| 单词 | hare's-foot trefoil |
| 释义 | hare /hār/nounA 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
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
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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