单词 | wind-bound |
释义 | wind-boundadj. a. Detained by contrary or stormy winds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [adjective] > detained by bad weather storm-stayed1491 storm-stead1513 wintered1556 wind-bound1588 weather-bound1590 water-bound1776 ice-bound1822 snowed-up1836 fog-logged1846 snowed-in1904 society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > detained in port by adverse conditions wind-bound1588 port-bound1678 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > hindering or retarding > hindered or retarded > by weather wintered1556 wind-bound1588 1588 Hunsdon in Archaeologia 30 169 Having been..soe wind-bound, as he could by no meanes gett out of the haven. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 180 Being now windbound for Afric. a1718 M. Prior Mercury & Cupid 46 No Matter tho' This Fleet be lost; Or That lie wind-bound on the Coast. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters i. 9 Next morning the wind-bound vessels were crowding the harbour of refuge as before. 1875 Zoologist 10 4712 As to swallows or martins being wind-bound..I cannot entertain the idea. 1899 R. Bridges Summer-ho. Mound in New Poems 35 Brigs and barques that windbound ride At their taut cables heading to the tide. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [adjective] > types of harbour unbarreda1552 barred1552 wind-bound1614 shoaled1867 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia v. 187 He findes the hauens mouth winde-bound [L. clausas ventis brumalibus undas]. c. figurative or in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [adjective] > put out of action wind-bound1647 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > affording access > accessible > inaccessible inaccessible?a1475 unwinnablec1540 improachable?a1560 inaccesse?1567 unapproachable1574 unreachablea1586 unaccessible1596 dreich1597 accessless?1614 approachless1647 wind-bound1647 uncome-at-able1694 inapproachable1828 unget-at-able1862 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience ix. 62 Though thou beest water-bound, be not wind-bound also. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 30 They, being now in possession, may be admitted, de bene esse; else you are wind-bound. You cannot do aught without them. 1675 E. Cocker Morals 66 Wind-bound in the port of Sorrow. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 211. ¶9 When I sit still without doing any thing, his Affairs forsooth are Wind-bound. 1779 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 408 That the papers..he wants, lye wind-bound at Sir James Harris's. 1901 C. M. Masterman Folia Dispersa 17 My Soul, windbound, in her dull haven lies! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmaswind-bound 8. In combinations: Preceded by a noun in instrumental relation, or by an adjective used adverbially, as love-bound, wind-bound, wood-bound; often with reference to books, as cloth-bound, morocco-bound, parchment-bound; full-bound n. = whole-bound n. whole-bound n. bound entirely in leather., half-bound adj. having the back only, or back and corners, of leather, the rest of the binding being cloth or paper. Also hardbound adj., hidebound adj., iron-bound adj., weather-bound adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > disorders of brain > other brain disorders hardbound?a1425 bound1704 Wernicke1887 mind-blind1905 Alzheimer1911 Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome1934 brain-damaged1946 kernicteric1956 brain-dead1972 C-J1972 hypsarrhythmic1977 flatline1978 Creutzfeldt–Jakob1987 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > hindering or retarding > hindered or retarded > as if constipated hardbound?a1425 bound1704 constipated1891 the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > bound with love love-bound1873 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [adjective] full-bound1705 super-extra1774 half-bound1775 Etruscan1792 antique1794 Russia-bound1808 vellum-bound1836 vellum-covered1836 quarter-bound1842 cloth-bound1860 limp1863 cottage1874 monastic1880 parchment-bound1881 yapped1882 all along1888 Grolieresque1889 Maioli1890 perfect1890 treed calf1892 Lyonnais1893 hardback1894 dos-à-dos1952 perfect bound1960 spiral-bound1961 spiral1977 1704 London Gaz. No. 4021/3 Iron and Wood-bound Cask, old Yards, Boats. 1847 Ld. G. Bentinck in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxv. 143 800 grain~laden ships..lying wind-bound..in the gat of Gibraltar. 1873 Kingsbury in Speaker's Comm., Song. Sol. vi. 12 The soul..is here the love-bound heart. 1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 6 His little parchment-bound diary of expenses. a1887 Bookseller's Catal. The plates whole bound in russia, extra, gilt edges, the text half bound russia neat. < adj.1588 as lemmas |
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