| 单词 |
dryth |
| 释义 |
dryth Now only south. dial.|draɪθ|
Also 6–7 drythe, drith(e, drieth, dryeth.
[f. dry a. + -th1, after warmth, etc.]
Dryness, dry condition.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Ll v, By heate of the sonne and drythe of the powdre. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xi. 20 By reason of the drieth of his bodye. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. viii. 15 Moysture and dryeth, heat and cold. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Physic 10 Agreeing with heat and drith. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ii. 3 Dryth and Moisture. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 175 Dry'th. 1889Temple Bar Feb. 178 (dial.) ‘What the old man do want is nourishing food and dryth.’
b. Dry weather, drought.
1571Fortescue Forest 106 b, Bee you well assured of greate drieth. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 53 But now for drieth the fields were all undone. 1875Sussex Gloss. s.v., Drythe never yet bred dearth. 1893Q. [Couch] Delectable Duchy 294 The end of a week's dryth.
†c. Thirst. Obs.
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 137 The dropsy dryeth, that Tantale in the flood Endureth aye. 1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 86 His dryth and thirst he slakes.
d. Drying.
1881Young Every man his own Mechanic §1588 To harden it and promote quick dryth. |
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