单词 | yellow starch |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow starch b. English regional (southern). A jellyfish. Also with distinguishing word, as sea starch, yellow starch, etc. Cf. starch-fish n. at Compounds 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) nettle1601 sea-nettle1601 blubber1602 nettlefish1611 red nettle1611 squalder1659 sea-jellya1682 urticaa1682 carvel1688 sea-qualm1694 sea-bleb1700 acaleph1706 sea-blubber1717 Medusa1752 quarla1820 acalephan1834 medusite1838 jellyfish1841 naked-eyed medusa1848 slobber1849 sea-cross1850 sea-danger1850 sun squall1853 discophore1856 medusoid1856 starch1860 Discophoran1876 jelly1882 sea-blub1885 1860 F. T. Buckland Curiosities Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. 201 The Folkestone name for them [sc. jellyfish] is ‘slutters’; at Dover they call them ‘water-galls’, and ‘miller's eyes’, and ‘sea starch’; at Portsmouth they are called ‘blubbers’; elsewhere ‘slobs’ and ‘slobbers’. 1875 Once a Week 9 Oct. p. xii/1 The animal..seemed to have been one of those sometimes called ‘yellow-starches’, and, by the Kentish fishermen, ‘sluthers’. 1875 Star (Guernsey) Webb called out that he had been stung on the shoulder by one of the yellow jelly fish, or ‘water-starches’, as they are called. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Sea starch, jelly-fish. Dover. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 71 Wanted, British and foreign sponges... Also starches (genuine), large spines of echinodermata. yellow starch yellow starch n. now chiefly historical starch coloured with saffron or other yellow dye, esp. as widely used to starch collars and ruffs in the early 17th cent. (see sense A. 1e); cf. slightly earlier yellow-starched adj. at Compounds 1a(b). ΚΠ 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. 147 I pray God that our sinnes turne not our yealow starch into red. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbb4/2 Has he familiarly Dislik'd your yellow Starch, or said your Dublet Was not exactly frenchifi'd? 1796 J. P. Andrews Hist. Great Brit. II. viii. vii. 304 The ruff became large..; it was sometimes double, sometimes wired, and sometimes stiffened with yellow starch. 1888 Manch. Weekly Times 14 Apr. 4/6 Dip them [sc. curtains]..into a weak solution of coffee, trying it first on a small piece..and afterwards starching with yellow starch sold for the purpose. 1940 J. A. Radley Starch & Derivatives i. 4 Yellow starch was for some time most fashionable, its use, however, fell into disrepute when Mrs. Turner, the poisoner, was publicly executed, and ascended the scaffold wearing a yellow-starched ruffle. 2000 A. R. Jones & P. Stallybrass in L. C. Orlin Material London vii. 143 Throughout the 1610s and the 1620s, mantles in the Irish style and yellow starch alike became high fashion in London. < as lemmas |
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