cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epistle lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistle lessons
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A reading from one of the New Testament epistles (written by St. Paul and others); one of the usual four readings from the Bible found in many (Sunday) Christian church services, in various denominations.
Related terms: Old Testament lesson
Gospel lesson
Psalms
psalter
psaltry
Jimmy Woodser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jimmy Woodsers
Etymology: From a poem by Barcroft Boake, published in The Bulletin of 7 May 1892, about a fictional Jimmy Wood from Britain who is determined to end the practice of shouting (buying rounds of drinks for one′s group of mates).
: One man one liquor! though I have to die
 A martyr to my faith, that′s Jimmy Wood, sir.
Another mooted derivation is the Sydney slang term Johnny Warder (“a man who tries to cadge drinks”), after the similarly eponymous John Ward, a Sydney publican.
Senses: examples: text: 1900, Henry Lawson, They Wait on the Wharf in Black, in Over the Sliprails, Gutenberg eBook #1313,
“What did you follow him below that time for, Mitchell?” I asked presently, for want of something better to say.
Mitchell looked at me out of the corners of his eyes.
“I wanted to score a drink!” he said. “I thought he wanted one and wouldn′t like to be a Jimmy Woodser.”
text: Not a bird in sight until I almost stepped on a solitary bleary eyed jimmy woodser pigeon staring or drinking at an oily puddle.
ref: 1968, Geoffrey Dutton, Maxwell Henley Harris, editors, The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters, page 248:
glosses: A man who drinks alone.
examples: text: THERE WAS a man in a pub — a long, dark, scowling, string-bellied sort of joker drinking Jimmy Woodsers of rum and water — and his message, suitably censored, was this: he didn′t much care what beer-brokers did to, or with, their frightful brewery broth.
ref: 1988, The Bulletin, numbers 5602-5608, page 109:
glosses: A drink consumed alone.
mudbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudbugs
Etymology: From mud + bug.
Senses: glosses: A crayfish.
red wiggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red wigglers
Senses: examples: text: The most popular worm probably is the "red wiggler," a small but active species which reproduces throughout the year. When placed on the bedding, they will quickly burrow out of sight. They may be purchased from bait dealers or commercial worm farmers. About 200 of them will start a good backyard operation. Feeding is a simple matter, as the worms will eat almost anything. They consume table scraps, coffee grounds, chicken mash, cottonseed meal, cornmeal, lettuce, celery, cabbage, and kitchen fat.
ref: 1971 December 1, “How It's Done: Build An Earthworm Bed. Reprinted from Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine”, in Field and Stream, volume 76, number 8, page 18:
hypernyms: wiggler
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glosses: A species of earthworm, Eisenia fetida, or an individual thereof, especially when used as bait for fishing.
stigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /stɪɡˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more stigmatic
form: most stigmatic
Etymology: From stigma + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having or relating to a stigma or stigmata.
glosses: Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character; stigmatized.
glosses: Impressing with infamy or reproach.
stigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɪɡˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: stigmatics
Etymology: From stigma + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: from his Infancy branded for a stigmatick
ref: 1685, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
glosses: One who has been branded as punishment.
examples: text: But like a foul misshapen stigmatic,
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 136:
glosses: One who has been marked or deformed by nature.
glosses: One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.
jugline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juglines
Etymology: From jug + line.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of trotline using an empty jug (such as a bleach jug) as a float at one end of the line, the other end either free-floating or anchored with a weight.
corbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːbəl/
Forms: form: corbels
Etymology: From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).
Senses: examples: text: The booking hall is lofty and of peculiar design, the roof being carried on timbered beams set in pairs rising from carved corbels.
ref: 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
topics: architecture
synonyms: corb
coordinate_terms: console
modillion
glosses: A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
Derived terms: corbeling
corbel table
encorbelment
Related terms: corbel arch
corbelling
corbie step
ledger
corbel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːbəl/
Forms: form: corbels
form: corbeling
form: corbelling
form: corbeled
form: corbeled
form: corbelled
form: corbelled
Etymology: From Middle English corbel, from Old French corbel, from Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, diminutive of Latin corvus (“raven”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Derived terms: corbel out
walleyed pike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walleyed pike
Senses: glosses: The walleye (fish).
contrariety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒntɹəˈɹʌɪəti/
Forms: form: contrarieties
form: contrarietie
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French contrariété, from Late Latin contrarietas, from contrarius, from Latin contra (“against”). By surface analysis, contrary + -ety.
Senses: examples: text: What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
text: Thy ſenate is a ſcene of civil jar, / Chaos of contrarieties at vvar, / VVhere ſharp and ſolid, phlegmatic and light, / Diſcordant atoms meet, ferment and fight, […]
ref: 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 118:
text: The contrariety of views and designs, the concertative, dilatory conferences of a numerous assembly (rent and divided as such assemblies are ever found to be), render it expedient that the prerogative of commencing war be confided to the advised discretion of the executory power.
ref: 1800, James Sedgwick, Remarks, Critical and Miscellaneous, on the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, page 171:
text: Yet however within my reach, however tempting they may appear, when I think upon the contrarieties, the restraints, the uncertainties that in this sublunary temporary sojourn would interpose their bane, the scene appears joyless, and I fly, rejoicing fly, to rest my hopes, faith, confidence on that base which is immutable, never-changing, never-ending; in a word, I fly to repose myself on the bosom of my God.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 192:
text: The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: This book puts forward a clearer understanding of Diderot's perplexities by taking into account the dynamics of his thought processes, especially the mode, peculiar to him, of thinking via contrarieties.
ref: 1998, Walter E. Rex, Diderot's Counterpoints:
text: At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.
ref: 2011 September 21, Tim Blanning, “The reinvention of the night”, in Times Literary Supplement:
glosses: Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
Derived terms: subcontrariety
krater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kraters
form: crater
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κρατήρ (kratḗr).
Senses: examples: text: In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]
ref: 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: An ancient Greek vessel for mixing water and wine.
dedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daedal.
tibiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tibia + -iform.
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a tibia.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a cystidium: almost ventricose and having a long narrow neck with an apex that is swollen into a knob, like a tibia bone.
fretwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretworks
Etymology: From fret (verb) + -work.
Senses: examples: text: Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
glosses: Ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through.
Derived terms: fretworked
Related terms: fretsaw
jerrycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌkæn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/
Forms: form: jerrycans
Etymology: From Jerry (“a German”) + can, from its use by German troops in World War II.
Senses: examples: text: The police fell back, swatting and cursing. At the gateway, somebody grabbed a jerrycan of water from Jonamon's hut and flung its contents at the swarm.
ref: 1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 259:
related: word: jerican
word: jerrican
word: jerry can
word: jerry-can
glosses: A robust container for fuel or water, of a certain more or less rectangular shape, often made from pressed steel.
Related terms: gas can
precancerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹiˈkænsəɹəs/
Forms: form: pre-cancerous
Etymology: From pre- + cancerous.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to growth that is likely to develop into cancer
Synonyms: premalignant
Hypernyms: preneoplastic
Related terms: procancerous
premalignant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹiˈməˈlɪɡnənt/
Etymology: From pre- + malignant.
Senses: glosses: precancerous.
Hypernyms: preneoplastic
pre-cancerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of precancerous.
starr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starrs
form: starra
form: starre
form: star
form: Starr
form: shetar
form: sheṭar
form: shtar
form: shtarr
Etymology: From Late Latin starrum, from Hebrew שְׁטָר (šĕṭār).
Senses: examples: text: It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.
ref: 1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain:
text: In the Treasury nil, and bv quittance which the said Gervase and Hugo his son have of the said debt by a Starr which the said Hugo produced at the Treasury before the Barons £90.
ref: 1893, Joseph Jacobs, The Jews of Angevin England:
text: Huntingdonshirr. son of master Moss the Jew, by his charter, he came before the justices, etc., and proffered certain starrs of acquittance of the said debt which the aforesaid Jacob had made to the aforesaid Nicholas his father, as he says, at the time when the same Jacob had the free administration of his goods.
ref: 1932, The Publications of the Selden Society, volume 49, page 1:
text: Later in the same year 'when Burnell had retired from court' he personally acknowledged twenty-two Jewish starra whilst he was staying at Beaulieu.
ref: 2013, Sarah Rees Jones, Christians and Jews in Angevin England:
glosses: A receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.
brown ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown ales
Senses: glosses: A type of beer characterised by its brown colour and rich malty, hoppy flavour with hints of caramel.
brown ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown ale
sticken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Where the decrées be very moueable, in that thei be written and grauen in the cheſte of the breaſt of the lorde Pope, that he may interpret theim whiche waie he will, and that muſt be law to be ſticken to, what ſoeuer it be.
ref: 1567, Matthew Parker, Sir Richard Morison, John Ponet, A defence of prieſtes mariages ſtablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande […] , London: Richarde Iugge, page 98:
text: Oah, how greatlie haue I ſinned euen in this, that I haue not ſticken to thee alone, neglecting all things elſe!.
ref: 1592, Thomas à Kempis, chapter 9, in Thomas Rogers, transl., Soliloquium animæ: the ſole-talke of the ſoule […] , London: Andrew Maunſell, page 62:
text: 7 I have ſticken [KJV ſtucke] unto thy teſtimonies: O Lord confound me not. / 8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou haſt ſet my heart at libertie.
ref: 1637, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The pſalmes of DAVID”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: […], London: […] Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, column 2:
glosses: past participle of stick
Broon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Senses: examples: text: Myek mine a bottle of Broon, pet.
glosses: Newcastle Brown Ale, a well known brand of brown ale beer.
Synonyms: word: Broonale
word: Dog
word: Journey into Space
word: Newkie Brown
Related terms: brown ale
Broonale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Give is a bottle of Broonale, pet!
glosses: Newcastle Brown Ale, a well known brand of brown ale beer.
Synonyms: word: Broon
word: Dog
word: Journey into Space
word: Newkie Brown
Related terms: brown ale
wach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waches
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of watch.
wach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waches
form: waching
form: wached
form: wached
form: wacht
form: wacht
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of watch.
weh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wehs
Etymology: From Nepali [script needed] (wah donka).
Senses: glosses: A red panda.
weh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛ(ː)/
rhymes: -ɛ
rhymes: -ɛː
Senses: examples: text: oh weh ! oh weh ! " — Sweetest mother, you have the illness ; oh weh ! oh weh ! It was so
ref: 1864, Flora Dawson, Princes, Public Men, and Pretty Women: Episodes in Real Life:
text: "Oh, weh! oh, weh!" The Child-Who-Was-Tired pushed and pulled them apart, muffled them into their coats, and drove them out of the house.
ref: 1910, Katherine Mansfield, The Child-Who_Was-Tired:
text: Perhaps it's in Lausanne, at the shore of Lake Leman, and in the widow's arms that Wolf wrote Oh weh! Perhaps she whispered it into his ear, when they first slept together, or when he parted from her. Perhaps it was her oh weh! he could never forget.
ref: 1992, Ewa Kuryluk, Century 21, →ISBN, page 307:
text: I tell you that it's true compassion, baby, oh weh.
ref: 2008, Bluedan, Resume, →ISBN, page 7:
text: "Kill one village, But leave another. Kill one village, But leave another. On the lake: weh weh weh weh weh.
ref: 2012, Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem, A Companion to Folklore, →ISBN, page 90:
text: At last one night the Master of Sorcerers in secret places raised his voice and cried: “Weh-h-h-h! Weh-h-h-h-h-h!”
ref: 2017, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales:
glosses: Alternative form of wah.
monkey hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey hangers
Etymology: Citizens of Hartlepool are alleged to have thought that a monkey which washed up onto the beach by the town during the Napoleonic wars was a French spy, and to have hanged it accordingly.
Senses: glosses: A person from Hartlepool.
potassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch potasch (“potash”). Doublet of potash.
Senses: examples: text: Liebich […] has investigated the action of potassa upon tannocaffeic acid.
ref: 1852, Justus von Liebig, Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry and the Allied Sciences, page 221:
glosses: The chemical compound potassium hydroxide.
Synonyms: caustic potash
potash lye
Derived terms: potassium
footballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtbɔːlə/
ipa: /ˈfʊtbɔːləɹ/
Forms: form: footballers
Etymology: From football + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.
ref: 2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: One who plays association football.
glosses: Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae, so named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.
examples: text: Footballer Tae Gordon named league MVP
ref: 2016 December 15, cochraneeagle.ca:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who plays American football.
Synonyms: sense: one who plays football
word: football player
sense: one who plays football
word: soccer player
sinicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəsaɪz/
Forms: form: sinicises
form: sinicising
form: sinicised
form: sinicised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sinicize.
sinicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəsaɪz/
Forms: form: sinicizes
form: sinicizing
form: sinicized
form: sinicized
form: Sinicise
form: sinicise
form: Sinicize
Etymology: From Sinic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make something Chinese in form or character.
glosses: To convert to Chinese characters or to enable to work with the Chinese script.
Synonyms: Sinify
sinify
Sinofy
sinofy
Derived terms: Sinicisation
sinicisation
Sinicization
sinicization
Related terms: Sinification
sinification
Sinofication
sinofication
stempel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəl
Forms: form: stempels
form: stemple
Etymology: Borrowed from Low German Stempel or Dutch stempel, akin to Old English stempan (“to stamp”), all from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to compress, squeeze, stamp”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A shelf set into a mineshaft for storing waste material, or for use as a step or support.
orde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ord.
studie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: studies
form: studying
form: studied
form: studied
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of study.
studie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of study.
limekiln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limekilns
form: lime-kiln
form: lime kiln
Etymology: From lime + kiln.
Senses: examples: text: Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: He wasn’t comfortable, he said. And he’d got a thirst like a lime kiln. And he’d noticed that there was no water-bottle in the room.
ref: 1902, Edith Nesbit, chapter 3, in In the Dark: Tales of Terror:
text: “I can’t be dead,” he reflected. “I have a villainous headache, and my mouth is like a lime-kiln […]”
ref: 1916, Ambrose Pratt, chapter 23, in Her Assigned Husband, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent:
text: His body was far from comfortable, for he was not accustomed to squatting or lolling, and the heat of the fire and the heavy flavour of food and ale had made the place like a limekiln.
ref: 1931, John Buchan, chapter 5, in The Blanket in the Dark:
glosses: A furnace used to produce lime from limestone.
examples: text: Now, the rotten diseases of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o’ gravel i’ the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas, limekilns i’ the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such preposterous discoveries!
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A burning sensation.
Related terms: limeburner
lime burning
mevrouw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mevrouws
form: mevrouwen
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch mevrouw.
Senses: examples: text: You’re more like the English who think themselves vastly superior to us and mix only with Mevrouwen and Heeren.
ref: 1917, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Arthur Knipe, A Maid of Old Manhattan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 24:
text: The Dutch mynheeren and mevrouwen everywhere are busily engaged in decorating their clean cities and no doubt they will all lift their glasses at the same time and drink the health of their good Queen with that famous national drink Holland gin.
ref: 1948 August 27, The Freehold Transcript, volume LX, number 52, Freehold, N.J., page 4:
text: Many of the mevrouwen were buxom souls whose lightness of foot in dancing never ceased to amaze me.
ref: 1969, Elliott R[aymond] Thorpe, East Wind, Rain: The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, 1939-49, Boston, Mass.: Gambit, →LCCN, page 34:
text: While gossiping and exchanging news, the mevrouwen are also poking, prodding, sniffing, scrutinising; weighing up options and recipes.
ref: 2005, The Spectator, page 44:
glosses: A Dutchwoman, especially a Dutch or Afrikaner mistress.
calcify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælsɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: calcifies
form: calcifying
form: calcified
form: calcified
Etymology: From French calcifier.
Senses: examples: text: calcify tissue
text: calcify rapidly
text: calcify with age
text: Over time, the arteries began to calcify.
glosses: To make or become hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
glosses: To make or become rigid or inflexible; to ossify.
Derived terms: anticalcifying
biocalcify
calcifiable
calcific
calcification
calcifier
decalcification
decalcify
noncalcifying
procalcifying
recalcification
recalcify
Related terms: calculus
ossify
petrify
sclerose
kleren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Haitian Creole kleren.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clairin (“Haitian drink resembling rum”).
stem the rose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stems the rose
form: stemming the rose
form: stemmed the rose
form: stemmed the rose
Senses: examples: text: You guys wasn't gettin’ paid to leave the dogs to babysit the sheep while you stemmed the rose. Now get the hell out of my trailer.
ref: 2005, 46:12 from the start, in Brokeback Mountain:
text: Are you stupid? You of course have stemmed the rose. Palate cleanser, indeed.
ref: 2006 April 20, Otto Bahn, “Re: Astounding new book takes publishng world”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):
text: Stemming the rose by any other name would still gross me out.
ref: 2009 April 29, Edward M. Kennedy, “I donut understand the excitement over Specter”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: Bruckheimer wasn't paying Gyllenhaal to let the anonymous henchmen babysit Persia so he could stem the rose.
ref: 2010 May 27, “Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (comments)”, in A.V. Club Chicago:
text: Love who you want but y'all know stemming the rose ain't right and you'll have to answer for dat sheeet!
ref: 2011 February 23, mjandrews8, “Defense of Marriage Act decision adds to list of gay rights victories (comments)”, in Washington Post:
glosses: To have anal sex; to insert one's penis (stem) into another's anus (rose).
beignet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.jeɪ/
ipa: /bɛnˈjeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: beignets
Etymology: Borrowed from French beignet, ultimately of Frankish origin.
Senses: glosses: A fritter (with a fruit or vegetable filling).
examples: text: We sat in a New Orleans cafe eating beignets and sipping cappuccinos.
glosses: A Louisiana-style fried doughnut or fritter covered in powdered sugar.
unheard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English unherd, unherde, from Old English unġehīered (“unheard”), equivalent to un- + heard. Cognate with West Frisian ûnheard (“unheard”), Dutch ongehoord (“unheard”), German ungehört (“unheard”).
Senses: examples: text: Her cries for help remained unheard.
text: When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
glosses: Not heard.
examples: c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis
What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!
glosses: Not listened to.
examples: text: Nor was his name unheard or unadored.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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: Not known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.
Derived terms: unheard-of
unheard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhear
draugr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draugrs
form: draugar
form: draug
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An undead creature from Norse mythology, an animated corpse that inhabits its grave, often guarding buried treasure.
lime mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lime mortars
Senses: glosses: A soft form of mortar made from sand and slaked lime, largely replaced by cement mortar in modern building methods.
dreng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋ
Forms: form: drengs
form: drenge
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Medieval Latin drengus, from Middle English dreng (“warrior, retainer”) or its source, Old English drenġ (“warrior, soldier”), from Proto-West Germanic *drangī, from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.
Senses: examples: text: In the reign of K. Richard I, the Theines and Drenges of Northumberland were tallaged. They paid each of them 80 much de Dono (o).
ref: 1711, “Chapter XVII: Of Tallage”, in Thomas Madox, The Hiſtory and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England, London: John Matthews, page 480:
text: Accordingly, long after the Conquest, the Thegns and Drengs of Northumberland, and the Drengs, Thegns, and Villeins of the bishopric of Durham, continued to be tallaged.
ref: 1862, “Appendix T: The Laws of King Henry the First”, in E. William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings: A History of the Kingdom to the Close of the 13th Century, volume 2, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, page 513:
text: It is significant that, as Map 2 shows, the main concentrations of thegns and drengs are in the east of the territory that was apparently tributary to the Danish king in about AD 1000.
ref: 2000, “Society and Status”, in Birgit Sawyer, The Viking-age Rune-stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
calcine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælsaɪn/
ipa: /-sɪn/
ipa: /kælˈsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkælˌsaɪn/
rhymes: (one pronunciation) -aɪn
Forms: form: calcines
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (something) until it turns to powder; to change the nature of (something) by heating”) [and other forms], from Old French calciner (modern French calciner (“to calcinate; to calcine”)) and from its etymon Medieval Latin calcināre (“(alchemy) to burn like lime; to reduce to calx”), from Late Latin calcīna (“inorganic material containing calcium, lime”) + -āre (suffix forming present active infinitive forms of verbs). Calcīna is derived from Latin calcis, the genitive singular of calx (“chalk; limestone”), possibly from Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx, “small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble”); further etymology unknown, possibly Pre-Greek.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.
needlenose pliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of pliers with long, narrow extensions of the gripping faces, used to reach into narrow spaces.
recitative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛsɪtəˈtiːv/
ipa: /ɹɛˈsaɪtətɪv/
ipa: /ˈɹɛsɪteɪtɪv/
Forms: form: recitatives
Etymology: From Italian recitativo, from recitare, from Latin recitō.
Senses: examples: text: In Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, Bunthorne performs the recitative "Am I Alone and Unobserved?" before going on to his solo aria "If You're Anxious For To Shine".
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot.
recitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛsɪtəˈtiːv/
ipa: /ɹɛˈsaɪtətɪv/
ipa: /ˈɹɛsɪteɪtɪv/
Forms: form: more recitative
form: most recitative
Etymology: From Italian recitativo, from recitare, from Latin recitō.
Senses: glosses: of a recital
calcined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calcine
calcined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcined
form: most calcined
Senses: glosses: Converted by calcination.
examples: text: [A]n ingenious man, who is ever on the watch for conquest, will, in his eagerness to exhibit his whole store of knowledge, furnish an attentive observer with some useful information, calcined by fancy and formed by taste.
ref: 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
glosses: Purified, refined.
Derived terms: anticalcineurin
muscardine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscardines
Etymology: From French muscardine.
Senses: glosses: A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
glosses: A dormouse.
act of God
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acts of God
form: Act of God
Senses: examples: text: They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
text: The action of “The Discovery of Heaven” combines the emotional melodrama of a telenovela with a sequence of events that an insurance lawyer would call acts of God.
ref: 1997 January 5, Jack Miles, “On a Mission From God”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Infrastructure failures tend to be treated like acts of God, but of course they aren't really.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
topics: law
synonyms: force majeure
vis major
coordinate_terms: accident
bolt from the blue
glosses: An unforeseen occurrence beyond one's control, such as a natural disaster.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, of, God.
calcination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcinations
Etymology: From calcine + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: lime burning
glosses: The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
Derived terms: recalcination
quadrumanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadrumanous
form: most quadrumanous
Etymology: From Latin quattuor (“four”) + manus (“hand”), or alternatively from translingual Quadrumana + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: I've seen one monkey force open the jaws of his brother, resolutely introduce his fingers, pluck from the sanctuary of his cheek the filbert he had just stowed there for his private nutrition and delight, and crunch and eat it with a stern ecstasy of selfishness, himself; and I fancy that the feelings of the quadrumanous victim, his jaws aching, his pouch outraged, and his bon-bouche in the miscreant's mouth, a little resembles those of the physician who has suffered so hideous a mortification as that of Toole.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Having four feet whose first digits are opposable; applies to all non-human primates.
Related terms: Quadrumana
quadrumane
quatrayle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatrayles
Etymology: Modified form of quadri- + ayle.
Senses: examples: text: He was the quatrayle of Zaccheus Gould, the New England immigrant.
ref: 1880, The New England Register, volume 34, New England Historic Genealogical Society, published 1996, page 433:
text: This means that two individuals A and B whose most recent common ancestor C is the quatrayle (or great-great-great-grandfather) of the former and the quatrayle of the latter cannot belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain linking A to B contains ten degrees of kinship.
ref: 2012, Oliviu Felecan, Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, page 80:
glosses: A great-great-great-grandfather; the grandfather of the grandfather of one's father.
Related terms: ayle
besaiel
tresayle
quodlibetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɒd.lɪbɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkwɑd.lɪbəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: quodlibetarians
Etymology: From quodlibet + -arian.
Senses: glosses: One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
hardy hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardy holes
form: hardie hole
Senses: glosses: A square, tapered hole in an anvil used to hold certain blacksmithing tools
Related terms: anvil
hardy
pritchel
pritchel hole
pritchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪt͡ʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪtʃəl
Forms: form: pritchels
Etymology: Alteration (influenced by pritch) of prickle.
Senses: glosses: A metal punch or shaping tool with a round shank, designed to fit in a pritchel hole in an anvil.
Derived terms: pritchel hole
pritchel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪt͡ʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪtʃəl
Forms: form: pritchels
form: pritcheling
form: pritchelling
form: pritcheled
form: pritcheled
form: pritchelled
form: pritchelled
Etymology: Alteration (influenced by pritch) of prickle.
Senses: glosses: To use this tool.
vitamin B1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₁
Senses: glosses: thiamine
pritchel hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pritchel holes
Etymology: From pritchel + hole.
Senses: glosses: A round hole in an anvil designed to hold a pritchel or other round-shanked blacksmithing tool.
vitamin B2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₂
Senses: glosses: riboflavin
vitamin B3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₃
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: niacin
vitamin B5
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₅
Senses: glosses: pantothenic acid
vitamin B6
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₆
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pyridoxine, pyridoxal, or pyridoxamine.
synonyms: word: pyridoxine
word: pyridoxal
word: or pyridoxamine
vitamin B7
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₇
Senses: glosses: biotin
vitamin B9
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₉
Senses: glosses: folic acid
vitamin B12
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B₁₂
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound cobalamin or cyanocobalamin.
Synonyms: cobalamin
Derived terms: pseudovitamin B12
vitamin Bc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamin B_c
Senses: synonyms: vitamin B₉
glosses: folic acid
zomotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζωμός (zōmós, “meat-soup”) + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that in the later stages, zomotherapy is dangerous, the muscle plasma is not tolerated, this being probably due to the fact that the liver functions are insufficient, […]
ref: 1902, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, page 145:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A regimen of medical treatment that involves prescribing a diet of raw meat in order to fight a disease.
biotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪətɪn/
Forms: form: biotins
Etymology: Borrowed from German Biotin, from Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”) + the suffix -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk, and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems.
Synonyms: vitamin B7
vitamin H
Derived terms: 90Y-DOTA-biotin
biotinylate
cobalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /koʊˈbæləmɪn/
Forms: form: cobalamins
Etymology: Blend of cobalt + vitamin, 1950s.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of vitamin B₁₂ depending on the upper axial ligand of the cobalt ion.
Derived terms: adenosylcobalamin
cyanocobalamin
deoxyadenosylcobalamin
hydroxocobalamin
methylcobalamin
transcobalamin
noisette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noisettes
Etymology: From French, diminutive of noix (“nut”). The rose takes its name from the French gardener of Charleston, South Carolina, who produced it in 1817.
Senses: glosses: A small round thick slice of meat (in particular, lamb or veal) that has been deboned.
glosses: A hybrid rose, from the China rose and the musk rose.
noisette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French, diminutive of noix (“nut”). The rose takes its name from the French gardener of Charleston, South Carolina, who produced it in 1817.
Senses: glosses: Flavoured with hazelnuts.
Related terms: café noisette
cyanocobalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanocobalamins
Etymology: From cyano- + cobalamin.
Senses: examples: text: The cyanocobalamin molecule contains the element cobalt (Co). Cattle and sheep grazing areas deficient in this element develop vitamin B12 deficiency, as the rumen microorganisms are then unable to manufacture the vitamin.
ref: 2013, David Frape, Equine Nutrition and Feeding, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic form of vitamin B₁₂ (cobalamin).
ragout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæˈɡuː/
ipa: /ˈɹæɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: ragouts
form: ragoo
form: ragou
form: ragoût
Etymology: Borrowed from French ragoût. Compare ragù of the same origin, borrowed from Italian.
Senses: glosses: a stew of meat and vegetables mixed together
glosses: any stew, soup, or sauce
ragout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæˈɡuː/
ipa: /ˈɹæɡuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: ragouts
form: ragouting
form: ragouted
form: ragouted
form: ragoo
form: ragou
form: ragoût
Etymology: Borrowed from French ragoût. Compare ragù of the same origin, borrowed from Italian.
Senses: glosses: To prepare (food) as a ragout.
haslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪzlɪt/
ipa: /ˈheɪslɪt/
ipa: /ˈhæzlɪt/
ipa: /ˈhæslɪt/
rhymes: -eɪslɪt
Forms: form: haslets
form: acelet
form: harslet
form: hasslet
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hastelet, from Anglo-Norman hastilet (“roast meat”), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”), from Latin hasta (“spear”).
Senses: synonyms: offal
glosses: The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig.
examples: text: Shortly before serving lay the haslet on a warm dish, melt 1 ounce butter in a small saucepan […]
ref: 1914, Gesine Lemcke, European and American cuisine, page 309:
glosses: A meatloaf made of these organs.
harslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harslets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haslet.
buccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buccans
form: boucan
Etymology: Borrowed from French boucan. See buccaneer.
Senses: glosses: A framework or grill upon which meat is laid to dry, or to be roasted.
glosses: Meat prepared in this way.
buccan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buccans
form: buccaning
form: buccaned
form: buccaned
form: boucan
Etymology: Borrowed from French boucan. See buccaneer.
Senses: glosses: To dry meat on such a frame.
Related terms: barbecue
roulade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈlɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: roulades
Etymology: From French roulade, from rouler (“to roll”), from Old French roler.
Senses: examples: text: He leaned back in his chair, and little more than the whites of his upturned eyes were visible; and beating time upon the table with one hand, claw-wise, and with two or three queer, little thrills and roulades, which re-appeared with great precision in each verse, he delivered himself thus, in what I suspect was an old psalm tune: […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
text: He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 71:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked.
roulade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈlɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: roulades
form: roulading
form: rouladed
form: rouladed
Etymology: From French roulade, from rouler (“to roll”), from Old French roler.
Senses: glosses: To sing an elaborate embellishment of several notes to one syllable.
daube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daubes
Etymology: From French daube.
Senses: examples: text: “Christ, I tell you true, Irene, that child won't listen to nobody! I'm trying to cook her some spaghettis and daube, and she keeps on playing in my pot.”
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
glosses: A stew of braised meat, usually beef.
dapifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæpɪfə/
Forms: form: dapifers
Etymology: From Medieval Latin dapifer, from Latin daps (“feast”) + -fer (“bearer”).
Senses: glosses: The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
glosses: The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
glosses: The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
terefah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of course, one might say that since we are all mortal, life itself is a terminal illness! That would put us all in the category of terefah.
ref: 2003, Elliot N. Dorff, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
terephah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
Seriland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Seri + land.
Senses: examples: text: On entering Seriland, as the territory was spontaneously designated by different members of the expedition...
ref: 1896, W. J. McGee, Expedition to Papagueria and Seriland, in American Anthropologist, Vol. 9, No. 3
text: It is especially fortunate that Seriland should have been explored by an ethnologist eminently fitted to describe the physiographic features of that little-known region.
ref: 1901, Frank Russell, review of The Seri Indians, in The American Naturalist, Vol. 35, No. 418
text: Twenty years after the delivery of the Yaqui hands (1922) the senior author, under arrangement with the Museum of the American Indian in New York, carried out his first expedition into the heart of Seriland.
ref: 1945, Edward H. Davis & E. Yale Dawson, The Savage Seris of Sonora—II, in The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 60, No. 4
text: Few captives could survive the journey from the Sonoran settlements to Seriland—one of the world’s most difficult.
ref: 1962, Ronald L. Ives, The Legend of the “White Queen” of the Seri, in Western Folklore, Vol. 21, No. 3
glosses: An area of Sonora, Mexico traditionally inhabited by the Seri people.
braxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaksi/
Forms: form: braxies
Senses: synonyms: bradsot
glosses: An inflammatory disease of sheep.
examples: text: If they suffocated before they could be slaughtered, their meat was unfit for human consumption, though it found its way on to the market as ‘braxy’, in shops patronized only by the very poor.
ref: 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 457:
glosses: Meat from sheep that have died from this disease, or that have died from accident or disease in general.
braxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaksi/
Senses: glosses: Diseased with braxy.
Pythagoras' theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pythagorean theorem.
Seri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seri
form: Seris
Senses: examples: text: The Céres, like the Malay pirates of India, neither gave nor received quarter.
ref: 1829, R. W. H. Hardy, Travels in the Interior of Mexico:
glosses: A member of an indigenous group of Sonora, Mexico.
Derived terms: Seriland