| 单词 |
swift-foot |
| 释义 |
ˈswift-foot, a. and n. A. adj. = swift-footed.
1594Kyd Cornelia iii. ii. 4 The Scithian swift-foote feareles Porters. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iii. Colonies 792 The swift-foot Tiger or fierce Lionesse. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiv. 151 Go, swift foot Iris. 1635Quarles Embl. iv. iii. 25 The streames of swift-foot Rhene. 1875Morris æneid iv. 180 Swift are her wings to cleave the air, swift⁓foot she treads the earth. B. n. A swift-footed person or animal, a fast runner; spec. = courser3.
1825Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornith. I. 334 Cream-coloured Swiftfoot. Cursorius Isabellinus. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air i. §20 The two Harpies, ‘Stormswift’ and ‘Swiftfoot’, are the sisters of the rainbow. 1887Morris Odyss. xii. 539 The spirit of the Swiftfoot, the glorious æacus' seed. |

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