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单词 vire
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viren.1

Forms: Also Middle English fyre, Middle English–1500s vyre, Middle English Scottish wyr, wyir.
Etymology: < Old French vire (= Provençal vira, Spanish vira, Portuguese vira), < virer to turn.
Obsolete.
A form of quarrel or bolt for a crossbow. (Cf. vireton n.)
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > crossbow bolt > [noun]
bolta1000
quarrela1250
arbalestrec1300
vire1390
matrassc1450
viretonc1500
matrass1591
quarry1600
cross-arrow1619
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 164 As a fyre Which fleth out of a myhti bowe, Aweie he fledde for a throwe.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 4802 Thei fauȝt vn-armed in here atyres With longe Arwes and scharpe vires.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2113 in Macro Plays (1904) 140 I schal slynge at þee many a vyre, & ben a-vengyd hastely here.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 623 He tasit the vyre and leit it fle.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 595 I haf a bow, bot and a vyre [1489 Adv. wyr].
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1092 The red knycht, byrnyng in loues fyre, Goith to o knycht, als swift as ony vyre.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xi. 16 This virgine sprent on swiftlie as a vyre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

viren.2

Forms: In Middle English wire.
Etymology: < Latin vīrus.
Obsolete. rare.
= virus n.
ΚΠ
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 77 For euery olde wounde hauynge rotnes or wire, þat is þinne venymous quyttir or ony oþir þing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

virev.1

Forms: Also Middle English Scottish wyre, vyre.
Etymology: < Old French virer to turn: compare veer v.2
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To whirl or throw.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)]
warpc888
torvec1000
castc1230
slingc1290
forthcasta1300
throwc1300
lancec1330
hit1362
pitchc1380
slentc1380
glenta1400
launcha1400
routc1400
waltc1400
flingc1420
jeta1450
vire1487
ajet1490
hurl1563
toss1570
kest1590
picka1600
peck1611
jaculate1623
conject1625
elance1718
squail1876
tipple1887
bish1940
biff1941
slap1957
welly1986
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 702 Iohne crab..In his fagattis has set the fyre, And our the wall syne can thame wyre.
2. intransitive. To turn; to wind about.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > turn round or to face a direction > turn (as) on a pivot or swing round
turnOE
revirec1485
virec1485
circumlate1578
swing1769
slew1823
swivel1846
pivot1883
jib1891
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course
to turn and winda1398
wreathea1500
twine1553
indent1567
virea1586
crank1594
to dance the hay or hays1600
maze1605
serpent1606
to indent the way1612
cringlea1629
indenture1631
circumgyre1634
twist1635
glomerate1638
winda1682
serpentine1767
meander1785
zigzag1787
zag1793
to worm one's way1822
vandyke1828
crankle1835
thread the needle1843
switchback1903
rattlesnake1961
zig1969
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 111 As the dure turnis about apon the herre,..and vyris & revyris.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Oo2v No, no, he hath vired all this while, but to come the sooner to his affected ende.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

virev.2

Obsolete rare.
(Origin and meaning doubtful: cf. vire n.1)
ΚΠ
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 5448 Many a Gregey was euel atyred, With brode arwes al to-vired; Thei wounded hem with arwes brode.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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