cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
axled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From axle + -ed.
Senses: examples: a three-axled motor vehicle
glosses: Having (a specified number or kind of) axles.
Derived terms: unaxled
axon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɒn/
Forms: form: axons
form: axone
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and other borrowed axis, aisle, ala, atelier.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.
Hypernyms: sense: nerve fibre
word: neuronal process
sense: nerve fibre
word: neurite
sense: nerve fibre
word: nerve fibre
Derived terms: axipetal
axogenesis
axonal
axon hillock
axonic
axonless
axonocentric
axonogenesis
axonography
axonopathy
axonotrophic
axonotrophy
axopetal
axotomize
axotomy
diaxon
mesaxon
monaxon
monoaxon
motoraxon
pioneer axon
triaxon
Related terms: dendrite
neurite
neuron
synapse
Babel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæb.l̩/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæb.l̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
rhymes: -æbəl
Etymology: From Latin Babel, from Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel, “Babylon”), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim); in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. Doublet of Babylon.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore is the name of it called Babel[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:9, column 2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
Babel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæb.l̩/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbæb.l̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
rhymes: -æbəl
Forms: form: Babels
form: babel
Etymology: From Latin Babel, from Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel, “Babylon”), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim); in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. Doublet of Babylon.
Senses: examples: text: As the three were making their way through the crowds of marketers, camels, donkeys, and horses that filled the market place with a confusing babel of sounds, Abdul plucked at Tarzan’s sleeve.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC:
text: A babel of languages could be heard in the streets and the squares, mingling with the local Provençal.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 48:
glosses: A confused mixture of sounds and voices, especially in different languages.
glosses: A place or scene of noise and confusion.
glosses: A tall, looming structure.
Derived terms: Babeldom
Babelesque
Babel fish
Babelian
Babelish
babelization
tower of Babel
Related terms: Wiktionary Babel for user pages
bade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæd/
ipa: /beɪd/
rhymes: -æd
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: bad
Senses: examples: text: Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past of bid
Related terms: forbade
Baldur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Balder
form: Baldr
Senses: examples: text: But the fate of Baldur, the most amiable and beloved of Asa gods, is, we think, by far the most pleasing of the Scandinavian Myths, although less characteristic of the warlike temper just mentioned than some of the others.
ref: 1836, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 443:
text: In the god Baldur the legend recognizes the god of the earth-sun, the earth force. No being of the earth can approach him with hostility. Hence also the god whom the German legend knew to be a straggler, namely Loki, cannot kill Baldur with anything belonging to the earth; he has to kill him with a branch of mistletoe, because this is a stranger among the creations of the earth, and for this reason can serve the straggler, Loki, who is not related to the earth gods.
ref: 1993, Rudolf Steiner, Apocalypse of Saint John, page 99:
text: 1997, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity, A.D. 590—1093, unnumbered page,
A transition from the myth of Baldur to the gospel of Christ cannot have been very difficult to the Scandinavian imagination; and, indeed, it is apparent that the first ideas which the Scandinavian heathens formed of the “White Christ” were influenced by their ideas of Baldur.
text: The variety of myths prohibits a single answer, but of biblical myths and myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Baldur’s death, the love of Isis and Osiris, and Prometheus, it is accurate to say that they "are marked by their relevance to men's questions about their nature and place in the universe."
ref: 2008, Alan Gregory, Quenching Hell: The Mystical Theology of William Law, page 84:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
balk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /bɔːlk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: balks
form: baulk
Etymology: From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).
Senses: examples: text: How fruitfull are the ſeeming Barren places of Scripture. Bad Plow-men, which make Balkes of ſuch Ground.
ref: 1647, Tho[mas] Fuller, “Scripture Observations”, in Good Thoughts in Worse Times. […], London: […] W. W. for John Williams […], →OCLC, section XVI (Text improved), page 89:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
glosses: Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
examples: , "Concealment of Sin"
a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
glosses: A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
synonyms: failure
glosses: A sudden and obstinate stop.
glosses: An omission.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: feint
glosses: A deceptive motion.
An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: feint
glosses: A deceptive motion.
A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
qualifier: badminton
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
Derived terms: balkish
balk line
balky
baulk end
bierbalk
randle-balk
balk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /bɔːlk/
ipa: /bɔk/
ipa: /bɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: balks
Etymology: From Middle English balok, ballok (“knob”), from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). Doublet of ballock and bollocks.
Senses: glosses: A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
balky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: balkier
form: balkiest
Etymology: From balk + -y.
Senses: examples: a balky horse
glosses: Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
Derived terms: balkily
balkiness
balsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːl.sə/
ipa: /ˈbæl.sə/
ipa: /ˈbɑlsə/
Forms: form: balsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish balsa, from Paleo-Hispanic, probably Basque [Term?] or Iberian [Term?]. Not related to balsam.
Senses: glosses: A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
glosses: A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
Derived terms: balsawood
bandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: băn'di
ipa: /ˈbændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: bandier
form: bandiest
Etymology: From Scots bandy.
Senses: examples: text: 1794, William Blake, The Little Vagabond, third stanza
Then the Parson might preach, and drink, and sing, / And we’d be as happy as birds in the spring; / And modest Dame Lurch, who is always at church, / Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
text: A black servant, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton's shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 1, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: There was an old man drying near them, squat and bandy and brown all over, and Nick remembered him from last year […]
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Bow-legged, having knees bending outward.
Derived terms: bandiness
bandy-legged
bandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băn'di
ipa: /ˈbændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: bandies
Etymology: Probably from the verb bandy in the sense "toss/bat back and forth", or possibly from the Welsh word bando, most likely derived from the Proto-Germanic *bandją (“a curved stick”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Derived terms: bandyball
bandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: băn'di
ipa: /ˈbændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: bandies
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu బండి (baṇḍi).
Senses: glosses: A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
barded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)dɪd/
Etymology: From bard + -ed. See bard (“horse armour”).
Senses: examples: text: Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 9-13:
glosses: Accoutered with defensive armor
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped.
ref: 1841, William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem:
glosses: Wearing rich caparisons.
barre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː/
enpr: bär
ipa: /bɑɹ/
ipa: [bɑɹ]
ipa: [bɑ˞]
ipa: /baː/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: baa
homophone: bah stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: barres
Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of barre chord.
barre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː/
enpr: bär
ipa: /bɑɹ/
ipa: [bɑɹ]
ipa: [bɑ˞]
ipa: /baː/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: baa
homophone: bah stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: barres
form: barring
form: barred
form: barred
Etymology: Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To form a barre chord on an instrument.
basal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbeɪsəɫ]
ipa: [ˈbeɪzəɫ]
rhymes: -eɪsəl
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: more basal
form: most basal
Etymology: From base + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This is the basal idea.
text: The organism needs more energy on basal maintenance.
text: A basal reader is a kind of book that is used to teach reading.
glosses: Basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
examples: text: In the spring, basal leaves emerge from a stout taproot.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Associated with the base of an organism or structure.
examples: text: a basal diet
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a minimal level that is necessary for maintaining the health or life of an organism.
examples: text: Hittite is a basal Indo-European language.
text: A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
qualifier: chiefly systematics
glosses: In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier. The earliest clade to branch in a larger clade.
Synonyms: basilar
Derived terms: adbasal
anterobasal
apicobasal
basal amniote
basal body
basal bristle
basal cell
basal cell carcinoma
basal dicot
basal ganglion
basality
basal lamina
basal layer
basally
basal medium
basal metabolic rate
basal metabolism
basalmost
basaloid
basal reader
basal tomentum
basal tubercle
basal wall
bibasal
condylobasal
corticobasal
dibasal
dorsobasal
hypobasal
inferobasal
laterobasal
mediobasal
mesiobasal
mesobasal
midbasal
nasobasal
neurobasal
nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome
nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
nonbasal
palatobasal
parabasal
peribasal
polybasal
posterobasal
prebasal
probasal
proximobasal
subbasal
suprabasal
temporobasal
transbasal
tribasal
unibasal
ventrobasal
basal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbeɪsəɫ]
ipa: [ˈbeɪzəɫ]
rhymes: -eɪsəl
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: basals
Etymology: From base + -al.
Senses: glosses: base, bottom, minimum
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any basal structure or part
bashaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: bashaws
form: bassa
form: bassaw
Etymology: Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā).
Senses: examples: text: Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
text: The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 44:
text: he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod.
ref: 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, London, page 79:
text: Insecure about his infirmity, the Bashaw decreed that all who desired to come into his presence must first submit to having their eyes put out.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 7:
glosses: A pasha.
glosses: A grandee.
glosses: A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.
Derived terms: bashawism
bashawship
basks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːsks/
ipa: /bæsks/
rhymes: -æsks
rhymes: -ɑːsks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bask
baste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: based
Forms: form: bastes
form: basting
form: basted
form: basted
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
Senses: examples: text: He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
ref: 1991 June 14, J.F. Pirro, “Custom Work”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Derived terms: baste up
baste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: based
Forms: form: bastes
form: basting
form: basted
form: basted
Etymology: From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Senses: glosses: To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
examples: text: Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase.
ref: 2001 April 20, Peter Margasak, “Almost Famous”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To coat over something.
glosses: To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Derived terms: baster
baste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: based
Forms: form: bastes
Etymology: From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Senses: examples: text: "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
ref: 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion:
glosses: A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
baste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: based
Forms: form: bastes
form: basting
form: basted
form: basted
Etymology: Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence
Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also
Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and
Swedish bösta (“to thump”).
Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).
Senses: examples: July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
glosses: To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Derived terms: bumbaste
lambaste
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Etymology: * Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
Senses: examples: text: […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 84:
text: So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
ref: 1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head […], →OCLC:
glosses: Strife; contention.
Derived terms: bateful
bateless
breedbate
makebate
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Forms: form: bates
form: bating
form: bated
form: bated
Etymology: * Noun: From the verb, or directly from the noun debate.
* Verb: From Middle English bate (“contention”), from Old French batre (French battre), from Latin battere.
Senses: glosses: To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
examples: text: The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
ref: 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
text: I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist
ref: 1600, Francis Bacon, letter to Queen Elizabeth, upon the sending of a new-year's gift:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Related terms: sense: to contend or strive with blows or arguments
word: bait
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Forms: form: bates
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
Senses: examples: text: The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.
ref: 1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287:
glosses: An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
glosses: A vat which contains this liquid.
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Forms: form: bates
form: bating
form: bated
form: bated
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish beta (“maceration, tanning”).
Senses: glosses: To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Etymology: Formed by analogy with eat → ate or other Class 5 strong verbs (compare gave, obsolete spake, etc.), with which it shares an analogous past participle (eaten → beaten).
Senses: examples: text: Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Leonard: Penny’s taking you to the DMV; I’m going to bed.
Sheldon: Why Penny?
Leonard: Because rock bate scissors. Goodnight.
ref: 2008 October 20, Lee Aronsohn, David Goetsch, Steven Molaro, Bill Prady, “The Euclid Alternative”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 5, Chuck Lorre Productions, via Warner Bros. Television and CBS:
glosses: simple past of beat; = beat.
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Forms: form: bates
form: bating
form: bated
form: bated
Senses: glosses: Clipping of masturbate.
bate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: bait
Etymology: Variant of beat (“rhythm”).
Senses: examples: text: What bate are you on now = where are you going and why ? The dog is on some bate = is finding or following a scent.
ref: A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN CLOSSARY
glosses: direction, course, track
bated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
homophone: baited
Forms: form: more bated
form: most bated
Senses: glosses: Reduced; lowered; restrained
Derived terms: unbated
with bated breath
bated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
homophone: baited
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bate
bates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
homophone: baits
homophone: Bates
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bate
baton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bătʹŏn
enpr: bătʹən
ipa: /ˈbætɒn/
ipa: /ˈbæt(ə)n/
enpr: bətänʹ
ipa: /bəˈtɑn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ætɒn
rhymes: -ætən
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
homophone: batten (with reduced second syllable)
Forms: form: batons
form: bâton
Etymology: From French bâton. Doublet of baston.
Senses: glosses: A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
examples: text: The conductor raised his baton and the orchestra fell silent.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
examples: text: In the relay race, the runner dropped the baton.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
topics: arts
gymnastics
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
examples: text: The police officer carried a baton for self-defense.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: billy club
nightstick
truncheon
glosses: A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
examples: Alternative forms: batune, baston
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: scrape
glosses: A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
glosses: A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A short baguette.
Synonyms: wand
rod
bat
club
Derived terms: baton charge
batonic
batonist
batonless
batonlike
baton round
baton sinister
pass the baton
sugar cane baton
Related terms: baston
batonnet
baton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bătʹŏn
enpr: bătʹən
ipa: /ˈbætɒn/
ipa: /ˈbæt(ə)n/
enpr: bətänʹ
ipa: /bəˈtɑn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ætɒn
rhymes: -ætən
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
homophone: batten (with reduced second syllable)
Forms: form: batons
form: batoning
form: batoned
form: batoned
form: bâton
Etymology: From French bâton. Doublet of baston.
Senses: examples: text: She passed the baton to her successor after retiring.
text: accept/refuse/receive the baton
glosses: To strike with a baton.
batt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æt
Forms: form: batts
Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.
Senses: glosses: Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
examples: text: As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.
ref: 1977, Rictor Norton, quoting Peter Burton, The Gentle Art of Confounding Naffs, quoted in Myth of the Modern Homosexual, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A shoe.
batt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æt
Forms: form: batts
Senses: examples: text: Kit / rapid charger, leather case, 2 NIMH slim batts, Nicad XT batt, overnite charger, RJ11 land line to cellular conversion interface, more
ref: 1996 January 29, Saleen001, “Cell phones for sale below wholesale”, in alt.cellular (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025:
text: where is cheapest place to buy laptop batt?
ref: 2000 June 30, Steve Perry, “cheapest place for laptop bat?”, in england.ads.computer (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025:
text: I bought a phone batt from them a while ago.
ref: 2005 March 21, Paul Jeffree, “Disposal of laptop batteries”, in alt.pcnews (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025:
related: word: bat
glosses: Clipping of battery.
bawd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːd/
enpr: bôd
ipa: /bɔd/
ipa: /bɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: baud
homophone: board
homophone: bored (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: bawds
form: baud
form: baude
Etymology: From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.
Senses: examples: text: Of late in the Park, a fair fancy was seen / Betwixt an old Baud and a lusty young Quean, / Their parting of Money began the uproar, / I'll have half says the Baud, but you shan't says the Whore
ref: 1709, Wit and mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy; Being a Choice Collection of the best Merry Ballads […] , Second Edition edition, volume IV, London: William Pearson, page 18:
text: As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.
ref: 1717, Ned Ward, British Wonders:
text: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
text: Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 76:
glosses: One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.
examples: text: In ſaying this thou wrongſt me Gaueſton, / Iſt not enough that thou corrupts my Lord, / And art a Bawd to his affections, / But thou muſt call mine honour thus in queſtion?
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I]:
glosses: A person who facilitates an immoral act, especially one of a sexual nature.
glosses: A lewd person.
Synonyms: brothelkeeper
pimp
procurer
procuress
Derived terms: bawdish
bawdship
bawdy
cock-bawd
pitcher-bawd
bawd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːd/
enpr: bôd
ipa: /bɔd/
ipa: /bɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: baud
homophone: board
homophone: bored (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more bawd
form: most bawd
form: baud
form: baude
Etymology: From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.
Senses: glosses: Joyous; riotously gay.
bawd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːd/
enpr: bôd
ipa: /bɔd/
ipa: /bɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: baud
homophone: board
homophone: bored (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: bawds
form: bawding
form: bawded
form: bawded
form: baud
form: baude
Etymology: From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.
Senses: glosses: To procure women for lewd purposes.
bawdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːdi/
ipa: /ˈbɔ.di/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.di/
homophone: body (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: bawdier
form: more bawdy
form: bawdiest
form: most bawdy
Etymology: From bawd + -y.
Senses: glosses: Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
glosses: Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
raw_tags: of language
Derived terms: bawdily
bawdiness
bawdy basket
bawdy-house
bawdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːdi/
ipa: /ˈbɔ.di/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.di/
homophone: body (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: bawdies
Etymology: From bawd + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.
ref: 1983, Richard Hoyt, The Siskiyou Two-step, page 78:
text: Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.
ref: 2001, Bill Rinaldi, You Can If You Think You Can: The Power of Thinking Big, page 37:
glosses: A bawdy or lewd person.
bayou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.(j)uː/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.oʊ/
Forms: form: bayous
form: buyou
form: byo
Etymology: From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”). Doublet of bogue.
Senses: examples: text: You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Leaf for Hand in Hand”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
examples: text: At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.
ref: 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2:
glosses: A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
Derived terms: Bayou of Pigs
bayou physa
beck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: becks
Etymology: From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”).
Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Doublet of batch. More at beach.
Senses: examples: text: […]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 1, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 3:
text: […] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XIII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] and from the tree to Tudelesbeck, along the beck to the Severn, up along the Severn to Leofric's boundary, […]
ref: 1908, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, page 107:
text: Beck water cold and clear, will never clean your wound
ref: 1976, Archie Fisher, “The Witch Of The West-Mer-Lands”, in The Man With A Rhyme, Sharon, CT: Folk Legacy Records:
text: The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:
glosses: A stream or small river.
Synonyms: brook
burn
creek
stream
Derived terms: Beck Foot
Beck Hole
beckside
Troutbeck
beck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: becks
Etymology: From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2:
text: Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
Derived terms: beck and call
beck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: becks
form: becking
form: becked
form: becked
Etymology: From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon.
Senses: examples: text: When gold and silver becks me to come on.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon.
ref: 1896, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Winter Evening Tales:
text: The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.
ref: 1881, Various, The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III:
glosses: To nod or motion with the head.
beck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: becks
Etymology: See back.
Senses: glosses: A vat.
beck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: becks
Etymology: From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”).
Senses: examples: text: Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of beak.
Derived terms: harman-beck
bedim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: bedims
form: bedimming
form: bedimmed
form: bedimmed
Etymology: From be- + dim.
Senses: examples: text: […] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.
ref: 1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 58:
text: Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Gifted”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: "Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes."
ref: 1875, Thomas Payne Westendorf, “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen”:
text: There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth […]
ref: 1905, James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16:
glosses: To make dim; to obscure or darken.
Derived terms: unbedimmed
bedims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedim
befog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: befogs
form: befogging
form: befogged
form: befogged
Etymology: From be- + fog.
Senses: examples: text: Clouds of the most expensive incense befog the chancel […]
ref: 1916, E. F. Benson, “The Spiritual Pastor”, in The Freaks of Mayfair, London: T.N. Foulis, page 186:
text: 1953, Jean Stafford, “Cops and Robbers” (original title: “The Shorn Lamb”) in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Dutton, 1984, p. 432,
Sad, in her covert, Hannah saw that her mother was now sitting straight against the headboard and was smoking a cigarette in long, meditative puffs; the smoke befogged her frowning forehead.
glosses: To envelop in fog or smoke.
examples: text: 1871, Carl Schurz, Speech in the U.S. Senate, 27 January, 1871, in Frederic Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, New York: Putnam, 1913, Volume II, p. 151,
The voice of interested sycophancy is apt to fill their ears and to befog their judgment.
text: “[…] He’s been blarneying you. You’ve let his plausible tongue and handsome face befog you.”
ref: 1921, Harold MacGrath, chapter 14, in The Pagan Madonna, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, page 177:
text: […] they pray that they may befog minds with untruths
and poison God’s sweet air of breath,
ref: 1938, Rabindranath Tagore, “Worshippers of Buddha”, in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 4, Part 1, May-July 1938, p. 28:
text: Everything looked gray and shabby, the faces as much as the clothes. She thought it was less the shade than the noise which was befogging her vision, choking her thoughts.
ref: 1981, Ramsey Campbell, chapter 8, in The Nameless, New York: Tor, published 1985, page 75:
glosses: To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties).
examples: text: How they had managed to befog the subject! What elaborate show-structures they had built up, with no result but to obscure the horizon!
ref: 1880, [Henry Brooks Adams], chapter V, in Democracy: An American Novel (Leisure-hour Series; no. 112), New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 84:
text: There is only one way to understand syphilis, and that is to give it impartial, discriminating discussion as an issue which concerns the general health. To color it up and hang it in a gallery of horrors, or to befog it with verbal turnings and twistings, are equally serious mistakes.
ref: 1918, John H. Stokes, chapter 2, in The Third Great Plague: A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, pages 15–16:
glosses: To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.).
bema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːmə/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: bemas
form: bemata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βῆμα (bêma, “a step”). Doublet of bima.
Senses: glosses: A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
glosses: Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.
berate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: berates
form: berating
form: berated
form: berated
Etymology: From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”).
Senses: examples: text: What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?
text: Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.
ref: 1896, Gilbert Parker, chapter 13, in Seats Of The Mighty:
text: A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 21, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC, pages 327–328:
text: Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse.
ref: 1917, Jack London, chapter 14, in Jerry of the Islands:
text: During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice.
ref: 2008 November 27, Alex Perry, “The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King”, in Time:
text: France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: To chide or scold vehemently.
Derived terms: beratement
beratingly
Related terms: beration
betony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛtəni/
Forms: form: betonies
form: vetony
form: bettony
Etymology: From Middle English betayny, betanie, from Medieval Latin betōnia (possibly through Old French), from Latin betōnica or ve(t)tōnica, from Vettones, a people in Lusitania. Compare French bétoine.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Stachys.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Stachys.
Stachys officinalis (syn. Betonica officinalis, an herb used in traditional European medicine.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Pedicularis (louseworts).
Synonyms: sense: Stachys
word: heal-all
sense: Stachys
word: self-heal
sense: Stachys
word: woundwort
sense: Stachys
word: lamb's ears
sense: Stachys
word: hedgenettle
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: purple betony
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: bishopwort
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: wild hop
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: bishop's wort
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: common hedgenettle
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: lousewort
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: wood betony
sense: Pedicularis
word: lousewort
sense: Pedicularis
word: wood betony
bey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪ/
ipa: /bæɪ/
ipa: /beɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: bay
homophone: bae
Forms: form: beys
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Senses: examples: text: She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 512:
text: Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 15:
glosses: A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.
glosses: in various other places, a prince or nobleman
Derived terms: begum
beydom
beyship