cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈkænɪk/
ipa: /mɪˈkænɪk/
ipa: /məˈkænɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛˈkʰanɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛkʰənɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: mechanick
Etymology: From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.
Senses: examples: text: […] these mechanick Philosophers being in no Way able to give an Account thereof from the necessary motion of Matter, unguided by Mind for Ends […]
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: mechanical; relating to mechanics or the laws of motion in physics
examples: text: But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
⁠A use in measured language lies;
⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: mechanical; precise but lifeless, as if performed by machine
examples: text: Mechanic slaves,
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Authors both Sacred and Profane we see complain of the Level of Learning, with Mechanick Ignorance: [...]
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
text: But then they did not wrong themſelves ſo much, / To make a God, a Hero, or a King, / (Stripp'd of his golden Crown and purple Robe) / Deſcend to a Mechanick Dialect, / Nor (to avoid ſuch meanneſs) ſoaring high / With empty ſound, and aiery notions fly; [...]
ref: 1680, Horace, translated by Earl of Roscommon [i.e., Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon], Horace’s Art of Poetry. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: Sometimes he ply'd the ſtrong mechanic Tool, / Or rear'd the Fabrick from the fineſt Draught; [...]
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XII, page 47:
glosses: Of or relating to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar; base.
Derived terms: biomechanic
mechanic arts
mechaphilia
neuromechanic
telemechanic
mechanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈkænɪk/
ipa: /mɪˈkænɪk/
ipa: /məˈkænɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛˈkʰanɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛkʰənɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: mechanics
form: mechanick
Etymology: From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.
Senses: examples: text: His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: The lower orders were freer than they had ever been – free […] to choose their own lay preachers, mechanics like the rest of the congregation.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77:
glosses: A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
glosses: Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
glosses: A device, method or means; a function.
examples: text: This game has a mechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.
topics: video-games
glosses: A device, method or means; a function.
A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
qualifier: tabletop games
examples: text: And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. Overnight he became the best grunt we had, a real killer, a mechanic.
ref: 1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: A hitman.
examples: text: I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.
ref: 1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 91:
text: It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.
ref: 1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):
topics: gambling
games
hyponyms: card mechanic
dice mechanic
glosses: A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
Derived terms: aeromechanic
auto mechanic
card mechanic
chancre mechanic
dice mechanic
mechanic arts
mechanic's grip
mechanic's lien
Mechanicville
shade tree mechanic
Related terms: mechanical
mechanically
mechanics
mechanism
mechanistic
mechanization
mechanize
shrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹaɪ̯n/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: shrines
Etymology: From Middle English shryne, from Old English scrīn (“reliquary, ark of the covenant”), from Medieval Latin scrīnium (“reliquary”), “case or chest for books or papers” in Classical Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Compare Old Norse skrín, Old High German skrīni (German Schrein).
Senses: examples: text: Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
glosses: A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
glosses: A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
examples: text: a shrine of art
glosses: A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.
Coordinate terms: topics: Shinto
religion
lifestyle
word: jinja
english: Slavic paganism
translation: Slavic paganism
word: kapishche
english: a larger building or space
translation: a larger building or space
word: temple
Derived terms: ancestral shrine
enshrine
shrinal
shrinegoer
shrine-goer
shrineless
shrinelet
shrinelike
Shriner
shrine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹaɪ̯n/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: shrines
form: shrining
form: shrined
form: shrined
Etymology: From Middle English shryne, from Old English scrīn (“reliquary, ark of the covenant”), from Medieval Latin scrīnium (“reliquary”), “case or chest for books or papers” in Classical Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Compare Old Norse skrín, Old High German skrīni (German Schrein).
Senses: examples: text: Shrined in his sanctuary.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.
mecomtronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Earliest 1975. Blend of mechanics + computers + telecommunications + electronics.
Senses: examples: text: […] Mecomtronics Technology […]
ref: 1975, Engineers Joint Council Engineering Manpower Commission, American Association of Engineering Societies Engineering Manpower Commission, Engineering and Technology Enrollments, page 423:
text: 2005. Fern A. Oram. Peterson's Two-Year Colleges, page 528,
Degree and certificate programs are offered in […] mechanical manufacturing technology, mecomtronics engineering technology, medical laboratory technology […]
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The combined disciplines of mechanics, computers, telecommunications and electronics; robotics.
apostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɒs.tət/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.teɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.tət/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.tɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɑs.-/
Etymology: From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Senses: examples: text: We must punish this apostate priest.
text: VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee vvithdravv / The number of thy vvorſhippers.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 608–613:
text: a wretched and apostate state
ref: 1711 April 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “THURSDAY, March 22, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 19; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: An enormous number of monks and priests gave themselves up to sorcery, and there was no lack of apostate priests to perform the ceremonies of the Black Mass.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 101:
glosses: Guilty of apostasy.
apostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒs.teɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɒs.tət/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.teɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.tət/
ipa: /əˈpɔs.tɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɑs.-/
Forms: form: apostates
Etymology: From Late Latin apostata, from Ancient Greek ἀποστάτης (apostátēs, “rebel”), from ἀφίστημι (aphístēmi, “to withdraw, revolt”), from ἀπό (apó, “from”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: deconvert
withersake
glosses: A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
examples: text: But the most politically damaging blow came from a late-breaking apostate: Mr. Clooney, who just weeks earlier had spent time with Mr. Biden and helped deliver $28 million to his campaign at a Los Angeles fund-raiser.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: recreant
glosses: One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
Related terms: apostasy
apostatic
apostatical
apostatically
apostatise
apostatize
heresy
heretic
heretical
victim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪktɪm/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈvɪktəm/
Forms: form: victims
form: victiming
form: victimed
form: victimed
Etymology: From Middle French victime, from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”).
Senses: glosses: To make (something) a victim (especially of a ritual sacrifice); to victimize.
Derived terms: word: victimed
zoologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /zoʊˈɑləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /zuːˈɒlədʒɪst/
ipa: /zuˈɑlədʒɪst/
Forms: form: zoologists
form: zoölogist
Etymology: From zoology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies zoology.
Derived terms: anthrozoologist
archaeozoologist
archeozoologist
bryozoologist
cryptozoologist
entozoologist
ethnozoologist
malacozoologist
nonzoologist
palaeozoologist
paleozoologist
protozoologist
xenozoologist
ugly duckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭg′lē dŭk′lĭng
ipa: /ˈʌɡ.liː ˌdʌk.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʌɡ.li ˌdʌk.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɐɡ.liː ˌdɐk.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɐɡ.liː ˌdɐk.ləŋ/
ipa: /ˈəɡ.liː ˌɖək.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: ugly ducklings
Etymology: Calque of Danish grim ælling. From the fairy tale of a duckling, considered ugly, that matures into a magnificent swan.
Senses: examples: text: The ugly duckling has become a very fine swan, and Rachel Sprigg and her team have worked hard to ensure that Derby is a worthy winner of that coveted National Rail Award. They can be proud of their achievements.
ref: 2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 57:
glosses: A young person who is ugly, but who is expected to become beautiful or handsome as they mature.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ugly, duckling.
SSPX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Initialism of Society of Saint Pius X, a group of traditionalist Roman Catholics.
Synonyms: FSSPX
birds of the feather flock together
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of birds of a feather flock together.
murderess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːdəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈmɜːdəɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈmɜːdɹɪs/
ipa: /-ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈmɝdəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɛs
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dɹɪs
homophone: murderous (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: murderesses
form: murdress
Etymology: From Middle English morderes, from Old French morderesse, moeurdrese; equivalent to murder + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] Yet am I very fair, Kallikrates!’ / ‘I hate thee, murdress, and I have no wish to see thee.[…]’
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Triumph”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 228:
text: “All the murderesses I met in prison”, she [Kathryn George-Harries] says lightly, “had committed their crimes in domestic arguments. They chose the gun. I chose to go for the Meissen. Nobody’s worth doing life for.”
ref: 1992 March 4, Elizabeth Grice, “Why a spell inside gave fresh hope to ‘Tart Number One’”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 42,516, London, page 15, column 1:
text: M.T. maintains the primary suspect is Stefanie's boyfriend, the couple recently breaking up. Despite other Facebook and MSN messages indicating M.T. had talked with at least three friends about wanting Stefanie dead, she doesn't seem to think suspicion will fall on her as a murderess-once-removed.
ref: 2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009:
text: Our maniacal murderess filled a bonnet box and a Gladstone bag with all but the head and the foot of poor Mrs Thomas, and threw them from Richmond bridge.
ref: 2014 October 5, Matt Rudd, “Scandal! Horror! Homicide! Murders by gaslight”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2023:
glosses: Female equivalent of murderer: a woman who commits murder.
murderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːdəɹə/
ipa: /ˈmɝdɚɚ/
Forms: form: murderers
form: murtherer
Etymology: From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
text: It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 150:
glosses: A person who commits murder.
Coordinate terms: murderess
Derived terms: archmurderer
axe murderer
axe-murderer
child murderer
desk murderer
mass murderer
multimurderer
murderers' row
Murderers' Row
nonmurderer
self-murderer
serial murderer
Related terms: murder
murderess
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
form: supping
form: supped
form: supped
form: soup
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.
The noun is from the verb. There is no evidence of continuity with Old English supa. Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”), from Old English sopa, whence sop.
Senses: examples: text: There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
ref: 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple:
text: We stood upon the forehead of the hills, / And lifted up our hearts in prayer; / And as we halted, reverent, / Meseemed that Nature o’er us bent, / That she did bid us sup / From bread she gave and from her cup.
ref: 1893, Norman Gale, “A Walk”, in Orchard Songs, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews & John Lane; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 43:
text: On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60:
glosses: To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
form: soup
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.
The noun is from the verb. There is no evidence of continuity with Old English supa. Compare Middle English soupe, from Old English sūpe, which has the same meaning as Middle English sope (“a mouthful or small amount of drink”), from Old English sopa, whence sop.
Senses: examples: text: Is it stoppin' there you'd be till every sup of the say's dhrained out on us to beyant the King Pharaoh's Islands?
ref: 1896, Jane Barlow, Mrs. Martin's Company, page 95:
text: “Then, who,” the sick man meekly said, / “Shall heal the sick and hide the dead?— / “Snatch the despairer’s poisoned cup; / Clothe shame, and give the outcast sup?⁠— / “Lighten, if only by a hair, / The load of human pain and care?”
ref: 1898, Wilfred Woollam, “Fragments from Two Hearts”, in Child Illa and Other Poems, Sheffield: J. Arthur Bain; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 163:
text: We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.
ref: a. 1936, J[oseph] S[mith] Fletcher, “Assault of Hannah’s Castle”, in The Mill House Murder: Being the Last of the Adventures of Ronald Camberwell, Alfred A[braham] Knopf, Inc., published 1937, page 234:
text: ... an' we'll bathe them eyes of yours with a sup of rain water, the way when you go indoors ne'er a one will see there's been a ha'porth the matter.
ref: 1906, Emily Lawless, The Book of Gilly: Four Months Out of a Life, page 60:
text: A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.
ref: 1936, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying:
text: The hands touch B upon the head, give him sup from a cup and wipe his brow with a cloth, and finally embrace him as he slumps back down upon his desk.
ref: 2010, Graley Herren, “Beckett on Television”, in S[tanley] E. Gontarski, editor, A Companion to Samuel Beckett, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, part IV (Acts of Performance), page 396:
text: 'Wouldn't the fields be glad of a sup of rain.' 'Won't we have the rain for long enough.'
ref: 2022, Claire Keegan, Foster:
glosses: A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
form: supping
form: supped
form: supped
form: soup
Etymology: From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.
Senses: examples: text: ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To eat supper.
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: ssup
form: 'sup
form: s'up
form: zup
Etymology: Procopic form of what's up (“how are you doing?”)
Senses: examples: text: — Sup?
— Not much.
synonyms: t'sup
wassup
w'sup
wudup
glosses: what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Etymology: From s- + up.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: sdown
glosses: Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
Derived terms: sup squark
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
form: supe
Etymology: First syllable of superintendent.
Senses: examples: text: They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it."
ref: 1932, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 91, page 64:
text: Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working."
ref: 2011, M. Thomas, Not Today, →ISBN, page 212:
text: But here comes the deputy vehicle, cruising right up to the shelter on the bike path. The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy.
ref: 2012, Caroline Court, Rescuing Park Ranger Billie, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Superintendent.
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
Etymology: First syllable of superior.
Senses: examples: text: Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices.
ref: 2001, Mr. Paul Cashin, Mr. C. John McDermott, The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices, →ISBN:
text: For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value.
ref: 2003 -, Serge Lang -, Complex Analysis, →ISBN, page 271:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Supremum, upper limit.
Derived terms: lim sup
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
Etymology: Clipping of supplement.
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Supplement.
sup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
homophone: 'sup
note: of supremum and of words beginning with super-
ipa: /sup/
Forms: form: sups
form: supe
Etymology: First syllable of supervision.
Senses: qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: A supervision.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
translation: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
word: lup sup
english: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
translation: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
word: sup kambing
english: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
translation: etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms
word: sup tulang
diocese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.sɪs/
ipa: /-siz/
rhymes: -aɪəsɪs
rhymes: -aɪəsiz
Forms: form: dioceses
form: diœcese
form: diocesse
Etymology: From Middle English diocise, from Old French diocese, from Late Latin diocēsis, from Latin dioecēsis (“district under a governor”), from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).
Senses: glosses: An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.
topics: Christianity
hyponyms: archdiocese
glosses: A group of parishes administered by a bishop.
Derived terms: undiocesed
Related terms: archdiocesan
bishopric
diocesan
diocesian
nullius diœcesis
parish
bryndza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Slovak bryndza, from Romanian brânză (“cheese”), of uncertain origin; it was possibly borrowed from Albanian brëndës (“intestines”), or from a substrate language. Originally referred to cheeses prepared in a sheep's stomach by reacting with the rennet inside.
Senses: glosses: A soft cheese made from sheep's milk, primarily made in Central and Eastern Europe.
wikipedia: Vladimir Orel
morgue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːɡ/
ipa: /moɹɡ/
ipa: [mo̞ɹɡ]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: morgues
Etymology: Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.
Senses: examples: text: They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 34:
glosses: A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
coordinate_terms: deadhouse
mortuary
glosses: A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
examples: text: Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue
ref: 1921 July 2, Joseph F. Kwapil, Fourth Estate, page 5:
text: Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109:
glosses: The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
Derived terms: Baltimorgue
morguelike
godfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdfɑːðə/
Forms: form: godfathers
Etymology: From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
examples: text: The man often touted as the godfather of AI has quit Google, citing concerns over the flood of misinformation, the possibility for AI to upend the job market, and the “existential risk” posed by the creation of a true digital intelligence.
ref: 2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “They are trying to kill the messenger with the bad news, it’s crazy,” said Dr James Hansen, known as the godfather of climate science and previously director of Giss for more than 30 years.
ref: 2025 May 21, Oliver Milman, “Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
coordinate_terms: goombah
qualifier: crime
glosses: A mafia leader.
glosses: A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
Synonyms: sense: male guardian
word: godpa
Hypernyms: godparent
Derived terms: godfatherhood
godfatherism
godfatherless
godfatherlike
godfatherly
godfathership
twelve godfathers
Related terms: godchild
goddaughter
godmother
godparent
godsib
godson
godfather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdfɑːðə/
Forms: form: godfathers
form: godfathering
form: godfathered
form: godfathered
Etymology: From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).
Senses: examples: text: Hull objected violently that aid had not been used to extract commitments on postwar economic policy; the joint chiefs had wanted bases; others in the military still wanted Britain to play only a minor, if any, role in the Pacific; and they were all apparently angry at the Treasury for godfathering the Quebec Agreement.
ref: 1996, Ann Lane, The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance, 1941–45, page 61:
text: But months before, he'd agreed to godfather the premiere of The Godfather.
ref: 2006, Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, page 5:
text: The grave site, humble as it is, reflects something more than a hometown’s determination to honor a fallen son, something that seems irreducible in the politics of Iraq: the refusal of the Sunni minority, who ruled Iraq for centuries until Mr. Hussein’s overthrow, to reconcile themselves to the assumption of power by the Shiite majority who won elections godfathered by the American occupation authority.
ref: 2007 August 3, John F. Burns, “At Hussein Grave, Legend Lives as Fury Simmers”, in New York Times:
glosses: To act as godfather or guardian to.
vara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”).
Senses: synonyms: Spanish rod
Spanish ell
Spanish yard
rod
ell
yard
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 83.7 cm.
synonyms: Portuguese rod
Portuguese ell
Portuguese yard
rod
ell
yard
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 1.1 m.
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of area, equivalent to about 0.7 m².
Related terms: coxa vara
tibia vara
clitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: clitics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλιτικός (klitikós, “inflexional”).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.
ref: 1997, Raffaella Zanuttini, Negation and Clausal Structure, Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, page 29
text: In Macedonian, clitic-doubling is a fully-fledged phenomenon. The Macedonian Dat and Acc pronominal clitics, which originate in agreement phrases and move to preverbal position,¹⁰ where they cluster with other clausal clitics, are on their way to becoming mere case markers, which formally distinguish direct and indirect objects from subjects.
ref: 2006, Olga Mišeska Tomić, Balkan Sprachbund Morpho-Syntactic Features, page 242:
text: Here, we will see that they also have problems with overt pronouns, especially object clitics, whose emergence is more delayed than in typically developing children.
ref: 2009, Philippe Prévost, The Acquisition of French, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders: 51, page 196
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
Hyponyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: enclitic
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: endoclitic
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: mesoclitic
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: proclitic
Coordinate terms: affix
Derived terms: autoclitic
clitichood
cliticization
cliticize
heteroclitic
oikoclitic
postclitic
proclitic
xenoclitic
Related terms: enclisis
endoclisis
mesoclisis
proclisis
enclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈklɪtɪk/
ipa: /ɛnˈklɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: enclitics
Etymology: From Late Latin encliticus, from Ancient Greek ἐγκλιτικός (enklitikós, “inclined towards”), from ἐγκλίνειν (enklínein, “lean on”), from ἐν (en, “upon”) + κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).
Senses: examples: text: The English possessive 's is an enclitic.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A clitic that joins with the preceding word phonetically, graphically, or both.
Derived terms: enclitically
encliticize
Related terms: clitic
proclitic
enclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈklɪtɪk/
ipa: /ɛnˈklɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Etymology: From Late Latin encliticus, from Ancient Greek ἐγκλιτικός (enklitikós, “inclined towards”), from ἐγκλίνειν (enklínein, “lean on”), from ἐν (en, “upon”) + κλίνειν (klínein, “to lean, incline”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Affixed phonetically.
proclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈklɪt.ɪk/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈklɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [pɹoʊˈklɪɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /pɹəʉˈklɪt.ɪk/
ipa: [pɹəʉˈklɪɾ.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: proclitics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προκλίνω (proklínō, “to lean forward”).
Senses: examples: text: In dialectal or poetic English, the article the or preposition to can become the proclitic t'.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.
Related terms: clitic
enclitic
mesoclitic
endoclitic
legs eleven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: A traditional call for the number eleven usually during the game Bingo.
Related terms: Kelly's eye
Maggie's den
two fat ladies
two little ducks
Tony's den
two fat ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bingo
games
glosses: A traditional call for the number eighty-eight.
autolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + -latry.
Senses: synonyms: idiolatry
glosses: The worship of oneself.
Derived terms: autolatric
autolatrous
Related terms: idolatry
vanward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From van + -ward.
Senses: glosses: On or towards the front.
vanward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From van + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards the front.
Synonyms: forward
vanward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanwards
Etymology: From van + -ward.
Senses: glosses: The vanguard of an army.
scacchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskækɪk/
Etymology: From Italian scacchi (“chess”); see -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] for although Brunet y Bellet has indeed given a valuable description and reproduction of the Introductory portions of the scacchic part of that MS., he does not pretend to treat the positions of even that section, and has little or nothing to say about the pages filled with examples of other games.
ref: 1905, Willard Fiske, Chess in Iceland and Icelandic Literature, page 201:
text: The second theme to feed in from Bloodline is that of playing games. This is certainly true of the scacchic opening, […]
ref: 2006, Paul Kane, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, →ISBN, page 170:
text: In response to this barbarity, the philosopher Philometer invents chess, effectively replacing the body metaphor with the scacchic metaphor.
ref: 2008, Mark N. Taylor, “Mirror to the Polity”, in Review of Politics, →DOI:
glosses: Of or relating to chess
Synonyms: word: chess
word: chessic
quidnunc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪdˌnʌŋk/
Forms: form: quidnuncs
Etymology: From Latin quid nunc? (“what now?”).
Senses: examples: text: We all did our duty, which, in the patriot's, soldier's, and gentleman's language, is a very comprehensive word, of great honour, meaning, and import, and of which the generality of idle quidnuncs and coffee-house politicians can hardly form any but a very mean and contemptible idea.
ref: 1785, Rudolf Erich Raspe, chapter V, in The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen:
text: […] but still something was necessary to convince the community at large, to quiet those praying quidnuncs who should come after them--in short, the world must be satisfied.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, chapter VIII, in Knickerbocker's History of New York, volume 5:
synonyms: busybody
buttinsky
gossip
newsmonger
yenta
glosses: A person eager to learn news and scandal.
mytacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutacism
form: metacism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυτακισμός (mutakismós, “fondness of the letter mu”). By surface analysis from mu (Greek letter representing /m/) + -tacism.
Senses: glosses: A speech disorder manifesting as an abnormal repetition of the sound /m/ or replacement of consonants with m-like sounds.
logomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒɡəˈmeɪniæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: logomaniacs
Etymology: From logo- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: Willy's speech, like Doc's, is a rolling bricolage of cliche, literary quotation, epigram, advertising slogan and salvage from the past. To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance.
ref: 1999 June 21, Toby Mundy, “Novel of the week: Timbuktu by Paul Auster”, in New Statesman, retrieved 27 Sep 2010:
glosses: One who is obsessed with words.
Related terms: logomania
paralian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralians
Etymology: Early 18th-century adoption into English as a common noun, with its earliest use credited to Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton.
From Ancient Greek Παράλιος (Parálios, “Paralian”), from παράλιος (parálios, “coastal, maritime”), from παρα- (para-, “beside, next to”) + ἅλς (háls, “salt, seawater”) + -ιος (-ios, adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: someone who lives by the sea
glosses: a member of an ancient Greek people who lived by the Athenian coast in the 6th century B.C.E.
parapraxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parapraxes
Etymology: From para- + -praxis. Compare -praxia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A mistake, such as a slip of the tongue, that reveals a concealed thought or motive.
Synonyms: Freudian slip
Related terms: slip of the tongue
pasilaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasilalies
Etymology: From French pasilalie, formed from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + λαλιά (laliá, “speech, dialect”).
Senses: glosses: a universal language
Related terms: pasigraphy
international auxiliary language
cacodemonomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cacodemon + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: The pathological belief that one is inhabited, or possessed, by an evil spirit or entity.
Synonyms: cacodemonia
carapace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹəˌpeɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.əˌpeɪs/
Forms: form: carapaces
Etymology: Borrowed from French carapace (“tortoise shell”), from Spanish carapacho, of unknown origin, but likely from an extinct Ibero-Mediterranean substrate language.
Compare Catalan carabassa, Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle”), Latin scarabaeus (the source of scarab); also Spanish galápago (“kind of turtle”). Doublet of calipash.
Senses: glosses: A hard protective covering of bone or chitin, especially one which covers the dorsal portion of an animal.
examples: text: So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart.
ref: 1928, Edward A. Ross, World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., page 12:
text: This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance.
ref: 2010 January 8, Simon Jenkins, “The proliferation of nuclear panic is politics at its most ghoulish”, in The Guardian, §: “Comment & Debate”, page 29, column 4:
glosses: That which protects.
Derived terms: carapaced
carapacelike
carapaceous
carapacial
carapacic
pseudocarapace
Related terms: english: often holonymous
translation: often holonymous
word: exoskeleton
cecity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cæcity
form: caecity
Etymology: From Latin caecitās (“blindness”), from caecus (“blind”) + -itās (“-ness, -ity”).
Senses: glosses: blindness
capel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpəl/
rhymes: -eɪpəl
Forms: form: capels
form: caple
Etymology: From Old Norse [Term?] (whence Icelandic kapall), from Latin caballus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caple (horse)
capel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpəl/
rhymes: -eɪpəl
Forms: form: caple
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
capel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpəl/
rhymes: -eɪpəl
Forms: form: capels
form: caple
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kappal (“ship”).
carnifex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnifexes
form: carnifices
Etymology: From Latin carnifex (“butcher”).
Senses: examples: text: “[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”
ref: 1831, Walter Scott, Fortunes of Nigel:
text: ‘Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.’
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Vorónezh: Ovid thrusts abruptly wide / the ice-locked shutters, discommodes his lyre / to Caesar's harbingers. Interrogation, / whatever is most feared. Truth's fatal vogue, / sad carnifex, self-styled of blood and wax.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952–2012, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 535:
glosses: An executioner.
casque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːsk/
ipa: /kæsk/
rhymes: -æsk
homophone: cask
Forms: form: casques
Etymology: Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.
Senses: examples: text: He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
glosses: A helmet.
examples: text: Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.
ref: 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
text: Smooth Casque-headed Basilisk – Cutete Policía . . . A flat-topped cephalic casque projects over the neck in this species. The posterior edge of this casque is smooth without projecting spines. . . Its vernacular name, cutete policía, is in allusion to the flat casque, said by some to resemble the service cap worn by Guatemalan police.
ref: 1998 Campbell, Jonathan A. Amphibians and reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize p. 154-155. ISBN: 0-8061-3064-4
text: . . . the Southern Cassowary . . . has a double red wattle that hangs from its blue-skinned neck, while a horn-like casque adorns its head. Although it is often described as horny or bony, the casque has a core of firm foamy material, riddled with cells and canals, and covered by a spongy layer and a tough, keratinous, outer sheath. Its purpose is unknown, but one possibility is that it is for sexual attraction. Another is that it protects the skull as the bird bashes its way, head lowered, through the bush when running. Other suggestions are that it is used as a weapon in dominance disputes, or as a tool to push aside leaf litter during foraging. Observations of behaviour lend little support to any of these proposals.
ref: 2011 Penny Olsen and Leo Joseph: Stray Feathers CSIRO Publishing Australia ISBN: 9780643103450
glosses: A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as cassowaries, some hornbills and guineafowl, and some reptiles such as chameleons and basilisks.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of galea.
synonyms: word: galea
Derived terms: casqued
casqueless
uncasque
cataphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cata- + physical.
Senses: glosses: unnatural; going against nature
yode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊd
Etymology: From Middle English ȝode, ȝede, eode, from Old English ēode, from Proto-Germanic *ijj-, a suppletive past tense form to Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), and further from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“go”). Cognate with Latin eō (“go”), Russian идти (idti, “go”).
Senses: glosses: simple past of go; went.
Related terms: yead
yede
yeed
eyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: A night as dense as honey, peaceful, dreamy and enticing / Bringing to thine eyne tears of deep emotion / The weary she-parrot slumbers / As does the fading narcissus; […]
ref: 2013, Farrukh Ahmad, translated by Yasmin Faruque, “The Celestial Captain”, in The Sailor of the Seven Seas, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of eyen (“eyes”)