单词 | cindery |
释义 | ▪ I. cindery, a.|ˈsɪndərɪ| [f. cinder n. + -y1.] 1. Of the nature or consistency of a cinder; abounding in cinders.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 12 The roofe..with cindrie mosse was almost over-growne. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 97 A sear'd and cindery spot. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 104 Lead..in the form of a black cindery precipitate. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 187 Light cindery volcanic matter. b. fig. Where the fire has burnt out.
1878Symonds Sonn. M. Angelo xlvi, Within an old man's cindery breast. 2. Begrimed with cinders.
1848Dickens Dombey 379 Mr. Toodle, cindery and swart, was refreshing himself with tea. ▪ II. cindery, n. nonce-wd.|ˈsɪndərɪ| A repository of cinders, a cinder-heap.
1863Sala Capt. Dangerous I. viii. 220, I remained under charge of Ciceley of the Cindery. |

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