cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/
ipa: /əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/
Forms: form: overstrikes
form: overstriking
form: overstruck
form: overstruck
form: overstricken
Etymology: From over- + strike.
Senses: examples: text: For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To overreach oneself while striking.
glosses: To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
glosses: To strike (something) too hard.
overstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/
ipa: /əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/
Forms: form: overstrikes
Etymology: From over- + strike.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)
overstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overstrike
smash up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smashes up
form: smashing up
form: smashed up
form: smashed up
Senses: examples: text: You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
text: The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
glosses: To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
glosses: To injure or maim.
Derived terms: word: smashup
there's a grain of truth in every joke
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Whenever a person is joking, they are actually disguising thoughts and emotions, either subconsciously or deliberately.
Related terms: ha ha only serious
many a true word is spoken in jest
mush up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mushes up
form: mushing up
form: mushed up
form: mushed up
Senses: examples: text: My baby's food needs to be mushed up before she can eat it.
glosses: to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste
rumple up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rumples up
form: rumpling up
form: rumpled up
form: rumpled up
Senses: glosses: to cause to become rumpled
glosses: to become rumpled
rub down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs down
form: rubbing down
form: rubbed down
form: rubbed down
Senses: examples: text: We were taken to a light airy stable, and placed in boxes adjoining each other, where we were rubbed down and fed.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:
glosses: To rub from top to bottom, e.g. for cleaning, stripping paint or massage.
examples: text: […] "jumped him", as it were, and immediately "rubbed him down" with the view of getting possession of his weapon.
ref: 1931, Hargrave Lee Adam, C.I.D. Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard, page 221:
glosses: To frisk (search by feeling the body and clothing).
synonyms: rub away
glosses: To grind, wear down, or wear away by rubbing.
roughen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughens up
form: roughening up
form: roughened up
form: roughened up
Senses: glosses: to make something rough or rougher
rough out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughs out
form: roughing out
form: roughed out
form: roughed out
Senses: examples: text: The first step in creating the statue was roughing it out from a large block of stone.
coordinate_terms: finish#Verb
glosses: To create the rough shape of (something, such as a machined part or a sculpture); to do the first-fix setup of (something, such as plumbing or wiring).
synonyms: sketch#Verb
sketch out
glosses: To produce (a plan, diagram etc.) in rough.
Derived terms: word: roughout
Related terms: rough it out
rope up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ropes up
form: roping up
form: roped up
form: roped up
Senses: glosses: To tie up using a rope.
glosses: To attach oneself to a rope.
ripen up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ripens up
form: ripening up
form: ripened up
form: ripened up
Senses: glosses: to ripen; become ripe
rig out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rigs out
form: rigging out
form: rigged out
form: rigged out
Senses: glosses: to provide with equipment or gear
examples: text: "Mr. Watson 's a splendid judge of washing, I guess. I don't approve of children being rigged out in fancy colors, but I 'll see what your aunt Jane thinks."
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
text: Jack was Rigged out in his Gold and Silver Lace.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: "When you're fed up, and rested, and all rigged out, you'll be just the type I want."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:
glosses: To dress; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner.
glosses: to expel the holder of an office or other position by means of rigging the election.
fit out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fits out
form: fitting out
form: fitted out
form: fitted out
Senses: examples: text: On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.
ref: 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXV, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 217:
text: On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade ... to Nashville, and to fit out as speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country.
ref: 1864, Abel D. Streight, Report of Col. Abel D. Streight, August 22, 1864:
text: Moreover, if Bonaparte had wished to acquire territory in Australia, he was not so foolish a person as to fit out an expedition estimated to cost over half a million francs,^([2]) and which actually cost a far larger sum, when he could have obtained what he wanted simply by asking.
ref: 1914, Ernest Scott, The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.:
glosses: To provide a thing, a group, a person or oneself with requisites; to kit out.
Derived terms: word: fit-out
word: fitout
word: fitting-out
halls of fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hall of fame
ride down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪd daʊn/
Forms: form: rides down
form: riding down
form: rode down
form: ridden down
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.
glosses: To catch or catch up with (someone) by chasing on horseback or in a vehicle.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.
glosses: To treat with severity.
examples: text: This fully restrained passenger rode down the impact forces with a much lower level of injuries than could be expected in a collision of this severity. His major injury was an AIS 2 contusion which resulted from the restraint shoulder strap. Had he been unrestrained, the expected injury from violent impacts with the A pillar and other frontal interior components could have been fatal.
ref: 1986 July 28, National Transportation Safety Board, “CASE 24 (ATL-85-H-OR21)”, in Safety Study: Performance of Lap Belts in 26 Frontal Crashes, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2022, page 168:
glosses: To withstand deceleration from (forces of impact).
Related terms: ride down on
rid out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rids out
form: ridding out
form: rid out
form: rid out
Senses: glosses: To clear out, to empty.
rid up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rids up
form: ridding up
form: rid up
form: rid up
Senses: glosses: To empty, to clear out.
rent out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rents out
form: renting out
form: rented out
form: rented out
Senses: glosses: to lease, let; to allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent
ready up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readies up
form: readying up
form: readied up
form: readied up
Senses: glosses: to prepare for use, to get ready
rake up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rakes up
form: raking up
form: raked up
form: raked up
Senses: glosses: To bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
examples: text: As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make themselves a name with the multitude, or, to draw their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose rather to live graved in obscurity, than share with them in so preposterous a fame. Nor can I blame the wishes of those severe and wise patriots, who providing the hurts these licentious spirits may do in a state, desire rather to see fools and devils, and those antique relics of barbarism retrieved, with all other ridiculous and exploded follies, than behold the wounds of private men, of princes and nations:
ref: 1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone, Dedication, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III pages 163–164:
glosses: To cover up, to hide (like covering live embers by raking ashes over them).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rake.
rain off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains off
form: raining off
form: rained off
form: rained off
Senses: examples: text: The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch.
synonyms: wash out
glosses: to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain
rain down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains down
form: raining down
form: rained down
form: rained down
Senses: examples: text: I'm soaking wet because it rained down on me.
glosses: To fall from the sky as, or like, rain.
examples: text: In the latest supernatural incident, the sky rained down frogs.
glosses: To let fall as, or like, rain.
examples: text: My wrath will rain down upon you.
text: The jeers rained down on me throughout my middle school years.
qualifier: with on or upon
glosses: To strike (literally or figuratively) many times and/or very intensely.
glosses: To appear suddenly or inexplicably in large numbers.
halls of shame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hall of shame
unilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unilinear
form: most unilinear
Etymology: From uni- + linear.
Senses: examples: text: Despite examining a few apparently positive indicators of change, and relaying the sense that Cuban sexual ideology was not static, we tried not to assert any definite or unilinear trend.
ref: 1984 December 8, Richard Turits, Laura Gotkowitz, “Some Clarifications”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 4:
glosses: Made up of one single line.
Derived terms: unilinear evolution
unilinearly
unilinearity
Related terms: unipolar
Haarlem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of North Holland, Netherlands.
Derived terms: Harlem
Related terms: New Haarlem
New Harlem
Nieuw Haarlem
Nieuw Harlem
nonrabbinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rabbinical.
Senses: glosses: Not rabbinical.
peonylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peonylike
form: most peonylike
Etymology: From peony + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a peony.
dead 'n' buried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Contraction of dead and buried.
conservatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservatoriums
form: conservatoria
Senses: examples: text: The band’s bass guitarist graduated from the conservatorium and has since played with Donavon Frankenreiter, John Butler, Angus Stone and Ash Grunwald.
ref: 2015 August 26, “Band of Frequencies”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: conservatory
conservatoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conservatorium
Alb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Germany; a tributary of the Rhine.
Related terms: Alb Sunday
Mittens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From mittens (“a cat’s paws that are a different colour from the main body”).
Senses: glosses: A given name for a cat.
Related terms: Socks
stake a claim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stakes a claim
form: staking a claim
form: staked a claim
form: staked a claim
Etymology: See stake.
Senses: examples: text: Who are the nations that have staked a claim to Antarctica lands?
text: Ferguson kept faith in Rooney, even though Javier Hernandez had scored two goals in as many games to stake a claim for a first-team spot, and his decision was justified after only 54 seconds.
ref: 2011 February 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, in BBC:
synonyms: lay claim
glosses: To take an action that asserts a property right in something.
raw_tags: with to
Related terms: put facts on the ground
ranken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rankens
form: rankening
form: rankened
form: rankened
Etymology: From rank + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In a word, it is good for nothing but to despatch men out of the world that are burdensome, and to ranken churchyards.
ref: 1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History, page 299:
text: His glance passed again over the patched-up rigs and spavined horses dejectedly standing in this rain-rankened muck.
ref: 1993, Nelson C. Nye, Trigger Talk/the Wolf That Rode, page 202:
text: The room smoked with cold. Smoke rankened the air.
ref: 1996, Annie Proulx, Postcards, page 257:
glosses: To make or become rank
aread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: areads
form: areading
form: ared
form: ared
form: arread
form: areed
form: arede
form: arreede
Etymology: From Old English arēdan, arǣdan, corresponding to a- + read. Cognate with German erraten.
Senses: glosses: To soothsay, prophesy.
examples: text: Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To interpret; to explain.
examples: text: Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds
To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:
text: But mark what I arreede thee now, avant;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 963:
glosses: To advise, counsel.
campimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmˈpɪmɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kæmˈpɪmɪtɚ/
Forms: form: campimeters
Etymology: From Latin campus (“field, scope”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure a person's field of vision
campodeiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more campodeiform
form: most campodeiform
Etymology: From Campodea + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a member of the genus Campodea of arthropods.
canaliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From canal + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a canal.
raw_tags: of the shell of a mollusc
canaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canaliform
form: most canaliform
Etymology: From canal + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a canal
cancerously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cancerously
form: most cancerously
Etymology: From cancerous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously.
ref: 2005, Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel, page 323:
glosses: In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
examples: cancerously diseased cells
glosses: With cancer.
cancriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancriform
form: most cancriform
Etymology: From Latin cancer, cancr- (“crab; cancer”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a crab.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Resembling cancer.
cancrivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancrivorous
form: most cancrivorous
Etymology: From Latin cancer (“crab”) + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on crabs and other crustaceans
cancroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancroid
form: most cancroid
form: cancroide
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Resembling a crab
topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cancer, especially to squamous cell carcinoma
cancroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancroids
form: cancroide
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease that resembles cancer
glosses: Squamous cell carcinoma
candescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more candescent
form: most candescent
Etymology: From Latin candēscēns, present participle of candēscō (“to brighten, radiate, become red hot”).
Senses: examples: text: By then the sky is lightening, sun candescent at the hill of her shoulder.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 118:
glosses: glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.
Related terms: candescence
canicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪsaɪd/
Forms: form: canicides
Etymology: From Latin canis (“dog”) + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The killing of a dog.
glosses: A dog-killer.
Derived terms: canicidal
canicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more canicular
form: most canicular
Etymology: From Latin canīculāris (“of or related to a puppy; Sothic”), from Canīcula (“puppy; Sirius”) + -aris (“forming adjectives”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of Sothic: of or related to the star Sirius.
synonyms: word: Sothic
extra: of or related to the star Sirius
glosses: Of or related to the dog days of summer.
glosses: Relating to dogs; canine.
Derived terms: canicular period
canicular cycle
canicular days
vibing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vibe
vibed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vibe
enjoy oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enjoys oneself
form: enjoying oneself
form: enjoyed oneself
form: enjoyed oneself
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
synonyms: have a good time
glosses: To take pleasure in something; to have feelings of enjoyment.
Related terms: time of one's life
bouncy castles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncy castle
bouncing castles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncing castle
dead men tell no tales
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛd mɛn tɛl nəʊ teɪlz/
Forms: form: dead men can tell no tales
Senses: glosses: A dead person can no longer reveal information, especially information which others wish to keep secret.
Related terms: silent as the grave
canivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more canivorous
form: most canivorous
Senses: glosses: That eats dogs.
canivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of carnivorous.
cankerworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cankerworms
Etymology: From canker + worm.
Senses: glosses: Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.
examples: text: O cursed Eld the cankerworme of writs, / How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare, / Hope to endure, sith workes of heauenly wits / Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits?
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A corrupting or destructive force.
cantatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cantatory
form: most cantatory
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing cant
cantatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cantatory
form: most cantatory
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to singing or singers
cantillate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cantillates
form: cantillating
form: cantillated
form: cantillated
Etymology: First attested in 1864; borrowed from Latin cantillō (“to sing”), from cantillātus + -ō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Some recite this portion by cantillating each verse twice and then saying the Targum.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 264:
text: Five women [in the Temple of Vesta ...] were cantillating—Vesta this and Vesta that—all robed in identical white dresses, with white wool scarves wrapped several times about their heads.
ref: 2025 January 7, Lauren J. A. Bear, Mother of Rome, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: To chant, or to recite musically (especially in a synagogue).
Related terms: cantillation
capeador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capeadors
form: capeadores
Etymology: From Spanish capeador.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A person who aids a bullfighter by distracting the bull with his cape.
confessionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confessionalizes
form: confessionalizing
form: confessionalized
form: confessionalized
Etymology: From confessional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To fix religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.
Derived terms: deconfessionalize
Related terms: confessionalization
capillaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capillaceous
form: most capillaceous
Senses: glosses: Resembling hair.
glosses: Having hair-like filaments.
Related terms: capillary
capilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capilliform
form: most capilliform
Etymology: From Latin capillus (“hair”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a hair
capeadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capeador
bruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bruit
bruiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruitings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who bruits something; the promulgation of news or rumours.
scrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹaɪn/
Forms: form: scrines
Etymology: From Old French escrin (French écrin), from Latin scrīnium. Doublet of shrine.
Senses: examples: text: Lay forth out of thine euerlasting scryne
 The antique rolles, which there lye hidden still […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A chest or other box for storing valuables.
burghership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burgher + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.
ref: 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:
text: In no case does citizenship, or burghership, appear to rest upon the basis of a real or assumed community of descent from a single real or mythical progenitor.
ref: 1902, John Fiske, “The Federal Unioin”, in Harpers:
text: No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.
ref: 1914, John Addington Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series:
text: "All coloured people are excluded from this provision, and (in accordance with the Grondwet) they may never be given or granted rights of burghership...."
ref: 1921, Various, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921:
glosses: The state of being a burgher; citizenship.
glosses: The rights and privileges of a burgher; burgess-ship.
buriall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burialls
Senses: examples: text: And being come to the grave as above, Dr. Pierson, the minister of the parish, did read the service for buriall: and so I saw my poor brother laid into the grave; and so all broke up; and I and my wife and Madam Turner and her family to my brother's, and by and by fell to a barrell of oysters, cake, and cheese, of Mr. Honiwood's, with him, in his chamber and below, being too merry for so late a sad work.
ref: 1663-1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1663/64:
text: Came throw Restalrig toune, wheir stands an old chappel, the buriall place of the Lo: of Balmerinoch: also of old the parish church of South Leith, so that the minister of South Leith even now is parsone at this kirk, at least denominat so.
ref: 1665-1676, Sir John Lauder, Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36:
text: (2) "A true and perfect narrative of the most remarkable passages relating to king Charles the first of blessed memory, written by the proper land of S^r Thomas Herbert baronet, who attended upon his ma^{tie} from Newcastle upon Tine, when he was sold by the Scotts, during the whole time of his greatest afflictions, till his death and buriall; w^{ch} was sent to me S^r Will^m Dugdale knight, garter principall king of armes, in Michaellmasse Terme a^o. 1678, by the said S^r Thomas Herbert, from Yorke, where he resideth."
ref: 1851, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851:
text: But their enterprise failed, for it pleased God to visite these Indeans with a great sicknes, and such a mortalitie that of a 1000. above 900. and a halfe of them dyed, and many of them did rott above ground for want of buriall, and y^e Dutch men allmost starved before they could gett away, for ise and snow.
ref: 1898, William Bradford, Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation':
glosses: Obsolete spelling of burial.
burialls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buriall
briddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briddles
Senses: examples: text: The other riders leaning forward, holding their bridle reins close down to the bit, seemed to lift their horses as they sped away from Black Fan whose rider was leaning back holding the briddle reins at arm's length as if he feared she would go by the head.
ref: 1912, Al. G. Field, Watch Yourself Go By:
glosses: bridle
briddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briddle
brooke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookes
Senses: examples: text: Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop, And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud; This with full bit* doth catch the utmost top Of some soft willow, or new growen stud**; This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop, 85 And chaw the tender prickles in her cud; The whiles another high doth overlooke Her owne like image in a christall brooke.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: It commences by explaining the terms "above" and "beneath the wood" to be two ancient divisions of the Forest, "beginning at the river Wye at Lydbrook, where the brooke there leading from the forges falls into the said river, and so up the said brooke or stream unto a place in the said Forest called Moyery Stock, and from thence along a Wayn-way at the bottom of a place called the Salley Vallett, and so along the same way between the two old enclosures that did belong to Ruardean and Little Dean Walks unto Cannop's Brooke, and down the said brooke to Cannop's Bridge; and from thence along the road or highway to the Speech-house, and from thence along the said highway to Foxe's Bridge, and from thence down Blackpool Brooke to Blakeney."
ref: 1858, H. G. Nicholls, The Forest of Dean:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of brook.
brooke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of brook.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of broke.
scrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrine
microhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microholes
Etymology: From micro- + hole.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic hole.
Related terms: nanohole
microholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microhole
microplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microplasmas
Etymology: From micro- + plasma.
Senses: glosses: A gas discharge of small dimensions ranging from micrometers to millimeters, used in various medical and industrial applications.
microplasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microplasma
co-extensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coextensive.
victoried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of victory
Haarlemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haarlemers
Etymology: From Haarlem + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from, or residing in, Haarlem.
Haarlemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haarlemer
victorying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of victory
Narnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Narnian
form: most Narnian
Etymology: From Narnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the fictional land of Narnia.
Narnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Narnians
Etymology: From Narnia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the fictional land of Narnia.
Narnians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Narnian
vocabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocab
Durkheimian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Durkheimian
form: most Durkheimian
Etymology: From Durkheim + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Order maintenance, I would argue, shares this Durkheimian understanding of social categories as imitating nature.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: Of or pertaining to David Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French positivist sociologist commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science
Durkheimian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Durkheimians
Etymology: From Durkheim + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Durkheim's ideas.
mastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masta
shovellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shovellike
form: most shovellike
Etymology: From shovel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shovel.
noodlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noodlelike
form: most noodlelike
Etymology: From noodle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of noodles.
off-put
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-put
form: most off-put
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put off.
shootlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shootlike
form: most shootlike
Etymology: From shoot + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shoot (emerging stem of a new plant).
annealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annealing
bileptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilepton
bilepton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bileptons
Etymology: From bi- + lepton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed form of gauge boson having a lepton number of two.
Related terms: dilepton
biophotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + photonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biophotonics
Derived terms: biophotonically
idees fixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idee fixe
cointegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cointegrations
Etymology: From co- + integration.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of two non-stationary time series whose linear combination is stationary
Related terms: cointegrated
cointegrative
coinvariants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinvariant
cubulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubulation
degravitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more degravitating
form: most degravitating
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That causes degravitation
data base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data bases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of database.
degravitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + gravitation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The removal of the effects of gravity from a system, or mathematical construct.
data bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of data base
fallest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fall + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of fall
destressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destress
destressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destressings
Senses: glosses: The process of removing stress from a material.
dripline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driplines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drip line.
entangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entanglers
Etymology: From entangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which entangles or causes entanglement
entanglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entangler
modius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modii
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin modius, from modus (“a measure”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of muid and mud. See also almud and almude.
Senses: glosses: A Roman dry measure of about a peck or 9 litres.
glosses: Various medieval units of dry and liquid volume.
glosses: A bushel-shaped headdress worn by certain deities in classical art.
fourpartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: four-partite
Etymology: From four + -partite.
Senses: glosses: quadripartite
taramasalata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taramasalatas
Senses: examples: text: The food navigates the Mediterranean, ranging from a creamy rendition of Greek taramasalata ($5) to a North African couscous with roasted veggies ($14) to deep-fried chickpea fritters ($4) to an incredibly juicy whole baby chicken that's first poached, then coated with an onion batter and deep-fried ($14).
ref: 1998 January 16, Don Rose, “Restaurant Tours: Steve Chiapetti's triple threat”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of taramosalata.
taverner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taverners
Etymology: From Old French tavernier.
Senses: examples: text: In the Ninth Year Book of that Monarch's reign there is a case in which it was held that 'if I go to a tavern to eat, and the taverner gives and sells me meat and it corrupted, whereby I am made very sick, action lies against him without any express warranty, for there is a warranty in law'; and in the time of Henry the Seventh the learned Justice Keilway said, 'No man can justify selling corrupt victual, but an action on the case lies against the seller, whether the victual was warranted to be good or not.'
ref: 1919, Arthur Train, Tutt and Mr. Tutt:
synonyms: innkeeper
tavernkeeper
glosses: Someone who owns or runs a tavern.
Derived terms: Tavenner
taverners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taverner
teached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English teched, techede.
Senses: examples: text: I always like to be there to teach or to be teached.
ref: 1850, Unknown Author, Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy:
text: His Sam failed to pass at the preliminar' examination, an' wasn't allowed to try for a diplomy in public; an' Enoch an' his wife, why, they seem to hold it ag'in' me thet Sonny could step in at the last moment an' take what their boy could n't git th'oo the trials an' tribulations of a whole year o' bein' teached lessons at home an' wrestled in prayer over.
ref: 1911, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Sonny, A Christmas Guest:
text: Ole Missus and Marse learn't me to never tell a lie, and she teached me dat's de way to git along well.
ref: 1936-1938, Works Projects Administration, Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2:
glosses: simple past and past participle of teach
tarogato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarogatos
form: tárogató
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian tárogató.
Senses: examples: text: Saturday night, with percussionist Gregg Bendian and bassist William Parker, he played a nearly model free-jazz gig: starting at absolute Mount Kilimanjaro intensity, two sets dipped and rose with the jagged topography of peaks and valleys, Brotzmann switching between tenor (his main ax), E-flat clarinet, alto sax, and tarogato (a wooden instrument about the size and shape of a soprano sax with a nasal, double-reedish sound).
ref: 1994 May 6, John Corbett, “Head Music”, in Chicago Reader:
text: With his huge, coarse tone and urgent phrasing Brotzmann sounds like he could dominate any group using anything he plays, which includes saxophones, clarinets, and the tarogato, an eastern European reed instrument.
ref: 2003 December 19, Bill Meyer, “Brotzmann/Drake Duo”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a reed instrument originating from Hungary
teacherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teacherly
form: most teacherly
Etymology: From teacher + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to teachers.
examples: text: Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either.
ref: 1988 November 18, Albert Williams, “Don't Call Me Cleo”, in Chicago Reader:
text: While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways.
ref: 1997 April 4, Jack Helbig, “The Fever”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum").
ref: 2004 May 14, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Suggestive of a teacher.
teare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teares
Senses: examples: text: Emongst the rest a gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crewe In curteous usage and unstained hewe. 120 Who, being nimbler ioynted than the rest, And more industrious, gathered more store Of the fields honour than the others best; Which they in secret harts envying sore, Tolde Venus, when her as the worthiest 125 She praisd', that Cupide (as they heard before) Did lend her secret aide in gathering Into her lap the children of the Spring, Whereof the goddesse gathering iealous feare,-- Not yet unmindfull how not long agoe 130 Her sonne to Psyche secrete love did beare, And long it close conceal'd, till mickle woe Thereof arose, and manie a rufull teare,-- Reason with sudden rage did overgoe; And, giving hastie credit to th'accuser, 135 Was led away of them that did abuse her.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: Pray, madam, pray: From those faire eyes one penetentiall teare Would force whole legions of heavens brightest Sa[ints] If they have power to intercede for earth To beg for mercy for you.
ref: 1882-89, Various, A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tear.
teare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: These bloudy hands shall teare his triple Crowne, And fire accursed Rome about his eares.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
text: Then am I enjoyned, therewith to open her accursed body, and teare out her hard and frozen heart, with her other inwards, as now thou seest me doe, which I give unto my Hounds to feede on.
ref: 1913, Edward Hutton, Ravenna, A Study:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tear.
teareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tear
ted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: teds
Etymology: From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
Senses: examples: text: The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A Teddy boy.
ted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: teds
form: tedding
form: tedded
form: tedded
Etymology: From Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).
Senses: examples: text: Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.
ref: 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:
glosses: To spread hay for drying.
tedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ted
tedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: teddings
Senses: glosses: The process by which hay is tedded, or spread out for drying.
tedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ted
tedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tedded
form: most tedded
Senses: examples: text: Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe / Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes / Adjoind, from each thing met conceaves delight, / The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine […].
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row / Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, / They spread the breathing harvest to the sun […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Spread out to dry.
teds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ted
teds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ted
Saint Paddy's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Saint Patrick's Day