cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweeping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Forms: form: more sweeping
form: most sweeping
Etymology: By surface analysis, sweep + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.
text: He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.
text: We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
text: By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
synonyms: word: across-the-board
word: wide-ranging
word: across-the-board
word: all around
word: all-embracing
word: all-encompassing
word: blanket
word: broad
word: comprehensive
word: exhaustive
word: overall
word: sweeping
word: thorough
word: catholic
word: ecumenical
word: general
word: generic
word: nonsingular
word: nonspecific
word: universal
word: unparticular
word: unsingular
word: unspecific
glosses: Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
examples: text: He claimed a sweeping victory.
glosses: Completely overwhelming.
coordinate_terms: ticking
glosses: Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweep + -s (pluralia tantum suffix).
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.
Derived terms: sweeps stunt
sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweep + -s (pluralia tantum suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of sweep
sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sweep + -s (pluralia tantum suffix).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sweep
preaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preach
preaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English prechynge.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preach
preaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: preachings
Etymology: From Middle English prechynge.
Senses: examples: text: And, as I know from what you have now found upon your own souls, since he came amongst you, while under the preachings and persuadings of such a singularly serious Gospel minister, you will be restlessly solicitous till he be settled[…]
ref: 1833, William Steven, The history of the Scottish church, Rotterdam, page 63:
glosses: The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction.
manifests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifest
manifests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manifest
perished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛɹɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perish
proceeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊsiːdz/
enpr: prōʹsēdz
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsidz/
enpr: prə-sēdzʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈsiːdz/
Senses: examples: text: They will donate all proceeds—the entire amount collected in ticket sales—from the show to charity.
glosses: Revenue; gross revenue.
examples: text: They will donate net proceeds—whatever money is left after they pay their expenses—from the show to charity.
glosses: Profit; net revenue.
proceeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊsiːdz/
enpr: prōʹsēdz
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsidz/
enpr: prə-sēdzʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈsiːdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proceed
perishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perishing
form: most perishing
Senses: glosses: Extremely cold.
examples: text: If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.
ref: 1946, Frank W. C. Rieck, Life as I See It, page 308:
text: A boulder ground into Joe's thigh and he yelled for what seemed an eternity in the perishing heat but, apart from a few bird calls, the horse's laboured breath was the only sound he heard.
ref: 2011, Mary Groves, An Outback Life, page 102:
glosses: Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
perishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perish
perishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perishings
Senses: examples: text: Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense.
ref: 1971, William Barrett, Henry David Aiken, Pragmatism and America's philosophical coming of age, page 323:
glosses: The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.
perishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perish
sunfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: sunfish
form: sunfishes
Etymology: * From sun + fish.
* (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
glosses: Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
Derived terms: longear sunfish
mud sunfish
ocean sunfish
sunfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: sunfishes
form: sunfishing
form: sunfished
form: sunfished
Etymology: * From sun + fish.
* (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.
Senses: glosses: Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.
mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊðz/
rhymes: -aʊðz
Senses: glosses: plural of mouth
mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊðz/
rhymes: -aʊðz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mouth
suspicions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈspɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of suspicion
parishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish
nurse shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nurse sharks
Etymology: See nurse, nusse, huss
Senses: glosses: Any of various bottom-dwelling sharks of the family Ginglymostomatidae that have two fleshy barbels hanging from the lower jaw.
glosses: Any small shark; a dogfish.
Derived terms: grey nurse shark
regiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of regiment
regiments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regiment
draws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔːz/
ipa: /dɹɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɑz
homophone: drawers (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: plural of draw
draws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔːz/
ipa: /dɹɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɑz
homophone: drawers (non-rhotic)
Senses: examples: text: He’d said, “Boss, that lady packed that man right up. She put his suits and shirts in wardrobe boxes, and then”—the man started laughing—“and then she went and stuffed all of old boy’s funky draws down in that box with all of his good clothes.” “Mookie, how did you know his draws were in the wardrobe boxes?” Mookie just looked at Charles like he was crazy, and then said, “Dawg, dawg. You know what your draws smell like when you take ’em off and drop ’em in the hamper, right?”
ref: 2009, Michele Andrea Bowen, Up at the College, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 116:
text: When them girls crowded around him, he looked like he was about to shit his draws!
ref: 2010, Cecil R. Cross II, Next Semester, New York, N.Y.: Kimani TRU, →ISBN, page 72:
text: “I finally asked him to choose, and he told me on her front porch in holey draws and a dingy wifebeater, he was in love with the other woman.”
ref: 2013, Sasha Campbell, Consequences, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: Synonym of drawers.
synonyms: word: drawers
draws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔːz/
ipa: /dɹɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɑz
homophone: drawers (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of draw
koi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: coy
Forms: form: koi
Etymology: From Japanese 鯉 (koi).
Senses: examples: text: We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.
ref: 1985 September 2, Joe Klein, quoting Douglas S. Cramer, “The Real Star of ‘Dynasty’”, in New York, page 34:
glosses: Ornamental domesticated varieties of the Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus), of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.
Synonyms: sense: Cyprinus rubrofuscus
word: koi carp
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: koi-koi
drawings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɔː(ɹ)ɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈdɹɔ.ɪŋz/
ipa: /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of drawing
regimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regiment
regimented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regiment
regimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regimented
form: most regimented
Senses: glosses: Organised, ordered, formed into regiments.
echoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkʹōd
ipa: /ˈɛkoʊd/
ipa: /ˈɛkəʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of echo
fulfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊlˈfɪld/
ipa: /fəˈfɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fulfill (US) or fulfil (UK)
fulfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊlˈfɪld/
ipa: /fəˈfɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
Forms: form: more fulfilled
form: most fulfilled
Senses: examples: text: emotionally fulfilled
text: fully fulfilled
text: personally fulfilled
text: She felt fulfilled in her new career as a teacher.
glosses: Emotionally satisfied; feeling a sense of fulfilment.
Derived terms: nonfulfilled
unfulfilled
swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: swingings
Etymology: The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]
ref: 1973, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331:
glosses: The act or motion of that which swings.
examples: text: Then one night in bed, Simon gently suggested swinging. I was resistant to it, but I thought Simon might leave me if I said no. I agreed to it for him, for our relationship.
ref: 2025 June 22, Olivia Ladanyi, “This is how we do it: ‘I discovered my bisexuality when my husband and I started swinging’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners, often in a group setting.
swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Etymology: The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swing
swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: more swinging
form: swinginger
form: most swinging
form: swingingest
Etymology: The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.
Senses: examples: text: 1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Didn't do anything great except saw "The Beatles" on The Ed Sullivan Show and Kathy practically had a bird. They are sorta cute but I think Ringo is swingin, George is cute, Paul is a good singer and John is icky. Too!
text: The party was swinging.
glosses: Fine, good, successful.
examples: text: Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.
ref: 2003 February 23, Bob Goldman, “Welcome To Splitsville”, in Florida Today:
glosses: Sexually promiscuous.
Derived terms: go down swinging
swinging-block
swinging boom
swinging bunt
swinging dick
swinging door
swinging-door chad
swinging post
swinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: more swinging
form: most swinging
Senses: examples: text: “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of swingeing.
subjected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səb-jĕktʹĭd
ipa: /səbˈd͡ʒɛktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subject
moray eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moray eels
Etymology: See moray.
Senses: synonyms: moray
glosses: Any of various brightly colored marine eels of the family Muraenidae, of warm coastal waters.
Derived terms: leopard moray eel
conger eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conger eels
form: conger-eel
Senses: glosses: Any of various large marine eels of the family Congridae, having no scales and found in temperate and tropical coastal waters.
glosses: An amphiuma (any salamander of genus Amphiuma).
subjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subject
varves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varve
varve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑːv/
note: US, rhotic
ipa: /vɑɹv/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: varves
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish varv (“layer”).
Senses: examples: text: A comparable method uses varves […] where spans of time can be measured through counting varves, and also by radiocarbon dating plant or animal residues within the varves.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 37:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
Derived terms: varved
Related terms: rhythmite
Sid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: A short form of the male given names Sidney and Siddhartha.
glosses: Alternative form of Syd (“unisex given name”).
glosses: A minor river in East Devon, England, which flows into the English Channel at Sidmouth.
holding company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding companies
Senses: topics: business
coordinate_terms: parent company
subsidiary
glosses: A company whose main purpose is to own shares of other companies, as opposed to producing goods or offering services.
Derived terms: bank holding company
public utility holding company
bimolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: involving two molecules
raw_tags: of a reaction
glosses: consisting of two layers of molecules
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to bimolecules
Derived terms: bimolecularity
bimolecularly
Related terms: molecular
unimolecular
trimolecular
unimolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: monomolecular
glosses: involving a single molecule
raw_tags: of a reaction
Related terms: bimolecular
molecular
trimolecular
monomolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: involving a single molecule
raw_tags: of a reaction
examples: text: Look at this. / Monomolecular edge. / Translation? Cool sword.
ref: 2019 September 13, Gearbox Software, quoting Zer0, Borderlands 3, scene: Meridian Metroplex, Promethea, level/area: Hostile Takeover:
glosses: consisting of a single layer of molecules
Derived terms: monomolecularly
nonmonomolecular
Related terms: molecular
bimolecular
trimolecular
trimolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Involving three molecules.
raw_tags: of a reaction
Related terms: molecular
unimolecular
bimolecular
molecular biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molbio
form: mbio
Senses: examples: Holonyms: biology, bioscience
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: biology
bioscience
glosses: The branch of biology that studies the macromolecules of life, such as proteins, lipoproteins and nucleic acids.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The branch of biology that studies the manipulation of genetic sequence of DNA.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The technology of gene manipulation.
Related terms: biotech
biotechnology
microbiologist
microbiology
molecular biologist
molecular biologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular biologists
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a scientist who specializes in molecular biology
molecular knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular knives
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: An enzyme capable of removing specific genes from a sequence of DNA, especially to disable the replication of a virus.
molecular medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: the branch of medicine that studies the manipulation of genes, and the subsequent effect on genetic diseases
molecular modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a number of techniques for studying molecules and their interaction; originally involved the building of physical models, but now uses computer simulation
grenadier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɛnəˈdɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grenadiers
Etymology: From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade + -ier.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.
Derived terms: giant grenadier
roundnose grenadier
gurnard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːnəd/
ipa: /ˈɡɚnɚd/
ipa: /ˈɡɵːnɘd/
Forms: form: gurnard
form: gurnards
form: gurnet
Etymology: From Middle English gurnard, from Old French gournart, from the verb gronir, from Latin grunnīre (“to grunt”). Compare French grondin (“gurnard”), which evolved in a similar way.
Senses: glosses: Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
glosses: Other fish with appearance like that of members of family Triglidae, such as certain of those in families Dactylopteridae, Peristediidae, and Scorpaenidae.
Synonyms: sense: fish of Triglidae
word: sea robin
Hyponyms: sense: fish of Triglidae
word: bluefin gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: tub gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: red gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: grey gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: scaly gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: eastern spiny gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: spotted gurnard
sense: fish of Triglidae
word: spiny red gurnard
Derived terms: taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lastoviza
word: African gurnard
taxonomic: Peristediidae spp.
word: armoured gurnard
taxonomic: Prionotus tribulus
word: big-headed gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys kumu
word: bluefin gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys capensis
word: Cape gurnard
taxonomic: Lepidotrigla pleuracanthica
word: eastern spiny gurnard
taxonomic: Dactylopteridae spp.
word: flying gurnard
word: gray gurnard
taxonomic: Eutrigla gurnardus
word: grey gurnard
taxonomic: Dactylopteridae spp.
word: helmet gurnard
taxonomic: Gargariscus prionocephalus
word: jaggedhead gurnard
taxonomic: Trigla obscura
word: lantern gurnard
word: longfin gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys obscurus
word: long-finned gurnard
taxonomic: Trigla lyra
word: lyre gurnard
taxonomic: Dactyloptena orientalis
word: oriental flying gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys kumu
word: Pacific red gurnard
taxonomic: Trigla lyra
word: piper gurnard
taxonomic: Dactyloptena orientalis
word: purple flying gurnard
taxonomic: Dactylopteridae spp.
word: plyling gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys cuculus
word: red gurnard
word: red gurnard perch
taxonomic: Helicolenus percoides
word: red gurnard scorpionfish
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lastoviza
word: rock gunard
taxonomic: Trigla hirundo
word: sapphire gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lucerna
word: sapphirine gurnard
taxonomic: Lepidotrigla brachyoptera
word: scaly gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys spp.
word: smallscaled gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys spinosus
word: spiny red gurnard
taxonomic: Pterygotrigla picta
word: spotted gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lastoviza
word: streaked gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lucerna
word: tub gurnard
taxonomic: Chelidonichthys lucerna
word: yellow gurnard
gudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌdʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌjən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: gudgeons
form: gudgeoning
form: gudgeoned
form: gudgeoned
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English gojoun [and other forms], from Old French gojon, goujon (“gudgeon”), from Late Latin gōbiōnem, the accusative of gōbiō, the augmentative of Latin gōbius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβῐός (kōbĭós, “fish of the gudgeon kind”), probably of Semitic origin. The English word is a doublet of goby and goujon.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I have seen when you were willing to tie his points or brush his cloak, or the like—and to be treated thus ungratefully—and gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you—
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: To deprive (someone) fraudulently; to cheat, to dupe.
glosses: To take the bait; to be defrauded or duped.
gudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌdʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈɡʌjən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: gudgeons
Etymology: From Middle English gojoun (“metal fitting with a ring at one end”) [and other forms], from Old French goujon (“dowel; pin”) [and other forms], from gouge (“gouge (tool)”) + -on (suffix forming diminutives). Gouge is derived from Late Latin gulbia, gubia (“chisel”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”).
Senses: examples: text: [A]s to a Wheel-barrow, I fancy'd I could make all but the Wheel; but that I had no Notion of, neither did I know how to go about it; beſides, I had no possible way to make the Iron Gudgeons for the Spindle or Axis of the Wheel to run in, ſo I gave it over; [...]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:
glosses: A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.
examples: text: This afternoon the gudgeon of the rudder belonging to the large cutter, was drawn out and ſtolen, without being perceived by the man that was ſtationed to take care of her.
ref: 1792, William Bligh, chapter VII, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 83:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: brace
glosses: In a vessel with a stern-mounted rudder: the fitting into which the pintle of the rudder fits, allowing the rudder to swing freely.
Derived terms: gudgeon pin
bullfrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlfɹɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
ipa: /ˈbʊlfɹɑɡ/
ipa: /ˈbʊlfɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ʊlfɹɒɡ
rhymes: -ʊlfɹɔːɡ
Forms: form: bullfrogs
form: bull frog
form: bull-frog
Etymology: From bull + frog.
Senses: examples: text: The bull-frogs were also very large, and with voices proportionate to their size[.]
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pyxicephalus adspersus
word: African bullfrog
alt: Lithobates catesbeianus or Rana catesbeiana
word: American bullfrog
taxonomic: Kaloula pulchra
word: banded bullfrog
taxonomic: Pyxicephalus obbianus
word: Calabresi's bullfrog
taxonomic: Hoplobatrachus occipitalis
word: crowned bullfrog
taxonomic: Hoplobatrachus rugulosus
word: east Asian bullfrog
taxonomic: Pyxicephalus edulis
word: edible bullfrog
taxonomic: Limnodynastes interioris
word: giant bullfrog
taxonomic: Euphlyctis hexadactylus
word: Indian bullfrog
taxonomic: Hoplobatrachus tigerinus
word: Indus Valley bullfrog
taxonomic: Lithobates catesbeianus
word: North American bullfrog
english: Leptodactylus
translation: Leptodactylus
word: South American bullfrog
dodder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒdə/
ipa: /ˈdɑdɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dodders
form: doddering
form: doddered
form: doddered
Etymology: From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Senses: examples: text: Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432:
text: Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pages 59–60:
glosses: To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
Derived terms: word: doddard
word: dodderer
word: doddering
word: doddery
dodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒdə/
ipa: /ˈdɑdɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dodders
Etymology: From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with Middle Low German doder, West Flemish dodder.
Senses: glosses: Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
Synonyms: angel hair
devil's guts
devil's hair
devil's ringlet
goldthread
hailweed
hairweed
hellbine
love vine
pull-down
strangleweed
witch's hair
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cuscuta cephalanthi
word: buttonbush dodder
alt: Cuscuta suaveolens or Cuscuta racemosa var. chileana
word: Chilean dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta epithymum
word: clover dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta gronovii
word: common dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta compacta
word: compact dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta cuspidata
word: cusp dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta europaea
word: European dodder
alt: Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta pentagona
word: field dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta epilinum
word: flax dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta campestris
word: golden dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta europaea
word: greater dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta coryli
word: hazel dodder
word: large-seeded alfalfa dodder )Cuscuta campestris
word: Cuscuta approximata)
taxonomic: Cassytha spp.
word: laurel dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta epithymum
word: lesser dodder
taxonomic: Camelina sativa
word: linseed dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta indecora
word: little-seed alfalfa dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta glomerata
word: rope dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta indecora
word: small-seeded alfalfa dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta polygonorum
word: smartweed dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta gronovii
word: swamp dodder
taxonomic: Cuscuta epithymum
word: thyme dodder
nankeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nankeens
Etymology: Eye spelling of Nanking, itself a romanization of Chinese 南京 (Nánjīng, literally “Southern capital”).
Senses: examples: 1885, L. and A. Maude (translators), Leo Tolstoy, "What Men Live By", in What Men Live By and Other Tales
He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat.
c. 1910-1920, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Seltzer (translator), A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated.
glosses: A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Falco cenchroides
word: nankeen kestrel
taxonomic: Nycticorax caledonicus
alt: also nankeen bird, nankeen crane, nankeen heron
word: nankeen night heron
passe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passe
form: most passe
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of passé.
passe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes
form: passing
form: passed
form: passed
Senses: examples: text: Though, quoth I, it was his good fortune, to send from his Schole, vnto the Vniuersitie, one of the best Scholers in deede of all our time, yet wise men do thinke, that that came so to passe, rather, by the great towardnes of the Scholer, than by the great beating of the Master...
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pass.
Related terms: passe garde
passe-dix
borsht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borshts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of borscht.
dawning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɑːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: dawnings
form: daunyng
Etymology: From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”).
Senses: examples: text: Anone after cam the knyght with the two ſwerdes and balan his broder ⸝ and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym ⸝ & ſoo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day ⸝[…]
ref: [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book II (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 43, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 86, lines 6–10:
english: Anon [i.e., soon] after came the knight with the two swords and Balan his brother, and brought with them King Ryons of North Wales and there delivered him to the porters and charged them with him, and so they returned again in the dawning of the day, […]
translation: Anon [i.e., soon] after came the knight with the two swords and Balan his brother, and brought with them King Ryons of North Wales and there delivered him to the porters and charged them with him, and so they returned again in the dawning of the day, […]
bold_translation_offsets: 231
238
text: […] he arose to make an excursion to the top of Arthur's Seat, to breathe the breeze of the dawning, and see the sun arise out of the eastern ocean.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 32:
text: The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning’s cold grey air; […]
ref: 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part I, stanza 1, page 3:
text: He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon; / And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon, / When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, / A red-coat troop came marching— / Marching—marching— / King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza I, pages 48–49:
text: "The bird of dawning singeth all night long."
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 27:
glosses: Dawn.
glosses: The first beginnings of something.
dawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɑːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ
Forms: form: daunyng
Etymology: From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dawn
Derived terms: undawning
dawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
Etymology: From daw + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daw
dawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: dawings
Etymology: From daw + -ing.
Senses: qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
glosses: Dawn, daybreak.
Related terms: dawning
daw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔː/
ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: DAW
homophone: d'aw
homophone: door (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: daws
Etymology: From Middle English dawe, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhwā. Cognate with German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach.
Senses: examples: text: The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws
 The whole assembly of his fellow daws.
ref: a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew:
text: […] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
examples: text: Therefore to make complaynt
Of such mysadvysed
Parsons and dysgysed,
Thys boke we have devysed, […]
No good preest to offend,
But suche dawes to amend, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
text: A kind of choughs, Or thievish daws, sir, that have pick'd my purse Of eight score and ten pounds within these five weeks
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: ‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003:
glosses: An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
Synonyms: alt: Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw
word: jackdaw
Derived terms: dawish
daw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔː/
ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: DAW
homophone: d'aw
homophone: door (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: daws
form: dawing
form: dawed
form: dawed
Etymology: From Middle English dawen, from Old English dagian (“to dawn”), from Proto-West Germanic *dagēn, from Proto-Germanic *dagāną (“to become day, dawn”), from *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). More at day, dawn.
Senses: qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
glosses: To dawn.
examples: text: ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo
 she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune
 and thenne syr Bors took her vp
 and dawed her
 & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes
 and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym
And when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, and dawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 10, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
glosses: To wake (someone) up.
glosses: To daunt; to terrify.
Derived terms: adaw
bedaw
net minder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net minders
form: net-minder
form: netminder
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: goalkeeper, player whose role it is to defend the goal
south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south-wests
Senses: examples: text: In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu.
ref: 1901, “Native Account of the Situation”, in The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China, 2nd edition, Shanghai Mercury, Ltd., →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more south-west
form: most south-west
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more south-west
form: most south-west
Senses: examples: text: Little detailed information is available on the series of violent shocks which occurred in Hopeh province, north-eastern China, in March 1966. The earthquake of 7 March (No. 184), whose epicentre was located in the region of Hsing-t’ai, about 400 km south-west of Pekin, probably caused extensive damage since the magnitude was 7 and the focus shallow.
ref: 1970, “Earthquakes”, in Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966, Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
sudden death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudden deaths
Senses: glosses: Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sudden victory
glosses: A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.
examples: text: An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]
ref: 1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330:
text: Our next dish is one which has shown no signs of scarcity since we reached India, — the ever present chicken, or “sudden death,” as it is called here, from the Anglo-Indian custom of cooking a fowl that has been running about the garden half an hour before.
ref: 1892, Mary Thorn Carpenter, A Girl's Winter in India, page 209:
glosses: A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sudden, death.
Related terms: sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
sudden death syndrome
sudden unexpected death syndrome
sudden unexplained death syndrome
Yunnan sudden death syndrome
golden goal
Jesse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/
homophone: Jessie
homophone: Jessi
Forms: form: Jesses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
Senses: examples: text: Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
ref: 1 Samuel 17:12
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The son of Obed and the father of king David.
examples: text: Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.
ref: 1882, Jesse James (folk song)
text: On a Friday morning in April, Fox News talk host Jesse Watters walked onstage to a room stuffed with hundreds of insurance executives and agents. Watters was the featured speaker at a breakfast for the Big “I” Legislative Conference, the signature annual event hosted by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, where he was invited to participate in an interview with the organization’s retiring president, Bob Rusbuldt.
ref: 2023 June 28, Oliver Darcy, “Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an ‘epic meltdown’”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
examples: text: We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to become Jesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.
The teacher waved my paper in the air. "I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is," she said. "Who is this Jesse?" She spelled the name out loud. "That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy named Jesse?"
ref: 1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Jessie.
Related terms: word: Jess
word: Jessie
english: to scold or beat
translation: to scold or beat
word: give someone Jesse
word: Jesse window
Jesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/
homophone: Jessie
homophone: Jessi
Forms: form: Jesses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
paunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːnt͡ʃ/
note: some accents
ipa: /pɑːntʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːntʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: paunches
Etymology: From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex.
Senses: glosses: The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
glosses: The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
examples: text: Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.
text: “And another sort of weak, flailing blow to the paunch. Neither of these two are in any condition to be fighting.”
ref: 2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (10:28 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Ringmaster (Nick Corirossi):
glosses: The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A paunch mat.
glosses: The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
Synonyms: word: bay window
word: beer baby
word: beer belly
word: beer gut
word: beer muscles
word: Buddha belly
word: corporation
word: German goitre
word: gorbelly
word: Milwaukee goiter
word: Molson muscle
word: paunch
word: pot
word: potbelly
word: spare tire
word: swagbelly
word: tummy
Hypernyms: word: belly
Hyponyms: word: middle-age spread
Derived terms: air one's paunch
paunched
paunchful
paunchless
paunchy
unpaunch
Related terms: word: paunce
word: obese
paunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːnt͡ʃ/
note: some accents
ipa: /pɑːntʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːntʃ
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: paunches
form: paunching
form: paunched
form: paunched
Etymology: From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex.
Senses: examples: text: (Caliban)
Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him
I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him,
Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
agen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: əgĕn
Etymology: Variant of again.
Senses: examples: 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night
O, how I long to be agen
That poor and independent man,
With labour's lot from morn to night
And books to read at candle light;
glosses: Obsolete spelling of again.
agen
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: əgĕn
Etymology: Variant of again.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Dibble was resentful and peevish at having been trounced into employing old Peter. "You ought to pay that yourself, having took him on agen my wishes."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 67:
glosses: Alternative spelling of again: against.