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单词 by-blow
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by-blown.

Brit. /ˈbʌɪbləʊ/, U.S. /ˈbaɪˌbloʊ/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s bye-.
Etymology: < by- comb. form 2b(b), 2b(c), 2c(b)
1. A side-blow or side-stroke: literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > stroke in or from specific direction
racec1400
by-blow1594
backblow1642
outstroke1688
up-stroke1828
understroke1837
in-stroke1887
1594 R. Barnfield Helen's Rape in Affect. Shepheard sig. Giiijv In such a Ladie's lappe, at such a slipperie by-blow [cf. sense 3].
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. B4v How finely like a fencer my father fetches his by-blowes to hit me.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 1 Now and then a by-blow from the Pulpit.
1808 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 52 Juvenal deals his by-blows to less prominent..characters.
2. figurative. A calamity or disaster not in the main course. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden > not in the main course
by-blow1600
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. xxii. 564 So long as the Consuls, in whom rested the maine chaunce..sped well, they were the lesse troubled at these by-blowes.
1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 121 Inequality and private interest in things..were the by-blows of our fall.
3. One who comes into the world by a side stroke; an illegitimate child, a bastard. Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child
avetrolc1300
bastardc1330
misbegetc1330
whoresonc1330
horcop14..
get?a1513
misbegotten1546
misbegot1558
mamzer1562
base1571
bantling1593
by-blow1595
by-chopa1637
by-scape1646
by-slipa1670
illegitimate1673
stall-whimper1676
love brata1700
slink1702
child, son of shame1723
babe of love1728
adulterine1730
come-by-chance?1750
byspel1781
love-child1805
come-o'-will1815
chance-child1838
chance-bairn1863
side-slip1872
fly-blow1875
catch colt1901
illegit1913
outside child1930
1595 Eng. Tripe-wife (1881) 152 Not your wifes daughter, but a by-blowe..of your predecessours.
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 499 Ptolemei Apion, a By-blow by a Harlot.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 8 Had not his brain been delivered of this By-blow.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais iv. lxii Kind Venus cur'd her beloved By-blow Æneas.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. iv. 173 I thought he was a Gentleman's Son, thof he was a Bye Blow . View more context for this quotation
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 27 A drab's brat, A beggar's bye-blow.
4. A blow that goes by, or misses its aim. Obsolete.
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1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 77 He would have made a good butcher, but for the by-blow.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 103 Now also with their by-blows, they did split the very Stones in pieces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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