| 单词 | sedgy |
| 释义 | sedgy, a.|ˈsɛdʒɪ|
Also α. 4, 6 seggy, 6 siedgie; β. 9 (dial.) seggy.
[f. sedge n.1 + -y.]
1. Covered or bordered with sedge or sedges.
[c1318in Wallace James Deeds East Lothian (1899) 10 Duas acras ad Seggy-wellis heved.] 1566Act 8 Eliz. c. 8 §1 The Maryshes and Seggie Fenne Groundes wthin the sayd Isle [of Ely]. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 98 On the gentle Seuernes siedgie banke. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccxxxii, Deep in his Ooze he sought his sedgy Bed. 1764Oxf. Sausage 100 Charwell, thy sedgy Banks, and glist'ring Streams All laugh and sing at mild Approach of Morn. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxxi, The bittern..Booming from the sedgy shallow. 1881Harper's Mag. Sept. 521 The sedgy end Of yonder well-known bight.
b. transf. and fig.
1659C. Noble Moderate Answ. to Immod. Queries To Rdr. 1 Can these rushy and sedgy expressions that are set down in this Paper grow any where, but from marish, myrie grounds and principles? 1862Burton Bk. Hunter 103 Those terrible folios of the scholastic divines,..their majestic stream of central print overflowing into rivulets of marginal notes sedgy with citations.
2. Having the nature or properties of sedge.
1625Heylin Cosmogr. (ed. 2) 747 On the bankes of this riuer [Nilus] also grew those sedgie weedes called Papyri. 1662Bargrave Alex. VII (1867) 124 It was covered, he said, with long sedgy grass growing about it, under the dripp of an higher rock. 1808–13A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. (1831) III. 185 Its flesh, though esteemed by many, tastes some⁓what sedgy, or fishy. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 284 The herbaceous sedgy habit of the latter [the Bulrush tribe]. 1878Buller New Zealand i. Introd. 17 A small spider, which is confined to a sedgy grass on the sea-coast.
†3. Made of or thatched with sedge. Obs.
1624Tragedy of Nero iv. i. (1633) F 3, [Thou] dost rather choose, The smoaky reedes and sedgy cottages, Then the proud roofes..of Kings. a1835Mrs. Hemans Angler 22 'Tis not the bittern, by the wave Seeking her sedgy nest. |
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