单词 | woodside |
释义 | woodsiden. The side or edge of a wood. Chiefly in phrases with preposition, as by or under the or a woodside = beside a wood; cf. bedside n., roadside n. and adj., wayside n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > border or edge of eaves898 outwood1297 woodsidea1300 a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1024 His folk he dude abide Vnder wude side. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5734 Bi a wildrin wod side. c1400 Parce Michi 181 in 26 Pol. Poems 148 By dale, by doune, by wodes syde. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 110 So that ye wylle goo thys tyde Dowen to the chapylle under the wood syde. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 139 Thai that in the wodsyde [1489 Adv. woddis sid] weir. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) vii. 18 They came to a lytyll woodsyde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 290/1 Woodessyde, oriere du boys. 1658 O. Cromwell Speech 4 Feb. in Writings & Speeches (1947) (modernized text) IV. 729 I would have been glad..to have been living under a wood-side, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken such a place as this. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccxlviii. 63 Thus, to some desart plain, or old wood side, Dire night has come. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 11 A buck, or male hare, is known by its..feeding farther from the wood-sides. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) ii. 47 You see a little withered old man by a wood-side opening a wicket. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 253 The woodside on the south is very swampy. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xv. 268 It will be as well for some of us to remain here; and, spreading our men along the wood-side, prevent the escape of the villains. 1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 425 The snow may be gone..except..along fences and woodsides. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1300 |
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