cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crucifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹuː.sɨˌfɪsiːz/
Senses: examples: text: The superstitious veneration, which was universally paid to crucifices, images of the Virgin Mary, &c., furnished another branch of business to the sculptors of this period[…]
ref: 1819, James George Barlace, An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Knowledge in England, page 106:
text: Impressive processions and sacred hymns, banners, crucifices, and assaults upon the Jews heightened the effect of his impassioned appeals.
ref: 1907, George Frederick Abbott, Israel in Europe, page 152:
text: The display of crucifices in state schools and in state-funded schools is still an issue of considerable debate and significance […]
ref: 2012, Dympna Glendenning, Education and the Law, page 30:
glosses: plural of crucifix
dragonfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dragon + fire.
Senses: examples: text: “Spurs!” Imbri sent in a dream like a blast of dragonfire. “Hotter than the breath of Baal, your thought! But I don’t use the spurs, once my steed is tame,” he argued.
ref: 1982, Piers Anthony, Night Mare, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 100:
text: With a roar of dragonfire something enormous blazed by overhead, as if the Moon itself were dropping onto us.
ref: 1982, Mike Scott Rohan, Run to the Stars, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 14:
text: At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.
ref: 2017, Julie Kagawa, Legion, HQ, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: Fire produced by a dragon.
Related terms: dragonbreath
dragonflame
de-idolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-idolize
walking the dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk the dog
walking the dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
ref: 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
glosses: Any of various dances, or dance moves, that mimic dog walking.
glosses: Any of various dances, or dance moves, that mimic dog walking.
A specific set step in clogging.
Texas Tommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
ref: 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
glosses: A dance move popular in the early 20th century, and now in swing dancing, in which the lead passes the follower's hand behind the follower's back and pulls them into a turn.
glosses: A type of hot dog from Philadelphia served with bacon and cheese.
look at me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I made it all the way to level 7 without any of your help! Look at me!
text: Wow, look at me. I can't even boil water without burning my fingers.
glosses: Used to call others' attention to a prideworthy achievement, or (in humor) sarcastically to an embarrassing mishap.
examples: text: Okay, look at me. If you don't have every one of those projects done by the end of the week, you're fired.
glosses: Used to focus a listener's attention, often followed by a threat of discipline.
hellstorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellstorm
broom cupboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broom cupboard
coffee-cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee-cup
cup bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cup bearer
cupolarotundas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupolarotunda
D-cuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D-cupper
DD-cuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DD-cupper
Recordite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Recordites
Etymology: From record + -ite.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of an evangelical faction in the Church of England, associated with Alexander Haldane's campaigning newspaper The Record (founded in 1828).
Recordites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Recordite
undeterminedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undetermined + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undetermined.
Kaldor-Hicks efficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Such that no Kaldor-Hicks improvement is possible.
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The property of being Kaldor-Hicks efficient.
Kaldor-Hicks criterion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kaldor-Hicks criterion
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The criterion of being Kaldor-Hicks efficient.
Kaldor-Hicks improvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaldor-Hicks improvements
Etymology: Named for Nicholas Kaldor and John Hicks.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic reallocation of resources among people, such that those who are made better off could hypothetically compensate those who are made worse off and lead to a Pareto-improving outcome.
Related terms: Kaldor-Hicks criterion
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
Kaldor-Hicks efficient
Kaldor-Hicks improvements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaldor-Hicks improvement
underinterpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underinterpretations
Etymology: From under- + interpretation.
Senses: glosses: Inadequate interpretation.
underinterpretations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underinterpretation
birth-tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birth-tongue
birthtides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birthtide
live births
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live birth
birth-certificates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birth-certificate
lucky imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of speckle imaging used for astrophotography, in which those optimum exposures least affected by the atmosphere are chosen and combined into a single image by shifting and adding the short exposures, yielding much higher angular resolution than would be possible with a single, longer exposure.
speckle imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hyponyms: lucky imaging
glosses: A range of high-resolution astronomical imaging techniques based on the analysis of large numbers of short exposures that freeze the variation of atmospheric turbulence.
black pepper snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black pepper snakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speckled kingsnake.
synonyms: word: speckled kingsnake
speckled kingsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speckled kingsnakes
Senses: synonyms: black pepper snake
glosses: Lampropeltis holbrooki, a non-venomous kingsnake endemic to the United States.
speckled kingsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speckled kingsnake
Blissard's symbolic method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The method was introduced by John Blissard.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A technique in umbral calculus, allowing certain sequences of numbers to be manipulated algebraically as powers, so as to produce valid formulas.
wikipedia: John Blissard
kazacharthran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kazacharthrans
Senses: examples: text: During the spring, when the rivers are in full flow, there is plenty of food to go around, but when things get tighter, the kazacharthrans face competition for food from not only swimming arthropods, but also static colonies.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 163:
glosses: An extinct crustacean of the order Kazacharthra.
kazacharthrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kazacharthran
torpedo-boat destroyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo-boat destroyers
form: torpedo boat destroyer
Etymology: From torpedo boat + destroyer. From being a type of combatant originally specialized to counter the newly introduced torpedo boat.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Former name of destroyer.
Derived terms: destroyer
Related terms: boat
destroyer
torpedo
torpedo boat destroyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedo boat destroyers
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Alternative form of torpedo-boat destroyer.
urniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an urn.
Kenilworth ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its speculated origin, the English town of Kenilworth or the nearby castle of the same name + ivy, due to the plant's leaves' resemblance to those of ivy.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cymbalaria muralis.
Oxford ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cymbalaria muralis.
ivy-leaved toadflax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Cymbalaria muralis.
coliseum ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cymbalaria muralis
wandering sailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cymbalaria muralis of plants.
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions
Etymology: Named after the Austrian dermatologist Adolf Jarisch and the German dermatologist Karl Herxheimer.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dangerous reaction to endotoxin-like products released by the death of harmful microorganisms within the body during antibiotic treatment.
Derived terms: herx
Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Boyar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boyars
Senses: glosses: A surname.
miniprepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miniprep
Garbage Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Taiwan.
Chatzimanolakis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chatzimanolakises
Etymology: From Greek Χατζημανωλάκης (Chatzimanolákis).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek
FK model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FK models
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Frenkel-Kontorova model.
FK models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FK model
Frenkel-Kontorova model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frenkel-Kontorova models
Etymology: Introduced by Yakov Frenkel and Tatiana Kontorova in 1938.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: FK model
glosses: A fundamental model of low-dimensional nonlinear physics, describing a chain of classical particles with nearest-neighbor interactions, subjected to a periodic on-site substrate potential.
Frenkel-Kontorova models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenkel-Kontorova model
set a thief to catch a thief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets a thief to catch a thief
form: setting a thief to catch a thief
form: set a thief to catch a thief
form: set a thief to catch a thief
Senses: examples: text: The morality of setting a thief to catch a thief passes muster in the English force; but they do these things better in America. Pinkerton's system for the detective police in America is vastly superior to the British system.
ref: 1866, Norman Macleod, editor, Good Words, page 415:
glosses: To employ an unscrupulous person in order to catch another unscrupulous person.
Related terms: fight fire with fire
honor among thieves
it takes one to know one
poacher turned gamekeeper
maxipreparations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxipreparation
maxipreps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxiprep
midipreps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midiprep
Bearwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Poole, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0596).
glosses: A hamlet in Pembridge parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3856).
glosses: A suburb of Smethwick, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0287).
3R
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of reduce, reuse, recycle (“a waste management strategy”).
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of race, religion, royalty (“referring to the Malay race, Islam, and the monarchy of Malaysia, three sensitive topics in the country”).
topics: government
politics
glosses: a violation of Malaysian law that involves insulting or attacking either one of those three topics.
Yangshao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: yängʹshouʹ
Forms: form: Yang-shao
form: Yang Shao
Etymology: From Mandarin 仰韶.
Senses: examples: text: Because this painted pottery culture was first discovered at Yangshao village in Mienchih county, Honan province, it is called Yangshao culture.
ref: 1973 June, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
text: Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.
ref: 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:
glosses: The members of a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC.
Yangshao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yängʹshouʹ
Forms: form: Yang-shao
form: Yang Shao
Etymology: From Mandarin 仰韶.
Senses: examples: text: Because this painted pottery culture was first discovered at Yangshao village in Mienchih county, Honan province, it is called Yangshao culture.
ref: 1973 June, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
text: Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.
ref: 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:
glosses: A village in Mianchi, Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
go-it-aloner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-it-aloners
Etymology: From go it alone + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who goes it alone, who works independently.
go-it-aloners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-it-aloner
aloners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloner
nonconstructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + constructible.
Senses: glosses: Not constructible.
nonconstructable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + constructable.
Senses: glosses: Not constructable.
Sunapee trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunapee trout
Senses: synonyms: blueback
Quebec red trout
glosses: Salvelinus alpinus oquassa, is a putative subspecies of Arctic char found in parts of North America.
Quebec red trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quebec red trout
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sunapee trout.
synonyms: word: Sunapee trout
orchilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchella
Etymology: From Spanish orchilla.
Senses: glosses: Orchil lichen.
riverhemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From river + hemp.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Sesbania of flowering plants in the pea family.
mother figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother figure
pot sticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot stickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of potsticker.
pot stickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot sticker
handholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handholders
form: hand-holder
Etymology: From hand + holder.
Senses: examples: text: We were never handholders. We were always withdrawn and alone, unlike Italians, Poles, Jews, and other friends I had who were fresh and spontaneous in their affection.
ref: 1952, Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, page 35:
text: They preferred each other’s company to any other in the world. They were old-fashioned and unashamed handholders.
ref: 1967, Darrah Dunham Wunder, “The Senator From Ohio”, in 70 Most Unforgettable Characters: From Reader’s Digest, The Reader’s Digest Association, →LCCN, page 358:
text: Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.
ref: 2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: One who holds hands (with someone else).
examples: text: In the meantime, Bouchard will continue to play his role as handholder and benefactor to his province and peacemaker for the country.
ref: 1991, James Fleming, Circles of Power: The Most Influential People in Canada, Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 104:
text: This software has a great help program. For starters, there’s a collection of fully narrated video tutorials that show you step by step how to perform various tasks. There’s also built-in voice and video help. As you become more familiar with the program, you can turn these handholders off.
ref: 1999 June, Popular Mechanics, page 34:
text: With Hopkins as a most reliable assistant, Eisenhower’s staff secretary has not been overly burdened by the paper-processing and administrative service aspects of his job. Dutton would not be overly burdened either. He could easily take on whatever agenda-making and decision-recording you wish for cabinet meetings. He also could have time to serve as one of your “handholders” for heads of agencies with operating inquiries and troubles which appear too petty (or too premature) to bring to you.
ref: 2000, Richard E[lliott] Neustadt, edited by Charles O. Jones, Preparing to Be President: The Memos of Richard E. Neustadt, Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: Someone or something that provides reassurance and/or assistance for doing something difficult.
Related terms: hand-hold
handholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handholder
Poulsen arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poulsen arcs
Etymology: After Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen, who invented it in 1903.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arc converter.
synonyms: word: arc converter
arc transmitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc transmitters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of arc converter.
synonyms: word: arc converter
Poulsen arcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poulsen arc
arc transmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc transmitter
arc converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc converters
Senses: synonyms: arc transmitter
Poulsen arc
glosses: A kind of spark transmitter in early wireless telegraphy, using an electric arc to convert direct current into radio-frequency alternating current.
arc converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc converter
ex-tangential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to external tangents.
Chimayo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chimayó
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Chimayó, itself from Tewa Tsi Mayoh, one of four hills above the valley that the Tewa consider sacred. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/El_Santuario_de_Chimayo.html Compare Spanish chimayó.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A valley in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, United States.
Derived terms: Chimayo cocktail
Chimayó cocktail
Chimayo pepper
Chimayó pepper
Chimayó
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chimayo.
two-thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number two thousand.
Synonyms: 2000th
two-thousandth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-thousandths
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the two-thousandth position.
glosses: One of two thousand equal parts of a whole.
poultry wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poultry wires
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chicken wire.
synonyms: word: chicken wire
poultry wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poultry wire
saddener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddeners
Etymology: From sadden + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which saddens.
saddeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddener
power shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power shovels
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction.
Related terms: mechanical shovel
excavator
digger
backhoe
power shovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power shovel
NLPHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NLPHLs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma.
power politician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power politicians
Senses: examples: text: After all, being a United States senator is a pretty cushy gig. You're treated as what you are: a power politician with a lot of influence. You get a great salary, and you have tremendous influence over public policy.
ref: 2010, Steven Rotter, Bradley Rotter, The Government Is Not Your Daddy:
glosses: One who engages in power politics.
power politicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power politician
Pfitzer's juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pfitzer juniper
Senses: glosses: The plant Juniperus chinensis pfitzeriana.
Pfitzer juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pfitzer's juniper.
practicedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From practiced + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Honesty he ascribes to practisedness in the world’s ways, and he looks upon keeping out of gaol as the greatest victory that man can achieve.
ref: 1883, James Purves, “Poachers and Poaching”, in The Contemporary Review, volume XLIV, London: Isbister and Company, […], page 352:
glosses: The quality of being practiced.
prakarana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prakaranas
Senses: glosses: An Indian play based on everyday life rather than epic tradition.
prakaranas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prakarana
teachered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teacher + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But both the many-teachered and the mono-teachered will be alike elementary schools.
ref: 1845 June 21, “Education—The Forms and the Spirit”, in The Spectator, number 886, page 590, column 1:
text: For in part it is by virtue of the name and personality of its very first teacher, John B. Hutcheson, now associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia, that the sturdy, unpainted, one-roomed and one-teachered academy was destined for permanent remembrance.
ref: 1938 October 9, Anne Hubbard Lee, ““The Four R’s” in a One-Room Schoolhouse”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXXI, number 119, Atlanta, Ga., Sunday Magazine and Feature Section, page 5, column 1:
text: Will the Minister-in-charge of the Education Department be pleased to state—[…] whether the Government is aware that such single-teachered Schools often remain closed when the teacher becomes absent; […]
ref: 1965 November 8, Assembly Proceedings, Official Report, West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Forty-First Session, volume XLI, page 320:
text: Several months out of the year, Rayborn and her siblings attended the “two-teachered” Barnett School.
ref: 1999 November 4, Shelia Hughes-Morley, “I wouldn’t take anything for my childhood…: Memories”, in Enterprise-Journal, 110th year, number 172, McComb, Miss., section “The 20th Century”, page 9, column 1:
glosses: Having a teacher or teachers.
prankiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pranky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This is not just some teenage prankiness. This boy needs help.
ref: 2000, Dale E. Wagman, Radical Treatment, page 43:
synonyms: prankishness
glosses: Prankish behaviour; mischief.
prawn killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prawn killers
Senses: glosses: The slipper lobster Ibacus alticrenatus.
glosses: The slipper lobster Ibacus peronii.
glosses: The mantis shrimp.
prawn killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prawn killer
prchst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prchsts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of parachutist.
prcht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prchts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of parachute.
prchts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prcht
Boronia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈrəʊniə/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
prebath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bath.
Senses: examples: text: Recently my three little boys were having a postdinner, prebath boogie party—spastically break-dancing in their underwear and diapers.
ref: 2011, Susan Besze Wallace, Monica Reed, The New Mom's Guide to Life with Baby, page 196:
glosses: Before taking a bath.
postdinner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + dinner.
Senses: examples: text: Recently my three little boys were having a postdinner, prebath boogie party—spastically break-dancing in their underwear and diapers.
ref: 2011, Susan Besze Wallace, Monica Reed, The New Mom's Guide to Life with Baby, page 196:
glosses: After dinner.
Nakamaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nakamarus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 中丸.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A transliteration of the Japanese surname 中丸.
address the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: addresses the ball
form: addressing the ball
form: addressed the ball
form: addressed the ball
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To ground one's club immediately in front of or behind the ball, as a preamble to swinging.
addressed the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of address the ball
addresses the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of address the ball
addressing the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of address the ball
precipitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precipitrons
Senses: examples: text: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
ref: 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:
text: Both intake and exhaust air is passed through precipitrons. The total capacity of the system is about 360,000 cubic feet per minute.
ref: 1955, Nuclear chemistry and effects of irradiation, page 41:
text: The drying air has to be thoroughly cleaned through filters and precipitrons, the walls of emulsion rooms and coating alleys have to be covered with tiles free from cracks or properly painted to facilitate their cleaning.
ref: 1960, Fritz Wentzel, Memoirs of a Photochemist, page 83:
glosses: An early electrostatic air purifier.
precipitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precipitron
preconcept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preconcepts
Etymology: From pre- + concept.
Senses: examples: text: But out of their earliest concept of number, as a preconcept, a true concept may be constructed, by the child becoming aware of their own mental operations using the preconcept.
ref: 2012, Andy Blunden, Concepts: A Critical Approach, page 247:
glosses: The mental precursor to a fully-formed concept.
preconcepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preconcept
precornu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precornua
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praecornu.
precornua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precornu
predatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of predatorism.
synonyms: word: predatorism
predatorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From predator + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The characteristic of being a predator.
Tsun-i
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 遵義 (Zūnyì) Wade–Giles romanization: Tsun¹-i⁴.
Senses: examples: text: The next year, a certain bandit chieftain Yang Lung-hsi 陽隆喜 plundered the districts of T‘ung-tzü 桐梓 and Jên-huai 仁懷 and encircled the prefecture of Tsun-i 遵義.[...]
The emperor also approved a request by the people of Tsun-i, Kweichow, for permission to establish a memorial temple.
ref: 1940, Yüeh-hwa Lin, “The Miao-Man Peoples of Kweichow”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 5, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 264–265:
text: When the army reached Tsun-i, an enlarged Politburo meeting was called. Teng attended as an observer.
ref: 1985, Ching Hua Lee, “Becoming Mao's Man (1931-1935)”, in Deng Xiaoping: The Marxist Road to the Forbidden City, Princeton, N.J.: The Kingston Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of Zunyi.
predeterminedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From predetermined + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a predetermined manner.
preeminency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of preeminence.
synonyms: word: preeminence
Prejevalsky's horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prejevalsky's horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Przewalski's horse
Tzu-chung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 資中 /资中 (Zīzhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-chung¹.
Senses: examples: text: There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.
ref: 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:
text: In 1927 and 1928, the city was the headquarters of a garrison area that stretched from Tzu-chung county to the west through the rich sugar-producing region around Nei-chiang, eastward to Nan-ch'uan near the Kweichow border.
ref: 1974, Robert A. Kapp, “Chungking as a Center of Warlord Power, 1926-1937”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City Between Two Worlds, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of Zizhong.
Tzeyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ziyang.
chandu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chandoo
form: chandul
Etymology: Likely related to Malay candu (“opium”).
Senses: synonyms: word: aunti/aunti Emma
word: big O
word: chandu
word: Chinese tobacco
word: dopium
word: dream gun
word: dream stick
word: fi-do-nie
word: gee
word: God's medicine
word: gondola
word: goric
word: guma
word: hop/hops
word: meconium
word: midnight oil
word: mud
word: ope
word: pen yan
word: pin gon
word: pox
word: skee
word: toxy
word: when-shee
word: yen
word: ze
word: zero
glosses: Opium prepared for smoking.
SBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of systolic blood pressure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
prepn.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prepns.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of preparation.
prepns.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prepn.
prepd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of prepared.
breasteses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Saluting on tour, autographing bitches' breasteses
ref: 2001, Adam F featuring MOP, “Stand Clear”:
glosses: plural of breast
FNHTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNHTRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reaction.
Presb.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Presbyterian.
presdl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of presidential.
Maserejian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maserejians
Etymology: From Armenian Մահսերեջյան (Mahsereǰyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Vanetzian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanetzians
Etymology: From Armenian Վանեցյան (Vanecʻyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Vanetzians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanetzian
Maserejians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maserejian
Virgie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.
Stalworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stalworth
Longdens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Longden
emotional eating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The propensity to eat in response to positive or negative emotions.
Related terms: eat one's feelings
Presbyterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Presbyterianism.
synonyms: word: Presbyterianism
presupervisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + supervisory.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Before being promoted to a supervisory role.
priestlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestlets
Etymology: From priest + -let.
Senses: glosses: A petty priest.
priestlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestlet
Darkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Prjevalsky's horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prjevalsky's horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Przewalski's horse.
bioflick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioflicks
Senses: glosses: A biographical film.
bioflicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioflick
bioi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bios
biotitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion into biotite.
biotitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biotitizes
form: biotitizing
form: biotitized
form: biotitized
Etymology: From biotite + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into biotite.
biotitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biotitize
biotitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biotitize
biotitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biotitize
biphonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + phonemic.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of two phonemes.
biscuitware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biscuit + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biscuit (“form of unglazed earthenware”).
synonyms: word: biscuit
extra: form of unglazed earthenware
bitubercular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + tubercular.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to two tubercles.
blaauwbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blaauwboks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of blaubok.
blaauwboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaauwbok
alehouse keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alehouse keepers
form: ale-house keeper
form: ale-house-keeper
form: alehouse-keeper
form: alehousekeeper
Senses: examples: text: Actually, there are no minor roles in Old Debts, certainly there are no minor actors. From servants to creditors (and some actors are double-cast), from alehouse keeper to parson, all create genuine individuals on stage, and make fresh theater of a vintage work.
ref: 1984 October 20, Clara Hieronymus, “Stylish Discipline Boosts Elizabethan ‘Old Debts’”, in The Tennessean, volume 79, number 197, Nashville, Tenn., page 1-D, column 6:
text: We then listened to a most interesting and informative talk, with equally interesting slides about ordinary women in Tudor times. About their courting, “espousal” or betrothing, marriage and then tasks expected of women – spinning on horseback, being an alehouse keeper, working in the fields, the house and surprisingly marketing eggs, cheese and butter.
ref: 1993 October 20, “Woodcroft WI”, in The Post & Times, number 5682, page 6, column 6:
text: Innkeepers, alehouse keepers and victuallers rarely obtain the freedom of the city, having a separate licensing system.
ref: 2017, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1700, New York, N.Y.; London: Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: One who keeps an alehouse.
Synonyms: alekeep
alekeeper
alehouse keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alehouse keeper
alehousekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alehousekeepers
Senses: examples: text: […] if it ſhall appear by ſuch ſtock book or account, or oath of the officer, that ſuch perſon is ſurveyed as a victualler or retailer, and is charged with the ſame duties that victuallers and retailers are charged with and pay for any the liquors aforeſaid, and is not intitled to the allowance or abatement given to common brewers, he ſhall be deemed an alehouſekeeper, victualler, retailer, or ſeller thereof, as if it had been proved by two witneſſes. […] If any perſon ſhall ſell or deliver any beer or ale, to any perſon that ſhall then ſell beer or ale as a common tipler or alehouſekeeper, the ſame perſon not having licence to ſell ale or beer (except it be for the uſe of his houſhold only); […]
ref: 1755, Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, volume I, Savoy: […] Henry Lintot, […]; for A. Millar, […], page 20:
text: From West Ham also (1587), two alehousekeepers were reported because ‘they sell but a pint of ale for a 1d. to travellers and inhabiters’ (instead of at the usual rate of ½d.). […] A few months after Elizabeth’s death the Act of 1 James, c. 9, obliged alehousekeepers to sell not less than a full ale quart of best ale or beer for 1d., and small beer at 2 quarts for 1d.
ref: 1976, F[rederick] G[eorge] Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Home, Work & Land: From Essex Wills and Sessions and Manorial Records, Chelmsford: Essex County Council; Plymouth, Mass.: Pilgrim Society and Plimoth Plantation, pages 191 and 299:
text: Around Christmas 1618 Ashley unearthed two more unlicensed alehousekeepers in Colleton Row, both of whom had been ‘entertaining townsmen and apprentices drinking’. […] Three Dorchester alehousekeepers were in trouble some years later, in 1633, for serving mead and beer to boys from the Free School.
ref: 1992, David Underdown, Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 79–80:
glosses: Alternative form of alehouse keeper.
alehousekeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alehousekeeper
blastiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blasty: most blasty
blastier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blasty: more blasty
weazle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weazles
Senses: examples: text: […] I have made only ſketches of them, becauſe it is very probable that I may yet be under the neceſſity of giving the portraits at full length, and of writing under thoſe portraits the names of the weazles, wolves, and vultures they are meant to deſcribe—nay, even to detail at length the unexampled conduct of theſe perſons who have compelled me, being “Perplex’d in the extreme,” to have recourſe to my pen for a ſubſiſtence, […]
ref: 1794 July 30 (date written), Charlotte Smith, “Preface”, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages ix–x:
text: That a madman like Hamlet, should see a weazle in the clouds is likely enough, but that he should find a hundred, like Polonious, to see it too, looks strange.
ref: 1808, “Letter V. From the Right Hon. C. J. Fox, in the Shades—to the Members of his dispersed Party, in the Sun-shine.”, in Anticipation, on Politics, Commerce, and Finance, During the Present Crisis. Containing Twenty-two Letters, from Old Politicians in the Shades, to Young Politicians in the Sun-shine. […], volume I, London: […] W. Glindon, […], page 128, column 1:
text: Fertile land is no better than a barren rock, when myriads of locusts come “wasping on the wind” to devour up all its green fruits; or if the husbandman harvests his crop to be devoured in the store-house by millions of weazles and ants.
ref: 1828, Willard Phillips, A Manual of Political Economy, with Particular Reference to the Institutions, Resources, and Condition of the United States, Boston, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, page 105:
glosses: Obsolete form of weasel.
weazles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weazle
store-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: store-houses
Senses: examples: text: 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares over Jerusalem, London: Andrewe Wise, Ronald B. McKerrow (editor), The Works of Thomas Nashe, London: A.H. Bullen, 1904, Volume 2, p. 69,
The Store-houses burnt, the siege harde plyed, the waste of victuals great, the husbanding of them none at all, there fell such an infestuous unsaciable famine amongst them, that if all the stones of Jerusalem had been bread, and they should have tyred on them, yet woulde they have beene behind hand with their appetite.
text: When the ſalt is carried into the ſtore-houſe, it is put into drabs, which are partitions, like ſtalls for horſes, lined at three ſides, and the bottom with boards, and having a ſliding-board on the foreſide to draw up on occaſion.
ref: 1765, Temple Henry Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark, “SALT”, in The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. In which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained. […], volume II, London: Printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell, […], →OCLC:
text: Fertile land is no better than a barren rock, when myriads of locusts come “wasping on the wind” to devour up all its green fruits; or if the husbandman harvests his crop to be devoured in the store-house by millions of weazles and ants.
ref: 1828, Willard Phillips, A Manual of Political Economy, with Particular Reference to the Institutions, Resources, and Condition of the United States, Boston, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, page 105:
text: Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Archaic form of storehouse.
store-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of store-house
Umm Qasr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A port city in southern Iraq on part of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf, and separated from the border of Kuwait by a small inlet.
keelivines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keelivine
sport trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sport truck
sports clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports club
sports supplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports supplement
sportsboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportsboat
electrotransports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotransport
electrotransports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrotransport
immunization passports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunization passport
board gamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of board gamer
BOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BO
doujin games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doujin game
falciform ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falciform ligament
Galician goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galician goat
hand games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand game
inguinal ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inguinal ligament
game keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game keeper
megagametocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megagametocyte
non-gamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-gamer
Ponzi games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ponzi game
progamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progamer
pro-gamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro-gamer
run games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run game
stylohyoid ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylohyoid ligament
dawn horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawn horse
horse sicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse sickness
horseshoe moustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseshoe moustache
horsesicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsesickness
Morgan horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Morgan horse