| 单词 | ursa major |
| 释义 | > as lemmasUrsa Major 2. Ursa Major: extracted from Ursan. a. Astronomy. The northern constellation also called the Great Bear. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Ursa Major Ursac888 Arcturusc1374 beara1398 Ursa Major1398 ploughc1425 Septentrionc1425 seven starsc1425 Great Bear1555 plough star1558 Helice1596 polar bear1648 dipper1842 Big Dipper1856 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) viii. xxiii Þe taille of þe figure that hatte vrsa maior. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 710 Amongis sterrys..sche is stallyd, And Vrsa Maior is of clerkys callyd. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Evv Being not farre from Vrsa maior, called charles wayne. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 125 My natiuitie was vnder Vrsa maior, so that it followes, I am rough and lecherous. View more context for this quotation 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Constellation Thus, Hevelius, v. g. between Leo and Ursa Major, makes Leo Minor;..under the Tail of Ursa Major, Canes Venatici, &c. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xi. 269 The huge Winds, that sweep from Ursa Major to the Tropics. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §341 One of the most striking circumpolar constellations is Ursa Major,..the Plough, or Charles' Wain, as it is otherwise called. b. †(a) One whose sign or symbol is a bear (see first quot.). Obsolete. (b) A person (regarded as) having a very bearish disposition or appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > surliness > person chuffc1440 queer cuffin1567 curmudgeon1587 cormullion1596 chuff-cat1653 sumph1682 surly-boots1710 Ursa Major1773 gruffy1802 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C2 There were others steered, and stood at the Helme besides himselfe [sc. Burleigh], and more Stars in the firmament of grace [sc. Queen Elizabeth], then Vrsa Major. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 6 Nov. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 480 My father's opinion of Dr. Johnson may be conjectured from the name he afterwards gave him, which was Ursa Major. 1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 417 Or him [sc. James Boswell] wha led o'er Scotland a' The meikle Ursa Major. 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 273 Strong, stalwart, unkemp, John Bradford,..Minister of the Queen, strode over the Galloway heather in his rough home-spun. ‘Ursa Major’ they called him in the House. < as lemmas |
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