| 单词 |
excorticate |
| 释义 |
excorticate, v.|ɛksˈkɔːtɪkeɪt|
[f. L. ex- out + cortic- stem of cortex bark, shell + -ate3.]
trans. To pull or strip off the bark from (a tree), or the shell from (a nut, seed). Also fig.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 63 The seeds..are excorticated by a knife. 1664Evelyn Sylva 69 Moss is to be rubb'd and scrap'd off with some fit instrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury v. (1886) 16 Looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.
b. fig.
1600O. E. Repl. to Libel iii. vi. 31 To make his eloquence seeme more admirable, he doth excorticate certaine Latin words according to his Romish fashion.
Hence exˈcorticated ppl. a.
1657Phys. Dict., Excorticated, fleyed or pieled. 1693Sir E. King in Phil. Trans. XVII. 863 (Whole Oatmeal, or) an Excorticated Oat. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Diahexapte, Take Juniper-Berries unexcorticated, and Bay Berries excorticated. |
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