cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金 (Jīn, literally “gold, golden”). As a surname, legendarily derived from the descendants of Shaohao who took a golden phoenix as their tribal emblem. As an area and town in Shaanxi, named for the placer deposits of gold on the Yue River. As a Jurchen empire and dynastic name, a Chinese calque of Jurchen name of the Ashi River within modern Harbin, preserved in Chinese transcription as 按出虎 (Ànchūhǔ) (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu). As a Manchu empire and dynastic name, an early continuation of the former Jurchen name prior to the 1636 proclamation of the Qing.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname, given 29th among the Hundred Family Surnames.
glosses: A prefecture of imperial China centered on Ankang, Shaanxi.
glosses: Former name of Ankang as the seat of the prefecture.
glosses: An empire in northern China (AD 1115–1234) established by an invasion of Liao by the Wanyan Jurchens and overthrown by an invasion of the Mongols.
glosses: Synonym of Wanyan: the dynasty which ruled this empire.
synonyms: word: Wanyan
extra: the dynasty which ruled this empire
topics: anthropology
ethnography
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Jurchen: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire.
synonyms: word: Jurchen
extra: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire
qualifier: chiefly Chinese contexts
glosses: The 12th to early 13th century, the era during which the Wanyan clan were the legitimate emperors of northern China.
glosses: Synonym of Qing: the Chinese empire, dynasty, and era, (particularly) during the years 1616 to 1636, prior to the formal declaration of the Qing.
synonyms: word: Qing
extra: the Chinese empire, dynasty, and era, (particularly) during the years 1616 to 1636, prior to the formal declaration of the Qing
Synonyms: english: Korean equivalent
translation: Korean equivalent
word: Kim
english: Cantonese equivalent
translation: Cantonese equivalent
word: Kam
sense: prefecture & its seat
word: Jinzhou
sense: prefecture & its seat
word: Xicheng
sense: empire & era
word: Jurchen
sense: empire & era
word: Jurchen Jin
sense: empire & era
word: Jinn
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 錦 /锦 (Jǐn).
Senses: glosses: A river (錦江) in Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces in China, emptying into the Bei or North River.
glosses: A river (錦江) in Sichuan Province, China, emptying into the Min River.
glosses: A river (錦江 (贛江支流)) in Jiangxi Province, China, emptying into the Gan River.
glosses: A prefecture of imperial China centered on Luyang, Hunan.
glosses: Former name of Luyang as the seat of the prefecture.
Synonyms: word: rivers
sense: Jianxinese river
word: Changjiang Creek
sense: Jianxinese river
english: upper course
translation: upper course
word: River
word: prefecture & seat
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 靳 (Jìn). As a surname, legendarily derived from Zhurong.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese surname.
synonyms: Jinjiang
glosses: A river (靳江) in Hunan Province, China, emptying into the Xiang River.
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From the revised romanization of Korean 진 (jin). As an ancient kingdom, originally from Chinese 辰 (chén, “5th earthly branch”), possibly used by the ancient state from its association with "east". As the medieval precursor of Balhae, originally Chinese 震, possibly intended as a variant of the original state's name (Middle Chinese: dzyin) or to signify "thunderclap", "shock", "tremor", etc. As a surname, the modern Korean form of originally separate names derived from Chinese 陳 /陈 (chén), 秦 (Qín), 眞 /真 (zhēn), as well as 晉 above.
Senses: glosses: An ancient state or tribal confederation in northern Korea.
glosses: Synonym of Balhae, a northern Korean state, (particularly) between its AD 698 founding and 712 renaming.
synonyms: word: Balhae
extra: a northern Korean state, (particularly) between its AD 698 founding and 712 renaming
glosses: A Korean surname.
Derived terms: Jinhan
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From Japanese 仁 (“Jin”, literally “benevolence”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese male given name.
box the gnat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxes the gnat
form: boxing the gnat
form: boxed the gnat
form: boxed the gnat
Senses: glosses: To perform a dance movement in which the two dancers step forward, join hands, then raise hands. The lady takes a step forward and does a left-face U turn back under the raised joined hands, while the man walks forward and around the lady while doing a right-face U turn back.
undertray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertrays
Etymology: From under- + tray.
Senses: glosses: A separate floor in a car, bolted onto the underside of the monocoque.
Masahisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
kittereen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kittereens
Senses: glosses: A one-horse, two-wheel chaise or buggy, with or without a movable top.
boogieboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogieboards
Etymology: A genericized trademark owned by Tom Morey, from boogie + board.
Senses: glosses: A small variety of surfboard, often made of foam; a bodyboard.
boogieboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boogieboards
form: boogieboarding
form: boogieboarded
form: boogieboarded
Etymology: A genericized trademark owned by Tom Morey, from boogie + board.
Senses: glosses: To travel by boogieboard.
Related terms: boogieboarder
boogieboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boogieboarders
Etymology: From boogieboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who rides a boogieboard.
phrantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phrantick
form: most phrantick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frantic.
tumtums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumtum
natuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natuers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nature.
Masami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
Yoshiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
præcisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more præcisely
form: most præcisely
Etymology: From præcise + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Go tooe then, seinge thankes, to speake præcisely, ar but wordes.
ref: circa 1579, Gabriel Harvey quoted in Letter‐Book of Gabriel Harvey, page 77
glosses: Obsolete form of precisely.
hermaphrodyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermaphrodytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
hermaphrodytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermaphrodyte (alternative spelling of hermaphrodites).
præcipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præcipitated
form: most præcipitated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precipitated.
præcipitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] Apollo sent her to Leucata Petra, where she præcipitated her self, and was forthwith freed; and when she would needs know of him a reason of it, he told her again, that he had often observed Jupiter, when he was enamored on Juno, thither go to ease, and wash himself, and after him diverse others.
ref: 1836, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, thirteenth edition, volume II, page 390:
glosses: simple past and past participle of præcipitate
præcipitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of præcipitate
Michiyo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
præcipitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præcipitate
præcipitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And having fallen into one errour, in ſuppoſing it a Navel; that leads, and præcipitates him in others.
ref: 1683, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume XIII, page 379:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of præcipitate
morrowtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morrowtides
Etymology: From morrow + tide.
Senses: examples: text: And he clepide the light dai: & the derknessis nyght & the eventid and morwetid was maad: o daie.
ref: 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Genesis I:
glosses: The morning.
præcipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præcipitate
form: most præcipitate
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precipitate.
præcipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcipitates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precipitate.
præcipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præcipitates
form: præcipitating
form: præcipitated
form: præcipitated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precipitate.
Mitsuyuki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese みつゆき (Mitsuyuki).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
arenæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arena
frames of reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frame of reference
subject clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subject clause
subspecific epithets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subspecific epithet
subdominants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdominant
subcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcover
hæmorrhagical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete form of hemorrhagic.
criminal psychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal psychologists
Senses: glosses: A psychologist specialized in examining the personality of convicted criminals and suspects.
ætiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ætiologist
palæontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the first part of the Report by Mr. Billings, we have a very able analytical review of the palæontological relations of the Anticosti rocks.
ref: 1858, The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art, volume III, page 330:
glosses: Obsolete form of paleontological.
turkophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Turkophone.
turkophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkophones
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Turkophone.
Turkophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: turkophone
form: Turcophone
form: turcophone
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Turkic languages or the speakers of these languages.
Turkophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkophones
form: turkophone
form: Turcophone
form: turcophone
Senses: glosses: Someone who speaks a Turkic language.
ægophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of egophony.
ægophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In support of this view may be mentioned the fact that the ægophonic sound, though apparently clearer, is often distinctly feebler than the normal voice‐resonance to be heard over the healthy lung.
ref: 1876, John Syer Bristowe, James H. Hutchinson, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Henry C. Lea, Part II., page 366:
glosses: Obsolete form of egophonic.
ægagri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ægagrus
ægilopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He took the seeds of the ægilops ovata, a rough grass, native of Southern France and Italy, and after twelve successive years’ cultivation it became perfect wheat, and not a single plant ever reverted to its former ægilopic character.
ref: 1870, Hudson Tuttle, Arcana of Nature, William White & Co.; Volume I, fifth edition, Part II, Chapter VII, page 126
glosses: Obsolete form of egilopic.
Klaipėda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klaipeda
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Klaipėda County, Lithuania.
Klaipeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klaipėda
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Klaipėda.
æstuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of æstuate
Šiauliai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃaʊˈleɪ/
Forms: form: Siauliai
Senses: glosses: A city in Lithuania.
broadbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadbill
broadbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadband
Siauliai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Šiauliai
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Šiauliai.
Panevėžys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panevezys
Senses: glosses: A city in Lithuania.
Panevezys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panevėžys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Panevėžys.
Czestochowa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Częstochowa.
pædication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of pedication.
peritonæum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritonæa
Senses: examples: text: This surface of the bladder may be punctured above the pubes without wounding the peritonæum.
ref: 1856, Jones Quain, Elements of Anatomy, Walton and Maberly, sixth edition, Volume III., page 336:
glosses: Dated form of peritonaeum.
peritonæal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of peritonaeal.
peritonæa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2. That sepsis is not so likely to occur in these peritonæa as in laparotomy in healthy ones, on account of the pathological changes which have taken place in the membranes.
ref: 1907, Parker Syms, Annals of Surgery, volume XLVI, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 96:
glosses: plural of peritonæum
fæculence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 12th.—Seven to eight stools in twenty‐four hours; no more sloughs; a little fæculence and blood.
ref: 1881, Joseph Fayrer, The Medical Times and Gazette, J. & A. Churchill, volume I, lecture II, part IV, page 208:
glosses: Obsolete form of feculence.
præcentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcentors
Senses: examples: text: The pieces of gold were probably fees for the officials; the fee of the præcentor or leader of the choir was of old a mark of gold (8 ounces).
ref: 1899, William Chaffers, Gilda Aurifabrorum (Reeves and Turner; New Edition), page 207
glosses: Obsolete form of precentor.
precentrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcentrix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin praecentrīx. By surface analysis, precentor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female precentor.
præcentrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many a writer of the middle ages refers to the exquisite singing of the nuns, who, under the superintendence of the præcentrix, occupied their respective stalls, which were opposite each other, and the service was chanted by alternative choirs, the præcentrix, who occupied the stall opposite the superior, leading, just as the precentor leads in cathedrals.
ref: 1869, The British Quarterly Review, Hodder and Stoughton, volume L, pages 54-55:
glosses: Obsolete form of precentrix.
overtalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtalks
form: overtalking
form: overtalked
form: overtalked
Etymology: From over- + talk.
Senses: glosses: To talk too much.
glosses: To overcome or persuade by talking; talk over.
examples: text: […] and he panted like a young faan in her fust race with the hounds, for he was overtalkin' his strength, and I feered he would die for sartin ef he didn't fetch up a bit and git rested; […]
ref: 1889, William Henry Harrison Murray, The story that the keg told me and The story of the man who didn't:
glosses: To overstate; overexaggerate; talk up to seem greater than what is actual.
overtalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtalks
Etymology: From over- + talk.
Senses: glosses: Excessive talking.
glosses: Simultaneous speech or talk which drowns out all other speakers.
prælections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At this time the Calvinistic controversy was at its height, and James I, who was much interested in it, was attracted to Davenant by the fame which his prælections as Margaret professor had obtained.
ref: 1888, Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, volume XIV, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 101:
glosses: plural of prælection
prælection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prælections
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prelection.
intalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + talk.
Senses: examples: text: [...] describes her annoyance at being expected to respond to a leer 'out of business hours' and her account of her discussions and gossip with another young prostitute and her landlady (who has retired from the streets) bear all the marks of occupational 'intalk'.
ref: 1968, London School of Economics and Political Science, The British journal of sociology: Volume 19:
text: So dense is the philly intalk and so laden with wisdom is the philosophy that undergirds the intalk that the editors of Nation Conscious Rap went to an indigenous north Philly philosopher whose [...]
ref: 1991, Joseph D. Eure, James G. Spady, Nation conscious rap:
glosses: Internalised talk or speech; talk associated with a particular group, company, or occupation; jargon.
examples: text: Intalk is generally activated from within, yet it is a result of outside influences. Intalk is when either or both sides of the brain is/are engaged in mental conversation.
ref: 1992, Jacques Weisel, Options from Within:
glosses: Internal talk, communication, reasoning, or musing.
connexional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From connexion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of connectional.
examples: text: As a partial result of this feeling of brotherhood, strengthened by a closely knit system as to policy and operation, the Methodist Church manifested a splendid spirit of connexional unity.
ref: 1946, John Henry Riddell, Methodism in the Middle West, The Ryerson Press, page 158:
qualifier: Methodism
glosses: Of or pertaining to a connexion.
Derived terms: connexionalism
connexionalist
connexionally
outtalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtalks
form: outtalking
form: outtalked
form: outtalked
form: out-talk
Etymology: From out- + talk.
Senses: examples: text: McAuliffe was no less gregarious toward his rivals, who were also making the rounds — Moran, a former state delegate, and State Senator R. Creigh Deeds — even as he outtalked, out-handshook, outspent, outhustled, outshouted and just plain outcampaigned them across Richmond.
ref: 2009 May 10, Adam Nagourney, “Governor Clintonism?”, in New York Times:
glosses: To overpower, outdo, or surpass in talking.
glosses: To outwit by talking.
outstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsteps
form: outstepping
form: outstepped
form: outstepped
Etymology: From out- + step.
Senses: examples: text: “We cannot suppose,” said Emma, smiling, “that Mr. Elton would hesitate to assure you of there being a very musical society in Highbury; and I hope you will not find he has outstepped the truth more than may be pardoned, in consideration of the motive.”
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14:
glosses: To step or go beyond; exceed; overstep.
Synonyms: overgo
surpass
transcend
outstep
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outcept.
larping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of larp — live action role-playing
larper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larpers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of LARPer.
connexive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The logic of the theory, however, would permit a distinction to be drawn between true or originating “first” causes, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the connexive sequences, sometimes called “causes”, that merely depend upon such origins.
ref: 1940, John Laird, chapter VII, in Theism and Cosmology, Ayer Publishing, page 215:
glosses: connective
connexive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connexives
Senses: glosses: connective
spectrum disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrum disorders
Senses: examples: text: However, there is no reliable evidence on the incidence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the United Kingdom.
ref: 2007 June 9, Lisa Hitchen, “Doctors advise women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy”, in British Medical Journal, volume 334, number 7605, page 1186:
text: Today, many researchers believe that compulsive buying should be considered as exhibiting elements of both obsessive-compulsive and impulse-control disorders, calling this theory obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder.
ref: 2008 Dec., Nancy M. Ridgway at al., "Doctors advise women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy," vol. 35, no. 4, p. 623
text: [T]he proportion of relatives shown as affected with schizophrenia actually consists of definite plus uncertain diagnoses of schizophrenia plus a hard-to-define category of "schizophrenia spectrum disorder".
ref: 1975, R. N. Curnow, Charles Smith, “Multifactorial Models for Familial Diseases in Man”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, volume 138, number 2, page 165:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
pathology
psychology
sciences
glosses: A physiological or psychological disorder which may take any of a range of forms or be indicated by any of a range of symptoms.
Derived terms: autism spectrum disorder
curb appeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curb-appeal
Senses: examples: text: [A] brand-new landscaped lawn complete with picket fence boosts the classic home's curb appeal.
ref: 2009 October 21, Francesca Levy, “Home Of The Week”, in Forbes, retrieved 31 Jul 2011:
text: Among the criteria brokers use to classify office buildings are age, location, curb appeal, tenancy, building infrastructure and ownership.
ref: 2011 July 26, Julie Satow, “Class-Consciousness in the Office Building Market”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 Jul 2011:
glosses: The visual attractiveness which a house, commercial establishment, or other real estate property has when initially seen by a prospective buyer or other person standing in front of the property "at the curb".
examples: text: Hyundai hopes Genesis will lure the well-heeled with curb appeal even if it lacks snob appeal.
ref: 2008 January 7, Chris Woodyard, “Hyundai offers up luxury car”, in USA Today, retrieved 31 Jul 2011:
text: The G35's exterior styling . . . looks suitably sporty but lacks the Caddy's curb appeal.
ref: 2009 October 1, Douglas Kott, “2008 Cadillac CTS vs. 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport”, in Road and Track, retrieved 31 Jul 2011:
glosses: The visual attractiveness of an automobile, as seen from street level.
Synonyms: sense: attractiveness of real estate
word: street appeal
curb-appeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curb appeal.
street appeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Curb appeal.
netheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ne + the + less. Compare earlier natheless.
Senses: examples: text: Therfor the Lord seide to Sathan, Lo! he is in thin hond; netheles kepe thou his lijf.
ref: 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Job II:
text: Now by my foule, Diggon, I lament / The haplesle mischiefe that has thee hent; / Nethelesse thou feest my lowly faile, / That froward Fortune doth ever availe [...].
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar:
glosses: Nevertheless.
Liepaja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liepāja
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Liepāja.
Jūrmala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jurmala
Senses: glosses: A resort city in the Vidzeme region, Latvia.
Jurmala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jūrmala
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jūrmala.
amphisbænæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The cestodes are almost entirely unrepresented in the lizards, and only a few forms have been discovered in the curious amphisbænæ and ophidians.
ref: 1864, Thomas Spencer Cobbold, chapter VIII, in Entozoa, Groombridge and Sons, page 107:
glosses: plural of amphisbæna
beslabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beslabber
strengthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strength
strengthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strength
bolixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bolix
reoptimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reoptimize
reoptimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reoptimize
reoptimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reoptimize
trolley cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trolley car
absolute means
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute mean
expectorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expectoration
malteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltery
Oedipally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Oedipally
form: most Oedipally
Etymology: From Oedipal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oedipally.
statedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As his family increased, he had a minister statedly resident in his house, who discharged both the office of a tutor to his children, and of a chaplain, and who was always treated with a becoming kindness and respect.
ref: 1745, P. Doddridge, The Life of Col. James Gardiner:
text: They were statedly instructed in morality and religion.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus:
text: Opposite the windows was a large range, on which the dinner for the family and for various ladies who statedly dine in the institution was cooking.
ref: 1889, Minerva Brace Norton, In and Around Berlin:
text: She expressed a trust that the Lord would overrule both the death of her sister and the personal acquaintance with me that resulted from it, to a present and future good, as it respected herself, and also her parents, with whom she statedly lived, and to whom she expected to return in a few days.
ref: 1900, Legh Richmond, The Annals of the Poor:
glosses: At stated times; regularly.
sea piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pieces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seapiece.
possessive suffixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessive suffix
medicine shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicine shields
Senses: glosses: A decorated leather shield used by many North American native warriors, believed to protect its owner with its magic power.
string instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string instrument
strike bowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strike bowler
strike rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strike rate
stress fractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stress fracture
streak-backed antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streak-backed antshrike
stopped pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stopped pipe
stompies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stompie
tuchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʊkaɪ/
Etymology: tuchus + -i
Senses: glosses: plural of tuchus
stock tickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock ticker
stomach linings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomach lining
stock balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock ball
stochastic processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stochastic process
poëtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poëte
technical tee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical tees
Etymology: technical (representing technical fabric) + tee (elliptical for tee shirt)
Senses: examples: text: Short sleeves, a sleeveless singlet, or (for women) as little as a sports bra provides the minimum upper-body coverage. While it may look like a classic T-shirt, a short-sleeved top in a technical fabric like CoolMax will pull sweat away from the skin instead of absorbing it like cotton does. This added comfort, combined with sun protection, can make a technical tee a better choice than no shirt at all.
ref: 2008, Katie McDonald Neitz, Runner’s World Guide to Road Racing, page 27:
glosses: A T-shirt made of a technical fabric (such as CoolMax) which draws sweat away from the skin by capillary action.
outspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outspeaks
form: outspeaking
form: outspoke
form: outspoken
Etymology: From out- + speak. Cognate with Scots outspeak (“to declare, utter, speak out”), Dutch uitspreken (“to pronounce, outspeak”), German aussprechen (“to express, pronounce”).
Senses: glosses: To surpass in speaking; say or express more than; signify or claim superiority to; be superior to in meaning or significance; speak louder than.
glosses: To speak out or aloud.
glosses: To declare; utter; express; vocalise.
Derived terms: outspeaking
outspoken
unoutspeakable
Tolkienites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolkienite
cinemagoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cinema + going.
Senses: glosses: Attending film screenings at a cinema.
cinemagoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cinema + going.
Senses: glosses: Attendance at film screenings at a cinema.
Rollo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rollos
Etymology: Latinization of the Old French equivalent of the English Rolf.
Senses: examples: text: There was always a conflict in Rollo Martins ― between the absurd Christian name and the sturdy Dutch (four generations back) surname.
ref: 1950, Graham Greene, The Third Man, Heinemann, published 1964, page 15:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Labarraque's solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Antoine Germain Labarraque (1777–1850), French chemist and pharmacist.
Senses: glosses: An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, used as a disinfectant.
wikipedia: Antoine Germain Labarraque
Klein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: klīn
ipa: /klaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: Borrowed from German Klein.
Senses: examples: text: “I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.
ref: 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN:
synonyms: Kline
glosses: A surname from German, equivalent to English Small.
Derived terms: Klein bottle
Kleinian
kleinite
Klein-Nishina formula
Klein paradox
Klein quadric
Klein quartic
Klein tunnelling
Klein tunneling
Klein-Waardenburg syndrome
Klein zone
Waardenburg-Klein syndrome
Related terms: Kline
labiodentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From labiodental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If this were indeed so, the p and b in lip-service, laptop, lapdog, sob-story, adoptive, etc. ought also to be pronounced labiodentally.
ref: 1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A course in phonology, page 33:
glosses: In a labiodental manner.
Lange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
Kraus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kraus.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Kraus matrix
Kraus operator
Kraus' theorem
laborsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laborsome
form: most laborsome
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of laboursome.
labourshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laboursheds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laborshed.
laboursheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labourshed
Krause
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krauses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Krause.
Senses: examples: text: In a letter to lawmakers from a Treasury Department official, the department confirmed Krause has joined Treasury as a “special government employee” – the same designation that applies to Musk – which means he can only work for the government for 130 days or fewer over the next year.
ref: 2025 February 7, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, “‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
Schmid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: South German surname, variant of Schmidt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schmid-Fraccaro syndrome
laburnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laburnum + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
labs on chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lab on a chip
Schmitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schmitts
Etymology: From German Schmitt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
Schmitt Gillenwater Kelly syndrome
Schmittian
laceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacery
laceman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacemen
Etymology: From lace + -man.
Senses: examples: text: And to say the truth, there is, in all points, great difference between the reasonable passion which women at this age conceive towards men, and the idle and childish liking of a girl to a boy, which is often fixed on the outside only, and on things of little value and no duration; as on cherry-cheeks, small, lily-white hands, sloe-black eyes, flowing locks, downy chins, dapper shapes; nay, sometimes on charms more worthless than these, and less the party's own; such are the outward ornaments of the person, for which men are beholden to the taylor, the laceman, the periwig-maker, the hatter, and the milliner, and not to nature.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:
glosses: A male dealer in lace.
lacemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laceman
lackering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lacker
lackered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lacker
lackest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lack + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lack
Midori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midoris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese みどり (Midori).
Senses: glosses: A sweet, bright green, muskmelon-flavored liqueur made by Suntory.
Derived terms: Midori Sour
Midori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese みどり (Midori).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
laconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laconical
form: most laconical
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of laconic.
Derived terms: laconicalness
lacklustrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lacklustrely
form: most lacklustrely
Etymology: From lacklustre + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacklusterly.
lactamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactamide
Miyoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
stealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steal
splasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splashers
Etymology: From splash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.
ref: 1915, Nell Speed, Molly Brown's Orchard Home:
glosses: Someone who splashes.
examples: text: No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
synonyms: splashguard
glosses: A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
examples: text: Juice man up with this 15 inch
Like, now I got blood on my splasher
ref: 2020 August 13, Blacz, “TwentyTwo”, 1:21–1:26:
synonyms: jooka ~ jooker
nank
shank
bassy
rambo
pokey
chete
glosses: A knife used as a weapon.
smokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊki
Senses: examples: text: One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age.
ref: 1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter:
text: The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music."
ref: 2005 June 10, Liz Armstrong, “Summertime, and the Pleasures Are Guilty”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of smoky.
smokey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊki
Forms: form: smokies
form: smokeys
Etymology: Short for Smokey Bear (“a cartoon Park Ranger”).
Senses: examples: text: By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
text: The middle position, or "rocking chair," is so called because the drivers in the middle don't have to worry about watching for smokeys.
ref: 1977, Terry Cook, Vans and the Truckin' Life, page 27:
text: I was keeping an eye out for the smokeys who were no doubt hiding and waiting for unsuspecting tourists on the way in from Jacksonville.
ref: 2007, Ben W. Thompson, M'Naghten Rules, →ISBN:
text: Well let me tell you why I came, Crash: I need something from you, tonight. I had a four-man team for a big grab, lost one to smokies. I came looking to replace him, if you're still a badass.
ref: 2014, Nic Pizzolatto, 42:30 from the start, in True Detective, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Ginger (Joseph Sikora):
qualifier: CB slang
glosses: A state trooper. By extension, a cop, police officer.
slantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slantingly
form: most slantingly
Etymology: From slanting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In consequence of this I could only manage to observe that the leaves of the plant are thrown for a few seconds into boiling water, and then placed in flat iron pans, fixed slantingly in stone-work, where they are slightly roasted by a gentle heat, during which process they are continually stirred by hand.
ref: 1850, Ida Pfeiffer, A Woman's Journey Round the World:
text: As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry.
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta:
text: The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.
ref: 1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles:
text: It was afternoon, and the sun shone slantingly on the waters of the river, above which on the hills amid trees and flowering gardens stood the house of Captain Andrew Brown.
ref: 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:
text: The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind.
ref: 1953, Murray Leinster, Space Tug:
glosses: In a slanting orientation; aslant.
shopful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopfuls
form: shopsful
Etymology: From shop + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.
ref: 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne:
text: Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
ref: 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:
glosses: The amount that a shop can hold.
shaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Up comes the tavern-keeper, and ketchin' holt of my cote coller, shaked me out in the middle of the dinin'-room floor.
ref: 1870 October 8, Various, Punchinello, volume 2, number 28:
text: MRS. MIGAT--A warm greeting, "how doe yow"--"god was naught"--"Hell need not be feared, for she should not burn in ye fire"--The ghost "stracke" "Mrs. Migat sayth she went out to give her calues meat, about fiue weekes since, & goodwif Segr came to her and shaked her by ye arme, & sd she how doe yow, how doe yow, Mrs. Migatt.
ref: 1908, John M. Taylor, The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697):
text: It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: simple past and past participle of shake
shagbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shagbarks
Etymology: From shag + bark.
Senses: examples: text: Trees such as the pin oak, the shagbark hickory, the linden, and the sugar maple are the arboreal equivalent of the high school student council.
ref: 1990 January 19, James Krohe Jr., “Green Streets”, in Chicago Reader:
text: They thought he was strong, tough, and resilient--just like the wood of the shagbark hickory tree, which is used to make athletic equipment today.
ref: 1997 November 28, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The face of the country is exceedingly beautiful, the soil fertile, and bearing oaks and shagbark hickory.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
glosses: A North-American hickory (Carya ovata) that has shaggy bark in mature trees; shagbark hickory
glosses: A West Indian leguminous tree, Pithecellobium micradenium.
shagbark hickory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shagbark hickories
Senses: glosses: A common hickory found in the eastern USA and in southern Canada, Carya ovata
silentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silentnesses
Etymology: From silent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: silence
simpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmpi/
Forms: form: simpier
form: simpiest
Etymology: From simp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Shirley Anderson does a fine job with this seemingly simpy character, capturing Therese's twisted wisdom and making her seem eerie and radiant with joy at the same time.
ref: 1992 March 20, Maura Troester, “All Souls Day”, in Chicago Reader:
text: She's a new-breed singer-songwriter, straddling the line between smart rocker and simpy coffeehouse philosopher.
ref: 1995 April 28, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The trouble with adults is that they think children's shows have to teach simpy little Life Lessons.
ref: 2003 March 7, Tony Adler, “Ashley Astor and the Robot Ray Caper”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Characteristic of a simp; foolish
sincke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ZANOBI. If it chaunce that the River hath marde the Foorde, so that the horses sincke, what reamedy have you?
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
text: Follow the one way, or follow the other, he must either subiect himselfe to a tyrannicall passion, or vndertake a weery and continuall combate, willingly cast himselfe to destruction, or fetter himselfe as it were in stockes, easily sincke with the course of the water, or painefully swimme against the streame.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
text: "And whereas the myners within this Forest are at a very great charge to make surffes for the dreyning of their pitts to get cole, wch when they have finished others sincke pitts so near them that they are deprived of the benefit of their labour and charge, to their very great loss and damage: To remedie whereof, it is now ordered that after a surffe is made, noe myner shall come to work within 100 yards of that surffe to the prejudice of the undertakers without their consents, and without being contributory to the making of the said surffe, upon payne of forfeiting 100 dozen of good fire coale, the one moiety to the King's Matie, and the other to the myner that shall sue for the same."
ref: 1858, H. G. Nicholls, The Forest of Dean:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sink.
sincke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinckes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sink.