cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chisasibi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cree ᒋᓴᓯᐱ (cisasipi, “great river”).
Senses: glosses: an Indian reserve and village municipality in the Nord-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada.
Salluit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᓴᓪᓗᐃᑦ (salloit, “the thin ones”).
Senses: glosses: A village in northern Quebec, Canada.
Nemaska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cree ᓀᒥᔅᑳ (nemiskaa, “where the fish abound”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Quebec, Canada.
Eastmain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and river in Quebec, Canada.
Waswanipi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cree ᐙᔂᓂᐲ (waaswaanipii, “light over the water”), a traditional night-time fishing method.
Senses: glosses: A village in Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A river in Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A lake in Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A people; a First Nations community, part of the Cree First Nation
Synonyms: sense: lake
word: Lake Waswanipi
sense: river
word: Waswanipi River
sense: village
word: Waswanipi Village
sense: people
word: Waswanipi people
Derived terms: Lake Waswanipi
Waswanipi people
Waswanipi River
Waswanipi Village
Waskaganish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cree ᐙᔅᑳᐦᐄᑲᓂᔥ (waaskaahiikanish, “little house”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Quebec, Canada.
Dorval
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorvals
Etymology: From French Dorval.
Senses: glosses: A placename
A city in Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A placename
An airport in the Montreal region, Quebec, Canada; in full, Dorval Airport; abbreviation YUL. Official name: Montréal–Trudeau International Airport.
glosses: A surname from French
Derived terms: Dorval Airport
Dorval International Airport
Dorval Island
Montreal
Dorval
Montreal-Dorval
Montreal-Dorval Airport
Montreal-Dorval International Airport
Drummondville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Drummond + -ville, after Sir Gordon Drummond, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada between 1813 and 1816.
Senses: glosses: A city in Quebec, Canada.
Hazen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nevada.
glosses: A community in New Brunswick, Canada.
Derived terms: Hazenmore
Hazenmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hazen + -more.
Senses: glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
jotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jotation
scoutcrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Scoutcrafts and water sports are featured.
ref: 1919, A Handbook of Private Schools for American Boys and Girls, Sargent, page 330:
text: The Canton Boy Scouts held a rally April 9, when they demonstrated scoutcrafts in the afternoon and gave a stag performance in the evening.
ref: 1921, China Monthly Review, volume 16, Millard Publishing Company, page 432:
text: Political indoctrination and premilitary training were predominant Hitler Youth activities, extending over most of the boy's leisure time, while scoutcrafts and outdoor activities are emphasized by the scout movement.
ref: 1949, Michael Vincent O'Shea, The Nation's Schools, volume 43, page 47:
text: […], the "Handbook for Boys" is devoted to detailed information about scoutcrafts and skills.
ref: 1954, Harald Schraer, Survival Education: A Survey of Trends in Survival Education in Certain Public Schools and Teacher Training Institutions and a Detailed Study of the Elements of Survival Education Found in the Programs of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, Cornell University, page 221:
glosses: plural of scoutcraft
authenticatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more authenticatable
form: most authenticatable
Etymology: From authenticate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being authenticated.
sunshining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1620? 1621?, quoted in Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
A fine, sunshining day like April. Party went aland betimes. Many ill both on ship and on shore.
text: The valley of the Mohawk, through which we crept the whole sunshining day, is beautiful from beginning to end […]
ref: 1835, Frances Anne Butler, Journal, volume 2, page 183:
glosses: Full of sunshine.
sunshining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunshine
superinfector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinfectors
Etymology: From super- + infector.
Senses: examples: text: But here, too, was another possible disease vector: the pizza delivery boy as superinfector.
ref: 2005, Tim Brookes, Behind the Mask: How the World Survived SARS, page 194:
glosses: Synonym of superspreader.
synonyms: word: superspreader
superinfectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinfector
splinternet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splinternets
Etymology: Blend of splinter + internet.
Senses: examples: text: Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet.
ref: 2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day:
text: Increasingly, writers refer to internets or splinternets as ways to describe an increasingly fragmented web in which power brokers create limited access to the Web and the curricular informality of connectivity is challenged by formality.
ref: 2012, Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Lucía Frega, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, page 468:
text: The splinternet fear is often presented as a binary choice between one global Facebook or Google, or 200 versions. But there are ideas floating around to set a global baseline of online expression, and a process for adjudicating disputes.
ref: 2021 February 17, Shira Ovide, “The Internet Is Splintering”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The demise of “de minimis”, as the exemption is known, is the latest, symbolic reminder to digital darlings that frontiers exist—and that business models built on their absence are in need of a rethink.
ref: 2025 September 4, “What the splinternet means for big tech: Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters”, in The Economist:
glosses: A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
Related terms: cyberbalkanization
cyber sovereignty
splinternets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinternet
Scandie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scandies
Etymology: From Scandinavian + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Scandinavian
Scandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scandie
T-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-tops
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An automobile roof with a removable panel on each side of a rigid bar running from the center of one structural bar between pillars to the center of the next structural bar.
Synonyms: T-bar
Related terms: Targa top
T-tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-top
T-bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-bar
tropospheric scatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropospheric scatters
Senses: glosses: A method of transmitting and receiving microwave radio signals over considerable distances by means of the phenomenon whereby radio waves at particular frequencies are randomly scattered as they pass through the upper layers of the troposphere.
Synonyms: troposcatter
chastenedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chastenedly
form: most chastenedly
Etymology: From chastened + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chastened manner.
chastenedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chastened + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being chastened.
kraurosis vulvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cutaneous condition characterized by atrophy and shrinkage of the skin of the vagina and vulva, often accompanied by a chronic inflammatory reaction in the deeper tissues.
balanitis xerotica obliterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: lichen sclerosus
glosses: A dermatological condition affecting the male genitalia, involving atrophic white patches.
swashplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swashplates
form: swash plate
Etymology: From swash + plate.
Senses: glosses: A revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.
glosses: A device that translates input from a helicopter's controls into motion of the main rotor blades.
swashplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swashplate
microwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + work.
Senses: glosses: The series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, completed by many people over the Internet.
Related terms: microtasking
ischæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ischæmic
form: most ischæmic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ischemic.
metoidioplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metoidioplasties
form: metaoidioplasty
form: metaidoioplasty
form: meta
Etymology: From meta- (“change”) + Ancient Greek αἰδοῖον (aidoîon, “genitals”) + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: A form of female-to-male sex reassignment surgery in which the clitoris, enlarged by testosterone therapy, is enhanced in size and appearance to provide a penis.
Related terms: phalloplasty
metaoidioplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaoidioplasties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metoidioplasty.
metoidioplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metoidioplasty
metaoidioplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaoidioplasty
marchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marketecture
Etymology: Blend of market + architecture
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-technical depiction of the architecture of a system, service, product line, or organization that has been simplified or made more conceptual for use in marketing communications.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unfinished architecture that only exists as a figment of marketing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An architecture whose design is dictated by marketing considerations.
megamenu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamenus
Etymology: From mega- + menu.
Senses: examples: text: The webOS version of Facebook uses a megamenu for streamlined navigation, avoiding the extra navigation found in a Springboard pattern.
ref: 2012, Theresa Neil, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, page 27:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.
megamenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamenu
magicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magic + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The people have not built up a consistent theology or magicology but continue their magical practices because tradition has given these a validity.
ref: 1966, Annual Report of the Territory of Papua, page 9:
text: But, apart from such beings as fairies, who are created with magical powers, it is virtually impossible for any individual to have all-encompassing ability in magicology.
ref: 1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were:
glosses: The study of magic.
caveperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavepersons
form: cavepeople
Etymology: From cave + person.
Senses: examples: text: I could see my face in it [the jar], all flattened out and looking something like a prehistoric caveperson.
ref: 1987, Lois Lowry, Rabble Starkey, page 116:
text: Take, for example, your friendly neighbourhood caveperson happily strolling through the forest carrying home the spoils of his successful hunting trip.
ref: 2010, Mike Bryant, Peter Mabbutt, Self-Hypnosis For Dummies:
glosses: A caveman or cavewoman.
cavepersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveperson
cavepeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveperson
sensitivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensitiveness
dispossessedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispossessed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being dispossessed.
unpillowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pillowed.
Senses: glosses: Not pillowed.
Sothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.θɪk/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.θɪk/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.θɪk/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
rhymes: -əʊθɪk
Forms: form: Sothiac
Etymology: From Sothis (“Sirius”) + -ic (forming adjectives), a variant of earlier Sothiac, from French sothiaque, ultimately from Ancient Greek σωθιακός (sōthiakós, “Sothic”), from Σῶθις (Sôthis, “Sirius”) and -κός (-kós, “-ic”, forming adjectives).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the star Sirius, particularly in Egyptian or ancient Greek contexts.
Derived terms: Sothic cycle
Sothic period
Sothic year
Sothiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French sothiaque, ultimately from Ancient Greek σωθιακός (sōthiakós, “Sothic”), from Σῶθις (Sôthis, “Sirius”) and -κός (-kós, “-ic, forming adjectives”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Sothic: Of or related to the star Sirius.
Lloydminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.
offset staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offset staffs
form: offset staves
Senses: glosses: A surveyor's rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.
copying press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copying presses
Senses: examples: text: The leaf of the copying book is damped, the excess of moisture removed by an absorbent sheet, the document inserted, the book closed, and pressed in the copying press. By this means copies of correspondence are preserved for reference. Copying paper is also made up in rolls for copying machines which carry out the damping and copying automatically.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward A. Dawe, Paper and Its Uses, Chapter 10:
synonyms: copy press
glosses: A machine for taking an exact copy, by pressure, of a document written in special ink on special paper.
copying presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copying press
nonadditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + additional.
Senses: glosses: Not additional.
incense tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incense trees
Senses: glosses: Any of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica, now Protium), mostly tropical American, whose gum resin is used for incense.
glosses: a tree of species Chrysobalanus icaco, related to the plums.
incense trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incense tree
burseraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Burseraceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Burseraceae.
pyelonephritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyelonephritis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pyelonephritis.
Australian bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian bears
Senses: glosses: A koala.
Australian bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian bear
allegro moderato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian allegro moderato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A little slower than allegro.
andante moderato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian andante moderato (“going moderately-fast”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A little faster than andante.
of yore
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: the recondite lore of yore
text: The Dev'l was piqu'd, ſuch ſaintſhip to behold, / And long'd to tempt him like good Job of old: / But Satan novv is vviſer than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ref: 1733 (indicated as 1732), [Alexander] Pope, Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: where Abraham fed his flock of yore
ref: 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
text: Representing the older types now are some Stroudley 0-6-0 tanks, while a Drummond "C14" 0-4-0 tank might still be pottering about on the Town Quays as of yore.
ref: 1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:
text: Now when I was a kid I had a bike with a banana seat, but for some reason, as you get older, and you get bikes, it's like you can never go back to those awesome seats of yore.
ref: 2022 June 14, “Tesla Split and Cybertruck Details”, in Tesla Time News:
synonyms: of old
way back
glosses: Long ago; in days long past.
Derived terms: days of yore
unsatanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsatanic
form: most unsatanic
Etymology: From un- + satanic.
Senses: glosses: Not satanic.
shaykhdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaykhdoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheikdom.
shaykhdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaykhdom
shaykhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaykh
lozenge coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lozenge coaches
Senses: examples: August 21 1746, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
I am retired hither like an old summer dowager ; only that I have no toad - eater to take the air with me in the back part of my lozenge - coach
glosses: The coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge.
unscuppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scuppered.
Senses: examples: text: That old Johannes Maartens […] sought old lost Atlantis which he hoped to find still afloat unscuppered.
ref: 1915, Jack London, The Star Rover:
glosses: Not scuppered.
emprisonments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emprisonment
queen dowager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen dowagers
form: queens dowager
form: queens dowagers
Senses: examples: text: The new Royal Saloon rode roughly at first. It was originally a four-wheel carriage, and as such it was used by Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, but before the Queen [Queen Victoria] travelled in it the body was mounted on an eight-wheel frame.
ref: 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 363:
glosses: The widow of a king.
Related terms: queen mother
Russian olives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russian olive
goathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊthaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡɔʊthaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊthaʊs/
ipa: [ˈɡoʊʔ(t̚)haʊs]
ipa: [ˈɡoʊ(ʔ)t̚haʊs]
ipa: /ˈɡoːthaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡɐ̟ʉthæos/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊthaʊs
Forms: form: goathouses
Etymology: From goat + house.
Senses: glosses: A building serving as a shelter for goats.
goathouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goathouse
constructive fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructive frauds
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal fiction describing a situation where an individual or entity gained an unfair advantage over another by deceitful or unfair methods; however, intent does not need to be shown.
uncycled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cycled.
Senses: glosses: Not cycled.
self-rising flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-rising flours
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of self-raising flour.
bid beads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bids beads
form: bidding beads
form: bade beads
form: bidden beads
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: To pray with beads, in Roman Catholic fashion, distinguishing each bead by a prayer.
Scotch hearth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch hearths
Senses: glosses: Ore hearth.
Scotch hearths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch hearth
ore hearth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ore hearths
Senses: glosses: A low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced.
Synonyms: Scotch hearth
ore hearths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ore hearth
aylet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aylets
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A black bird with red feet and beak.
Synonyms: Cornish chough
sea swallow
aylets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aylet
deal tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deal trees
Senses: glosses: fir tree
deal trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deal tree
gather way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gathers way
form: gathering way
form: gathered way
form: gathered way
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To begin to move
examples: text: The boat beginning to gather way, too, I threw Sennit the end of a lower-studding-sail halyards, that were brought aft for the purpose, ordered his bowman to let go his hold of the tackle, and dropped the boat a safe towing distance astern
ref: 1844, James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore:
text: The ship tacked with the same admirable precision as before, and on gathering way was found to be looking well up for the entrance to the narrow channel.
ref: 1889, Harry Collingwood, The Missing Merchantman:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to move with increasing speed
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm.
crownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crown + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Three days afterward, he witnessed the review of the army at Homburg, and there he had his interview with several of the crowned and crownable heads of Italy.
ref: 1899, John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's universal history:
glosses: Suitable for being crowned.
Fleet parson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fleet parsons
Senses: glosses: A clergyman based in or near the Fleet Prison, who performed Fleet marriages (a kind of clandestine marriage). The practice continued up to the 18th century
Related terms: Fleet marriage
Fleet parsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fleet parson
corps de logis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corps de logis
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French corps de logis (literally “body of the house”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The principal mass of a building, excluding the wings.
paddleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paddle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a paddle.
cooking soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sodium bicarbonate
washing sherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of the more neutral cooking sherry
Senses: examples: text: A couple of literary luncheons went sugar-tipsy to their heads, like the washing sherry served before those luncheons[…]
ref: 1945, Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning:
text: I could spend half my evenings, if I wanted, / Holding a glass of washing sherry, canted / Over to catch the drivel of some bitch / Who's read nothing but Which[…]
ref: 1971, Philip Larkin, Vers de Société:
glosses: Cheap, inferior sherry.
straining piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straining pieces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of straining beam
synonyms: word: straining beam
French sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French soles
Senses: glosses: Lemon sole (Microstomus kitt).
smooth sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smooth soles
Senses: glosses: A megrim, a flatfish of species Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis.
conjunctive tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjunctive tissues
Senses: glosses: connective tissue
put someone to their trumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone to their trumps
form: putting someone to their trumps
form: put someone to their trumps
form: put someone to their trumps
Senses: examples: text: But when Kings come ſo low, as to fawn upon Philoſophie, which before they neither vau'd nor underſtood, tis a ſigne that failes not, they are then put to their laſt Trump.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter VI, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: I am still without any blanks from you, or notes, to renew yours at the different Banks in this City, I to day was put to my trumps completely as to the $4,000 at the Farmers Bank, the directors not being willing to take any other note but yours for its renewal, as it would relieve the security you have given me as an endorser on it;
ref: 1821 July 5, Bernard Peyton, letter to Thomas Jefferson:
text: The only question was, whether such an unexpected accession of company, to an already crowded house, would not put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “A Hunting Dinner”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: To put someone in a difficult situation.
sejant rampant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: FOLEY, Baron, (Foley), a lion, sejant, rampant, or, between paws an escutcheon, charged with the family arms. Ut prosim. Pl. 22, cr. 13. FOLEY, Surr., a lion, rampant, ar., holding the same. Pl. 67, cr. 5. […] MACPHERSON, a grey cat, sejant, rampant. Touch not the cat bot the glove.
ref: 1860, James Fairbairn, Fairbairns Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland: Text, pages 186, 314:
text: (3.) 1810. Obverse; a lion, sejant-rampant, facing left, holding a large key with his paws; inscription, PAYABLE AT ROBERT KEELING & SONS, GIBRALTAR. Reverse; similar to first reverse, but the key is omitted, and the date is very large[…]
ref: 1881, The Coin Collector's Journal, page 21:
text: A Scottish Lion sejant usually has his fore paws raised in the air, and in English terms of blazon would be described as "Sejant erect" or "Sejant rampant."
ref: 1914, Charles Boutell, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 86:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: sejant erect
glosses: Sitting with one or especially both of its forefeet lifted up.
photoreceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoreceiver
topping lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topping lifts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line used to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom.
yage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjɑːheɪ/
Forms: form: yagé
form: yaje
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish yagé, from Cofán yagé or yajé.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.
ref: 1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:
text: A large dose of Yage is sheer horror. I was completely delirious for four hours and vomiting at 10 minute intervals.
ref: 1953 April 12, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Ayahuasca.
make nothing of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes nothing of
form: making nothing of
form: made nothing of
form: made nothing of
Senses: examples: text: His patent leather boots were tight and ill-suited to the rough going, nor were his black trousers in keeping with his amusement. He looked, indeed, a curious hybrid, a sportsman from his crown to the bottom of his jacket, and a man of the world about the legs. Moreover, his wind was not good, and we were without compassion; we drove him along, and brought him home foot-sore and weary. Angel, on the other hand, enjoyed herself exceedingly; she made nothing of the rough going, and came back as fresh, or rather fresher, than she started.
ref: 1907, Edgar Jepson, The Four Philanthropists:
glosses: To do (something) with ease
examples: text: We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.
ref: 1691, John Ray, Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of His Creation:
text: Osberne laughed and said: Here he stands beside me; come and take him! And the foe were some three score, all a-horseback. So they fell on without more words; but they made nothing of it, and the Wethermellers kept them aloof with spear and bill. Albeit Osberne did not draw his sword, nor did the Lord of Longshaw.
ref: 1898, William Morris, The Sundering Flood:
glosses: To consider as trifling or unimportant.
examples: text: I made nothing of what he said.
antonyms: make something of
glosses: To fail to understand.
vanishing fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanishing fractions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fraction which reduces to the form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.
vanishing fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanishing fraction
suprarenals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprarenal
thick stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In order to prove the efficacy of this plan , six pieces of rough and six of sided timber were put into the mast - pond at Deptford , and twelve pieces of rough , and twelve of sided timber , and six pieces of thick-stuff , were placed in the mast
ref: 1821, John Knowles, An Inquiry Into The Means Which Have Been Taken To Preserve The British Navy, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: All plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve.
telekinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telekinetic
telekinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: telekinesis
road agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road agent
caprates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caprate
presyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + syllabic.
Senses: examples: text: In the blending and segmentation tasks, for example, presyllabic children could sometimes segment syllables, even if they did not use them when they wrote independently.
ref: 2007, Mark Torrance, Luuk van Waes, David Galbraith, Writing and Cognition, page 199:
glosses: Prior to the use or understanding of syllables.
widow bewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widows bewitched
Senses: glosses: A woman separated from her husband; a grass widow.
widows bewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widow bewitched
predistillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-distillation
Etymology: From pre- + distillation.
Senses: glosses: distillation prior to another process
glosses: Used to describe a preparatory process carried out before distillation
bird of Juno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds of Juno
Senses: glosses: peacock
birds of Juno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird of Juno
applaud to the echo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: applauds to the echo
form: applauding to the echo
form: applauded to the echo
form: applauded to the echo
Senses: examples: text: I would applaud thee to the very echo, / That should applaud again.
ref: c. 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 3:
text: At first the public applauded her to the echo ; but soon her hearers began to weary of the reiterated extravagances of her style of singing, and the enthusiasm at length died out.
ref: 1863, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. To which is Added a Chronological List of All the Operas that Have Been Performed in Europe, page 318:
text: After the scene of Hippolyte's declaration, though la Berma well knew the terrible night to which she was returning, her admirers applauded her to the echo and declared her more beautiful than ever.
ref: 1922, Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott-Moncrieff, Remembrance of Things Past, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 1245:
glosses: To give loud and continuous applause.
Synonyms: cheer to the echo
panel game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel games
Senses: synonyms: panel show
glosses: A game show featuring a panel of celebrities.
glosses: A method of stealing money in a panel house.
panel games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel game
panel house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel houses
Senses: glosses: A brothel whose rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates.
Related terms: panel game
panel houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panel house
iodine scarlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pigment of an intense scarlet color, consisting of mercuric iodide.
iodine yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brilliant yellow pigment consisting of lead iodide.
chancery hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancery hands
form: Chancery hand
Senses: examples: text: It begins like a transcript, at the top of the page, without the least appearance or form of an intended original : it is written in the common secretary hand of ,the age, which Crawford mistook for a chancery hand;[…].
ref: 1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, volume 1, page 373:
text: Her name, from Crawford's example of it, seems to me to be written in the same chancery hand, which renders the supposed forgery a mere copy, mistaken by Welwood for the original.
ref: 1830, John Pinkerton, The Literary Correspondence of John Pinkerton, Esq., volume 2, page 112:
text: But, unlike his posterity, Hercolani did not carry this sort of pleasantry too far, and his book remains a splendid specimen of the late chancery hand distinguished by decorative treatment of the ascenders and descenders and a discreet flourishing of initial and terminal letters.
ref: 2009, Stanley Morison, Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print, page 165:
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.
Related terms: Chancery English
court hand
secretary hand
black letter
Carolingian minuscule
humanist minuscule
italic
chancery hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chancery hand
grappling tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.
exercise bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercise bones
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.
exercise bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercise bone
bronzed skin disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Addison's disease
neat lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neat line
neatwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neat + work.
Senses: topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Work constructed to a neatline.
seizins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seizin
antimonial powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonial powders
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preparation of one part antimony oxide and two parts calcium phosphate.
Synonyms: James's powder
antimonial powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimonial powder
right bower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right bowers
Senses: examples: text: But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
ref: 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:
glosses: The jack of the trump suit, the highest card in the game except the joker.
Related terms: left bower
left bower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left bowers
Senses: glosses: The jack of the other suit of the same colour as the trump (whose jack is called the right bower), and next to it in value.
best bower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best bowers
Senses: glosses: An extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence over all others as the highest card.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The main bower (anchor from the bow) of a boat.
Related terms: left bower
right bower
semiportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + portable.
Senses: glosses: Intermediate in size, weight, etc. between fixed and portable.
birdsfoot violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsfoot violets
Senses: glosses: Viola pedata, an ornamental plant in the Violaceae family.
birdsfoot trefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsfoot trefoils
form: bird's-foot trefoil
Senses: glosses: Plants of certan species of genus Lotus, especially common birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), a flowering plant native to grassland in Eurasia and North Africa.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lotus alpinus
word: alpine birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus corniculatus
word: common birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus pedunculatus
word: greater birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus subbiflorus
word: hairy birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus pedunculatus
word: large birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus pedunculatus
word: marsh birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus angustissimus
word: slender bird's-foot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus parviflorus
word: smallflower birdsfoot trefoil
deervetches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deervetch
animal flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal flowers
Senses: glosses: Any of various marine animals resembling flowers, such as sea anemones, hydroids, starfishes, etc.
animal flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animal flower
Skevington's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skevington's daughters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skeffington's daughter.
printer's ream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Twenty-one and a half quires of paper, i.e. 516 sheets.
terra alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terra (“earth”) + alba (“white”), literally meaning "white earth". Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.
Senses: glosses: A white earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum and aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, such as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc.
preskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + skinned.
Senses: examples: preskinned chicken breasts
glosses: Having had the skin removed in advance.
preboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + boned.
Senses: examples: text: a preboned chicken
hypernyms: boned#Adjective
deboned#Adjective
boneless
glosses: Having had the bones removed in advance.
Cassegrainian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cassegrainian
form: most Cassegrainian
Etymology: From Cassegrain + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Laurent Cassegrain (ca. 1629—1693), Catholic priest remembered as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two-mirror reflecting telescope.
cornice ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornice rings
Senses: examples: text: The leading features of this stove are an air tight ash pit, vibrating draw center grate, ornamental fire pot ring, double wood door, inside smoke curtain, richly designed top cornice ring, boiler hole in top, handsome swing cover, elaborate foot rail and nickel latches and hinge pins.
ref: 1896, The Metal Worker, page 60:
text: The pendentives themselves visually support a cornice ring which then forms the base for the cupola.
ref: 1993, Susan Elizabeth Klaiber, Guarino Guarini's Theatine Architecture - Volume 1, page 266:
text: These curved elements seem to flare out in response to the visual weight of the great cornice ring capping the pendentive zone.
ref: 2003, John Beldon Scott, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin, page 131:
text: Simplicity and boldness characterize the lotus motif in the center and the laurel-leaf cornice ring around it ( Figs. 4.83a, b ).
ref: 2019, Marylin Martin Rhie, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, page 712:
glosses: A round moulding that encircles the base or top of a structural element, such as the architrave of a pillar, the terminus of a round pipe, the base of a cupola, etc.
examples: text: Gorgerin, m . The neck of a gun (which lies between the muzzle-mouldings and the cornice-ring.)
ref: 1853, C. Rumpf, O. Mothes, W. Unverzagt, Dictionnaire technologique, page 332:
text: All cannon had a " ram force" ring as a guide to the amount of load that could be used, and naval guns had also a "cornice ring",
ref: 1941, Proceedings of the Connecticut Association of Civil Engineers and Surveyors Association at Its 1st Annual Meeting..., page 64:
text: The various cornice rings, trunnions , and ornaments were made movable so as to allow the main pattern to be slid longitudinally out of the mould.
ref: 1990, Vannoccio Biringucci, Pirotechnia, page 235:
glosses: The ring on a cannon next to or behind the muzzle ring.
examples: text: In this case it would be necessary for the rings to be made to hang in the groove at the top of the pole, which would be easily accomplished by an internal projection inside the upper portion of the cornice ring; indeed, a little friction roller on a pin to keep the coils from springing back .
ref: 1883 January 6, The Furniture Gazette - Volume 19, page 7:
text: The Patentees made no claim to any special form of hook or attachment to the curtain rod, or cornice ring.
ref: 1915, Reports of Patent, Design, and Trade Mark Cases, page 553:
text: In making ordinary tube cornice rings, where the tube is made of thin sheet brass, the tube requires to be filled with sand in order to retain its cylindrical form in “winding,” and to prevent the appearance of “puckering."
ref: 2013, S. Timmins, Birmingham and Midland Hardware District, page 298:
glosses: One of several matching rings that encircle a curtain rod and from which the curtain is suspended.
chopping blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopping block
enqueuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enqueuers
Etymology: From enqueue + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process or component that adds items to a queue.
dequeuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dequeuers
Etymology: From dequeue + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process or component that removes items from a queue.
enqueuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enqueuer
dequeuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dequeuer
Subbuteo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name, derived from the scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey, the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph (1916–1994) to call the game "Hobby".
Senses: examples: text: When I was a child I played Subbuteo, won / My table then I graduate to Studio One
ref: 1991, “Five Man Army”, in Blue Lines, performed by Massive Attack:
glosses: Any of a group of tabletop games that simulate team sports such as association football, cricket, and hockey, played with weighted figurines.
antideadlock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + deadlock.
Senses: examples: text: By the way, this antideadlock behavior of the synchronized keyword is not necessarily a good thing. When a thread encounters a runtime exception while it is holding a lock, there's the possibility—indeed, the expectation—that it will leave the data it was manipulating in an inconsistent state.
ref: 2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads:
text: The judge gave them antideadlock instructions, reminding them of the reasonable doubt standard that the State must satisfy and encouraging them to try to arrive at a verdict.
ref: 2011, Brandon Garrett, Convicting the Innocent, page 174:
glosses: Preventing deadlock.
vervein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We may add a table, a seat, perhaps two stools. A poor dwelling and very bare; but then it is furnished with a living soul! The fire cheers her, the blessed box-twigs guard her bed, accompanied now and again by a pretty bunch of vervein.
ref: 1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:
glosses: Obsolete form of vervain.
Xasonga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kassonke language.
Xassonke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kassonke language.
Xasonke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kassonke language.
racing crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racing crab
overcomplicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcomplicators
Etymology: From overcomplicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who overcomplicates.
overcomplicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcomplicator
complicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complicator
unannihilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + annihilated.
Senses: glosses: Not annihilated.
unnihilistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnihilistic
form: most unnihilistic
Etymology: From un- + nihilistic.
Senses: glosses: Not nihilistic.
sub-admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-admirals
Etymology: From sub- + admiral.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A naval rank, in some systems, that is the lowest rank of admiral.
sub-admirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-admiral