| 单词 |
belling |
| 释义 |
▪ I. belling, vbl. n.1|ˈbɛlɪŋ|
[f. bell v.4 + -ing1.]
†1. The roaring of animals; bellowing. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 30 Bellynge, of [? or] rorynge of bestys (v.r. bellinge of nete), mugitus.
2. spec. The cry of deer in the rutting season; hence ellipt. the season itself. Occas. attrib.
1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 68 The meik hartis in belling oft ar found Mak feirs bargane. c1560A. Scott Adv. Wanton Wowaris, As bukkis in belling tyme. 1858Lytton What will he do? v. iv (D.) A melancholy belling note like the belling itself of a melancholy hart.
†3. Crying, roaring of human beings. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 68 With mournful belling I namde expreslye Creüsa.
▪ II. belling, vbl. n.
in sense of bell v.1, v.2, v.3, v.5: see these.
▪ III. belling, ppl. a.|ˈbɛlɪŋ|
[f. bell v.4 + -ing2.]
†1. gen. Roaring, bellowing. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 92 Loud the lowbye brayed with belling monsterus eccho. Ibid. iv. 120 With belling skrichcrye she roareth.
2. spec. Uttering the cry of deer in rutting-time.
1650Fuller Pisgah iii. ix. 338 Here..the belling Roes [are said] to bed. |
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