单词 | world egg |
释义 | > as lemmasworld egg world egg n. [perhaps after German Weltei (1803 or earlier)] ΚΠ 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 108 The azure serpent..that sloughs its years And lays its world-eggs in thy brightness. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. iii. 99 The primeval world-egg of Egyptian philosophy, out of which all things have been generated. c1967 J. Tate Sel. Poems (1991) 192 Winding boy and the remaining daughters exchanged niceties and the World-Egg and dentistry. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 85/2 The Hindu world-egg was known as Hiranya-garbha and, when it hatched, Brahma, the sun-god, came forth. < as lemmas |
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