cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
LEGOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LEGO
ROFLMMFAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the floor laughing my motherfucking ass off.
salescritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salescritters
Etymology: From sales + critter.
Senses: examples: text: Times sure change — there are now enough word processors on the market to defy the intellect and memory of the typical salescritter […]
ref: 1988, MacUser, volume 4, page 110:
glosses: A salesperson.
salescritters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salescritter
sightjogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sightseeing + jogging
Senses: glosses: sightseeing while jogging
trigoneoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
tribulosaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
filicinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
filiferin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
torvonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
thollosidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Related terms: tholloside
thollethoside
riisein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
procistocardin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
xysmalogenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Xysmalobium + -genin
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid.
lanatigonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
sieboldin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
scillaren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Related terms: scillarenin
scatter buffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatter buffets
Senses: glosses: A buffet consisting of several separate tables or counters serving different foods.
scatter buffets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatter buffet
Dehornoy order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Found by Patrick Dehornoy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: braid theory
glosses: A left-invariant total order on the braid group.
locundioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular glycoside.
roller bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller bolts
Senses: glosses: The bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree.
ground roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground rollers
Senses: glosses: Any of the Brachypteraciidae, a small family of non-migratory near-passerine birds restricted to Madagascar, and related to the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
actionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actionlike
form: most actionlike
Etymology: From action + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an action.
rattlesnake master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattlesnake masters
form: rattlesnakemaster
Etymology: The plant was reputed to cure rattlesnake bites.
Senses: glosses: Eryngium yuccifolium, a common herbaceous perennial plant native to the tallgrass prairies of North America.
glosses: Manfreda virginica, a flowering plant related to agaves.
eyechart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyecharts
Senses: examples: text: Vision testing can be accomplished with either a counter model vision tester or wall-mounted eyecharts, along with the Ishihara system color blind test charts.
ref: 1979, Terry W. Alford, Facility Planning, Design, and Construction of Rural Health Centers, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of eye chart.
eyecharts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyechart
trifluoromethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifluoromethylation
triflyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of trifluoromethanesulfonyl.
Senses: examples: trifluoromethanesulfonyl azide; trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride
glosses: trifluoromethanesulfonyl
Derived terms: triflyl azide
fluazinam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A broad-spectrum arylaminopyridine fungicide.
penthiopyrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A broad-spectrum carboxamide fungicide.
picoxystrobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular strobilurin fungicide.
quinmerac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Quinmerac is primarily used for the post-emergence control of cleavers, speedwells and other broad-leaved weeds in cereals, oilseed rape and sugar beet.
ref: 1998, Terry R. Roberts, Metabolic Pathways of Agrochemicals (part 1, page 448)
glosses: A particular auxin herbicide.
metazachlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular chloroacetamide herbicide.
chloroacetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroacetamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chloro derivative of acetamide; typically used as a herbicide and preservative
propyzamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The herbicide C₁₂H₁₁Cl₂NO.
kichadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malayalam കിച്ചടി (kiccaṭi).
Senses: glosses: A Malayali dish made of curd and cucumber in raw or cooked form.
norflurazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A herbicide 4-chloro-5-(methylamino)-2-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]pyridazin-3-one
carbetamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular herbicide.
HEMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hi mə/
ipa: /hɛ mə/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of historical European martial arts
Synonyms: english: Western Martial Arts
translation: Western Martial Arts
word: WMA
velvet flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet flowers
Senses: glosses: Amaranthus caudatus, an annual flowering plant, the love-lies-bleeding.
strawberry saxifrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: strawberry geranium
word: creeping saxifrage
word: creeping rockfoil
word: Aaron's beard
english: in one of its senses
translation: in one of its senses
glosses: Saxifraga stolonifera, a perennial flowering plant.
wikipedia: Saxifraga stolonifera
oyster crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster crabs
Senses: glosses: Zaops ostreus, a small whitish or translucent crab found inside oysters.
thorny oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorny oysters
Senses: glosses: Any of the spiny bivalve molluscs of the genus Spondylus.
Synonyms: spiny oyster
spiny oysters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiny oyster
hmphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hmph
hmphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hmph
hmphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hmph
ghood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghood
form: most ghood
Etymology: From good + -h-.
Senses: examples: text: Ghood Ghrief, that one was almost too much for me so on that one I'll close, and go galumphing off as I go whiffling thru the tulgy wood. Well, we all gotta go sometime.
ref: 1962 June, Phillip A. Harrell, “Phillip A. Harrell Presents His (hic) Case”, in Cry of the Nameless, number 161, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2004:
text: Among other things, this vintage piece of faan fiction explains why a mail ballot for ratification of business meeting proposals is Not a Ghood Idea.
ref: 1995 January 22, Leah Zeldes Smith, “Re: Grinch”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <790811510.225snx@smith.chi.il.us>:
text: And even if the pub serves ghood bheer, the presence of the 100 gin/whisky/CocaCola^([sic])/springwater "multi-genre" drinkers may make it sufficiently difficult to find the other 5 bheer fans in the crowd, that it dilutes the bheerish experience and makes it more worth my while saving my bheer budget for going down the road to the other pub that may have a smaller selection of bheer but a higher concentration of the people I want to drink with.
ref: 1997 October 12, Morris M. Keesan, “Re: Declining Attendance at Cons?”, in alt.fandom.cons (Usenet), message-ID <3443316c.1023995@news.std.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Good.
ghod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɑd
Forms: form: ghods
Etymology: From god + -h-.
Senses: examples: text: Fans usually spell it with a "h" when referring to fannish ghods.
ref: 1952, Arthur Rapp, Lee Hoffman, Redd Boggs, Fanspeak, page 6:
text: "As a youth," said the ghod as he shook his grey head, / "I feared it the BNF's grave; / But now that the neos all think that I'm dead, / I continue the fanac I crave."
ref: 1966 November, Cindy Heap, “"You Are Old, Father Tucker..."”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 33:
text: I have not posted here before, but I have been in fandom before a long phase of gafia, and have read many books during my active times. I was a SMOF in the past, but not a super-Smof, and had my favorite authors. Harlan Ellison was like a ghod to me, and the lesser lights were those around me and some not what others may expect.
ref: 2006 February 19, lilysincere, “The Science Fiction That Wasn't”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <1140421894.877343.245590@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: God.
die in the last ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies in the last ditch
form: dying in the last ditch
form: died in the last ditch
form: died in the last ditch
Etymology: Popularized from an 1847 translation by Agnes Strickland of a quote attributed to William of Orange during the French invasion of 1672 on his being advised to surrender Holland to Louis XIV: "No, I mean to die in the last ditch."
Senses: glosses: To fight till death; to die rather than surrender.
Related terms: last-ditch
ghods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghod
glosses: Quds
Related terms: Al-Quds
dead wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead winds
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.
sand darter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand darters
Senses: examples: text: Ammocrypta is the smallest genus of darters and in many respects is the most distinctive. We refer to them collectively as the sand darters, though some authorities would exclude the crystal darter.
ref: 2015, Robert A. Kuehne, The American Darters, page 25:
glosses: Any of the small perches of the genus Ammocrypta.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ammocrypta pellucida
word: eastern sand darter
taxonomic: Ammocrypta bifascia
word: Florida sand darter
taxonomic: Ammocrypta beanii
word: naked sand darter
taxonomic: Ammocrypta vivax
word: scaly sand darter
taxonomic: Ammocrypta meridiana
word: southern sand darter
taxonomic: Ammocrypta clara
word: western sand darter
sanddab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanddabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sand dab.
sanddabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanddab
black drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.
Related terms: black drop effect
compass window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass windows
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: bow window
variation compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variation compasses
Senses: glosses: A compass which can be adjusted so it doesn't only point to magnetic north, but to true north, depending on the variation in the geographical religion.
khichdi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃdi/
Forms: form: khichdis
form: khichdee
form: khichadi
form: khichari
form: khichiri
form: khichri
form: khichuri
form: kitcheree
form: kitchree
form: kichiri
form: kishri
Etymology: From Hindi खिचड़ी (khicṛī). Compare kedgeree.
Senses: examples: text: As for Paulette, the first language she learnt was Bengali, and the first solid food she ate was a rice-and-dal khichri cooked by Jodu's mother.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 67:
text: She found Kali Boori lying flat in front of the goddess. The khichiri was being distributed to the devotees.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: A South Asian dish of rice and lentils.
Related terms: english: Anglo-Indian food derived from khichdi
translation: Anglo-Indian food derived from khichdi
word: kedgeree
fire main
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire mains
Senses: examples: text: Cars were first reported loose in hold 3 at 0544, at the same time the captain said it was unsafe to enter hold 3 due to "gear adrift" and "a lot of water." The bilge pumps were already running. If cars were loose by that time, one or more of them could have hit the unprotected inlet piping section of the emergency fire pump, rupturing the piping or damaging the skin valve so that it could not stop seawater from entering the hold. At 0714, the VDR recorded the chief mate reporting that the chief engineer had said that something hit the fire main and "got it ruptured, hard." (The entire fire system, including the emergency fire pump and piping, was known as the fire main.)
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.4.2 Flooding”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 190:
glosses: A pipe conveying water to extinguish a fire.
running fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops.
fire teaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire teasers
Senses: glosses: The fireman of a steam engine.
fire teasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire teaser
fire swab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire swabs
Senses: examples: text: each warden should have ready for emergencies a sufficient supply of fire swabs or beaters, fire torches, and water carts
ref: 1901, The Australasian Pastoralists' Review:
glosses: A water-soaked swab for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
firestink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fire + stink.
Senses: glosses: The stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen.
pick dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: In cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions.
heath pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heath peas
Senses: glosses: Lathyrus linifolius, a species of pea, whose tubers were once used as an appetite suppressant.
navelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From navel + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, in medieval iconography, Adam and Eve were often depicted navelless.
ref: 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 123:
glosses: Without a navel.
fifth quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth quarters
Senses: glosses: The hide and fat of a butchered animal, regarded as separate from the meat.
silverbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverbushes
Etymology: From silver + bush.
Senses: glosses: Any of several bushes with a silvery appearance.
Argythamnia spp., found from Texas to Colombia
glosses: Any of several bushes with a silvery appearance.
Convolvulus cneorum, of the Mediterranean
glosses: Any of several bushes with a silvery appearance.
Sophora tomentosa subsp. australis, of Australia
silver tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver trees
Senses: glosses: Leucadendron argenteum, a tree with striking silvery leaves, endemic to a small area of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
restionaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Restionaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging or relating to the Restionaceae.
Silver Stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Silver Sticks
Etymology: From the silvered wand he carried.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial bodyguard to the British Royal Household, holding the rank of colonel.
Related terms: Gold Stick
silver chub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Macrhybopsis storeriana, a cyprinid fish of North America.
silver eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver eels
Senses: glosses: Ariosoma mellissii, a rare tropical marine eel.
leaf bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf bridges
Senses: glosses: A drawbridge having a platform or leaf which swings vertically on hinges.
screeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scree
drivee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drivees
Etymology: From drive + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: With what gentlemanly abandon does the drivee loll back in the vehicle!
ref: 1841, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 35, page 51:
glosses: One who is driven (transported in a vehicle).
drivees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drivee
cross action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross actions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: countersuit
cross aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross aisles
Senses: glosses: A transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.
cross handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross handles
Senses: glosses: A handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur.
warp lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warp laces
Senses: glosses: Lace having a warp crossed by weft threads.
Synonyms: warp net
lodgerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lodger + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a lodger.
kitchree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
kitcheree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
khichuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kedgeree was the invention of the British in colonial India, but was inspired by khichuri, a more ancient dish of rice and lentils, so here I’ve reinstated the pulses in the form of mung dal and peas: an Indian dish, adapted by the British, and changed again by an Indian living in Britain.
ref: 2024 May 7, Tamal Ray, “Kedgeree and lamb curry: Tamal Ray’s recipes for homely favourites”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
khichri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
khichari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
khichadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
khichdee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khichdi.
confuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confusers
Etymology: From confuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which confuses.
confusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confuser
otome games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otome game
leatherjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherjacks
Senses: glosses: leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites)
leatherjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherjack
weatherfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weatherfish
in the wind's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Directly toward the point from which the wind blows.
underratedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underrated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being underrated.
windchest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windchests
Etymology: From wind + chest.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chest or reservoir of wind in an organ.
windchests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windchest
between wind and water
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface.
glosses: At the vulnerable part or point of anything.
glosses: At a person's crotch (i.e. between the sources of flatulence and urine).
get wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets wind
form: getting wind
form: got wind
form: got wind
form: gotten wind
Senses: examples: text: The story soon got wind.
text: The Algonquins held a council and resolved to appease the spirit of the net by marrying him to two such very young girls that he could have no complaint on that score for the future. They did so, and the fishing turned out all that could be wished. The thing got wind among their neighbors the Hurons, and they adopted the custom.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 147:
glosses: To be divulged; to become public.
Synonyms: take wind
Related terms: get wind of
unbuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbuggy
form: most unbuggy
Etymology: From un- + buggy.
Senses: glosses: Not buggy (in various senses).
uncompoundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + compoundable.
Senses: glosses: Not compoundable.
blessed thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blessed thistles
Etymology: It was once considered an antidote to venomous bites.
Senses: glosses: Centaurea benedicta (formerly usually called Cnicus benedictus), a thistle-like plant native to the Mediterranean.
thistle funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistle funnels
Senses: glosses: A funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth.
seed wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed wools
Senses: glosses: cotton wool (the fibers) not yet cleansed of its seeds
seed oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed oysters
Senses: glosses: A young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality.
calling crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calling crabs
Senses: glosses: fiddler crab
catch-alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-all
changs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chang
fish owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish owl
fish crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish crows
Senses: glosses: Corvus ossifragus, a wetland crow of the eastern and southeastern United States that feeds largely on fish.
cozonaci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cozonac
sand cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand crickets
Senses: glosses: Jerusalem cricket
sand canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand canals
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: stone canal
sand lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand lizards
Senses: glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
especially, Lacerta agilis, a lizard distributed across most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia.
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Heliobolus spp.
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Meroles spp. (desert lizards)
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Mesalina spp.
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Nucras spp.
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Pedioplanis spp.
glosses: Any of many species of lizards found in sandy environments
Uma spp.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pedioplanis lineoocellata
word: common sand lizard
taxonomic: Pedioplanis gaerdesi
word: Mayer's sand lizard
taxonomic: Pedioplanis namaquensis
word: Namaqua sand lizard
taxonomic: Pedioplanis lineoocellata
word: ocellated sand lizard
taxonomic: Mesalina olivieri
word: Olivier's sand lizard
taxonomic: Pedioplanis lineoocellata
word: plain sand lizard
taxonomic: Meroles suborbitalis
word: spotted sand lizard
Related terms: taxonomic: Synodus dermatogenys
word: sand lizardfish
angle leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle leaves
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle.
angle bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle beads
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.
Related terms: angle shaft
genderfluidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gender fluidity.
gumption trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumption traps
Etymology: Coined by Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974).
Senses: examples: text: There are hundreds of different kinds of gumption traps, maybe thousands, maybe millions. I have no way of knowing how many I don't know. I know it seems as though I've stumbled into every kind of gumption trap imaginable.
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part III, page 304:
glosses: An event or mindset that can cause a person to lose enthusiasm and become discouraged from starting or continuing a project.
wikipedia: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
half binding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half bindings
Senses: glosses: A style of book binding in which only the back and corners are in leather.
Related terms: half-bound
Doomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Doomer
give someone line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone line
form: giving someone line
form: gave someone line
form: given someone line
Etymology: Referring to the use of a fishing line.
Senses: examples: text: Give him LINE, boy (as the trout rushed down into the shallows); into the water, boy! the line's nearly run out; it's nowhere up to your knees. Watch him! draw the line up; gently! give him line; give him line—thought so! —I feared so, ' as the line, becoming entangled from drawing it up, snapped, and the fish dashed on blindly into the shallows and stranded.
ref: 1862, Cyril Thornton, Conyers Lea:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out.
glosses: To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her.
Spanish reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish reefs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail.
Spanish juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: licorice
natural child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural children
Senses: glosses: An illegitimate child, a child born to unmarried parents.
Synonyms: sense: Bermuda
word: outside child
sense: illegitimate descendant
word: love-child
sense: illegitimate descendant
word: born in the vestry
word: bastard
word: son of a whore
Related terms: adopted
legitimate
love child
misremembrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misremembrances
Etymology: From mis- + remembrance.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
misremembrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misremembrance
fiddle block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddle blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block.
Related terms: viol block
Scotch fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Your countrywomen,” said Squander, renewing his attack on Buchanan, “prefer the Scotch fiddle.”
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 159:
glosses: Scabies; an itch.
smoke arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke arches
Senses: glosses: The smokebox of a locomotive.
Bear Flag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the presence of the grizzly bear on the flag.
Senses: glosses: The flag raised at Sonoma in 1846 during the Bear Flag Revolt.
glosses: The current flag of California, based on that flag.
smokeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokeballs
Etymology: From smoke + ball.
Senses: glosses: A puffball fungus.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ball or case containing a substance that produces thick smoke when it burns.
smokeballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokeball
smoke tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke trees
Senses: glosses: A common garden shrub of genus Cotinus.
glosses: Psorothamnus spinosus, a spiny tree of the American desert.
Related terms: fustet
fustic
Stars and Bars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The first national flag of the Confederate States.
smoke black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: lampblack
pudding-sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudding-sleeves
Senses: examples: text: His grazier's coat fall dovvn his heels: / He ſees, yet hardly can believe, / About each arm a pudding-ſleeve;⁠ / His vvaistcoat to a caſſock grevv / And both aſſum'd a ſable hue
ref: 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “(please specify the page)”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC:
text: Ah, Sir John! Here we are—hard at it—paving the road to matrimony—VVe'll have no jolts; all upon the nail, as eaſy as the nevv pavement.—Firſt the lavvyers, then comes the doctor—Let us but diſpatch the long-robe, vve ſhall ſoon ſet Pudding-ſleeves to vvork, I vvarrant you.
ref: 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 42:
glosses: A large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown.
feather ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather ores
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of jamesonite, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive.
bayonetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bayonetlike
form: most bayonetlike
Etymology: From bayonet + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bayonet.
burnet moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnet moths
Senses: glosses: A zygaenid moth with crimson spots on the wings.
dayflying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From day + flying.
Senses: glosses: Flying by day; diurnal.
raw_tags: of a moth
Canadian burnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sanguisorba canadensis, a perennial plant native to North America.
Synonyms: white burnet
casefile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casefiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of case file.
casefiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casefile
bitter cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitter cucumbers
Senses: glosses: colocynth
holodisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holodisks
form: holodisc
Etymology: From holo- + disk.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A holographic disk used as a storage medium.
holodisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holodisk
subhierarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subhierarchies
Etymology: From sub- + hierarchy.
Senses: glosses: A lesser or subordinate hierarchy.
Related terms: superhierarchy
subhierarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subhierarchy
Jerusalem mixed grill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A grilled meat dish consisting of chicken hearts, spleens, and liver mixed with pieces of lamb and seasoned with onion, garlic, juniper berries, and spices.
cotton stainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotton stainer
elephant's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Certain plants resembling the foot of an elephant. of species:
Adenia pechuelii.
glosses: Certain plants resembling the foot of an elephant. of species:
Beaucarnea recurvata.
glosses: Certain plants resembling the foot of an elephant. of species:
Dioscorea elephantipes.
synonyms: Hottentot bread
glosses: Any plant of the genus Elephantopus.
glosses: An octagonal design typical of Turkmen rugs.
glosses: A half-length, waist-high sleeping bag.
glosses: A type of step stool with concealed spring-loaded castors allowing the step to be easily moved.
oyster wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster wives
Senses: coordinate_terms: cockle wife
glosses: A woman who deals in oysters.
oysterfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oysterfishes
Etymology: From oyster + fish.
Senses: glosses: tautog (Tautoga onitis)
oysterfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oysterfish
garden glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden glasses
Senses: glosses: A bell glass for covering plants.
glosses: A globe of dark-coloured glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
garden glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden glass
garden engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden engines
Senses: examples: text: […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
ref: 1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53:
glosses: A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
garden house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden houses
Senses: examples: text: this is no garden-house
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
glosses: A summerhouse.
glosses: A privy.
examples: text: When Dalim became reanimated at night he ate whatever food he liked, for of such there was a plentiful stock in the garden-house, walked about on the premises, and meditated on the singularity of his lot.
ref: 1912, Lal Behari Dey, Folk-tales of Bengal, Life's Secret:
glosses: An Anglo-Indian suburban villa.
yellowcress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowcresses
Etymology: From yellow + cress.
Senses: glosses: Rorippa palustris, a flowering plant in the mustard family.
glosses: Any other plant in the genus Rorippa.
slip the cable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips the cable
form: slipping the cable
form: slipped the cable
form: slipped the cable
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To release the end of the cable (for mooring or anchoring) on board and let it all run out and go overboard, such as when it is not appropriate to weigh anchor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To die.
glosses: To shed, to get rid of
traverse sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.
traverse table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traverse tables
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
nautical
surveying
transport
glosses: A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypotenuse, from 1 to 100.
qualifier: railroad
glosses: A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.
traverse tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traverse table
traverse jury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traverse juries
Senses: glosses: petit jury
wheel bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel bugs
Senses: glosses: Any assassin bug of the genus Arilus, large true bugs with wheel-shaped pronotal armor.
wheel press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel presses
Senses: glosses: A press by which railway-car wheels are forced on, or off, their axles.
alligator snapping turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator snapping turtles
Senses: glosses: A large freshwater turtle of the Eastern United States (Macrochelys temminckii).
check nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check nuts
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it.
check valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check valves
Senses: synonyms: non-return valve
glosses: A valve in a pipeline which allows the liquid or gas to flow in one direction only.
Derived terms: swing check valve
take check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes check
form: taking check
form: took check
form: taken check
Senses: examples: text: Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wife subjects
Take check, and think it strange?
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To take offence.
fox evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Loss of hair through disease; alopecia.
fox sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox sparrows
Senses: glosses: Passerella iliaca, a large American sparrow, sometimes split into four species in Passerella.
windsail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windsails
Etymology: From wind + sail.
Senses: examples: text: We were ventilated by a big canvas windsail, opening between the fore and main masts, and running down into the hold.
ref: 1953, John Masefield, The Conway, page 35:
glosses: A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel.
examples: text: The dome in turning carries with it the windsails, M N, and their axle, P Q ; and thus the latter may be made to coincide with the direction of the wind, or the plane in which the radii of the sials turn may be made perpendicular to that direction.
ref: 1868, The English Cyclopaedia, page 941:
glosses: The sail or vane of a windmill.
windsails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windsail
foot mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot mantles
Senses: glosses: A long garment to protect the clothing when riding; a riding skirt.
prelocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelocutions
Etymology: From pre- + locution.
Senses: examples: text: On the Prelocutionary Act in Speech Events，https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103820/http://www.tronest.cn/Article.asp?id=1371565
ref: 2013, 张结根, 言前行为的实施原则和语用解释力, pages （1）71-74
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a mental planning act before a verbal locution in a speech act
Related terms: locution
illocution
perlocution
prelocutionary
prothema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothemata
Etymology: From pro- + thema?
Senses: glosses: A statement or prayer by a preacher, following the thema, or lesson based on the gospel of the day.
nettle agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nettle agents
Senses: glosses: Any urticant used in chemical warfare.
gas washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas washers
Senses: glosses: A gasworks apparatus within which gas from the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.
Bodok seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bodok seals
Senses: glosses: A specialised washer that ensures a gas-tight seal between the cylinder yoke or regulator of an anaesthetic machine or any medical device requiring a gas supply, and a gas cylinder.
screw-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw-stones
Senses: glosses: The fossil stem of an encrinite.
screwbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwbeans
Etymology: From screw + bean.
Senses: synonyms: screw pod mesquite
glosses: Prosopis pubescens, a flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
glosses: The nutritious seedpod of this plant.
screwbeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwbean
head money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: to be taxt by the poul, to be scons't our head money, our tuppences in their Chaunlerly Shop-book of Easter
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: Poll tax.
glosses: A reward paid per person captured at sea etc.
glosses: A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.
horn drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn drums
Senses: glosses: A wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water.
cotton scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton scales
Senses: glosses: A species of scale insect (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to cotton plants.
sheep sorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rumex acetosella, a species of sorrel.
Synonyms: sense: Rumex acetosella
word: red sorrel
sense: Rumex acetosella
word: sour weed
sense: Rumex acetosella
word: field sorrel
Related terms: english: common copper (butterfly)
translation: common copper (butterfly)
word: Lycaena phlaeas
false relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false relations
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic contradiction between two notes sounding simultaneously (or in close proximity), in two different voices or parts; or the occurrence of a tritone between two notes of adjacent chords.
dogfennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogfennels
form: dog fennel
form: dog-fennel
form: dog's fennel
Etymology: From Middle English dogfynell; equivalent to dog + fennel.
Senses: glosses: Anthemis cotula, an annual plant native to Europe and North Africa.
examples: text: “I aint been teasing him.” Luster said. “He was playing with that bottle full of dogfennel and all of a sudden he started up bellering.”
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:
glosses: Any of various similar American plants, especially Eupatorium capillifolium, a perennial plant.
glosses: A plant in the genus Chamaemelum.
smoke sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke sails
Senses: glosses: A small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.
smoke board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke boards
Senses: glosses: A board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
fire roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire rolls
Senses: examples: text: The dark, dingy smoke which now began to pervade the deck, left no doubt in the captain's mind as to the correctness of the seaman's suspicions. […] Staunch directed the drummer to beat the 'Fire-roll.'
ref: 1829, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, page 76:
text: As soon as he could recall his scattered senses, with his usual presence of mind he desired the "fire-roll" to be beat by the drummer, and sent down to ascertain the extent of the mischief. A strong sulphureous smell pervaded the ship […]
ref: 1838, Frederick Marryat, The King's Own, page 377:
text: […] beat the fire roll. Then I hurried back to the main deck, without even thinking of making a report to the captain. The fire drill had been practiced every day […]
ref: 2000, Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel, Ronald E. Coons, Pascal James Imperato, Over Land and Sea: Memoirs of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909, page 149:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A special drumbeat used to summon men to their quarters in case of fire.
firepan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firepans
Etymology: From fire + pan.
Senses: glosses: A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially (firearms) the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
firepans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firepan
fox wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox wedges
Senses: synonyms: nose key
glosses: A wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it.
fox wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox wedge
road metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hard dark stone crushed into small pieces used in surfacing roads, for ballast in railway tracks, etc.; gravel; blue metal.
cross file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross files
Senses: glosses: A double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels.
cross axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross axles
Senses: glosses: A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press.
glosses: A driving axle with cranks set at an angle of 90° with each other.
rock butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Native alum mixed with clay and iron oxide, usually in soft masses of a yellowish-white colour, occurring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.
rock cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of asbestos whose fibres are loosely interlaced, giving it a cork-like texture.
amosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amosite
rock ruby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock rubies
Senses: glosses: A fine reddish variety of garnet.
rock soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of clay with a smooth, greasy feel.
Cape petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape petrels
Senses: glosses: Daption capense, a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.
Synonyms: Cape pigeon