cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foolable
form: most foolable
Etymology: From fool + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be fooled.
Related terms: foolability
outfools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfool
outfooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfool
outfooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfool
lamenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamenter
foolfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foolfishes
form: foolfish
Senses: glosses: filefish
glosses: winter flounder
wonderfool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌn.də(ɹ).f(ʊ)ɫ/
Forms: form: more wonderfool
form: most wonderfool
Senses: examples: text: Nor waz dhis transformacion more wonderfool dhan dhat ov an evvet into an ewt, hwich no les natturally drew dhe (now uſeles) dental ov dhe artikel into dhe articulacion ov dhe noun, in a newt
ref: 1787, James Elphinston, Propriety Ascertained in Her Picture; Or, Inglish Speech and Spelling Rendered Mutual Guides, page 25:
text: “[…] It's quite wonderfool hoo the deevil he gets through it all.” (Whispering in his ear) “I am surprised too; but I did it all myself.”
ref: 1839, Charles Mathews, Memoires, page 260:
text: Fresh, ardent, yet woise, oh so woise, he tell me 'ou to manage my lands, an oder wonderfool tings!
ref: 1867, “The History of a Sack of Corn”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume 18, page 536:
text: Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!"
ref: 1992, Tristan Jones, Adrift, page 257:
text: Whenever approached by some unctuous bell captain as to my reason for occupying a chair for such a long time, I would reply in an all-purpose "foreign" accent (part Bela Lugosi, part Charlie Chan) "Merry Chreestmas. America it is a wonderfool country," and then they generally left me alone.
ref: 1998, James Howard Kunstler, Home from nowhere: remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first Century, page 179:
text: Marie-Louise emerged from the girls' tent, wrapped in a fleece. She sat down by Jess. "It is wonderfool now zat Jodie is feelingue bettair," she said.
ref: 2009, Sue Limb, Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England, page 195:
text: 'Come and swim,' he said to me. 'Ze water eez wonderfool.'
ref: 2012, Chloe Rayban, Mwah-Mwah, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 126:
text: “What else does Jannoula say.” I asked, sitting up carefully.
“Wonderfool thingks about you, always!" he cried, his doughy hands gesticulating his enthusiasm.
ref: 2015, Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wonderful.
filefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filefishes
form: filefish
Etymology: From file + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Monacanthidae, with very slender bodies.
Synonyms: foolfish
Derived terms: word: fringed filefish
taxonomic: Aluterus schoepfii
word: orange filefish
word: scrawled filefish
fool away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fools away
form: fooling away
form: fooled away
form: fooled away
Senses: glosses: to waste, squander
there's a sucker born every minute
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a sucker is born every minute
Senses: synonyms: there's one born every minute
glosses: There will always be a great number of fools in the world who can be easily swindled.
Related terms: a fool and his money are soon parted
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
foolhardihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foolhardy + -hood.
Senses: glosses: foolhardiness
foolhardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foolhardice.
foolify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foolifies
form: foolifying
form: foolified
form: foolified
Etymology: From fool + -ify.
Senses: glosses: to fool, to make a fool of
motley fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motley fools
Etymology: From motley (“multi-colored cloth; a jester's clothes”) + fool (“a jester”).
Senses: examples: text: A fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ th’ forest, / A motley fool. A miserable world!
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: Court jester; jester.
unfool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfuːl/
Forms: form: unfools
form: unfooling
form: unfooled
form: unfooled
Etymology: From un- + fool.
Senses: examples: text: haue you any
way then to vnfoole me againe. Set downe the basket
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To restore from folly, from being a fool, or from being foolish.
unbefool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbefools
form: unbefooling
form: unbefooled
form: unbefooled
Etymology: From un- + befool.
Senses: synonyms: undeceive
glosses: To educate so as to stop being a fool
court jester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court jesters
Senses: synonyms: jester
joker
glosses: A person in colorful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
take a picture, it will last longer
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: take a picture, it'll last longer
Senses: examples: text: Byron wasn't aware he was staring as long as he was. His manager saw him and gathered all the girls behind the counter together and had them stare at Byron. Finally she said, "Byron, take a picture; it will last longer." Byron was startled out of his daydream and the girls all laughed at him.
ref: 2004, Steve L. Case, The Youth Worker's Big Book of Case Studies:
glosses: Said to scold somebody who is staring at the speaker.
turn to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns to
form: turning to
form: turned to
form: turned to
Senses: glosses: With to as particle
examples: text: All hands, turn to!
text: "No; because when I come in from the forge of a night, any one can see me turning to at it. But you never turn to at it, Biddy."
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 269:
glosses: With to as particle:
To apply oneself; to focus; to get one's head down.
examples: text: all things turn to dust; iron turns to rust in the presence of air and water
text: He turned water to wine.
text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: With to as preposition:
To become; to turn into.
raw_tags: said of objects
examples: text: When I'm in trouble, I turn to my pastor to help me.
glosses: With to as preposition:
To consult for advice or help.
synonyms: run to
examples: text: Breakups can be incredibly difficult, but one may wish to seek therapy rather than turn to drugs.
glosses: With to as preposition:
To start to do or to use something in an attempt to deal with a difficult and unpleasant situation.
examples: text: How do we find constructive ways to respond to a situation this complex? Two groups of essays in the anthology turn to this question.
ref: 1987 February 22, N. Diffloth, “Violence, by Women, against Women”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 8:
text: In 1939 he turned to films in earnest.
glosses: With to as preposition:
To direct one's attention or efforts toward something.
examples: text: Turn to the left up here.
text: To start my homework, I had to turn to page twenty in my textbook.
glosses: With to as preposition:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, to.
rip boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rip box
borite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to data by French researchers [61], the use of boron-containing materials, such as tourmaline, and also the use of synthetic additives (calcium borite) has caused a considerable slowing down of the start of the setting, and in individual experiments setting did not take place at all.
ref: 1963, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Komarovskiĭ, Construction of Nuclear Installations - Book 1, page 68:
text: Spectral data of the borates of known structre determined were used for the interpretation of the spectra of the complex, polyborates, ginorite and potassium borite from the structural point of view.
ref: 1969, Jena Review - Volume 14, page 71:
text: I do know of the one borite deposit. We need borite. We have only one deposit known in the United States.
ref: 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation, To Prohibit Certain Incompatible Activities Within Any Area Within Any Area of the National Park System, page 11:
glosses: A polyborate, such as tetraborate.
Derived terms: metaborite
brods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brod
re-cover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-covers
form: re-covering
form: re-covered
form: re-covered
form: recover
Etymology: From re- + cover.
Senses: examples: text: The seats are the same type as fitted to the FGW sets. It's worth remembering that refurbishment of the First Class seats by FGW a few years previously was excellent (if you like leather seats). I assume they have been re-covered in this latest refurbishment.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: To cover again.
re-covers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-cover
re-covering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Work has been started on the partial renewal and re-covering of the roof, and a new electric lighting installation, at Carlisle Citadel Station, London Midland Region.
ref: 1954 November, “Notes and News: Carlisle Citadel Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
glosses: present participle and gerund of re-cover
re-covering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-coverings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recovering.
re-covered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-cover
datus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datu
datu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datus
Senses: glosses: An indigenous Malay or Filipino chief.
who are you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asks the interlocutor for their identification
Derived terms: who are you and what have you done with someone
what is that
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what's that
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, was, that.: Asks the interlocutor to identify an indicated object.
glosses: What did you just say? Synonym of say again.
blind hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind holes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hole that does not extend completely through the wall; a dead end hole.
blind holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind hole
roughcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfkæst/
ipa: /ˈɹʌfkɑːst/
Forms: form: roughcasts
Etymology: From rough + cast.
Senses: examples: text: The whole piece […]seems […]a loose model and roughcast of what I design to do.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
text: All the objects left in or near the quarries are unfinished roughcasts.
ref: 1986, Pierre Vérin, The History of Civilisation in North Madagascar, page 280:
text: They first attached the paper-cuttings directly onto the roughcast of china, then they applied glaze to it.
ref: 2005, China's Ethnic Groups - Issues 1-4:
text: In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.
ref: 2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV:
text: Powder pressing, also known as mould pressing or isostatic pressing, involves processing ceramic powder into components or roughcasts to be sintered to certain sizes, shapes, density, and stiffness.
ref: 2017, Yufeng Jin, Zhiping Wang, Jing Chen, Introduction to Microsystem Packaging Technology, page 43:
glosses: A crude model.
examples: text: The branches met overhead in a kind of bower and the three cops stood in the shade and studied the roughcast gable of the cottage, maybe fifty yards on up the hill.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 444:
glosses: A rough surface finish, as of a plaster or stucco wall.
glosses: A mixture of pebbles or similar material used to finish a plaster or concrete wall.
Synonyms: sense: rough surface finish
word: pebbledash
roughcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfkæst/
ipa: /ˈɹʌfkɑːst/
Forms: form: roughcasts
form: roughcasting
form: roughcast
form: roughcast
form: roughcasted
form: roughcasted
Etymology: From rough + cast.
Senses: examples: text: This rough cast unhewn poetry was instead of stage plays for 120 years
ref: 1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Nor bodily, nor ghostly negro could / Rough-ccast thy figure in a sadder mould.
ref: 1656, John Cleveland, The Kings Disguise:
text: Dutt (1913) states that madraspatanum wasps build all their cells and then roughcast the whole group together, i.e. that they make a crepissage.
ref: 1968, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society - Volume 65, page 159:
text: In particular, it seeks to elucidate the five path system, which was roughcasted at the time of Abhidharma Buddhism and later improved in terms of more comprehensive definition and fruition by Mahayana Buddhism.
ref: 1998, Jen-Kuan Shih, The Way to Enlightenment: Theory and Practice of Buddhist Path System:
text: However, although steam-powered machines were used in the 19th century also to roughcast and polish mass-produced lenses for everyday use of just a few centimeters in diameter (for glasses and lorgnettes, opera glasses and small cheap telescopes), those of the best quality, used mainly in optical equipment, were still manufactured and finished off by hand, one by one.
ref: 2002, Raimonda Riccini, Taking Eyeglasses Seriously:
glosses: To shape crudely; to form in its first rudiments, without correction or polish.
examples: to roughcast a wall or building
glosses: To apply a roughcast finish to.
roughcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfkæst/
ipa: /ˈɹʌfkɑːst/
Forms: form: more roughcast
form: most roughcast
Etymology: From rough + cast.
Senses: examples: text: A brilliant blaze, kindled with dry wood, enlightened the whole interior of this fresh looking, roughcast, timbered apartment.
ref: 1833, Timothy Flint, Don't give up the ship; or, The good son:
text: Understand: I'm a roughcast fly fisherman, an empirical self-taught duffer.
ref: 2003, John McPhee, The Founding Fish, page 131:
text: Objectively speaking, Nick was more handsome, with smaller, more chiseled features. But Hardy's roughcast good looks and self-assurance made Nick look callow.
ref: 2008, Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel:
text: Both had something of the traditional Quaker character, earnest, dour, enduring, scornful of imposed orthodoxies, desirous of spiritual release through a roughcast mysticism.
ref: 2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell:
glosses: Unpolished.
duettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duetto
patchouly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patchouli.
pachouli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of patchouli.
mediportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediportal
form: most mediportal
Senses: examples: text: Mediportal animals include the bison, elephant, and rhinoceros.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an animal, physically adapted to spend a substantial amount of time moving slowly over land, usually with a heavy body weight, but also having some characteristics conducive to quick movements when needed.
Related terms: graviportal
cursorial
graviportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graviportal
form: most graviportal
Senses: examples: text: The giant tortoises are graviportal.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an animal, physically adapted only for moving slowly over land, due to a high body weight.
Derived terms: graviportality
Related terms: mediportal
ambulatorial
breedist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breedists
Etymology: From breed + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of breedism.
breedism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breed + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Prejudice concerning breeds of animals.
lays waste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay waste
laying waste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay waste
laid waste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay waste
tittivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tittivate
tittivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tittivate
tittivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tittivate
Mulhousian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mulhousians
Etymology: From Mulhouse + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The volcanologist Maurice Krafft was a Mulhousian.
glosses: Somebody from Mulhouse, Alsace, France.
white label
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: white-label
Etymology: US, 20th century. Originally used for musical vinyl records whose labels had been torn off or covered with a white label by competing DJs to conceal which records they were using.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Being a generically manufactured product, rebranded with the marketer's or retailer's trade dress: synonym of private label.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: OEM
off-lease
open box
recertified
refurbished
system pull
glosses: Unbranded; being a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without undercutting the value of the brand.
examples: 2014, Chris Cunningham, quoted in Piers Martin, Aphex Twin: ‘His music is a perfect mix of mystery and adrenaline’ (in The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/19/aphex-twin-richard-james-bjork-ian-rankin
I started going to the record exchange in Camden two or three times a week to look for the Rephlex white labels or test pressings that would end up there. I actually got one of the original Caustic Window vinyl LPs from there.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Being a vinyl record with a white label or white background (rather than artwork), typically used for test records or promotion.
hepaticology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepatic + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: The scientific study of liverworts (Marchantiophyta).
Hypernyms: bryology
Derived terms: hepaticological
hepaticologist
Related terms: hepatic
uncommanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + commanded.
Senses: examples: text: an uncommanded sacrifice to God
text: The loss of control was due to uncommanded flight control movements.
glosses: Not commanded or requested.
G-suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-suits
Etymology: Short for gravity suit; see G-LOC.
Senses: glosses: A suit designed to maintain the supply of blood to the head during violent acceleration.
Numidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /n(j)uˈmɪdiən/
Forms: form: more Numidian
form: most Numidian
Etymology: From Numidia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.
ref: 1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Numidia or its inhabitants.
Numidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /n(j)uˈmɪdiən/
Forms: form: Numidians
Etymology: From Numidia + -an.
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of Numidia
Numidian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /n(j)uˈmɪdiən/
Etymology: From Numidia + -an.
Senses: glosses: a variety of Berber spoken by the people of Numidia
Numidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Numidian
voltage multiplier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltage multipliers
Senses: glosses: An electronic circuit that provides an output voltage higher than the input voltage, by means of capacitors and diodes.
Surakarta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Central Java, Indonesia.
glosses: A sultanate in Java
voltage multipliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltage multiplier
semblants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semblant
irrenowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrenowned
form: most irrenowned
Etymology: From ir- + renowned.
Senses: examples: text: To slug in slouth and sensuall delights, / And end their daies with irrenowmed shame.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Not renowned, unfamous.
encheason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encheasons
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enchesoun, from Anglo-Norman enchaisun, encheson, alteration of achaisun, acheison after the prefix en-.
Senses: examples: text: Certes (said he) well mote I shame to tell / The fond encheason, that me hither led.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A cause, reason.
encheasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encheason
enwombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enwombed
form: most enwombed
Etymology: From enwomb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Me then he left enwombed of this child, / This lucklesse child, whom thus ye see with bloud defild.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Pregnant.
benzylpyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzylpyrroles
Etymology: From benzyl + pyrrole.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
N-substituted pyrroles are much less reactive than the other 5-membered 1,3-dienes; no reaction was observed between N-(trimethylsilyl) pyrrole or N-benzylpyrrole with Smith’s diene (4) under thermal or high pressure (4 days at 14 kbar) conditions, even in the presence of Lewis acids.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric benzyl derivatives of pyrrole N-benzylpyrrole, 2-benzylpyrrole or 3-benzylpyrrole
bichromophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + chromophoric.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
This is illustrated using the methoxynaphthalenefunctionalized epoxycyclobutane 160, which is reacted with functionalized norbornenes 93,56, and 148 to produce polyalicyclic structures 161-163, respectively, as examples of space-separated bichromophoric systems.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two chromophores
ybound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was MISERY ybound.
ref: 1559, Thomas Sackville, The Mirror for Magistrates:
text: But Lord they sayen they ben ybound to thy seruice, and seruen thee both night and day in singing their praiers, both for themselfe and for the other men, that done them good both quicke and dead, and some of them gone about to teach thy people when they hauen leisure.
ref: 1563 (1851), John Foxe, John Cumming, Fox's Book of martyrs: the acts and monuments of the church:
text: She sayd and sayd that Bracelettes were ybound, To hold him fast (but not to charme his thought)
ref: 1575, George Gascoigne, Posies of Gascoigne:
text: In mids of which, depainted there, we found Deadly Debate, all full of snaky hair, That with a bloody fillet was ybound, Out breathing nought but discord every where:
ref: 1859, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Reginald West, The Works, page 116:
text: But him Idomeneus foresaw with quick preventing glance, And sheltered by his huge round shield eschewed the fatal lance, The shield, with hides of oxen and strong copper plates ybound, And with two handles fitted well to grasp its ample round.
ref: 1866, John Stuart Blackie, The Iliad in English verse, page 23:
glosses: past participle of bind
ybound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ybound
form: most ybound
Senses: examples: text: Took he there, this gentle Knight, With men of armès strong, And led him home to Nottingham ward Ybound both hand and foot.
ref: 1510, W. de Worde, Robin Hood:
text: I found / Where him that witch had thralled to her will, / In chaines of lust and lewd desires ybound […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: With preface meet, and notes profound, Imprinted fair, and well ybound.'
ref: 1879, John Gay, The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Memoir - Volume 2, page 37:
glosses: Bound.
embrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embraves
form: embraving
form: embraved
form: embraved
Etymology: From en- + brave.
Senses: examples: text: fewer Colors should embrave his Coat
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To inspire with bravery.
examples: text: The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To embellish, adorn.
embraves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrave
bynempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Sir Guyon more affection to increace, / Bynempt a sacred vow, which none should aye releace.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bename
embraving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrave
embraved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrave
overwon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwin
overwin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overwins
form: overwinning
form: overwon
form: overwon
form: owerwin
Etymology: From Middle English overwinnen, from Old English oferwinnan (“to contend with, overcome, subdue”), equivalent to over- + win.
Senses: glosses: To overcome; gain one's point; exceed.
overwin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overwins
form: owerwin
Etymology: From Middle English overwinnen, from Old English oferwinnan (“to contend with, overcome, subdue”), equivalent to over- + win.
Senses: glosses: The win or winning of a game.
bloodguiltiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood-guiltiness
Etymology: From bloodguilty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Deliuer me from bloud giltineſſe (O God) thou that art the god of my health: and my toungue ſhall ſyng of thy righteouſneſſe.
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Firste Daie of Lente Commonly Called Ashe-wednisdaye”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xxxii, verso:
text: [H]igh God, in lieu of innocence, / Imprinted had that token of his wrath, / To ſhew how ſore bloudguiltineſſe he hat'th; [...]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 206:
text: Take heed, then, lest, while you plume yourselves on your superior wisdom and discrimination, the Great Captain does not arraign you before his court-martial on the charge of blood-guiltiness.
ref: 1881, C. F. Hull, Shadows of good things to come; or, the gospel in Ruth, page 42:
glosses: Guilt of having shed blood or killed someone.
daud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dauds
form: dod
Etymology: Imitative of a heavy thump. Attested from the end of the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: A blow, a heavy thump.
examples: text: Great dauds o' blaze I've seen him split to sclaffers, / Some thick, some thin, some limp as ony waifers
ref: 1884, James and Ellen Nicolson, Willie Waugh, page 20:
glosses: A piece of something, especially something with an irregular shape.
strifeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strifeful
form: most strifeful
form: strifull
Etymology: From strife + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
antonyms: strifeless
glosses: Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
uptie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upties
form: uptying
form: uptied
form: uptied
Etymology: From up- + tie.
Senses: examples: text: Her golden lockes she roundly did vptye / In breaded tramels [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To tie up, fasten up.
upties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uptie
uptying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uptie
uptied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uptie
coextend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coextends
form: coextending
form: coextended
form: coextended
Etymology: From co- + extend.
Senses: examples: text: It is neceſſary therefore that this nevv created or replaced thing do not onely fill ſome part of the Space [i.e. “imaginary space”] above-mentioned, or be coincident and coextended vvith it, but alſo, that it have no dependance upon our thought.
ref: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Body and Accident”, in anonymous translator, Elements of Philosophy, the First Section, Concerning Body. […], London: […] R[obert] & W[illiam] Leybourn for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, part 2 (The First Grounds of Philosophy), paragraph 1, page 74:
glosses: To extend along with another.
Related terms: coextension
coextends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coextend
coextending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coextend
coextended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coextend
cogeneric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + generic.
Senses: glosses: congeneric
cogitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑd͡ʒɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more cogitable
form: most cogitable
Etymology: From Latin cogitabilis, from cogito.
Senses: glosses: Thinkable, conceivable, able to be imagined.
endamage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endamages
form: endamaging
form: endamaged
form: endamaged
Etymology: From Middle English endamagen, from Old French endamagier.
Senses: examples: text: Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […].
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “Witchcraft by a picture”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: tinsel
glosses: To damage.
cogitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cogitatively
form: most cogitatively
Etymology: From cogitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cogitative manner
cogredient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing two or more variables that undergo the same linear transformations.
Libyc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Libyc
form: most Libyc
form: Lybic
form: lybicke
Senses: examples: text: when a Beare and Tygre being met / In cruell fight on lybicke Ocean wide [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Libyan.
englut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engluts
form: englutting
form: englutted
form: englutted
Etymology: Partly from Old French englotir, partly from en- + glut.
Senses: examples: text: Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut, / Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight, / Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Thus, as carnivorous vultures watch to englut their prey, the rapacious rebels enjoyed a savage delight in the hope of ensnaring him,[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter II, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
glosses: To glut, satiate.
unscanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Etymology: From un- + scanned.
Senses: examples: text: The scanned 1978 patient did better than the unscanned 1974 patient in 31% of pairs, whereas the unscanned 1974 patient did better than the scanned 1978 patient in only 7% of pairs.
ref: 2015, Martin Bland, An Introduction to Medical Statistics, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Rescanning and replacement scanning of previously unscanned images, including those missed by the high-speed scanner operator or those considered inappropriate for processing by high-speed scanner[.]
ref: 1991, 'Optical Digital Image Storage System: project report:
text: We recommend never taking unscanned work because it frequently results in problems for the transcriptionist.
ref: 1998, Donna Avila-Weil, Mary Glaccum, The Independent Medical Transcriptionist, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Not having been scanned.
examples: text: This provided an input speed that exceeded the capability of unscanned image filmsetters. Unscanned filmsetter devices use a moving matrix grid or a stationary character grid with electromechanical control of character selection for photographic recording.
ref: 1978, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, →ISBN:
text: For unscanned modes which do not involve electronic or mechanical steering of the acoustic beam, the potential for significant temperature increase is the greatest
ref: 1995, Lee W. Goldman, J. Brian Fowlkes, Medical CT & Ultrasound: Current Technology and Applications:
glosses: Involving a technique that does not involve scanning, where an alternative technique that does involve scanning exists.
examples: text: This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late Tie leaden pounds to 's heels.
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus:
text: The birth of a legend or tradition occurs, how we know not, in fancy's dim and unscanned regions
ref: 2007, Joannes De Sancto Geminiano, The Legend of the Holy Fina, Virgin of Santo Gemignano, →ISBN, page xiii:
text: Such sentiments are not those of a contemner of divine power, but of one who believed in the ever-present miracle, unscanned by human reason,—the government of the invisible God.
ref: 2014, William John Law, The Alps of Hannibal - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: Unobserved, unexamined, or unconsidered.
examples: text: The music of the measured, scanned verse of Latin and Greek poetry is one thing ; the music of the rhymed, unscanned verse of Villon and the old French poets, la poe'sie chante'e, is another.
ref: 2011, Walter Pater, The Works of Walter Pater, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Having no consistent meter.
engluts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of englut
englutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of englut
englutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of englut
lever action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a type of firearm action which uses a lever located around the trigger guard area, to load fresh cartridges into the chamber when the lever is worked.
falling block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falling blocks
Senses: glosses: A single-shot firearm action in which a solid metal breechblock slides vertically in grooves cut into the breech of the rifle and actuated by a lever.
pump action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump actions
Senses: synonyms: slide action
glosses: A type of firearm action that uses a sliding handgrip to cycle the mechanism.
Derived terms: pump-action shotgun
Related terms: falling block
bolt action
lever action
misseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misseeming
form: most misseeming
Etymology: From mis- + seeming.
Senses: examples: text: Be therefore, O my deare Lords, pacifide, / And this misseeming discord meekely lay aside.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Unseemly, unbecoming.
pump actions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pump action
resounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resounders
Etymology: From resound + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which resounds.
glosses: A monotelephone.
stablish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stablishes
form: stablishing
form: stablished
form: stablished
Etymology: Aphetic form of establish.
Senses: examples: text: Then she began a treatie to procure, / And stablish termes betwixt both their requests […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To establish.
stablishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stablish
treague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹiːɡ/
Forms: form: treagues
Etymology: From Medieval Latin treuga, from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa, “treaty, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (“fidelity; pledge”). More at true, truce.
Senses: examples: text: She them besought, during their quiet treague,
 Into her lodging to repaire a while […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A truce.
stablishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stablish
stablished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stablish
treagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treague
Lana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːnə/
Etymology: Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на (Lána), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).
Senses: examples: text: Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia. So she thought awhile and said, "What about Lana?" For no reason at all it became Lana - pronounced Lah-nah.
ref: 1942 September 5, Irving Wallace, “The Loves of Lana Turner”, in Liberty magazine:
text: I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.
ref: 2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:
glosses: A female given name from Russian.
composability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compose + -ability.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being modular in a variety of ways.
Related terms: composable
franion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: franions
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: First by her side did sitt the bold Sansloy,
Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon,
Who in her loosenesse tooke exceeding ioy;
Might not be found a francker franion,
Of her leawd parts to make companion:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 215:
text: 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 12-14,
[…] as I am frollicke franion, never in all my life was I so dead slaine.
text: Fine merry franions,
Wanton companions,
My days are ev’n banyans
With thinking upon ye;
ref: 1830, Charles Lamb, “Going or Gone”, in Album Verses, with a few others, London: Edward Moxon, page 75:
glosses: A cheerful, frivolous person, a silly man; a loose woman.
comtrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comtraces
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A combined trace.
Related terms: comdag
versta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verstas
form: versty
Senses: examples: text: The new and, to Mila, welcome détente almost came to an untimely end in Torzhok, where Varya insisted on stopping for ‘an hour or so’ to buy gloves, boots and slippers from the famous leather-workers of the town, despite Maxim’s terse remark that they were still about 60 versty from Tver, where the jäger had recommended they stay for dinner and lodging.
ref: 1985, Dinah Dean, chapter 2, in The River of Time, [United States]: Cover & Page, published 2022, →ISBN:
text: The law mandated that provincial authorities resettle those who had committed a criminal offense 60 versty (63.6 kilometers) from the nearest provincial city, while it allowed free volunteers to return home, but only under guard.
ref: 1997, Abby M. Schrader, “Containing the Spectacle of Punishment: The Russian Autocracy and the Abolition of the Knout, 1817–1845”, in Slavic Review, volume 56, numbers 3–4, Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640:
text: We arrived at another village, this is 8 versty [1 versta = 3500 ft.] to the southwest—it is more convenient for us here because we are stationed alone[, i.e., apart from the other units in this area] and are all together, and there are 2 companions there and machine guns are placed every 3 and 6 versty.
ref: 1999, Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna, translated by Joseph T. Fuhrmann, The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914–March 1917, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 377:
text: [A]s soon as one travelled more than a hundred versty from any of [the] country’s larger cities, all political issues simply vanished into utter silence.
ref: 2025, Alexander Wolfheze, “Russia”, in A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book III: Into The Abyss, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Armies and Navies), page 451:
glosses: Alternative form of verst.
comtraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comtrace
countermoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countermove
countermoving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That moves in opposition or retaliation
leptoproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lepto- + production.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The production of leptons, especially by the interaction of other particles
milliarcsec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliarcsecs
Etymology: From milli- + arcsec.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of milliarcsecond.
attemper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛm.pə(ɹ)/
other: /əˈtɛm.pɚ/
rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: attempers
form: attempering
form: attempered
form: attempered
form: attempre
Etymology: From Middle English attempren, from Old French atemprer (French attremper), from Latin attemperare. Doublet of attemperate.
Senses: glosses: To temper by adjusting relative quantities, or blending qualities.
examples: text: But we must add, that she did say, by way of attempering her pleasure: "Well! I must say I never saw a finer young man in my life—indeed I don’t know that the court of Great Britain quite boasts his equal...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: To mitigate, assuage.
examples: text: Thus fairely she attempered her feast, / And pleasd them all with meete satietie [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: They tempt no conflict, no revenge provoke,
But meet oppression in its daring course,
With wisdom's ample shield, of Heaven attemper'd force.
ref: 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, On the Convention at Hartford, page 246:
glosses: To regulate, arrange, organise.
Derived terms: attemperation
attemperly
attemperment
nanocalorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + calorimetry.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale calorimetry
Related terms: nanocalorimeter
nanocalorimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocalorimeters
Etymology: From nano- + calorimeter.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale calorimeter
Related terms: nanocalorimetry
noncritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + critically.
Senses: glosses: In a noncritical manner.
nondiabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diabatic.
Senses: glosses: adiabatic