cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
orthocomplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthocomplements
Etymology: From ortho- + complement.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: especially lattice theory
glosses: An element of an ortholattice which is the result of applying an orthocomplementation function to a given element (of that ortholattice) (of which it is said to be the orthocomplement).
Hyponyms: orthogonal complement
sluice box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluice boxes
form: sluicebox
form: sluice-box
Senses: glosses: A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.
sluice boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluice box
sluicebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluiceboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sluice box.
sluice-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluice-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sluice box.
sluiceboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sluicebox
orthogonal complement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogonal complements
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: The set of all vectors which are orthogonal to a given set of vectors.
Hypernyms: orthocomplement
soapnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapnuts
Etymology: From soap + nut.
Senses: examples: text: Soapnuts are the dried fruit of a tree called Sapindus mukorossi (Chinese Soapberry) and contain saponin, a natural surfactant that foams just like soap.
ref: 2015, Beth Terry, Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: The drupe of Sapindus plants, containing saponins, which are a natural surfactant.
soapnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soapnut
agal-agal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: agar (gelatinous material)
pentaconter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaconters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penteconter.
pentaconters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentaconter
in a pig's whisper
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘Never mind,’ said the stranger, cutting the address very short, ‘said enough—no more; smart chap that cabman—handled his fives well; but if I’d been your friend in the green jemmy—damn me—punch his head,—‘cod I would,—pig’s whisper—pieman too,—no gammon.’
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 2
text: [T]hey were all asleep in a pig's whisper.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 44:
glosses: In a very short time; in a jiffy.
jemmied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jemmy
jemmying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jemmy
Ribston pippin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ribston pippins
form: Ribstone pippin
Etymology: Named after Ribston in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke (1642-1705) first introduced them.
Senses: examples: text: […] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55
glosses: A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red.
Ribston pippins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ribston pippin
covolatilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covolatility
half-baptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-baptisms
Senses: examples: text: Half-baptisms are not recorded, though some clergymen make memoranda of them.
ref: 1856, Richard Sims, A manual for the genealogist, topographer, antiquary, and legal professor, page 355:
glosses: A short private baptism, formerly used where an infant was at risk of imminent death.
Related terms: half-baptise
half-baptize
half-baptisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-baptism
seidlitz powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seidlitz powders
form: sedlitz powder
Senses: glosses: A digestive and laxative, composed of a mixture of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium sodium tartrate.
sedlitz powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedlitz powders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seidlitz powder.
sedolisins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedolisin
sedoheptuloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedoheptulose
salalberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salalberry
salalberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salalberries
Etymology: From salal + berry.
Senses: glosses: The edible fruit of the salal; a dark purple berry about the size of a grape.
teaboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teabox
larries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larry
larry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larries
Senses: examples: text: In order that these very important mails might not be unnecessarily delayed, we procured an express engine, and having, as is customary in such cases, fastened those for Manchester and the North on a larry between the engine and the Post-office, they being too bulky to travel in the latter, we departed at 8.10, […] On our arrival at the next station, Crewe, we were much alarmed at the intelligence received from the engineer, that one of the bags on the larry, which proved to be the Carlisle, was on fire: […]
ref: 1838 February 16, Fred[eric]k W. Karstadt, W. Mellush, “Minutes of Evidence”, in Report from the Select Committee on Railroad Communication; […], [London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons [of the United Kingdom], to be printed, published 28 March 1838, →OCLC, paragraph 1183, page 103:
text: The mixing 48-in. belts lie flat and run from the bottom of the mixer bins to two coal mixers which deliver the coal to a reversing 42-in. belt conveyor, taking it to either one of two 36-in. belts, running to the top of two larry bins. Each larry bin is located between two batteries of ovens, […] Under the larry bins are provided platform scales which enable the larry operator to fill his larry with the exact amount of coal to charge an oven.
ref: 1916 December 7, “Youngstown’s New Coke Oven Plant”, in A. I. Findley, Geo[rge] W. Cope, W. W. Macon, editors, The Iron Age, volume 98, number 23, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 1271:
text: [page 4] [T]he larry had been filled to overflowing. When the controller was moved to the third point there was a jarring of the larry, which shook off more of the fine coal and created a dust cloud that enveloped the larry. This dust cloud was ignited by an arc at the wheels. The flame enveloped the larry and the operator, who was standing at the footboard at the controls. He received severe burns on the hands, forearms, face, and neck. […] page 5] Coal dust should be kept from tracks on which electric locomotives or slate larries travel.
ref: 1936 July, W. J. Fene, C. W. Owings, “Cases of Explosions in Tipples and Cleaning Plants”, in Explosions of Coal Dust in Tipples and Cleaning Plants and Some Suggestions on Preventing Them (United States Bureau of Mines Information Circular; 6895), Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, →OCLC, pages 4 and 5:
glosses: Dated form of lorry.
larry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "That was all a part of the larry!
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:
glosses: A confused noise; an uproar; a hubbub.
ciliiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ciliiform
form: most ciliiform
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ciliform.
capotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capot
capotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capot
swanpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanpans
Senses: glosses: Dated form of suanpan.
schwanpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of suanpan.
suanpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suanpans
form: schwanpan
form: souanpan
form: suan-pan
form: swanpan
form: swan-pan
Etymology: From Mandarin 算盤／算盘 (suànpán).
Senses: examples: text: The number of rods in the traditional suanpan is usually odd, and never less than nine.
ref: 2014, Yoshihide Igarashi, Tom Altman, Mariko Funada, Barbara Kamiyama, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective, page 64:
text: Humboldt defended the idea that the Chinese suanpan (our abacus) might be at the origin of our number system.
ref: 2016, Volker R. Remmert, Martina R. Schneider, Henrik Kragh Sørensen, editors, Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries, page 19:
glosses: A Chinese abacus with two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads on each rod in the bottom deck.
like of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: likes of
form: liking of
form: liked of
form: liked of
Senses: examples: text: He ne'er observed / To twirl a dish about, you did not like of, / All being pleasing to you;
ref: c. 1621–6, Philip Massinger, “The Unnatural Combat”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 3, scene 1, page 44:
glosses: To be pleased with; to approve of.
Cobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Connecticut.
glosses: A town in Ontario.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Idaho.
monoalkynylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoalkynylation
humiliatrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humiliatrix
mentagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin mentāgra, from mentum (“chin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “a catching”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sycosis
deducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deducers
Etymology: From deduce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, deduces.
deducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deducer
siroc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹɒk/
Forms: form: sirocs
Etymology: From archaic French siroc.
Senses: examples: text: like the blasting Siroc of the sands,
The ruin of the royal voice
Found its way everywhere
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
text: Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc,
When last I press'd thy lip;
And long ere now, with foaming shock
Impell'd thy gallant ship.
ref: 1809, Lord Byron, Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm:
text: I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: These the siroc could not melt,
Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
And the meaning was more white
Than July's meridian light.
ref: 1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Test:
glosses: Synonym of sirocco.
synonyms: word: sirocco
sirocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siroc
capsulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsulation
presbyopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of presbyopia.
Rotwelsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rotwelsch.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Bargoens
glosses: A secret cant or thieves' argot spoken by covert groups primarily in southern Germany and Switzerland.
swillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: swill; hogwash
tragal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the tragus.
Derived terms: intertragal
Ismaelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ismaelians
Etymology: From Ismael + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An Ismaelite.
Ismaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ismaelites
Etymology: From Ismael + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An Arab Muslim; one who claims descent from Ishmael.
Synonyms: Ismaelian
Ismaelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ismaelite
Ismaelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ismaelian
trancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trancings
Senses: examples: text: As ’twere at waning of this week
 Broke a new life on me;
 Trancings of bliss to be
In some dim dear land soon to seek
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “‘As ’twere Tonight’”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: trance
glosses: The act of listening to trance music.
trancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trance
tranchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranchet
melanures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanure
mangelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangelin
ledgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ledgments
form: ledgement
form: legement
form: ligement
Etymology: From Middle English legement; equivalent to ledge + -ment.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
examples: text: HIP - ROOFS IN LEDGMENT
ref: 1831, Peter Nicholson, Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide:
glosses: The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.
ledgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ledgment
conses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cons
conses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cons
creanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creance
creamometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creamometer
cryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryers
Senses: examples: text: a town cryer
text: Every attorney of the court pays […] 4d. a term for the cryers of the court.
ref: 1817, John Impey, The New Instructor Clericalis (4th edition, page 25)
glosses: Archaic form of crier.
cryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryer
catopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catopters
Etymology: Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”).
Senses: examples: text: My Cat whose black fur was so glossy and fine Her use of Catharon one well could divine. Almost indeed a Cat'''opter she showed.
ref: 1885, C.M. Van Wagenen, A Catagraph:
text: For example, at research of an interference electromagnetic field near to a catopter on the metered reflectivity it is possible to define a permittivity and width of a dielectric slice.
ref: 2000, Siberian Russian Student Workshops on Electron Devices and Materials, page 72:
text: Then on a catopter MSD the vacuum ion-beam deposition of aluminium (hAl = 0,5 microns) was carried out.
ref: 2002, AD Bialik, IA Voronin, AM Zlobin, “Temperature dependences of fibre-optical sensors of mechanical values”, in Proceedings. 3rd Annual Siberian Russian Workshop on Electron Devices and Materials (EDM):
glosses: A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.
examples: text: This focus divided into 40", gives the catopters.
ref: 1916, James John Lewis, State Board Examinations: Questions and Answers, page 41:
text: A catopter mirror will reflect parallel rays of light to a focus at a distance of one meter or 40 inches.
ref: 1923, Eric G. Tavs, Questions and Answers in Optometry, page 23:
text: The converging or diverging power of a mirror is expressed in terms of a catopter.
ref: 1934, Alf Henry Johnsen, Bertram A. Weeks, Frederick H. Weller, The Optical Shop and Counter, page 19:
glosses: A unit of measure of the converging power of a curved mirror, equal to the reciprocal of the focal length in meters; a diopter applied to a curved reflective surface as opposed to a lens.
examples: text: Hippocrates (B.C. 432) described an instrument, the catopter, which was undoubtedly used as an anal speculum,
ref: 1897, W.L Reid, “President's Address: The History, Forms, and Theories of the Vaginal Speculum”, in Transactions of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, volume 1, page 119:
text: In the course of excavations undertaken in Pompei, such catopters had been found in "the house of surgeons".
ref: 1972, S. Drobni, M. Fehér, Recent Progress in the Study of Disorders of the Colon and Rectum, page 102:
text: Hippocrates' treatise on fistulas clearly mentions this technique, and later, Galen's Levicom refers to the catopter which is an anal speculum.
ref: 2013, Michael E. Moran, Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History, page 246:
text: the catopter, which is called the anal dilator, in the same way as the diopter is called the female dilator.
ref: 2020, Maria Gerolemou, Lilia Diamantopoulou, Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period:
glosses: An Ancient Greek anal dilator or speculum.
Synonyms: catoptron
catopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catopter
catoptron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A catopter, or reflecting glass.
coecilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coecilians
Senses: glosses: Dated form of caecilian.
coecilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coecilian
Magian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magians
Etymology: From Magi + -an.
Senses: glosses: One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia.
glosses: An adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.
Related terms: Magianism
Magian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Magian
form: most Magian
Etymology: From Magi + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Magian religion
text: Magian belief
glosses: Of or relating to the Magi.
Magians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magian
Magianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Magian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Zoroastrianism
Fuchsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Fuchs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician
Derived terms: Fuchsian function
Fuchsian group
Fuchsian model
mikania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mikanias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Mikania.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Mikania of asteraceous plants.
mikanias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mikania
asteraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Asteraceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Asteraceae.
onagraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Onagraceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Onagraceae of flowering plants, including the fuchsia and the evening primrose.
pressurized water reactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressurized water reactors
Senses: glosses: A type of nuclear reactor which uses pressurized light water as a neutron moderator and coolant.
Related terms: light water reactor
boiling water reactor
strickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stricklers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strickle (“scythe sharpener”)
stricklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strickler
pale ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪl ˈeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: pale ales
Senses: qualifier: alcoholic beverages
glosses: A beer that uses a warm fermentation and predominantly pale malt, resulting in a lighter colour.
Derived terms: American pale ale
Australian pale ale
Burton pale ale
English pale ale
German pale ale
India pale ale
Irish pale ale
strong pale ale
pale ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pale ale
afoo yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afoo yams
Senses: glosses: A kind of yam prized in Jamaica.
afoo yams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afoo yam
hyke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haik.
glosses: Alternative form of huke.
hykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyke
adelphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: adelphous stamens
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having coalescent or clustered filaments.
Related terms: diadelphous
monadelphous
triadelphous
scherif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scherifs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shereef.
glosses: Alternative form of xeriff.
scherifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scherif
seraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seraphical
form: most seraphical
form: seraphicall
Senses: examples: text: And here (loe) they beginne to spreade theyr armes, in allegyng auctoritees out of solemne doctours, subtile doctours, most subtile doctours, seraphicall doctours, holy doctours, irrefragable doctours, and suche other goodly bigge names of theyr Schole pillers.
ref: 1549, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie, London: Thomas Berthelet:
text: […] the Kings in those dayes thought the Church men their SVBIECTS, though now wee be taught other Seraphicall doctrine.
ref: 1609, James I, An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance, London: Robert Barker, page 29:
text: Love is curious of little things […] desiring to be of an Angelical purity, of a perfect innocence, and a Seraphical fervour […]
ref: 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, London: Richard Royston, Chapter 4, Section 3, pp. 250-251:
text: […] the Law and Word of God is exceeding broad, which caus’d me diligently to attend upon some living Oracles of God in those times; Seraphical Holesworth, devout Taylor, pious Gouge, eloquent Shute, with others […]
ref: 1682, James Harrington, “Soliloquium, or Discourse”, in Horæ Consecratæ, or, Spiritual Pastime, London, page 369:
glosses: Seraphic: of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim; (by extension) pure and sublime.
vulneraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulnerary
traumatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traumatic
recentish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recentish
form: most recentish
Etymology: From recent + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat recent; not long ago.
Kasparovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kasparovian
form: most Kasparovian
Etymology: From Kasparov + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the midst of a typically Kasparovian conflagration, the black king advances in person to thwart the enemy onslaught – all of these contribute to the general air of mystification in Petrosian's games.
ref: 2014, Ray Keene, Petrosian vs the Elite:
text: For example, they might be viewed as Kasparovian chess masters, never thinking only three or four moves ahead but, rather, a dozen moves ahead and with great consideration of every component of the chess board, […]
ref: 2018, Blake Leath, Cultivating the Strategic Mind, page 62:
glosses: Of or relating to Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 1963), Russian chess Grandmaster, writer and political activist.
Maróczy bind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maróczy binds
form: Maróczy Bind
Etymology: Named after the Hungarian Grandmaster Géza Maróczy.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn formation, primarily played against the Sicilian Defence, characterized by white pawns on c4 and e4, with White's d-pawn having been exchanged for Black's c-pawn.
wikipedia: Géza Maróczy
planet-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planet-stricken
form: most planet-stricken
Senses: examples: text: Like planet-stricken men of yore / He trembles, smitten to the core / By strong compunction and remorse.
ref: 1798 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Part Third”, in Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse, London: […] Strahan and Spottiswoode, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: Synonym of planet-struck.
synonyms: word: planet-struck
saltating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saltate
saltated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saltate
crottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crottle
suffragants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffragant
dillseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dillseed
churchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchy
glosses: plural of churchie
swingletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingletails
Etymology: From swingle + tail.
Senses: glosses: The thrasher, or fox shark.
swingletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingletail
bet one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bets one's boots
form: betting one's boots
form: bet one's boots
form: bet one's boots
Senses: examples: text: "You see," he said, "she never knew the fearful importance of marriage . . . and treated him badly, I'll bet my boots."
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 12, in Sons and Lovers:
text: "If a man tells you he's a gentleman you can bet your boots he isn't," he retorted.
ref: 1915, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 27, in Of Human Bondage:
text: Lord Sutherland sees tuition fees in Scotland as inevitable. “Only you can bet your boots they won't call it a fee,” he said.
ref: 2011 April 24, D. D. Guttenplan, “Scotland Wrestles With Question of Tuition Fees”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jan 2013:
synonyms: bet a dollar to a doughnut
bet one's bottom dollar
bet one's life
bet the farm
bet the ranch
bet the house
glosses: To be absolutely sure of something; to be certain enough to wager an essential possession.
soarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soarers
Etymology: From soar + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who soars.
soarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soarer
shorling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorlings
Senses: examples: text: a Statute made in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, as relates to the buying or shipping of Wools or Wool-fells, Morling or Shorling, by Aliens or Strangers within the Realm
ref: a. 1480, a statute, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
glosses: A sheep of the first year's shearing.
glosses: A person who is shorn; a shaveling.
glosses: A priest.
shorlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shorling
campestrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more campestrian
form: most campestrian
Senses: examples: text: campestrian area
glosses: Relating to, or abounding in, open fields
examples: text: These bald prairies can be regarded as the true home of the original campestrian flora, which is peculiar to a calcareous soil rich in humus and with a sunny exposure.
ref: 1969, C. T. Mohr, Plant life of Alabama, page 104:
glosses: Growing in a field, or open ground.
Synonyms: campestral
presention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presentions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of presension.
presentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presention
nenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nenia
malanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malenders
form: mallanders
form: mallenders
Etymology: French malandres, from Latin malandria (“blisters or pustules on the neck, especially in horses”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the foreleg of a horse or similar animal.
Related terms: sallenders
anatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French anatron, an old variant of natron, from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron, “nitre”) by way of Spanish natrón and Arabic نَطْرُون (naṭrūn).
Senses: glosses: native carbonate of soda; natron
glosses: sandiver
glosses: saltpetre
bullace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullaces
Etymology: From Middle English bolas, bolace, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beloce, buloce (“sloe”), from Vulgar Latin *bullucea, from Late Latin bulluca (“kind of small fruit”); of Celtic/Gaulish origin, akin to Celtiberian *bullācā, from Proto-Celtic *bullākā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative. Possibly influenced by Latin galla (“oak apple”) with metathesis of the consonants.
See also Spanish bugalla (“oak apple”), Portuguese bugalho, and (the distantly related) Latin bucca.
Senses: examples: text: If he ate bullace tart and bullace pie for a week, he would hardly empty the smallest of the baskets; and then they would begin to go bad. Nothing remained but to give them away, but to whom?
ref: 1930, Harold Webber Freeman, Down in the Valley, page 48:
synonyms: damson
glosses: A small European plum (Prunus interstitia, syn. Prunus domestica subsp. insititia).
glosses: The bully tree.
bullaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullace
monospermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + spermal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one seed.
monospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only one seed.
paratheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parathesis
sestettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sestetto
siss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisses
Etymology: From Middle English sissen, perhaps from Middle Dutch sissen, cissen or Middle Low German sissen (“to hiss; buzz”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch sissen, German Low German zissen, German zischen.
Senses: glosses: A hissing noise.
siss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sisses
form: sissing
form: sissed
form: sissed
Etymology: From Middle English sissen, perhaps from Middle Dutch sissen, cissen or Middle Low German sissen (“to hiss; buzz”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch sissen, German Low German zissen, German zischen.
Senses: examples: a flat-iron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger
glosses: To make a hissing sound.
Derived terms: sizzle
debellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debellate
debellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debellate
biarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + articulated.
Senses: glosses: doubly articulated
euchologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euchologues
Etymology: French euchologe.
Senses: glosses: A euchologion.
euchologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euchologue
smickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smickly
form: most smickly
Senses: examples: text: What's he that looks so smickly?
ref: 1656, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, The Sun's Darling:
glosses: smugly; finically
smickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smicker
corporace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corporas.
corporaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporace
squitch grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: quitchgrass
carpellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpella
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin carpellum. See carpel for more.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carpel.
synonyms: word: carpel
pepsinhydrochloric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pepsin + hydrochloric acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical acid supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute hydrochloric acid are mixed together.
tectospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectosphere
hausse-col
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /(h)oʊs.kɑl/
/(h)oʊs.kɔl/
Forms: form: hausse-cols
Etymology: From French hausse-col; see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hausse-col.
glosses: A gorget (armor for the neck and/or upper chest).
Related terms: hausse
col
sword knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword knots
Senses: glosses: A type of ribbon attached to the hilt of a sword, originally as a way of fastening it to the wrist, but later chiefly as an ornament.
sword knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sword knot
Nili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nilli
Senses: glosses: The capital of Nili district, Daykundi, Afghanistan, and also capital of Daykundi.
glosses: A district of Daykundi, Afghanistan. Seat: Nili.
inclusion compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusion compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex in which one molecule (the guest) is located within a cavity of another (the host)
Naganandini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “serpent, snake”) + नन्दिनी (nandinī).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 30th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
ferroboron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroborons
Etymology: From ferro- + boron.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron and boron used in the production of specialist steels
hawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawns
Senses: examples: text: It was now quite impossible for her to get to the sands, and the only place not cut off by the sea was a tiny cove — a mere gash in the cliff midway between the two hawns, Pentire and Pentire Glaze.
ref: 2022, Enys Tregarthen, The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall:
glosses: A haven or harbour.
catfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catfish (“to fish for catfish”)
catfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catfish (“to create and operate a fake online profile”)
catfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catfishings
Senses: glosses: The practice of creating a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
Derived terms: brokefishing
kittenfishing
sadfishing
NRAO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
broadcasting
media
natural-sciences
radio
glosses: Initialism of National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
phase factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phase factors
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A normalized complex number, considered as, say, the scalar coefficient of a ket.
Pascals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pascal
khulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khulans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koulan.
Hydrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hydrid
insulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insulants
Senses: glosses: Any material used to provide insulation
Keramik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /keɪˈɹamɪk/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Кера́мік (Kerámik) and Russian Кера́мик (Kerámik).
Senses: glosses: A rural settlement in Ocheretyne settlement hromada, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Keramik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɪˈɹamɪk/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Кера́мік (Kerámik) and Russian Кера́мик (Kerámik).
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Trubnikov Bor rural settlement, Tosnensky Raion, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
glosses: A khutor in Novoalexandrovsky Raion, Stavropol Krai, Russia.
glosses: A stanitsa in Gornyak rural settlement, Mozhginsky Raion, Udmurtia, Russia.
mulga black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulga blacks
Senses: glosses: An aborigine from the remote outback.
mulga madness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of eccentricity attributed to the isolation from society, as in the outback.
linear motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear motors
Senses: glosses: An electric motor in which the equivalent of the stator and rotor are linear and parallel, normally one part is a vehicle and the other a track on which it moves
mulga apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulga apples
Senses: glosses: A gall on the mulga tree Acacia aneura, said to taste like an apple.
FTR
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of for the record.
Sczedrzik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German spelling of the village's name. Compare Szczedrzyk, from the Polish spelling.
Senses: examples: text: Onkel Robert lived in Sczedrzik.
ref: 2010, Bernhard Wunderlich, A Science Career Against All Odds, pages 11–3:
glosses: Szczedrzyk.
tremblier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trembly: more trembly
charioteeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charioteeresses
Etymology: From charioteer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female charioteer.
minimometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimometers
Etymology: From minim + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A graduated (usually glass) tube used to measure out a minim of liquid.
ground ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground ivies
form: ground-ivy
Senses: glosses: Glechoma hederacea, an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae.
Synonyms: sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: gill-go-by-the-ground
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: gill-over-the-ground
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: creeping Charlie
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: ale-hoof
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: Nepeta glechoma
sense: Glechoma hederacea
word: Nepeta hederacea
Schwerpunkt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwerpunkts
form: Schwerpunkte
Senses: examples: text: Every culture has a unique Schwerpunkt, a center of gravity, and unless we try to occupy it, we cannot comprehend its meaning and value.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 220:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of schwerpunkt.
Schwerpunkte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwerpunkt
arboresces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arboresce
arborescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arboresce
arboresced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arboresce
chip off the block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chips off the block
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chip off the old block.
snifflier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sniffly: more sniffly
stanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stanners
Senses: glosses: * see: stanners
hoky-poky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: hokey-pokey
Forms: form: more hoky-poky
form: most hoky-poky
Senses: examples: text: Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119, The Candles”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: And that hoky-poky owner smiled a grim and sordid smile / As he saw his vessel vanish round a corner of the isle !
ref: 1876, Benjamin D-------, his little dinner:
glosses: Fraudulent; trickish.
hoky-poky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: hokey-pokey
Senses: examples: text: No person, firm or corporation shall see, exchange or deliver, or have in his or their possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any ice cream, ice milk, hoky poky or frozen substance of which milk or cream containing less than twelve (12) per cent of butter fat shall form a component part […]
ref: 1909, Charter and devised ordinances of Kansas City:
glosses: Alternative form of hokey pokey (“frozen snack”).
wonders never cease
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: John did his homework! Wonders never cease!
glosses: Expresses surprise at an unusual action.
semiterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + terrestrial.
Senses: glosses: partly terrestrial, living sometimes on land
raw_tags: of an animal
semiporcelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiporcelains
form: semi-porcelain
Etymology: From semi- + porcelain.
Senses: glosses: Any of several glazed ceramic wares resembling porcelain but having little or no translucency.
semipostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + postal.
Senses: glosses: Issued and sold for a higher price than its face value, with the excess monies transferred to a third party, typically a charity.
raw_tags: of a postage stamp
semipostal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semipostals
Etymology: From semi- + postal.
Senses: glosses: A postage stamp of this kind.
Synonyms: semi-postal stamp
charity stamp
arbalestrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbalestriers
Senses: glosses: A crossbowman.
arbalestriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbalestrier
control rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control rods
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: nuclear reactor
text: A faulty control rod design was a key factor in causing the 1986 steam explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl.
glosses: Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction.
pyrrhotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrhotines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrrhotite
pyrrhotines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrrhotine
pyrrhotites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrrhotite
logsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logsheets
Etymology: From log + sheet.
Senses: glosses: A sheet on which the entries of a log are written.
logsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logsheet
barline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barlines
Etymology: From bar + line.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bar line.
barlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barline
damasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of damask
synneuroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synneurosis
synneurosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synneuroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συννεύρωσις (sunneúrōsis, “union by sinews”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: syndesmosis
strickless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A strickle (rod used to level grain etc. when being measured).
boattails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boattail
sasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sasin
praeoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of preoral.
prepubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepubis
praescutum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praescuta
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of prescutum.
praescuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praescutum
praesterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praesternum
praesternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praesterna
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of presternum.
presternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From pre- + sternal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the presternum.
yakamik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakamiks
Senses: glosses: A bird allied to the cranes; the agami or trumpeter.
yakamiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yakamik
bazils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bazil
basans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basan
allineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allineations
form: alineation
Senses: examples: text: the allineation of the two planets
text: The allineation of Bradley and Pound of the two stars
ref: 1847, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Results of Astronomical Observations […] :
glosses: alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun
allineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allineation
polypode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypodes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Alternative form of polypod.
polypodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypode
centiares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centiare
paleotherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French paléothérien.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Palaeotherium.
coupe-gorge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coupe-gorges
Etymology: Borrowed from French coupe-gorge (literally “cut-throat”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
coupe-gorges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coupe-gorge
concauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concause
birt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
homophone: Bert
homophone: Burt
Forms: form: birts
form: bret
form: brut
form: burt
Etymology: From Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.
Senses: glosses: A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
birts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birt
moyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moyles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moil.
glosses: Alternative form of moile.
moyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moyles
form: moyling
form: moyled
form: moyled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moil.