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单词 hare's-foot trefoil
释义

hare /hār/

noun

A common very timid and very swift mammal of the order Rodentia or in some classifications the order Lagomorpha (esp of the genus Lepus), in appearance like, but larger than, a rabbit

intransitive verb (slang)

To run like a hare, hasten (with along, etc)

ORIGIN: OE hara; Du haas, Dan hare, Ger Hase

harˈish adjective

Somewhat like a hare

hare and hounds noun

A paper chase

hareˈbell or hairˈbell noun

A slender-stemmed plant with a hanging blue bell-shaped flower, the Scottish bluebell (Campanula rotundifolia)

hareˈ-brained, sometimes hairˈ-brained adjective

  1. Giddy, silly, stupid
  2. Heedless
  3. Headlong

hareˈ-foot adjective

Swift of foot

hareˈ-lip noun

A cleft upper lip like that of a hare

hareˈ-lipped adjective

hare'sˈ-ear noun

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum, various species) with yellow flowers

hare'sˈ-foot or hare's-foot trefoil noun

A variety of clover with long soft fluffy heads

hare'sˈ-tail noun

A grass with silky flower-heads

hare-stane see hoar-stone under hoar

first catch your hare

Make sure you have a thing first before you think what to do with it (from a direction in Mrs Glasse's cookery-book, where catch was a misprint for case meaning to skin)

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (qv below)

raise or start a hare

To introduce an irrelevant topic, line of inquiry, etc

run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

To play a double game, to be on both sides at once

trefoil /trēˈfoil, trefˈoil/

noun
  1. A three-lobed form, ornament or aperture, as in tracery or heraldry
  2. A leaf of three leaflets
  3. A trifoliate plant, esp of the clover genus (Trifolium)
ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr trifoil, from L trifolium, from trēs three, and folium a leaf

treˈfoiled adjective

bird's-foot trefoil see under bird

hare's-foot trefoil see under hare.

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