| 单词 | quailing |
| 释义 | ▪ I. quailing, vbl. n.1|ˈkweɪlɪŋ|
[f. quail v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of giving way, failing, losing heart, etc.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Tim. Ded. 1 Seyng Paule was so afrayed of their quayling, whome he had instructed. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 39 There is no quailing now, Because the King is certainely possest Of all our purposes. 1627G. Hakewill Power & Prov. God ii. i. §1. 65 The quailing and withering of all things by the recesse of the Sunne. 1642Rogers Naaman 557 So farre from quailing of judgement. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew Quailing of the Stomack, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) 245, I bore with her feeble minded quailings.
▪ II. † ˈquailing, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. quail v.2]
Curdling, coagulation.
c1440Promp. Parv. 418/2 Quaylynge, of lycoure, coagulacio. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xlix. 310 To stay the quailing of the milke in their stomacks.
▪ III. quailing, ppl. a.|ˈkweɪlɪŋ|
[f. quail v.1 + -ing2.]
Diminishing, becoming weak; losing hope or courage, etc.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 215 To quicken up the quailing love. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xxi[i]. (1612) 105 Did quicken Englands quailing plowes. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. (1881) 158 Her father's unwonted harshness suggested the question to her quailing nature. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 34 Shrinking, quailing, agonised victims. |
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