单词 | water-standing |
释义 | > as lemmaswater-standing water-standing adj. rare †(a) (of the eyes) brimming with tears (obsolete); (b) standing in water. ΚΠ 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. vi. 40 Manie a Widdow for her husbands death, And many an infants water standing eie [1623 water-standing-eye]..Shall curse the time that euer thou wert borne. 1841 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 417 His water-standing eyes looked their last farewell at those red towers..now lost for ever. 1869 E. E. Witt tr. Homer 5th & 9th Bks. Odyssey v. 18 He sat 'twixt crag and beach..And o'er the dreary waste of barren sea Unceasing gazed with water-standing eye. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 340 The planters..had wrested from the impenetrable jungle of water-standing cane and cypress..cotton patches which..became fields and then plantations. < as lemmas |
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