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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /lɒkən/, /lɒkn̩/

動詞

locken (Scotland and Northern England, otherwise obsolete)

1. past participle of lock.

形容詞

locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken) (Scotland and Northern England, otherwise obsolete)

1. Locked.
2. Webbed (of hands or toes).

   locken fingers

3. Stingy, tight-fisted.

   The locken hands do not give much.

4. Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.

   She stood there stock-still, her brows locken.

   • 1852, Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours:

     A leering eye and locken brows, / And large Mongolian mouth and nose.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “locken”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

アナグラム

• enlock, Conkel, Conkle