cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ranker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋkəɹ/
Forms: form: rankers
Etymology: From rank + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who ranks things, or arranges them in ranks.
glosses: A kind of soil developed over non-calcareous material, usually rock.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A common soldier.
examples: text: But the difference between the first ranker Maharashtra and the second ranker Tamil Nadu was so sharp that Tamil Nadu's value added was just 40 per cent of that of Maharashtra.
ref: 2002, M. Naganthan, Tamil Nadu economy: trends and prospects, page 259:
text: Mike, as an adult chimpanzee, was a low ranker.
ref: 2011, Derek Ellis, Sex, Food and Rank: In Humans and Animals, page 54:
text: I become Starr high ranker the next Sunday, setting a school record for reaching Fifth Level in the minimum amount of time.
ref: 2012, Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir:
text: When it comes to academics, you are a first ranker throughout.
ref: 2015, Sudha Murty, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and other Stories:
glosses: One with a specified rank.
rankest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rank: most rank
ransomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ransomless
form: most ransomless
Etymology: From ransom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
ratifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratifier
ratsbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratsbanes
Etymology: From rat's + bane. Compare henbane.
Senses: examples: text: The Gadfly’s venom, fifty times distilled,
Is mingled with the vomit of the Leech,
In due proportion, and black ratsbane, which
That very Rat, who, like the Pontic tyrant,
Nurtures himself on poison, dare not touch;—
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
text: Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.
ref: 1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 40–41:
glosses: Rat poison; white arsenic.
rawer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some tracks even rely solely on electric guitars and drums, giving them a rawer, demolike feel that puts the burden of success squarely on the singer's shoulders.
ref: 1994, CD review, volume 10, numbers 7-12:
glosses: comparative form of raw: more raw
rawest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔː.ɪst/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /ˈɹɔː.ɹɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of raw: most raw
razorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more razorable
form: most razorable
Etymology: From razor + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] till new-born chins
Be rough and razorable […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Fit to be shaved.
razure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razures
Senses: glosses: The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration.
glosses: An erasure; a change made by erasing.
Related terms: rasure
rebeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebecks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rebec.
recanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recanters
Etymology: From recant + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is not merely that the recanters significantly outnumbered the martyrs. They were also a much more exalted company. None of those executed for heresy in this period were religious leaders of any great significance[…]
ref: 2003, Alec Ryrie, The Gospel and Henry VIII, page 85:
glosses: One who recants.
recanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recanter
reconciler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconcilers
Etymology: From reconcile + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Divines […] are chosen as the ministers of mercy, and the great reconcilers of the world[…]
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
synonyms: reconciliator
;
conciliator
glosses: One who reconciles.
reconcilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconciler
rectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectorships
Etymology: From rector + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: rectorate
coordinate_terms: curateship
curacy
parsonship
parsonhood
vicarship
vicarage
priestship
priesthood
glosses: The office or rank of a rector.
coordinate_terms: mentorship
proctorage
preceptorship
glosses: Government; guidance.
Related terms: rectory
benefice
curatage
glebe
glebe-farm
glebe-house
parsonage
vicarate
reeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: reekier
form: reekiest
Etymology: From reek + -y.
Senses: glosses: Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.
glosses: Emitting a reek; smelly.
pigmentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pigment + -ary.
Senses: synonyms: pigmental
glosses: Of or pertaining to pigment.
glosses: Of a colour, produced by pigments.
Derived terms: apigmentary
hyperpigmentary
hypopigmentary
nonpigmentary
pigmentarily
pseudopigmentary
regentship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regentships
Etymology: From regent + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office of a regent; regency.
relume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relumes
form: reluming
form: relumed
form: relumed
Etymology: From re- + (il)lume.
Senses: examples: text: Aratus, who a while relum'd the Soul / Of fondly lingering Liberty in Greece […] .
ref: 1730, James Thomson, The Seasons, ‘Autumn’
text: Then I bethought me of the glorious doom / Of those who sternly struggle to relume / The lamp of Hope o’er man's bewildered lot; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 222:
text: For a time, I thought that, by watching a complying moment, fostering the still warm ashes, I might relume in her the flame of love.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively).
examples: text: [H]e opened his eyes again; the spreading film retired, and love relumed them—he gave a look—it was never forgotten.
ref: 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:
glosses: To make clear or bright again.
Related terms: illuminate
luminous
reposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reposals
Etymology: From repose + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act or state of reposing.
glosses: That on which one reposes.
revengement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɛndʒmənt/
Forms: form: revengements
Etymology: From revenge + -ment, or re- + vengement.
Senses: examples: text: With that he drives at them with dreadfull might, / Both in remembrance of his friends late harme, / And in revengement of his owne despight […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Revenge.
revenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revengers
Etymology: From revenge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e is the miniſter of God, a reuenger to execute wrath vpon him that doeth euill.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:4, column 2:
glosses: One who revenges.
Related terms: avenger
venger
revengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revenger
rewarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈwɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rewarders
Etymology: From reward + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To the only rewarder and most just poiser of virtuous merits, the most honourably renowned Nobody, bounteous Maecenas of Poetry and Lord Protector of oppressed innocence, […]
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: One who rewards.
rewarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewarder
sailmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailmakers
Etymology: From Middle English *sayl-makere, equivalent to sail + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailmoaker, West Frisian seilmakker, Dutch zeilmaker, German Low German Seilmaker, German Segelmacher, Danish sejlmager, Swedish segelmakare.
Senses: examples: text: I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 216:
glosses: One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.
sailmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailmaker
salter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: psalter
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: salters
Etymology: From salt + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes, sells, or applies salt.
glosses: A trout leaving salt water to ascend a stream.
salters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salter
samp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /samp/
rhymes: -amp
Forms: form: samps
Etymology: From Massachusett nasamp, nasaump (“softened with water”); compare suppawn.
Senses: examples: text: 1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 341,
I asked him to give me a little of his Broth, or Water they [Horses feet] were boiling in; he took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of Samp, and bid me take as much of the Broth as I would.
text: The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.
ref: 1882, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 50, page 549:
text: 'You kids have everything but you don't appreciate it. Mom must cook you beans and samps. Do you hear? Just beans and samps. That's all. Beans and samps.'
ref: 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, page 18:
text: We remained in class until 12.45, and then had a lunch of samp, sour milk and beans, seldom meat.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 44:
text: Abigail taught her the use of the samp mortar. Samp was corn broken into coarse grains and boiled as porridge.
ref: 2004, Louise Cabral, A Pageant of Shadows, page 327:
text: In the area of cuisine, the Xhosa have contributed many corn recipes, most famously samp and beans (umngqusho).
ref: 2005, Fran Osseo-Asare, Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, page 74:
glosses: An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
scrippage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare.
Senses: examples: text: Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip.
ref: 1856, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, in Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 47:
text: The proposition was unrefusable. So with post-haste I packed scrip and scrippage, settled my small literary, household and farming affairs, and […] quitted my Suffolk farm en route for Marseilles […]
ref: 1912, Matilda Betham-Edwards, chapter 1, in In French-Africa: Scenes and Memories, London: Chapman and Hall, page 4:
glosses: The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
wikipedia: William Shakespeare
diamond ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond rings
Senses: examples: text: If that mocking bird don’t^([sic]) sing // Daddy’s going to buy me a diamond ring. // If that diamond ring don’t^([sic]) shine // Daddy’s going to buy me a bottle of wine.
ref: 1907, Recreation, National Recreation Association, page 545:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see diamond, ring.
examples: text: If it were not a tradition that a woman shall accept from her fiance a diamond ring which the idiot cannot, in all probability, afford to give her — well, women would not accept them.
ref: 1923, Peter Bernard Kyne, Never the Twain Shall Meet, page 19:
text: “Delvin, a diamond ring means you are engaged to be married. I barely know you.”
ref: 2006, Mary Slonaker, The Vinton House, page 37:
text: He frowned slightly, whether at the loss of a potential sale or the unnaturalness of a single woman standing beside a handsome man and not lusting after a diamond ring I couldn't be sure.
ref: 2010, Juliet Blackwell, If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery:
glosses: By extension, an engagement ring, usually one given by a man to a woman.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An optical phenomenon visible during a moment of a solar eclipse when only a tiny part of the sun is not obscured by the moon, shining like a diamond in the ring of the sun’s corona.
Related terms: Baily's beads
septentrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septentrions
form: septentriones
Etymology: From Middle English septentrion, septentrione, septemtryones, septemtrioun, from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem (“the northern regions, the north”) directly and through Old French septentrïon, septemtrion, from septentriōnēs (“the seven stars near the north pole”) (called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the “seven plow oxen”); from septem (“seven”) + triō, originally a plow ox (compare triōnēs, from its plural). Cognate with French septentrion, Middle English septemtrioun.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art as opposite to every good / As the Antipodes are unto us, / Or as the south to the septentrion.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: The north or northern regions.
septentrion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septentrion
form: most septentrion
form: septentriones
Etymology: From Middle English septentrion, septentrione, septemtryones, septemtrioun, from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem (“the northern regions, the north”) directly and through Old French septentrïon, septemtrion, from septentriōnēs (“the seven stars near the north pole”) (called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the “seven plow oxen”); from septem (“seven”) + triō, originally a plow ox (compare triōnēs, from its plural). Cognate with French septentrion, Middle English septemtrioun.
Senses: examples: text: From cold septentrion blaſts
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 80, line 31:
glosses: Of or relating to the north; northern.
shearman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearmen
form: shearsman
Etymology: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man.
Senses: glosses: One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
glosses: One whose occupation is to shear sheep.
shearmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearman
shoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoone
Etymology: From Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe + -en.
Senses: examples: text: If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
Sitt thee downe and putt them on
But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
ref: 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114
roman: The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane
text: At this sight merry Robin laughed till the tears stood on his cheeks, for, as though to make the sight still more droll, the rider wore great clogs upon his feet instead of shoon, the soles whereof were made of wood half a palm’s breadth in thickness, and studded all over with great nails.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood turns Beggar”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part sixth, page 210:
text: Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]
ref: 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:
text: It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.
ref: 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:
text: O Terenye maid of Samyan / Little daughter of the forests / Clad in soft and beauteous garments / With thy golden hair so lovely / And thy shoon of scarlet leather, / When the cherry will not lead them / Be their neatherd and their shepherd.
ref: 1914–5, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger, The Story of Kullervo, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2016, →ISBN, page 25:
text: “Yet knowing that, thou wouldst still ha’ seen me in thy shoon?” / “I didn’t intend to give my ‘shoon’ to anyone,” he said testily, “and I wouldn’t’ve been around to see it if it happened! But, yes, if it had to be someone, I picked you.”
ref: 1991, David Weber, Mutineers’ Moon, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 240–241:
glosses: plural of shoe
shrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹəʊ/
Forms: form: shrows
Etymology: See shrew.
Senses: examples: text: What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow?
What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.
ref: 1575, Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes Contayning Twelue Seuerall Labours, London: Thomas Marshe, page 49b:
text: For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe,
Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.
ref: 1581, Arthur Hall, transl., Ten Books of Homers Iliades, translated out of French, London: Ralph Newberie, Book 1, p. 12:
text: Hortensio. Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrow.
Lucentio. ’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.
ref: 1689, Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, London, act II, scene 2, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of shrew.
shrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹəʊ/
ipa: /ʃɹaʊ/
ipa: /ʃɹəʊ/
Forms: form: shrows
form: shrowing
form: shrowed
form: shrowed
Etymology: Back-formation from shroud
Senses: examples: text: Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.
ref: c. 1830, The Parterre; Or, Universal Story-teller:
text: Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.
ref: 1913, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 73, page 1281:
text: I may make it clear here that discussion on the important religious cults alongwith their attendant sects in a systematic manner is not an easy task due to the fact that systematic records have not yet been available, some of the religions have been shrowed in oblivion and many of the monuments have been damaged.
ref: 1985, H. C. Das, Cultural Development in Orissa, page 126:
glosses: To hide or cover; to shroud.
shrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrow
shrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrow
slanderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slanderer
slubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈslʌbə/
ipa: /ˈslʊbə/
ipa: /ˈslʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈslʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slubbers
form: slubbering
form: slubbered
form: slubbered
Etymology: Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.
Senses: examples: text: […] he [Antonio] answered, do not so,
 Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
 But stay the very riping of the time
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 II, scene viii], page 171:
glosses: To do hastily, imperfectly, or sloppily.
examples: text: There is no art that hath more […] slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly.
examples: text: It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.
ref: 1914, Jack London, chapter 33, in Mutiny of the Elsinore:
glosses: To slobber.
slubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌbɚ/
ipa: /ˈslʌbə/
ipa: /ˈslʊbə/
ipa: /ˈslʊbəɹ/
ipa: /ˈslʌbəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slubbers
Etymology: Compare Danish slubbre (“to swallow, to sup up”), and English slabber.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or a machine which, slubs.
sneap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sniːp/
ipa: /snip/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: sneaps
Etymology: The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: My Lord I will not vndergoe this ſnepe vvithout reply, […]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 26:
glosses: A rebuke; a reprimand.
somewhither
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English somwhether; equivalent to some + whither.
Senses: examples: text: See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee / Somewhither would she have thee go with her.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, "In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire", Memorial Day speech, 30 May 1884, Keene, New Hampshire, USA, Speech delivered before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic
All that is required of you is that you should go somewhither as hard as ever you can.
text: So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.
ref: 1897, William Morris, “Chapter IV. Of the Slaying of Friend and Foe”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005, page 157:
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:
text: The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.
ref: 1922, Katherine (Fullerton) Gerould, Lost Valley, a Novel, Harper, Pennsylvania State University, published 2010, page 437:
glosses: To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere
soothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soother
sourer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sour: more sour
sourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourers
Senses: glosses: That which makes something sour.
sourest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sour: most sour
spicery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiceries
Etymology: From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Spices, in general.
examples: text: Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.
ref: 1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370:
text: Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time:
glosses: A repository of spices.
stablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablishments
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of establishment.
stingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sting + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
Antony. Not stingless too.
Brutus. O yes, and soundless too;
For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
And very wisely threat before you sting.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Having no sting.
Derived terms: stingless bee
stingless nettle
stelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stell (“to set, place, fix”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stell
stelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stell (“to set, place, fix”).
Senses: examples: text: The sea , with such a storm as his bare head
In hell-black night endur'd , would have buoy'd up,
And quench'd the stelled fires
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: Firmly placed or fixed.
glosses: Starry.
extacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ecstasy.
highlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlight.
highlite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlight.
emphatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emphatical
form: most emphatical
Etymology: From emphatic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The last words of Dr. Lovesworth, in parting from me yesterday evening, still sound upon my ear, they were uttered in accents peculiarly emphatical, "General, take care of your daughter."
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 141–142:
glosses: emphatic
Derived terms: emphaticalness
unemphatical
highlited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlighted.
highliting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlighting.
highlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals.
ref: 1967, Alexander C. Soper, “A pictorial biography of Prince Shotoku”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin:
text: I want to focus on an aspect highlit by Denis Donoghue when he reviewed it in the London Review of Books.
ref: 1998, Charles Townshend, “The meaning of Irish freedom constitutionalism in the Free State”, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society:
glosses: simple past and past participle of highlight; highlighted.
IMPOV
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in my point of view.
highlites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlights.
highlites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlights.
hilight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilights
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlight.
hilight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hilights
form: hilighting
form: hilighted
form: hilighted
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlight.
hilighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlighting.
hilights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlights.
hilights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlights.
hilighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlighted.
highliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of highlighter.
Ayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: eyen
Etymology: From French Ayn, recorded earlier as Latin Ainum, presumably from an uncertain Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian etymon, *aginn (“height, high place”), possibly from pre-Celtic [Term?] (“rock”), perhaps from the same ultimate origin as the place Aginnum.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Savoie department, France.
Ayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: eyen
Etymology: A romanization of Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), from Somali Cayn.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.
synonyms: word: Buhoodle
extra: a district of Togdheer, Somalia
Ayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: eyen
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
pizzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A glass pipe with a spherical bulb for freebasing drugs such as methamphetamine.
AYN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Anarchist Youth Network.
spokesdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesdogs
Etymology: By analogy to spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., formed with dog.
Senses: examples: 2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
The scientists were thrilled, but a spokesdog for the dog community said the program was inadequate.
glosses: A canine mascot.
lurdane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lurdanes
form: lordane
form: lourdan
form: lurdan
form: lurden
Etymology: From Middle French lourdin (“dullard”), from lourd (“heavy”).
The Puritan, Rev Joseph Caryl, commenting in 1666 in volume 12 of his Exposition upon the Book of Job, page 363, on Job 39:9, describing the Unicorn or Wild Ox, says that the Unicorn does no work but expects no wages nor reward from you, "which may be a reproof to those men, who are very unwilling to serve others, yet are very willing to abide by their Crib; they like it well to eat and drink upon you, as long as you will, and possibly whether you will or no, but will not do a stroke of work; such as one we call proverbably a Lurdane, from the lazy Danes, who long since Lording it in this Kingdom, would eat and drink in a good well-stored house, but refused to labour."
Senses: examples: text: I have also seene some excellent Lourdans, or Clownes attired in their ordinary worky-day clothes, and with a common homely countenance, affoord us all the pleasure that may be had from their art[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Remember, father Glover, your trade keeps your eyes and hands close employed, and must have your heedful care, even if this lazy lurdane wrought at it, which you know yourself he seldom does.
ref: 1828, Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth
glosses: A lazy, stupid person; a sluggard.
Bunker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Archie Bunker house
libecchio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libecchios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of libeccio
libeccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libecci
form: libeccios
form: libecchio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian libeccio.
Senses: glosses: A southwest wind.
street name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street names
Senses: examples: text: Ecstasy is the commercially inspired American street name of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine), a unique psychostimulant drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.
ref: 2001, Andrew Campbell, The Australian Illicit Drug Guide, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 100:
text: 2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Police quickly determined that the street name for holy sand was “cocaine” and said that the man’s arrest has made them think twice about the holy tic tacs and holy parsley they’ve seen lately.
glosses: The slang term for a drug, as traded on the streets.
examples: text: “May I start calling you Severo? Doesn't that sound slick? It could be your street name, your punk name.” She battered her eyelashes.
ref: 2008, Anthony Swofford, Exit A, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Boyd asked, “What is your street name?” Mark said, “I'm called Two Fingers Mark.”
ref: 2013, Maya Angelou, Mom and Me and Mom, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: A person’s nickname, such as a gangster or mafia name.
examples: text: I know where Eric's house is, but I've forgotten the street name.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street, name.
weight lifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weight lifters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weightlifter.
libellee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of libelee.
libelee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libelees
form: libellee
Etymology: From libel + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The party against which a libel (hostile handbill) has been filed by a libelant.
libelant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libelants
form: libellant
Senses: glosses: A party which has made a libel (hostile handbill) against a libelant
HMG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: By initialism.
Senses: glosses: Her Majesty's Government, or, His Majesty's Government; referring to the government of the United Kingdom or the government of certain other Commonwealth realms.
Related terms: HM
HMS
HMG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HMGs
Etymology: By initialism.
Senses: hypernyms: MG
machine gun
<
firearm
<
gun#Noun
<
weapon#Noun
coordinate_terms: MMG
medium machine gun
GPMG
general-purpose machine gun
LMG
light machine gun
SMG
submachine gun
glosses: Initialism of heavy machine gun.
aeriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛːˈɹɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more aeriferous
form: most aeriferous
Etymology: From aer- + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: That conveys air
raw_tags: of a tube etc
aluminum oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aluminium oxide.
hapto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From ἅπτω (háptō, “touch, fasten”).
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: thigmo-
glosses: attachment or binding; adhesion
Derived terms: haptogenic
semblably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semblably
form: most semblably
Etymology: From semblable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Another Country, other Testimonies, equall promises: alike menaces, might semblably imprint a cleane contrary religion in us: we are Christians by the same title, as we are either Perigordins or Germans.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a similar way; similarly.
glosses: Seemingly, apparently.
sevennights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-nights
Senses: glosses: plural of sevennight
serpigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpigos
form: serpigoes
form: serpigines
Senses: glosses: A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
superfund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfunds
Etymology: A blend of superannuation (“retirement”) + fund.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment vehicle for superannuation assets.
superfund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfunds
Etymology: From super- + fund.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment fund that invests in other investment funds; a fund of funds.
superfund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superfunds
form: superfunding
form: superfunded
form: superfunded
Etymology: From super- + fund.
Senses: examples: text: You also have the option to "superfund" a 529 account by giving a five-year annual gift all at once. The benefit of superfunding the account is that with a higher starting balance, the account will accrue higher earnings. Individuals can donate up to $75,000 (couples can donate $150,000) at one time.
ref: 2020, Sabrina Manville, Nick Ducoff, Better Off After College:
glosses: To fund (a college payment plan) with a large payment, more than the usual annual payment.
examples: text: Defendants also had "ample opportunity to propose incorporation" of a provision in the decree prohibiting or limiting the FPA from superfunding the area outside the Box.
ref: 2006, Environment Reporter: Cases, page 1662:
glosses: To fund (environmental cleanup) by means of a Superfund.
skinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinkers
Etymology: From skink + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who serves liquor; a tapster.
skinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinker
sorel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: sorels
Etymology: From Old French sorel.
Senses: glosses: A young buck (deer) in the third year.
glosses: A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.
glosses: Obsolete form of sorrel (“the plant”).
stragglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straggler
strewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English strewynge.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strew
strewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strewings
Etymology: From Middle English strewynge.
Senses: synonyms: diffusion
dispersal
dispersion
respersion
spread
glosses: The act of scattering or spreading.
synonyms: diffusion
dispersion
sprinkling
glosses: Material that is strewn.
Derived terms: strewing herb
strewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strewing
leopard cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopard cats
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A wild cat native to Southeast Asia, Prionailurus bengalensis.
Hypernyms: wild cat
stronds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strond
approvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approvements
Etymology: From approve + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
examples: text: I did nothing without your approvement.
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: Approval; approbation.
examples: text: The whole learning of approvements (i. e. trial by the evidence of an approver) is now obsolete being superseded by the modern practice of allowing an accused person to turn evidence for the Queen without confessing the indictment.
ref: 1861, John Henry Willan, A Manual of the Criminal Law of Canada, page 7:
topics: law
glosses: A confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplices and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon.
swasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swashers
Etymology: From swash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As young as I am, I have obſeru'd theſe three Swaſhers: I am Boy to them all three, but all they three, though they would ſerue me, could not be Man to me; for indeed three ſuch Antiques do not amount to a man: [...]
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 78, column 1:
text: [I]f they keepe their wits, yet they are accompted fooles by reaſon of their carriage, becauſe they cannot ride a horſe, which euery Clowne can doe; ſalute and court a Gentlewoman, carue at table, cringe and make congies, which euery common ſwaſher can doe, [...]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Loue of Learning; or Ouer-much Study. With a Digression of the Misery of Schollers, and Why the Muses are Melancholy.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 15, page 113:
glosses: One who makes a blustering show of valour or force of arms.
swasher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From swash + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swash: more swash
swashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swasher
pET plasmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pET plasmids
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of vectors for protein expression where the expression of the insert DNA is controlled by the T7 promoter, a phage promoter.
sworder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sworders
Etymology: From sword + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses, or fights with, a sword.
Related terms: cloak-and-sworder
swordsman
soldier
cutthroat
sworders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sworder
caffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caffers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of kaffir.
swaggerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swaggerers
Etymology: From swagger + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was […] none of your audacious young swaggerers, who would even penetrate into the bar—that solemn sanctuary—and, smiting old John upon the back, inquire if there was never a pretty girl in the house, and where he hid his little chambermaids, with a hundred other impertinencies of that nature; […]
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 289:
glosses: One who swaggers.
Synonyms: boaster
braggart
bragger
swagger
Related terms: blusterer
bully
boastful
escharotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more escharotic
form: most escharotic
form: escharotick
Senses: glosses: Capable of producing an eschar.
escharotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escharotics
form: escharotick
Senses: glosses: A caustic or corrosive material.
swaggerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaggerer
taborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taborers
Etymology: From tabor + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Lead, monster, we'll follow. I would I could see this taborer; he lays it on.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
synonyms: taborist
glosses: One who plays on the tabor.
taborers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taborer
tabors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabor
tanling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænlɪŋ
Forms: form: tanlings
Etymology: From tan + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: To have the courtesy your cradle promised, / But to be still hot Summer's tanlings, and / The shrinking slaves of Winter.
ref: a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 4, scene 4:
glosses: One who has been tanned by the sun.
raw_tags: of children
Related terms: sunbather
sun worshipper
alligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligations
Etymology: From Latin alligatio (“tying, binding, bond”), noun formation (from alligō + -tiō) of past participle of alligo (“I bind”), from ad + ligo (“I bind”).
Senses: glosses: The act of tying together or attaching by some bond.
glosses: The state of being attached.
glosses: An old practical method of solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures of ingredients.
Derived terms: alligation alternate
alligation medial