单词 | water spring |
释义 | water springn. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > springing water springOE outspring1538 OE Daniel 385 Eastream yða and upcyme, wætersprync wylla, ða ðec wurðiað. b. = spring n.1 1c. Also figurative.Sometimes in biblical allusion, esp. to Psalm 107:35 (cf. quot. 15352). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] welleOE walma897 spring?1316 spring wellc1340 water springc1450 source1477 fountain1490 quick-spring1530 eye1535 fountainhead1585 fount1594 springlet1661 keld1697 urn1726 spout head1733 spout1778 seep1824 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 238 To deluyn ȝoure pyt deppere in lownes tyl ȝe fyndyn a watyr-spryng of grace. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cvi[i]. 33 Which turneth the floudes in to drie londe, and drieth vp the water sprynges. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cvi[i]. 35 He maketh the wildernes a stonding water, and water sprynges of a drye grounde. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41v That ioyned brookes to Dales, to Hilles fresh water springes. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 16 Their Poems gushing forth as out of a plentifull water-spring. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Davids Psalms Metaphr. i, in Wks. (1808) X. 261 He shall be like the tree Set by the water-springs. a1767 M. Bruce Lochleven in Poems (1770) 72 Her pleasing task to tend The flow'rs; to lave them from the water-spring. 1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland 245 Among all the curiosities of Iceland..nothing can be compared to the hot spouting water-springs with which this country abounds. 1866 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lost Tales Miletus, Secret Way 12 The cool marge of rush-grown watersprings. 1890 D. Davidson Mem. Long Life vi. 146 Friends, whose intercourse had been as refreshing to me as the water-spring to the traveller in the wilderness. 1901 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 5 471 A message of this sort came as a water-spring in a dry land. 1952 Michigan Technic May 16/2 Petroleum migrates up through the porous rocks and out into the earth's surface, usually just above a water spring. 2012 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 26 July 6 Seven children have died in Afghanistan after a water spring was booby trapped with a bomb aimed at police. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > excess fluid in tissue > dropsy water sicknessOE dropsyc1290 hydropsyc1380 hyposarca1398 hydropsc1480 water spring1525 leucophlegmacy1657 litherness1727 hydrothorax1793 hydrometra1811 humectation1886 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. M2 The water sprynge (or ydropsis) [Ger. wassersucht]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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