cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹd/
ipa: /nɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: nards
Etymology: From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
examples: text: […]there cam a womã with an alablaſter boxe of oyntment / called narde / that was pure and coſtly / and ſhe brake the boxe ãd powred it on his heed.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiiij:[3], folio lxvj, recto:
text: The Roman poet Horace refers to a lecherous old fop "scented with nard."
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 182:
glosses: A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
glosses: American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.
Synonyms: word: nardus
sense: Nardostachys jatamansi
word: nardin
sense: Nardostachys jatamansi
word: muskroot
Derived terms: Indian nard
spikenard
nard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹd/
ipa: /nɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: nards
Etymology: Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).
Senses: examples: text: The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!
text: I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.
ref: 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:
glosses: A testicle.
Synonyms: sense: testicles
word: ball
sense: testicles
word: nut
nard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹd/
ipa: /nɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: narde
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian نرد (nard)
Senses: glosses: A Persian game similar to backgammon.
crance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crances
form: crans
form: cranje
form: cranse
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay
Synonyms: crance iron
cherubims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew cherubim כרוב, cherub + -ים; the Hebrew is plural, but the translators chose to add -s when borrowing the word into the English form, probably because the readers of the Authorized Version would not be familiar with Hebrew or Latin plurals.
Senses: examples: text: And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 9:5:
glosses: plural of cherub
glosses: plural of cherubim
firstfruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English frystefruytes, equivalent to first + fruits.
Senses: glosses: plural of firstfruit
examples: text: And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God: And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 26:10-11:
text: Long it were to reckon up particularly what God was owner of under the Law: for of this sort was all which they spent in legal sacrifices; of this sort their usual oblations and offerings; of this sort tithes and firstfruits; […]
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Most authors, I imagine, regard the introduction of the firstfruits of their pen to public notice with feelings akin to timidity […]
ref: 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts:
glosses: Alternative form of first fruits.
gear train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear trains
form: geartrain
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A system of interconnected gears.
wherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: wherries
Etymology: From Middle English whery (“small boat”), of obscure origin but cognate to French houari and Breton ouari, as well as Welsh chweri (“small boat”).
Senses: examples: text: O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder, turban and all, with her train streaming after her, and her nose like the beak of a wherry.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: He went out for Freshman rowing but didn't make any of the crews and took to rowing by himself in a wherry three afternoons a week.
ref: 1932, John Dos Passos, 1919, Houghton Mifflin Company 2000, p. 67
glosses: A light ship used to navigate inland waterways.
examples: text: Here I used to enjoy myself in playing about the bridge stairs, and often in the watermen's wherries, with other boys. On one of these occasions there was another boy with me in a wherry, and we went out into the current of the river: while we were there two more stout boys came to us in another wherry, and, abusing us for taking the boat, desired me to get into the other wherry-boat. Accordingly I went to get out of the wherry I was in; but just as I had got one of my feet into the other boat the boys shoved it off, so that I fell into the Thames; and, not being able to swim, I should unavoidably have been drowned, but for the assistance of some watermen who providentially came to my relief.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano:
text: The river was astir early and late with barges, wherries, and craft of every description.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
glosses: A flat-bottomed vessel once employed by British merchants, notably in East Anglia, sometimes converted into pleasure boats.
glosses: A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is extracted.
Related terms: ferry
wherry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈwɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: wherries
form: wherrying
form: wherried
form: wherried
Etymology: From Middle English whery (“small boat”), of obscure origin but cognate to French houari and Breton ouari, as well as Welsh chweri (“small boat”).
Senses: glosses: To travel or transport in a wherry.
grapnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæpnəl/
rhymes: -æpnəl
Forms: form: grapnels
Etymology: From Middle English grapnel, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin. Compare modern French grappin.
Senses: examples: text: […] we espied towards the North end of the Iland ye light of a great fire thorow the woods, to the which we presently rowed: when wee came right ouer against it, we let fall our Grapnel neere the shore, & sounded with a trumpet a Call […]
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC, page 292:
text: 1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty, London: George Nicol, Entry for 1 June, 1789,
At dawn of day we got on shore, and tracked the boat into shelter; for the wind blowing fresh without, and the ground being rocky, I was afraid to trust her at a grapnel, lest she might be blown to sea: I was, therefore, obliged to let her ground in the course of the ebb.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: graplin
glosses: A small anchor, having more than two flukes, used for anchoring a small vessel.
glosses: A device with a multiple hook at one end and attached to a rope, which is thrown or hooked over a firm mooring to secure an object attached to the other end of the rope.
examples: text: […] the wind dying away, the signal was made for casting anchor, when both ships came to in 26 fathom water; but the Resolution expecting to come to with her small stream anchor, let the whole run out, and lost both anchor and hauser, besides the ship’s grapnel in looking for it.
ref: 1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: E. Newbery, Part II, p. 233:
text: With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver ...
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 2:
text: “[…] Why, you’ve flung your grapnel over the doctor, and he’s coming courting forthwith.”
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 22”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: But by the mercy o’ God to heretics, what were left o’ my poor ship got a hold on that guarda-costa’s timbers wi’ her grapnels, what time we climbs aboard her.
ref: 1936, Rafael Sabatini, “Sacrilege”, in The Fortunes of Captain Blood:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A grappling iron.
grapnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæpnəl/
rhymes: -æpnəl
Forms: form: grapnels
form: grapneling
form: grapnelling
form: grapneled
form: grapneled
form: grapnelled
form: grapnelled
Etymology: From Middle English grapnel, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French grapil, grapin. Compare modern French grappin.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To connect (ships) with a grapnel.
cringle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cringles
form: crengle
form: crenkle
Senses: examples: text: "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
glosses: A withe for fastening a gate.
cringle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cringles
form: cringling
form: cringled
form: cringled
form: crengle
form: crenkle
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To fasten or attach with a cringle.
Related terms: cringle-crangle
cross sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross seas
Etymology: The swells of the waves, when they meet at right angles, form cross shapes.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A (dangerous) sea with two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over it shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
mechanical energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The sum of the potential energy and kinetic energy of a body or system
crossing the line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ceremony performed on board ship when members of the crew or passengers cross the equator for the first time.
crossing the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross the line
cross-jack yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-jack yards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lower yard on the mizenmast of a square-rigged ship
concetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈt͡ʃɛtəʊ/
Forms: form: concetti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian concetto, from Latin conceptus. See conceit and concept, which are doublets.
Senses: examples: text: Tasso in particular, Mirollo notes, treated the concetto "as the equivalent in a lyric poem of plot in longer works." Pellegrino, similarly, and with reference to Tasso, says that concetti "are the soul and the form of a composition" […]
ref: 1997, James Biester, Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
text: But to restrict the concetto to an idea or concept gives short shrift to the metaphorical and sometimes occult implications of the term. Conceit as discors concordia involves the comparison of unlike things, the finding of similarity in dissimilarity.
ref: 2006, Vernon Hyde Minor, The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: conceit
glosses: Affected wit; a witty turn of phrase; a conceit.
Derived terms: concettism
coranto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹæntəʊ/
/kəˈɹɑːntəʊ/
Forms: form: corantos
form: corantoes
form: corant
Etymology: From the French dance the courante, loosely translatable as the "running".
Senses: examples: text: Luſtique, as the Dutchman ſaies: Ile like a maide the Better whil'ſt I haue a tooth in my head: why he's able to leade her a Carranto.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 233, column 2:
text: Dancing a coranto with him on the heath.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Orlando, it is true, was none of those who tread lightly the coranto and lavolta; he was clumsy; and a little absent-minded.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
glosses: A fast-paced dance which originated in France.
examples: text: I am not foot-poaſt, / No pedlar of Aviſo's, no monopoliſt / Of forged Corantos, monger of Gazets.
ref: c. 1638 May 13 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Ladies Triall. […], London: […] E. G. for Henry Shephard, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, recto:
glosses: An early informational broadsheet, bringing together news and philosophical discussion.
lavolta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavoltas
Etymology: From Italian la volta (“the turn, turning, whirl”) and the French la volte (circular movement). Compare volt (“circular tread of a horse”), volta.
Senses: examples: text: Orlando, it is true, was none of those who tread lightly the coranto and lavolta; he was clumsy; and a little absent-minded.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
glosses: An ancient dance of the Renaissance which incorporated many challenging twists and skips.
confetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confetti
Etymology: From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt.
Senses: examples: text: I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.
ref: 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
text: She fluttered her hand at a confetto of cigarette ash, knocking it from her black soft sweater to the thigh of her black jeans where it lay unmolested.
ref: 1993, Outerbridge, page 49:
glosses: A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.
Nabuchodonosor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Nabūchōdonosor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nebuchadnezzar.
Pilate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪlət/
rhymes: -aɪlət
homophone: pilot
Etymology: The surname is from Latin Pīlātus (“a Roman cognomen”, literally “armed with javelins”), from pilum (“javelin, pestle”), of unknown ultimate origin.
Senses: examples: text: I was 'round when Jesus Christ / Had his moment of doubt and pain / Made damn sure that Pilate / Washed his hands and sealed his fate
ref: 1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.
Derived terms: Pilatian
Pilatism
Related terms: Pontius
tithes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tithe
tithes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tithe
threescore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹiskɔɹ/
Forms: form: threescores
Etymology: From three + score, compare the etymology of Danish tres.
Senses: examples: text: And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 9:13:
text: Words cannot picture her; but all men know
That solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought
Three centuries and threescore years ago
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
glosses: Sixty (60).
Derived terms: threescore and ten
Related terms: score
twoscore
fourscore
double-time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-times
form: double-timing
form: double-timed
form: double-timed
form: doubletime
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To march at double time.
examples: text: […]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns.
ref: 1954, Russell A. Gugeler, “Combat Actions in Korea”, in CMH Publication 30-2:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To order troops to march at double time.
uttermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəməʊst/
ipa: /ˈʌtəɹmoʊst/
Forms: form: utmost
Etymology: From Middle English, alteration of uttermest. Compare inmost and innermost.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of utter: most utter; situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost.
uttermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəməʊst/
ipa: /ˈʌtəɹmoʊst/
Forms: form: utmost
Etymology: From Middle English, alteration of uttermest. Compare inmost and innermost.
Senses: examples: text: They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 65:8:
text: [U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Flavius Domitian”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VI ([The Romans] […]), paragraph 8, page 214, column 1:
glosses: Extreme; utmost; of the farthest, greatest, or highest degree.
Derived terms: uttermostly
uttermostness
Related terms: outermost
outmost
utmost
uttermost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtəməʊst/
ipa: /ˈʌtəɹmoʊst/
Forms: form: uttermosts
form: utmost
Etymology: From Middle English, alteration of uttermest. Compare inmost and innermost.
Senses: examples: text: Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money, nor commodity
To raise a present sum: therefore, go forth;
Try what my credit can in Venice do:
That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is; and I no question make,
To have it of my trust or for my sake.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: […]So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?"; and he replied saying, "Seek ye deliverance of the Most High from the strait into which we have fallen and bemoan yourselves and take leave of one another; for know that the wind hath gotten the mastery of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: The free way will call for uttermosts in civilization, self-discipline and human excellence.
ref: 1943, John Temple Graves, The Fighting South, page 274:
glosses: The utmost; the highest or greatest degree; the farthest extent.
firstfruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firstfruits
form: first fruit
form: first-fruit
Etymology: From Middle English firste fruyt, equivalent to first + fruit.
Senses: glosses: An offering of the first of the harvest; firstfruits.
examples: text: For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 11:16:
glosses: The first growth, allegory for the first people to receive the message.
glosses: Ceremony in Southern Africa, notably among the Zulu and Swazi peoples, in which the paramount chief is the first to eat from the new harvest.
Related terms: forefruit
uncleanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈklin.nəs/
/ʌŋ-/
Forms: form: uncleannesses
Etymology: From Middle English unclennesse, from Old English unclǣnness; equivalent to unclean + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1 Esdras] viij:[87], folio vij, verso, column 2:
english: [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, and mingled ourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.
translation: [W]e have broken thy statutes and commandments again, and mingled ourselves with the uncleanness of the foreign heathen.
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glosses: The state of being unclean
glosses: The result or product of being unclean.
Synonyms: uncleanliness
testimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testimony
tabernacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabernacle
Thamar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθeɪmə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew. A less common spelling of Tamar.
Jeremias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/
Etymology: New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
Senses: examples: text: Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias or one of the prophets.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:14:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.
negrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negritos
Senses: glosses: Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.
glosses: A Mexican shrub of the vervain family, Citharexylum berlandieri.
hipshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpʃɒt/
Forms: form: more hipshot
form: most hipshot
Etymology: From hip + shot.
Senses: glosses: Having a dislocated hip.
glosses: Clumsy, awkward.
examples: text: No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 686:
glosses: Standing with one hip lower than the other.
hipshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpʃɒt/
Forms: form: more hipshot
form: most hipshot
Etymology: From hip + shot.
Senses: examples: text: Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot, sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them.
ref: 2005, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold:
text: The two stubby horses, dusty and sweaty from the road, were standing hip-shot and bored, and Bernan sat on the driver's box with reins slack and his elbows on his knees.
ref: 2005, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt:
glosses: With one hip lower than the other.
baler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balers
Etymology: From bale (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Farmer Jones is in straits because his baler is broken down and he's got three fields of hay ready to bale.
glosses: A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
examples: text: Hank worked as a baler for Farmer Jones part time, to make ends meet.
glosses: A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.
Derived terms: baler twine
balers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baler
banditry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banditries
Etymology: From bandit + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The merchant refused to travel in the region due to the ongoing banditry.
glosses: Acts characteristic of a bandit; armed robbery.
read dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of read + speed dating
Senses: glosses: An organized event in which prospective romantic partners engage in a series of one-to-one meetings in a library, based around the topic of favorite books.
bankroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹoʊl/
Forms: form: bankrolls
Etymology: Compound of bank + roll.
Senses: examples: text: Phil kept his bankroll in his front pocket, as it made too much of a lump to sit on.
glosses: A roll of banknotes or other paper currency, carried in lieu of a wallet.
examples: text: Microsoft is a corporation with an extremely large bankroll.
glosses: The monetary assets of a person or organization.
Derived terms: California bankroll
Michigan bankroll
Texas bankroll
bankroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋk.ɹoʊl/
Forms: form: bankrolls
form: bankrolling
form: bankrolled
form: bankrolled
Etymology: Compound of bank + roll.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Stebbins didn't need to apply for government grants because his lab was bankrolled by a large pharmaceutical corporation.
text: Pathfinder is keen to stress it is not insolvent, but owner Barry Cordell, who is in his late 80s, has decided he can no longer bankroll the company.
ref: 2025 October 15, “News: Pathfinder to run final trains”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 13:
synonyms: finance
support
underwrite
glosses: To fund a project; to underwrite something.
Derived terms: bankroller
bankrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankroll
bankrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bankroll
bankrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bankroll
bankrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bankroll
grilse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪls/
rhymes: -ɪls
Forms: form: grilses
form: gilse
Etymology: From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [VI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 133:
english: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
translation: They call it fasting when they have the best of fish from Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forby [i.e., besides] trouts, grilses, salmon, and all the rest of it, and so they make their fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
bold_translation_offsets: 132
139
text: In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.
ref: 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4:
synonyms: grilt
glosses: A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
smolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smoʊlt/
ipa: /smɒlt/
rhymes: -oʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: smolts
Etymology: Probably an alteration of smelt, due to smolt (“smooth”). See above.
Senses: glosses: A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
Derived terms: presmolt
smoltification
banqueter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænkwɪtɚ/
Forms: form: banqueters
form: banquetter
Etymology: From banquet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb.
glosses: A guest at a banquet.
Synonyms: banqueteer
banquetgoer
feaster
banqueters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banqueter
bare-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bare-bones
form: most bare-bones
Senses: examples: text: Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability.
text: Considering their civilization endured both the immense disaster of the Scourge and the brutal kett invasion, angara possess remarkably advanced technology. Their starships, while generally small and bare-bones functional, are more than capable of keeping pace with Andromeda Initiative vessels.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Technology Codex entry:
glosses: Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
examples: text: Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, often a processor, memory, and hard drive.
Synonyms: sense: only the essentials
word: no-frills
sense: only the essentials
word: skeleton
word: bare-bones
word: austere
word: bare
word: bargain
word: basic
word: cheap
word: default
word: discreet
word: economy
word: elemental
word: elementary
word: essential
word: foundational
word: fundamental
word: incomplex
word: light
word: modest
word: plain
word: pure
word: restrained
word: run-of-the-mill
word: simple
word: slimline
word: spartan
word: standard
word: stripped down
word: stripped
word: uncomplicated
word: unembellished
word: uninvolved
word: unmodified
word: unvarnished
word: vanilla
Hypernyms: word: lacking
Related terms: word: barebone
word: feature creep
word: kitchen-sinky
word: bells and whistles
word: skeleton crew
word: common
bather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bathers
Etymology: From bathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When using sitz tubs that have been placed in a bathtub, the bather can use the tub's sides to assist their movement. Otherwise, to make it easier for the bather to get up and down, it helps to elevate the sitz tub on blocks.
ref: 2000, James Green, The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual, Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
examples: text: Both bathers on the beach and bathers in the water at the time of sample collection were categorized as fewer than 20, 20-100, 101-200, and more than 200.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), The EMPACT Beaches Project results from a study on microbiological monitoring in recreational waters, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).
examples: text: Even though becoming a dog groomer requires training, many grooming salons will hire somebody with no experience to be a dog bather and will then train that person to become a dog groomer.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Steven J. Ashe, Starting A Business With Little To No Capital:
glosses: One who gives a bath to another.
glosses: A sunbather
glosses: A bathing costume
bathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of bathing suit.
Senses: glosses: plural of bather
examples: text: The bathers they wore looked sort of the same as now, but their hair was really different.
ref: 2001, Laurene Kelly, The Crowded Beach, page 10:
text: No one here wore bathers. Both boys wore their homemade underpants, the brand name, ‘Sydney Flour’, emblazoned across the back, as old flour bags were not wasted, but recycled.
ref: 2008, Lyn Aldred, Neptune's Fingers, page 10:
text: I was looking at a pair of bathers to buy and talking about the life of the bathers and how to extend their life.
ref: 2009, Jacqueline Ann Wharton, Freedom Through Adversity: Ten Steps to Overcoming a Troubled Mind, page 69:
synonyms: budgie smugglers
cozzie
Speedos
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: A swimsuit; a bathing costume.
battleground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætəlˌɡɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: battlegrounds
form: battle ground
form: battle-ground
Etymology: From battle + ground.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer's field was a civil war battleground, and relics such a minnie bullets were frequently found while plowing.
glosses: A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
examples: text: And now the two of them are lost in a screaming battleground
ref: 1994, Andrew Scott, “People of the Sky”, in Twice Removed:
glosses: Any place or situation of dispute or contention.
examples: text: Abortion was becoming the season's big political battleground.
glosses: Any subject of dispute or contention.
examples: text: Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is ahead of Mr. Trump in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.
ref: 2020 November 1, “Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Ellipsis of battleground state.
Synonyms: battlefield
Coordinate terms: battlespace
battlegrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battleground
identic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɛntɪk/
Forms: form: more identic
form: most identic
form: identick
Etymology: From French identique, from Medieval Latin identicus (“the same”), from Latin identi-, from idem (“the same”).
Senses: glosses: Identical.
examples: text: The English and French Governments had, on the 6th January, 1882, given to the Khedive an assurance of their support in an “identic declaration,” since known as the “dual note,” […]
ref: 1887, J. F. Maurice, The Campaign of 1882 in Egypt, page 1:
text: The Department on March 5, 1909, notified the countries represented at the Naval Conference of its intention to prepare and transmit an identic circular note dealing with this question, and on October 18, 1909, an elaborate identic circular note [was prepared].
ref: 1916, James Brown Scott, An International Court of Justice: Letter and Memorandum, page 12:
text: While Britain blew cold the French blew hot and proposed to Britain that she should join in an identic note to Russia, but Palmerston's view was that the Polish affair was coming to a close: An identic note is good for a definite and positive […]
ref: 1969, R. F. Leslie, Reform and insurrection in Russian Poland, 1856-1865, page 199:
topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: Precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; applied to concerted action or language used by two or more governments in treating with another government.
Related terms: identification
identify
identity
queefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queef
queefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of queef
queefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From queef + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queef
queefing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From queef + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of queef
queefed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of queef
keeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keek
keeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keek
keeking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keek
keeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keek
artisans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artisan
rebuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebuff
rebuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebuff
rebuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbʌfɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebuff
rebuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbʌfɪŋ/
Forms: form: rebuffings
Senses: glosses: A rebuff; the act by which somebody is rebuffed.
buffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
glosses: present participle and gerund of buff
buffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Forms: form: buffings
Senses: examples: text: the burning machine for blowing dirt and buffings off the work
ref: 1921, Stanley P. McMinn, “Practical Tire Merchandising and Repairing”, in Motor Age, volume 40:
glosses: Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
Derived terms: buffing wheel
bobtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑbteɪl/
Forms: form: bobtails
Etymology: From bob + tail.
Senses: glosses: A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
glosses: An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A tractor which performs without its trailer.
glosses: A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
glosses: A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
examples: text: a bobtail flush
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An open-ended straight or four flush.
glosses: A bobtail squid.
glosses: A bobtail skink.
Derived terms: bobtail lizard
bobtail squid
bobtail trophon
Kurilian Bobtail
ragtag and bobtail
rag, tag and bobtail
ragtail and bobtail
tag-rag and bobtail
bobtail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑbteɪl/
Forms: form: bobtails
form: bobtailing
form: bobtailed
form: bobtailed
Etymology: From bob + tail.
Senses: examples: 2002. David Diamond. The Trucker & The Professor, Wired (magazine), Issue 9.12http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/sheffi.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set=
He deposits his trailer at a Marten facility in nearby Stockton, and then drives without the trailer - that's called "bobtailing".
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To drive a tractor without its trailer.
examples: 2003. Bergmann Co. Bergmann's Cleaning History:https://web.archive.org/web/20071012131035/http://bergmanns.com/company_history.asp
W.C. Bergmann was supplementing his meager lamplighter's income by "bobtailing"… picking up laundry and cleaning in his horse drawn truck...
glosses: To drive a truck or other vehicle without its trailer.
clickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: c. 1943 (entertainment), c. 1965 (manufacturing), c. 1985 (computing) click + -able
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: That establishes rapport with an audience.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: That retains its shape after being cut by a blade or punched by a die.
raw_tags: of a rigid plastic foam
examples: text: Putting a clickable link in your post is easy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Causing some action to occur when clicked with a mouse or other pointing device.
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: hot
Derived terms: clickability
clickably
nonclickable
unclickable
clickable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickables
Etymology: c. 1943 (entertainment), c. 1965 (manufacturing), c. 1985 (computing) click + -able
Senses: examples: text: The design strategy was to boil down the story's 17 pages to simple language, 5 sing-along songs and 5 games, with about 100 total clickables throughout the program.
ref: 1993, Children's Software Revue, volumes 1-4, page 13:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any element that can be clicked by the user.
transmissometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmissometers
form: transmissiometer
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument used to measure the transmission of light through a material; typically used to measure visibility through fog.
Related terms: transmissometric
transmissometry
turbidimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbidimeters
Etymology: From turbid + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument that measures the turbidity of a fluid containing suspended particles.
Related terms: turbidimetric
turbidimetry
Secchi disk
udometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: udometers
Etymology: Formed from Latin ūdus (“wet”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A rain gauge.
Related terms: udometric
udometry
ultramicrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicrometers
Etymology: From ultra- + micrometer.
Senses: glosses: A very precise micrometer.
Related terms: ultramicrometric
ultramicrometry
urinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: urinometers
Etymology: From urine + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A hydrometer used to measure the specific gravity of urine.
Related terms: urinometric
urinometry
variometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variometers
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin varius (“various”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure variations in a magnetic field.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: vario
glosses: A rate-of-climb indicator.
Related terms: variometric
variometry
velocimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velocimeters
Etymology: From veloci(ty) + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The impact velocity of the projectile was obtained with a velocimeter installed between the muzzle and the target.
synonyms: speedometer
coordinate_terms: tachometer
;
accelerometer
glosses: A device used to measure the velocity of something, such as an object or a wave.
Related terms: velocimetric
velocimetry
vinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinometers
Senses: glosses: A device used to estimate the alcohol content of wine via its surface tension (in the absence of sugar).
viscometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscometers
Etymology: From visco- + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: viscosimeter
hypernyms: meter#Noun
<
instrument#Noun
coordinate_terms: consistometer
glosses: An instrument used to measure the viscosity of a liquid.
Related terms: viscometric
viscometry
viscosimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscosimeters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of viscometer.
synonyms: word: viscometer
voltammeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltammeters
Etymology: From volt + ammeter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure both electrical current and voltage.
Related terms: ammeter
voltmeter
voltammetric
voltammetry
volumeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volumeters
Etymology: From volume + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any instrument used to measure the volume of a substance.
Related terms: volumetric
volumetry
SPOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPOFs
Senses: related: word: SPF
glosses: Initialism of single point of failure.
mad for it
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mad for it
form: most mad for it
form: madferit
Senses: examples: text: Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.
ref: 1883 January 6, Nugent Robinson, Ave Maria - Volume 9 - Father Tom: A Story of Connemara, page 3:
glosses: Exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something.
Charlemagne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːɹləmeɪn/
ipa: /ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːləˌmeɪn/
ipa: /ˈʃɑɹləˌmeɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English Charlemagne (compare Charlemayn), from Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes, from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Karl the Great”).
Senses: synonyms: Charles the Great
Karl the Great
glosses: One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.
Related terms: Carolingian
Carolinian
Carlovingian
prisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪzənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prison
prisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪzənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prison