cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overgoaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgoaded
form: most overgoaded
Etymology: From over- + goaded.
Senses: examples: text: Endurance, over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition; the throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Waggons”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Goaded too far.
weatherwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weather + -wear.
Senses: glosses: clothing designed to be worn in inclement weather
aerogenerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerogenerators
Etymology: From aero- + generator.
Senses: examples: text: Modern wind machines convert the mechanical energy and are now called aerogenerators.
ref: 1981, Nigel Dudley, Conservation: Energy, Ladybird:
text: Aerogenerators or wind turbines are modern versions of windmills, making electricity from the energy in moving air.
ref: 1999, Ian Graham, Barbara Taylor, John Farndon, Chris Oxlade, Science Encyclopedia, Parragon:
glosses: A generator powered by wind, a wind turbine.
aerogenerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerogenerator
aerogeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + generation.
Senses: glosses: Power generation by means of the wind.
Amadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Igbo.
Related terms: Trans-Amadi
Russellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Russellian
form: most Russellian
Etymology: From Russell + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.
ref: 2004, Jerrold J. Katz, Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, page 115:
text: As Hermione phrases it, sounding convincingly Kantian or even Russellian about something called the Resurrection Stone: […]
ref: 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist.
glosses: Of or relating to Ken Russell (1927–2011), English film director known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.
Related terms: Russellite
logicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logicism
Tom Sawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Tom Sawyer
bell-ringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell-ringer
onsweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.swiːp/
ipa: /ˈɑn.swip/
ipa: /ˈɔn.swip/
Forms: form: onsweeps
Senses: examples: text: The last bit of blue sky yielded to the onsweep of clouds.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 13, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: A rapid arrival, especially one that is forceful.
samjna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit संज्ञा (saṃjñā).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: perception, cognition, conceptualization.
Related terms: skandha
Wakaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Cree word for "crooked".
Senses: glosses: A town and lake in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Ponteix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒntɛks/
Senses: glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
mafia state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mafia states
Senses: synonyms: pakhanate
glosses: A system in which the government is tied with organized crime.
Related terms: kleptocracy
mafia states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafia state
Turtleford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turtle + ford.
Senses: glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An extinct town in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A surname, thought to be derived from the turtle dove.
Derived terms: Turtleford
Turtle River
Turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turtles
Senses: glosses: A member of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles, a drinking club.
Turtle River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor city and township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Turtle River No. 469) in west Saskatchewan, Canada.
Telangana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛlənˈɡɑːnə/
ipa: [ˌt̪ɛləŋˈɡɑːnə]
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu తెలంగాణ (telaṅgāṇa).
Senses: glosses: A state in south-central India, created in 2014 by separation from Andhra Pradesh. Capital: Hyderabad.
Derived terms: Telanganite
Pripyat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pripet
form: Prypiat
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian При́пять (Prípjatʹ) or Ukrainian При́п'ять (Prýpʺjatʹ).
Senses: glosses: A river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper.
glosses: An abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.
proximo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: ISV combining form denoting proximal location or vector
Coordinate terms: disto-
namefellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namefellows
form: name-fellow
Etymology: From name + fellow.
Senses: examples: text: But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes / Might find them, lay those knightly name-fellows, / One sick with grief of heart and sleepless, one / With heart of hope triumphant as the sun
ref: 1882, A.C. Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse; the protagonist of the poem travels to Brittany, where he meets another knight named Tristam, where they are described thus
glosses: A person with whom one shares a surname or given name, or both.
csars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of csar
Ridd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schlitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlitts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlitt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
namefellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namefellow
flea circuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea circus
abugidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From abugida + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]
ref: 1996, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, The World's Writing Systems, →ISBN, page 26:
text: […] and the script […] is modeled closely on Tibetan as to shape (though severely squared up) but is written in columns; it retains the abugidic principle, but places all the non-a vowel indicators after (i.e. below) the consonant they follow […]
ref: 2008, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, The Handbook of Linguistics, →ISBN, page 62:
text: The earliest Tibetan inscriptions date from the 8th or 9th century, and Tibetan writing is based in the Brahmi family. It preserves the abugidic nature of its forebears, using appendages for the vowels […]
ref: 2000, Chin-u Kim, Literacy and writing systems in Asia, page 77:
glosses: Of or relating to an abugida.
Related terms: alphabetic
wristbanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wristband + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
ref: 1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days, page 191:
glosses: Wearing a wristband (sleeve cuff)
glosses: Wearing a wristband (strip of material in sports etc.)
wakeskate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeskates
Etymology: From wake + skate.
Senses: glosses: The board used in wakeskating.
wakeskates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wakeskate
staghorn coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staghorn corals
Senses: examples: text: Stands of staghorn coral were bleaching white.
ref: 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 212:
glosses: A stony coral (Acropora cervicornis), with cylindrical branches.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acropora prolifera
word: fused staghorn coral
taxonomic: Acropora intermedia
word: noble staghorn coral
taxonomic: Acropora yongei
word: Yonge's staghorm coral
trolldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: black magic; witchcraft
trolldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From troll + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of trolls (online troublemakers).
antidextrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidextran
kojibiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disaccharide that is a product of the caramelization of glucose.
sophorolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophorolipids
Senses: glosses: A surface-active glycolipid compound that can be synthesized by a number of non-pathogenic yeast species.
sophorolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophorolipid
mannobioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannobiose
maltulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular disaccharide.
gentiobiulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular disaccharide.
rhamnodiastase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnodiastases
Etymology: From Rhamnus and diastase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme found in Rhamnus dahurica, used in the hydrolysis of flavonoid glycosides.
rhamnodiastases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamnodiastase
rutinulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular disaccharide.
melibiulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disaccharide formed from fructose and galactose, similar to melibiose.
waterblommetjiebredie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans waterblommetjiebredie, literally meaning "small water flower stew".
Senses: glosses: A South African stew of meat, typically lamb, with waterblommetjies.
waterblommetjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterblommetjies
Etymology: From Afrikaans waterblommetjie (“small water flower”).
Senses: glosses: The flower of Aponogeton distachyos.
Derived terms: waterblommetjiebredie
recondites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recondite
recondites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recondite
waterblommetjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterblommetjie
reconditing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recondite
recondited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recondite
protective custody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A so‐called star witness in the Brooklyn grand jury inquiry of alleged links between the police and gamblers sought unsuccessfully yesterday to free himself from protective custody.
ref: 1964 July 25, Alfred E. Clark, “Gambling Witness Under Guard Fails in Move to Gain Freedom”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2014:
text: The government has earmarked a paltry $1.2 million . . ., not enough to properly fund even the state-run counseling centers—the only institutions with the authority to put battered children into protective custody.
ref: 1999 June 7, Donald MacIntyre, Hiroko Tashiro, “Hearing Their Cries”, in Time, retrieved 03 Jun 2014:
text: Authorities charged a man today with 'arson causing death' after a week of devasting fires that killed a total of more than 180 people in Australia, and whisked him into protective custody to guard him from public fury.
ref: 2009 February 13, Tanalee Smith, “Man charged over deadly Australian fire”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 03 Jun 2014:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Lawful confinement of a person or close supervision of his or her movements, on a voluntary or involuntary basis, by authorities in order to safeguard that person from attack or other dangers.
recond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒnd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkənd/
ipa: /ɹəˈkɑnd/
ipa: /ɹiˈkɑnd/
Forms: form: reconds
form: reconding
form: reconded
form: reconded
Etymology: From Latin recondō (“to put back, to reestablish; to put away, to hide”), from re- (“again”) + condō (“to build, to form; to store; to conceal”).
Senses: examples: text: St Ethelwold, King of the same Prouince and Martyr: who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects, and his body brought to the Church of Hexam... the same was with great solemnity & veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so pretious a treasure.
ref: 1608, English Martyrology, John Wilson, section 89:
text: A Ferment […] somewhere reconded out of the Road of the circulating Blood, and there gradually maturated.
ref: 1693, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 17, 657:
glosses: To put away; to set apart.
reconds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recond
reconding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recond
reconded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recond
garring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gar
play hob with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays hob with
form: playing hob with
form: played hob with
form: played hob with
Etymology: From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, from Old French [Term?], a diminutive of Robert) in its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (subsequently) the devil. Compare hobgoblin.
Senses: examples: text: They say it's playing hob with the fellers in these here parts.
ref: 1838 June 2, Mirror, N.Y, 387/1:
text: The revolutionists who are playing hob with our generation are really masters of the obsolete.
ref: 1940, D.A. Lord, Our Lady in the Modern World, iii. 141:
text: It'll play hob with my sleep schedule but I suppose it can't be helped. Please let the house elves know that if I ask for an early breakfast at, say, three A.M. tomorrow morning, I'm to receive it.
ref: 2010, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, §62:
qualifier: rustic US
glosses: mess with, cause trouble for
Synonyms: word: mess with
english: with
translation: with
word: play the devil
lambrolizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The drug pembrolizumab.
pembrolizumab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -li- (“immunomodulating”) + -zumab (“humanized monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that targets the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor, intended for use in treating metastatic melanoma.
Synonyms: lambrolizumab
transglucosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transglucosidases
Etymology: From trans- + glucoside + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of enzyme capable of converting starch into oligosaccharides.
transglucosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transglucosidase
dustwrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustwrappers
Etymology: From dust + wrapper.
Senses: glosses: dust jacket
dustwrappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustwrapper
durito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duritos
Senses: glosses: A Mexican snack made of fried puffed wheat, often flavoured with chilli, lime, or hot sauce.
wifty-wafty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wifty-waftier
form: wifty-waftiest
Senses: examples: text: When she introduced the subject of ghosts, then, there was nothing wifty-wafty about it, nothing of mix-and-match designer religiosity or shopworn tales featuring clanking chains on dark and stormy nights.
ref: 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 406:
text: Ours was a nursing program based on a paradigm of holistic patient care. I clearly recall chafing at what I perceived as the wifty-wafty aspects of this concept, just as I chafed at the humanity electives I was required to take.
ref: 2010, CeCelia R. Zorn, Becoming a Nurse Educator: Dialogue for an Engaging Career, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page ix:
text: She gave me the telephone number of a very eminent man in Blackrock Clinic, where there was no danger of me casting anyone as a wifty-wafty new ager.
ref: 2011, Mary McEvoy, How the Light Gets In, Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN:
glosses: Silly, dippy, kooky.
any more for any more
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originally used in the armed forces to ask whether anybody wanted further portions of food.
Senses: examples: text: We've come up with three ideas so far. Any more for any more?
glosses: Does anybody have, or want, any more?
protection money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Those in the Lowland line who lay near him, and desired to enjoy their lives and property in quiet, were contented to pay him a small composition, in name of protection money, and comforted themselves with the old proverb that it was better to "fleech the deil than fight him."
ref: 1827, Sir Walter Scott, "The Highland Widow" ch. 2, in The Chronicles of the Canongate
text: [T]he police had raised the tariff for sporting houses, and would collect seventy-five and a hundred a month protection money.
ref: 1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 13, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
text: Four members of an Asian gang were arrested yesterday and charged with extortion and conspiracy for demanding protection money from Chinese restaurants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
ref: 1993 June 15, “Four Men Arrested In Protection Scheme”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:
text: [T]he Mungiki . . . hit the headlines in April with a string of beheadings as they tussled for control of lucrative bus routes by executing drivers and conductors who refused to pay protection money.
ref: 2007 November 6, Rob Crilly, “Kenya Accused of Mass Killings”, in Time, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:
text: [T]he FSB, interior ministry and police collect protection money from businesses.
ref: 2010 December 1, Luke Harding, “WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:
glosses: Money paid, especially at regular intervals, to criminals or to corrupt officials who threaten to cause harm to the payer or to his or her business if the money is not paid.
Related terms: protection racket
blackmail
extortion
satisficers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satisficer
sherlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sherlocks
form: sherlocking
form: sherlocked
form: sherlocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sherlock.
Sherlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sherlocked
form: most Sherlocked
Senses: examples: text: After last week's first episode we are all most definitely Sherlocked, and can't wait for tonight's take on the seminal sleuth's most infamous case, The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
ref: 2012 January 8, Wales on Sunday:
text: Wit and technical wizardry aside, the new series should draw a large audience because Sherlocked fans everywhere want to know how their hero faked his own death.
ref: 2014 January 16, Addison Engelking, “Watching The Detective”, in Memphis Flyer:
text: To to all of the Sherlocked fans, the new series will be coming back in 2016, […]
ref: 2014, Hannah Choe, "Sherlock Is Late and We Are Sad", The San Mateo Hi (San Mateo High School), Volume 92, Number 6, 11 April 2014, page 8
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Addicted to the television series Sherlock.
Sherlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Sherlock
Sherlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Sherlock
Sherlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Sherlock
Denmarke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: the Maieſtie of buried Denmarke
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Denmark.
maiestie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the Maieſtie of buried Denmarke
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of majesty.
somthing
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of something.
eies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before my God I might not this belieue,
 Without the ſencible and true auouch
 Of mine owne eies.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: plural of eie
sencible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sencible
form: most sencible
Senses: examples: text: Before my God I might not this belieue,
 Without the ſencible and true auouch
 Of mine owne eies.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sensible.
frownd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: So frownd he once, when in an angry parle
 He ſmot the ſleaded pollax on the ice.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of frowned.
martiall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The captaine he, which climbes for high advaunce,
 By piercing blade imbrude in enimies blood,
 In martiall ſhewes who formoſt leades the daunce, […]
ref: 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, page 216:
text: Sir, if I were to yeeld a reaſon of my preſent preſumption for thus boldly offering vnto your worſhipful view this little hyſtoricall Abridgemẽt of Martiall exploits, by ſundrye moſt famous warriours and renowmed Capitaines long ſince atchieued: […]
ref: 1580, Rutilius Rufus [pseudonym; Thomas Newton], “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in A View of Valyaunce. Describing the Famous Feates, and Martiall Exploites of Two Most Mightie Nations, the Romains and the Carthaginians, for the Conquest and Possession of Spayne. […], imprinted at London: Thomas East, →OCLC:
text: With martiall ſtauke hath he gone by our watch.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: [D]ivers commissions under your Majestie's Greate Seale have issued forth, by which certaine persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners, with power and authoritie to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martiall lawe, against such soulders and marriners, or other dissolute persons joining with them, as should commit any murder, robbery, felonie, meeting, or other outrage or misdemeanour, whatsoever; […]
ref: 1628 June 7, The Petition of Right; republished in Francis Lieber, “Appendix V. The Petition of Right.”, in On Civil Liberty and Self-government, enlarged edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Trübner and Co., 1859, →OCLC, page 486:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of martial.
striktest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of strictest.
wereporcupine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wereporcupines
Etymology: From were- + porcupine.
Senses: examples: text: 2008, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick, #522 (published in Order of the Stick: Don't Split the Party, →ISBN
[…] it's been unraveling like a wereporcupine's cheap holiday sweater ever since.
text: It's good that I wasn't a wereporcupine, or his mouth would be full of quills.
ref: 2011, Ilona Andrews, "Magic Dreams", Hexed, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: “Sexy wereporcupine shifters.”
ref: 2018, Sarah Kuhn, Heroine's Journey, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A shapeshifter who can change between porcupine and human form.
Related terms: werewolf
Kashiwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かしわ (Kashiwa).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
proud as Punch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very proud.
moon snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon snails
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Naticidae of predatory sea snails.
OCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: tomography#Noun
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imaging#Noun
glosses: Initialism of optical coherence tomography: an optical signal acquisition and processing method that captures high-resolution three-dimensional images from biological tissues.
OCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: JAN
word: FEB
word: MAR
word: APR
word: MAY
word: JUN
word: JUL
word: AUG
word: SEP
word: NOV
word: DEC
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Oct (“October”).
coordinate_terms: OCD
glosses: Initialism of Oxford Classical Texts.
BLDSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Library Document Supply Centre.
anterior pituitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterior pituitaries
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: adenohypophysis
anterior pituitary gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterior pituitary glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: adenohypophysis
microdrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdriles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + δρῖλος (drîlos, “worm”).
Senses: examples: text: Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.
ref: 1975, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Zoology, volume 26, page 205:
text: In microdriles the circular muscle is generally only weakly developed.
ref: 1981, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure of the Oligochaeta, page 45:
text: Microdriles in our subcontinent are represented by three families of aquatic oligochaetes namely Naididae, Tubificidae and Phraeodrilidae, and terrestrial pot worms of the Enchytraeidae.
ref: 1991, Zoological Survey of India, Animal Resources of India: Protozoa to Mammalia: State of the Art, page 164:
glosses: Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.
Coordinate terms: megadrile
microdriles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdrile
nine while five
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -aɪv
Senses: examples: It's a steady enuff job: nine whol five, ther cud be a lot war when yo think on it
glosses: Nine to five.
guard ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard ships
Senses: examples: text: He was pronounced guilty, and sentenced to confinement on board a guard ship, and in forty days to be sent with his family to England.
ref: 1832, William Allen, An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, page 209:
text: Vessels after having been visited by the guard ship in Monvik and taking route toward Reval, must, for the second time, pass the guard ship near island Wulf for delivery of permission of the previous mentioned guard ship and then continue their route, according to orders of this guard ship.
ref: 1919, George Grafton Wilson, International Law Situations, page 137:
text: The narrator describes — in what could be exaggeration — what newly pressed sailors discovered when they were hauled aboard a guard ship to wait for orders.
ref: 1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity, page 23:
text: With the guard ship Shubrick gone, the commanding officer of Alcatraz assumed guard duty to make sure that no hostile foreign warships entered the bay.
ref: 2007, C. Douglas Kroll, "Friends in Peace and War": The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco, page 67:
text: In 1858, taking up his commission once more in the Royal Navy, he was appointed an officer of the guard ship at Malta, and subsequently was given command of the gunship Foxhound, which patrolled in the Mediterranean.
ref: 2010, British Ships in the Confederate Navy, page 218:
text: The guard ship would overhear. He could not trust untried young men to act rationally if they were unaware and the guard ship arrived and matter-of-factly attempted to board one of them.
ref: 2011, Murray Leinster, The World is Taboo, page 122:
glosses: A warship stationed at a port etc. to act as a guard.
Desdemona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/
Forms: form: Disdemona
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + δαίμων (daímōn), hence "ill-fated, unfortunate".
Senses: examples: text: As I looked out of the corner of my eye at this savagely picturesque fellow, wondering where was his Desdemona, a dainty and remarkably pretty piece of femininity entered the car, advanced to our table and sat herself beside Othello.
ref: 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat:
text: On the first of these days' amusements ( I know not what year ) Frank took offence at some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked away next morning to London in wrath.
ref: 1848, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, page 77:
text: Luria, the Moor of Florence, is a sentimentally magnanimous Othello without his passions and without his Desdemona.
ref: 2005, Boyd Litzinger, Donald Smalley, Robert Browning: The Critical Heritage, page 260:
text: Devastated by early losses, the narcissistic lover is unable to live with his Desdemona because he is unable to live without his idealization of her.
ref: 2012, Alvin O. Korte, Nosotros: A Study of Everyday Meanings in Hispano New Mexico:
glosses: Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An inner moon of the planet Uranus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.
benchslap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benchslaps
Etymology: Blend of bench + bitch slap
Senses: examples: 2012, Mark V. Holmes, United States Tax Court, Tigers Eye Trading, LLC v. Commissioner (dissenting), 138 T.C. No. 6, p. 211.
Of all the routines in judicial gymnastics, few have a higher degree of difficulty than the reverse benchslap, and we're trying for a combination double with our Opinion today.
topics: law
glosses: A judicial ruling or opinion that is harsh or humiliating towards a particular party, attorney, or lower court opinion.
benchslap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: benchslaps
form: benchslapping
form: benchslapped
form: benchslapped
Etymology: Blend of bench + bitch slap
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To issue a judicial ruling or opinion that is harsh or humiliating towards a particular party, attorney, or lower court opinion.
infraareolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + areolar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: below the areola.
trades unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trades union
glosses: plural of trade union when referring to unions representing different trades.
multigeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the North, multigeniture helped motivate family labor, whereas the passive acceptance of the British inheritance system of primogeniture in the South rested on its promotion of large plantations that could capture economies of scale.
ref: 1984, Lee J. Alston, Morton Owen Schapiro, Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences, The Journal of Economic History Vol. 44, No. 2, The Tasks of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, pages 277–287:
text: In the Middle and New England colonies (except in Rhode Island and New York), multigeniture was typically followed, with an equal division of property among the sons. Over time, primogeniture perpetuated and built comparatively larger estates.
ref: 2010, Gary Walton, History of the American Economy, 11e, South-Western, Cengage Learning, page 33:
glosses: An equal division of property among the sons.
Related terms: postremogeniture
primogeniture
adenomyomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenomyomatoses
Etymology: From adenomyoma + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of having adenomyomas.
slopier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊpiəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊpiə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slopy: more slopy
glosses: comparative form of slopey: more slopey
slopiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slopy: most slopy
sadistic personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadistic personality disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A disorder characterized by cruel, aggressive, demeaning, and manipulative behavior towards others.
Synonyms: word: SPD
Related terms: antisocial personality disorder
borderline personality disorder
narcissistic personality disorder
sadistic personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadistic personality disorder
Occupier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Occupiers
Senses: glosses: A proponent or supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement
one throat to choke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A single partner to hold accountable, such as in business or negotiations.
choupique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuˈpik/
Forms: form: choupiques
Etymology: Borrowed from Louisiana French choupique, from Choctaw shupik (“bowfin, mudfish”).
Senses: examples: text: Them choupiques and ugly alligator gar done wanted to snap his damn hands off when he pulled them in the boat.
ref: 2001, M. F. Korn, Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, page 25:
glosses: The bowfin fish, Amia calva
puerilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puerilisms
Etymology: From puerile + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: With regard to hysteria; in dissociation there may be a secondary time disorder; for example a patient with puerilism said: "People all seem grown up and older. And my Mum, I'm sure I know her from a long time ago. I look at her, but I can't make it out."
ref: 1932, Aubrey Lewis, "The Experience of Time in Mental Disorder," reprinted in Inquiries in Psychiatry (Routledge, 2013), p. 14 (Google preview)
text: [T]he Dutchman Johan Huizenga, who coined the term puerilism in the 1930s . . . defined it as permanent puberty.
ref: 1962, Walter Laqueur, Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement, →ISBN, page xi:
text: A kind of puerilism marked many American attitudes — an unnaturally extended puerilism which tended to transmute itself into senility alarmingly and swiftly.
ref: 2004, John Lukacs, A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 286:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder.
Related terms: puerility
Mulam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Kam-Sui language spoken in China.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mulam terms
hights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hight
hights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of heights.
glosses: Obsolete form of heights.
highting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hight
GAAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GAA
you're good
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: you’re good
Senses: glosses: It's OK; it's not a big deal.
mood lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The rose petals and mood lighting at the restaurant provide great atmosphere.
glosses: A dim level of illumination for romantic or similar effect.
mood light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mood lights
Senses: glosses: A lamp that provides mood lighting.
anti-Muslimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimuslimism
Senses: examples: text: As we briefly examine below something of the internal dynamics of anti-Muslimism as an ideology, and a psychologically underpinned expressive vehicle for identity maintenance, the contextual factors that provide the grist for this defensive elated mill must be continuously borne in mind.
ref: 2011, Charles Husband, Yunis Alam, Social Cohesion and Counter-terrorism: A Policy Contradiction?, Bristol: Policy Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108, →ISBN:
text: The rise of a new anti-Muslimism in Serbia draws, in the first instance, on the experience of World War II […]
ref: 2013, Fred Halliday, Two Hours that Shook the World: September 11, 2001: Causes and Consequences, London: Saqi, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
text: Burma (Myanmar) has been in the headlines of international media for the eruption of anti-Muslim riots in the country in 2012. Using historical background, this paper makes an attempt to explain the causes of anti-Muslimism in Myanmar.
ref: 2017, Muhammad Ismail Ye Tun, “Chapter 2: MUSLIM INSTITUTIONS AND THE DESECURITISATION OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN MYANMAR”, in World Scientific:
glosses: The practice or attitude of opposing Islam or Muslims.
Synonyms: anti-Islamism
anti-Muslimness
Related terms: anti-Muslimist
Islamophobia
Muslimophobia
-parous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin pariō (“produce, bring forth, give birth”).
Senses: glosses: parous; relating to parity (the number of times a woman has given birth).
glosses: Causing or producing (the thing indicated by the stem to which the suffix is attached).
Derived terms: primiparous
Related terms: parent
post-partum
skiller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skill: more skill
epistellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + stellar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a gas giant: having a close orbit to its parent star
Derived terms: epistellar Jovian
observerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From observer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without observers.
reaffiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaffiliates
form: reaffiliating
form: reaffiliated
form: reaffiliated
Etymology: From re- + affiliate.
Senses: glosses: To affiliate again or anew.
reaffiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaffiliations
Etymology: From re- + affiliation.
Senses: glosses: affiliation again or anew
reaffiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaffiliate
reaffiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaffiliate
reaffiliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reaffiliation
reaffiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaffiliate
free-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-spoken
form: most free-spoken
Senses: examples: text: He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way, "Hang it, Mr. Barry, you have no more manners than a barber."
ref: 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Barry Lyndon:
text: You can imagine what fairly free-spoken girls will ask when they come to the point of not caring what they say.
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Victory: An Island Tale:
text: She had views of her own and was free-spoken to a fault.
ref: 1998, Roland Huntford, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero, ch. 1 (at nytimes.com)
text: Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism (“If I’m allowed to say that…”) in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth.
ref: 2009 November 9, Gerald Warner, “Funeral in Berlin—of freedom”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 05 Jun 2014:
glosses: Characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.
Synonyms: candid
frank
free-speaking
outspoken
unreserved
Related terms: free speech
speak one's mind
ecribellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /iːkɹɪˈbɛlət/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ecribellatus, ecribellata; see cribellate.
Senses: glosses: Not cribellate.
cribellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cribellatus or from cribellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having a cribellum.
Derived terms: paleocribellate
epistellar Jovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistellar Jovians
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: Synonym of hot Jupiter.
synonyms: word: hot Jupiter
labiomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From labio- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: They are so proficient in labiomancy that they can follow a private conversation anywhere if they can see the speakers' faces.
ref: 1892, Fibre & Fabric:
text: Nay, so very well skilled was she in this art (which we may call Labiomancy) as 'tis generally believed (though I could get no personal testimony of it, some persons being dead, and otherers removed into Ireland, who sometimes lay with her), that in the night time when in bed, if she might lay but her hand on their lipps, so as to feel the motions of them, she could perfectly understand what her bedfellows said though it were never so dark.”
ref: 1898, Henry Charles Beeching, Pages from a Private Diary, page 286:
text: Here we shall use the former for no better reason than that it is in common use in Britain and has a more ancient history; Berger (1972a) recounts that three centuries ago the English Dr. Plot was writing on "labiomancy".
ref: 1979, R. Conrad, The Deaf Schoolchild: Language and Cognitive Function, page 178:
text: Nowadays, face detection is beyond the face recognition sphere and is the essential foundation of expression analysis and labiomancy technology.
ref: 2010, Dai Chen, Ji-lin Wang, Yong Zhou, “Face detection method research and implementation based on AdaBoost”, in 2010 International Symposium on Information Processing and Trusted Computing:
glosses: Lipreading.
messer-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messer-uppers
Senses: glosses: One who messes things up.
mayonnaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mayonnaisy
form: most mayonnaisy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayonnaisey.
motherfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌðəˌfɑːðə/
ipa: /ˈmʌðɚˌfɑðɚ/
Forms: form: motherfathers
Etymology: From mother + father, for its phonetic similarity to motherfucker.
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of motherfucker.
motherfathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherfather
Nez Perce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛzˈpɜɹs/
Etymology: From French nez percé (“pierced nose”).
Senses: synonyms: Pierced Noses
glosses: A Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States.
Derived terms: Nezperce
Nez Perce County
Nez Perce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛzˈpɜɹs/
Etymology: From French nez percé (“pierced nose”).
Senses: glosses: Their Sahaptian language.
Related terms: Nezperce
flying school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying schools
Senses: glosses: A specialized school that teaches future pilots how to fly an aircraft.
air tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air ticket
autovaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autovaccines
Etymology: From auto- + vaccine.
Senses: glosses: autogenous vaccine
Derived terms: autovaccination
autovaccines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autovaccine
hollos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollo
hollos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hollo
TV program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV programs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of television program.
TV programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TV program
school-leaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school-leavers
Senses: examples: text: And he has the following message for the latest generation of young school leavers. [...] "When you work on the railway you really do join a family, and everyone really looks after each other. I thoroughly recommend it."
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 47:
glosses: A high-school student who has recently graduated.
school-leavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school-leaver
ergonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ergonomics.
ranger file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Single file with a short distance between the soldiers.