cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pericyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericytes
Etymology: From peri- + -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: Since 1873, when Rouget regarded pericytes as contractile elements (Rouget 1874), the discussion concerning this ability has never ceased. Pericytes are likely to respond to vasoactive molecules such as nitric oxide, prostacyclin, angiotensin II, and endothelin-1, because they express respective receptors (Dehouck et al., 1997, Chakravarthy and Gardiner, 1999, Healy and Wilk, 1993).
ref: 2007, Martin Krũger, Ingo Bechmann, “Pericytes”, in Thomas E. Lane, Monica Carson, Conni Bergmann, Tony Wyss-Coray, editors, Central Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation, page 39:
text: 2008, Frederick Pfister, Yuxi Feng, Hans-Peter Hammes, Pericyte Loss in the Diabetic Retina, Elia Duh, Diabetic Retinopathy, Humana Press, page 249,
However, due to the morphological similarities of rodent retinal capillary endothelial cells and pericytes, markers allowing for the distinction of retinal capillary cells were crucial for quantitative analysis.
text: This vessel is assembled by mesonephros-derived endothelial stem cells and subsequently becomes stabilized by pericytes. The pericytes are either produced by the endothelial stem cells or acquired from pericyte progenitors located close by, presumably representing reticular stroma components of the aorta-gonad-mesonephros region known to contain a large number of different stem cell types.
ref: 2009, Michail S. Davidoff, Ralf Middendorff, Dieter Müller, Adolf F. Holstein, The Neuroendocrine Leydig Cells and their Stem Cell Progenitors, the Pericytes, Springer, page 106:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
glosses: A type of mesenchymal cell which in aggregation forms a contractile wrapping around a capillary.
Derived terms: hemangiopericyte
hemangiopericytoma
pericytal
transpericyte
premotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + motor.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near the front of the motor cortex.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing the interval between the arrival of a stimulus and the first changes in a muscle.
Related terms: premotor cortex
silkmoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkmoths
Etymology: From silk + moth.
Senses: glosses: Any moth whose caterpillar stage is a silkworm, especially Bombyx mori, the domestic silkmoth, but also others in the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae (as well as the Siberian silkmoth in the family Lasiocampidae).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Samia cynthia
word: ailanthus silkmoth
alt: Antherea assamiensis, syn. Antheraeopsis assamensis
word: Assam silkmoth
taxonomic: Eupackardia calleta
word: calleta silkmoth
taxonomic: Hyalophora euryalus
word: ceanothus silkmoth
taxonomic: Automeris cecrops
word: cecrops eyed silkmoth
alt: Antherea pernyi
word: Chinese oak silkmoth
taxonomic: Hyalophora columbia
word: Columbia silkmoth
taxonomic: Cricula trifenestrate
word: cricula silkmoth
taxonomic: Bombyx mori
word: domestic silkmoth
taxonomic: Samia cynthia ricini
word: eri silkmoth
taxonomic: Rothschildia forbesi
word: Forbes' silkmoth
english: Ceranchia
translation: Ceranchia
word: ghostly silkmoth
taxonomic: Hyalophora gloveri
word: Glover's silkmoth
taxonomic: Agapema anona
word: greasewood silkmoth
taxonomic: Automeris iris
word: iris eyed silkmoth
alt: Antherea yamamai
word: Japanese oak silkmoth
alt: Antherea yamamai
word: Japanese silkmoth
taxonomic: Caligula jonasi
word: Jonasi silkmoth
taxonomic: Hyalophora columbia
word: larch silkmoth
taxonomic: Automeris louisiana
word: Louisiana silkmoth
taxonomic: Bombyx mori
word: mulberry silkmoth
taxonomic: Automeris patagoniensis
word: Patagonia eyed silkmoth
taxonomic: Callosamia promethea
word: promethea silkmoth
taxonomic: Dendrolimus sibiricus
word: Siberian silkmoth
taxonomic: Callosamia promethea
word: spicebush silkmoth
taxonomic: Cricula ceylonica
word: Sri Lankan cricula silkmoth
taxonomic: Callosamia securifera
word: sweetbay silkmoth
taxonomic: Callosamia angulifera
word: tuliptree silkmoth
taxonomic: Bombyx mandarina
word: wild silkmoth
taxonomic: Automeris zephyria
word: zephyr eyed silkmoth
Aegenwulf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Ægenwulf.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English.
to all intents and purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for all intents and purposes
Etymology: 1500s, English law, originally “to all intents, constructions, and purposes” (found in an act adopted under Henry VIII in 1547).
Senses: examples: text: To all intents and purposes the case is closed.
text: This treaty is to all intents and purposes no longer viable.
text: With the arrival of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: Have you heard the word "gadgetbahn"? It's a portmanteau coined to describe transport proposals that, to all intents and purposes, ought to be delivered using proven railway technology... and yet go out of their way to be anything but a railway.
ref: 2020 November 18, Gareth Dennis, “Can Cambridgeshire plan transform transportation?”, in Rail, page 64:
glosses: For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect; practically speaking.
Synonyms: effectively
essentially
in essence
in effect
practically
virtually
TAIAP
IMRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Irish Music Rights Organisation.
slouch hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slouch hats
Senses: glosses: A broad-brimmed felt hat worn by soldiers, often with a clasp on the left side to allow a rifle to be carried over the shoulder.
Synonyms: word: Australian bush hat
word: Kossuth hat
word: sloucher
Goosnargh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Irish Gosan or Gusan (“a given name”) and Old Norse erg (“hill-pasture”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Preston district, Lancashire, England; most of the village is in Whittingham parish (OS grid ref SD5536).
panarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panarchy
stop the lights
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: * Originated as a catchphrase on the Irish quiz show Quicksilver, where contestants called out "Stop the lights" when they did not know the answer, to prevent loss of prize money for the next questions.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, stop the lights, I know all about it. There's a great shop in Phibsboro.Transformations' Any size you want.
ref: 2003, Stella Feehily, Duck, page 62:
text: Oh, stop the lights. The Priest is after parkin' across the street. I think he's comin' over here.
ref: 2003, Ronan Noone, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, page 57:
glosses: An interjection expressing exasperation or incredulity. or to illustrate the humour in a situation.
Myerscough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse mýrr and skógr, meaning "boggy wood".
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Myerscough and Bilsborrow parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4939).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse, originating in Lancashire.
Catterall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Catteralls
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Old English halh (“water meadow”) with given name Cater. Possibly from Old Norse kattarhali (“cat's tail”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4942).
glosses: A habitational surname.
cattle drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle drives
form: cattle-drive
Senses: examples: text: With the great annual cattle drives which start from the arid plains of the Red River and the Pecos comes the wild cowboy, with his six-shooter on his hip.
ref: 1884 June, “Beef: From the Range to the Shambles”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 69, number 409, page 292:
glosses: The process of transporting a herd of bovine animals (such as bulls, cows, or steers) by compelling them to walk across a significant distance of countryside, under the escort of drovers on horseback and often over a period of days.
examples: text: On the other side of the mill-pond was an open place called the Cross, because it was three-quarters of one, two lanes and a cattle-drive meeting there.
ref: 1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in The Trumpet Major:
glosses: A trail or route used for the movement of herds of cattle.
cattle-drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle-drives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cattle drive.
fift
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: With Fiſh repleniſht, and the Aire with Fowle, / Ev’ning and Morn solemniz’d the Fift day, / The Sixt, and of Creation laſt arose[…]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_VII), Samuel Simmons, lines 447–449:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fifth.
sensualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensuality
makes love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make love
Ainsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪnz.wɜːθ/
ipa: /ˈeɪnz.wɝθ/
Forms: form: Ainsworths
Etymology: From Old English Ægen + -es and worþ or worð, meaning "Aegen's enclosure".
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7610).
glosses: Former name of Ainsworth Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former unincorporated community in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana, annexed in the early 1990's by the city of Hobart.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Washington County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Brown County, Nebraska.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Franklin County, Washington.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A state park in Multnomah County, Oregon.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Ainsworth Hot Springs
Aegen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Simplification of Old English Ægen.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English.
Aintree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪn.tɹiː/
Etymology: From Old Norse einn and tré, meaning "a single tree".
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England; the home of the Grand National. (OS grid ref SJ3798).
Aldcliffe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.klɪf/
/ˈɔːld.klɪf/
Etymology: Probably from Old English eald (“old”) and clif (“cliff”), meaning "the high land long occupied". Possibly from the Old English personal name Alda, but this is unlikely. Coates (2000) rejects the proposed specifics and suggests a Proto-Brythonic/Cumbric equivalent of Welsh allt (“cliff”).
Senses: glosses: a hamlet near Lancaster in Lancashire, England.
Aldingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Alda + ham (“home”), probably translating as "home of Alda's people."
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD2871).
Alkincoats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unknown; Altenecote in 1202. Possibly a Cumbric compound from thr equivalents of Welsh allt (“cliff”) (+ a diminutive suffix) + the definite article y + coed (“wood, forest”). The final sylable seems to have been influenced by Old English cot (“cottage”).
Senses: glosses: An area of Colne in Lancashire.
quartzing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quartz + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The operations of quartzing, charging, skimming, matte handling, firing and grating are carried out at Garfield about the same as at Anaconda and Cananea.
ref: 1910, R. R. Moore, Recent Reverberatory Smelting Practice, in the Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 89, reprinted in Chemical Abstracts, published by the American Chemical Society, volume 4, number 13, page 1860
text: […] the loss of gold was still as high as 25 percent. This is one of the reasons why most early quartzing operations soon failed. There were thirty-nine mills in 1854 […]. By 1858, there were 279 quartzing mills operating. Although quartzing was practiced in each of the Mother Lode counties, […]
ref: 1967, Westways, volume 59, page 56:
text: In 1857, Hutchings’ California magazine bragged that the Suite / Creek Foundry and another at Grass Valley, fifty miles north, were "the only works in the mining district where all kinds of machinery in brass and iron are cast for quartzing, and without the […] "
ref: 1996, Historic Preservation, volume 48, issues 1–3, page 64
glosses: The extraction of quartz from the earth, and moreover the subsequent extraction of gold from quartz.
examples: text: The wedging away (thinning out), breaking and quartzing of the vein matter in tectonically critical zones does by no means indicate the end of the workability.
ref: 1956, Geologisches Jahrbuch: allgemeine und regionale Geologie, volume 71, page 665:
text: The mercury deposit studied is located among sedimentary rocks (limestones, jasperoids, and slates) which have been subjected to extensive quartzing and to other hydro thermal changes.
ref: 1968, Tsvetnye Metally, the Soviet Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals, volume 9, number 1, page 74:
text: Fig. 2. A schematic geological map (a) and section of ore zone (b) of the Sukhol Log deposit. […] 5 — zone of intense veinlet quartzing and mylonitization ("Radostnaya");
ref: 1999, Russian Geology and Geophysics, volume 40, issues 9–12, page 1594
glosses: The penetration of another rock or of earth by quartz.
gisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gist
gisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: gistings
Senses: examples: text: Currently almost every paper seems to feel that its readers ought to be interested in the newspaper's own comments on the news, while of the news itself the reader would want merely some gistings or highlights […]
ref: 1964, Michael Arnold Williams, Researching local history: the human journey, page 64:
glosses: summary, summarization/summarisation
high and low
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He searched high and low for the car keys, through every room in the house.
text: Yes! let the winds of the blastful North, wherever abroad their breath blow, / Tell high and low, to friend and foe, that my arm bestowed his death-blow!
ref: 1847, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 30, page 215:
glosses: Everywhere; all over the place.
glosses: Wholly; entirely.
high and low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: People of high rank or status.
Allerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name of the English location is possibly from Old English alor (“alder”) + -tun, or possibly it was named for Alfred the Great. It is in the Domesday Book as Alvertune.
Senses: glosses: A suburb and ward in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4086).
glosses: A suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1134).
glosses: A village in Sidell Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Wayne County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Allerton Mauleverer
Chapel Allerton
Allithwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Eilífr and þveit, meaning "Eilif's clearing".
Senses: glosses: A village in Allithwaite and Cartmel parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England. Formerly in Lancashire and then South Lakeland district until 2023 (OS grid ref SD3876).
Angave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ankave.
Alston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Ælfes (given name with possessive) tun, translating as "Ælf's town".
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A market town in Alston Moor parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7146).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in All Saints parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST3002).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Lancashire (no longer recorded as a place).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small town in Montgomery County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Laird Township, Houghton County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Alston Moor
Bere Alston
Dharruk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌrʊk/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Dharuk.
glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
clastogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clastogens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós) + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: Chromosomal mutations are recognised as morphological alterations in the gross structure of chromosomes (i.e. they are structural aberrations which can be detected microscopically). Compounds that cause chromosome damage are called clastogens.
ref: 2009, Lutz Müller, Anke Lühe, “Preclinical safety testing”, in John P. Griffin, editor, The Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine, 6th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any agent that causes breaks in chromosomes.
Related terms: clastogenesis
clastogenic
clastogenicity
coagonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coagonists
Etymology: From co- + agonist.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a number of agents that work together as an agonist.
cocarcinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocarcinogens
Etymology: From co- + carcinogen.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any agent than can cause the onset of cancer only when working with carcinogenic agents
cometabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cometabolisms
Etymology: From co- + metabolism.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A process in which a substance may be biodegraded only in the presence of a secondary source of carbon
Related terms: cometabolite
cometabolize
confounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confounders
Etymology: From confound + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who confounds.
examples: text: There is increasing evidence that cannabis use can act as a risk factor for the development of bipolar as well as psychotic disorders. A recent systematic review by Gibbs and colleagues identified several studies supporting a link between cannabis use and subsequent relapse of manic symptoms. This review also included a meta-analysis of two large prospective cohort studies, which found that cannabis use almost trebled the risk of new-onset subthreshold manic symptoms after adjusting for potential confounding factors. A further large prospective cohort study found cannabis use increased the risk of first episode bipolar by a factor of 5 after adjusting for confounders, and demonstrated evidence of a dose–response relationship.
ref: 2018 April 26, Tobias A Rowland, Steven Marwaha, “Epidemiology and risk factors for bipolar disorder”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 8, number 9, →DOI, pages 251–269:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable.
Related terms: deconfound
corticospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From cortico- + spinal.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
crocidolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocidolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κροκῠ́ς (krokŭ́s, “nap of cloth/wool”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), for its appearance.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fibrous, blue-green mineral that is a variety of riebeckite and is one of the six types of asbestos.
Synonyms: blue asbestos
Cape blue
cyanogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyanogenic
form: most cyanogenic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyanogenetic.
Derived terms: acyanogenic
cyanogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyanogenetic
form: most cyanogenetic
Etymology: From cyano- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Giving rise to cyanide
Related terms: cyanogenesis
cyanogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanogeneses
Etymology: From cyano- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation of cyanide, especially from a biological source
cyanotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanotoxins
Etymology: From cyano- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of toxins produced by the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).
Hyponyms: sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: anatoxin
sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: cylindrospermopsin
sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: lyngbyatoxin
sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: microcystin
sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: nodularin
sense: toxins produced by cyanobacteria
word: saxitoxin
hypervelocities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypervelocity
screes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scree
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: lews
form: lewis
form: leois
form: lewe
Etymology: From corruption of French louis, from Louis, presumably Louis IX or Louis XI, who issued gold écus.
Senses: examples: text: ...þe Ingliss noble, henry, ande Eduarde wᵗ þe ross, þe franche crowne, þe salute þe lewe and þe Ridar sall haif courss in þis realme...
ref: 1467, Scottish Acts of James III, Vol. II, p. 88
glosses: A French gold coin circulated in 15th-century Scotland.
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: lewer
form: lewest
form: lue
form: loo
form: looe
form: lee
Etymology: From Middle English lew, lewe, from Old English hlēow, hlēowe (“warm, sunny, sheltered”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewaz, *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱlēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Norse hlýr (“warm, mild”), ( > Danish ly (“lukewarm”)), hlær, German lau, which are themselves akin to Old Norse hlé (“lee”), Danish læ (“shelter”). Compare lee.
Senses: glosses: Sunny; warm.
glosses: Lukewarm, tepid.
examples: text: Lee or Lew, Calm, under the wind. Suss.
ref: 1674, J. Ray, "South & East Countrey Words" in Coll. Eng. Words, p. 70
text: His house... was ‘loo’ from the cold north winds.
ref: 1892, H. C. O'Neill, Devonshire Idyls, page 7:
glosses: Alee: protected from the wind.
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: lews
form: lue
form: loo
form: looe
form: lee
Etymology: From Middle English lew, lewe, from Old English hlēow, hlēowe (“warm, sunny, sheltered”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewaz, *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱlēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Norse hlýr (“warm, mild”), ( > Danish ly (“lukewarm”)), hlær, German lau, which are themselves akin to Old Norse hlé (“lee”), Danish læ (“shelter”). Compare lee.
Senses: examples: text: To th' end a fruitfull lew
May euerie Climate in his time renew.
ref: 1605, J. Sylvester translating G. de S. Du Bartas as Deuine Weekes & Wks, Book i, Ch. iv, p. 136
glosses: Warmth, heat.
examples: text: Lew, shelter; defence from storms or wind.
ref: 1825, J. Jennings, Observ. Dial. W. Eng., p. 52
text: Lew, a thatched hurdle, supported by sticks, and set up in a field to screen lambs, etc. from the wind.
ref: 1887, W. D. Parish & al., Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect
glosses: A shelter from the wind, particularly temporary structures raised by shepherds to protect their flocks.
Derived terms: house-lew
lewth
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: lews
form: lewing
form: lewed
form: lewed
form: lue
form: loo
form: looe
form: lee
Etymology: From Middle English lew, lewe, from Old English hlēow, hlēowe (“warm, sunny, sheltered”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewaz, *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱlēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Norse hlýr (“warm, mild”), ( > Danish ly (“lukewarm”)), hlær, German lau, which are themselves akin to Old Norse hlé (“lee”), Danish læ (“shelter”). Compare lee.
Senses: glosses: To make warm or lukewarm.
glosses: To become warm.
examples: text: Lew... Those trees will lew the house when they're up-grown.
ref: 1887, W. D. Parish & al., Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect
glosses: To shelter from the wind.
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: more lew
form: most lew
Etymology: Uncertain, but compare Old English ġelewed (“weakness, infirmity”) and limlǣweo (“limb-weak, lame”). Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *laiwą (“damage”); compare Old Norse læ (“venom, bane”).
Senses: glosses: Weak.
examples: text: Mi bodi wexit lewe.
ref: c. 1325, "Old Age" in T. Wright & al.'s 1845 Reliquiae Antiquae, Vol. II, p. 211
glosses: Sickly-looking, pale, wan.
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Etymology: Variant of lo (q.v.).
Senses: examples: text: hence bot a litill / she commys, lew, lew! / shy bryngys in her bill / som novels new; / Behald! / It is of an olif tre / A branch, thynkys me.
ref: 15th c., “Processus Noe cum filiis [Noah and the Ark]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 38, lines 507–510:
english: [She is] not far, she comes, look, look! She brings in her bill something new—behold! It is an olive tree's branch, I think.
translation: [She is] not far, she comes, look, look! She brings in her bill something new—behold! It is an olive tree's branch, I think.
glosses: Alternative form of lo or look: a cry to look at something.
Derived terms: looky-loo
lew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luː/
ipa: /ljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
homophone: lue
Forms: form: lews
form: lewing
form: lewed
form: lewed
Etymology: Variant of lue (q.v.).
Senses: examples: text: Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.
ref: 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 122:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Alternative form of lue: to sift, particularly while mining tin or silver.
trailhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailhands
form: trail hand
Etymology: From trail + hand.
Senses: examples: text: I've gone horseback riding many times since I was a little girl, and my 9-year-old daughter Emily considered herself an old trailhand.
ref: 2003 July 6, Sara Campbell, “When a horseback ride turns into horror on the hoof”, in The Dallas Morning News:
glosses: A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.
glosses: In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.
trail hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail hands
Senses: examples: 1965, ""What I Have Saw"," Time, 20 Aug.,
Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana.
glosses: Alternative spelling of trailhand.
miscegenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscegenates
form: miscegenating
form: miscegenated
form: miscegenated
Etymology: Back-formation from miscegenation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To mix or blend.
examples: text: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
ref: 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:
glosses: To mix or blend races in marriage, or in breeding.
Derived terms: miscegenator
unmiscegenated
Related terms: antimiscegenation
miscegenation
miscegenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscegenates
Etymology: Back-formation from miscegenation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The other [house was] that of ‘the Thompsons’, an ubiquitous and energetic band of half-breeds—miscegenates of mingled Indian, Negro or gypsy blood.
ref: 1931, Theododre Dreiser, Dawn:
glosses: A person born as a result of miscegenation.
geocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: A belief that the Earth is the center of the universe.
examples: text: The most famous major challenge was the modern rejection of geocentrism and its acceptance of heliocentrism: that is, the rejection of the view that the sun, planets, and stars all revolve around the earth in favor of the view that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. You can understand why the ancients might have been drawn to geocentrism: it does rather look as if the heavens revolve around the earth, after all, as the sun moves from east to west during the day and then pops up again the next morning in the east.
ref: 2009 June 1, Andrew Pessin, The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, section III, page 109:
glosses: The misbelief that the sun revolves around the Earth.
Related terms: platygaeanism
evolvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolvabilities
Etymology: From evolve + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Systems must be constantly poised for change: a potential for evolvability is essential if they are to respond to the vagaries of an uncertain future.
ref: 2003, Adrian Woolfson, ‘Genetic Mountaineering’, London Review of Books, volume 25, number 3:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability to evolve.
Derived terms: nonevolvability
cylindrospermin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cylindrospermopsis + -in
Senses: glosses: A cyanotoxin alkaloid found in the genus Cylindrospermopsis of cyanobacterium.
Bath Olivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bath Oliver
cytogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + genetics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The branch of genetics that studies the relationships between the structure and number of chromosomes as seen in isolated cells and variation in genotype and phenotype.
Derived terms: immunocytogenetics
conster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒnstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: consters
form: constering
form: constered
form: constered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of construe.
Derived terms: misconster
decipol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decipols
Senses: glosses: A unit of perceived air quality.
defatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defat
defatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal of fat from something, either physically or chemically
dehydronated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dehydronated
form: most dehydronated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: From which the hydrogen atom of a hydroxyl group has been removed
seely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: seelier
form: seeliest
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the poore, the baniſhed, and ſeely ſervants, live often as careleſly and as pleaſantly as the others.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of feare”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 28:
text: The seely blind beggar of Bednall-greene / That daylye sits begging for charitie / ... A seely olde man, God knoweth, is hee ...
ref: 1765, Thomas Percy, “The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall-Greene”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:
glosses: Alternative form of sely or silly.
tengu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tengus
form: tengu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 天狗.
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose.
Altham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English ælfet + hamm, meaning "water meadow where swans are found".
Senses: glosses: A village in Hyndburn borough, Lancashire, England.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
NDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDRs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of negative differential resistance.
glosses: Initialism of nondelivery report, a report indicating inability to deliver email.
bisulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisulphates
Etymology: From bi- + sulphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of bisulfate.
Amounderness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Agmund or Agmundr (given names) and nes (“headland”), meaning "Agmund's headland".
Senses: glosses: an area and ancient hundred of Lancashire, England.
Ancoats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English ān (“lonely”) + cot (“cottage”).
Senses: glosses: An area of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8498).
Anderton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Eanred + tun, meaning "Eanred's town".
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A village in Anderton with Marbury parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6475).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Millbrook parish, eastern Cornwall (OS grid ref SX4252).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburban village and civil parish in Chorley borough, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6013).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Anfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English hange + feld, field (see field).
Senses: glosses: An area of Liverpool, England.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A football stadium within the area, home of Liverpool Football Club.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Liverpool Football club itself.
hange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hang.
Angerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English angr (“bay”) + tun (“town”). The first element is related to Proto-Germanic *angijō (“meadow, lowland”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Kirkbride parish and Holme East Waver parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2257).
glosses: A hamlet in Broughton West parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2184).
glosses: A civil parish (served by Duddon Parish Council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, south and east of the hamlet.
Derived terms: Low Angerton
detoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detoxications
Etymology: From de- + toxication.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metabolic process by which the toxicity of a material is reduced
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any treatment of a patient suffering from poisoning that promotes physiological process to reduce the effects
Derived terms: autodetoxication
Related terms: detoxification
dialyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dialyze
dialyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dialyzes
form: dialyzing
form: dialyzed
form: dialyzed
form: dialyse
Senses: glosses: To subject (something or someone) to dialysis.
glosses: To undergo dialysis.
Derived terms: dialyzable
dialyzation
dialyzer
electrodialyze
nondialyzed
nondialyzing
predialyzed
redialyzed
undialyzed
Anglezarke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Anlafes + Old Norse erg (“hill pasture”).
Senses: glosses: A place in Lancashire, England.
diarrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diarrheal
form: most diarrheal
form: diarrhoeal
form: diarrhœal
Etymology: From diarrhea + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The river systems of India and Bangladesh are rife with diarrhoeal disease.
ref: 2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:
glosses: That causes, or is associated with diarrhea.
Synonyms: diarrheic
Derived terms: antidiarrheal
diarrheal shellfish poisoning
diarrhetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈɹɛtɪk/
homophone: diuretic
homophone: diaeretic
Forms: form: more diarrhetic
form: most diarrhetic
form: diarrhoetic
form: diarrhœtic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diarrheic.
synonyms: word: diarrheic
solemnise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solemnises
form: solemnising
form: solemnised
form: solemnised
Etymology: From solemn + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of solemnize.
Appley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Appleys
form: Apley
form: Eppley
Etymology: From Old English æppel and leah, meaning "apple-tree clearing". Equivalent to apple + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ6092).
glosses: A hamlet in Stawley parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST0721).
glosses: The village of Appley Bridge in Lancashire, England.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
diastereoisomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diastereoisomeric
form: most diastereoisomeric
Etymology: From diastereoisomer + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to diastereoisomers or diastereoisomerism
diastereoisomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diastereoisomerisms
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of stereoisomerism other than enantiomerism
Related terms: diastereoisomer
diastereoisomeric
bedrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedrels
Etymology: From bed + -rel.
Senses: glosses: A bedridden person; a helpless cripple.
bedrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedrel
form: most bedrel
Etymology: From bed + -rel.
Senses: examples: text: there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.65
glosses: Bedridden.
dimercaprol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: antilewisite
glosses: The mercaptan 2,3-dimercaptopropanol used as an antidote to arsenic poisoning.
dioxidonitrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Nitrogen dioxide.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nitryl radical.
dispersals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispersal
accrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accreases
form: accreasing
form: accreased
form: accreased
Etymology: From Middle English acresen, accreesen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.
Senses: glosses: To increase.
accrease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accreases
Etymology: From Middle English acresen, accreesen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.
Senses: examples: text: For then we shal have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: An increase.
sulfating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sulphating
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sulfate
sulphating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sulfates
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sulphate
postpubescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + pubescent.
Senses: glosses: That occurs after puberty.
postpubescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpubescents
Etymology: From post- + pubescent.
Senses: glosses: A person who has completed puberty; a sexually mature person.
Synonyms: grown up
adult
hack it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hacks it
form: hacking it
form: hacked it
form: hacked it
Senses: examples: text: I don't know if I can hack it here; the work is too hard for me.
glosses: To cope; to be successful in something despite adversity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hack, it.
sickener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickeners
Etymology: From sicken + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We had been knocked out of the FA Cup by Gravesend, which was a real sickener for me.
ref: 2010, Steve Wignall, You Can Have Chips:
glosses: One who, or that which, sickens.
glosses: A small, bright red and possibly poisonous russula or brittlegill (Russula emetica).
Rathnupur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city mentioned in ancient Jain scriptures.
cromolyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cromolyns
Senses: examples: text: Two distinct anti-allergic drugs, amlexanox and cromolyn, bind to the same kinds of calcium binding proteins, except calmodulin, in bovine lung extract.
ref: 2006, Journal of the National Cancer Institute:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chemical substance, acting as a mast cell stabilizer.
Synonyms: cromoglicate
cromoglycate
othersome
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðəsəm/
Etymology: From Middle English oþer-sum, equivalent to other + some.
Senses: examples: text: Othersome will say, that by the force of it [imagination], bodies are sometimes removed from their places.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.83
glosses: Some others.
othersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðəsəm/
Etymology: From Middle English oþer-sum, equivalent to other + -some.
Senses: glosses: Some other; various.
histamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histamins
Senses: examples: text: Histamin, an active principle of ergot, is a base produced by splitting off carbon dioxine from histidin by chemical or bacterial agents.
ref: 1913 January 24, Henry G. Barbour, “Note on the action of histamin upon surviving arteries”, in The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, volume 3, number 3, page 245:
glosses: Dated form of histamine.
Arbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English eorþ and burh (in the form of byrig), literally translating as "earth encampment", probably meaning "earthworks".
Senses: glosses: An area of Cambridge, England.
Ardwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Æþelredes (“Æthelred's”) and wic.
Senses: glosses: An area of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, south-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SJ8597).
Arnside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Arni (given name) and sætr (mountain pasture).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4578).
Aspull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English æspe + hyll, meaning "aspen hill".
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6108).
prescription drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescription drugs
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
Prescription drugs, they help me through the day / And that restraining order keeps me well at bay / And what's normal now, anyway?
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: over-the-counter drug
glosses: A licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained.
Astley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Astleys
Etymology: From Old English ēast + lēah, meaning “east meadow” or “east clearing”. Equivalent to east + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A village in Wigan borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7000).
glosses: A place in England:
A village, known as Astley Village, in Chorley, Lancashire.
glosses: A place in England:
A small village and civil parish north of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ5218).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village and civil parish in North Warwickshire borough, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP3189).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Astley and Dunley parish, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7867).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Astley and Dunley
Astley Village
Broughton Astley
Audenshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Aldwine + sceaga (“copse”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Tameside borough, Greater Manchester, England.