单词 | vare |
释义 | † varen. Obsolete. 1. = vara n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > Spanish unit vare1545 varaa1690 1545 Rates Custome House sig. diiijv The Vares of Spayne... ix. Vares makithe .viii. yardes Englysshe. 1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 215 The other measure is called a vare,..which measure is of 5 palmes or spannes, and is one code and two third parts. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 175 Certain peeces of blacke silke of twelue vares long a peece. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xi. 240 It extendes above foure score Varres or yardes in length. 2. A rod, staff, or wand, esp. as a symbol of judicial office or authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod yardc1275 tipped stickc1386 bastona1400 mace?a1419 wandc1430 warderc1440 baculc1449 roda1450 verge1493 staff1535 tipstaff1541 verger1547 truncheon1573 vare1578 baton?1590 trunch1590 fasces1598 macer wanda1600 virge1610 batoona1652 stick1677 shaku1875 poker1905 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 357 He tooke the Vares of Justice from the Judges and Sargeants, and incontinent restored them againe. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxi. 109 If an Alguazil..shew him his Vare, that is a little white staffe he carrieth as badge of his Office. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 48 Imposing my hand upon a Crosse held out to me upon the end of a Vare, or wand. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 His Hand a Vare of Justice did uphold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1545 |
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