cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zambuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zambuks
Senses: examples: text: “C’mon ‘Zambuk,’ what’s keeping yer!” the old-time football crowds would yell when one over-eager barracker k.o.’d an opposition supporter. Spencer Middlemiss sat back in a chair at his Mascot home last week, and, surrounded by a pile of certificates, photographs and cuttings, proudly confessed that he was one of the original “Zambuks.”
ref: 1957 April 14, David Burke, “He slept in a police cell: Oldest ambulance man looks back”, in The Sun-Herald, 2nd edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, columns 1–2:
text: The Hospitaller's Clubs, who work for the Hospital of St. John, an op[h]thalmic hospital in Jerusalem, and the St. John Ambulance Brigade, they're the voluntary uniform body, the Zambuks on the football field and the women in white who look after fainting people in big crowds …
ref: 1966 March 17, Marjorie Higgins, quotee, “And how is your first aid? Do you know what to do until the doctor comes?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, late edition, number 40,013, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, Women’s Section, page 8:
text: ‘You’re still bleeding from that wound on the head. Tiger’ll put a dressing on it.’ / ‘Aw, call the Zambuck,’ he protested. / […] / ‘Zambuck’s the first aid man at the footy—you know, St John’s Ambulance. They’re called that ’cause of the ointment they carry.’
ref: 2007, Michael O’Sullivan, “Another Sunday Morning”, in Easter at Tobruk, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: ReadHowYouWant, published 2008, →ISBN, part 2, page 59:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of zambuk.
noon-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noon-flowers
Senses: examples: text: The thick-leaved noon-flower that swings from chalk cliffs and creek banks in the auriferous country is a delectable salad.
ref: 1891 December 19, The Argus, page 4, column 2:
text: […] australe, Rounded Noon-flower (or Rounded Pigface), are clearly shown in Pl. 175. […] Noonflowers grow well in rockeries, especially close to the sea
ref: 1973, Gordon Ross Cochrane, Flowers and Plants of Victoria, page 182:
text: The superficially similar mostly coastal native Disphyma crassifolia (L.) L. Bolus, Rounded Noon Flower, differs in having a dehiscent capsular fruit.
ref: 1995, Roger Spencer, Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia: Flowering Plants, page 186:
text: Species name: Disphyma crassifolium subspecies clavellatum Noon-flower is an Australian native plant that is succulent. A. Pretty much every part of Noon-flower is edible.
ref: 2021, Catherine Clowes, Rachel Gyan, Plantastic!: A to Z of Australian Plants, page 34:
glosses: Disphyma crassifolium subsp. clavellatum
Rossall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and ward in Fleetwood parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3145).
van der Vegte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: vander Vegte
form: Vandervegte
Etymology: From the Vecht in the Netherlands.
Senses: glosses: A Dutch surname
planorboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planorboid
form: most planorboid
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Flat and orb-like.
Reekwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reekwick
Etymology: Calque from Old Norse or Icelandic Reykjavík, from reykr (“smoke”) + vík (“bay”).
Senses: examples: text: A hater of town life, especially in such a town as Reekwich, and provided already with mounts, I quickly concluded terms with a promising young scholar from the Latin school, hight Geir Zoega (Jun.), for det benefit of his company on a scamper round to Hekla and the Geysir.
ref: 1879, Charles George Warnford Lock, Clement Le Neve Foster, chapter IV, in The home of the Eddas, page 58:
glosses: The capital city of Iceland. Official name: Reykjavík.
thrombopathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
science
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A heritable dog blood clotting disorder with results in bleeding noses and gums.
Fitzwilliamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fitzwilliamites
Etymology: From Fitzwilliam + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: There are Canningites, and Burdettites, and Fitzwilliamites, who tell us that Protestantism and Roman Catholicism absolutely mean the same thing; or, that the things, by dint of looking tenderly upon each other, have grown into perfect likenesses.
ref: 1826, Edward Augustus Kendall, Letters to a Friend, page 856:
text: So Perrott's Irish friends learned that the Fitzwilliamites were formulating a charge against Perrott, with O'Rouane for chief witness.
ref: 1908, Standish O'Grady, The Flight of the Eagle, page 114:
text: Finally, Carey's own suffragan in Canterbury, the Bishop of Dover, Richard Llewellin, is a Fitzwilliamite and was ordained at Westcott House, the very seminary where Robert Runcie and John Habgood were once principals.
ref: 1994, Walter Ellis, The Oxbridge Conspiracy, page 315:
glosses: A supporter of whig leader William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, especially his views on the need for parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation.
Cerises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cerise
Roths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Roth
flambéd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flambé
flambed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flambe
cca.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of circa.
intramarginally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Within the margin.
no hat, no play
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Osteoporosis Australia is calling for the 'no hat, no play' policy in school playgrounds to be reassessed in the ACT and Tasmania, because children are not getting enough sunlight.
ref: 2006 April 26, “'No hat, no play' rethink urged”, in ABC News:
glosses: A school policy requiring students to wear a hat in order to be outdoors during recess and lunchtime.
Derived terms: no jab, no play
Lumbini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali लुम्बिनी (lumbinī).
Senses: glosses: A city in Nepal.
glosses: A province of Nepal.
otherlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more otherlandish
form: most otherlandish
Etymology: From other + land + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to other lands; foreign, nondomestic.
topics: fantasy
glosses: otherworldly or outlandish.
Kiriri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cariri
form: Kariri
Etymology: From Portuguese Cariri.
Senses: examples: text: We believe this is the first Kiriri Indian to be in glory with Jesus.
ref: 1979, The Southern Cross, volumes 16-18, page 19:
text: The Cariris fought hand-to-hand with the invaders, and their women leapt upon them too […].
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 433:
glosses: A member of an indigenous people of eastern Brazil.
cruciger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin [Term?], see globus cruciger.
Senses: examples: text: Æ 19.8 Full-faced bust of emp., with diadem surmounted by a cross and wearing cuirass; holding in r. hand a globe cruciger and on 1. arm a shield.
ref: 1880, Yale University, Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Coins in the Numismatic Collection of Yale College, page 203:
text: Crowned and cuir. bust of king r., holding cruciger sceptre, crown inlaid with gold.
ref: 1968, Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin:
text: It was applied now to the scepter cruciger which, ultimately, replaced it, although a period of overlap may well have occurred.
ref: 1992, Alfred Raymond Bellinger, Anastasius I to Maurice : 491-602, Dumbarton Oaks, →ISBN, page 170:
text: ... the specimens furnish a certain terminus post quem for the reign of Meḥadeyos placing it much later than 420 when the iconography of the Victory with a cruciger sceptre was used for the first time on the 'solidi' of Teodosius II.
ref: 2003, Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies:
glosses: Bearing a cross, in the manner of a globus cruciger; crucigerous.
sarcelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: recercelée
form: cercelée
form: sarcele
form: recercelé
form: cercelé
form: cercellé
form: cercellée
form: recercellé
form: recercellée
form: sarcellée
form: cercelly
form: sarcelé
form: sarcelée
form: sarcelie
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman cercelé, recercelé ("curly, curled"), from Old French cercelé (compare cerceau (“hoop”)). Attested since at least 1500.
Senses: examples: text: […] ar. a bend, sarcelly, gu. betw. eight couped, ar. attired or. crosses, formée, sa.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Arms:
text: Az. billetty and a cross sarcelly arg. John MORYS, Y. Az. a cross sarcelly pierced arg. MELTON, Aston, co. York. […] Az. a cross anchory or. BEAURAIN. […] Vert a cross sarcelly indented az. betw. three crosses croslet fitchy or. EYMORE.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, pages 609, 638:
text: Ermine, a cross sarcelly sable - GODARD, Chester.
Azure, crusilly a cross sarcelly disjoined or - KNOWLES, Earl of Banbury, ob. 1632. Argent, crusily gules a cross sarcelly sable - RALEIGH.
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 178:
text: Gules, a cross sarcelly ermine.
ref: 1897, W. K. R. Bedford, Blazon Episc. (ed. 2) 217
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around both ways, either like or else more pronounced than moline or anchory/ancré.
raw_tags: of a cross
recercelée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Azure, a cross recercelée and voided or; a baton gules ....... Sire William de Basinges.
ref: 1828, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights in the Reign of Edward the Second, page 163:
text: Gu., a Cross recercelée erm., […]
ref: 1867, Charles Boutell, English Heraldry, page 56:
text: The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline in having them pointed.
ref: 1894, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 620:
text: The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline […] The cross recercelée is usually also voided. […] Basing, temp. Edward III.: azure, a cross recercelée and voided or.
ref: 1898, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature: New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors. With New American Supplement, page 696:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of sarcelly.
synonyms: word: sarcelly
cercelée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A Cross Moline; many of our Countrymen are out about this Cross, which they Confound with the Cross cercelée, whereas it shou'd be always square pierced, it being a Milrind dispos'd in Cross. The Book of St. Albans hath Crucem[…]
ref: 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry, page 22:
text: “De Bares,” gules, a cross, cercelée, or; 3. “De Bar,” azure, two barbels addorsed, or. Below these are drawn the standards of the Hospitallers and Templars reversed, viz., “Vexillum Hospitalis,” gules, a cross[…]
ref: 1866, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages, page 433:
text: […] azure, a lion rampant gules, impaling or a cross cercelée sable, both dimidiated.
ref: 1882, Matthew Paris, Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora, page 470:
text: A shield of arms : a cross cercelée, WILLOUGHBY.
ref: 1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 692:
text: In pavement of porch an abbot's stone bearing 2 shields (1) a cross cercelée; (2) a lion rampant.
ref: 1914, Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of sarcelly.
K-rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-rats
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of K-ration.
glosses: Abbreviation of kangaroo rat.
Synonyms: sense: K-ration
word: Keys ration
Coordinate terms: sense: K-ration
word: canned rations
sense: K-ration
word: combat rations
sense: K-ration
word: C-rat
sense: K-ration
word: field rations
sense: K-ration
word: IMP
sense: K-ration
word: MCI
sense: K-ration
word: MRE
sense: K-ration
word: rations
thin the herd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thins the herd
form: thinning the herd
form: thinned the herd
form: thinned the herd
Senses: examples: text: Early on, if we came into a pot we came in for about three times the big blind because we generally wanted to thin the herd. Now we don't have to worry about that so much, for the herd will thin itself. It's smaller to begin with, since three or four players are gone, plus we're starting to get within sniffing distance of the money, so our foes will naturally start to tighten up.
ref: 2006, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online/2: Advanced Strategies For Crushing The Internet Game, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:
text: “If we have a chance, catch one of them out alone, we'll take it, thin the herd a little.” Harv snorted. “Herd? A cripple, a woman, and a coward. No herd to thin there. I'd like to keep that woman alive for a while, though.
ref: 2010, Mary Connealy, The Wildflower Bride, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN, page 291:
text: Unless China could successfully neutralise Taiwan's ability to 'thin the herd' by taking out its air bases, its fixed and mobile land-based missile launchers (such as RBS-17 coastal-defence missiles mounted on trucks), its missile-armed Apache helicopters and its swarming fast-attack ships, its invasion will be in trouble.
ref: 2018, A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman, US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint, Routledge, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: to cull, to reduce the size of a group
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, the, herd.
pub quiz question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub quiz questions
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: A question asked in a pub quiz.
examples: 2022, Oct 14. John Crace, writing about Kwasi Kwarteng in The Guardian
Destined to become a pub quiz question as the shortest-serving chancellor who didn’t die in office.
glosses: A well-known person or event that is doomed to become insignificant soon due to current events. Derived from the longer phrase "answer to a pub quiz question".
Synonyms: trivia question
pub quiz questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pub quiz question
Whalley Range
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of the City of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8295).
glosses: An urban area and named street in Blackburn, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6828).
bathyteuthoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathyteuthoid
bathyteuthoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathyteuthoids
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the Bathyteuthoidea superfamily of squid.
ceaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceasers
Etymology: From cease + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ceases; one who stops.
ceasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceaser
Tomteboda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in northern Stockholm, Sweden.
hard market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard markets
Senses: examples: text: Property-liability insurance markets have been characterized historically by “soft” markets, in which prices are stable or falling and coverage is readily available, followed by “hard” markets, in which prices rise rapidly and availability declines.
ref: 2000, Scott Harrington, Patricia Danzon, “The Economics of Liability Insurance”, in Georges Dionne, editor, Handbook of Insurance, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 296:
text: A possible explanation for this difference is that under the variations-from-bureau rates-without-prior-approval regime, the regulatory agency continues to hold rates down during a hard market but allows the insurer to increase rates relative to pure administered pricing during the soft phase of the cycle.
ref: 2001, Terry Thomason; Timothy P. Schmidle; John F. Burton, Jr., chapter 7, in Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, page 216:
text: Insurers are reluctant to pay out retained earnings during soft markets because of the difficulty of raising capital again when the market enters the next hard market phase, leading to excess capcaity and downward pressure on prices.
ref: 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, “Appendix 8: Review of the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market”, in Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention, The World Bank, →DOI, →ISBN, page 195:
topics: business
insurance
coordinate_terms: soft market
glosses: An economic environment in which insurers raise their prices.
hard markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard market
Schabziger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sapsago (“type of Swiss cheese”).
synonyms: word: Sapsago
extra: type of Swiss cheese
soft market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft markets
Senses: examples: text: Property-liability insurance markets have been characterized historically by “soft” markets, in which prices are stable or falling and coverage is readily available, followed by “hard” markets, in which prices rise rapidly and availability declines.
ref: 2000, Scott Harrington, Patricia Danzon, “The Economics of Liability Insurance”, in Georges Dionne, editor, Handbook of Insurance, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 296:
text: Insurers are reluctant to pay out retained earnings during soft markets because of the difficulty of raising capital again when the market enters the next hard market phase, leading to excess capcaity and downward pressure on prices.
ref: 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, “Appendix 8: Review of the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market”, in Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention, The World Bank, →DOI, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Underwriters who had already submitted their quotes at soft market prices wondered if it would be necessary to abide by those low quotes.
ref: 2015, Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, Paul Spee, “Chapter 2: United We Stand, Divded We Fall: Bearing Risk Collectively”, in Making a Market for Acts of God: The pratice of risk-trading in the global reinsurance industry, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 28:
topics: business
insurance
coordinate_terms: hard market
glosses: An economic environment in which insurers lower their prices.
soft markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft market
Storstrømmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish stor + strøm.
Senses: glosses: A strait between Zealand and Falster, Denmark.
what's not to love
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: what's not to like
glosses: Used to show that the speaker loves someone or something very much and cannot imagine why anyone would think or feel otherwise.
nip-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nip-up
risquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of risque
risqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of risque
fry jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fry jacks
Senses: glosses: A deep-fried dough piece, part of traditional Belizean cuisine.
fry jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fry jack
consultational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From consultation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to consultation.
cyberclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberclinics
Etymology: From cyber- + clinic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of teleclinic.
synonyms: word: teleclinic
cyberclinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberclinic
mano cornuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sign of the horns.
synonyms: word: sign of the horns
HAWB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HAWBs
Senses: topics: business
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of house airwaybill.
Related terms: AWB
HAWBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HAWB
hauberked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hauberk + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a hauberk.
isabel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To make a lively Isabel colour, you must to a quantity of white, add one half of yellow, and two-thirds of red and yellow.
ref: 1814, The Artist's Companion, and Manufacturer's Guide, page 49:
glosses: Synonym of isabella.
synonyms: word: isabella
over-kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-kingdoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overkingdom.
over-kingdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of over-kingdom
mum jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mom jeans.
tawning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tawn
tawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tawn
favellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favella
KVL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: KCL
glosses: Initialism of Kirchhoff's voltage law.
hits different
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit different
hitting different
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit different
nomady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomadies
Senses: glosses: A nomad.
examples: text: Agents had come to her from every capital in Europe, and, for a year, she ranged, in triumphal nomady, from one capital to another.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: The state of being a nomad.
nomadies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomady
outwinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outwind
overgrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: overgrazing
glosses: Excessive grazing by livestock.
undergraze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undergrazes
form: undergrazing
form: undergrazed
form: undergrazed
Etymology: From under- + graze.
Senses: antonyms: overgraze
glosses: To allow livestock to graze on land to a lesser extent than normal or possible.
undergrazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergraze
undergrazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undergraze
olpae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olpe
Benedictin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benedictins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Benedictine (“monk or nun of Saint Benedict's order”).
Benedictin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This obital book which I have in my little library, was written by a Benedictin monk of Doway, named Tho. White alias Woodhop […]
ref: 1815, Anthony à Wood, Philip Bliss, Athenæ Oxonienses, page 357:
glosses: Obsolete form of Benedictine (“monk or nun of Saint Benedict's order”).
Benedictins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benedictin
obital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This obital book which I have in my little library, was written by a Benedictin monk of Doway, named Tho. White alias Woodhop […]
ref: 1815, Anthony à Wood, Philip Bliss, Athenæ Oxonienses, page 357:
glosses: Of or relating to an obit.
Tho.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This obital book which I have in my little library, was written by a Benedictin monk of Doway, named Tho. White alias Woodhop […]
ref: 1815, Anthony à Wood, Philip Bliss, Athenæ Oxonienses, page 357:
glosses: Abbreviation of Thomas.
sweat bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweats bricks
form: sweating bricks
form: sweated bricks
form: sweated bricks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sweat bullets (“to sweat profusely”).
synonyms: word: sweat bullets
extra: to sweat profusely
Black Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of hills spread across Powys and Monmouthshire in Wales, and extending into Herefordshire in England.
glosses: A number of mountain ranges in the United States: in north-west Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina and Utah.
Related terms: Blue Mountains
Green Mountains
wind of a ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The condition where a round shot causes internal injury or concussion as it passes, without actually striking the victim.
acustimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acustimulation
hafis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hafises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hafiz.
hafises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hafis
acute abdos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acute abdo
Hariana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haryana (“Indian state”).
Hariana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harianas
Senses: glosses: A cow of a breed native to North India, especially the state of Haryana.
Harianas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hariana
Bangru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Haryanvi (“a Hindi language”).
synonyms: word: Haryanvi
extra: a Hindi language
ouricuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouricuris
form: aricuri
form: licuri
form: ouricury
Senses: examples: text: The Brazilian export prohibition on ouricuri oil has been relaxed to permit its exportation from the State of Bahia […].
ref: 1947, Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume 28, page 16:
text: Here and there he comes across knots of soldiers with their blouses unbuttoned, but he does not spy a single townsman as he makes his way to the main square, with towering ouricuri palms that are always swarming with birds.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 447:
text: He began by expounding in detail on Remédios Plaza, with its small white chapel, the benches around it, the numerous ouricury palms, the many flags, skyrockets, and ringing of bells.
ref: 1990, Aluísio Azevedo, translated by Murray Graeme MacNicoll, Mulatto, page 94:
glosses: A species of palm tree, Syagrus coronata, endemic to eastern Brazil.
headstay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headstays
Etymology: From head + stay.
Senses: examples: text: The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.
ref: 1982 January, Jerry Cartwright, “Cruising Seamanship”, in Motorboating & Sailing, volume 149, number 2, page 23:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of forestay.
synonyms: word: forestay
headstays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headstay
Genoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Genoa
holandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being holandric.
Gibson ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gibson rings
Etymology: After its inventor, J. Gibson of the British Great Western Railway.
Senses: examples: text: The tyres of the five pairs of coupled wheels are secured to the cast-steel centres by Gibson rings.
ref: 1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A retaining ring used to fit a steel tire/tyre to the wheel of rolling stock.
Gibson rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gibson ring
Parmigiano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parmigianos
Senses: examples: text: I can only say what happened when I pressed my face to a wheel of ten-year Parmigiano, how in a burst of grass and ripe pineapple I stood in some green meadow that existed only in the resonance, like a bell’s fading peal, of that aroma.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 18:
glosses: Synonym of Parmigiano-Reggiano (“parmesan cheese”).
synonyms: word: Parmigiano-Reggiano
extra: parmesan cheese
paroicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paroecious.
Pelagians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pelagian
pericopae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pericope
foyboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foyboats
form: foy boat
Etymology: Perhaps related to fee; the second element is boat.
Senses: glosses: A small workboat primarily used to assist the mooring and servicing of a larger vessel, especially on the rivers of north-east England.
Derived terms: foyboatman
foyboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foyboat
foyboatman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foyboatmen
Senses: glosses: The operator of a foyboat.
foyboatmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foyboatman
petrogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrograms
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: petroglyph
glosses: A painting on rock, especially one made in prehistoric times.
petrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrogram
phonogramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phonogrammic.
phonogrammic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to phonograms.
acylimmoniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylimmonium
phaseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a phase.
acylomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acylome
adamantanyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantanyl
adamantylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamantylamide
tarmacky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tarmacky
form: most tarmacky
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tarmac.
broadside on
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The ship swung broadside on to the current of the river.
text: The rain had ceased now, but the wind was higher than ever, and once we were out of the shelter of Flax Bourton cutting we caught the full force of it broadside-on, straight off the Severn Sea.
ref: 1945 September and October, O. S. Nock, “Wartime Locomotive Working on the G.W.R.—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 258:
glosses: sideways on.
Orkhons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orkhon
dataller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datallers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dataler.
flowerpiercer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerpiercers
Etymology: From flower + piercer.
Senses: glosses: Any of the tropical birds in the genus Diglossa, found in Central and South America.
datallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dataller
flowerpiercers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerpiercer
tumbrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumbrills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tumbril.
tumbrills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumbrill
bedraperied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of draperied.
synonyms: word: draperied
triphyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + phyletic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to three phylums.
diphyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + phyletic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to two phylums.
dimout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimouts
Etymology: Deverbal from dim out.
Senses: synonyms: brownout
coordinate_terms: blackout
glosses: A (scheduled or accidental) general reduction in electrical power, like a blackout but less severe.
dimouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimout
blackouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackout
blackouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackout
superhacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhackers
Etymology: From super- + hacker.
Senses: glosses: An extreme hacker.
dermoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermoid
demipique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demipiques
Senses: glosses: A kind of military saddle.
demipiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demipique
dhoora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durra.
dibbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dibs (“the right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else”).
turumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turuma
turuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turumas
Etymology: From Finnish Turunmaa.
Senses: glosses: A Swedish warship from the 18th century designed for use in the archipelago fleet.
click into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clicks into gear
form: clicking into gear
form: clicked into gear
form: clicked into gear
Senses: synonyms: get into gear
glosses: To start to perform effectively or to progress
Hulme End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Fawfieldhead parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1059).
Fawfieldhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0763).
gonocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonocysts
Etymology: From gono- + cyst.
Senses: examples: text: The spermatogonia continue to reside in the gonocyst and form spermatocyte, which begins to increase in size.
ref: 2013, Rabindra N. Chatterjee, Lucas Sanchez, Genome Analysis in Eukaryotes, page 71:
glosses: A membrane around the spermatogonia in the male gonads.
examples: text: Ovicell in the form of a pyramidal hemispherical sac ( gonocyst ) with a terminal oeciostome, formed on the coalesced distal cells, Axis of the ovicell parallel to the axis of the cells.
ref: 1972, I͡Uriĭ Aleksandrovich Orlov, Fundamentals of Paleontology: Bryozoa, page 76:
glosses: An expansion of the zoarium in which multiple embryos develop.
Shapiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shapiro
coutilier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coutiliers
Senses: glosses: A title of a low-ranking professional soldier in medieval French armies.
coutiliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coutilier
gynopara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynoparae
Senses: examples: text: Field experience has shown that the arrival of a single gynopara (and one or more males) is sufficient to produce a severe infestation over the entire tree the following spring.
ref: 1900, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Volume 2081, page 196:
text: And in the absence of evidence to the contrary, one must conclude that the gynopara constitutes a distinct form in these species.
ref: 1966, Advances in Insect Physiology, page 213:
text: Sex allocation by dimorphic host-alternating species, however, can best be described as sequential hermaphroditism: gynoparae are produced before males (Figure 5.5; Dixon and Glen, 1971).
ref: 2012, A.F.G. Dixon, Aphid Ecology: An optimization approach, page 94:
glosses: A viviparous female aphid that is born in the autumn on a secondary host, then flies to the primary host where she produces new females that mate and deposit eggs.
marry the ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marries the ketchup
form: marrying the ketchup
form: married the ketchup
form: married the ketchup
form: marry the ketchups
Senses: glosses: To combine ketchup from half-empty bottles in a restaurant, in order to reduce the number of bottles.
marries the ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marry the ketchup
marrying the ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marry the ketchup
married the ketchup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marry the ketchup
Beloved Disciple
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beloved Disciple
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin discipulus dīlēctus, applied as an epithet of John the Evangelist. The term is a summary of the expressions found in the Gospel itself, such as ὁ μαθητὴς ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς (ho mathētḕs hòn ēgápa ho Iēsoûs, “the disciple whom Jesus loved”).
Senses: examples: text: And the beloved''' Disciple fell down as dead at the appearance of Christ in his Glory.
ref: 1674, William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes […], page 90:
text: The idea of the almost immediate return of Christ to judgment still so far retains its force that the Beloved Disciple is represented as probably living to see it […]
ref: 1872, Thomas Scott, The English Life of Jesus, page 328:
text: The question of the identification of the Beloved Disciple and that of the discovery of the author of the Gospel are not necessarily identical, for it is quite possible to argue, as we found Schmiedel doing just now, that the two were separate and distinct persons.
ref: 1949, Harold Holloway, The Twilight of the Critics: Being Studies and Reflections on the Fourth Gospel, page 76:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A figure in the Gospel of John whose identity is left implicit within the text; traditionally, John the Evangelist himself.
unit gyrovector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit gyrovectors
Senses: glosses: A gyrovector divided by its length.
unit gyrovectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit gyrovector
gyrocosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocosines
Senses: glosses: The product of the two unit gyrovectors that correspond to the two gyrovectors that define a gyroangle.
Pomrenke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pomrenkes
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Pomerenke
Pomerenke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pomerenkes
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Pomrenke
gyrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrosines
Senses: glosses: Given a gyrotriangle ABC, where the gyroangle defined by the gyrovectors ꝊAꚚC and ꝊCꚚB is a right angle, the gyrosine of the gyroangle defined by ꝊBꚚA and ꝊAꚚC is the length of ꝊBꚚA divided by the length of ꝊAꚚC.
gyrotangent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrotangents
Senses: glosses: A gyroline that intersects a gyrocircle in exactly one point.
glosses: The ratio of the gyrosine of a gyroangle to the gyrocosine of the angle.
gyrosecant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrosecants
Senses: glosses: A gyroline that intersects a gyrocircle in two distinct points.
glosses: The reciprocal of the gyrocosine of a gyroangle.
patée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a cross patée
glosses: Alternative form of patté.
SPRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPRTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sequential probability ratio test.
SPRTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SPRT
lines of business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line of business
regulatory entrepreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regulatory + entrepreneurship.
Senses: examples: Martini, Domenic J. (2017), “International Regulatory Entrepreneurship: Uber's Battle with Regulators in France”, in San Diego International Law Journal, volume 19, number 1, pages 127-160
glosses: Entrepreneurship which involves the pursuit of a line of business in which changing the law is a significant part of the business plan
Related terms: regulatory entrepreneur
regulatory entrepreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulatory entrepreneurs
Etymology: From regulatory + entrepreneur.
Senses: examples: Martini, Domenic J. (2017), “International Regulatory Entrepreneurship: Uber's Battle with Regulators in France”, in San Diego International Law Journal, volume 19, number 1, pages 127-160
glosses: A person who pursues a line of business in which changing the law is a significant part of the business plan
Related terms: regulatory entrepreneurship
regulatory entrepreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regulatory entrepreneur
inscripturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-skrĭpˈ-chə-rātˌ
enpr: -cho͝o-rātˌ
Forms: form: inscripturates
form: inscripturating
form: inscripturated
form: inscripturated
form: enscripturate
Etymology: From in- + scripture + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: To put or make into scripture; to record or write in scripture:
To incorporate into scripture; to include within scripture.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: To put or make into scripture; to record or write in scripture:
To communicate or express through the medium or form of scripture.
examples: text: We use pens, markers, pencils, printing presses, and spray paint to do our writing. These are the tools by which to inscripturate.
ref: 2020 January 29, Douglas Groothuis, “Texts, Graphics, and Culture: On the Decline of Reading and Civilization”, in Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.: Christian Philosopher and Apologist:
glosses: To put or make into writing or script; to write down.
Derived terms: inscripturation
Related terms: canonize
inspire
reveal
inscripturate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-skrĭpˈ-chə-rātˌ
enpr: -cho͝o-rātˌ
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹɪt/
enpr: ĭn-skrĭpˈ-chərĭt
enpr: -cho͝orĭt
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊˌɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-skrĭpˈ-chə-rātˌ
enpr: -cho͝o-rātˌ
Forms: form: enscripturate
Etymology: From in- + scripture + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Put or made into scripture; recorded or written in scripture; inscripturated:
Incorporated into scripture; included within scripture.
raw_tags: used postpositively
examples: text: If Jesus was the divine–human word incarnate, the Bible was seen as the divine–human word inscripturate.
ref: 1998 April 8, "Hermeneutics and Christ", Matthias Media, St Matthias Press Ltd.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Put or made into scripture; recorded or written in scripture; inscripturated:
Communicated or expressed through the medium or form of scripture.
raw_tags: used postpositively
glosses: Put in writing or script; written down.
Coordinate terms: incarnate
Related terms: canonical
inspired
revealed
cléchée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleché.
clechée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleché.
septireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septiremes
Etymology: From Latin septirēmis (“having seven banks of oars”), from septem (“seven”) + rēmus (“oar”).
Senses: glosses: A heavy ancient Greek warship.
Jahwistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jehovistic.
tomins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomin
JED
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A hypothetical intermediate stage in the development of the Torah, consisting of a combination of the Jehovist (J), Elohist (E), and Deuteronomist (D) sources.
scaloposaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaloposaurians
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the group of Theriodontia reptiles, no longer recognised as valid
picni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnis
Senses: examples: text: Did you not make him the target for my mocking when countless moons came and went, and you had not given him a child? And when you at last did so, was it not to bring forth a picni which has made him the talk of every mouth?
ref: 1961, Namba Roy, Black Albino:
glosses: Alternative form of pickney.
octillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octillionaires
Etymology: From octillion + -aire.
Senses: glosses: Somebody whose wealth is at least one octillion (10²⁷) currency units.
melabasanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melabasanites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A black basanite
Chequer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chequers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
exploded skull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploded skulls
Senses: examples: text: Bones available for purchase range from loose femurs to articulated spines to fetal skulls and beyond. An individual rib goes for $18, while what’s known as an exploded skull — a preparation where the bones are spaced out, appearing to be suspended in midair — would cost you nearly $6,000.
ref: 2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The Washington Post:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Beauchene skull.
synonyms: word: Beauchene skull
diarylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarylamides
Etymology: From di- + aryl + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide in which the nitrogen has two hydrogen atoms substituted by aryl groups.