| 单词 | St Vitus's dance |
| 释义 | saint /sānt, when prefixed to a name sint, snt/adjective (or noun in apposition)Holy noun
ORIGIN: Fr, from L sanctus holy saintˈdom noun saintˈed adjective
saintˈess noun (obsolete) saintˈhood noun saintˈish adjective saintˈism noun
saintˈlike adjective saintˈliness noun saintˈling noun saintˈly adjective Of, like, characteristic of, or befitting a saint saintˈship noun saint's day noun A day set apart for the commemoration of a particular saint St Agnes's Eve noun 20 January, when, according to tradition, having performed certain rites, one may dream of the person that will be one's husband or wife St Agnes's flower noun The snowflake (qv under snow1) St Andrew's cross noun
St Andrew's Day noun 30 November St Anthony's cross noun The tau cross, a cross shaped like the Greek letter T St Anthony's fire noun
St Barbara's cress noun Yellow rocket St Barnaby's thistle noun A knapweed flowering about the saint's day (11 June) St Bernard's dog or St Bernard noun A breed of very large dog, named after the hospice of the Great St Bernard on the Swiss–Italian border, used, esp formerly, to rescue travellers lost in the snow St Crispin's Day noun A shoemakers' festival, 25 October St Cuthbert's beads, St Cuthbert's duck see under Cuthbert St Dabeoc's heath noun A rare Irish shrub (genus Daboecia) St David's Day noun 1 March St Elmo's fire noun An electrical charge forming a glow around a church spire, ship's mast, etc, a corposant St George's cross noun A red upright cross on a white background St George's Day noun 23 April St Hubert's disease noun Another name for hydrophobia St Ignatius's bean noun The poisonous seed of a plant (Strychnos ignatii) related to nux vomica St James's noun The British royal court St John's bread noun Another name for the carob bean St John's Day noun 27 December St Johnston's ribbon or St Johnston's tippet noun The hangman's rope (St Johnston or St John's toun being Perth, associated in the 18c with hangings) St John's wort noun Any of the plants of the Hypericum genus St Julien noun An esteemed red Bordeaux wine from the Médoc region St Leger noun A horse race run annually at Doncaster, so called since 1778 from Colonel St Leger St Luke's summer noun A spell of pleasant weather about the middle of October St Martin's evil noun Drunkenness St Martin's summer noun A spell of mild, damp weather in late autumn St Nicholas's clerks plural noun Thieves St Patrick's Day noun 17 March St Peter's fish noun A name applied to several fish, eg the dory and the tilapia St Peter's wort noun
St Stephen's noun The Houses of Parliament St Stephen's Day noun 26 December St Swithin's Day noun 15 July St Tibb's Eve, St Tib's Eve, Tib's Eve or Tibb's Eve noun Never St Trinian adjective
noun A pupil of St Trinian's St Trinian's noun A fictitious girls' school created by the English cartoonist Ronald Searle (1920-2011) and popularized in humorous films St Valentine's Day noun 14 February (see also under valentine) St Vitus's dance noun A non-technical name for Sydenham's chorea |
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