cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ENHG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Early New High German.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Early New High German.
craz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more craz'd
form: most craz'd
Senses: examples: text: […] my Lord ſtar’d at him like a ſtuck Pig, and he as much at my Lord, till having diſpatch’d him I was fain to recover all by ſwearing he was a craz’d old Edge Hill Officer, that I kept upon Charity.
ref: 1691, T[homas] Durfey, Love for Money: or, The Boarding School. A Comedy., London: […] Abel Roper […], page 13:
text: That the Laws of other Nations ſeem’d to him very defective and incongruous, who were very ſollicitous for the Bread of their Dogs and Horſes, and ſent a great way to get the beſt Stallions, and yet kept their Wives under Lock and Key, for fear of other Men; whereas themſelves were craz’d, old, or infirm, and more fit to propagate Diſeaſes than their Species.
ref: 1697, God’s Judgments Against Whoring. Being an Essay Towards a General History of It, […], volume I, London: […] Richard Baldwin, […], page 190:
text: […] Mr. Criſp and I have Letters of hers ſtill by us, which, it may be, may fill another Half Sheet, but I would not beſtow much upon this craz’d old piece, which is now creeping into the Unity of the Quakers, and no way was to be found, but to make G. Whitehead a Gentleman Quaker, and to tell a few innocent Lies, to uphold their tottering Cauſe.
ref: 1699 April 11, Francis Bugg, Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Docwra, Publickly Reprov’d, for Her Lies and Lightness in Her Book, Stiled, An Apostate Conscience, &c., pages 4–5:
text: O diſpel the Clouds in which now his Soul is wrapped up: That he may come to a good Underſtanding of himſelf, and the Things of his Peace; reduce and heal the craz'''’d and broken Faculties: Or elſe ſettle and quiet them; pacify and compoſe them.
ref: 1735, B[enjamin] Jenks, Prayers, and Offices of Devotion; for Families, and for Particular Persons, upon Most Occasions, 9th edition, London: […] A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, […], pages 397–398:
glosses: Archaic form of crazed.
craz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Whoſe recreant limbes are notcht with gaping ſcarres, / Thicker than any carking craftſ-mans ſcore: / Whoſe very skalp is ſcratcht, and craz’d, and broken, / Like an old mazer beaten on the ſtones: / And ſtand’ſt thou now to ſaue our maimed men? / A plague vpon thee coward.
ref: 1626, [Thomas Heywood], “[The First Part]”, in The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth […], 6th edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes, →OCLC:
text: He was very thoughtful and his Melancholly was ſo great, that at laſt it craz’d him: […]
ref: 1706, [Roger] De Piles, translated by [John Savage], The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters: […], London: […] J. Nutt […], page 209:
text: […]—my wife ſhe takes pity on un, and ſays ſhe’s ſure he’s only a little craz’d by his miſfortunes, eſpecially within theſe two or three days, ſince this laſt bad news from France, when, to be ſure, he have ſeemed like one rift of his wits.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume IV, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: But when I told the cruel scorn / Which craz’d this bold and lovely Knight, / And that he cross’d the mountain woods / ⁠Nor rested day nor night; […]
ref: 1799, [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “Love”, in W[illiam] Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Co. Bristol, published 1800, page 140:
glosses: simple past and past participle of craze
Southern Province
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either:
* A calque of Tamil தென் மாகாணம் (teṉ mākāṇam).
* A calque of Sinhalese දකුණු පළාත (dakuṇu paḷāta).
Senses: glosses: A province of Sri Lanka. Capital: Galle.
tea-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-boards
Senses: examples: text: The newſpaper was immediately called for, if not brought in on the tea-board, from which he would ſcarcely lift his eyes while I poured out the tea,[…].
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter IX, page 14:
text: […] they all four ascended to the parlour; where—[…]—the tea-board was at that moment being set out.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Is a Chapter of Love”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 252:
text: […] James brought in the tea-board, with its genuine China tea-service, plates with cake and bread-and-butter, and, whilst he went back to Kezia for the tea-urn, in walked Mr. Ashton, and with him the Rev. Joshua Brookes.
ref: 1876, Mrs. G[eorge] Linnæus Banks [i.e., Isabella Banks], “Wounded”, in The Manchester Man, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of tea board.
tea-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-board
maternity dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternity dresses
Senses: glosses: A dress designed to be worn by a pregnant woman who has a large baby bump
tea-service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea-services
Senses: examples: text: All the furniture is shaken and dusted, the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Snagsby are touched up with a wet cloth, the best tea-service is set forth, and there is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley; […]
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Moving on”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 185:
text: […] James brought in the tea-board, with its genuine China tea-service, plates with cake and bread-and-butter, and, whilst he went back to Kezia for the tea-urn, in walked Mr. Ashton, and with him the Rev. Joshua Brookes.
ref: 1876, Mrs. G[eorge] Linnæus Banks [i.e., Isabella Banks], “Wounded”, in The Manchester Man, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 79:
text: He seems to have been a man of great wealth, even for that day, as he brought with him 60,000 guineas, an immense amount of silver-plate for daily family use, including two complete tea-services, two large urns, one for coffee and the other for chocolate, tureens, mugs, tumblers, goblets, porringers, chafing-dish, ladles, forks and knives with solid silver handles; […]
ref: 1867, Henry R[eed] Stiles, A History of the City of Brooklyn. Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh., volume I, Brooklyn, N.Y.: […] [B]y subscription, page 308:
text: Courteix displayed motifs for embroideries and lacework which ladies will welcome with enthusiasm, while Abel Landry showed an ensemble of work at once varied and homogeneous: a sofa, chairs, a desk, a tea-service, and a bonbonnière—a whole set of what we may call “woman’s furniture,” which, by its simplicity and its fine and elegant appearance, is quite refreshing after the abracadabrant experiments wherewith we are, alas! only too familiar.
ref: 1904, The Studio, page 164, columns 1–2:
glosses: Archaic form of tea service.
tea-services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea-service
Western Province
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either:
* a calque of Sinhalese බස්නාහිර පළාත (basnāhira paḷāta)
* a calque of Tamil மேல் மாகாணம் (mēl mākāṇam)
Senses: glosses: A province of Sri Lanka. Capital: Colombo.
Williamsburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The village of Newtown is conveniently located upon the turnpike-road leading from Brooklyn and Williamsburgh to Flushing.
ref: 1839, Benjamin F[ranklin] Thompson, History of Long Island; Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement; with Other Important and Interesting Matters to the Present Time, New York, N.Y.: […] E. French, […], page 418:
text: But since my visit to this establishment, I have learned that there are in the city and all around it, in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, and other places, similar establishments, in full blast, so that there is probably more of this poisonous fluid sold for milk in the city of New York this moment, than there ever was before.
ref: 1847, [Samuel Irenæus Prime], Life in New York, New York, N.Y.: Robert Carter, […], page 189:
text: This tract of land extended from the Creek of Runnegaconck to the present Division avenue, which formerly marked the boundary between the cities of Williamsburgh and Brooklyn.
ref: 1867, Henry R[eed] Stiles, A History of the City of Brooklyn. Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh., volume I, Brooklyn, N.Y.: […] [B]y subscription, page 88:
glosses: Obsolete form of Williamsburg.
wireless telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireless telegraphs
Senses: glosses: A telegraph sent by wireless telegraphy
wireless telegraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wireless telegraph
wirewound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: wound around a wire
Derived terms: wirewound resistor
base plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base plates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baseplate.
base point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base points
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basepoint.
base plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base plate
base points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base point
break-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-downs
Senses: examples: text: I am quite competent to answer all / Demands, in any such capacity— / But of the break-down of my general aims: […]
ref: 1835, Robert Browning, “III.—Paracelsus.”, in Paracelsus, London: Effingham Wilson, […], →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of breakdown.
break-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break-down
calling party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calling parties
Senses: glosses: A person, or machine, that initiates a phonecall
calling parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calling party
cathedral church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathedral churches
Senses: glosses: The main church in a diocese, not necessarily a cathedral
change-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: change-overs
Etymology: Deverbal from change over.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of changeover.
check-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from check out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of checkout.
cathedral churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cathedral church
check-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check-out
change-overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of change-over
coal dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As she goes, you have a wash yourself, and although you will have to change your clothes to get rid of all the coal-dust, you are glad of soap and water and take it easy at last.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of coaldust.
color photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: photography using multiple colors, as opposed to black-and-white photography
sales-lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales-ladies
Senses: examples: text: “I am the sales-lady who served you, madam,” responded the reduced empress in banged hair, long watch-chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter.
ref: 1879 January 11, “Fun”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume XLVII, number 1,215, New York, N.Y., page 338, column 2:
text: It describes the largest combination dry-goods store and bazaar in Paris, and shows the life of the sales-ladies and salesmen employed behind its counters, with their flirtations, trials, troubles and temptations.
ref: 1882, “Emile Zola’s Greatest Works”, in Émile Zola, The Mysteries of the Court of Louis Napoleon, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers: […]:
text: Lillian Stubbs, sales-lady, as she called herself, stood irresolute, for a moment, behind the storm-doors of that fashionable emporium known as Dunn, Dusenberry & Co.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Archaic form of saleslady.
sales-ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sales-lady
crowning achievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowning achievements
Senses: examples: text: Arago produced the electro-magnet, Seebeck the thermo-pile and in 1831, as the crowning achievement of all, Faraday announced that he had obtained electricity from a magnet, thus discovering the principle of that wonderful engine - the dynamo, and inaugurating a new era both in scientific research and practical application.
ref: 1915, Nikola Tesla, The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity:
glosses: The most important or glorious achievement.
crowning achievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowning achievement
dual nationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dual citizenship.
synonyms: word: dual citizenship
feed line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feed lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feedline.
feed-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feed-backs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feedback.
feed-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feed-back
feed lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feed line
shut-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shut-downs
Etymology: Deverbal from shut down.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shutdown.
shut-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shut-down
house-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-tops
Senses: examples: text: The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.
ref: 1852 January 3, “The Drama”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art, for the Year 1852, number 1824, London: Reeve and Co., […], page 22:
text: It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter III (The Lauriston Gardens Mystery), page 17:
text: They drove to shelter all citizens possessed of homes, while the belated ones, or the unfortunates, were pursued and buffeted with a fiendish delight that found expression in wild shrieks; and up the street and over the house-tops they would sweep, meeting other winds tearing round corners and whirling into each other, making lesser storms that sent up in circles snow, soot, and lighter garbage far into the murky night.
ref: 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 86:
text: Long, long did the child lie in her little bed, awake, listening with a throbbing little heart for the sledge bells of Saint Claus, and the sound of the reindeers’ feet pattering over the house-top.
ref: 1899, by “Kit”, “Holy Saint Claus”, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume 12, page 159, column 2:
text: The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]
ref: 1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:
glosses: Archaic form of housetop.
house-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-top
house top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house tops
Senses: examples: text: What I tell you in darkeneſſe, that ſpeake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that pꝛeach yee vpon the houſe tops.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:27, column 2:
text: The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted
ref: 1895 A description of the 1895-6 FA Cup First Round match between Southampton St. Mary's and Sheffield Wednesday at the Antelope Ground (David Bull, Bob Brunskill, Match of the Millennium, 2000)
text: From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top.
ref: 1935, Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men:
glosses: Alternative form of housetop.
house tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house top
unlady-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlady-like
form: most unlady-like
Etymology: From un- + lady-like.
Senses: examples: text: “Jo does use such slang words,” observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug. Jo immediately sat up, put her hands in her apron pockets, and began to whistle. / “Don’t, Jo; it’s so boyish.” / “That’s why I do it.” / “I detest rude, unlady-like girls.”
ref: 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Playing Pilgrims”, in Little Women: […], 1st part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC, pages 9–10:
text: Charles. Say—why that it was a most unlady-like piece of business. Sarah. And why if it is so unlady-like to do it, how do you make it out that it is so very gentlemanly to do it. Charles. That’s altogether a different thing. Gentlemen do many things which it would be very unlady-like for a lady to do. Sarah. No doubt, but that does not answer my question. What is there that is so specially gentlemanly in your smoking, and so specially unlady-like in my doing the same.
ref: 1882, John W[illiam] Kirton, “Which will You Give up? A Dialogue for Young Man and Young Woman”, in Standard Temperance Dialogues: Being a Collection of Original Prose and Poetical Pieces Suitable for Anniversary, Social, and Other Meetings, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock and Co. […], page 47:
text: Ladies, I’m sure that at the young age of three or four many of you loved to go outside digging in the soil and getting your hands full of clay. You were probably very interested in picking up and touching bugs such as carpenters and grasshoppers. Your parents who were concerned about your unlady-like habit most likely discouraged this natural curiosity of yours.
ref: 1992, Heather Hunt, “Gender Equity in Science and its Related Fields”, in Chalkdust & Chewing Gum, St. John’s, N.L.: Jesperson Press Limited, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of unladylike.
tulip-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tulip-like
form: most tulip-like
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkably smooth, and not less admired for its fiddle-shaped leaves, than its tulip-like flowers, which are formed at the ends of the branches.
ref: 1829, James King, A Poem on Leigh Park, the Seat of Sir George Thos. Staunton, Bart., London: […] Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], page 52:
text: The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 129:
text: We are not alone, walking with blistered feet in the desert: We meet many a tulip-like beauty, their heads covered with dust.
ref: 2001, Darshan Singh, translated by Barry Lerner and Harbans Singh Bedi, Love’s Last Madness: Poems on a Spiritual Path, Hohm Press, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of tuliplike.
aforewrit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + writ (an archaic form of written).
Senses: examples: text: On a night of late summer leaning towards autumn, eight weeks after the sailing of the Demons out of Muelva as is aforewrit, the Lady Prezmyra sate before her mirror in Corund’s lofty bed-chamber in Carcë.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 372, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
qualifier: archaic or pseudo-archaic
glosses: Synonym of aforewritten (“written previously”).
synonyms: word: aforewritten
extra: written previously
care-worn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more care-worn
form: most care-worn
Senses: examples: text: The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt / Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt / About his large dark locks, and faultering spake: […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 119, lines 290–292:
text: She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 139:
text: Yet Cynthia herself seemed anxious and care-worn, though she would not speak of her anxieties to Molly.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Archaic form of careworn.
Belmond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Wright County, Iowa, United States.
aforetyme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And from thence he went agaynſt yͤ inhabiters of Debir (but Debir was called Kiriath Sepher afoꝛetyme.)
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges j:[3], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
glosses: Archaic form of aforetime.
mountweazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountweazels
Senses: examples: text: And it seems that modern dictionaries still occasionally use a mountweazel to flush out cheats. One famous made-up word, esquivalience, appeared in the 2001 edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary.
ref: 2016, Kate Burridge, Alexander Bergs, Understanding Language Change, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mountweazel.
mountweazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountweazel
aforetymes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
glosses: Archaic form of aforetimes.
nomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nombers
Senses: examples: text: When he had saied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
glosses: Obsolete form of number.
nombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomber
saied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
glosses: Obsolete form of said.
aforetold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + told.
Senses: examples: text: We took 17 samples representative of the different horizons along the stratigraphic sequence (some required additional later sampling as aforetold) that was represented in the form of a graphic log plot using Strater v5 (Golden Software).
ref: 2023 February 21, Armando Azua-Bustos et al., “Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits”, in Nature Communications, volume 14, London […]: Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Told or discussed previously.
Related terms: foretold
aforest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aforests
form: aforesting
form: aforested
form: aforested
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of afforest.
aforests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aforest
aforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of afforesting.
aforesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aforest
afforestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afforesting
wounde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woundes
Senses: examples: text: For iff the patient be aſhamed to diſcloſe his wounde to the phyſician which knoweth it not, phyſicke can not helpe him.
ref: 1565, Thomas Stapleton, A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], part 2, folio 112, recto:
text: […] I affirme that the ioyning of the parts of the wounde in the heade and other parts of the body, is moſt ſouereine and of great ſatiſfaction to the ſicke, foꝛ they neuer feele payne, noꝛ haue no feuer noꝛ other ſoꝛte of accident, foꝛ of thoſe I haue cured a great number with good ſucceſſe.
ref: 1580, Leonardo Phioravanti, translated by Iohn Hester, A Short Discours of the Excellent Doctour and Knight, Maister Leonardo Phioravanti Bolognese vppon Chirurgerie. […], London: […] Thomas East, folio 32, verso:
text: Art thou that villaine in whoſe damned mouth, / Was neuer heard of any woꝛd but woundes?
ref: 1599, [Thomas Heywood], “[The First Part]”, in The First and Second Partes of King Edvvard the Fourth. […], London: […] I. W. for Iohn Oxenbridge, […], →OCLC; reprinted Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: The Rosenbach Company, 1922, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of wound.
woundes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wounde
Garabagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Azerbaijani Qarabağ.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karabakh.
aforested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aforested
form: most aforested
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of afforested.
aforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aforest
a-alikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-alike
aforespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aforespoken
form: most aforespoken
Etymology: From afore- + spoken.
Senses: examples: text: It gratifies me to tell you, as readers, that many genuine cases of filled teeth, crown-work and bridges which were exhumed in various parts of Italy, Greece, Etruria and Egypt, are on exhibition in the present Columbian World's Fair, and I hope the writer of the aforespoken disclaimer can have the pleasure of acknowledging his mistake.
ref: 1893, B[ernard] J[ohn] Cigrand, The Rise, Fall and Revival of Dental Prosthesis, second edition, Chicago, I.L.: The Periodical Publishing Co., page 98:
glosses: Spoken previously.
aforedetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + determined.
Senses: examples: text: This vision brings Faust to the fateful moment when he speaks the aforedetermined words of contentment.
ref: 1987, Ida H. Washington, Echoes of Lucian in Goethe's Faust, volume 1, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Determined or decided upon previously.
decide on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decides on
form: deciding on
form: decided on
form: decided on
Senses: examples: text: I'm having trouble deciding on where to get food.
text: With sales slipping, a fast-food chain notorious for featuring scantily clad women has decided on a food-centric message.
ref: 2019 November 13, Tiffany Hsu, “Carl's Jr.'s Marketing Plan: Pitch Burgers, Not Sex”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2023:
synonyms: decide upon
set
glosses: To choose (something) after carefully considering one's options.
decides on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decide on
deciding on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decide on
decided on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decide on
decide upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decides upon
form: deciding upon
form: decided upon
form: decided upon
Senses: examples: text: The process of deciding upon a new owner for Chelsea took a step forward on Thursday after a Saudi Arabian consortium was removed from the running.
ref: 2022 March 24, Paul Macinnes, “Saudi bid for Chelsea fails as Boehly and Broughton groups remain frontrunners”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2023:
glosses: Synonym of decide on.
synonyms: word: decide on
decides upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decide upon
deciding upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decide upon
decided upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decide upon
aforegiven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + given.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than reviewing the literature in detail, I will begin by noting that the aforegiven partial and superficial overview suggests that estrangement happens when people cease to own something, which might be taken to imply that all estrangement presupposes the institution of private property.
ref: 2019 March 1, Boris Hennig, “Self-Knowledge, Estrangement, and Social Metabolism”, in Monthly Review, New York, N.Y.: Monthly Review Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023:
glosses: Given or provided previously.
Related terms: foregiven
aforegranted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + granted.
Senses: examples: text: He held up his hand for silence. Carefully unfolded a piece of yellowed parchment, motes of dust filtering into the air. "Listen, my friends, to the proof: […] To have and to hold the aforegranted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof, to the said Demosthenes Kalandropolis' heirs and assigns forever.
ref: 1986, Gladys Swan, Carnival for the Gods, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: law
glosses: Granted previously (in the document).
aforeset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + set.
Senses: examples: text: A fleet of hansom cabs drew up at the aforeset time to transport Mawrdew Czgowchwz, Jacob Beltane, and all their friends down Fifth Avenue to the Plaza, then westward along Central Park South to Broadway, then down Broadway to Thirty-ninth Street—circling the opera house—then north again to Forty-second Street, then west to the river, then north again to Pier 91, where the Arcadia sat docked.
ref: 1975, James McCourt, Mawrdew Czgowchwz, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 230:
synonyms: aforedetermined
foreordained
glosses: Set or determined in advance.
aforeseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aforeseen
form: most aforeseen
Etymology: From afore- + seen.
Senses: examples: text: It is the judgment of this court that the witch, being still married in the eyes of God, may now be accused of the sin of adultery with the aforeseen witness Luis Diaz. How say you all?
ref: 1994, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, The Witches' Hammer, New York, N.Y.: Signet Books, →ISBN, page 404:
glosses: Seen at an earlier time.
Related terms: foreseen
Nowa Sarzyna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Polish nowa (“new”) + Sarzyna.
Senses: glosses: A town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-east Poland.
wikipedia: Sarzyna
aforerecited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + recited.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Recited (spoken out loud) previously.
aforerehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From afore- + rehearsed.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: aforerecited
aforespoken
glosses: Rehearsed (spoken out loud) previously.
aforeshewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aforeshown.
shiek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shieks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sheik.
Australian pull-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian pull-ups
Senses: synonyms: inverted row
glosses: A type of pull-up where the lifter lies under a horizontal bar or some other kind of suspension trainer, with an overhand grip, straight arms, straight body, upper body hanging with heels on the ground, and pulls their chest to bring it to the level of the suspension trainer.
Nuskhuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ნუსხური (nusxuri, “small letters”), from ნუსხა (nusxa, “inventory, schedule”).
Senses: glosses: One of three forms of the Georgian alphabet. Nuskhuri, a monumental script, is the 2nd form of the Georgian alphabet, but it is no longer used for writing the language.
Related terms: Asomtavruli
Mkhedruli
Khutsuri
steals someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steal someone's heart
stealing someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steal someone's heart
stole someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steal someone's heart
workbookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workbookish
form: most workbookish
Etymology: From workbook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Yet if only the facts of sacred happenings are repeated without the deeper understanding and application of the lessons inherent in the examples given, spiritual study becomes workbookish, dull, lifeless.
ref: 1994, Raymond S. Moore, Dorothy N. Moore, The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook: A Creative and Stress-Free Approach to Homeschooling, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, Inc., →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Characteristic of a workbook.
m-spec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.spɛk/
Forms: form: mspec
Etymology: From m (from multisexual) + spec, a clipping of spectrum. Probably modelled on the slightly earlier a-spec (“on the asexual spectrum”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:m-spec.
glosses: On, or relating to, the multisexual spectrum (bisexual, pansexual, etc).
mspec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mspec
form: most mspec
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mspec.
glosses: Alternative spelling of m-spec.
Whiteabbey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From white + abbey, after White Abbey, now a ruin.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village near Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
autobibliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobibliographies
Etymology: From auto- + bibliography, compare autobiography.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, a third section complements the first, listing his published nonfiction pieces, mainly poems and articles. The volume is a mine of valuable information, a kind of autobibliography that provides an accurate chart of the author’s production rhythm and his popularity in terms, for example, of printings, reprintings and prices paid by magazines.
ref: 1984, Andrė Le Vot, translated by William Byron, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, London: Allen Lane, translation of Scott Fitzgerald, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A self-compiled list of one's own writings or literary works.
Ash'arite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ash'ari + -ite.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to Ash'arism.
Ash'arite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ash'arites
Etymology: From Ash'ari + -ite.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A disciple of the Sunni Islamic school of Ash'arism.
methioninyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methionine + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A radical or group derived from methionine.
chemostatigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chemostratigraphy.
illuminationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminationisms
form: Illuminationism
Etymology: From illumination + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Islamic philosophical and mystical school of thought introduced by Iranian philosopher Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi in the 12th century.
Related terms: illuminationist
illuminationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Illuminationist
Etymology: From illumination + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to illuminationism.
illuminationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminationists
form: Illuminationist
Etymology: From illumination + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A follower of illuminationism.
cryocompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + compression.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A therapy involving the simultaneous use of compression and cryotherapy.
Avicennans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Avicennan
ligandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ligand + -able.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: Capable of binding a ligand.
phenyldiazirine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenyldiazirines
Etymology: From phenyl + diazirine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical formed by linking a phenyl group to a diazirine ring.
Kurunegala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in North Western Province, Sri Lanka.
kilograms-force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilogram-force
strat shag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strat shags
Etymology: From strat (“strategic”) + shag (“act of sex”).
Senses: glosses: An act of sex intended to advance one's own personal aims.
strat shags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strat shag
prestiging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of prestige
practice makes progress
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: practice makes progress, progress makes perfect
Etymology: In analogy with practice makes perfect; this proverb states instead that progress must be made before one can perfect something, eliciting patience.
Senses: examples: text: There is a fine balance between asking too many questions and becoming an irritant, asking too few and knowing insufficient. But practice makes progress even if it is not possible to claim perfect.
ref: 1987, Michael C. Jackson, Paul Keys, editor, New Directions in Management Science, Gower Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Although people may not be good at suppressing unwanted thoughts and derailing unbidden ruminations, practice makes progress.
ref: 2010, Susan Fiske, Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 171:
text: But what I find the most inspiring is "Practice makes progress." Whether your progress is a yard or an inch — distance is distance.
ref: 2023, Sarah-Kate Duran, “Consistency”, in Paso Robles Press:
glosses: If one practices an activity enough, one will steadily make progress and eventually be able to master it in time.
hextuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hextuplets
Etymology: From hextuple + -et.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sextuplet.
synonyms: word: sextuplet
hextuplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hextuplet
no shot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Possibly from shot (“an opportunity or attempt”) or as a euphemism of no shit.
Senses: examples: text: No shot!!! I just won the lottery!
text: Wordle 232 1/6 […] WHAT THE FUCK??? NO SHOT??? HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DID I MANAGE
ref: 2022 February 6, @olisbff, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
text: Haha no fkin shot, his brother is the Dr. This is the best twist ever.
ref: 2022 April 2, u/ericmok100, “Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san - Episode 8 discussion”, in Reddit, r/anime, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
text: I was like "actual? low key bro no shot she said that, right?"
ref: 2023 February 12, u/CmickG, “DR DISRESPECT - FANDUEL SUPERSTAR SHOWDOWN”, in Reddit, r/DrDisrespectLive, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
text: No shot you just responded to a tweet from three years ago how did you even find that😭
ref: 2023 September 21, @KJpixel14, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
text: no shot they added rage queue prevention to mario kart💀
ref: 2023 September 22, @KibbleCog, Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2023:
synonyms: no way
glosses: No chance or possibility (expressing amazement and disbelief of an event).
examples: text: While there is no shot specifically for monkeypox, data from trials with nonhuman primates suggested that vaccines against the closely related smallpox virus might also prevent transmission of this one.
ref: 2022 September 12, Stephanie Nolen, “Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the World”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, shot.
farm-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farm-like
form: most farm-like
Senses: examples: text: To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:
text: The backyard, of necessity, became a farm-like area full of hay, manure, and broken carriage parts.
ref: 1968, Marvin Tameanko, “To Buy or to Build”, in House and Home, Toronto, Ont.: General Publishing Co. Limited, page 32, column 1:
text: Edwin Cawston’s farm was not a typical farm-like environment or a traditional zoo setting, but akin to a modern-day amusement park that rivaled the top Southern California attractions of that time—Santa Catalina’s Avalon Bay, Busch Gardens, Mount Lowe Railway, Venice of America canals, and Gay’s Lion Farm in El Monte.
ref: 2007, Rick Thomas, South Pasadena’s Ostrich Farm (Images of America), Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of farmlike.
out-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-houses
Senses: examples: text: A Gentleman, of good Account, in Ipſwich, affirms, that in a few Miles riding that Day, there was eleven Barns and Out-houſes blown down in the Road within his View; […]
ref: 1704, [Daniel Defoe], The Storm: or, A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters Which Happen’d in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land, London: […] G. Sawbridge […], and Sold by J. Nutt […], page 54:
text: They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
ref: 1829, [Walter Scott], “Introduction”, in Rob Roy (Waverley Novels; VII), Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Company; London: Simpkin & Marshall, page xiv:
text: To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:
text: A neighbor of ours hid six cans of rifle powder in the bake-oven of an old discarded cooking stove which stood on the open ground near a frame out-house or shed, and from and after that day never thought of it again.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 275:
glosses: Archaic form of outhouse.
out-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of out-house
riding on the back of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride on the back of
riding out the storm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride out the storm
rode pillion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ride pillion
riding pillion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride pillion
left a mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave a mark
left one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave one's mark
leaving one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave one's mark
leaves one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave one's mark
made one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make one's mark
making one's mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make one's mark