单词 | walled |
释义 | walledadj.1 1. a. Furnished with or as with a wall, enclosed with a wall. Of a town, etc.: Surrounded or protected with fortifications. Of a well, cistern, pond, the sides of a cavity, etc.: Lined or faced with masonry. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > by walls walledc1000 walled-in1777 vallated1888 four-walled1905 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > of or belonging to a wall > having (a) wall(s) walledc1000 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] > lined or faced with masonry walled1895 c1000 Ags. Ps. xxx. 27 [22] On ceastre gewealledre [L. in civitate munita]. 13.. K. Alis. 6068 They haden wallid cite townes, In dalis, and eke in downes. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 72 Cytyes and Castelles and walled townes. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 18 And weele weare out In a wal'd prison, packs and sects of great ones. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. viii. 7 Twelue Cities, and seuen walled Townes of strength. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 22 Each Town or City wall'd On this side the broad lake Genezaret. View more context for this quotation 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 155 On one side of this cathedral is a wall’d terrass. 1789 Irish Act 29 Geo. III c. 33 §25 Walled deer-parks, and planted avenues excepted. 1819 W. S. Rose Lett. from N. Italy II. 85 (note) Oblong pieces of walled ground, planted with fruit-trees. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 820 [These] have led to the contrivance of surrounding the area on which the roasting takes place with three little walls or with four... This is what is called a walled area. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 376 A walled Bulgarian village. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 130 A succession of..terraced gardens... Their walled sides are thickly clothed with Calceolarias, Celsias [etc.]. 1895 Outing 27 237/2 Neptune's Grotto is an enchanting, walled fish-pond. b. with qualifying word prefixed. ΚΠ c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 24 Þe whilk es a strang citee and a wele walled. 1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 267 A great double-walled dyke. 1901 ‘C. Holland’ Mousmé 18 Our little fragile-walled house on the hillside at Nagasaki. 2. With adverbs. a. walled-up, closed or blocked up with masonry. walled-in, enclosed by walls. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > by walls walledc1000 walled-in1777 vallated1888 four-walled1905 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > closed or blocked up withsted1330 foreclosed1594 walled-up1826 sealed-off1926 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xlix. 132 Bonne is a good town, well walled-in, pleasantly situated. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Sept. 12 A..large walled-in garden. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 219 The third chamber has another old walled-up window. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality 103 Like wine found in a walled up cellar. 1906 C. Bigg Wayside Sketches i. 12 In front of the church was a walled-in court. b. walled-in, walled-up, entombed in a wall. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [adjective] > in a wall walled-in1837 walled-up1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. ix. 291 Crowds..gaze on the skeletons found walled-up. 1903 Daily Chron. 11 Feb. 3/6 The remains of a walled-in nun were discovered. 3. Anatomy and Zoology. Furnished with a ‘wall’ or investing structure: chiefly in parasynthetic formations. Also walled-off, separated by a ‘wall’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > outer covering thick-skinned1545 investing1615 vaginal1653 sheathed1664 cortical1677 vaginated1770 vaginate1777 tegumental1822 tegumentary1828 calycine1872 walled1875 tunicary1900 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1877) 201 The atrium: thin-walled, rounded, lies on the dorsal aspect of the truncus and ventricle. 1890 Retrospect Med. 102 362 It was a smooth walled cavity,..about the size of a small marble. 1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 70 A small walled-off pocket of pus. 4. Of the nature of a wall, made of stone-work. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [adjective] > of the nature of a wall mural1586 walled1805 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 115 Where stones can be easily procured,..walled fences may be preferable. Draft additions December 2016 Surfing. walled-out: (of a wave, surf, etc.) breaking all at once without forming a face considered good for surfing. Cf. wall n.1 8f. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [adjective] > type of wave surfable1938 spooky1966 walled-out1970 tubular1982 A-frame1987 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) No. 1. 26 When..the whole length of the wave breaks at once, it is unsurfable, and the beach is said to be walled out. 1987 Orange County (Calif.) Register 13 July b2/1 Bill advised me to wait for the most cleanly shaped waves, and let the walled-out waves go by. 1996 Los Angeles Mag. Dec. 142/4 Jordy walked back to the car looking at his new blade, a six-foot, four-inch squash-tail..thruster good for winding point waves..or walled-out beach breaks like Manhattan. 2002 Sun Post News (San Clemente, Calif) 26 Sept. 7/2 The weekend 1-2 foot surf was dumpy and walled-out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † walledadj.2 Obsolete. Of a horse's eye: Affected with ‘walleye’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of eyes varon1451 lunatic1566 walled1577 wall-eyed1590 moon-eyed1610 moon-blind1689 1577 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 396 One grey trotting curtoll mare, crapped on the further yeare, and the neare ie walled. 1672 London Gaz. No. 713/4 A dapple gray Gelding, near 15 hands high, both eies walled. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4182/4 A brown bay Mare,..one walled Eye, the other about half walled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). walledadj.3 English regional (Shropshire). rare. Boiled; = welled adj.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > curd > coagulated welledOE loppereda1300 quailed1440 runned1527 lopper1816 run1859 walled1879 clabbered1921 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Walled I toud yo' to wesh 'em i' the walled w'ey. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1c1000adj.21577adj.31879 |
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