| 单词 |
chiselled |
| 释义 |
chiselled, -eled, ppl. a.|ˈtʃɪzəld|
[f. chisel v.1 (or n.1) + -ed.]
1. Cut, shaped or wrought with a chisel.
1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 336 An exquisitely chiselled gem. 1885Athenæum 9 May 606/3 To lay the bones in a chiselled space in the centre.
2. fig. Having clear and sharp outlines, as if cut with a chisel.
1821Byron Mar. Fal. ii. i. 389 An incarnation of the poet's god In all his marble-chisell'd beauty. 1825Lytton Falkland 30 The broad and noble brow, and..the chiselled lip. 1830Tennyson Character v, With chisell'd features clear and sleek. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §5. 39.
b. fig. Of thought or its expression.
a1862Buckle Civilis. (1869) III. v. 331 That beautiful and chiselled style in which he habitually wrote. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. ii. (1873) 11 A more distinct and more highly chiselled notion. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. ii. xiii. 222 A chiselled emphasis.
3. Shaped or edged like a chisel.
a1737M. Green Sparrow & Diam. iii. in Dodsley I. 147 With chizzled bill a spark ill set He loosen'd from the rest. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxx, A crowbar with chiseled edge. |
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