cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chinese menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese menus
Etymology: From the practice of some Chinese restaurants which, for a fixed price, instruct the customer to make selections such as “one from Column A, two from Column B, one from Column C”, where the columns may contain, for example, a selection of soups, appetizers, and entrees.
Senses: examples: text: Each camper picked from a Chinese menu of available activities: one from the various field sports; one from the pool activities list; and two from a wide selection of arts and crafts classes.
text: Throughout American higher education, Western Civilization courses tempered electives and various Chinese menus of distribution requirements.
ref: 1994, Philip G. Altbach, Robert Oliver Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport, Higher education in American society:
text: Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.
ref: 1997, Samuel M. Natale, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training, page 92:
text: Cheney's man, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, reportedly tried to force a “Chinese menu” of even wilder assertions into the first draft of the UN speech.
ref: 2011, Kenneth O'Reilly, Holy Cow 2000: The Strange Election of George W. Bush:
glosses: A set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, menu.
Related terms: a little from column A, a little from column B
imparlance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imparlances
form: emparlance
form: inparliance
Etymology: Ultimately from Anglo-Norman emparlance, from the verb Old French emparler.
Senses: examples: text: Full oftentimes did Britomart assay / To speake to them, and some emparlance move; / But they for nought their cruell hands would stay […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Discussion, especially before some action is taken; conference, debate.
examples: text: [W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.
ref: 1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9:
topics: law
glosses: Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit, but also used to obtain further time to plead or answer allegations.
imparlances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imparlance
rewirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rewire + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rewireable.
withcalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of withcall
withcalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withcall
withcalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of withcall
withcalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From withcall + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of withcall
withcalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withcallings
Etymology: From withcall + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I purchased a Monterey Herald, reporting the withcalling of the subpoenas, and same is hereto attached.
ref: 1930, Carlos S. Hardy, The Senate of the State of California, page 557:
glosses: The act of calling back; revocation.
hydrorhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrorhizas
form: hydrorhizae
Etymology: hydro- + Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects
Related terms: hydrorhizal
hydrorhizae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrorhiza
rootlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootling
pettychaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettychaps
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably imitative of the bird’s call, with influence from petty (“small”) and either chap (“jaw; bill of a bird”) or chap (“person”). Alternatively, perhaps directly from petty (in turn from Middle English pety (“tiny”)) and chaps (“jaws”). Attested from the 1670s.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of small European passerine songbirds, including the willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus), the chiffchaffs (Phylloscopus spp.), and the western Orphean warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
hydrorhizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrorhiza
Billy Yank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
glosses: The Union in general.
Related terms: Johnny Reb
Tommy Atkins
homoeomeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeomery
homoeomery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoeomeries
Senses: examples: text: Anaximander held an Homoeomery of qualified atoms
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of homoeomeria.
Derived terms: homoeomeric
cruddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: cruddles
form: cruddling
form: cruddled
form: cruddled
Senses: examples: text: See how thy blood cruddles at this.
ref: 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
text: To prevent the Milk from cruddling, ſome Sugar may be mixed with it
ref: 1732, William Stephens, Dolӕus Upon the Cure of Gout by Milk-Diet:
glosses: To curdle.
cruddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cruddle
cruddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cruddle
cruddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cruddle
curdleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: curdle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curdle
relieveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relieve + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relieve
projecteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: project + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of project
protrudeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: protrude + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protrude
relieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəθ
Etymology: rely + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rely
aimeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: aim + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aim
relievest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: relieve + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of relieve
projectest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: project + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of project
reliest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rely + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rely
after-sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-sails
form: after sail
form: aftersail
Etymology: From after + sail.
Senses: examples: text: On this final leg home, these experiments were taken a step further by putting an extra-large sail on the after mast, increasing sail area and changing the balance of the rig in that the after sail was then larger than the forward sail.
ref: 1994, Ben Finney, Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the sails towards the aft, i.e. on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
after-sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-sail
bioassimilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bioassimilable
form: most bioassimilable
Etymology: From bio- + assimilable.
Senses: glosses: That can be assimilated by a biological system
Derived terms: bioassimilability
mispaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispay
mispay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispays
form: mispaying
form: mispaid
form: mispaid
Etymology: From mis- + pay. Compare apay.
Senses: glosses: To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person.
Related terms: mispayment
mispaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispay
mispays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispay
pannikel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannikels
Etymology: See pan (“a dish”).
Senses: examples: text: To him he turned, and with rigor fell / Smote him so rudely on the pannikell
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The brain-pan, or skull; hence, the crest.
mispayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispayments
Etymology: From mis- + payment.
Senses: examples: a history of mispayments to benefit fraudsters
glosses: incorrect payment
mispayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispayment
squeamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squeamous
form: most squeamous
form: swaimous
Etymology: From Middle English squaimous, queimous, swaymos, sweymows, partly from Anglo-Norman escoimus, escoymous, of unknown origin (possibly from the English); and partly from Middle English sweme, sweyme, swayme, sqweme (“sorrow, grief, unconsciousness, dizzy spell, faintness”) + -ous. See sweam and sweem.
Senses: glosses: squeamish
commigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commigrates
form: commigrating
form: commigrated
form: commigrated
Etymology: First attested in 1755; borrowed from Latin commigrātus, perfect passive participle of commigrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, con- + migrate.
Senses: glosses: To migrate together.
Related terms: commigration
commigrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commigrate
commigrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commigrate
commigrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commigrate
spurwinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spur-winged
Etymology: From spur + winged.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
Derived terms: spur-winged goose
spur-winged lapwing
spur-winged plover
cutcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutchery
nonheraldic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heraldic.
Senses: examples: text: It has been my observation that fleurs-de-lys and castles last on in glazing for about five years, but that in the 1290s they become rarer and are sometimes changed in color to become simple nonheraldic decoration.
ref: 1991, Meredith P. Lillich, Rainbow Like an Emerald, page 88:
glosses: Not heraldic.
gatten tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatten trees
Etymology: Compare UK dialect gatter bush.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small trees: the guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus).
Hypernyms: tree
lavender marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavender marriages
Etymology: From lavender (“homosexual, gay”) + marriage.
Senses: glosses: A male-female marriage entered into in the hope of concealing the non-heterosexual sexual orientation of one or both of the spouses.
lavender marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavender marriage
jackanapery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackanaperies
Etymology: From jackanapes + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: “Look at this festive assembly. All of us, gathered here together, chuckling at jokes and silliness.” [laughter] “And jackanapery.” [rim shots] “I guess there's only one thing left to say. What is this shit?” [rim shot] [laughter] “[laughs] Very good.” “You call yourselves vampires? Bah. This entire evening has been nothing but a pageant of insipid nonsense.” “[laughing] Yes.” “Worshipping at the altar of your own mediocre frivolity. A jester's hollow dance. And who is laughing?” “Yeah! [whoops] [grunts]” “Vampires are supposed to have blood orgies and slaughter circles. Gah! You have all gone soft. You even invited humans to this asinine affair.”
ref: 2023 August 24, Sarah Naftalis & Lauren Wells, “The Roast” (8:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 8, spoken by Baron Afanas (Doug Jones):
glosses: The behaviour of a jackanapes.
jackanaperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackanapery
Indian wrestles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Indian wrestle
Indian wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Indian wrestle
Indian wrestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Indian wrestle
Indian wrestle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Indian wrestles
form: Indian wrestling
form: Indian wrestled
form: Indian wrestled
Senses: examples: text: She's got that Indian wrestlin' down pat, an' she's built for it.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, book III, page 399:
text: White witnessed Dickey's athleticism in a more visceral way when they Indian wrestled, locking right arms and right legs and trying to throw each other.
ref: 2001, Henry Hart, James Dickey: The World as a Lie:
glosses: To stand with the lateral side of one's (usually right) foot touching the lateral side of his opponent's (right) foot and with his (right) hand clasping his opponent's, and to attempt to force his opponent to lose balance to the extent the latter's (right) foot moves even as his opponent does the same to him.
glosses: To engage in a struggle to put an opposing side at a disadvantage.
examples: text: Indian Wrestle. Two boys lie down alongside of each other, with the feet pointing in opposite directions. They lock the near elbows firmly. Each then raises the near leg three times, one or both counting (Fig. 9). / On the third count they interlock the legs near the knee and try by main strength to turn each other over backward.
ref: 1902, Horace Butterworth, “Something to Do”, in St. Nicholas, Volume 29, Part 1:
text: Indian Wrestle: Opponents on backs, right shoulders together, legs in opposite direction, right arms locked, raise legs; on signal, hook feet together and roll opponent over on face.
ref: 1922, William Ralph La Porte, A Handbook of Games and Programs for Church, School, and Home, page 114:
glosses: From a lying-down position, to attempt to cause an opponent who is lying in the opposite direction to roll over backward by using locked knees.
glosses: To arm-wrestle.
seralbumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of albumin found in the blood serum of animals.
subtrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtrudes
form: subtruding
form: subtruded
form: subtruded
Etymology: From sub- + Latin trudere (“to thrust”).
Senses: glosses: To place under; to insert below.
Related terms: subtrusal
subtruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subtrude
subtrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtrude
subtruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subtrude
cauter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauters
Etymology: From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.
Senses: examples: text: The punctuall, or pointed cauter; is almost square, and altogether Sharpe pointed
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Compiled by Randle Cotgrave:
glosses: A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Derived terms: cauterism
cauters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauter
Dad's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dad's Days
Senses: glosses: Father's Day
cytula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytulas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “hollow vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: It is only after fertilization is accomplished that a new cell-kernel arises in this cytod, which thus becomes the parent-cell (Cytula )
ref: 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, whose development produces the child or other organism.
cytulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytula
accessory nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessory nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
coordinate_terms: olfactory nerve
optic nerve
oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
trigeminal nerve
abducens nerve
facial nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve
vagus nerve
hypoglossal nerve
glosses: Either of a pair of motor nerves that are the 11th cranial nerve of higher vertebrates, arise from the medulla oblongata and the upper part of the spinal cord, controlling the pharynx and the muscles of the upper chest, back and shoulders.
scorbute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: scorbutus; scurvy
accessory nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory nerve
accessory shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessory shoes
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A clip or track on a camera that allows for accessories to be attached.
Related terms: cold shoe
hot shoe
accessory shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accessory shoe
Angoumois moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angoumois moths
Etymology: So named from Angoumois in France.
Senses: glosses: Sitotroga cerealella, a small moth destructive of grain.
Angoumois moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Angoumois moth
sissoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sissoos
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?] / Urdu [Term?]. Doublet of shisham.
Senses: examples: text: There was a huge tree near Minoti's house. It was a Sissoo tree.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: A leguminous tree (Dalbergia sissoo) of northern India.
glosses: The dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from this tree.
Derived terms: sissoo spinach
sissoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sissoo
accipitrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accipitrine
Renaissance man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Renaissance men
form: renaissance man
Etymology: After the Renaissance, as such a concept of man was developed in this period.
Senses: examples: text: Returning from the collections in Paris and Milan, a fashion-editor friend told me, “It's all about”—always the three most powerful words in retail—“Renaissance men.” The one-dimensional C.E.O. is over, he said. “Now it's all about men of multitalents.”
ref: 2002 September 22, William Norwich, “Talk is Chic”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 88:
text: Any fellow who defines himself as a Renaissance man is telling you, in shorthand, "I am full of a quiet yet all-encompassing knowledge and no matter what you know, I will always know better than you and will chuckle with a quiet condescension whenever you challenge me and I might even smoke a pipe.[…]”
ref: 2003, Cynthia Heimel, “Eschew the Renaissance Man!”, in Advanced Sex Tips for Girls, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 53:
text: A Renaissance man is someone that can see trends and patterns and integrate what he knows. To me the modern Renaissance man is curious, interested in different things. You have to be willing to ‘waste time’ on things that are not directly relevant to your work because you are curious.
ref: 2017 [2004], Frans Johansson, quoting Orit Gadiesh, The Medici Effect, updated edition, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN:
text: “Jacob [Rothschild] was truly a Renaissance man,” says Howard Marks, co-founder of $189bn investment powerhouse Oaktree Capital Management and a long-time friend.
ref: 2024 March 2, Harriet Agnew, quoting Howard Marks, “Renaissance man who bridged finance and the arts”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
synonyms: polyhistor
polymath
coordinate_terms: Renaissance woman
glosses: A man with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
glosses: A man who lived in the Renaissance period.
talksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more talksome
form: most talksome
Etymology: From talk + -some. Compare Dutch spraakzaam (“talksome”).
Senses: examples: text: King Sigurd answered somewhat shortly: "Be thou as talksome as it pleases thee, but let me hold my peace for thee."
ref: 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:
text: With all the inventions they have in this new land, you would think some man would have invented a zip-her for a talksome woman's mouth.
ref: 2011, Sandra Hill, The Very Virile Viking:
glosses: Given to much speaking; talkative; wordy.
God complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of God complex
slang-whanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slang-whangers
form: slangwhanger
Etymology: From slang and whang (“to beat”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If, in addition to our own amusements, we have, as we jogged carelessly laughing along, brushed away one tear of dejection and called forth a smile in its place — if we have brightened the pale countenance of a single child of sorrow — we shall feel almost as much joy and rejoicing as a slang-whanger does when he bathes his pen in the heart's blood of a patron and benefactor; or sacrifices an illustrious victim on the altar of party animosity.
ref: 1807 August 14, Washington Irving, “Salmagundi, no. XIII”, in The Complete Works of Washington Irving, M. S. Schmerler, published 1835, page 65:
glosses: One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan.
glosses: One who verbally attacks others; normally a politician or editor.
slang-whangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slang-whanger
spareful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spareful
form: most spareful
Etymology: From spare + -ful?
Senses: examples: text: I admonish them, therefore, to be more spareful in their diet, and so they shall gain health to their bodies, and comfort to their purse.
ref: 1845, James Thorne, Rambles by rivers: The Avon, page 61:
text: She greeted him with the same kindly smile of twenty years before, with a thinner and more spareful expression, however, such as age takes on.
ref: 1912, Missionary Voice- Volume 2, page 692:
text: But how spareful persons he and his predecessors were and how greatly they abstained from all pleasures, even the place where they bare rule did witness, in the which at their departure very few houses were found beside the church ;
ref: 1994, Saint Bede (the Venerable), Thomas Stapleton, Historical Works: Ecclesiastical history of the English nation:
synonyms: word: abstinent
word: temperate
word: abstemious
word: abstentious
word: abstinent
word: sober
word: spareful
word: temperate
glosses: Abstemious; Lacking in appetite or vitality.
examples: text: Lucullus was a niggard of his meat, And spareful of his cups seem'd Anthony;
ref: 1845, Torquato Tasso, Godfrey of Bulloigne: Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem, page li:
text: A good demand obtains for rosin, only limited by the spareful granting of licences.
ref: 1918, The World's Paper Trade Review - Volume 69, page 1074:
text: “If you've got a dog, be spareful of the stuff or he'll leave home,” the youth called after him.
ref: 1956, The New Yorker - Volume 32, Part 2, page 101:
synonyms: word: abstemious
word: parsimonious
word: abstemious
word: canny
word: chary
word: cheap
word: close with a buck
word: economical
word: frugal
word: husbandly
word: huswifely
word: parsimonious
word: penny-pinching
word: prudent
word: spareful
word: sparing
word: spary
word: thrifty
word: tight
word: tightwad
glosses: sparing; chary.
examples: text: But Erasmus added, "And yet such as she was, being also spareful and given to profit, he so framed and fashioned her by his dexterity that he lived a sweet and pleasant life with her, and brought her to that case, that she learned to play and sing at the lute and virginals, and every day at his returning home he took a reckoning and account of the task he enjoined her touching the said exercise."
ref: 1935, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Thomas More, page 110:
text: The gamesome wind among her tresses plays. And curleth up those growing riches short; Her spareful eye to spread his beams denays, But keeps his shot where Cupid keeps his fort;
ref: 1982, John Whenham, Duet and dialogue in the age of Monteverdi - Volume 1, page 31:
glosses: frugal.
Related terms: sparefulness
stearoptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearoptenes
Etymology: From stearic + -optene as in elaeoptene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils, contrasted with elaeoptene.
stearoptenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stearoptene
Renaissance men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Renaissance man
cooptated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cooptate
cooptates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cooptate
cooptating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cooptate
march-ward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: march-wards
Senses: synonyms: marcher
glosses: A warden of the marchland (border area between England and Wales, or England and Scotland)
Related terms: marchman
march-wards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of march-ward
campanero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campaneros
Etymology: From Spanish campanero.
Senses: glosses: The bellbird of South America.
campaneros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campanero
hyacinthlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyacinthlike
form: most hyacinthlike
Etymology: From hyacinth + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Phenylacetaldehyde imparts a hyacinthlike aroma […]
ref: 2005, James Monroe Jay, Martin J. Loessner, David Allen Golden, Modern Food Microbiology, page 323:
glosses: Resembling hyacinth.
phenylpyruvates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenylpyruvate
phenylacetaldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylacetaldehydes
Etymology: From phenyl + acetaldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic compound found in buckwheat, chocolate, etc. responsible for the antibiotic activity of maggot therapy.
phenylacetaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenylacetaldehyde
tamaric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamarics
Etymology: From Latin tamarice. See tamarisk.
Senses: examples: text: He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come.
ref: 1650, Douay–Rheims Bible, Jeremiah xvii. 6
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tamaric.
glosses: A shrub or tree, perhaps the tamarisk or some kind of heath.
ethmoturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethmoturbinals
Etymology: From ethmo- + turbinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An upper turbinal, connected directly with the ethmoid bone.
ethmoturbinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethmoturbinal
pseudoturbinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoturbinals
Etymology: From pseudo- + turbinal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An incurved portion of the wall of the nasal chamber, distinguished from the true turbinals.
pseudoturbinals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoturbinal
harehound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harehounds
Etymology: From hare + hound.
Senses: synonyms: harrier
glosses: One of a small breed of dogs used for hunting hares.
harehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harehound
congiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congiary
congiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒi.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒiˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: congiaries
Etymology: From Latin congiarium, from congius (“a liquid measure”).
Senses: examples: text: We often fee on them the emperor, and two or three general officers, sometimes sitting, and sometimes standing, as they made speeches, or distributed a congiary to the soldiers or people
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: On his arrival in Rome in the year A.D. 219, Elagabalus thought well to carry through the laudable custom (for the poor) of bestowing the usual congiary on the people. If Mediobarbus were to be trusted, he gave six such during his short reign of approximately four years, besides the soldiers' donatives (which to his cost and undoing he foolishly neglected as time went on).
ref: 1911, John Stuart Hay, The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus:
glosses: A present of corn, wine, oil, etc. or later of money, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the common people.
sexangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexangles
Etymology: From Latin sexangulus (“sexangular”), from sex (“six”) + angulus (“angle”). Compare French sexangle and English hexangular; sex- + angle.
Senses: examples: text: the super parts being taken from the Quadrangle will form the Sexangle
ref: 1828, James Wilson (translator), Claudius Ptolomaeus, The Tetrabiblos:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hexagon
Related terms: sexangular
sexangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexangle
dictamnus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictamnuses
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dictamnus, from Latin dictamnum. See dittany.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: dittany
burning bush
gas plant
fraxinella
glosses: A suffrutescent plant of the genus Dictamnus, with strong perfume and showy flowers.
dictamnuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictamnus
dittanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dittany
passymeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passymeasures
Etymology: Corrupted from Italian passamezzo. Doublet of passamezzo.
Senses: examples: text: After a passy-measure, or a pavin', I hate a drunken rogue
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A dance, the passepied.
passymeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passymeasure
bahiagrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bahiagrasses
form: bahia grass
Etymology: From Bahia + grass.
Senses: glosses: A tropical or subtropical perennial grass, Paspalum notatum, native from Mexico to South America and introduced elsewhere
glosses: Any species in the genus Paspalum
bahiagrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bahiagrass
calcinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of calcium salts in the urine
Derived terms: hypercalcinuria
hypocalcinuria
elasmosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elasmosaurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Elasmosauridae of long-necked plesiosaurs.
elasmosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elasmosaurid
calcinotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: calcinotic lesions
glosses: Of or relating to calcinosis.
calcinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcinosis
nontumoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tumoral.
Senses: glosses: Not tumoral.
Chinese menus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese menu
chaetotaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaetotaxy
chetotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaetotaxy.
paterero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patereros
form: patereroes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pederero.
patereroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paterero
patereros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paterero
ampliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampliations
Etymology: From Latin ampliatio. Compare French ampliation. Doublet of ampliatio.
Senses: glosses: enlargement; amplification
topics: law
qualifier: civil law
glosses: A postponement of the decision of a cause for further consideration or reargument.
ampliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampliation
pickle-herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickle-herrings
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis a Gentleman heere. A plague o'these
pickle herring: How now Sot.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
examples: text: The first who made the experiment was a merry-andrew, who was put into my hands by a neighbouring justice of peace, in order to reclaim him from that profligate kind of life. Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one turn in it, when he came out of the cave, like a hermit from his cell, with a penitential look and a most rueful countenance.
ref: 1714 September 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, September 14, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 599; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A buffoon.
pickle-herrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickle-herring
sillock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪ.lək/
Forms: form: sillocks
Etymology: From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from Old Norse síl, síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.
Senses: glosses: A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.
sillocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sillock
crystallurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “ice, crystal”) + -urgy.
Senses: glosses: crystallization
optotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optotypes
Etymology: From opto- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: Optotypes can be specially shaped letters, numbers, or geometric symbols.
glosses: A standardized symbol for testing vision.
glosses: An eye chart
Derived terms: optotypic
optotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optotype
crossbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossbeaks
Etymology: From cross + beak.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the crossbill.
crossbeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossbeak
mellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: mellitic acid
expulsatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expulsatory
form: most expulsatory
Senses: glosses: expulsive; having the power to expel; serving to expel
accommodation ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accommodation ladder
accommodation paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accommodation papers
Senses: topics: business
commerce
law
glosses: A note or bill drawn, draft accepted, or endorsed by one or more parties to enable another party to obtain credit or raise money without consideration or collateral.
accommodation papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accommodation paper
cutey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuteys
Etymology: From cute + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With me, a bird in the hand and a cutey in a bed is worth dozens of them in a bush you can't reach
ref: 1945, James T. Farrell, Judgement Day:
glosses: Alternative form of cutie.
cuteys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutey
accommodation train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accommodation trains
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A local train that stops at all or nearly all stops and is used by passengers and freight.
accommodation trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accommodation train
seannachie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃænəxi/
Forms: form: seannachies
form: schenachy
form: seannachy
form: senachie
form: senachy
form: sennachie
form: sennachy
form: shanachie
form: shanachy
form: shenachie
Etymology: From Irish seanchaí and Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, from Old Irish senchaid.
Senses: examples: text: Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65:
glosses: a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
seannachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seannachie
glosses: plural of seannachy
senachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
senachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senachie
glosses: plural of senachy
coffin dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffin dodgers
Senses: examples: text: That if parents don't look after their kids some long box makers are likely to be busy soon. That if after the discharge of buckshot these urchin's escape the "O.K" man will have to have another look out for the coffin-dodgers.
ref: 1891 August 1, O.K., “Short Notes by "O.K."”, in Logan Witness, Beenleigh, Qld, Australia, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2019, page 2:
text: Myers Gilbert known in Milwaukee, Wis., and in fact everywhere he has been as "Coffin Dodger," because of his good luck in wiggling out of tight places, is a typical tramp newsboy and a mighty clever sample of the progressive boy of the streets.
ref: 1906 May 22, “Man About Town”, in The Evening Times, Grand Forks, N.D., archived from the original on 22 Jun 2019, page 4:
text: "Captain Cook" tells a tale of sin and deceit :- Have you ever heard of Harry, the Coffin Dodger, champion leg-puller of the Ultimo depot ?
ref: 1907 November 13, Longstaff, “Tram Troubadors”, in The Sydney Sportsman, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2019, page 3:
glosses: An elderly person, a person close to death, or good at avoiding death.
examples: text: While the Liquor Act Amendment Act was lately before the House, Mr. Leake tried to get the members to pass a clause imposing a penalty not exceeding £50 on any licensed person permitting any woman or girl to sell or serve liquor on his licensed premises. Parliament, however, did not see fit to abolish the fascinating female dispenser of the Cur-r-r-sed Dr-r-r-ink. She is still to be allowed to administer the "coffin-dodger" or "corpse-reviver" at will.
ref: 1897 November 13, “Barmaids, Avaunt!”, in The Esperance Times, Esperance, WA, Australia, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2019, page 2:
text: All sorts came to see Linda, whose soulful innocence was as refreshing as a gin cocktail or a coffin-dodger the next morning, when one has a tongue like the corporation street brush and a mouth in semblance, to the bottom of a parrot cage.
ref: 1901 April 28, “Lovely Linda's Love Lore”, in Truth, Brisbane, Qld., Australia, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2019, page 2:
text: PICKUP. SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN. He is a Dispenser of everything WET, and a Vendor of COFFIN-DODGERS.
ref: 1905 December 16, “Pickup”, in The Express and Telegraph, Adelaide, SA, Australia, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2019, page 2:
glosses: An alcoholic drink, sometimes drunk as a hangover "cure".
Synonyms: sense: elderly person
word: antique
word: crinkly
word: twirly
word: old person
cipolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cipolins
form: chipolin
form: cipollino
Etymology: From Italian cipollino (“a little onion”), from cipolla (“onion”) (compare English cibol). So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white-green wavy-banded form of marble, used in buildings in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It consists of coloured veins of epidote and chlorite.
Synonyms: chipolin
cipollino
cipolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cipolin
dictyogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictyogens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίκτυον (díktuon, “net”) + -gen.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant with net-veined leaves and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the families Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.
dictyogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictyogen
scolithi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolithus
scolithus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolithi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκώληξ (skṓlēx, “worm”) +
λίθος (líthos, “stone”)
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A tubular structure found in sedimentary rocks, such as sandstone, believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm.
perigynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perigynium
perigynium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹɪˈd͡ʒɪnɪəm/
Forms: form: perigynia
form: perigyne
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin perigynium, from peri- + Ancient Greek γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized sheath-like bract that surrounds the ovary or fruit of some flowering plants, especially those in the family Cyperaceae (sedges); utricle.
Related terms: perigynous
skittle-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skittle-dogs
Senses: glosses: The spiny dogfish.
skittle-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skittle-dog
perigonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perigonium
hedylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedylids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family of Hedylidae, the American moth-butterflies.
hedylids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedylid
sheep-split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep-splits
Senses: glosses: A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
sheep-splits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheep-split
disinthrall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinthralls
form: disinthralling
form: disinthralled
form: disinthralled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disinthral.
disinthralls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinthrall
solenacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solenaceans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of several species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family Solenidae.
Related terms: Solanaceae
solenaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solenacean
contraversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraversions
Senses: examples: text: The second Stanza was called the Antistrophé , from the Contraversion of the Chorus
ref: a. 1729, William Congreve, Poems on Several Occasions:
glosses: A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
Related terms: contraversive
contraversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraversion
Congrevean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Congrevean
form: most Congrevean
Etymology: From Congreve + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Congrevian.
Congrevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Congrevian
form: most Congrevian
form: Congrevean
Etymology: From Congreve + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Congreve (1670–1729), English playwright and poet.
leafcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leaf + cutting.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-cutting.
naeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naeves
form: næve
Etymology: Latin naevus.
Senses: examples: text: Was there no milder way but the smallpox; The very filthiness of Pandora's box? So many spots, like næves, our Venus soil?
ref: 1649, John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings:
glosses: Alternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”).
naeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naeve
seirfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seirfish
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of seerfish.
traphole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapholes
Etymology: From trap + hole.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A trou-de-loup.
glosses: mouth
trapholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traphole
caroubier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caroubiers
Etymology: From French caroubier.
Senses: glosses: carob (tree)