cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suboscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboscines
Etymology: From sub- + oscine.
Senses: examples: text: Crucial to my model, however, are two suboscines, one of which is the threewattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata), that do not quite fit into the current picture of oscine versus suboscine classification.
ref: 2007, Irene M. Pepperberg, “19: Emergence of Linguistic Communicetion”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 376:
text: Sequence data unequivocally support the paraphyly of suboscine passerines (Figure 9.5). This is not too surprising when it is considered that prior to Sibley's DNA hybridization work, which recovered suboscine monophyly, relationships of suboscines had been controversial on morphological grounds.
ref: 2011, F. Keith Barker, “Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Passerines”, in Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, editors, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds, page 244:
text: New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) are the most basal passerines, suboscines are mostly South American, and most taxa originally included in the oscine group Corvida are Australasian.
ref: 2012, Darren Naish, “20: Birds”, in M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, editors, The Complete Dinosaur, page 418:
glosses: Any of the passerine birds of suborder Tyranni, which includes broadbills, asities, pittas, antbirds and others.
Derived terms: New World suboscine
suboscines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suboscine
subjecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjecters
form: subjector
Etymology: From subject + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone or something that subjects
subjector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjectors
Etymology: From subject + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subjecter.
suberite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the sea sponges of the genus Suberites.
suberite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suberites
Senses: glosses: A sponge of the genus Suberites.
suberites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suberite
sea sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea sponges
Senses: glosses: sponge (animal, Porifera)
chromometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromo- + -metric.
Senses: examples: text: The chromometric method, or, as the authors name it, the nephelometric method, cosists essentially in burning the carbon as above, but the carbonic is conducted into a standard solution of basic acetate of lead (2 per cent), and estimating the turbidity produced, as compared with that produced by the carbonic acid evolved under similar circumstances by a known and nearly equal quantity of carbon (sugar), the difference between the two being estimated by a Mills's colorimeter.
ref: 1879 January 24, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, page 39:
text: The quantity of hemoglobin in blood as determined by chemic, chromometric, and spectro-photometric methods amounts to about 14 per cent. in man and 13 per cent. in woman.
ref: 1904, Albert Philson Brubaker, A Text-book of Human Physiology, page 246:
text: Changes were measured by chromometric measurement.
ref: 2015, Raja K Sivamani, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics, Third Edition, page 77:
glosses: Of or pertaining to chromometry.
clairet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clairets
Senses: glosses: A full-bodied and deep-coloured type of rosé wine from the Bordeaux region.
lay odds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays odds
form: laying odds
form: laid odds
form: laid odds
Senses: examples: text: Prince John: "I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, / We bear our civil swords and native fire / As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, / Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the King."
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 V, scene v]:
text: "We're dead safe," he assured them with a laugh. "No salt mines this time, Smoke. But I'll tell you what -- I'll lay odds of five to one it's the Macedonia."
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 24, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: To offer a bet in which one stands more to lose than the opponent; or a bet in some other way favourable to the opponent.
glosses: To feel certain about something.
Synonyms: give odds
Coordinate terms: wager
zoo format
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoo formats
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A radio programme format with several presenters chatting informally among themselves.
silent treatments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silent treatment
begather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begathers
form: begathering
form: begathered
form: begathered
Etymology: From be- + gather. Cognate with Middle Dutch begaderen.
Senses: examples: text: Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather! Yet fiercer the storm Shocks onward terrific — A thunderbolt falls! — Oaks crash down heart-shatter'd!
ref: 1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex:
text: Your birthday was in the drying and browning month of my mother's death. I took how Summer tossed your heart at me and made a cornucopia of a snake, my crown. Snake's tongue begathers Winter's sway.
ref: 1989, Lynn Lonidier, Clitoris lost:
glosses: To gather about; gather round; assemble.
Synonyms: collect
forgather
assemble
cryoextraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryoextractions
Etymology: From cryo- + extraction.
Senses: glosses: The pressing of frozen grapes as part of the manufacture of a form of ice wine
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of a cataract using a cryoprobe
crémants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crémant
unmitre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmitres
form: unmitring
form: unmitred
form: unmitred
form: unmiter
Etymology: From un- + mitre.
Senses: examples: text: It is not the unfrocking of a Priest , the unmitring of a Bishop
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: To deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.
Baconianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Baconian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The scientific methods of Francis Bacon.
glosses: The theory that Francis Bacon was the real author of the works of William Shakespeare.
staphylinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylinids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the beetle family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles.
staphylinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylinid
kilogrammeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilogrammeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilogram-meter.
kilogrammetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilogrammetres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilogram-meter.
kilogrammeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilogrammeter
kilogrammetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilogrammetre
kickings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of kicking
rearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearing
storying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of story
storying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storyings
Senses: examples: text: As we hope to show in this chapter, though, it is not really different material that we need so much as different interpretations, different storyings, different “valuations” of the material that we have.
ref: 2008, William L. Randall, Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old, page 177:
text: Other people's storyings were contributing to the storyings of my own life. The chapter which follows is a narrative of some of the understandings developed during the year in which this book was written.
ref: 2010, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett, Exploring learning, identity and power through life history and narrative research:
glosses: The telling of a story or series of events.
seedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seedly
form: most seedly
Etymology: From seed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs.
ref: 1829, Joshua Major, A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden ...:
text: The Kra of the sheep, when the sheep is killed, enters a new-born lamb and the ghost-sheep goes to the deadland for the use of ghost men« (s. Ellis), the Kra of the bush enters a seedly bush (the ghost-bush goes to deadland).
ref: 1894, Adolf Bastian, Zur mythologie und psychologie der Nigritier in Guinea ...:
text: Another friend made all this explanation more detailed and informative: she added that a kiwi also looked, tasted, and was shaped like the prickly pear; she considered other details such as their sharing a seedly flesh, and their enhanced ...
ref: 1992, Baltasar Gracian, wit, and the Baroque Age: a rhetorical study
glosses: Of, like, or relating to seeds; producing or bearing seeds; seedy.
examples: text: After examining the contents the chemist replied: "Why, this is iron Pyrites, commonly known as fool's gold." "What is it worth?" asked the seedly individual. "Oh, about $4.00 a ton in car lots." "Just my luck," exclaimed the questioner.
ref: 1916, Southern pharmaceutical journal
glosses: Misspelling of seedy.
inoculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inoculator
amphiprostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiprostyle
stablemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stableman
stablewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablewomen
Etymology: From stable + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female attendant in a stable, looking after the horses.
stablewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stablewoman
half-island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-islands
form: half island
Etymology: From half- + island. Compare German Halbinsel (“peninsula”, literally “half-island”), Latin paeninsula (“peninsula”, literally “almost-island”).
Senses: examples: text: Because of its half-island identity, the Korean peninsula has instilled among those who live along its coasts and on some of the over three thousand mostly small offshore islands, a long-term interest in fisheries.
ref: 2005, Edward A. Olsen, Korea, the Divided Nation:
text: For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.
ref: 2010, Martin Abroquah Akanba, Revelation: The Movement of the Akan People from Kanaan to Ghana:
text: Therefore, полуóстров is а half-island, or peninsula. Incidentally, the word peninsula is formed in the same way, from the Latin words раеnе (almost) and insula (island).
ref: 2011, Marita Nummikoski, Troika:
text: Here the Chinese navy sees little but trouble and frustration in what Chinese strategists call the First Island Chain, which, going from north to south, comprises Japan and the Ryuku^([sic – meaning Ryukyu]) Islands, the “half-island” of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, [...]
ref: 2011, Robert D. Kaplan, Monsoon, page 284:
glosses: A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a byland; peninsula.
examples: text: Yunen finds the "study of the half-island" to be no better than a "half-study," one whose artificially narrow scope blocks the understanding of shared problems and the finding of shared solutions.
ref: 2003, Eugenio Matibag, Haitian-Dominican counterpoint:
glosses: An area of land occupying part or half of an island.
verbdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verb + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: [...] to see their name transformed into a verb synonymous with getting an inexpensive meal quickly, neither do such names become synonymous with any particular social malady. Wal-Mart has not quite reached the lofty status of verbdom.
ref: 2006, Stanley D. Brunn, Wal-Mart World:
glosses: The realm, state, quality, sphere, or condition of being a verb; verbhood.
retraxits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraxit
Dansk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dansk
form: most Dansk
Etymology: From Danish dansk, Swedish dansk, Icelandic dansk.
Senses: examples: text: Strange was her tyre; for on her head a crowne / She wore, much like unto a Danisk hood […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Danish.
bloomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bloomlier
form: more bloomly
form: bloomliest
form: most bloomly
Etymology: From bloom + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How piquantly that patch becomes the Mareschale's bloomly cheek to-day !
ref: 1878, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, Songs and romances:
text: The sound went from a bloomly, euphonic sound to a warm fuzzy sound. Is this due to break in?
ref: 2008, Break in Time - Dac 2.1 - Audio Note Kits Forum
glosses: Of, like, pertaining to, or resembling a flower or bloom; bloomy; floral.
r'coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: r'coons
Etymology: Contraction of raccoon.
Senses: examples: text: In 1951, Disney released the animated short R'coon Dawg starring Mickey and Pluto.
text: “Yeah Wayne, go on, and tell 'er 'bout the r'coon too, now there's somethin' funny,” De said, smarting back.
ref: 2006, S. C. Kirk, An Itty Bitty Murder on the Way to Long Lane, page 49:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of raccoon.
r'coons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of r'coon
no-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-marks
form: no mark
Senses: examples: text: My favourite bit – bar the attempt to enforce a ruthless caste system in the no-mark community – is the prissy way Danny asterisks the word fuck …
ref: Danny Dyer v Dane Bowers: two no-marks at war, Marina Hyde, The Guardian, 5 February 2010
text: If you had a daughter, and I want you to think about this seriously, would you honestly want her wasting herself on a no mark like that?
ref: The Family, Martina Cole, 2010
text: She's said to be 'in pieces' after reading nasty comments calling her a 'no mark Brit' on American websites just as she's mentally girding her loins for her big move to Los Angeles.
ref: Google boo-boo: Cheryl Cole 'upset' after seeing slurs about herself on internet ahead of her X Factor USA appointment, Daily Mail, 30 April 2011
glosses: An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score in athletics having after having not set a valid ground marking in a distance measurement. A score of 0 metres, resulting from faulting/fouling out of competition.
no-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: no-marks
form: no-marking
form: no-marked
form: no-marked
form: no mark
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To fail to record a valid score, and produce a score of 0 or no-mark (no distance), by failing to make a valid ground mark from an attempt, and fouling/faulting out of competition.
Derived terms: NM
Related terms: mark
markless
NH
no-height
unremarkable
phrenetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phrenetical
form: most phrenetical
Senses: glosses: Dated form of frenetic.
Related terms: phrenetically
unmitred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmitre
unmitres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmitre
unmitring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmitre
otherwhiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: otherwhile
Senses: glosses: At another time, or other times.
examples: text: At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;
Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,
Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second 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 ii]:
glosses: sometimes; occasionally.
unwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwomans
form: unwomaning
form: unwomanning
form: unwomaned
form: unwomaned
form: unwomanned
form: unwomanned
Etymology: From un- + woman.
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] My love, so please you, shall requite
No woman, whether dark or bright,
Unwomaned if she be.’
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Romaunt of the Page”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 163:
text: Not all her anxiety for Arthur, not all her personal wretchedness, could unwoman the minister’s mother so much as to make her forgive or overlook Phœbe’s presumption.
ref: 1863, Margaret Oliphant, chapter 21, in Salem Chapel, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 22:
text: “He says I am not feminine, that I act like a man, that I’m too aggressive. I say that he unwomans me, because he doesn’t do the man’s work in the home, and I have to—somebody has to! […]”
ref: 1972, Pearl S. Buck, “Thoughts of a Woman at Christmas”, in Once Upon a Christmas, New York: John Day, page 115:
text: The muslin dress unwomans her, a crude navy blue […] which buttons at the nape of her neck and drops past her knees in stiff irregular folds. Oh it hangs, it hangs, sack bag barrel. Even her waist is not hugged by it and there are no darts in consideration of her breasts.
ref: 1976, Susan Yankowitz, Silent Witness, New York: Knopf, Part Three, p. 141:
text: To make historical sense of these writers' continual struggle with womanness, consider more closely how unwomaning did and did not work under chattel slavery. […] pregnant workers received no differential treatment, and slave motherhood was not (as Spillers finds in North America) a way for females to become women. [<span title="[...] imperial narratives insisted that ungendering preceded slavery […] this machinery of violent unwomaning was never abandoned.">…
ref: 2010 August 18, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: To deprive of feminine qualities, or of the status of womanhood; to unsex.
unwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwomen
Etymology: From un- + woman.
Senses: examples: text: By allowing herself and her unborn child to be executed, effectively she is permitting an abortion and by extension, becoming an “unwoman.”
ref: 2020, Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Neo-Victorian Madness, page 140:
glosses: A woman devoid of rights, recognition, or typical female characteristics; a female unperson.
unwomaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwomanned
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwoman
unwomaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unwomanned
Etymology: From un- + woman + -ed, modelled on earlier unmanned.
Senses: glosses: Unattended by a woman.
unwomaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwoman
unwomans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwoman
stadtholdership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stadtholderships
form: stadholdership
Etymology: From stadtholder + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: stadtholderate
glosses: The office or rank of a stadtholder.
slighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slighter
theosophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theosoph
otolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otolite
consolators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consolator
chantor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chantors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chanter (“religious sense”).
chantors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chantor
grainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grainer
tannings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanning
turkeyling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkeylings
Etymology: From turkey + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: As he spoke, another cruel rap, a faint peep, and a third turkeyling lay stretched upon the green. The hen-mother by this time had taken the alarm, and hastily called off the remainder of her family.
ref: 1872, Making of America Project, Harper's magazine:
text: "How are the turkeylings?" says I. "One of 'em's going to die."
ref: 1926, Louise Imogen Guiney, Grace Cecily Guiney, Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney:
text: The drake beamed at his children and wagged his stumpy tail proudly. "Well done! What a fine family you've given me. Good grief! That's not one of mine!" … large, ugly brother. "He's a turkeyling! " "Of course he. The Ugly Duckling.
ref: 1987, Animal fairy tales
text: The four turkeylings traveled in a bigger, heavier box. About a third of the way up the mountain, it started to pour. I was soaked. Worse, the turkeys were soaked. Turkeylings are notorious for being delicatissima.
ref: 2011, Brent Zimmerman, Get Your Goat:
glosses: A young or little turkey; a poult.
turkeylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkeyling
fettlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fettling
Tuwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase. This is the grave at Arzan in Tuwa, opened under the guidance of the Nestor of Siberian archeology, M. P. Grjaznov.[…]
Right: plan of the Arzan kugan in Tuwa (seventh century B.C.). Model of a city in the beyond, into which the deceased will move.
ref: 1989 [1988], Karl Jettmar, “The art of the Steppes”, in The History of Art, Blitz Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
text: In a Japan-Russia cooperative botanical expedition in the Central Siberia in 1993, several wood samples of Betula, including small shrubs, were collected from Kudznetskiy Alatau Mts. in Khakas Republic and West Sayan Range in Tuwa Republic.
ref: 1996, Nature and Human Activities, numbers 1-4, →OCLC, page 33, column 1:
text: In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl.
ref: 2009 December, Günter Nyul, “The Neutral in biodynamic cranio-sacral osteopathy – an extraordinary state of consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 02 Mar 2024, page 15:
text: The ancestors of the reindeer breeders originate from Tuwa, which is now an autonomous constituent republic of Russia.
ref: 2012, Frank Riedinger, Mongolia – Faces of a Nation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=0JRqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT160:
glosses: Alternative form of Tuva.
splash damage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Damage caused by a nearby explosion, affecting creatures within a certain radius.
horseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horselings
Etymology: From horse + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Two of these that she was about to chase and fondle, were not aristocratic horselings, they were but the rough and sturdy children of rough and sturdy dams and sires ; born to the plough, and the heavy waggon, [...]
ref: 1874, Bertha De Jongh, The sisters Lawless:
text: Thork astride the pony raced after, the horseling running in sheer panic.
ref: 2002, Dennis L. McKiernan, Dragondoom:
glosses: A young or little horse; foal; pony.
Synonyms: horselet
horselings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseling
silent service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent services
Senses: examples: text: Germany has four times as many subs as when the war started. . . . The number of highly trained men in Berlin's silent service is limited.
ref: 1943 January 7, “News Behind the News”, in Modesto Bee, US, page 16:
text: As befits advocates of the “Silent Service,” the Naval Submarine League keeps a low profile.
ref: 1986 August 4, Richard Halloran, “Washington Talk: Speaking Out for the Silent Service”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Aug 2012:
text: A sailor with 33 years experience in the silent service and once a fabled commander of the Northern Fleet nuclear submarines, Chernov contends that the raising operation was intentionally launched as a cover-up to leave the Kursk on the sea floor.
ref: 2001 August 16, Yuri Zarakhovich, “Will We Ever Know What Sank the Kursk?”, in Time:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The submarine service.
examples: text: In true "silent service" tradition, the Royal Canadian Navy says little about itself.
ref: 1940 May 17, “Royal Canadian Navy Growing In Strength”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 07 Aug 2012, page 9:
text: The Navy has long been known as the "silent service," and perhaps none of our naval leaders is as well known to the American public as any one of a number of generals.
ref: 1945 June 3, “Pacific Seadogs”, in New York Times, USA, page SM6:
text: Since then, the navy has recovered its identity but continues to pride itself on being the Silent Service.
ref: 1978 July 14, “Colonel Was Trained To Shoot From Hip”, in Montreal Gazette, Canada, retrieved 07 Aug 2012, page 5:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The navy.
foxling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxlings
Etymology: From fox + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.
ref: 1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion
text: The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.
ref: 1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook:
glosses: A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.
sheepling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheeplings
Etymology: From sheep + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: He will also give me His spirit to assist and comfort me in all temptations and afflictions and to make my heart confident and certain so as not to doubt, that I am my Lord's dear sheepling, and He my faithful Shepherd, [...]
ref: 1885, The Lutheran witness:
text: It happened that a young sheepling stood there. The horrid wolf had a desire for a dinner of spring lamb, but felt some stings of conscience, so for a plea he made out that the sheepling was his enemy.
ref: 1896, William Lesley Mason, The stenographer's companion:
glosses: A little or young sheep; lamb.
windmill restart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windmill restarts
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A restart of a jet engine using the kinetic energy of the aircraft.
ectodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ectoderm + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the ectoderm.
Synonyms: ectodermal
Derived terms: neuroectodermic
Puseyistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Puseyistic
form: most Puseyistic
Etymology: From Pusey + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Puseyism.
whelpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whelplings
Etymology: From whelp + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] For that whelpling Diogenes sought to find a man, carrying round his lamp at midday; but Marcion, having quenched the light of faith, has lost the God whom he had found."
ref: 1907, Frederic William Farrar, Lives of the Fathers:
text: "Yes, I did," Evia replied, and then licked the top of the whelpling's head.
ref: 2011, Ani Johnson, Half-Breed:
text: […] to share space with his dog, whom the attendant explained he'd rescued from the road and taken in, likely, according to the corny script I'd begun playing in, so I'd understand I was truly a stray, a whelpling, a pup.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence:
glosses: A little whelp.
conversants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversant
grass tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass trees
form: grasstree
Senses: examples: text: They ascended the incline of the ridge through a tract of country where prehistoric grasstrees and cycads stood in isolation among bloodwoods and stunted hickory […].
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 125:
glosses: Any of various small trees of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae (especially of the genus Xanthorrhoea), having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grass-like leaves.
glosses: A New Zealand shrub of the genus Dracophyllum, that grows up to 12 m high and found throughout in drier climates and at higher altitudes, with slender erect or spreading branches. Rigid, leathery grass-like leaves are usually crowded towards the tip of the branchlets. Also called spiderwood.
glosses: Dasylirion longissimum (family Asparagaceae, Mexican grass tree)
glosses: Dracophyllum (family Ericaceae), a genus of about 100 species.
glosses: Richea pandanifolia (family Ericaceae, giant grass tree).
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: grass tree gum
grass trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass tree
landlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlandˌlɒk/
ipa: /ˈlændˌlɑk/
Forms: form: landlocks
form: landlocking
form: landlocked
form: landlocked
Etymology: From land + lock.
Senses: glosses: To enclose or nearly enclose (a harbour, vessel, etc.) with land.
landlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of landlock
landlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of landlock
Edgeworthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Edgeworthian
form: most Edgeworthian
Etymology: From Edgeworth + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), Irish writer of adults' and children's literature.
glass-crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass-crabs
Senses: glosses: A mollusk of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, during its larval state (phyllosoma) which is remarkable for its thinness and transparency. It was formerly thought to be a separate organism in the family Phyllosoma
glass-crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass-crab
assle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æsəl
Forms: form: assles
form: assling
form: assled
form: assled
form: arsle
Etymology: From ass + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch aarzelen (“to hesitate; waver”).
Senses: examples: text: "May all her public servants arsle around like buss-eyed catawumpuses ! That's what I say. Just like they'll do tomorrow, while we set here and laugh at 'em."
ref: 1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle:
text: You're always assling around.
ref: 1969, Kentucky Folklore Society, Kentucky folklore record:
text: "Them boys don't do no work, they just assle around town all day."
ref: 1992, Vance Randolph, G. Legman, Blow the Candle Out:
text: He doesn't have anything to do so he's just assling around […]
ref: 2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops:
text: I assled over into a packrat nest without thinking, so the next scene on that damn camera recorder was me leaning over while the ladies in the party pulled cholla out of my tight Levis. I took that with great dignity and aplomb, I assure you.
ref: 2010, Julian D. Hayden, Bill Broyles, Diane E. Boyer, Field man: life as a desert archaeologist:
glosses: To sit, move, or scoot about on one's buttocks; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.
shucky ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Coined by comedian Cecil "Shuckey Duckey" Armstrong.
Senses: examples: text: "Aww, shucky ducky quack-quack," Imani crooned, turning to exchange a high-five with me. "We were good! No, as Nia would say, off the chain!"
ref: 2003 August 1, Suzette D. Harrison, When Perfect Ain't Possible, Washington, DC: BET Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 90:
text: They are so good, that when you look at them, all you can do is say "Shucky Ducky Quack Quack! My Crew Is ALL THAT!!!"
ref: 2008, A'ric Jackson, 5 Things Your Guidance Counselor Didn't Tell You, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Tryin' to git on the beam, huh? With them li'l singin' earrings on them li'l squashed-down ears! Aw shucky ducky, now! Look at chu!
ref: 2008 September 1, Jacqueline F. Wheelock, “Blue's Holiday”, in Charline R. McCord, Judy H. Tucker, editors, Christmas Stories from the South's Best Writers, Gretna: Pelican, →ISBN, →OL, page 119:
glosses: Phrase indicating disappointment or excitement.
wikipedia: Shuckey Duckey
Related terms: shucks
kissle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kissles
form: kissling
form: kissled
form: kissled
Etymology: From kiss + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And if you'll so arrange it, Mrs. Swisshelm, You needn't join the maidens when we kissle 'em.
ref: 1877, Puck:
text: O that tis not the fashion in France For the maids to kissle before they are married.
ref: 1908, William Shakespeare, Ernest Roman, King Henry V.:
text: She flung her arms around him and pressed her lips to his, and when he tried to move away she clung to him tightly and sobbed against his mouth and kissled him with a violent passion born of despair.
ref: 1984, Jean Nash, The Golden Thread:
text: Who can resist being asked to "kissle me some more?"
ref: 1999, Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Dept. of History, Left history
glosses: To smother with kisses; kiss repeatedly; kiss.
Synonyms: bekiss
besmooch
Gallomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: Gallomaniacs
Senses: glosses: One who has Gallomania; an enthusiast of all things French.
Gallomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallomaniac
mithan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mithan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mithun.
repetitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repetitor
Algonkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Algonkin
verberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verberate
gaitering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gaiter
areometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: areometrical
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured by, an areometer.
catly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catly
form: most catly
Etymology: From cat + -ly. Compare catlike.
Senses: examples: text: Automatically, he scanned the premises for catly mischief, just as Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets.
ref: 2003, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Went Up the Creek:
text: Patches rubbed his face on Roxbury's leg in a catly way. Patches stretched out and rolled over, and Whiskers tickled the kitten's neck, shoulders, and upper belly. “I'm their natural science teacher,” said Tiffany in a catly voice as she bent her knees to pet Patches without looking at him.
ref: 2004, Anne Hart, Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays:
text: In the last few weeks he had appended his column ^([sic]) with a few words of catly wisdom from Cool Koko's Almanac.
ref: 2004, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Talked Turkey:
glosses: Of or pertaining to cats; feline.
pent roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pent roofs
form: pentroof
Etymology: Shortened from penthouse roof.
Senses: glosses: A sloping roof with a singular surface.
glosses: A short roof appended to the side of a building, particularly a barn.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A penta engine, also known as a pent-roof combustion chamber.
pentroof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentroofs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pent roof.
myco-heterotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myco-heterotrophs
Etymology: From myco- + heterotroph.
Senses: glosses: A plant that gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
Derived terms: myco-heterotrophy
myco-heterotrophic
myco-heterotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoheterotrophy
Etymology: From myco- + heterotrophy.
Senses: glosses: A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.
clipsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clipsome
form: most clipsome
Etymology: From clip (“to clasp, embrace”) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: As for Cinderellas in general, and not to make any invidious exceptions, it may be said of them, "with their clipsome waists," that they belong to the Cockney school — […]
ref: 1822, Blackwood's magazine:
glosses: Fit to be clasped or embraced.
madling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madlings
Etymology: From mad + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: A madling acts in opposition to common sense. He is an owd madling whose reason has become childish by the lapse of years.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words:
text: A madling was speaking to them; a woman. Dani stopped with a mind to retreat.
ref: 2006, Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering:
text: The madling—he had appeared today in the form of Austeri-Pranz, one of Vespanus' instructors at Roë, an intimidating man with bulging, rolling eyes and a formidable overbite—gave the question his consideration.
ref: 2010, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Songs of the Dying Earth:
glosses: A mad creature; one who acts wildly or foolishly.
madling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more madling
form: most madling
Etymology: Either from attributive use of madling (see above), or for maddling, present participle of maddle (“to be mad”). More at maddle.
Senses: examples: text: To be madling is to have our ideas confused.
ref: 1881, Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words:
text: The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect.
ref: 2006, Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering:
text: She blinked her painful eyes. “Oh,” she said, “the madling boy. . . . But how would I know this? Why do you trouble me with this? […]
ref: 2014, Richard Monaco, Parsival:
glosses: Mad; insane; crazy.
maddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maddles
form: maddling
form: maddled
form: maddled
Etymology: From mad + -le.
Senses: glosses: To be or become crazy; rave; be confused in mind; be delirious; lose one's way; be dotingly fond of.
glosses: To craze; confuse in mind; bewilder; masker.
Related terms: madling
kir royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kir royals
form: kir royale
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with champagne.
kir royals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kir royal
prot-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: coordinate_terms: deuter-
trit-
glosses: Alternative form of proto- used before a vowel.
trit-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Form of trito- used before a vowel.
Coordinate terms: prot-
deuter-
beet sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beet sugars
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: sugar beet
text: Honey, maple sirup or sugar, molasses, and various commercial sirups can well be used in the place of cane or beet sugar. All these substitutes for cane or beet sugar are good for certain uses. Skillful combination of two or more of them will often produce the desired sweetness without the flavor of any one of them being too pronounced. For example, when honey is combined with corn sirup, the mixture is sweeter than corn sirup alone and the pronounced flavor of the honey is modified. During the sugar shortage, confections made of sweets other than cane or beet sugar should be used, and they should take the place of a sweet dessert instead of being eaten in addition to other sweet foods.
ref: 1918 November, “Lesson 121: Sugar-saving desserts and confections”, in The Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home. Food Series. Published and Distributed in Furtherance of the Purposes Provided for in the Act of Congress of May 8, 1914, Ithaca, New York: New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University:
hypernyms: sugar
coordinate_terms: cane sugar
maple sugar
glosses: Sugar made from sugar beet as opposed to sugar cane.
MAHLI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Mars Hand Lens Imager, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory on board the Curiosity rover on Mars.
MARDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Mars Descent Imager (a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars).
REMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Acronym of Rover Environmental Monitoring Station.
fermentescible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fermentescible
form: most fermentescible
Senses: glosses: fermentable
APXS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
SAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAM
LPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of line printer
glosses: laser periodontal therapy
glosses: listed property trust
glosses: licensed psychiatric technician
glosses: licensed physical therapist
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of licensed penetration tester
glosses: low-power transceiver
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: low-pressure turbine
glosses: local policing team
topics: business
finance
glosses: loss portfolio transfer
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of long period transient
glosses: Initialism of life pro tip.
surface-to-air missiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface-to-air missile
air-to-surface missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-to-surface missiles
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A missile that is fired from an aircraft to the ground.
Derived terms: word: ASM
Related terms: air-to-air missile
surface-to-air missile
surface-to-surface missile
grey partridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey partridge
surface-to-surface missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface-to-surface missiles
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ground-based missile that can target other objects on the ground.
Derived terms: word: SSM
Related terms: air-to-air missile
air-to-surface missile
surface-to-air missile
surface-to-surface missiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface-to-surface missile
air-to-surface missiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-to-surface missile
fetching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more fetching
form: most fetching
Etymology: From fetch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
text: I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.
ref: 2000, Bill Bryson, chapter 1, in In a Sunburned Country, page 11:
text: “The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village.
ref: 2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair:
synonyms: word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
glosses: Attractive; pleasant to regard.
Derived terms: fetchingly
fetchingness
unfetching
fetching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Etymology: From fetch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of fetch
fetching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: fetchings
Etymology: From Middle English fetchynge, fecchynge, faching, fettynge, equivalent to fetch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.
ref: 1834, Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons:
glosses: The act by which something is fetched.
ship-to-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from ship at a target on the ground
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
ground-to-ship
ground-to-ship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fired from the ground at a target ship
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
ground-to-ground
ship-to-ground
ground-to-ground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fired from the ground at a target on the ground.
raw_tags: of a missile
Related terms: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
ground-to-ship
ship-to-ground