cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Woolworth's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After the F. W. Woolworth Company, named for its founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth.
Senses: glosses: A five-and-dime store in the United States.
examples: text: We passed through an inner courtyard overladen with fake wrought-iron railings and accents badly in need of a paint job, evoking a kind of Woolworth's Vieux Carré.
ref: 1989, The Advocate, numbers 515-521, page 28:
text: […] she thought that to allow the masses power would be to usher in a kind of Woolworth's world of vulgarity.
ref: 2008, Angelica Goodden, Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, page 98:
synonyms: word: Woolies
glosses: A major high-street retail chain in the United Kingdom until the late 2000s.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Two pair fives and tens.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
Broderick Crawford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broderick Crawfords
Etymology: Named after the actor Broderick Crawford, known for using the police code ten-four in the 1950s TV series Highway Patrol.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Two pair tens and fours.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A ten and a four as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
wax apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax apples
Senses: glosses: a tropical plant, Syzygium samarangense, bearing an edible fruit
glosses: the fruit of this plant
Oldsmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ransom E. Olds, who founded a motor company in 1897. His early companies' names included his surname, and the automobiles were first marketed as Olds automobiles. That collocation was quickly blended informally by the public to produce Oldsmobile, which was soon also used by the company itself. The poker senses of the word refer to the Oldsmobile 98.
Senses: examples: text: A TV commercial blared in the background, repeating the brand's catchphrase: "This is not your father's Oldsmobile — this is the new generation of Olds!"
synonyms: Olds
coordinate_terms: Chevrolet
Chevy
Saturn#Proper noun
Pontiac#Proper noun
Buick#Proper noun
Cadillac#Proper noun
glosses: An American car brand belonging to GM. Founded in 1897; with GM since 1908; retired from new cars since 2004; still active IP of GM.
Oldsmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oldsmobiles
Etymology: Named after Ransom E. Olds, who founded a motor company in 1897. His early companies' names included his surname, and the automobiles were first marketed as Olds automobiles. That collocation was quickly blended informally by the public to produce Oldsmobile, which was soon also used by the company itself. The poker senses of the word refer to the Oldsmobile 98.
Senses: examples: text: She was a family friend. I remember riding in her car as a child. It was an Oldsmobile and seemed a bit plush and expensive compared with our car.
text: He has a classic Oldsmobile in his garage. It's one of those ones with a huge V-8.
synonyms: Olds#Noun
coordinate_terms: Chevrolet#Noun
Chevy#Noun
Saturn#Noun
Pontiac#Noun
Buick#Noun
Cadillac#Noun
Caddy#Noun
glosses: A car of this brand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A lowball hand with a nine and an eight as the two highest cards
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Two pair nines and eights
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A nine and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
Dolly Parton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dolly Partons
Etymology: Named after American country singer Dolly Parton, who had a hit with the song “9 to 5”.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: Dolly
glosses: A nine and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
wikipedia: 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)
Jack Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Jack Benny, an American comedian with a running gag of always being 39 years old.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A three and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
wikipedia: Jack Benny
Raquel Welch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raquel Welches
Etymology: In reference to the curvaceous figure of the American actress Raquel Welch.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A three and an eight as starting cards in Texas hold 'em.
wikipedia: Raquel Welch
Union Oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Union Oils
Etymology: From the 76 brand of gas stations.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A lowball hand with a seven and a six as the two highest cards
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A seven and a six as starting cards in Texas hold 'em
beer hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer hands
Etymology: Perhaps because a player in a social setting who is dealt this hand would be likely to fold, giving them the chance to fetch another beer.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A seven and two as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
kaymak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaimak
form: kajmak
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”), from Ottoman Turkish قایماق.
Senses: glosses: A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.
Jesse James
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Jesse James (1847–1882), American robber and outlaw; one sense after his daring lifestyle, the other after a common myth that he was fatally shot with a .45 caliber bullet (he was actually shot with a .44).
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A player who often bluffs.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A four and a five as starting cards in Texas hold 'em.
ruckuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruckus
munches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munch
munches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of munch
munched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of munch
eat one's young
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's young
form: eating one's young
form: ate one's young
form: eaten one's young
Etymology: The term is derived from the zoological phenomenon of animals killing and consuming their own young for sustenance.
Senses: examples: text: With bankruptcy looming, the corporation eventually began eating its young; massive layoffs were announced, and all employee benefits and bonuses were suspended.
glosses: To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.
savaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of savage
savaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savagings
Senses: examples: savagings in the newspapers
glosses: A vicious attack or criticism.
glosses: Aggressive behavior, by a mother animal toward her offspring
Texas hold 'em
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of poker in which players receive two cards each, and five other cards are shared between them.
Nolan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊlən/
ipa: /ˈnoʊlən/
ipa: /ˈnəʉlən/
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ó Nualláin (literally “descendant of Nuallán”), diminutive of nuall (“chariot-fighter, champion”).
Senses: examples: text: Recently, Christopher Nolan made an interesting admission: The most famous line from his fan-favorite Batman film, 2008’s The Dark Knight, wasn’t his creation and was a line that he initially didn’t quite get. Nolan said his brother, frequent collaborator and co-writer Jonathan came up with the prophetic line, “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
ref: 2024 March 29, James Hibberd, “Jonathan Nolan Explains the Origin of ‘The Dark Knight’s’ Most Famous Line”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nolan County, Texas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Nolan chart
Nolan County
Nolanesque
nolanite
Nolanite
Nolanverse
Dione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /daɪˈoʊni/
Forms: form: Diones
Etymology: From Latin Diōnē (“of Jupiter”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “of Zeus”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon in Jupiter system, Solar System; The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname from French
Derived terms: Dionean
Related terms: Deeon
Deion
Deon
Deyon
Dion
Dionne
Dyon
ammonio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical group (-NH₃⁺) derived from the ammonium cation.
Derived terms: diammonio
Orville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Invented by Fanny Burney for the hero of her novel Evelina. It has been suggested that it is based on the very old Welsh forename of Eurfyl, meaning 'gold'.
Senses: examples: text: I saw that the rank of Lord Orville was his least recommendation, his understanding and his manners being far more distinguished.
ref: 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina, Derby & Jackson, published 1857, page 38:
text: Orville Wright was born in 1871. Milton and Susan selected the names of their offspring with great care and considered middle names unnecessary.
ref: 1998, Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers, Courier Dover, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage.
Otis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊtɪs/
ipa: /ˈəʊtɪs/
rhymes: -əʊtɪs
Etymology: A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
examples: text: […] in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
ref: 1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from the surname.
glosses: An Otis elevator.
Derived terms: Otisville
argentei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argenteus
Reece
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rees
form: Reese
form: Rhys
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Rhys.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Greenwood County, Kansas, United States.
Rhys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːs/
ipa: /ɹis/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: Rhyses
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Rhys. Doublet of Price, Reece, Rees, Reese, and Rice.
Senses: examples: text: Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
ref: 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Rees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh, an Anglicized form of Rhys.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Reese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹis/
rhymes: -iːs
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] from Welsh Rhys.
glosses: A male given name from Welsh, derived from the surname or directly from Rhys.
examples: text: During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
ref: 2023 July 6, Erin Griffith, David Yaffe-Bellany, “How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later American usage.
cardboard box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːd.bɔːd bɒks/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹd.bɔɹd bɑks/
Forms: form: cardboard boxes
form: cardboard-box
Senses: glosses: An industrially prefabricated box made from cardboard, primarily used for packaging goods or materials and often recycled.
glosses: A corrugated box.
glosses: Syphilis.
glosses: Someone who is very dull and uninteresting.
Hypernyms: box
Derived terms: cardboard-boxy
Related terms: carton
Reagan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.ɡən/
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Riagáin (“descendant of Riagán”), a personal name possibly derived from ríodhgach (“impulsive, furious”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish; variant forms Regan, Riggen.
examples: text: When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
ref: 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
glosses: A surname from Irish; variant forms Regan, Riggen.
Ronald Reagan, president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later American usage.
Derived terms: Lincoln-Reagan dinner
Nancy Reagan gaze
Raegan
Reaganaut
Reagan County
Reagan Democrat
Reagan dinner
Reaganesque
Reaganian
Reaganism
Reaganite
Reaganomics
Related terms: Regan
Regan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Except for Donald Regan, who served as White House Chief of Staff between 1985 and 1987, Reagan's staff gradually learned to appreciate Nancy's role.
ref: 1998, Adriana Bosch, Reagan: An American Story, New York: TV Books, →OCLC, page 75:
glosses: A surname from Irish from Irish Ó Riagáin, variant of Reagan.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
examples: text: Regan looked blank for a moment; then turned around to Sharon and grinned, her mouth full of braces and shy rebuke.
ref: 1971, William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname or from the name of the evil daughter of King Lear. William Shakespeare may have got the name from the ultimately same Irish source.
glosses: A minor city in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States.
Rickey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variant of Ricky, diminutive of the male given name Richard.
Rickey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rickeys
Senses: examples: text: Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.
ref: 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 112:
glosses: A cocktail made with lime (citrus fruit) and carbonated water.
Rian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈriː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern Irish usage, variant of Ryan.
Ronan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Rónán.
Senses: examples: text: He'd said that his mother was from Ireland, that he had been born there but came to England when he was just a little boy, he had changed his name from Ronan to Robert, to fit in, and she'd said, fancy that.
ref: 2013, Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave, Tinder Press, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Rory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹoəɹi/
Forms: form: Rorys
form: Rories
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Ruairidh and Irish Ruairí (“red-haired king”), from Old Irish Ruaidrí (“red king”).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name from Irish.
examples: Rory Sutherland
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Roderick.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name from Irish.
examples: Rory Block
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Aurora.
Related terms: Rorie
take shape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes shape
form: taking shape
form: took shape
form: taken shape
Senses: examples: text: After two hours of discussion, our plans began to take shape.
text: Yet it was all interesting and the process of being partly responsible for stripping down a locomotive and seeing it take shape again was quite a thrill.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
text: It was the section of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Ambergate which provided the springboard for a scheme that took shape in the early part of 1845 for a route through the Peak to Manchester.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
glosses: To take a definite form.
Synonyms: come into being
form
puddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddocks
Senses: examples: text: [T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Black Andie’s Tale of Tod Lapraik”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 182:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of paddock.
progeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progenitures
Etymology: From Middle English progeniture.
Senses: glosses: procreation
glosses: ancestry, lineage
glosses: offspring, progeny
vaginal flatulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: see queef
glosses: An emission or expulsion of air from the vagina.
preclair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preclair
form: most preclair
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preclare.
preclare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preclare
form: most preclare
form: preclair
form: preclaire
Etymology: From Latin praeclarus.
Senses: glosses: illustrious, distinguished
prebend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈprɛbənd/
Forms: form: prebends
Etymology: From Middle French prebende, from Medieval Latin prebenda, from Late Latin praebenda, from Latin praebendus, verbal adjective of praebere. Doublet of provender.
Senses: glosses: A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
examples: text: He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
ref: 1885, “Aldred (d.1069)”, in Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, William Hunt, Volume 1:
glosses: The property or other source of this endowment.
glosses: Political patronage employment.
examples: c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby
a lease of the prebend of Withington
glosses: A prebendary.
Derived terms: prebendal
Related terms: prebendalism
prebendary
prebend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈprɛbənd/
/priˈbɛnd/
/ˈprɛbənd/
Forms: form: prebends
form: prebending
form: prebent
form: prebent
Etymology: From pre- + bend.
Senses: examples: text: For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.
ref: 2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators, page 14:
glosses: To bend in advance.
potence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French potence (“power, a crutch”), from Latin potentia (“power, in Medieval Latin also crutch”), from potens (“powerful”); see potent.
Senses: glosses: Power or strength; potency.
glosses: A stud that acts as a support of a pivot in a watch or clock.
Derived terms: counterpotence
idempotence
nilpotence
unipotence
cross potence
Related terms: potency
potent
potentate
potential
potentiality
postulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒstjʊlənt/
ipa: /ˈpɒstʃʊlənt/
Forms: form: postulants
Etymology: From French postulant, present participle of postuler.
Senses: examples: text: After their six-month postulancies are over and they have mastered all the chants and books of monastic regulations, the postulants are finally ready to ordain as novice monks […]
ref: 2020, Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience, page 81:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person seeking admission to a religious order.
examples: text: But when the three postulants returned with Sabine it was clear that the results had been far from satisfactory, perhaps because of the massive potations of the old lady.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1254:
glosses: A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
poind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪnd/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /pɔɪnd/
Forms: form: poinds
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots poynd, puynd, from Middle English pynden, from Old English *pyndan (and derived ġepyndan), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan. Doublet of pind.
Senses: glosses: A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized
poind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪnd/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /pɔɪnd/
Forms: form: poinds
form: poinding
form: poinded
form: poinded
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots poynd, puynd, from Middle English pynden, from Old English *pyndan (and derived ġepyndan), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan. Doublet of pind.
Senses: glosses: To seize property in this manner.
Derived terms: poindable
poinder
plenish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛnɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɛnɪʃ
Forms: form: plenishes
form: plenishing
form: plenished
form: plenished
Etymology: Scots plenish, from pleniss- the stem of Anglo-Norman plenir in certain conjugated form, from plein (“full”). Compare replenish.
Senses: examples: text: By the time they went back to the bar the expressionless peasant behind it had set up two glasses and plenished them with yellow rum and sugar upon which he now poured hot water before pushing them forward and motioning to them with his head to drink.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 794-5
glosses: To fill up, to stock or supply (something).
examples: text: No man ever saw Alison at any market in the countryside, and yet the Skerburnfoot was plenished yearly in all proper order.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Specifically, to stock land or a house (with livestock or furniture).
Derived terms: deplenish
displenish
plenishment
petrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrospheres
Etymology: From petro- + -sphere.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any roughly spherical artefact made of stone.
petrosomatoglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrosomatoglyphs
Etymology: From petro- + somato- + glyph.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An impression of part of a human or animal body incised in rock
pendicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendicles
Etymology: From Middle English, probably from Medieval Latin pendiculum (“appendage”), from Late Latin pendiculus (“cord, noose”), from Latin pendere (“to weigh”).
Senses: glosses: An appendage; something attached to something else.
glosses: A small property that is a subsidiary part of a larger estate; an appurtenance
Derived terms: pendicler
pelehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelehouses
Senses: glosses: A fortified house
parclose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːkləʊz/
Forms: form: parcloses
form: paraclose
form: perclose
Etymology: From Middle English parclose, perclose, from Old French parclos, perclose and others, Middle French parclose (“end, enclosure”), noun use of past participle of parclore (“to enclose”).
Senses: examples: text: The two eastern bays of this aisle form the Golafre chapel and are inclosed by modern parcloses of oak[…]
ref: 1906, Peter Hampson Ditchfield, William Page, John Hautenville Cope, The Victoria History of Berkshire:
text: It is divided from the north aisle by the great screen, and from the chancel by a parclose of rather poor and spindling work.
ref: 1910, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 194:
glosses: A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.
examples: text: Thenne syr Percyual aspyed that therin was a man or a woman / for the vysage was couerd / thenne he left of his lokyng and herd his seruyse / And whan hit came to the sacrynge / he that lay within that Percloos dressid hym vp and vncouerd his heede / and thenne hym besemed a passynge old man / and he had a crowne of gold vpon his hede
"Then Sir Percivale espied that therein was a man or a woman, for the visage was covered; then he left off his looking and heard his service. And when it came to the sacring, he that lay within that parclose dressed him up, and uncovered his head; and then him beseemed a passing old man, and he had a crown of gold upon his head"
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIV:
glosses: An enclosed area, especially one separated from the main body of a building by a screen or partition.
overmantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmantels
Etymology: From over- + mantel.
Senses: examples: text: Ushered into the small front room, Podson found himself restored to a habitable world. A tightly stuffed couch, chintz-covered armchairs, an overmantel mirror with swans painted on it, flowers in various vases, photos in metal frames.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:
text: She strode to the fireplace and examined a lidded crystal vase on the overmantel.
ref: 1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 191:
glosses: A decorative structure, usually plasterwork or carved wood, and sometimes containing a mirror, over a mantelpiece.
ouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ouses
form: ousing
form: oused
form: oused
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ooze.
ornee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ornee
form: most ornee
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orné.
ogam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ogams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ogham.
Derived terms: ogamic
mure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mures
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).
Senses: examples: text: Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
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 IV, scene iv], line 2870:
glosses: wall
glosses: husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
mure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).
Senses: glosses: mural (as a postmodifier)
mure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mures
form: muring
form: mured
form: mured
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).
Senses: glosses: to wall in or fortify
examples: text: Therewith he mured up his mouth along,
And therein shut up his blasphemous tong
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The five kings are mured in a cave.
ref: a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)
glosses: To enclose or imprison within walls.
muniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːnɪmənt/
Forms: form: muniments
form: miniment
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman muniment, Middle French muniment, and their source, Latin mūnīmentum (“fortification, defence”), from mūnīre (“to fortify”).
Senses: examples: text: hauing the said deedes, euidences, muniments, terriers, and writinges in their hands[…]
ref: 1594, William West, Symboleography […] :
text: Then, on the order of King Darius, a search was made in Babylonia in the muniment rooms where the archives were kept […]
ref: 1966, Jerusalem Bible, Ezra 6:1, London: Darton, Longman & Todd
topics: law
glosses: A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document.
examples: text: Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide, / By chance he certaine miniments forth drew, / Which yet with him as relickes did abide / Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw / On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI:
glosses: Things which a person or place is equipped with; effects, furnishings, accoutrements.
examples: text: other muniments and petty helps
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Something used as a defence.
Derived terms: muniment house
mortsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortsafes
Senses: glosses: An iron frame constructed over a grave as a protection against resurrectionists
mistal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪstəl/
/ˈmɪsəl/
Forms: form: mistals
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *mystal, from myx (“dung”) + stal (“shed”).
For the disappearance of /k/ before /st/, compare the disappearance of /x/ before /st/ in Anglian Old English hēst (“highest”), nēst (“nearest”), and sesta (“sixth”), surviving in Scots neest (“next”).
Senses: glosses: A cowshed.
clearing the decks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clear the decks
clear the decks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clears the decks
form: clearing the decks
form: cleared the decks
form: cleared the decks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove, or fasten, all loose material, or partitions prior to a naval engagement.
glosses: To prepare for action.
Related terms: all hands on deck
battle stations
interferon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′tər-fîr′ŏn′
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈfɪːˌɒn/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈfɪɹˌɑn/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈfɪɹˌɒn/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈfɪəˌɔn/
ipa: /ˌən.tɐˈfiə̯ˌɔn/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈfiɹˌɔn/
ipa: /ˌin.ʈɜʳˈfiːɾˌɒn/
rhymes: -ɪːɒn
Forms: form: interferons
Etymology: From interfer~ + -on (suffix: chemical compound), from its role interfering with viral replication.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of glycoproteins, produced by the immune system, that prevent viral replication in infected cells.
Derived terms: albinterferon
antiinterferon
interferonopathy
peginterferon
isobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobutanes
Etymology: From iso- + butane. From being an isomer of butane, different from n-butane (“'normal' butane”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon, a particular isomer of C₄H₁₀ found in natural gas.
Synonyms: 2-methylpropane
methylpropane
trimethylmethane
Related terms: butane
cyclobutane
n-butane
methylpropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylpropanes
Etymology: From methyl- + propane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isobutane
Derived terms: 2-methylpropane
malleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maˈliː.əl.ə/
ipa: /məˈli.əl.ɚ/
rhymes: -iːələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From malleolus + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the malleolus.
Derived terms: bimalleolar
inframalleolar
intermalleolar
perimalleolar
retromalleolar
supramalleolar
transmalleolar
trimalleolar
malleolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maˈliː.əl.əs/
ipa: /məˈliː.əl.əs/
rhymes: -iːələs
Forms: form: malleoli
form: malleoluses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin malleolus (“a small hammer or mallet”); itself from malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
meronyms: lateral malleolus
medial malleolus
posterior malleolus
glosses: The bony prominence with a shape likened to a hammerhead, especially each of those at the distal end of the fibula or tibia, on either side of the ankle joint.
Derived terms: word: malleolar
dowdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowdinesses
Etymology: From dowdy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
frumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being frumpy.
cupule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupules
Etymology: From cup + -ule.
Senses: examples: text: Then they extract a three-angled beechnut from its cupule, weigh it, and push it into the loam.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 146:
glosses: Any small structure shaped like a cup, such as at the base of an acorn, or the sucker on the feet of some flies.
Derived terms: cupular
cupulate
cupuliferous
cupuliform
irresoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irresoluble
form: most irresoluble
Etymology: From ir- + resoluble.
Senses: glosses: difficult if not impossible to resolve; irresolvable
Derived terms: irresolubleness
irresolubly
frumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frumpy: more frumpy
frumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of frumpy: most frumpy
frumpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frumpily
form: most frumpily
Etymology: From frumpy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frumpy manner.
dowdifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dowdify
dowdifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dowdify
sushi roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sushi rolls
Senses: glosses: A type of sushi wrapped in seaweed; usually cut into bite-sized pieces.
flixweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flixweeds
Senses: glosses: A tall, herbaceous flowering plant, Descurainia sophia, related to mustard
kush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: Kush
form: cush
Etymology: Ellipsis of Hindu Kush, the place of origin.
Senses: examples: text: Baby, who you callin' soft / Don't make me smoke up all your kush / Don't make me pop your cheap ass pills
ref: 2011, “Next”, in Echoes of Silence, performed by The Weeknd:
text: Smoking on that kush all in our section / Like it's legalized
ref: 2013, “All Me”, in Nothing Was the Same, performed by Drake:
text: Later in the day, Siyad is heard on a wiretap telling another man that he received “1.5 of kush” (slang for marijuana) from “Rob Ford’s driver.” Later Siyad tells another person, a woman, that what he received was actually “Rob Ford’s kush.”
ref: 2013 December 4, Kevin Donovan, “Rob Ford: Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot, police documents say”, in The Star:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Marijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, strains of which often have high THC content).
general of the army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generals of the army
Senses: glosses: A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States, ranking directly above a general, and corresponding to marshal or field marshal in other countries. A general of the army is equal in grade or rank to an admiral of the fleet.
glosses: A military officer of the highest rank in several countries that follow the United States military rank system, including Liberia.
generals of the army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general of the army
major general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major generals
form: major-general
form: Maj. Gen.
form: maj. gen.
Senses: examples: text: In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy-- [...] You'll say a better major-general has never sat agee.
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the very pattern of a modern Major-General”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
major-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major-generals
Senses: examples: text: Hu Jui-chou, an army major-general involved in rescue operations, said those trapped included people buried by a massive landslide in Hsiao Lin, a village of 1,000 in Kaohsiung county. Many were also trapped in a second village, Namahsia.
ref: 2009 August 11, Ralph Jennings, “700 trapped, possibly dead, in Taiwan: military”, in Ron Popeski, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022, Editor's Picks:
glosses: Alternative spelling of major general.
kingsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingsmen
Etymology: From king + -s- + man.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.
glosses: Alternative form of king's man.
factfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factfinders
Etymology: From fact + finder.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In a legal proceeding, the person or persons given the task of weighing all evidence presented and determining the facts of the case in light of that evidence; the jury, or where there is no jury, the judge.
glosses: One who finds facts.
Related terms: finder of fact
trier of fact
factfinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factfinder
bluebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluebook
branding irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of branding iron
kingsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingsman
coring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of core
coring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corings
Senses: glosses: The production of a core by means of drilling
coring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corings
Etymology: From co- + ring.
Senses: examples: ref: 2007, Heulwen Rankin, Coalgebras, corings and their comodules:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a ring.
Derived terms: noncoring
leap frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leap frogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leapfrog.
bouffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: bouffes
Etymology: From French bouffe.
Senses: examples: text: Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna[…].
ref: 2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A comic opera
Derived terms: opera bouffe
bouffe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: bouffes
form: bouffing
form: bouffed
form: bouffed
Senses: examples: text: I thought about bouffing my hair again.
glosses: To make bouffant.
I could eat a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I could eat a brick
Senses: examples: text: She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:
glosses: I am very hungry.
Hypernyms: I'm hungry
Related terms: eat like a horse
hippophagous
butter knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter knife
butterknife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterknives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butter knife.
butterknives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterknife (alternative spelling of butter knives).
klieg lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klieg light
sightlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sightless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of being sightless; blindness
sightlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sightlessly
form: most sightlessly
Etymology: From sightless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sightless manner; blindly.
steak knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak knives
Senses: glosses: A table knife with a sharp, narrow, and often serrated blade designed for cutting tougher foods such as cooked meats.
steak knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak knife
ribcage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribcages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rib cage.
rib cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rib cages
form: ribcage
form: rib-cage
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: thoracic cage
glosses: A part of the skeleton within the thoracic area consisting of ribs, sternum and thoracic vertebrae.
glosses: The enclosed area created by and within the ribs.
rib cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rib cage
ribcages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribcage (alternative spelling of rib cages).
spicier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spicy: more spicy
spiciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spicy: most spicy
mischievousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪst͡ʃɪvəsnəs/
Forms: form: mischievousnesses
Etymology: From mischievous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Up to the recent accident, which is attributed to the mischievousness of someone in releasing safety devices on the wagon, the railway has enjoyed an accident-free record.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: An American Mountain Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 382:
glosses: The characteristic of being mischievous; the tendency to make mischief.
aw shucks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Aw shucks, you're going to make me blush.
glosses: An expression of bashfulness or modesty, especially in response to a compliment or when giving thanks.
examples: text: Aw shucks, it looks like we're going to lose the game after all.
glosses: Used to express disappointment, embarrassment or annoyance.
non sequiturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non sequitur
praeludium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeludia
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of preludium.
mydriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈdɹaɪ ə sɪs/
/maɪ-/
Forms: form: mydriases
Etymology: From Latin mydriasis, from Ancient Greek μυδρίᾱσις (mudríāsis, “undue enlargement of the pupil”), from μύδρος (múdros, “mass of red hot material in a forge”), possibly because the pupil is particularly bright or sparkling when dilated, or because of the red eye effect when exposed to a flash of light.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having abnormally large and dilated pupils due to illness or narcotics, particularly stimulants such as methamphetamine, cocaine, etc.
Derived terms: mydriatic
Related terms: anisocoria
tempos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmpəʊz/
ipa: /ˈtɛmpoʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of tempo
eneclann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The honour price ascribed to an individual as a measure of his/her status, recorded in the early Irish Law tracts. It had to be paid for any major offence committed against an individual, e.g. murder, satire, serious injury, refusal of hospitality, theft, violation of protection, etc.
pinnule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnules
Etymology: From Latin pinnula.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A part or an organ which resembles the barb of a feather, particularly the side branches on the stalks of crinoids; Any of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite.
Synonyms: pinnula
Derived terms: pinnulate
MTV generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation.
ref: 1992 December 22, PC Mag, volume 11, number 22, page 346:
text: Younger viewers are seen as part of the MTV generation: raised on a collage of rapidly shifting images […]
ref: 1996, James Robert Walker; Robert V. Bellamy, Jr., Television and the Remote Control, Guilford Press, page 96:
text: The problem was that this young man, like many young people who grew up in the MTV generation, had developed only a very short attention span.
ref: 1998, Garry Mitchell, The Trainer's Handbook, AMACOM, page 311:
text: Then the MTV generation took over. Writing became unfashionable.
ref: 2003, Patricia B. Seybold, Martin Lindstrom, Brandchild, Kogan Page, page 8:
glosses: The generation that came of age watching MTV in the late 20th century.
conceptualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conceptualize
dourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dourly
form: most dourly
Etymology: From dour + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dour manner.