uncowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

uncowl (三人称単数 現在形 uncowls, 現在分詞 uncowling, 過去形および過去分詞形 uncowled)

1. (transitive) To divest or deprive of a cowl (monk's hood または hooded robe).
   • 1728 Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Dublin and London: A. Dodd, Book 3, p. 41,^[1]

     See’st thou an Isle, by Palmers, Pilgrims trod,

     Men bearded, bald, cowl’d, uncowl’d, shod, unshod,

   • 1849, L. Mariotti, Italy, Past and Present, London: Chapman, Volume 2, Chapter 11, pp. 389-399,^[2]

     Can the pope, to say nothing of himself and his cardinals, do away with his four archbishops and ninety-eight bishops? Will he reduce the prodigious number of his priests, who muster as strong as one twenty-eighth of the population? Will he uncowl his monks, two thousand and twenty-three of whom swarm about the streets of Rome alone?

2. (transitive, figuratively, archaic) To uncover; to unveil.
   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Osorio, London: John Pearson, 1873, Act I, p. 24,^[3]

     I pray you, think us friends—uncowl your face,

     For you seem faint, and the night-breeze blows healing.

   • 1850, John Savage “Love in the Golden Vale” in Lays of the Fatherland, New York: J.S. Redfield, p. 91,^[4]

     While we uncowl our souls,

     Bare to the God who rolls

     Earth on its icy poles,

     Clasp me in pray’r.

3. (instransitive) To remove or pull back one's cowl.
   • 1859, Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, The Chronicles of the Bastile, New York: Stanford & Delisser, Chapter 1, p. 26,^[5]

     “Monseigneur, it is not often your capuchin uncowls; least of all when he wishes to remain unknown! […] ”

   • 1905, Charles Whistler, A King’s Comrade, Chapter 16,^[6]

     And thence, after a word or two had passed, came the priest I had seen; and when he uncowled I knew him for my friend Selred, and glad I was to see him.

   • 1972, John Barth, Chimera, New York: Fawcett Crest, “Perseid,” p. 103,^[7]

     She wouldn’t uncowl, for modesty she said, but let me ground her and lift dun shift to white shoulders.

4. (transitive) To remove the cowl (protective covering) from (an engine).
   • 1980, George C. Larson, Fly on Instruments, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 3, p. 29,^[8]

     […] uncowling the airplane before each flight is neither practical nor expected. In fact, uncowling such an airplane repeatedly may wear the latching or fastening devices.

   • 1994, Geza Szurovy and Mike Goulian, Basic Aerobatics, Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, Chapter 20, p. 217,^[9]

     Uncowl the engine, check for evidence of any leaks.