| 单词 |
plumbeous |
| 释义 |
plumbeous, a.|ˈplʌmbiːəs|
[f. L. plumbe-us leaden (f. plumb-um lead) + -ous.]
1. Made of or resembling lead, leaden; lead-coloured. Chiefly in Zool.
1623Cockeram, Plumbeous, full of lead, heauie. 1658Phillips, Plumbeous, leaden, of the colour of lead; also blunt, or dull. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 284. 1867 A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 115 Another and smaller species, the plumbeous or sooty redstart. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 321 Feathers..plumbeous at base and brown at tip.
b. Ceramics. Lead-glazed.
1875Fortnum Maiolica i. 4 Glazed and enamelled wares..plumbeous or lead glazed. 1879J. J. Young Ceram. Art 63 Silicious, or glass-glazed, and plumbeous, or lead-glazed, both of which are transparent.
†2. fig. Heavy, dull, ponderous, leaden. Obs.
1578Sidney Wanstead Play in Arcadia, etc. (1629) 622 Attend and throw your eares to mee..till I haue endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 30 The motion of Saturn,..plumbeous, long, and heavy. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. ix. 284 Whether he be such a Plumbeous Blew-nosed Planet as Antiquity marks him. |
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