cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cross swords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses swords
form: crossing swords
form: crossed swords
form: crossed swords
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, sword., to place or hold two swords so they cross each other.
examples: text: I do not relish crossing swords with Pike's hook.
ref: 1966 September 24, Brian Hayles, “The Smugglers, episode 3” (15:39 from the start), in Doctor Who, season 4, episode 3, spoken by The Squire (Paul Whitsun-Jones), via BBC:
glosses: To fight with someone; to duel.
examples: text: You say that you do not see how you and I have crossed swords with the priests.
ref: 1902, Richard Bagot, Donna Diana, published 2008, →ISBN, page 240:
text: I must cross swords with the author of the article on the Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland, on two points.
ref: 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
text: Loring Pickering and George K. Fitch, the owners of these newspapers, had as early as 1870 crossed swords with the local typographical union, and had been defeated in a strike when they had attempted a reduction in wages.
ref: 1974, Ira Brown Cross, “The Knights of Labor”, in A history of the labor movement in California, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Crossing swords with oligarchs is one problem. An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries.
ref: 2002, Ukraine's Quest Roundtable Steering Committee, “Ukraine and Human Rights”, in Ukraine's Quest for Mature Nation Statehood - A roundtable, →ISBN, First Session, page 25:
glosses: To quarrel or argue with someone; to have a dispute with someone.
glosses: For males, to urinate simultaneously such that the streams intersect.
Synonyms: sense: to have a dispute with someone
word: lock horns
crosses swords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross swords
crossing swords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross swords
crossed swords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross swords
colchicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colchicums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Colchicum, from Latin colchicum, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).
Senses: glosses: Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
examples: text: Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
Related terms: colchicine
collocational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From collocation + -al.
Senses: synonyms: collocative
glosses: Of or pertaining to collocation.
cootling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cootlings
Etymology: From coot + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young coot
credal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We are not aware that a complete report of the lecture has yet reached this country, but the head and front of Mr. Justice Higinbotham's offending, according to his critics, seems to be that he has seen fit to inveigh against credal systems as corrupting the primitive simplicity of Christ's teaching.
ref: 1883, The Christian Life, volume 9, page 543:
glosses: Alternative spelling of creedal.
examples: text: It is important to note that there are credal sets that cannot be represented by a credal network of the above form.
ref: 2010, Rolf Haenni, Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks, page 90:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describes a probability based on belief.
Related terms: pignistic
creedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: credal
Etymology: From creed + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For every branch of jurisprudence secular or sacred and therefore also for canonical and creedal jurisprudence, this implies at least the following five issues: enactment, ratification, enforcement, compliance, interpretation.
ref: 2005, Jaroslav Pelikan, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition:
text: These creedal principles deeply shaped American politics during the heyday of the neoliberal order.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Introduction:
text: […] This liberal idea that the nation is a commitment to a set of fairly abstract values—that you can’t really build a nation on that. That what gets called creedal nationalism—this nationalism of a shared story—that's not, for you, a real nation. That it won't hold together.
ref: 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a creed.
Derived terms: creedalism
creedalist
intercreedal
multicreedal
noncreedal
non-creedal
crossmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossmatches
form: crossmatching
form: crossmatched
form: crossmatched
form: cross-match
Etymology: From cross- + match.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To test whether the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
crossmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossmatches
form: cross-match
Etymology: From cross- + match.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A test of whether the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
damascened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more damascened
form: most damascened
Etymology: From damascene + -ed.
Senses: glosses: decorated with wavy patterns of inlay or etching
Related terms: damascene
deadstick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadsticks
form: deadsticking
form: deadsticked
form: deadsticked
form: dead stick
form: dead-stick
Etymology: From dead + stick.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To land an aircraft without power.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To present the lure either by casting or a vertical drop and allow the bait to remain motionless for an extended period before retrieval.
deadstick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead stick
form: dead-stick
Etymology: From dead + stick.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the landing of an aircraft with no power from the engines.
Derived terms: deadstick landing
decenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: decenters
form: decentering
form: decentered
form: decentered
Etymology: From de- + center.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decentre.
decentre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛntə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: decentres
form: decentring
form: decentred
form: decentred
Etymology: From de- + centre.
Senses: glosses: To remove the centre from. to decentre the tyres from some model vehicle kits.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To place away from the centre; to make eccentric.
examples: text: The Saidian critique was part of a great sea change, a conscious attempt to ‘decentre’ Europe or even to ‘provincialize’ it.
ref: 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 14:
glosses: To displace from the centre.
defeminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfɛmɪnaɪz/
Forms: form: defeminizes
form: defeminizing
form: defeminized
form: defeminized
Etymology: From de- + feminize.
Senses: synonyms: unwomanize
glosses: To lose, or to remove, feminine characteristics or qualities
Derived terms: defeminization
Related terms: emasculate
deluster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delusters
form: delustering
form: delustered
form: delustered
Etymology: From de- + luster.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of delustre.
delustre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delustres
form: delustring
form: delustred
form: delustred
Etymology: From de- + lustre.
Senses: glosses: To remove the lustre from yarn, typically by adding a pigment at spinning time
demonopolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demonopolizes
form: demonopolizing
form: demonopolized
form: demonopolized
Etymology: From de- + monopolize.
Senses: glosses: To break up (a monopoly), sometimes by privatizing a previously nationalized industry.
departmentalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From departmental + -itis.
Senses: glosses: The pursuit of departmental objectives, rather than those of an organization or government
descramble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: descrambles
form: descrambling
form: descrambled
form: descrambled
Etymology: From de- + scramble.
Senses: glosses: To decode or unscramble a coded signal
Derived terms: descrambler
digenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digeneans
Etymology: Digenea + -an
Senses: glosses: Any trematode fluke of the subclass Digenea.
digestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From digestive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a digestive manner; by means of digestion
disaffirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈfɜːm/
Forms: form: disaffirms
form: disaffirming
form: disaffirmed
form: disaffirmed
Etymology: From dis- + affirm.
Senses: glosses: To deny, contradict or repudiate
Derived terms: disaffirmation
diverticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: In an earlier study among nearly 44,000 male health professionals, fiber from fruit and vegetables, but not cereal, was linked to a reduced risk of diverticular disease.
ref: 2019 October 28, Jane E. Brody, “Fiber in Fruits and Grains Protects Against Diverticulitis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the diverticulum.
Derived terms: interdiverticular
intradiverticular
peridiverticular
prediverticular
pseudodiverticular
sartin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sarten
Senses: examples: text: If the marrow in one's backbone should melt, it would be sartin to run out at the tip of one's tail.
ref: 1841, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 17, 1841:
text: This here's a mountain fireplace, sartin sure.
ref: 1910, Edward Marshall, Charles T. Dazey, In Old Kentucky:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of certain.
dyslalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈleɪliə/
Forms: form: dyslalias
Etymology: From dys- + -lalia.
Senses: glosses: difficulty in talking due to a structural abnormality
Wogeman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wageman.
electrolyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrolyses
form: electrolysing
form: electrolysed
form: electrolysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of electrolyze.
Rostov-on-Don
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Russian Росто́в-на-Дону́ (Rostóv-na-Donú).
Senses: synonyms: word: Rostov-na-Donu
word: Rostov-on-the-Don
word: Rostov
glosses: A large city, the administrative center of Rostov Oblast, in southern Russia.
Related terms: Don
Cossack
Nakhichevan-on-Don
Rostov-na-Donu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Росто́в-на-Дону́ (Rostóv-na-Donú).
Senses: synonyms: word: Rostov-on-Don
word: Rostov-on-the-Don
word: Rostov
glosses: A large city, the administrative center of Rostov Oblast, in southern Russia.
Related terms: Don
Cossack
Nakhichevan-on-Don
enamelwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enamel + work.
Senses: glosses: Objects decorated with enamel
Related terms: enamelware
enanthema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enanthemas
form: enanthemata
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enanthem.
enanthem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enanthema
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐνανθέω (enanthéō), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + ἀνθέω (anthéō, “to blossom”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A lesion of the mucous membrane (especially of the mouth)
endobenthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + benthic.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives within the sediment on the seafloor
epact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epacts
Etymology: From French épacte, from Latin epactae, from Ancient Greek ἐπακταί (epaktaí, “intercalary days”), feminine plural of ἐπακτός (epaktós, “brought on or in, added”).
Senses: glosses: the time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter
eventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From event + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The word 'breakfast' is an eventive object in "she's having a breakfast".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That denotes an event.
Derived terms: eventivizer
eventive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eventives
Etymology: From event + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or construct that denotes an event.
expansibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansibilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being expansible
extendibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being extendible
extensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extensile
form: most extensile
Senses: glosses: extensible
Derived terms: nonextensile
superextensile
you go, girl
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: !
Senses: examples: text: You've made it this far not because you're Michael Jackson's sister, but because you're Janet Jackson; a woman who knows where she wants to go and what bus to take. You go, girl!
ref: 1993 November, Ebony, volume 49, number 1, page 16:
text: [RACHEL:] No, see this isn't about the movie theatre, this is about you stealing my wind.
[MONICA:] You go girl. I can't pull that off can I?
ref: 1996 March 28, Michael Curtis, Gregory S. Malins, “The One Where Eddie Won't Go”, in Friends, season 2, episode 19:
text: "You go, girl!" has become a sort of affirmation anthem for African American women. Elaine Lee takes it back to its literal roots, imploring her sisters (whom she laments as having been "reluctant travelers far too long") to hit the road and see the world.
ref: 1997, Pathfinders Travel: The Travel Magazine for People of Color:
text: You go, girl! Your life is an open road.
ref: 1999, Cameron Tuttle, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road, page 7:
synonyms: word: YGG
word: attagirl
glosses: An expression of encouragement, chiefly for a girl or woman.
Related terms: girl power
post-chaise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-chaises
Senses: examples: text: “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of post chaise.
post-chaise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: post-chaised
form: post-chaised
form: post-chaising
form: post-chaising
Senses: examples: text: "Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:
glosses: To travel in a post-chaise.
good house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good houses
Senses: examples: text: "[…]Here is a very creditable good house just by, where thou may'st find good entertainment for thyself and thy cattle till morning."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book X:
glosses: An inn or bar.
Opals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From opal, a gemstone mined in Australia.
Senses: examples: text: Carrie Graf knows about coaching creative individual players, as she has coached women′s basketball superstar Lauren Jackson, who shot to fame as a 15-year-old and joined the Australian women′s Opals basketball team by 16.
ref: 2001, Australian Sports Commission, edited by Frank S. Pyke, Better Coaching: Advanced Coach′s Manual, 2nd edition, page 227:
text: This, combined with a sycophantic basketball press in Australia, created a weight of expectation that was slowly crushing the young player. Four months before the Olympics, Opals coach Maher lamented that he was having ‘a few too many’ talks with her on how to cope.
ref: 2002, Cameron Stewart, “High Hopes”, in Garrie Hutchinson, editor, The Best Australian Sports Writing, 2002, page 38:
text: She′d made the train on squad for the Australian Opals basketball team and also played rugby for the Sydney University woman′s team.
ref: 2009, Nick Ireland, The Popondetta Butterfly, page 34:
glosses: The women's national basketball representative team of Australia.
Boomers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From boomer, Australian slang for an adult male kangaroo.
Senses: glosses: The men's national basketball representative team of Australia.
Boomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boomer, Australian slang for an adult male kangaroo.
Senses: glosses: plural of Boomer
Tall Blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from All Blacks, the nickname of the New Zealand national rugby union team, with "All" replaced by "Tall" in reference to the often well-above-average height of basketball players.
Senses: glosses: the men's national basketball representative team of New Zealand
hat tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat trees
Senses: glosses: A hat rack; hatstand.
Synonyms: sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: hat-stand
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: clothes stand
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coatrack
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coat rack
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coat-rack
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coat stand
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coat-stand
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: coat-tree
sense: hat rack, hatstand
word: hatrack
Hypernyms: tree
hat rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat racks
form: hatrack
form: hat-rack
Senses: glosses: A piece of furniture used to store hats and clothing, consisting of a pole with pegs on a moderately broad base; a hatstand.
Synonyms: sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: hat-stand
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: hat stand
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: hat tree
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: clothes rack
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: clothes tree
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: clothes stand
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: clothestree
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coatrack
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coat rack
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coat-rack
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coat stand
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coat-stand
sense: furniture for hats and clothing
word: coat tree
coatstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coatstands
form: coat-stand
Etymology: From coat + stand.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coat stand.
hat-stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat-stands
form: hat stand
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hatstand.
hat stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat stands
form: hat-stand
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hatstand.
coat-rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat-racks
form: coatrack
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coat rack.
coat stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat stands
form: coatstand
form: coat-stand
Etymology: From coat + stand.
Senses: glosses: A pole with pegs for temporary storage of clothing; a coat rack.
coat-stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat-stands
form: coatstand
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coat stand.
hat-rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat-racks
form: hatrack
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hat rack.
clothestree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothestrees
Etymology: From clothes + tree.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clothes tree.
clothes tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes trees
form: clothestree
Senses: glosses: A pole with pegs for temporary storage of clothing.
Hypernyms: tree
faldstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faldstools
Etymology: See foldstool.
Senses: glosses: A portable, folding chair used by a bishop when away from his throne.
examples: text: The Queen then rises and goes to the faldstool, at which she is to be anointed and crowned, placed between King Edward's chair and the steps of the altar, where the Groom of the Stool to her Majesty (with the two Ladies of her Bedchamber) take off her rich circlet or coronet; when the Queen kneels down, and the Archbishop pours the holy oil on the crown of her head, in the form of a cross, using these words, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost, let the anointing of this oil increase thine honour," &c.
ref: 1831 September 1, “A Particular and Historical Account of the Ceremonies usually Observed at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain”, in The World of Fashion, and Continental Feuilletons. […], volume VIII, number 89, London: Printed by Mr. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 211, column 1:
glosses: Any similar stool used in a divine service (such as the coronation of a British monarch).
fallfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallfishes
form: fallfish
Senses: glosses: A small silvery freshwater fish (Semotilus corporalis) found in North America.
flammulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flammulated
form: most flammulated
Senses: glosses: Resembling a flame or flames.
Derived terms: flammulated owl
Related terms: flammulation
off pat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Unknown; see down pat § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of down pat.
synonyms: word: down pat
sack-whey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sack (“sherry”) + whey.
Senses: examples: text: "Won't you allow him sack-whey?" said the landlady.—"Ay, ay, sack-whey," cries the doctor, "if you will, provided it be very small."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII:
glosses: An alcoholic drink of sherry with whey (weak milk) and sugar.
divellicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divellicates
form: divellicating
form: divellicated
form: divellicated
Etymology: First attested in 1638; borrowed from Latin dīvellicātus, perfect passive participle of dīvellicō (“to pluck asunder”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dis- + vellicō, from vellō (“to pluck”).
Senses: glosses: To detach, rip apart.
divellicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divellicate
divellicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divellicated
form: most divellicated
Senses: examples: text: […] the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII:
glosses: Torn apart.
pleuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.
Related terms: pleura
fanboyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanboyish
form: most fanboyish
Etymology: From fanboy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Admittedly the scenario that it was an unholy alliance of numerous enemies of the Doctor and other alien races that had united to create the trap was rather fanboyish on Moffat's part, even though it was great to see them assembled together like that and showed just what a threat the universe was facing once such an alliance had been created.
ref: 2010 June 18, “Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens”, in Telegraph:
text: "Oughta be more careful, El. Most people aren't accustomed to fanboyish squees." "Well, they aren't going to get used to it without exposure." "Fair 'nough."
ref: 2013 June 3, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jun 3, 2013:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fanboy.
Hypernyms: fannish
Coordinate terms: fangirlish
Derived terms: fanboyishly
thay
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Senses: examples: text: "The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir," went on the keeper, getting confidential, "is thay cussed night-line poachers."
ref: 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of the.
thay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Good girlth don't thay tho," said sweet little Charlie rather shocked.
ref: 1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's:
text: Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of say, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.
thay
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Yet fynde I another sort almoste as bad as thay.
ref: 1506, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:
text: But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger.
ref: 1566, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6):
text: Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.
ref: 1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of they.
cragged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cragged
form: most cragged
Etymology: From crag + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul?
ref: 1658, Isaac Barrow, Sermons on Evil-Speaking:
text: Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.
ref: 1834, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii:
glosses: Having crags
Derived terms: craggedness
correctitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctitudes
Etymology: From correct + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: Leopold himself must have envied such perfect correctitude; but what may be admirable in an elderly statesman is alarming in a maiden of nineteen.
ref: 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
text: And these folks are worried about creeping political correctitude?"
ref: 1991 July 19, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The quality of being correct
Synonyms: correctness
correctitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correctitude
winter melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter melons
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 冬瓜 (dōngguā).
Senses: glosses: Benincasa hispida, a species of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) commonly cultivated in Asia.
Synonyms: ash gourd
ash pumpkin
Chinese preserving melon
fuzzy melon
tallow gourd
wax gourd
white gourd
winter gourd
winter melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter melons
Etymology: Calque of French melon d'hiver.
Senses: glosses: Any late-maturing variety of true melon (Cucumis melo), such as honeydew melon (Inodorus Group), Cassaba melon (Cassaba Group), and Spanish melon (Ibericus Group).
Synonyms: late melon
winter melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter melons
Senses: examples: text: There is also a winter-melon, large and with black seeds, exceedingly cooling, brought us from abroad, and the hotter climates, where they drink water after eating melons...
ref: 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets:
glosses: A type of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus).
ash gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash gourds
Etymology: Ash gourds of the Indian subcontinent have a white coating with a rough texture, like the ashes of a fire.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of winter melon.
synonyms: word: winter melon
fuzzy melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuzzy melons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of winter melon.
synonyms: word: winter melon
wax gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax gourds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of winter melon.
synonyms: word: winter melon
white gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white gourds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of winter melon.
synonyms: word: winter melon
sanhedrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A gathering of booksellers is a pleasant sanhedrim to attend.
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Sanhedrin.
hollo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: holler
form: holla
form: holloa
form: hollow
form: hulloa
Etymology: See halloo, and compare holla.
Senses: examples: text: And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.
ref: 1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
text: Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!
ref: 1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories:
glosses: Hey, hello
examples: text: ‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)
hollo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollos
form: holler
form: holla
form: holloa
form: hollow
form: hulloa
Etymology: See halloo, and compare holla.
Senses: examples: text: And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo!
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, in Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems:
text: "I always add my hollo," said the yeoman, "when I see a good shot, or a gallant blow."
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks and squaws.
ref: 1910, W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts:
glosses: A cry of "hollo"
hollo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holloes
form: holloing
form: holloed
form: holloed
form: holler
form: holla
form: holloa
form: hollow
form: hulloa
Etymology: See halloo, and compare holla.
Senses: examples: text: And Tom made another loutish salute, and cut the conference short by turning off the path and beginning to hollo after some trespassing cattle.
ref: 1899, J. S. LeFanu, Uncle Silas:
text: Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.
ref: 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
glosses: To cry "hollo"
vaccinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaccinable
form: most vaccinable
Etymology: From vaccine + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The balance of resources expended to keep children under five safe from vaccinable diseases is questioned, given the meager resources expended to improve the quality of life for child survivors.
ref: 1996, Mark Nichter, “Vaccinations in the Third World”, in Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies, page 333:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Able to be vaccinated against
examples: text: Within a few years we had practically vaccinated the vaccinable population.
ref: 1982, China Now, page 11:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Able to be successfully vaccinated
flanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæn.dʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: flangers
Etymology: From flange + -er.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic device or software that alters the sound of an instrument by combining out-of-phase copies of its original sound.
glosses: A mechanical device used to remove ice and snow from railway lines.
flowsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowsheets
Etymology: From flow + sheet.
Senses: glosses: flowchart
fluellen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluellens
form: fluellin
Etymology: From Welsh Llywelyn.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Kickxia, having purple and yellow flowers.
Synonyms: cancerwort
gaseousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaseous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being gaseous
gemmation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmations
Etymology: From gemma + -ation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: asexual reproduction via gemmae
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: arrangement of buds on the stalk
Synonyms: budding
goalhanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goalhangers
Etymology: From goal + hanger.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player who stays near the opposing team's goal in the hope of easily scoring.
Synonyms: word: cherry picker
ning nong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪŋˌnɔŋ/
Forms: form: ning nongs
Senses: examples: text: Hilda explains everyone in ′Strilia imagines England now country hardly fit to graze saltbush weaners, bosses continually coming the raw prawn with trade union larrikins, mind you, her dad gets as mad as a mule with a squib up its arse as he comes the bludger with that bunch of ning nongs – ta darl, she says, Andy handing her a half-pint glass of gin and ton.
ref: 1982, Richard Gordon, Doctor Gordon′s Casebook, published 2001, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of ning-nong.
haematocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematoceles
Etymology: From haemato- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hematocele.
Derived terms: cephalhaematocele
ning nongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ning nong
hematocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematoceles
form: haematocele
Etymology: From hemato- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A swelling caused by the collection of blood in a cavity, especially of the membrane covering a testicle.
Derived terms: cephalhematocele
hairslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairslides
form: hair slide
form: hair-slide
Etymology: From hair + slide.
Senses: glosses: A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
haplochromine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haplochromines
Senses: glosses: Any cichlid of the tribe Haplochromini.
haplontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote
Related terms: haplont
diplontic
diplohaplontic
haplosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haplo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The halving of the number of chromosomes during meiosis, resulting in the haploid number
hosteling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hostelling.
hostelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosteling
Etymology: From hostel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: the practice of staying in youth hostels when on holiday, or travelling
hotchpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotchpots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotchpotch.
synonyms: collation
qualifier: civil law; inheritance; civil law; inheritance
glosses: The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
hotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot
hurter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hurters
Etymology: From hurt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
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 V, scene i:
glosses: One who hurts or does harm.
hurter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hurters
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hurtour, from Middle French hurtoir (modern French heurtoir); equivalent to hurt + -or.
Senses: examples: text: For this reason the board deferred judgment until these hurters and associated tripping beams were tested in practice
ref: 2000, Emory L. Kemp, The Great Kanawha Navigation, page 60:
glosses: A beam on a gun-platform that prevents damage from the wheels of a gun-carriage.
impolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impolders
form: impoldering
form: impoldered
form: impoldered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empolder.
empolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empolders
form: empoldering
form: empoldered
form: empoldered
Etymology: From em- + polder, probably influenced by Dutch inpolderen.
Senses: glosses: To construct polders in order to drain land
indistinctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indistinctive
form: most indistinctive
Etymology: From in- + distinctive.
Senses: glosses: That has no distinguishing characteristics
Derived terms: indistinctively
indistinctiveness
inductivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductivisms
Etymology: From inductive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Systems of psychology…developed, which were products of what Popper calls ‘inductivism’ — attempts to build up generalisations on the basis of carefully scrutinized data.
ref: 1958–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation (2nd ed.), ch. i, page 2
glosses: The scientific method of developing theories and systems by generalising from meticulously analysed data (i.e., by induction).
infraclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infraclass
intermedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediums
form: intermedia
Senses: glosses: An intermediary.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A central carpal bone or tarsal bone.
intermedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + medium.
Senses: glosses: A medium, or form of media, that conceptually lies between others.
interwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interworks
form: interworking
form: interworked
form: interworked
form: interwrought
form: interwrought
form: enterwork
Etymology: From inter- + work.
Senses: examples: text: They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To work (two or more things) into and through each other.
examples: text: Two three-car units have been stationed at Tondu for the new workings and will inter-work with others from Treherbert.
ref: 1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
glosses: To interact.
Related terms: interworking
intestinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intestinal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Via the intestines
Derived terms: extraintestinally
irreformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreformable
form: most irreformable
Etymology: From ir- + reformable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be reformed
Synonyms: incorrigible
Derived terms: irreformably
irresponsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irresponsive
form: most irresponsive
Etymology: From ir- + responsive.
Senses: examples: text: The church bells, faintly and fitfully heard, clanged their invitation to an irresponsive town; […]
ref: 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
text: At dawn some weeks back it had creaked across the plain, and at a point where the scrub curved, the husband had stopped the horse while the woman parted the tilt and waved goodbye to the bent, irresponsive old man and his dog.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 27:
text: I had seen him once in that brown coat; I touched its sleeve, but it was limp and irresponsive to that faint call of memory.
ref: 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 31:
glosses: That does not respond to stimuli; unresponsive.
Derived terms: irresponsiveness
jocolatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: About noon out with Commissioner Pett, and he and I to a Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte
ref: 1664 December 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 24th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: hot chocolate
justiciary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justiciaries
Etymology: From Late Latin justitiaria, justiciaria (“judgeship, judiciarship; court sessions”), justitiarius, and justiciarius (“justiciar, judge, justice [of the peace]; judiciary, related to justice”), all from Latin iūstitia (“justice”) + -āria (“-ary”). Paralleled in Middle English and Early Modern English by forms from Anglo-Norman justiserie (“judgeship, judiciarship”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French justicerie (“judgeship; tribunal”), from justice + -ery. As a translation of various Continental European offices, via Middle French justicier, Spanish justiciero, etc.
Senses: glosses: A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
glosses: The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
glosses: One who administers justice
A judge or justice.
glosses: One who administers justice
A magistrate.
glosses: One who administers justice
A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
glosses: One who administers justice
A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
glosses: One who administers justice
Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
Synonyms: sense: The jurisdiction, power, or office of a judge
word: judgeship
sense: The collective body of judges
word: judiciary
sense: One who administers justice
word: justicer
sense: One who administers justice
word: justiciar
sense: A judge
word: judge
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: judiciar
sense: Proponent of a theological doctrine
word: legalist
Derived terms: Capital Justiciary
Chief Justiciary
Circuit Court of Justiciary
Commissioner of Justiciary
Lord Commissioner of Justiciary
Court of Justiciary
High Court of Justiciary
justiciaryship
Lord of Justiciary
justiciary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more justiciary
form: most justiciary
Etymology: From Late Latin justitiaria, justiciaria (“judgeship, judiciarship; court sessions”), justitiarius, and justiciarius (“justiciar, judge, justice [of the peace]; judiciary, related to justice”), all from Latin iūstitia (“justice”) + -āria (“-ary”). Paralleled in Middle English and Early Modern English by forms from Anglo-Norman justiserie (“judgeship, judiciarship”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French justicerie (“judgeship; tribunal”), from justice + -ery. As a translation of various Continental European offices, via Middle French justicier, Spanish justiciero, etc.
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Of or relating to justification or redemption before God.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Of or relating to the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
glosses: Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships.
glosses: Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary.
glosses: Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary.
Synonyms: sense: theological senses
word: legalist
sense: judicial
word: judicial
justiciar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌsˈtɪsi.ɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: justiciars
Etymology: From Late Latin justitiarius and justiciarius (“justiciar, judge, justice [of the peace]; judiciary, related to justice”), from Latin iūstitia (“justice”) + -āria (“-ary”). As a translation of various Continental European offices, via Middle French justicier, Spanish justiciero, justicia mayor, etc.
Senses: glosses: One who administers justice
A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
glosses: One who administers justice
A justice: a high-ranking judge.
glosses: One who administers justice
A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
glosses: One who administers justice
Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A justiciary: a believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
Synonyms: sense: One who administers justice generally
word: justicer
sense: One who administers justice generally
word: justiciary
sense: A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England
word: justiciary
sense: A judge of a superior court
word: justice
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: justiciary
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: Chief Justiciary
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: Capital Justiciary
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: Chief Justiciar
sense: The chief judicial officer of medieval England
word: Capital Justiciar
sense: Proponent of a theological doctrine
word: legalist
Derived terms: Capital Justiciar
Chief Justiciar
justiciarship
Related terms: justicar