| 单词 |
hish |
| 释义 |
▪ I. hish, v.1 dial.|hɪʃ|
[Echoic: cf. hiss. With sense 2 cf. also MDu. hissen, hisscen, in Kilian also hisschen, to hound on a dog, to instigate, MLG. hissen, hitsen, Du. hitsen.]
1. intr. A by-form of hiss.
1388Wyclif 2 Chron xxix. 8 [The Lord] gaf hem in to stiryng, and in to perischyng, and in to hisshing [1382 whistlyng, Vulg. in sibilum]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (1495) 458 The grekes tell that this fisshe..conceyuyth of the serpent, and therfore fisshars calle it wyth hysshynge and whystlyng. 1530Tindale Num. Prol. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 432 So manifestly proved that they cannot once hish against it.
2. To make a hissing noise to hound on a dog.
1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. v. ii, I might hish at him by th'hour together, before he'd fly at a real gentlewoman like you.
▪ II. hish, n.
[Echoic.]
The rushing or whishing noise made by a scythe cutting grass, etc.
1893M. Gray Last Sentence III. iii. xviii. 251 The hish of falling swathes. Ibid. 252 ‘Hish, hish!’ went the scythes.
Hence hish v.2 intr., to make this sound.
1893M. Gray Last Sentence III. iii. xiv. 188 The gardener's scythe hishing through the grass. |
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