. Burnett in Peterson's Mag. May 371/1 She glanced down at her slim, unringed hands. 1909 H. H. Bashford Pilgrim's March xviii. 285 He stopped short, catching sight..of her bare hands and unringed finger. 1974 J. Seymour Fat of Land (new ed.) vii. 97 Into one strip, in the summer, we would turn unringed pigs. 2012 Amer. Naturalist 179 80/2 Unringed birds were fitted with a uniquely numbered aluminium leg ring. 2. Of a tree or branch: not ringbarked. Cf. ringed adj. 5. ΚΠ 1820 Trans. Hort. Soc. London 3 367 The fruit sent up were the finest of those produced on the ringed and unringed branches. 1914 W. Paddock & O. Whipple Fruit-Growing in Arid Regions v. 61 Some varieties of grapes may be made to ripen twenty days earlier than on unringed vines, and the berries grow from one-third to one-half larger. 1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. xi. 261 In unringed twigs, or in only partially ringed twigs in which a vertical strip of the outer tissues was left intact, the roots formed at the lowest node. 2003 K. A. Longman Raising Seedlings of Trop. Trees 36 Watch out for and record any differences between ringed and unringed parts, such as changes in colour. 3. Not marked with or encircled by a ring. ΚΠ 1844 R. Q. Couch Cornish Fauna: Pt. III 42 Campanularia lævis... Cells..on long slender unringed footstalks. 1868 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 9 385 The naked eyes and unringed antennæ..remove it from those species of Charis which it most resembles. 1923 Trans. North-East Coast Inst. Engineers & Shipbuilders 39 124 The long unringed end of the oil-engine type of piston might..become a very fruitful cause of pre-ignition. 1997 J. S. Grove & R. L. Lavenberg Fishes Galápagos Islands 233 Some individuals with an ocellus on the back of variable size, unringed but sometimes surrounded by a sizable clear area. 2004 A. J. E. Smith Moss Flora Brit. & Irel. (ed. 2) 99 The characteristic unringed abaxial pores are usually easiest to see near the margin in the lower parts of the leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1459 |
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