单词 | by-blow |
释义 | by-blown. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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