| 释义 |
† ˈevese, v. Obs.
[OE. efesian, efsian, f. efes, eaves; the original sense must app. have been ‘to cut the thatch at the eaves of a building’ (cf. eaves-knife); but all the known OE. examples have the wider sense ‘to clip’.]
trans. To cut, clip (a person's hair, the coat of an animal, a tree, etc.); to cut short the hair of (a person).
c1000ælfric Gram. xxvi. (Z.) 157 Ic efesiᵹe oð ðe ic scere scep oððe hors. a1225Ancr. R. 398 Absalones schene wlite, þet ase ofte ase me euesede him me solde his euesunge—þeo her þe me kerf of—uor two hundred sicles of seolure. c1300Marina 64 in Horstmann Leg. i. 172 A robe he dude hire apon, Ant euesede hire ase a mon. c1325Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 144 Monn top vus pri estancez [Gloss., evese my cop]. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 184 Watz euesed al vmbe-torne, a-bof his elbowes. c1394P. Pl. Crede 166 Orcheȝardes and erberes euesed well clene. |
