cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Etymology: Clipping of sellotape.
Senses: examples: text: Can you pass the sello? We need to get these presents wrapped up by tonight.
glosses: sellotape.
selles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selle
tacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtækəʊ/
rhymes: -ækəʊ
homophone: taco stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: tachos
Senses: glosses: Clipping of tachograph.
Related terms: tach
tachometer
tachygraphy
separase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separases
Etymology: From separate + -ase.
Senses: glosses: A cysteine protease responsible for triggering anaphase by hydrolysing cohesin.
Synonyms: separin
separases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separase
tajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taj
serena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (“dew”).
Senses: examples: text: Fie, fie, was euer poore fellow so farre benighted in an old wiues tale of diuells and vrchins. Out vpon it, I am wearie of it, for it hath caused such a thicke fulsome Serena to descend on my braine, that now my penne makes blots as broad as a furd stomacher, and my muse inspyres me to put out my candle and goe to bed:[…]
ref: 1594, Thomas Nashe, The terrors of the night, or, A discourse of apparitions:
text: But not desirous to make any longer aboad in this place, by reason of the most infectious serenas or dewes that fall all along these coasts of Africa,[…]
ref: 1589-1600, Robert Dudley, “A voyage of the honourable Gentleman M. Robert Duddeley, now knight, to the isle of Trinidad, and the coast of Paria”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation:
text: For indeed they had already by way of Precaution, armed themselves against the Serena with a Caudle.
ref: 1723, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life (8th edition), page 108:
glosses: Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).
Related terms: gutta serena
serenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serene
tallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tallens
form: tallening
form: tallened
form: tallened
Etymology: From tall + -en.
Senses: examples: text: "Must have et^([sic]) good. Tallened up too, seem^([sic]) like."
ref: 1958, Kyle Onstott, Mandingo, page 561:
text: He broke off, panting hard, because he had involuntarily tallened again.
ref: 2014, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time:
glosses: To become tall or taller
signa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡnə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin signa, nominative plural of signum.
Senses: glosses: plural of signum
tapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tupan (“kind of drum”).
tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of tape
tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tape
signare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signares
Senses: examples: text: Signare were romanticised by witnesses who encountered them as well as in historical memory. One of the French officials of the Senegal company dedcribed them collectively as tender, charming and faithful, with a certain 'sweetness' — but also 'an insurmountable urge for love and lust'.
ref: 2009, William Foster, Gender, Mastery and Slavery:
text: To the farthest left, numbered "I" in Lamiral's caption, is the black female slave. Her body faces the viewer squarely, with her feet turned slightly toward the signare. From the waist up, the woman's body is bare, save for a strand of beads encircling her neck and crossing her torso under each breast.
ref: 2016, Lisa Ze Winters, The Mulatta Concubine, page 127:
glosses: A mulatto French-African woman of the island of Gorée or the city of Saint-Louis in French Senegal during the 18th and 19th centuries.
signares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signare
tardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tardos
Etymology: From Spanish tardo (“slow”), from Latin tardus.
Senses: examples: text: On my last trip to Vera Cruz I procured a pair of black tardos, full-grown and in a normal state of health […]
ref: 1881, Lippincott's magazine: Volume 27:
glosses: A sloth (animal).
tase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tāz
ipa: /teɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: tases
form: tasing
form: tased
form: tased
form: taze
Etymology: Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If the funding for these new tasers is approved, the entire JCPD will have to be re-trained on the tasers, but luckily they won't all have to be tased again.
ref: 2014 August 25, “Jefferson City Police seek approval for new tasers”, in KMIZ, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2014:
glosses: to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject
Synonyms: taser
tase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāz
ipa: /teɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: tases
form: taze
Etymology: Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.
Senses: glosses: An electric shock administered with a taser.
tases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪzɪz/
rhymes: -eɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tase
sisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sycee (“historical Chinese ingots used as currency”).
penguin suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penguin suits
Etymology: Of the tuxedo sense, since its black and white appearance is supposed to resemble the bird.
Senses: glosses: A tuxedo.
glosses: A kind of spacesuit worn by Soviet cosmonauts.
sobas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soba
televises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of televise
Brulé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Brulés
form: Brulé
Etymology: From French Brulé (from brûlé (“burnt”), past participle of brûler (“to burn”)), itself a partial calque of Lakota Sičháŋǧu (literally “burnt thighs”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a subdivision of the Sioux Native American nation.
Related terms: Sičháŋǧu
temes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teme
temperas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tempera
tempera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛmpəɹə/
Forms: form: temperas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tempera.
Senses: coordinate_terms: oil paint
glosses: A paint in which the pigments are suspended in a water-soluble emulsion, such as of egg yolk or gelatine, which hardens and becomes insoluble on exposure to air.
glosses: The artistic technique of painting in this medium.
glosses: A painting done in this medium.
Derived terms: tempera grassa
templa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of templon
eutrophication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutrophications
Etymology: From eutrophicate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: I already hinted at the problem of sea eutrophication (where excess nutrients cause algae to flourish) due to the phosphates that used to be added to washing powder, and, surely, it is not pleasant for plants to find underfoot (or, better, "underroot") those surfactants we use daily at home (please, never pour your dishwater on the roots of a magnificent camellia, even if it is blooming in the garden of a next-door neighbor you cannot stand).
ref: 2011, Roberto Piazza, Soft Matter: The stuff that dreams are made of, page 130:
text: Amphisteginids and peneroplids were among the few taxa found in the bay environments, probably due to their preferences for phytal substrates and tolerance to moderate levels of eutrophication.
ref: 2015 December 29, “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Benthic Foraminifera around Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of becoming eutrophic; the ecosystem's response to the addition of artificial or natural nutrients, mainly phosphates, through detergents, fertilizers, or sewage, to an aquatic system.
Derived terms: hypereutrophication
Related terms: eutrophicate
tensan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 天蚕 (tensan, “tensan moth; tensan silk”).
Senses: glosses: A silk produced by the Japanese oak silkmoth (Antherea yamamai).
tensen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tensens
form: tensening
form: tensened
form: tensened
Etymology: From tense + -en.
Senses: examples: text: At first he was shocked and his body tensened then he put an arm around me “well duh,” he joked and even though I was mad at him I laughed at his joke.
ref: 2013, Megan Bond, Devil's Kiss, page 62:
text: A small muscle in Gabriel's jaw tensened. He turned away his face.
ref: 2015, Olga Hoekstra, Angel's Blood:
text: I realized, suddenly, that I had been tensening with a steady, burning frustration.
ref: 2019, Lawrence Lariar, Win, Place, and Die!:
glosses: To become tense or more tense.
Derived terms: tensening
eutrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtɹɒfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹəʊfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹɑfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹoʊfɪk/
Forms: form: more eutrophic
form: most eutrophic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû) + τροφικός (trophikós), literally “well-nourished”; equivalent to eu- + trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: oligotrophic
glosses: Being rich in nutrients and minerals and therefore having an excessive growth of algae and thus a diminished oxygen content to the detriment of other organisms.
raw_tags: of a body of water
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Promoting nutrition.
Derived terms: eutrophication
eutrophically
eutrophicate
hypereutrophic
mesoeutrophic
eutrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtɹɒfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹəʊfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹɑfɪk/
ipa: /juːˈtɹoʊfɪk/
Forms: form: eutrophics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû) + τροφικός (trophikós), literally “well-nourished”; equivalent to eu- + trophic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A eutrophic medicine.
tergiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tergiverses
form: tergiversing
form: tergiversed
form: tergiversed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tergiversate.
synonyms: word: tergiversate
tergiverses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tergiverse
termine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪn/
Forms: form: termines
form: termining
form: termined
form: termined
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French terminer, from Latin termināre. Doublet of terminate.
Senses: glosses: To settle, determine.
examples: text: How absurd had these guests been, if they had termined the thanks in the servitor
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring to an end; to conclude, terminate.
squirrelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɝli/
ipa: /ˈskwɪɹəli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
rhymes: -ɪɹəli
Forms: form: squirrellier
form: more squirrelly
form: squirrelliest
form: most squirrelly
form: squirrely
Etymology: From squirrel + -ly, 1925. Presumably from the erratic movement of squirrels, or by analogy with nuts (“insane”).
Senses: examples: text: Mom can act a bit squirrelly sometimes, and I swear it's usually worse after sunset.
text: Near-synonyms: batty, nuts, nutty; see also Thesaurus:eccentric, Thesaurus:insane
text: Craphound had wicked yard-sale karma, for a rotten, filthy alien bastard. He was too good at panning out the single grain of gold in a raging river of uselessness for me not to like him — respect him, anyway. But then he found the cowboy trunk. It was two months' rent to me and nothing but some squirrelly alien kitsch-fetish to Craphound.
ref: 1998, Cory Doctorow, Craphound:
text: Dreyfuss wrote that "it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. […]."
ref: 2010 May 5, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Robert Dreyfuss, “The Meaning of Faisal 'Rorschach' Shahzad”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Resembling a squirrel.
Eccentric.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: "This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot.
text: "We got bumped. We got thumped," an American pilot was heard saying. A U.S. pilot also reported that a Chinese plane was "squirrely. Not real steady."
ref: 2001 April 13, “Rumsfeld Hits China's 'Aggressive' Pattern”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Buscemi relished the chance to portray the squirrelly, volatile crook Carl Showalter, a figure that came together only once the actor got dressed.
ref: 2021 June 21, Charles Bramesco, “‘So, does it hold up?’: Fargo’s stars and co-creator on its 25th anniversary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I wonder why it didn’t give me a direct quote. I hope it isn’t going to be squirrelly or weird about quotes. Maybe it’s stressed out about copyrighted translations. I’ll try asking for the original.
ref: 2023 September 5, Elif Batuman, “Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Resembling a squirrel.
Unpredictable or jumpy.
examples: text: Some of these lemurs seem almost squirrelly.
glosses: Resembling a squirrel.
Literally so.
raw_tags: of an animal
Derived terms: squirrelliness
testas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testa
testimonio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testimonios
Etymology: From Latin American Spanish testimonio (“testimony”).
Senses: examples: 1988, Sommer D. "Not Just a Personal Story: Women’s Testimonios and the Plural Self". In: Schenck C, Brodzki B Life/Lines: Theoretical Essays on Women’s Autobiography. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
1989 (Spring), John Beverley "The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)" MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 35, Number 1, pp. 11-28 doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0923
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A first-hand account of politically charged experiences; an oral history narrative.
testimonie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testimonies
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of testimony.
tilda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tilde.
half-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-staffs
form: half staff
form: halfstaff
Senses: examples: text: [T]he agents of the steamship lines drowned their sorrow in rum and ran the house flags to half-staff.
ref: c. 1900, Richard Harding Davis, Billy and the Big Stick:
text: Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, Poland's man of power, died here tonight. . . . Flags were lowered to half staffs.
ref: 1935 May 13, “Ninth Anniversary of Coup”, in New York Times, page 6:
text: President Bush's decision to honor Pope John Paul II by ordering flags lowered to half-staff on all public buildings has reignited a debate about the separation of church and state.
ref: 2005 April 6, Felisa Cardona, "Flag order spurs controversy," Denver Post (USA), p. B-01, (retrieved 29 Aug. 2011)
text: [T]he flags at Ottawa fire stations were lowered to half-staff in tribute.
ref: 2008 August 5, “Two men electrocuted fixing flat on firetruck”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 29 Aug 2011:
glosses: Half-mast.
sondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonde
titule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titules
Senses: glosses: A title.
titules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titule
franchises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of franchise
Martinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Martinizes
form: Martinizing
form: Martinized
form: Martinized
Etymology: From Martin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, K-K-K-K. First day back's gonna be a busy one. First, I need you to go to the dry cleaners for me and find out how Martinizing works. I've always been curious. Then I need you to be back by noon to make the bathroom smell like sandalwood before I wreck it. You got that, K-PAX-O-Gum?” “I'm not Kenneth, sir. My name's Brian. Kenneth got fired at the end of last season.” “Of course. I knew that.”
ref: 2010 September 23, Tina Fey, “The Fabian Strategy” (3:26 from the start), in 30 Rock, season 5, episode 1, spoken by Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan):
glosses: To clean using the Martinizing dry-cleaning process
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To produce a coarse-grain structure of a protein topology
toman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊmən/
ipa: /toʊˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ˈtʌmən/
rhymes: -ʊmən
Forms: form: tomans
form: tumen
form: tomaun
form: tomin
form: touman
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian تومان (tōman), from Mongolian түмэн (tümen).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
examples: text: The band-roll strung with tomans
Which proves the veil a Persian woman's
ref: 1845, Robert Browning, The Flight of the Duchess:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A Persian money of account or gold coin issued until 1927, notionally worth 10,000 dinars.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: An Iranian coin or value of 10 rials.
Synonyms: sense: unit
word: myriarchy
Hyponyms: sense: historical coin
word: dinar (1⁄10,000 toman)
sense: historical coin
word: kran (1⁄10 toman)
sense: modern coin
word: rial (1⁄10 toman)
toman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊmən/
ipa: /toʊˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ˈtʌmən/
rhymes: -ʊmən
ipa: /ˈtoʊmən/
ipa: /ˈtʊmən/
ipa: /toʊˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ˈtʌmən/
rhymes: -ʊmən
Forms: form: tomans
Etymology: From Irish toman (“small hill, hillock”), diminutive of tom (“hill”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hillock.
synonyms: word: hillock
sorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sorb
contention system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contention systems
Senses: glosses: A communication system in which multiple users share a common channel in a way that can lead to conflicts.
torne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of torn.
agraffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: agraffes
Etymology: Borrowed from French agrafe, from agrafer (“to hook”).
Senses: examples: text: The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants, was another distinction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to deride them.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A clasp consisting of a hook which fastens onto a ring.
glosses: A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is held so as to limit the vibration.
glosses: A carved keystone, usually decorated with a mascaron or a corbel, often used in Classical architecture.
glosses: A brass fitting, screwed into a piano plate, that positions the strings vertically and laterally, and defines one end of the string's speaking length.
subdivides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subdivide
tosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tose
toses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tose
tose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊz/
ipa: /ˈtoʊz/
Forms: form: toses
form: tosing
form: tosed
form: tosed
form: toze
form: toase
form: toaze
Etymology: From Middle English tosen (“to card wool”), from Old English *tāsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (“to tug, separate, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, separate”).
Senses: glosses: To pull apart or asunder; touse.
Derived terms: toser
tosy
tosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tosas
Etymology: From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred.
Senses: synonyms: tosa inu
glosses: A Japanese breed of fighting dog
tosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tosa
congee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈkɒndʒi/
rhymes: -ɒndʒi
homophone: kanji (US)
Forms: form: congees
form: conge
form: congé
Etymology: From late Middle English congie, from Old French congié, congiet (modern French congé), from Latin commeātus (“passage, permission to leave”), from commeō (“I go and come”), from con- + meō (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.
Senses: glosses: Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)
glosses: Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
Formal permission to leave; a passport.
examples: text: So courteous conge both did giue and take,
With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
glosses: Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
glosses: A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
examples: text: As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congês, and presented his paper to Peregrine […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 96, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: “My daughter Rebecca, so please your Grace,” answered Isaac, with a low congee, nothing embarrassed by the Prince’s salutation, in which, however, there was at least as much mockery as courtesy.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: His speech thus spake the Moor, and took his leave,
he and his meiny where the bátels lay:
formal farewells to chief and crews he gave,
exchanging congees with due courtesy.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
glosses: A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
Derived terms: give congee
take congee
congee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈkɒndʒi/
rhymes: -ɒndʒi
homophone: kanji (US)
Forms: form: congees
form: congeeing
form: congeed
form: congeed
form: conge
form: congé
Etymology: From late Middle English congie, from Old French congié, congiet (modern French congé), from Latin commeātus (“passage, permission to leave”), from commeō (“I go and come”), from con- + meō (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.
Senses: glosses: To give congee, (particularly)
To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
glosses: To give congee, (particularly)
To give formal permission to do something; to license.
glosses: To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
glosses: To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.
congee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈkɒndʒi/
rhymes: -ɒndʒi
homophone: kanji (US)
Forms: form: congees
form: conjee
Etymology: From Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci) or another Dravidian language such as Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi) (ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kañci), possibly via Portuguese canje.
Senses: examples: text: In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Peking Duck”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
qualifier: Asian cooking
glosses: A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
Synonyms: word: rice porridge
word: rice congee
word: porridge
english: Chinese contexts
translation: Chinese contexts
word: zhou
word: jook
english: Cantonese & Korean contexts
translation: Cantonese & Korean contexts
word: juk
Derived terms: Congee Festival
congee house
Laba congee
rice congee
Related terms: sense: Portuguese
word: canja
word: dim sum
subordines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subordo
tramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trama
trama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪmə/
Forms: form: tramas
form: tramae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trāma. Doublet of tram.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The inner, fleshy portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, distinct from the outer pileipellis or cuticle and from the spore-bearing hymenium.
Derived terms: gill trama
hymenophoral trama
lamellar trama
subsidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsidy
byzant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: byzants
Senses: examples: text: “Gramercy! good fellow,” cried Prince John, “thou pleasest me—Here, Isaac, lend me a handful of byzants.”
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of bezant.
bezant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛzənt/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: bezants
form: Bezant
form: basant
form: besant
form: byzant
form: bezaunt
Etymology: From Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantius (“of Byzantium”).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: solidus
glosses: A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
examples: text: One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].
ref: 1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
Derived terms: bezanted
bezanty
transe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trance.
transes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transe
glosses: plural of trans
transes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trans
transcribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcribe
halidom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhælɪdəm/
Forms: form: halidoms
form: halidome
form: hallidome
form: halidame
form: holidam
form: hollidam
form: holydam
form: holydame
form: holidame
Etymology: From Middle English halidom, haliȝdom, from Old English hāliġdōm (“holiness, righteousness, sanctity; holy place, sanctuary, chapel; relics, holy things; holy office; sacrament; holy doctrines”), corresponding to holy + -dom, from Proto-Germanic *hailagadōmaz. Cognate with Dutch heiligdom (“sanctuary, shrine”), German Heiligtum (“sanctuary, shrine, holy relic”), Swedish helgedom (“shrine, sanctuary, temple, sanctum”), Icelandic helgidómur (“sanctuary, holy relic”).
Senses: examples: text: Now sure and by my hallidome ( quoth he ) / Ye a great master are in your degree
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: Now he's put the final seal on his Kingship, his halidom, by slaying a challenger in the Wood.
ref: 1987, Poul and Karen Anderson, The King of Ys (SciFi), page 422:
glosses: Holiness; sanctity; sacred honour.
examples: text: […] save for Wodan, who had a richly bedecked halidom nearby.
ref: 1983, Poul Anderson, Time Patrolman (SciFi), Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN:
glosses: A sanctuary; lands held of a religious foundation.
examples: text: “By my halidom,” said he, “we have forgotten, Sir Prior, to name the fair Sovereign of Love and of Beauty, by whose white hand the palm is to be distributed.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Something regarded as sacred; a holy relic.
sudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.duː/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈsuː.doʊ/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈsuː.dəʊ/
Etymology: Originally understood as a blend of superuser + do, now has evolved to be an abbreviation of substitute user, do.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unix command that allows a user to run a program with the security privileges of another user.
sudo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.duː/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈsuː.doʊ/
note: proscribed, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈsuː.dəʊ/
Forms: form: sudos
form: sudoing
form: sudoed
form: sudoed
Etymology: Originally understood as a blend of superuser + do, now has evolved to be an abbreviation of substitute user, do.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To invoke such a command.
transfigures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transfigure
suman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog suman.
Senses: glosses: Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.
transpires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But when you look closely at exactly what transpires in these workshops, the power they continue to have is astonishing.
ref: 1988 June 10, Sharon Solwitz, “The Gospel According to Gordon Lish”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transpire
supervises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supervise
outrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈuː.tɹɑ̃s/
Forms: form: outrances
Etymology: From Old French oltrance (modern outrance (“excess”)), from outrer (“pass beyond”), from oltre, outre, utre, from Late Latin ultra-. Compare outrage.
Senses: examples: 1819: But if the shield was touched with the sharp end of the lance, the combat was understood to be at “outrance”, that is, the knights were to fight with sharp weapons, as in actual battle. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
synonyms: utterance
glosses: The furthest degree or extremity, going beyond bounds or propriety.
Josiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒoʊˈzaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew יֹאשִׁיָּה (yōšiyyā), יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ (yōšiyyā́hū).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A king of Judah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Josias
Loegrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Loegria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Loegria; English
examples: text: The Scots of Ireland, and the Picts of Albania, or North Britain, whose situation protected them from the Roman vassalage, became too powerful for the Loegrian Provincial Britons, who, on account of the island having been made the seat of empire, were enervated by the luxuries of the Romans, and the country drained of its youth to supply the continual wars carried on by their conquerors, and these foreigners had left them a mixed and degenerate race, corrupted by all their follies, vices, and dissipations, without any emulation of national honour, to rouse and stimulate them to great actions.
ref: 1876, Evan Evans, Daniel Silvan Evans, Gwaith y parchedig Evan Evans, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, golyg. gan D.-, page 290:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the people of England during Roman times, prior to their conquest by the Saxons.
Loegrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Loegrians
Etymology: From Loegria + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of what is now England during the times of the Roman occupation, prior to the conquest by the Saxons.
Hilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪldə/
rhymes: -ɪldə
Etymology: Short form of Germanic names beginning or ending in hild (“battle”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages used since Middle Ages.
glosses: St Hilda of Whitby
Related terms: Hildegard
suspires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suspire
Bertha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝθə/
ipa: /ˈbɜːθə/
Etymology: Definitely from Old English Berþa as a result of metathesis of h, from earlier Old English Berhte (“bright one”), influence of Latin Bercta.
Alternatively, from Old High German berhta (“bright one”), which was an epithet of the goddess Frigg.
Senses: examples: text: You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton
ref: 1858, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:
text: Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha, which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?
ref: 1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 12:
text: "No wonder she never gets anywhere with a name like Bertha," Sally said, while having coffee afterwards with two of the other night-coursers. "It goes with her outfits, though." ( Bertha sports the macrame look, with health-food sandals and hand-weave skirts that don't do a thing for her square figure, [...])
ref: 1983, Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg, McCleland-Bantam, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: Alternative form of Perchta (“goddess in Alpine paganism”).
bertha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)θə/
Forms: form: berthas
Etymology: Probably from French berthe, from the name Berthe (English Bertha).
Senses: glosses: A lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress
tributes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribute
trillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trillos
form: trilloes
form: trilli
Etymology: From Italian trillo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trill or shake.
trine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Senses: synonyms: word: tern
word: treble
word: tern
word: ternary
word: threefold
word: treble
word: triadic
word: trinary
word: trine
word: triple
glosses: Triple; threefold.
examples: text: The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection ii:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
trine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: trines
Etymology: From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Senses: examples: text: a single trine of brazen tortoises
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: threesome
word: triad
word: tern
word: ternary
word: ternion
word: threeness
word: threesome
word: triad
word: trinary
word: trine
word: trinity
word: trio
word: triplet
word: troika
glosses: A group of three things.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
trine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: trines
form: trining
form: trined
form: trined
Etymology: From Middle English trine, from Middle French trin, from Latin trīnus.
Senses: examples: text: By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To put in the aspect of a trine.
examples: text: Been Darkmans then booz Mort and Ken, / The been Coves bing awast / On Chats to trine by Rum-Coves dine, / For his long lib at last.
ref: 1612, Thomas Dekker, Lantern and Candlelight:
text: Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.
ref: 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:
synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To hang; to execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
Derived terms: grand trine
trine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: trines
form: trining
form: trined
form: trined
Etymology: From Middle English trynen, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”); compare Old Swedish trina (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: Twang dell's, i' the strommell, and let the Quire Cuffin: / And Herman Beck strine and trine to the Ruffin.
ref: 1647, John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, published 1706, act 3, scene 3, page 42:
text: From thence at the Nubbing-cheat we trine in the Lightmans.
ref: 1673, Richard Head, “The Beggars Curse”, in The Canting Academy:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To go.
trines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trine
trinchado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinchados
Etymology: From Portuguese trinchado (“cut up [meat]”).
Senses: glosses: a spicy meat dish of Angolan and Mozambican origin
triture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Latin tritura.
Senses: examples: text: this original Zest in the Glands , gentle Heat , and gentle Triture from multiplied muscular Motion , are sufficient to explain all the Appearances of Concoction and Nutrition
ref: 1742, George Cheyne, The Natural Method Of Cureing the Diseases of the Body:
glosses: A rubbing or grinding; trituration.
cotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottas
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cotta (“clerical tunic”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 131:
glosses: A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.
glosses: A kind of coarse woolen blanket.
cotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of katha (“unit of area”).
Related terms: sense: terms etymologically unrelated
word: panna cotta
sense: terms etymologically unrelated
word: terra cotta
sense: terms etymologically unrelated
word: terra-cotta
tutees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutee
zecchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɛkɪn/
Forms: form: zecchins
form: zechin
form: zequeen
form: zequin
Etymology: From Italian zecchino, from Italian zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سكّة (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of sequin.
Senses: examples: text: […] the noble armour, that was worth so many zecchins to Joseph Pareira, the armourer of Milan, besides seventy in the hundred of profits, he cares for it as little as if he had found it in the highways!”
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 9, in Ivanhoe:
glosses: Any of various gold coins produced in Italy or Turkey; a sequin.
untaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈteɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: untastes
form: untasting
form: untasted
form: untasted
Etymology: From un- + taste.
Senses: examples: text: […]Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;
ref: 1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224:
glosses: To deprive of taste.
examples: text: “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!
ref: 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
text: He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.
ref: 2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:
text: Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?
ref: 2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:
glosses: To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
untaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈteɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From un- (“absence of”) + taste.
Senses: examples: text: Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.
ref: 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
text: Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.
ref: 1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:
text: [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of hell, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]
ref: 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:
glosses: Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
usen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːzən/
rhymes: -uːzən
Senses: glosses: past participle of use.
usen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːzən/
rhymes: -uːzən
ipa: /ˈʌsən/
rhymes: -ʌsən
ipa: /ˈjuːzən/
rhymes: -uːzən
Forms: form: usens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).
outrecuidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /uːtəˈkwiːdəns/
Etymology: From Old French outrecuidance (whence modern French outrecuidance), from outre + cuidier (“think”), from Latin cogitare.
Senses: examples: text: “It is full time,” said De Bracy, “that the outrecuidance of these peasants should be restrained by some striking example.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: “But, with my constitution and temperament - my work lies in Boston - I find your outrecuidance -"
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, .007:
glosses: Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
naupathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek ναυς (naus) ‘ship’ and πάθος (pathos) ‘suffering’.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: seasickness
Related terms: naupathic
valora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valoras
Senses: examples: text: In August 2021, Williams visited the Republic of Molossia, an 11.3-acre micronation in Nevada that declared independence from the United States of America in 1998, where he was given a personal tour by “His Excellency President Kevin Baugh.” He learned about the Republic of Molossia’s ongoing “war” with now-defunct East Germany, how the local currency (the “valora”) is backed by chocolate chip cookie dough instead of gold, and had his passport stamped and his photo taken on the “border” with the United States.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
glosses: The official currency of Molossia.
valse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑls/
rhymes: -ɑls
Forms: form: valses
Etymology: From French valse. Doublet of waltz.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of waltz.
valse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑls/
rhymes: -ɑls
Forms: form: valses
form: valsing
form: valsed
form: valsed
Etymology: From French valse. Doublet of waltz.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of waltz.
valses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valse
valses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of valse
varan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varans
Etymology: Derived from French varan. Doublet of worral.
Senses: glosses: The monitor lizard.
vare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vares
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”).
Senses: examples: 1681-1682, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
His hand a vare of justice did uphold.
glosses: A wand or staff of authority or justice.
Related terms: vare widgeon
vares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vare
vaticine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaticines
Etymology: From Latin vāticinium (“prediction, prophecy”).
Senses: examples: text: And thus (according to this vaticine) twise it was left, but the third time it shall be kept.
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 3, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2011:
glosses: A prediction; a vaticination.
vaticines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaticine