cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foregathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregatherings
form: forgathering
Senses: examples: text: [I]n all our foregatherings she was careful to sit as far from Felicity as possible.
ref: 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 19, in The Story Girl:
text: The very pure source […] is the snowy mountain-peak above. There, eternally, goes on the white foregathering of the crystals, out of the deathly cold of the heavens; […]
ref: 1916, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Return Journey”, in Twilight in Italy, London: Duckworth and Co. […], →OCLC, page 280:
glosses: A gathering together; an assembly.
foregathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forgathering
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foregather
foregathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foregather
queane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queanes
Senses: examples: text: Downe with this litle queane, that hath at me such spite, Saue you from hir maister, it is a very sprite.
ref: 1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister:
text: You shall finde it no otherwise my sister, but that either this cursed queane hath invented a great lie, or else that she never saw the shape of her husband.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: She cals her barren Jade, / Base Queane, and riv’ld Witch[…]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 3 p. 42:
glosses: Archaic spelling of quean.
guideword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guidewords
form: guide word
Etymology: From guide + word.
Senses: examples: text: Naturalness is perhaps the best guideword to keep in mind.
ref: 1947, Wilson Library Bulletin, page 528:
text: Heidegger accompanies this meditation, however, with a second, more overtly "philosophical" or "thinking" reflection on the "guideword" Das Wesen der Sprache: -- die Sprache des Wesens ("The essence of language: -- the language of essence").
ref: 1996, Christopher Fynsk, Language and relation: -- that there is language, page 41:
glosses: A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
examples: text: Secondly, the teacher-librarian must know how to use books herself to find information — title page, table of contents, index, guidewords, etc.
ref: 1936, Wilson Bulletin for Librarians, page 18:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A word that is printed at the top or bottom of the page in a reference work, in order to help readers find a specific entry.
examples: text: One purpose of a traditional memo or e-mail is to provide essential information quickly and easily, so there is no restriction, other than appearance or practicality, on the number or variety of guidewords you include.
ref: 2001, The New Office Professional's Handbook, page 280:
topics: business
glosses: Any of the words in a memo or email that define metadata regarding the message, such as sender, recipient, and subject.
guidewords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guideword
ã
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: examples: commãd — command
hãmer — hammer
glosses: The letter a with a tilde, replacing the sequence an or am.
ȧ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the BATH vowel
ạ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨a⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the THOUGHT vowel, as in the word "call".
pseudodocumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodocumentaries
Etymology: From pseudo- + documentary.
Senses: examples: text: A sort of pseudodocumentary, "Kaleidoscope" takes a generic event--here, "Sally gets a second cat"--and describes it through rapid-fire testimony from "witnesses" (their roles are given them by the audience)--Sally, the second cat, a neighbor's dog, etc.
ref: 1988 May 20, Lawrence Bommer, “Cardiff Giant's Comedy Sideshow”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In 2004, while he was a film student at New York University, he made a pair of shorts — both called “Buy It Now,” one narrative, the other pseudodocumentary — about a 15-year-old girl who sells her virginity on eBay. Mr. Campos posted an actual auction on the site, eliciting nearly 4,000 responses that bid the price up to $2,000 before the ad was removed.
ref: 2008 October 5, Dennis Lim, “Young and Out to Redefine What’s Real”, in New York Times:
glosses: A film that mimics the style of a documentary but is not actually produced by filming real events
Related terms: mockumentary
pseudodocumentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodocumentary
sluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sluff
sluffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sluff
sluffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sluff
onomatopoeiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nor can I approve of the term employed by Torrend : onomatopoetic substantives. Substantives they are certainly not, as they pertain to none of the eight classes and have nothing of the nature of nouns. On the other hand, only a part of them are real onomatopoeiae, i. e. words resembling the sound made by the thing of which they are the names.
ref: 1912, Henri Alexandre Junod, The life of a South African tribe (Neuchatel: Attinger) p. 146 fn (1)
text: Al-Khwarizmi, who follows Al-Farabi's definitions slavishly, introduces but two onomatopoeiae tan and tanna to represent relatively, it would seem, ˘ and ¯.
ref: 1943, Henry George Farmer, Saʾadyah Gaon on the Influence of Music, London: A. Probsthain, page 76:
glosses: plural of onomatopoeia
quæry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quæries
Senses: examples: text: I muſt own I don’t underſtand the meaning of the 18th quæry, ſo muſt leave it to be anſwered by thoſe who are better able to caſt up what the quæriſt calls the ſum‐total of harmony.
ref: 1758, Sylvanus Urban, The Gentleman’s Magazine and Hiſtorical Chronicle, volume XXVIII, page 423, Anſwer to the Queries on Chaunting
glosses: Archaic spelling of query.
quæry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quæries
form: quærying
form: quæried
form: quæried
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of query.
Pasteur pipettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasteur pipette
echini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinus
onomatope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒnəmətəʊp/
ipa: /ˈɑnəmətoʊp/
Forms: form: onomatopes
Etymology: Irregular back-formation from onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the onomatopes were given with the notations of their respective sounds as they appear to the Indian ear; thus, the sound of the plane and drawing-knife (s-s-s) becomes the root sⁱu […]
ref: 1892 January 1, “Notes and News”, in Science, volume 19, number 465, page 3:
text: From the start, [Jean] Gabin’s voice belonged to a popular, Parisian, sociological register, with his stress on vowels (‘a’ becomes ‘âââ’), his colourful slang and onomatopes such as ‘bah !’, ‘bof !’, ‘Eeeh ben !’ (for ‘Eh bien !’ [‘well!’]).
ref: 2024 November 8, Ginette Vincendeau, “Cinéma théâtral: stardom and performance in the Tradition of Quality”, in French Screen Studies, volume 25, numbers 1-2, Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, page 106:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis.
Synonyms: ideophone
onomatopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomatope
Kushitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kushite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cushitic.
Kushitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kushite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cushitic.
windoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windoid
Kushite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kushites
Etymology: From Kush + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cushite.
Derived terms: Kushitic
Kushites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kushite
phenobarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenobarbs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: The drug phenobarbital or phenobarbitone.
glosses: A tablet of the drug.
phenobarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenobarb
Nilo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: Nilo-Saharan
Nilo-Hamitic
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Nile.
Related terms: Niloto-
untessellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tessellated.
Senses: glosses: Not tessellated.
unpixellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unpixelated
Etymology: From un- + pixellated.
Senses: examples: text: Using SVG, you can define images — static or animated — that appear clear and unpixellated at nearly any rendering size.
ref: 2008, Ray Rischpater, Beginning Java ME Platform:
glosses: Not pixellated.
unpixelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pixelated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unpixellated.
fetiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetiches
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fetish.
wasbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒzbiən/
Forms: form: wasbians
Etymology: Blend of was + lesbian.
Senses: examples: text: On the island she will meet up with her pal Mary Sharon (a slightly subdued, slightly aging radical-feminist-lesbian attorney), Teddie (ex-love of Rachel and only slightly less-true-believer), Rachel (who’s hosting the reunion on her tiny island), Grace (enigma extraordinaire), and Julie (ex of Tyler’s, now a ‘wasbian’).
ref: 1999 October 31, Beren deMotier, “Mystery Forum,” The Lesbian Review of Books
glosses: A former lesbian who is now heterosexual.
Synonyms: word: hasbian
ansate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ansātus (“handled; having handles”), from ansa (“handle”).
Senses: examples: text: The decoration of this feature is singular for it displays in relief an ansate, oval dish complete with offerings.
ref: 1973, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 124:
text: 1990, John Irwin Jones, Chapter 15: Comparative Development of Somatic Sensory Cortex, Edward G. Jones, Alan Peters (editors), Cerebral Cortex, Volume 8B: Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part 2, page 407,
In cats, the ansate sulcus forms a posterior boundary for much of SI, and the coronal sulcus functions as a jugular sulcus demarcating forelimb and face projections.
text: Only two British tablets are ansate: these are Caerleon (Text-fig. 5), which (to quote the editors) “has two nail-holes for attachment”, and Bath 15, which was nonetheless folded up and deposited in the hot spring.
ref: 2010, Roger Tomlin, “Chapter Seven: Cursing a Thief in Iberia and Britain”, in Richard Lindsay Gordon, Francisco Marco Simón, editors, Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2005, page 249:
synonyms: ansated
glosses: That has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
Derived terms: ansate cross
gurriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurrier
furrin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furrin
form: most furrin
Senses: examples: text: I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots.
ref: 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:
text: And the gutturals of that furrin English is always a little hard to catch.
ref: 1877, R. D. Blackmore, Erema:
text: Not that my young gentleman is troublesome, mind you, only so full of them outlandish furrin ways--abideth all day long without ating ort, so different from a honest Englishman.
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of foreign.
airly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: airlier
form: airliest
Senses: examples: text: The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: Ye're up airly the mornin'.
ref: 1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker:
text: "They're comin' airly," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer."
ref: 1921, Nellie L. McClung, Purple Springs:
glosses: early
desart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desarts
Senses: examples: text: And novv thee vvorſhip, mongſt that bleſſed throng / Of heauenlie Poets and Heroes ſtrong. / So thou both here and there immortall art, / And euerie vvhere through excellent deſart.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature C2, verso:
text: See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About vvhoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / Hovv deſart novv it ſtands, expos'd in Air!
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 441, lines 252–255:
text: [T]his profeſſion of a ſingle life vvas propagated in Egypt by Antony, and in Syria by Hilarion; and ſpred ſo faſt, that ſoon after the time of Julian the Apoſtate a third part of Egyptians vvere got into the deſarts of Egypt.
ref: a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Of the King who Did According to His Will, and Magnified Himself above Every God, and Honoured Mahuzzims, and Regarded Not the Desire of Women”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), pages 197–198:
text: Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
text: Farewell with him all that made sickness pompous—the spell that hushed the household—the desart-like stillness, felt throughout its inmost chambers—[…]
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “The Convalescent”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 76:
text: We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness—and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us.
ref: 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter VIII, in Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of desert.
backslidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backsliding
desarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desart
forrard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: forrad
Senses: examples: text: Here and there an adventurous genius coins a phrase for the benefit of posterity,--as we once heard a mate order a couple of men to "go forrard and trim the ship's whiskers," to the utter bewilderment of his captain, who, in thirty years' following of the sea, had never heard the martingale chains and stays so designated.
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
text: Off, here, Masser Mile--larboard bow, well forrard; look sharp and soon see him, yourself, sir."
ref: 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford:
text: The old chap who had just come off the look-out, had returned forrard again, and I was alone on that part of the deck.
ref: 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Forward.
forrard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: forrad
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Forward.
Luana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: American 18th/19th century coinage, a fanciful spelling of Louanna, from Lou + Anna.
Senses: examples: text: Young Eagle, with a proud heart, led Luana forth to the mossy bank of the river,
ref: 1845 Lowell Offering, Misses Curtis and Farley, Vol.4, page 250 ("Nepomiwassit" by "J.L.B")
text: The Bird of Paradise, by Mr Richard Walton Tully, is more pictorial than decorative. […] One of these characters, an American physician named Paul Wilson, sinks from civilisation to savagery because he marries a native princess named Luana […]
ref: 1912, The Bookman, volume 35, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 168:
text: Luana Patten, a former Disney child star, was cast as the level-headed romantic interest.
ref: 2011, R. Serge Denisoff, William D. Romanowski, Risky Business: Rock in Film:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
futilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futility
garcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garcons
Senses: examples: text: And, harkee, garcon! let the blood Of cobwebbed years be spilt for him-- Aye, in a rich Burgundy flood This piscatorial pride should swim; So, were he living, he should say He gladly died for me and mine, And, as it was his native spray, He'd lash the sauce--What, ho! the wine!
ref: 1905, Eugene Field, John Smith, U.S.A.:
text: The garcon was a small man in the fifties, inclined to corpulence, with a large head, large, blue-gray eyes, purplish lips, and blue-black hair cut pompadour.
ref: 1916, Henry Sheahan, A Volunteer Poilu:
text: One day Henri, the garcon, murmured confidentially, as she left the cafe after a particularly slim meal: "These thin little blondes, they do not last long.
ref: 1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights:
glosses: Alternative spelling of garçon.
gauntleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gantleted
form: gauntletted
Etymology: From gauntlet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It was brought to General Lee as he sat on his horse near the Chancellorsville House, and, unable to open it with his gauntleted hands, he passed it to me with directions to read it to him.
ref: 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
text: One of the Duke's gauntleted hunting-gloves lay on the floor; she stooped and lifted it and put it to her lips.
ref: 1906, Marie Hay, A German Pompadour:
text: Jess, who loved a romance, clasped her gauntleted hands.
ref: 1912, Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly:
glosses: Adorned with one or more gauntlets
examples: text: The opportunity was also taken to remove one of the few examples of gauntleted tracks in this country, interlacing the down fast and slow lines over the bridge.
ref: 1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Selby swing bridge”, in Trains Illustrated, page 647:
text: The narrow gauge is gauntleted with the up main line through a tunnel beneath the town and then turns away to its separate station.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: interlaced
glosses: Having a gauntlet (overlapping parallel rail tracks).
forgit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: D-don't forgit your old sooty friend.
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858:
text: "We are going to run them machines an' don't you forgit it," mumbled Hellig, and lurched forward.
ref: 1909, Edward Stratemeyer, The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle:
text: You shook on it, don't forgit that, young feller."
ref: 1921, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forget.
Derived terms: forgitty
fotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "I'll fotch her up," volunteered Texas, who had a hyena's hankering after dead bodies.
ref: 1871, John William De Forest, Overland:
text: I'll fotch him, Miss Jinny.
ref: 1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, Complete:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fetch.
examples: text: My granmammy done hear me bawlin an go fotch me to my mammy's house.
ref: 1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:
text: Brer Rabbit come prancin' 'long twel he spy de Tar-Baby, en den he fotch up on his behine legs like he wuz 'stonished.
ref: 1900, Louise Manly, Southern Literature From 1579-1895:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of fetch; fetched
foundress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊndɹəs/
ipa: /-ɪs/
ipa: /faʊnˈdɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈfaʊndɹəs/
rhymes: (one RP pronunciation) -ɛs
Forms: form: foundresses
Etymology: From founder (“one who founds or casts metals”) + -ess (suffix forming female forms of words). Founder is derived from Middle French fondeur (“owner of a foundry; ironworker in charge of smelting, founder”) (modern French fondeur), from Latin fundātor (“founder”) (rare): see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: The great bell of my heart is crack'd, and never / Can ring in tune againe, till't be nevv caſt / By one only skilfull Foundreſſe.
ref: c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 35:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A female founder (“one who founds or casts metals”).
generall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Moreover it seemeth that Gonzalvo de Oviedo, a famous Spanish writer, alludeth unto the sayde voyage in the beginning of the 13. chapter of the 19. booke of his generall and natural historie of the West Indies, agreeing very well with the time about which Richard Eden writeth that the foresayd voyage was begun.
ref: 1526, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI:
text: Centurions, and l. peticapitaines: I would then apoinet a generall hed, over all the main battaile: I would that every Conestable should have an Ansigne, and a Drum.
ref: 1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:
text: And because it is so, S. Peter in his first canonicall or generall epistle, forbiddeth that women should appeare, shew, and sett out themselues by theyr apparayle and neatnes.
ref: 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
glosses: Archaic spelling of general.
halfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] take a pint of Hippocras, halfe a pound of sweet butter, two or three Nutmeg, little Vinegar, poure it into the Pye in the Oven and let it lye and soake an hour, then take it out, and when it is cold stop the vent hole.
ref: 1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.", The Compleat Cook:
text: In 1721 in Berwick, Maine, peddler William Moore sold Daniel Goodwin "a yard and a halfe of Stuff for handcarchiefs," […
ref: 2004 June 4, Harold Henderson, “The Consumer Revolution”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Archaic spelling of half.
halfe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virgins halfe dead dragged by their golden haire, […].
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage:
glosses: Archaic spelling of half.
Sarita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Kenedy County, Texas, United States.
headforemost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From head + foremost.
Senses: examples: text: ’Twere best at once to sink to peace,
⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws,
⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws
Of vacant darkness and to cease.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.
ref: 1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master:
text: He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.
ref: 1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?:
text: Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!"
ref: 1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian:
text: Just then there came a loud crash and an ominous rumbling and pounding from the heart of the ship—her machinery had broken loose, and was dashing its way toward the bow, tearing out partitions and bulkheads as it went—the stern rose rapidly high above them; for a moment she seemed to pause there—a vertical shaft protruding from the bosom of the ocean, and then swiftly she dove headforemost beneath the waves.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 116:
glosses: headfirst
Synonyms: headfirst
headlong
handwritings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handwriting
greate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes.
ref: 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure:
text: 132 Perhaps the sillie worme is labour'd sore, And wearied that it can doe noe more; If it be so, as I am greate a-dread, I wish tenne thousand times that I were dead.
ref: c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines:
text: No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe.
ref: 1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography:
glosses: Archaic spelling of great.
hallooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halloo
hallooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halloo
hallooing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallooings
Senses: examples: text: Whisperings and hallooings are like to a deaf ear.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A cry of halloo.
foundresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foundress
gentlefolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩fəʊks/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩ˌfoʊks/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɛɾ̃l̩-]
Etymology: From gentle + folks.
Senses: examples: text: We ſay that Shores wife hath a prety foote, / A cherry lippe, a bonny eie, a paſſing pleaſing tongue: / And that the Queenes kindred are made gentlefolks.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: What do gentlefolks come to an inn for, if it is not for entertainment and accommodation?
ref: 1808 October 1, “Mrs. Bell’s Petition”, in The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, volume III, London: Printed for Samuel Tipper, […]; T. Gillet, printer, […], →OCLC, page 286:
text: What was it to her what gentlefolks ate or drank, provided they paid for it honestly? There were many honest gentlemen, whose stomachs could not abide bacon, grease, or dripping, especially on a Friday; and what was that to her, or any one in her line, so gentlefolks paid honestly for the trouble?
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 223:
text: If there be any evil in novels at all, it is when they take people from their business—when they occupy a mother's time to the neglect of her children—when they lead idle boys to neglect their lessons, and when they lead idle gentlefolks to fancy themselves employed, when they are only killing time.
ref: 1827 August 18, W. P. S., “The Common-place Book. No. XIX. Novel Writers and Novel Readers.”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume X, number 269, London: Printed and published by J[ohn] Limbird, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119:
text: I love to hear thy earnest voice wherever thou art hid, / Thou testy little dogmatist, thou pretty Katydid! / Thou mindest me of gentlefolks, old gentlefolks are they— / Thou say'st an undisputed thing, in such a solemn way.
ref: 1839 November 16, [Oliver Wendell Holmes], “The Question Asked”, in Supplement to the Connecticut Courant, volume V, number 46, Hartford, Conn.: John L. Boswell, publisher, →OCLC, page 361, column 1:
text: "Ah!" she said, with a little cry of disappointment, "my man said not to make too sure, and that the ways of the gentlefolks is hard to know."
ref: 1885 January, [Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant], “The Portrait. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXXXVII, number DCCCXXXI, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of gentlefolk.
synonyms: word: gentlefolk
gnawings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnawing
goe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture[…].
ref: 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
text: And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee:[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:15–16, columns 1–2:
text: With divers kinds of Riddance The smoaking Earth is wet, And all aflowe to seaward goe The Torrents wide of Sweat!
ref: 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber:
glosses: Archaic spelling of go.
goin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870:
text: Youre goin on fit to raise the street." "
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:
text: Now I got nothing goin on but a fockin ping-pong tournament with Kurt Cobain, who fockin cheats, man, like it's gonna do him any fockin good.
ref: 1994 April 29, Michael Dolan, “Nixon in Hell”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of going.
grewsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grewsome
form: most grewsome
Senses: examples: text: It was rather a grewsome scene.
ref: 1895, Henry Seton Merriman, The Sowers:
text: True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country—the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine—but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Battle of the Sand-belt”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 560:
text: His voice was hoarse and his unkempt head only added to its grewsome quality.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
text: And various grewsome objects, a card case of human skin, and the twisted scarf used by a strangler.
ref: 1909, Cleveland Moffett, chapter 19, in Through the Wall:
text: I sprang back, giving utterance to a cry, which brought Watkins to me, and the two of us stared at the grewsome object and then about into the wavering shadows.
ref: 1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gruesome.
grumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grumblingly
form: most grumblingly
Etymology: From grumbling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But they went off disappointed, and grumblingly.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
text: This threat being dramatically capped by the click of a cocking pistol, 'Frisco Kid obeyed and went grumblingly back to the cockpit. "
ref: 1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler:
text: Amy grumblingly agreed to give the stream another chance to behave itself.
ref: 1915, Ralph Henry Barbour, Left Tackle Thayer:
text: He looked down at her, and her eagreness softened him, so that he took her by the hand and said grumblingly, 'Oh well, if it means so much to you, come along.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 78:
glosses: While or as if grumbling
hackman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackmen
Etymology: From hack + -man.
Senses: examples: text: But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Innocents Abroad, Part 3 of 6:
text: He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870:
text: The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying.
ref: 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
glosses: The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
hackmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackman
guaranties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guaranty
guaranties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guaranty
gutturals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttural
frowningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frowningly
form: most frowningly
Etymology: From frowning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "And by what name is he known?" frowningly inquired the king.
ref: 1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives:
text: "I'm sorry to hear you say that," said Wade, frowningly.
ref: 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl:
text: She looked at him frowningly.
ref: 1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre:
text: This was to defeat Podson's urgent need of anybody's company to reprieve him from his own. He was constantly letting out a howl of exasperation with, "So help me Bob, Mudgy, you are a rude cow. Here have I been talking to you for half an hour and not a blinking word out of you." For which Bradly might, or might not, look frowningly round to locate a disturbance in the remote distance before returning to tonal trance again.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: While or as if frowning
golosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goloshes
Senses: examples: text: Season of the ripe golosh; Running rivers in the street, Frozen toes, and soaking feet; Take this wreath of Poesie Dedicated unto thee, Undiluted stream of mush To the Merry Month of Slush!
ref: 1909, John Kendrick Bangs, The Autobiography of Methuselah:
text: "Are you wearing your goloshes?" said he, brightening.
ref: 1912, J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel:
text: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
text: In a third cage three elderly ladies in raincoats and goloshes were imprisoned.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 158:
glosses: Alternative spelling of galosh.
goloshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golosh
neatherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːtˌhɜː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈnithɚd/
Forms: form: neatherds
form: neat-heard
Etymology: From neat (“cattle”) + herd.
Senses: examples: text: I am terrified at the sight of the neatherd of thousand eyes [i.e., Argus], for he is journeying on, keeping a cunning glance, whom not even after death does earth conceal;
ref: 1897, Theodore Alois Buckley (translator), Æschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes, David McKay, page 34
glosses: A cowherd; one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen.
Derived terms: neatherdess
Related terms: word: bearherd
word: cowherd
word: goatherd
word: gooseherd
word: herd
word: herder
word: herding dog
word: herd instinct
word: herdsman
alt: Boötes
word: Herdsman
word: herdswoman
word: hogherd
word: horseherd
word: oxherd
word: shepherd
word: swanherd
word: swineherd
heavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of heaving
heered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Putty soon I heered somebody down in the woods a-callin'.
ref: 1877, Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, The Young Trail Hunters:
text: Old as I am, Miss Majesty, an' used as I am to cowboy excentrikities, I nearly dropped daid when I heered that little hobble-footed, burned-up Montana cow-puncher say there wasn't any game too swell for him, an' gol-lof was just his speed.
ref: 1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars:
glosses: heard; simple past and past participle of hear
heirship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: airship
Forms: form: heirships
Etymology: From heir + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
text: When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.
ref: 1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8:
text: "After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.
ref: 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm:
glosses: The status of being heir to something or someone
Derived terms: forced heirship
hearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪən/
ipa: /ˈhɪɹn/
Senses: examples: text: I've hearn it said that when a man has eaten a hearty dinner, and goes to sleep with the hot sun pourin' right down on him, he's apt to see and hear a good many strange things before he wakes up.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: "'Tis a trifle early, but I hearn tell that lyin' makes people hungry."
ref: 1905, Charles Felton Pidgin, Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks:
text: Like enough he's hearn of that silver mine, and that's the reason he's after Johnnie."
ref: 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
glosses: past participle of hear
piggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡɪn/
Forms: form: piggins
Etymology: From Middle English pygyn, from pig (“container for wine”), possibly so named from being made of pigskin. Compare Scottish Gaelic pigean, diminutive of pigeadh, pige (“an earthen jar, pitcher, or pot”), Irish pigín, Welsh picyn.
Senses: examples: text: At length a little negro girl appeared, walking straight as an arrow, with a piggin full of water on her head.
ref: 1899, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Goophered Grapevine:
synonyms: pig
pigg
glosses: A small pail, can, or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc.
Derived terms: piggin bottoms
block letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block letters
Senses: glosses: A letter written in clear, unjoined handwriting.
Related terms: block capital
block capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block capitals
Senses: glosses: A capital letter written by hand.
Synonyms: block letter
lading-can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lading-cans
Senses: examples: text: Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tin can (containing two or three quarts) used for taking hot water out of a boiler.
glosses: A smaller vessel, often graduated for volume, used by traditional grocers for measuring goods such as sugar or rice from bulk to retailable quantities; a piggin.
behated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behated
form: most behated
Etymology: From be- + hated; compare beloved.
Senses: glosses: hated
micarta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micartas
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark Micarta.
Senses: examples: text: “Aluminum,” Chia said. “They melt old cans they dig up on the beach, cast it in sand molds. These panels are micarta. That's linen with this resin in it.”
ref: 1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A composite of fabrics (typically linen or paper fabric) using phenolic resins cured under pressure and high temperature to produce laminates.
wikipedia: Micarta
burton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burtons
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
glosses: Storage of cargo athwartships.
Derived terms: go for a burton
Spanish burton
Related terms: aburton
go for a burton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes for a burton
form: going for a burton
form: went for a burton
form: gone for a burton
form: go for a Burton
Etymology: Originated in the RAF in World War II. Unknown beyond that, but may have some association with beer. One version is that it was from a series of ads for Burton's beer which showed a group of people with one missing and the tag line "He's gone for a Burton".
Senses: examples: text: [G]one for a Burton […] has, in the R.A.F., ousted gone West[.] "He is dead" may appear somewhat remote from "He has gone for a glass of Burton": but, then, all euphemisms do, at first, appear remote.
ref: 1945, Eric H Partridge, “Words Get Their Wings”, in College English, volume 7, number 1, page 27:
glosses: To be killed.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To be lost, spoiled or destroyed.
raw_tags: of a person or object
ė
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates the HAPPY vowel (final vowel of happy).
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element of the digraph ⟨ėr⟩, indicating the NURSE vowel.
ị
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨i⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /j/, as in the word "peculiar".
ȯ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ô
ö
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel
interlineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlineations
Etymology: From interlineate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: He made the interlineation, rolled the scroll and sealed it.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth Miller, The Yoke:
text: He turned to the table and took up a long, folded document, which I saw was done in his cramped hand and with many interlineations.
ref: 1909, Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight:
text: Erasures, blots, interlineations always spoil the beauty of any letter.
ref: 1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:
glosses: A notation made between the lines, especially in a handwritten document; interlining.
interlineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlineation
ṡ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨s⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /z/, as in the word "his".
interfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interfuses
form: interfusing
form: interfused
form: interfused
Etymology: From inter- + fuse.
Senses: examples: text: They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861:
text: Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused, the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed.
ref: 1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe:
text: It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings.
ref: 1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters:
text: It is obvious that these three streams would mingle and interfuse with each other a good deal; but as far as they were separable the first would tend to create Solar heroes and Sun-myths; the second Vegetation-gods and personifications of Nature and the earth-life; while the third would throw its glamour over the other two and contribute to the projection of deities or demons worshipped with all sorts of sexual and phallic rites.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 20:
glosses: To fuse or blend together
Derived terms: interfusable
hez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He's here with some of his folks az hez got inter trouble--I'm forgettin' to tell ye.
ref: 1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills:
text: "Well, then, you c'n explain it to them as hez ben to high school, an' that's sister Phoebe.
ref: 1904, Harold Steele Mackaye, The Panchronicon:
text: Jim was visibly excited; he let go the telephone, and, turning around, full over against us, he said, "By ----, boys! the stage hez been robbed!"
ref: 1911, Eugene Field, Second Book of Tales:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of has.
exicosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: loss of fluid
genii loci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genius loci
handicraftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handicraftsmen
Etymology: From handicraft + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: I knowe, that a handie-crafts-man [translating artisan] will ſcarcely looke of his worke, to gaze vpon an ordinarie man: Whereas to ſee a notable great perſon come into a towne, he will leave both worke and ſhop.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 384:
text: Handy-Crafts-Men, of Strong, & Manly Arts, as Smiths, Maſons, Carpenters, &c
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 178:
text: He may, among the drunkards, be a hearty fellow, and, among sober handicraftsmen, a free-spoken gentleman; but he must have some better distinction, before he is a patriot.
ref: 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol.6:
text: Like all native handicraftsmen he sits down at his work.
ref: 1878, James Inglis, Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier:
text: I know that a good honest handicraftsman, Erik, the glove-maker, has been your suitor; he is a widower without children, he is well off; think whether you cannot be content with him.
ref: 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:
glosses: A practitioner of a handicraft, usually male.