单词 | whiskered |
释义 | whiskeredadj. 1. Having whiskers. a. Of men: see whisker n.1 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > whiskers whiskered1769 whiskerandoed1838 whiskery1848 1769 T. Warton Let. 10 Oct. in D. Garrick Private Corr. (1831) I. 369 I went on board one of the Russian ships, and had the pleasure of being surrounded with a thousand whiskered sailors and soldiers from Archangel. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 768 Our forefathers—a grave whisker'd race. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. v. vii. 60 I would give half my fortune,..to have seen him..in martial array—booted to the middle—sashed to the chin—collared to the ears—whiskered to the teeth. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vii A tall whiskered man, who..looked like a field-marshal. b. Of animals: see whisker n.1 5; spec. as a descriptive appellation of particular species, as whiskered auk, whiskered flycatcher, whiskered shrike, whiskered tern. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > moustache-like > having hair round mouth whiskered1764 moustached1835 mystacinous1839 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 56 The whisker'd vermine-race. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 364 Whiskered Fl[ycatcher]. 1788 W. Cowper Death Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 35 A beast..Long-back'd, long-tail'd, with whisker'd snout. 1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 298 Whiskered Shrike. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 309 Whiskered (Mystacinum), when the upper lip is furnished with whiskers (Mystax), or bearded. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 342 Whiskered Auk…two series..of filamentous white feathers on each side of head. 1897 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. IV. 8 The Whiskered Tern is an accidental visitor to the British Islands. 2. Formed into or constituting whiskers. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > whiskers > formed into whiskered1737 1737 M. Green Spleen 761 Preferring sense, from chin that's bare, To nonsense thron'd in whisker'd hair. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1737 |
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