- 03.004 in his favourite sitting-room
Hyphenated just so.
“ˈsitting-room, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/180515. Accessed 21 September 2017.
hyphen
Silver-steel
- 13.037 It was of silver-steel,
…which the Elves call mithril.
I am fascinated to learn that silver steel has its own, albeit unhyphenated, sub-entry.
silver steel n. a fine steel containing a small amount of silver.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 248 Silver steel, having the advantage of euphony.., becomes a popular denomination in the market.
“silver, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179788. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Silver-hafted
This sounds too soft to me. Perhaps the haft is inlaid with silver? Or perhaps it is silver-steel, known also as mithril.
- 13.035 with a silver-hafted axe
“Silver-hilted” in an OED word, but silver-hafted is not.
Silver-grey
My favourite colour.
- 07.116 green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white;
Hyphenated just so.
“silver-grey, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179806. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Side-passage
- 05.120 side-passages opened,
Thought this concept has an OED sub-entry, it is always two words, never hyphenated in OED.
“side, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179258. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Side-door
- 01.117 especially when I remembered the existence of a Side-door.
- 01.125 I see now they must have had a private Side-door
- 01.140 After all there is the Side-door,
This word can be seen as hyphenated in its examples in OED.
“side door, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179279. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Shut-in
- 11.023 They seemed to love the little shut-in bay
Hyphenated in OED.
“ˈshut-in, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179057. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Seed-cake
- 01.035 seed-cake, if you have any.’
- 01.036 to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes
- 01.047 the seed-cakes were gone,
Pleas enjoy this sixteenth-century seed cake recipe! Apparently any flavorful seed, such as caraway, anise, or cardamom is called for.
Hyphenated just so.
“ˈseed-cake, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/174759. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Sea-sighing
This work evokes John Masefield’s Sea Fever for me, or perhaps Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, which I know set to a beautiful tune.
- 06.045 There was no wind that evening to bring even a sea-sighing
This word is not found in OED.
Sea-elves
- 08.131 There the Light-elves and the Deep-elves and the Sea-elves went
This word is not found in any form in OED.
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