lissenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• lissom
• lisne

名詞

lissen (plural lissens).

1. (dialect) A cleft or hollow in rock.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     And I remember in my youth, in the Lisne of a Rock at Kingſcote in Gloceſtershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles actually distinct one from another, each near as big as my Fist.

   • 1677, Robert Plot, The natural history of Oxford-shire:

     Beside these, we have another fine Earth, of a white co­lour, porous and friable, insipid and without scent, dissoluble in water; and tinging it, of a milky colour, and somtimes raising a kind of ebullition in it; found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks, or sticking to the hollow roofs of them: in short, so altogether agreeable to what Conradus Gesner calls Lac Lunae, that I could not but think it the very same.

語源 2

A respelling of listen.

動詞

lissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)

1. Eye dialect spelling of listen.
   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

     Lissen, mate... You'll run into all sorts o' trouble if you don't keep your eyes peeled.

アナグラム

• Senlis, elsins, lisnes, Slesin, Linses