withershins 的定义
Chiefly Scot.
- in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
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- Having arrived at their rendezvous, they danced round it ‘withershins’—that is, in reverse of the apparent motion of the sun.
- It is a rough insulated mass, of considerable dimensions, and it is held unlucky to ride thrice withershins around it.
- But this is telling our tale "withershins about," as they say in Netherby.
- Mr. German Doustercivil, the agent at Glen-Withershins mining-works.
- To go round the person in the opposite direction, or “withershins,” is an evil incantation and brings ill-fortune.