cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: hēp
ipa: /hiːp/
enpr: hāp
ipa: /heːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).
Senses: examples: text: Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway.
ref: 1895, Annie Maria Barnes, Matouchon: A Story of Indian Child Life, page 175:
text: We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
ref: 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English, page 417:
text: Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
ref: 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes, page 175:
glosses: very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
hearse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrs
ipa: /hɜːs/
ipa: /hɝs/
homophone: herse
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: hearses
form: herse
Etymology: From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce, from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin herpicem, hirpex; ultimately from Oscan 𐌇𐌉𐌓𐌐𐌖𐌔 (hirpus, “wolf”), a reference to the teeth, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute. Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”).
Senses: glosses: A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
examples: text: underneath this sable hearse
ref: 1621, Ben Jonson, Epitath to Mary Herbert:
text: Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows,
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
text: who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
ref: 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To the Avon:
glosses: A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
examples: text: Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
glosses: A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
Derived terms: enhearse
hearsecloth
hearseless
hearselike
hearse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrs
ipa: /hɜːs/
ipa: /hɝs/
homophone: herse
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: hearses
form: hearsing
form: hearsed
form: hearsed
form: herse
Etymology: From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce, from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin herpicem, hirpex; ultimately from Oscan 𐌇𐌉𐌓𐌐𐌖𐌔 (hirpus, “wolf”), a reference to the teeth, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute. Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”).
Senses: examples: text: I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
hearse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hûrs
ipa: /hɜːs/
ipa: /hɝs/
homophone: herse
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: hearses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
hector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛktə/
ipa: /ˈhɛktɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hectors
Etymology: From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ (Héktōr), from ἕκτωρ (héktōr, “holding fast”), from ἔχειν (ékhein), present active infinitive of ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Luc[ia]. VVhat would you do you dowty Hectors? / Kick. Hectors! upon my honour, if we can find them out, we'll beat your Gallants for this. / […] Luc. Advant, you Hectors, we are not fit for you: […]
ref: 1672, Tho[mas] Shadwell, Epsom-Wells. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke’s Theatre, London: Printed for R. VVellington […], published 1704, →OCLC, act I, scene i, page 8:
glosses: Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
hedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕj
ipa: /hɛd͡ʒ/
ipa: /hed͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: hedges
form: hedging
form: hedged
form: hedged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: to hedge a field or garden
glosses: To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
examples: text: Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hosea 2:6:
text: Lollius Urbius […] drew another wall […] to hedge out incursions from the north.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: To obstruct or surround.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To offset the risk associated with.
examples: text: He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
synonyms: parry
shuffle
glosses: To avoid verbal commitment.
glosses: To construct or repair a hedge.
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: diversify
glosses: To reduce one's exposure to risk.
Derived terms: hedge about
hedge around
hedge in
hedge one's bets
hedger
hedgingly
rehedge
heed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːd/
homophone: he'd
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Senses: examples: text: Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Careful attention.
Synonyms: sense: careful attention
word: attention
word: notice
word: observation
word: regard
word: attention
Derived terms: give heed
heedful
heedless
heedworthy
heedy
misheed
pay heed
pay no heed
take heed
heed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːd/
homophone: he'd
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: heeds
form: heeding
form: heeded
form: heeded
Etymology: From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).
Senses: glosses: To guard, protect.
examples: text: With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
ref: 1567, Ovid, translated by John Dryden, Metamorphoses, Book 1:
text: "It comes back to me that I wanted to say something to the driver and that I couldn't make him heed me."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
text: Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
ref: 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2013:
text: Barker's proposal to try out new equipment before mass introduction should also have been heeded, because traction components bought without trialling for the Glasgow and Great Eastern schemes gave trouble.
ref: 2020 July 29, David Clough, “AC/DC: the big switch in power supply”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
glosses: To pay attention, care.
Derived terms: heeder
misheed
unheed
unheeded
unheeding
heighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/
ipa: [ˈhaɪ̯tn̩]
ipa: [ˈhaɪ̯ʔn̩]
rhymes: -aɪtən
homophone: Huyton
Forms: form: heightens
form: heightening
form: heightened
form: heightened
Etymology: From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, is being heightened by one metre in a £3.6 million project to reduce delays caused by flooding.
ref: 2021 June 2, “Network News: Cambrian Line bridge is raised”, in RAIL, number 932, page 23:
glosses: To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
examples: text: to heighten beauty
text: to heighten a flavor or a tint
text: to heighten awareness
text: to heighten tension
text: the excitement heightened
text: “That’s heightened by the impact of climate change,” she added.
text: If Mr Brown chooses, he could raise his estimate of the economy's "trend" rate of growth in the coming years and so heighten his hopes of tax revenues.
ref: 2006 December 6, Ashley Seager, “Employment rise gives chancellor a boost”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
Derived terms: heightener
heighten up
overheighten
reheighten
hemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hēʹmōglōʹbĭn
enpr: hēʹməglōʹbĭn
ipa: /ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/
ipa: /ˈhiməˌɡloʊbɪn/
ipa: /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈɡləʊbɪn/
rhymes: -əʊbɪn
Forms: form: hemoglobins
form: haemoglobin
form: hæmoglobin
form: hemoglobine
form: haemoglobine
form: hæmoglobine
form: hematinoglobulin
form: hematoglobulin
form: haematoglobulin
form: hematoglobuline
form: haematoglobuline
form: hematoglobin
form: haematoglobin
Etymology: Originally hematinoglobulin, from hematin (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -in) + -o- + globulin (from Latin globus (“ball, sphere”) + -in).
Senses: synonyms: Hb
Hgb
HGB
glosses: The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).
Derived terms: apohemoglobin
carbonylhemoglobin
carboxyhemoglobin
deoxyhemoglobin
ferrihemoglobin
flavohemoglobin
glycohemoglobin
hemoglobinase
hemoglobinization
hemoglobinize
hemoglobinometry
hemoglobinopathy
hemoglobinous
hemoglobinuria
hypohemoglobinemia
Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease
methemoglobin
myohemoglobin
nonhemoglobin
oxyhemoglobin
sulfhemoglobin
Related terms: globulin
haematin
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: hepatitis.
glosses: Abbreviation of high-energy physics.
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: heps
Etymology: Alteration of hip.
Senses: glosses: A hip of a rose; a rosehip.
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: more hep
form: most hep
Etymology: US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up.
Senses: examples: text: I was pleased, as I put him hep on the Wilbert-Phyllis situation and revealed the part he was expected to play in it, to note that he showed no signs of being about to issue the presidential veto.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:
glosses: Aware, up-to-date.
examples: text: And I was struck to notice that though the band was only Jumble imitation of our style, it was quite a hep combination, with some feel of the beat, not like those dreadful records of the English bands I'd heard back home which never can play slow, and never can play easy to the limbs.
ref: 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 59:
glosses: Cool, hip, sophisticated.
Derived terms: hepcat
hepness
hepster
hip
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: heps
form: hepping
form: hepped
form: hepped
Etymology: US slang of unknown or disputed origin, first recorded 1903. Robert Gold suggested that it is a variant of hip, from white jazz fans’ mishearing African American musicians. Jonathon Green suggests a connection to a 19th century interjection used to drive horses; compare gee up.
Senses: examples: text: I hepped him to the situation.
glosses: To make aware of.
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Senses: examples: text: Hep, two, three four! Hep, two, three four!
glosses: Alternative form of hup (“part of marching cadence”).
hep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Etymology: From German hep or Hepp-Hepp, an interjection used to attack Jewish people. The origin of the German source is unknown, but may come from a goatherd’s call.
Senses: examples: text: Let us hope that the modern “Hep-Hep” cry of Antisemitism of to-day will be accompanied by a similar level of Judaism.
ref: 1893, Emanuel Schreiber, Historians of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century, page 13:
glosses: A rallying cry in attacks on the Jewish people.
Related terms: hep-lock
heredity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/
ipa: /həˈɹɛdəti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈhɛrəɖɪʈi/
Forms: form: heredities
Etymology: From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).
Senses: examples: text: laws of heredity
text: genetics and heredity
text: influence of heredity
text: Eye color is often determined by heredity.
glosses: Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.
Related terms: hereditary
pangenesis
hermaphroditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hermaphrodite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes.
Synonyms: word: hermaphrodite
word: intersexual
word: ambisexual
Derived terms: euhermaphroditic
hermaphroditically
pseudohermaphroditic
Related terms: androgynous
heroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹəʊɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹoʊɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈhiɹoʊɪzəm/
Forms: form: heroisms
Etymology: From French héroïsme, equivalent to hero + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 1948, page 43:
synonyms: heroship
glosses: The qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage, bravery, fortitude, selflessness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
Synonyms: goodness
Derived terms: unheroism
Related terms: hero
heroic
heroics
heroine
heroship
hesitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛzɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hesitations
form: hæsitation
Etymology: From Latin haesitātiōnem, accusative singular of haesitātiō (“hesitating, stammering”), from haesitō (“hesitate”). Displaced native Old English ġewand.
Senses: glosses: An act of hesitating
examples: text: She carried out the order without hesitation.
glosses: Doubt; vacillation.
glosses: A faltering in speech; stammering.
Synonyms: sense: act of hesitating
word: cunctation
word: hesitance
word: hesitancy
word: hold-up
word: delay
sense: doubt, vacillation
word: irresolution
sense: doubt, vacillation
word: wavering
Derived terms: hesitational
hesitation mark
hesitation marker
hesitation wound
without hesitation hesitation form
Related terms: hesitate
hibernation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.bəːˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌhaɪ.bəːˈneɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌhaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hibernations
form: hybernation
Etymology: From Latin hibernātus, from hibernō, from hībernus (“winter”).
Senses: examples: text: The bears are in hibernation.
text: The bears come out of hibernation in March.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: word: aestivation
alt: summer inactivity
qualifier: sleep
glosses: A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
topics: aerospace
biology
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
qualifier: sleep
glosses: A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: suspension to disk
coordinate_terms: sleep mode
standby
suspension to memory
glosses: A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
Derived terms: hibernational
prehibernation
semihibernation
Related terms: hibernate
torpor
hie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: hi
homophone: Hi
homophone: high
Forms: form: hies
form: hying
form: hieing
form: hied
form: hied
form: heye
form: high
Etymology: From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”).
Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).
Senses: examples: text: But after her lover Amyntas hied.
ref: 1599, “Fair Phyllis”, John Farmer (music):
text: Hath pleased you, and eased you, and sweet slumber seized you. And now to bed I hie.
ref: 1605, “Rest Sweet Nymphs”, Francis Pilkington (music):
text: The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
ref: 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
examples: text: My husband hies him home.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:
glosses: To hurry (oneself).
antonyms: hup
glosses: To urge (a horse) to the left with a cry of "hie".
Derived terms: overhie
hie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: hi
homophone: Hi
homophone: high
Forms: form: heye
form: high
Etymology: From Middle English hien, hyen, highen, heiȝen, hiȝen, from Old English hīgian (“to hie, hasten, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hīgōn, from Proto-Germanic *hīgōną (“to breathe, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”).
Cognate with Dutch hijgen (“to pant”), German heichen (“to choke, gasp for breath”), Danish hige (“to aspire, long”), Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).
Senses: antonyms: hup
coordinate_terms: gee
haw
glosses: A call to turn a horse to the left.
hinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.dɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hindre
Etymology: comparative form of hind: more hind
Senses: examples: text: the hinder end of a wagon
text: the hinder parts of a horse
text: Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: On a line dividing the front two-thirds from the hinder one-third, and set in the shape of a V, is a row of seven to twelve large flat-topped circumvallate papillae, […]
ref: 1990, C. W. H. Havard, editor, Black's Medical Dictionary, 36th edition, page 673:
glosses: Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear or hind, or which follows.
hinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.dɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hindre
Etymology: comparative form of hind: more hind
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hind: more hind
Synonyms: sense: of or belonging to that part in the rear
word: back
sense: of or belonging to that part in the rear
word: hind
sense: of or belonging to that part in the rear
word: rear
sense: of or belonging to that part in the rear
word: posterior
Derived terms: hinderland
hinderling
hinderly
Hinder Sea
Related terms: hind
hindermost
hindmost
hinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈhaɪn.dɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhɪndə/
ipa: /ˈhɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hinders
form: hindre
Etymology: comparative form of hind: more hind
Senses: examples: text: Like martial arts, in-line skating is predicated on the notion that sooner or later you're going to end up on your hinder.
ref: 1997, Richard Laliberte, Stephen C. George, The Men's Health Guide to Peak Conditioning, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: The buttocks.
hircine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɝsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɝsɪn/
Forms: form: more hircine
form: most hircine
form: hirquine
Etymology: First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. Compare caprine, haedine.
Senses: examples: text: They are monſtrouſly fat, and have a moſt hircine ſmell.
ref: 1781, Thomas Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, volume 2, page 528:
text: 1838, Hypericaceæ, entry in The Penny Cyclopaedia, Volume 12, page 411,
Many are objects of ornament, but they are little cultivated because they have frequently a disagreeable hircine odour.
text: People always smiled a little when they looked at Skøieren, and it was surely true that this dog had a most whimsical appearance, practically lost as he was in the depths of his hircine coat of fur.
ref: 1992, Helge Ingstad, Land of Feast and Famine, page 291:
text: Linnæus formed seven classes of odours of medicines; namely, the aromatic, fragrant, ambrosiac, alliaceous, hircine, fetid, and nauseous.
ref: 1820, J. J. Virsey, The Natural History of Medicines, Aliments and Poisons, taken from the Kingdoms of Nature: The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 44, page 247:
qualifier: book word
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of goats.
glosses: Possessed of an odour reminiscent of goats.
glosses: Libidinous; lustful.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to goats
word: hircic
sense: pertaining to goats
word: hircose
sense: pertaining to goats
word: caprine
sense: pertaining to goats
word: goaten
sense: pertaining to goats
word: goatish
sense: pertaining to goats
word: goaty
sense: goat-scented
word: goaty
sense: goat-scented
alt: botany and zoölogy
word: hircinous
sense: goat-scented
word: hircose
sense: excessively desirous
word: lascivious
sense: excessively desirous
word: libidinous
sense: excessively desirous
word: lustful
sense: excessively desirous
word: lusty
Derived terms: hircinous
hircine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɝsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɝsɪn/
Forms: form: hirquine
Etymology: First attested in its present form in 1650–1660: From Middle English hircyne, from Latin hircīnus (“of a goat”, “goat-scented”); equivalent to hircus (“a male goat”) + -īnus (“-ine”). Cognate with French hircin. Compare caprine, haedine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fossil amorphous resin which, when burnt, gives off a pungent, hircinous aroma.
Synonyms: sense: hircinous resin
word: hircite
hive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: hives
Etymology: From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.
Senses: examples: text: First, for thy Bees a quiet Station find, / And lodge 'em under Covert of the Wind: / For Winds, when homeward they return, will drive / The loaded Carriers from their Ev'ning Hive.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, lines 10–13:
synonyms: beehive
glosses: A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
examples: text: When that the general is not like the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair, what honey is expected?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
examples: text: There the horde of Roman robbers mock at a barbarous adversary. / There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments.] Boädicea”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 170:
glosses: A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
examples: text: Windows builds the registry from the five registry hives[…]
ref: 2006, Jean Andrews, Fixing Windows XP, page 352:
text: For devices built with hive-based registry implementation, the registry data are broken into three different hives — the boot hive, system hive, and user hive.
ref: 2011, Samuel Phung, Professional Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A section of the registry.
Derived terms: beehive
hive bee
hive five
hiveful
hiveless
hivemate
hive mind
hivemind
hive-minded
hive nest
hive of activity
hive-off
hive of industry
hiver
hive tool
hive up
hiveward
hivewards
Hivite
inhive
Langstroth hive
mother hive
superhive
unhive
Related terms: apiary
hives
hive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: hives
form: hiving
form: hived
form: hived
Etymology: From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see https://web.archive.org/web/20150715222122/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx.
Senses: examples: text: to hive a swarm of bees
glosses: To collect (bees) into a hive.
examples: text: Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
glosses: To form a hive-like entity.
examples: text: The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount
[…] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
glosses: To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
Derived terms: hive off
hive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: hives
Senses: examples: text: […] if you are allergic to it, the skin produces a localized red, itchy reaction, a hive. The hive appears within minutes of the allergy skin test and lasts up to approximately 24 hours.
ref: 2003, Christopher H. Fanta, Lynda M. Cristiano, Kenan E. Haver, The Harvard Medical School Guide to Taking Control of Asthma: A Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment Plan for You and Your Family, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Most people will develop a small, itchy hive at the site of the sting that will subside in 30 to 60 minutes (sting may be accompanied by burning pain). Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings. Within 4 hours, a small blister will develop at the site.
ref: 2003, Dennis Krebs, Special Operations Mission Planning Field Guide, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Itchy, hive-like bumps turn into solid knotlike eruptions, which can last from a few days to several months.
ref: 2003 January 20, Editors of Parents Magazine, The Parents Answer Book: From Birth Through Age Three, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 567:
text: [She had an] itchy hive reaction on her chest—it always seemed to happen when she talked to her mother.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Tamie Dearen, Promise of Hope: Christian Christmas Romance, Tamie Dearen:
text: [...] a bite or a hive, he wasn't sure which, but it was bloody itchy. It was probably a hive. He was very stressed.
ref: 2018 January 11, Jo Spain, The Confession: A totally addictive psychological thriller with shocking twists and turns, Quercus, →ISBN:
text: A hard, burning button erupted on my forehead, an itchy hive. I wanted to scratch it, but refrained. It seemed to be traveling slowly from one side of my face to the other. I was sweating profusely.
ref: 2021, Alexander Lobrano, My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris, Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
hoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːt/
ipa: /hʉːt/
ipa: [hïɯt]
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: hoots
Etymology: From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”).
Senses: examples: text: My performance drew hoots of derision from the crowd.
glosses: A derisive cry or shout.
examples: text: I heard the hoot of an owl.
glosses: The cry of an owl.
examples: text: The party at the weekend was such a hoot! Thanks for the invite.
glosses: A fun event or person.
examples: text: We don't care a hoot about what you think.
text: Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.
ref: 1878, John Hanson Beadle, Western Wilds, and the Men who Redeem Them, Jones Brothers, →OCLC, page 611:
synonyms: word: hooter
glosses: A small particle; a whit or jot.
Derived terms: hoot owl
hooty
hoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːt/
ipa: /hʉːt/
ipa: [hïɯt]
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: hoots
form: hooting
form: hooted
form: hooted
Etymology: From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”).
Senses: examples: text: Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more,
ref: 1711, John Dryden, “Satire IX”, in Dryden’s Juvenal:
glosses: To cry out or shout in contempt.
examples: text: The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders / At our quaint spirits.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Outside an owl was hooting most dismally in the darkness. The villa was on a by-road, and there was no human sound to link them up with life.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: To make a hoo, the cry of an owl.
examples: text: Mary felt extremely offended when the workers hooted at her.
text: And I will be content, that Partridge, and the rest of his Clan, may hoot me for a Cheat and Impostor, if I fail in any single Particular of Moment.
ref: 1708, Isaac Bickerstaff [Jonathan Swift], Predictions for the Year 1708:
glosses: To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
examples: text: When you arrive to pick me up, hoot, and I'll come outside.
glosses: To sound the horn of a vehicle.
Derived terms: hoot down
hootingly
hoot it up
pant-hoot
unhooted
Related terms: give a hoot
hootenanny
hooter
owl hoot
owl hoot trail
hoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːt/
ipa: /hʉːt/
ipa: [hïɯt]
rhymes: -uːt
Etymology: A variant of utu (influenced by etymology 1), borrowed from Maori utu (“payment, revenge, payback”).
Senses: examples: text: On the construction you could make a pot of hoot in no time. You oughter be able to get two or three quid a day when things is busy.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Sydney, N.S.W.: A&R Classics, published 2013, →ISBN, page 304:
synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money, especially in the form of cash given as payment.
hoplite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒplaɪt/
Forms: form: hoplites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁπλίτης (hoplítēs, “heavily armed foot-soldier”), from ὅπλον (hóplon, “arms, armor, weapon”) (from which English hopl-). Compare Latin hoplomachus (“gladiator”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it was in the line of "hoplites" that the mass of citizen-soldiers were to be found.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 45:
text: However important the use of hoplites against, or in support of, troops of other arms had become, their chief function was still to fight other hoplites, though the battles of the early fourth century were very different from the ponderous confrontations that had filled King Xerxes and his courtiers with contempt.
ref: 1970, John Kinloch Anderson, Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon, page 141:
text: The Athenian hoplites who routed the Persian invaders on the field of Marathon in 490 created one of the great 'myths' of Athens.
ref: 1991, R. K. Sinclair, Democracy and Participation in Athens, page 5:
text: Yet this war of ideals was also a war of many truces, for there were many grounds for accommodation between generals and hoplites. Generals were drawn from the ranks of the hoplites, as hoplites they fought; when they ceased to be generals, it was to the hoplite ranks that they returned. Such was the power of hoplite ideals that many commanders were delighted to compete as hoplites rather than as tacticians, as their frequent deaths in the line signify.
ref: 2006, J. E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, unnumbered page:
glosses: A heavily-armed infantry soldier of Ancient Greece, wielding a one-handed spear and an aspis.
Derived terms: hoplitic
Related terms: hopl-
panoply
hopscotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
Senses: examples: text: No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
Synonyms: hopper
Derived terms: hopscotcher
hopscotch hashing
hopscotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: hopscotches
form: hopscotching
form: hopscotched
form: hopscotched
Etymology: From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
Senses: examples: text: As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
ref: 2022 April 6, Michael Steinberger, “How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To move by hopping.
examples: text: Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
ref: 1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Connecting With Women”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.
horde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hôd
ipa: /hɔːd/
enpr: hôrd
ipa: /hɔɹd/
enpr: hôd
ipa: /hoːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: hōrd
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: hoard
homophone: whored
Forms: form: hordes
Etymology: Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde", 'clan, troop'”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu.
Senses: glosses: A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
examples: text: We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
text: It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.
ref: 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, Chapter IV:
text: And so Tarzan of the Apes dropped lightly to the turf into the midst of the fierce and hideous horde—he had completed the cycle of evolution, and had returned to be once again a brute among brutes.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 197:
glosses: A large number of people or things.
Derived terms: Golden Horde
hordal
hordelike
horde mode
hordesman
primal horde
yellow horde
horde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôd
ipa: /hɔːd/
enpr: hôrd
ipa: /hɔɹd/
enpr: hôd
ipa: /hoːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: hōrd
ipa: /ho(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /hoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: hoard
homophone: whored
Forms: form: hordes
form: hording
form: hordeing
form: horded
form: horded
Etymology: Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde", 'clan, troop'”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu.
Senses: examples: text: "What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?
ref: 1824, T. E., Oriental Wanderings, or the Fortunes of Felix. A romance, page 69:
glosses: to travel en masse, to flock
hortatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/
Forms: form: more hortatory
form: most hortatory
Etymology: From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”).
Senses: examples: text: The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXV, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.
ref: 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 41:
text: Not in a curse but in a hortatory appeal.
ref: 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, paperback edition, Penguin Books, page 47:
text: Inextricably from its analyses and polemic, above all, The Communist Manifesto is hortatory, ‘a call to arms in the service of the revolution’.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 1, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
synonyms: exhortatory
inciting
protreptic
glosses: Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.
Derived terms: hortatorily
hortatory memorandum
hortatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːtətəɹi/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹtətɔɹi/
Forms: form: hortatories
Etymology: From Middle French hortatoire, from Latin hortor (“encourage”).
Senses: examples: text: I did not know enough of the Book to understand his hortatory but it seemed to please Miz Ann, who thanked him for his blessings, said she did not require his other services, and that he had paid for his meal with his message.
ref: 2004, Dale L. Walker, Westward: A Fictional History of the American West, Macmillan, page 53:
glosses: Exhortation or advice; incitement; encouragement.
examples: text: For here as in other points the development of the theory of Ethics would seem to be somewhat impeded by the preponderance of practical considerations; and perhaps a more complete detachment of the theoretical study of right conduct from its practical application is to be desired for the sake even of the latter itself: since a treatment which is a compound between the scientific and the hortatory is apt to miss both the results that it would combine; the mixture is bewildering to the brain and not stimulating to the heart.
ref: 1907, Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th edition, Macmillan and Company, page 12:
glosses: That which exhorts, incites, or encourages.
hornbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːnˌbiːm/
ipa: /ˈhɔɹnˌbim/
Forms: form: hornbeams
Etymology: c. 1570, from Old English horn + beam (“tree”)
Senses: glosses: A tree of the genus Carpinus, having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, common along the banks of streams in the United States.
glosses: A hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana).
glosses: The wood of these trees.
Synonyms: hornbeech
ironwood
musclewood
Hyponyms: blue beech
Derived terms: American hornbeam
common hornbeam
European hop-hornbeam
European hop hornbeam
European hornbeam
hophornbeam
Related terms: Carpinus
horripilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: horripilations
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin horripilatio, horripilationem.
Senses: synonyms: goose bump
goose pimple
goose skin
goose flesh
piloerection
pilomotor reflex
glosses: A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
Related terms: horripilate
horripilatory
horror