cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
break with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks with
form: breaking with
form: broke with
form: broken with
Senses: examples: text: "You see, Ferdinand Point was the first wave in a culinary revolution," Jeremy went on. "He broke with French formality; he broke with fat and weighty flavours. He kicked free of the past[…]"
ref: 2001, Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park, Counterpoint paperback, published 2003, →ISBN, page 363:
synonyms: break from
glosses: To cease having a positive connection with (a person, group, movement, etc).
examples: text: Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and fair Hero is won; I have broke with her father, and, his good will obtained; name the day of marriage, and God give thee joy!
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To divulge one's secrets, thoughts, or intentions to; to discuss something with.
Arlanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish Arlanda.
Senses: glosses: An international airport in Sweden, serving the city of Stockholm.
nosocomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosocomium
spiny dogfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny dogfish
Senses: examples: text: Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Squalus acanthias, one of the best known of the dogfish which are members of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes
Synonyms: spurdog
mud shark
piked dogfish
Derived terms: taxonomic: Squalus suckleyi
word: Pacific spiny dogfish
spurdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurdogs
Etymology: From spur + dog.
Senses: glosses: A dogfish shark of the genus Squalus.
Synonyms: spiny dogfish
Atlantic halibut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic halibuts
form: Atlantic halibut
Senses: glosses: Hippoglossus hippoglossus, a species of halibut, a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.
huchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuːkən/
Forms: form: huchens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Huchen.
Senses: synonyms: Danube salmon
glosses: Hucho hucho, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.
Danube salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Danube salmon
Etymology: From Danube + salmon.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of huchen.
synonyms: word: huchen
angular frequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angular frequencies
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A scalar measure of rate of rotation
mutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutines
Etymology: From Middle French mutin (noun), mutiner (verb).
Senses: glosses: Mutiny, rebellion.
glosses: A mutineer.
mutine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mutines
form: mutining
form: mutined
form: mutined
Etymology: From Middle French mutin (noun), mutiner (verb).
Senses: examples: text: They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel.
mutines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutine
mutines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mutine
supersensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəɹ.sɛnsəˈtɪvətiː/
Etymology: From super- + sensitivity.
Senses: examples: text: Because D 1 dopamine receptors are known to act through stimulatory heterotrimeric guanosine triphosphate-binding (G s ) proteins and activation of the cAMP pathway, up-regulation of this pathway in the nucleus accumbens could account for the functional supersensitivity of D 1 receptors observed in these neurons--which occurs in the absence of detectable changes in the receptors themselves--after chronic cocaine (or other stimulant) exposure (18 ).
ref: 1997 October 3, Eric J. Nestler, George K. Aghajanian, “Molecular and Cellular Basis of Addiction”, in Science, volume 278, number 5335, →DOI, pages 58–63:
text: In the next generation seeds were screened for ABA supersensitivity (era1/era1).
ref: 1998 October 9, Zhen-Ming Pei et al., “Role of Farnesyltransferase in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell Anion Channels and Plant Water Loss”, in Science, volume 282, number 5387, →DOI, pages 287–290:
text: The effects of inactivity on new receptor synthesis and denervation supersensitivity are mediated by Ca 2 influx (24 ).
ref: 1999 October 15, Mohammed Akaaboune et al., “Rapid and Reversible Effects of Activity on Acetylcholine Receptor Density at the Neuromuscular Junction in Vivo”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 503–507:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Extreme sensitivity (of the body) to a chemical.
harth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harths
Senses: examples: text: To make a cake with flower from the Bakers, & to mix the same instead of other liquor, with her own water, and bake it on the harth, wherof the one halfe was to be applyed and laid to the region of the heart, the other halfe to the back directly opposit; & further, gaue a box of ointment like triacle, which must be spread vpon that cake, and a powder to be cast vpon the same, and certaine words written in a paper, to be layd on the likewise with the other, adding this caueat, that if his daughter did not amend within six houres after the taking of these receits, then there was no health or recouery to be looked for: & further, wished silence to be kept herein, for the woma who had done this, would know any thing.
ref: 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:
text: To make a SACK POSSET. Take a quart of cream, boil it with two or three blades of mace, and grate in a long bisket; take eight eggs, leave out half the whites, beat them very well, and a pint of gooseberry wine, make it hot, so mix it well with your eggs, set it over a slow fire, and stir it about whilst it be as thick as custard; set a dish that is deep over a stove, put in your sack and eggs, when your cream is boiling hot, put it to your sack by degrees, and stir it all the time it stands over your stove, whilst it be thoroughly hot, but don't let it boil; you must make it about half an hour before you want it; set it upon a hot harth, and then it will be as thick as custard; make a little froth of cream, to lay over the posset; when you dish it up sweeten it to your taste; you may make it without bisket if you please, and don't lay on your froth till you serve it up. 262.
ref: 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hearth.
glosses: Misspelling of hearth.
unespied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unespied, onespied, unaspied, unaspyed, equivalent to un- + espied.
Senses: examples: text: So did ſhe ſteale his heedeleſſe hart away, / And ioyd his loue in ſecret vneſpyde.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 401:
text: Then from his loftie ſtand on that high Tree / Down he alights among the ſportful Herd / Of thoſe fourfooted kindes, himſelf now one, / Now other, as thir ſhape ſervd beſt his end / Neerer to view his prey, and uneſpi’d / To mark what of thir ſtate he more might learn / By word or action markt:[…].
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 395–401:
text: Plays are like Towns, which how e're fortify'd / By Engineers, have still ſome weaker ſide / By the o're-ſeen Defendant uneſpy'd.
ref: 1667 March 12 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, “Prologue”, in Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen: […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1668, →OCLC, stanza IV:
text: Think they their sleights are not already perceived, and that they can walk now unespied, as though they had Gyges' ring, to go invisibly by, upon their finger?
ref: 1888, John Jewel, The Apology of the Church of England:
text: The queen's majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
ref: 1910, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series):
glosses: Not espied or having been espied; unseen, unnoticed.
coronetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coroneted
Etymology: From coronet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: These monstrous portents that before me rise Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies!
ref: 1821, anonymous author, The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision:
text: --He kept his pills in a bag, and used to dole them out to his patients; and on doing so to a lady who stepped out of a coronetted carriage to consult him, she declared they made her sick, and she could never take a pill.
ref: 1831, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17,:
text: Then came a few more carriages containing very nice people with whom we have here but little concern; and then Miss Brenda, deeply regretting her beautiful Napier, with her father and mother in a very smart Savoy turn-out followed by a coronetted brougham drawn by a splendid pair of black Orloffs.
ref: 1976, George Griffith, The Mummy and Miss Nitocris:
glosses: Bearing one or more coronets.
Derived terms: uncoronetted
coroneted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She is noble by nature, and has the advantage over her coroneted cousins in being permitted to wear a white cap out of doors, and an easy and simple costume; in the fact of her limbs being braced by a life spent in the open air, and her head not being plagued with the proprieties of May Fair.
ref: 1870, Henry Blackburn, Normandy Picturesque:
text: All the rest of Priorton said so and proved so, for they stood or sat for a whole day witnessing it, under a scorching sun, on foot, and in every description of vehicle from a corn-cart to a coroneted carriage.
ref: 1883, Sarah Tytler, Girlhood and Womanhood:
text: No one could exceed him in the respect he showed to a coroneted head, even when cracked; and a bishop under his charge was always secured, as far as possible, from the least whisper of heretical conversation.
ref: 1915, J. Storer Clouston, The Lunatic at Large:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coronetted.
Danube bleak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Danube bleaks
Senses: synonyms: Caspian shemaya
glosses: A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)
vobla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voblas
form: wobla
Etymology: Loanword from Russian во́бла (vóbla)
Senses: examples: text: The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. […] This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.
ref: 1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4
text: In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”¹ which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. […] Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ […] ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
¹ An inferior species of herring.
ref: 1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221
text: For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.
ref: 1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: The Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.
Synonyms: Caspian roach
wobla
Caspian roach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caspian roaches
Etymology: Caspian + roach
Senses: glosses: a fish found in brackish coastal waters of the northern and northwestern Caspian Sea (Rutilus caspicus, formerly recognized as subspecies of the common roach)
Synonyms: vobla
wobla
Caspian roaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caspian roach
coho salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coho salmon
Etymology: From coho + salmon.
Senses: glosses: A species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
Synonyms: coho
silver salmon
loys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loy
GID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiː aɪ diː/
Forms: form: GIDs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of general improvement district.
glosses: Acronym of generic interface definition.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of group identifier.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of gender identity disorder.
Hypernyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ID
shellack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shellac.
shellack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shellacks
form: shellacking
form: shellacked
form: shellacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shellac.
casteller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castellers
Etymology: From Catalan casteller. By surface analysis, castell + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who participates in building castells.
Nigella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 19th-century flower name from nigella. Compare also the male given name Nigel.
Senses: examples: text: Sarah asked if Nigella's momma was a poet because she certainly had a lyrical ear for a name.
ref: 2005, Renee W. Campoy, Case Study Analysis in the Classroom, SAGE, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: A female given name from English.
conrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnˌɹɒd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌɹɑd/
Forms: form: conrods
form: con rod
Etymology: Blend of connecting + rod
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of connecting rod.
bifocalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bifocaled.
context-free grammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of context-free grammar
terminal symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminal symbol
rize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rizes
form: rizing
form: roze
form: rizen
Senses: examples: text: Thus long the dore with rage and threats he bet, Yet of those fearfull women none durst rize, The Lyon frayed them, him in to let: 165 He would no longer stay him to advize,[*] But open breakes the dore in furious wize, And entring is; when that disdainfull beast Encountring fierce, him suddaine doth surprize, And seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest, 170 Under his Lordly foot him proudly hath supprest.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, chapter XIX, in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of rise.
examples: text: Go on, lay me right here as I lay now; but I'll rize agen you, and the day'll come when you'd give every dollar ye're worth to dig me up, and give me life agen."
ref: 1905, Max Pemberton, The Iron Pirate:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of rise.
browze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: browzes
form: browzing
form: browzed
form: browzed
Senses: examples: text: How much more great and solemn on this Occasion is that which follows in our English Poet, --And in their Palaces Where Luxury late reign'd, Sea-Monsters whelp'd And stabled-- than that in Ovid, where we are told that the Sea-Calfs lay in those Places where the Goats were used to browze?
ref: 1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
text: A drol gentleman passing by with a bit of chalk in his hand underwrote thus-- O cruel death! more subtle than a Fox That would not let this Calf become an Ox, That he might browze among the briers & thorns And with his brethren wear, Horns.
ref: 1895, Anna Green Winslow, Diary of Anna Green Winslow:
text: More than that, he saw a group of fat cattle browzing, and just beyond were horses in a pasture.
ref: 1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz:
glosses: Alternative spelling of browse.
farfara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the species epithet.
Senses: glosses: The dried leaves of coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), formerly used to treat bronchitis.
budge up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: budges up
form: budging up
form: budged up
form: budged up
Senses: examples: text: ‘Budge up, yeh great lump,’ said the stranger.
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To move or scoot over in order to make room for someone, especially when sitting.
Synonyms: scoot over
scoot up
move over
thrutch up
botch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: botches up
form: botching up
form: botched up
form: botched up
Senses: examples: text: What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view. Old Rossum cursed him and before he died he managed to botch up two physiological horrors. Then one day they found him dead in the laboratory. And that's his whole story.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
glosses: To ruin, mess up.
bulk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bulks out
form: bulking out
form: bulked out
form: bulked out
Senses: glosses: To become thicker, fatter or more bulky.
glosses: To cause to be thicker, fatter or more bulky.
glosses: To become more substantial
examples: text: The pet food was made from meat bulked out with rusk.
glosses: To cause to be more substantial; to add substance to.
book up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: books up
form: booking up
form: booked up
form: booked up
Senses: glosses: To reserve or book all of something, for example by purchasing all the tickets.
examples: text: Flights are beginning to book up as people flee the region.
glosses: To have all of its tickets or reservations purchased.
examples: text: There would be more extraordinary clock goings on in the big game of the day, Aronian-Firouzja, which began by giving a partial answer to the question of what Alireza Firouzja had been doing for the last five months. He’d been booking up on some old theory!
ref: 2022 May 8, Colin McGourty, “Superbet Classic 3: Aronian’s great escape, Deac beats Rapport”, in Chess24:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To study opening lines in great detail in order to gain an advantage.
glosses: To study or learn (something).
Derived terms: booked up
universal Turing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal Turing machine
Vikram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi विक्रम (vikram), from Sanskrit विक्रम (vikrama).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: Vikky
divinor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diviner.
divinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinators
Etymology: From Latin dīvīnātor. See divination.
Senses: examples: text: Of this number are all superstitious idolaters, ethnicks, Mahometans, Jewes, heretiques, enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatiques
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: One who practices or claims to practice divination; a diviner.
very low mass stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of very low mass star
calendar months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendar month
calendar spreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendar spread
calendar years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendar year
calendar calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendar call
pinxit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋksɪt/
Forms: form: pinxits
Etymology: From the appearance of the Latin word pinxit (“he/she painted (this)”), perfect indicative third-person singular of pingo (“I paint”), after a painter's name on a painting.
Senses: examples: text: A potential buyer of The Princess had refused to purchase unless Whistler modified his pinxit, scrawled across a corner of the canvas.
ref: 1941, Frederic Jennings Haskin, The American Government, page 469:
text: Nudes that look better than life— you wouldn't need to look for his pinxit.
ref: 1970, Galaxy Magazine, volume 31, page 119:
text: The name and address of a publisher or any additional names followed by the pinxit (he painted it) or sculpsit (he executed it) may indicate that several parties were involved in the work's […]
ref: 1993, New Jersey Libraries, volumes 26-28, page 29:
glosses: An inscription indicating the identity of the one who created a painting.
Related terms: sculpsit
recuperator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recuperators
Etymology: Either borrowed from Latin recuperator (“a recoverer”) or coined directly in English as recuperate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who recuperates, or regains their health.
glosses: A regenerator (heating device).
FFV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FFVs
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ah,’ Benbow said. ‘An FFV, or just an unfortunate sojourner there?’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 24:
glosses: The ‘first families of Virginia’, or someone descended from such a family.
play houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play house
plays on words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play on words
country bumpkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country bumpkin
thiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thief
sabre-tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabre-tooths
Senses: examples: text: Short of limb and long of canine, this rather unlovely creature was, confusingly, not at all related to later types of sabre-tooths (which are members of the true cat family).
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:
glosses: A sabre-toothed tiger.
sabre-tooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sabre-tooth
sweet tooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweet tooth
severall
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: I beleeve also, that he proves the fortunate man, whose manner of proceeding meets with the quality of the time; and so likewise he unfortunate from whose course of proceeding the times differ: for we see that men, in the things that induce them to the end, (which every one propounds to himselfe, as glory and riches) proceed therein diversly; some with respects, others more bold, and rashly; one with violence, and th'other with cunning; the one with patience, th'other with its contrary; and every one of severall wayes may attaine thereto; we see also two very respective and wary men, the one come to his purpose, and th'other not; and in like maner two equally prosper, taking divers course; the one being wary the other head-strong; which proceeds from nothing else, but from the quality of the times, which agree, or not, with their proceedings.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
text: Take to every quart of honey a gallon of fair spring water, boil it well with nutmeg and ginger bruised a little, in the boiling scum it well, and being boil'd set it a cooling in severall vessels that it may stand thin, then the next day put it in the vessel, and let it stand a week or two, then draw it in bottles.
ref: 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:
text: Now whether it had beane better for Captaine Smith, to haue concluded with any of those severall proiects, to haue abandoned the Countrey, with some ten or twelue of them, who were called the better sort, and haue left Master Hunt our Preacher, Master Anthony Gosnoll, a most honest, worthy, and industrious Gentleman, Master Thomas Wotton and some 27 others of his Countrymen to the fury of the Salvages, famine, and all manner of mischiefes, and inconveniences, (for they were but fortie in all to keepe possession of this large Country;) or starue himselfe with them for company, for want of lodging: or but adventuring abroad to make them provision, or by his opposition to preserve the action, and saue all their liues; I leaue to the censure of all honest men to consider.
ref: 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of several.
zebra sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebra shark
leopard sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard shark
boltsprit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boltsprits
Etymology: A corruption of bowsprit.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of bowsprit.
flip sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flip side
horse operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse opera
intra vires
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin “within the power”
Senses: examples: text: The courts may review it to determine whether it is intra vires. Therefore, the exercise of municipal business powers is not immune from review.
ref: 1994, Shell Canada Products Ltd. v. Vancouver (City), 24 February 1993
glosses: within the legal power or authority of a person or body
Related terms: ultra vires
transbuccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌkəl
Etymology: From trans- + buccal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Administered through the cheek
step-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-ins
Etymology: From step + in.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Doc got that step-in in Memphis,’ the third said. ‘Off a damn whore.’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 46:
text: One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming "Ben! Ben!" she waved it wildly.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book V (The Way Home: 1929–1930), page 315:
glosses: An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties.
step-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-in
lernt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lern
passest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pass + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pass
guck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌk/
Forms: form: gucks
Etymology: Blend of goose + duck.
Senses: glosses: The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck
Derived terms: guckling
Related terms: swoose
guck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌk/
Etymology: Blend of goo + muck?
Senses: examples: text: As everyone familiar with these things knows, they're sticky on the outside -- and that sticky guck gets on your hands, making everything stick to them!
ref: 1996, Carole Marsh, Vermont History!, page 59:
glosses: An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.
Derived terms: gucky
stotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stotters
form: stottering
form: stottered
form: stottered
form: stowter
form: stauter
form: stawter
Etymology: From Middle English stoteren (compare also participle Middle English staterand (“staggering; tottering; stumbling”)), a frequentative form of Middle English stoten (“to stumble”), related to Dutch stoten (“to push; bump; butt; stumble against”), German stoßen (“to push; butt; knock; bump”), Icelandic stauta (“to struggle through; pound; grind”), equivalent to stut + -er (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: To stagger; totter; stumble
nobilitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nobilitate
narutard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narutards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Narutard.
Narutards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Narutard
Brasilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brasilians
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Brazilian.
Brasilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brasilian
form: most Brasilian
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Brazilian.
boronated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boronated
form: most boronated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That has been reacted with a boronate or with boronic acid
nanograins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanograin
nanograin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanograins
Etymology: From nano- + grain.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nanosized grain (in a metal etc.)
resolvents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resolvent
slitmask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slitmasks
Etymology: From slit + mask.
Senses: glosses: A device that is attached to an optical device in order to remove all light except for that from a particular direction.
slitmasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slitmask
Eeveelution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːviˈluːʃən/
ipa: /ˌiviˈluʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: Eeveelutions
form: Eevolution
form: eevolution
Etymology: Blend of Eevee + evolution
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Any Pokémon that is an evolution of Eevee, either official or made up by fans.
Eevolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eevolution
jambons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒămˈbŏns/
Senses: glosses: plural of jambon
waff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: waffs
form: waffing
form: waffed
form: waffed
form: waugh
Senses: glosses: To bark; to woof.
witherward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more witherward
form: most witherward
Etymology: From Middle English witherward, from Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþraward, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrawardaz (“contrary, adverse, in opposition”); equivalent to wither (“against”) + -ward. Cognate with Old High German widarwart (“witherward”), German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”).
Senses: examples: text: Such a witherward and rotten friend she was.
glosses: Adverse, contrary.
examples: text: […] then appeared to me along the way by which I formerly came amid the darkness, as it were the brightness of a shining star, and the light was waxing more and more, and quickly hastening to me, and as soon as it came nigh me, then were scattered and away fled all the witherward ghosts, which formerly threatened me with their tongs, [...]
ref: 1852, The whole works of King Alfred the Great:
text: at the witherward side of the year
glosses: Opposite, opposing; hostile.
witherward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more witherward
form: most witherward
Etymology: From Middle English witherward, from Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþraward, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrawardaz (“contrary, adverse, in opposition”); equivalent to wither (“against”) + -ward. Cognate with Old High German widarwart (“witherward”), German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”).
Senses: glosses: Contrary to, against.
witherward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪðə(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Middle English witherward, from Old English wiþerweard (“contrary, adverse, hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþraward, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrawardaz (“contrary, adverse, in opposition”); equivalent to wither (“against”) + -ward. Cognate with Old High German widarwart (“witherward”), German widerwärtig (“adverse, repulsive”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (wiþrawairþs, “witherward”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor, although be sung the "mighty stream of tendency" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.
ref: 1850, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6:
text: Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as "the question of the atom," "the witherward of matter," "the chemical interpretation of life" and "the beginning of things."
ref: 1912, American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6:
text: They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward: [...]
ref: 1950, Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
Myfanwy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈvɑːn.wi/
/məˈvɑː.nuː.i/
Forms: form: Myvanwy
form: :commons:Category:Myvanwy (given name)
Etymology: From Welsh Myfanwy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Derived terms: Myf
creepifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creepify
creepifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creepify
creepified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creepify
Yassy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iași
form: Iasi
form: Jassy
form: Iassy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Iași (“city in Romania”).
Simpsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmpˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪmpˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Simpsonian
form: most Simpsonian
Etymology: From Simpson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), US paleontologist.
glosses: Of or pertaining to The Simpsons, an American animated sitcom.
Related terms: Homer Simpsonian
Act of Parliament clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Act of Parliament clocks
Senses: glosses: A large clock, once hung in inns, erroneously thought to derive from a tax on clocks.
pad down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pads down
form: padding down
form: padded down
form: padded down
Senses: examples: text: Since you stay in the main lodge, it's easy to pad down at all hours to a cozy stay before the fireplace, or farther down the hall to the small Gothic-style chapel.
ref: 2001, Jean Torkelson, Colorado's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places, →ISBN:
glosses: To spend the night somewhere.
examples: text: His hands padded down the bag almost violently, searching for some trace of what the tarp must certainly be hiding, but found all he had was the tarp.
ref: 2010, Christopher O'Bryant, 320 Down, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: To frisk, pat down
examples: text: Amateur radio W40AB has come up with a slick gadget to pad down the gain of high output converters.
ref: 1962, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal - Volume 18, Issue 2, page 61:
text: If the bass has active electronics, you may have to pad down (reduce) the signal to avoid distortion.
ref: 1996, Peter McIan, Using Your Portable Studio, →ISBN, page 154:
text: You can build these inline into those Switchcraft XLR barrel plugs if you need to pad down signals.
ref: 2010, Larry Crane, Tape Op: The Book about Creative Music Recording, →ISBN:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To reduce a signal.
lash down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lashes down
form: lashing down
form: lashed down
form: lashed down
Senses: glosses: To secure with ropes; to tie down
examples: text: I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real
On a stormy night, the rain is coming down
Rain like never before
I've got some records on, some bottles of wine
On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down
And I'm waiting for her.
ref: 1995, Ash, Goldfinger:
glosses: To rain heavily.
Synonyms: tie down
bucket down
chuck it down
pelt
pelt down
piss down
pour
pour down
rain cats and dogs
stream
teem
whip down
pour down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːr daʊn/
Forms: form: pours down
form: pouring down
form: poured down
form: poured down
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
glosses: To rain heavily.
Synonyms: bucket down
chuck it down
lash down
pelt
pelt down
piss down
pour
rain cats and dogs
stream
teem
whip down
Related terms: pourdown
pelt down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pelts down
form: pelting down
form: pelted down
form: pelted down
Senses: glosses: To rain heavily; to sleet, snow or hail heavily.
Synonyms: bucket down
chuck it down
lash down
pelt
piss down
pour
pour down
rain cats and dogs
stream
teem
whip down
whip down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whips down
form: whipping down
form: whipped down
form: whipped down
Senses: glosses: To rain heavily.
Synonyms: bucket down
chuck it down
lash down
pelt
pelt down
piss down
pour
pour down
rain cats and dogs
stream
teem
Homer Simpsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Homer Simpsonian
form: most Homer Simpsonian
Etymology: From Homer Simpson (name of a character in The Simpsons, an animated TV serial) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the vocalizations or behavior of Homer Simpson.
wikipedia: The Simpsons
Related terms: Homer Simpson
hack off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hacks off
form: hacking off
form: hacked off
form: hacked off
Senses: examples: text: It was one of them, for example, which provoked Lieutenant Maynard to hack off Blackbeard's head, and to spear it upon the end of his bowsprit. But, as a rule, the pirate ruffled and bullied and drabbed without let or hindrance, until it was time for him to go back to his ship once more.
ref: 1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock:
text: At weekend schools, young Muslims, aged between six and 15, are receiving lessons in how to hack off a criminal's hand or foot.
ref: 2010, Daily Mail, Oi, Bish... 'Er Indoors at Buck House wants a word, 22 November 2010
glosses: To remove by hacking; to cut off
glosses: To annoy
Synonyms: sense: cut off
word: cut off
sense: cut off
word: slice off
sense: annoy
word: annoy
hush down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hushes down
form: hushing down
form: hushed down
form: hushed down
Senses: glosses: To become quiet; to cease making sounds.
glosses: To quieten; to make quiet
Synonyms: hush
hush up
quiet down
quieten down
shut up
reappointee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappointees
Etymology: From reappoint + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is reappointed.
reappointees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reappointee
cigaretteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cigarette + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cigarette.
Derived terms: cigarettelessness
nonketogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ketogenic.
Senses: glosses: Not ketogenic.
vampily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vampily
form: most vampily
Etymology: From vampy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vampy manner.
vampiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vampy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Though they have a belter (Ms. Vitha) and a blues singer (Ms. Wolfe), the vampiness of their delivery suggested more theater than church in their backgrounds.
ref: 2009 July 17, Ben Ratliff, “Harking Back to Southern Soul, and Then Reveling in Those Sounds”, in New York Times:
synonyms: vampdom
glosses: The quality of being vampy.
outstrategize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstrategizes
form: outstrategizing
form: outstrategized
form: outstrategized
Etymology: From out- + strategize.
Senses: glosses: To defeat with superior strategy.
outstrategizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstrategize
outstrategized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstrategize
empty out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empties out
form: emptying out
form: emptied out
form: emptied out
Senses: examples: text: "I don't believe it'll be of much use to him, any more," said he, "for it's full of polliwogs an' fish eggs, an' the water has took all the crinkle out o' the straw an ruined it. I guess, Trot, that the best thing for us to do is to empty out all his body an' carry his head an' clothes along the road till we come to a field or a house where we can get some fresh straw."
ref: 1915, L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz:
glosses: To completely empty.
Synonyms: empty
keep watch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps watch
form: keeping watch
form: kept watch
form: kept watch
Senses: examples: text: In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
synonyms: stand guard
glosses: To guard; to watch over someone or something.
dancest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dance + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dance
swimmest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: swim + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of swim
pinest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pine + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of pine
pineth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pine + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pine
swimmeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: swim + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swim
danceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dance + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dance
burlesquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burlesquers
Etymology: From burlesque + -er.
Senses: glosses: A burlesque performer.
burlesquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burlesquer
unidyllic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unidyllic
form: most unidyllic
Etymology: From un- + idyllic.
Senses: examples: text: On his blog at davidbyrne.com, Byrne chronicles his cycling adventures in unidyllic spots like Naples and Hong Kong (“the worst city for cyclists that I have encountered in the whole world”), as well as in some more bike-friendly territory.
ref: 2009 May 31, The Editors, “Up Front: David Byrne”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not idyllic.
nonantiretroviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + antiretroviral.
Senses: glosses: Not antiretroviral.