cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sensu latu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sensu lato.
latu sensu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lato sensu.
lato senso
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lato sensu.
Sowton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish served by Bishop's Clyst parish council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9792).
Lympstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. Derived from Lympston. Sources include Leveneston, Leustona, Veneston, Weleston, Limpston. Suffixed with + -ton.
Senses: examples: text: "She had asked at Paddington for a return to Lympstone on the Exmouth branch, where her son was due to pass out as a Royal Marine that afternoon, at the local training camp.
"Presumably, the booking clerk had misheard her and sold her a ticket to Leominster, and other helpful staff had unwittingly helped her on her way.
ref: 2022 July 13, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 961, page 71:
glosses: A coastal village in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9984).
Gunnislake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Calstock parish, in the far east of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX 4371).
economicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more economicall
form: most economicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of economical.
Lelant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish Lannanta, from lann Anta (“church-site of Anta”), from Proto-Brythonic *llann (“churchyard”). Anta was a Cornish saint, whose name was transcribed by Cornish historian Charles Henderson as British Latin Anta, Ansa.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in St Ives parish, western Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5437).
scavenger sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scavenger sales
Senses: examples: text: The remaining lots were subsequently lost on scavenger sales because of some $140,000 in delinquent taxes.
ref: 1947, Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, volume 8, page 906:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The sale of a property whose previous tenants were ejected for not paying rent.
scavenger sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scavenger sale
scheduled territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scheduled territories
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Any of the countries that use the pound sterling as currency, or peg their own currencies to it.
scheduled territories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scheduled territory
schooner on the rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schooners on the rocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A meal of roast beef served on a bed of potatoes.
schooners on the rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schooner on the rocks
schussboom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schussbooms
form: schussbooming
form: schussboomed
form: schussboomed
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to remind my colleagues who may be planning a trip to Hawaii that they should not forget to pack their snow boots and bring along their skis and pole. Schussbooming in Hawaii? Yes, indeed […]
ref: 1968, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates:
text: They skied the streambed below Gothics's north face. They skied down Mount Haystack, one of the steepest peaks in New York, where Jackrabbit himself is said to have skied. They schussboomed all week long, barely stopping for a rest day.
ref: 2008, Adirondack Life, volume 39, page 36:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: To take part in fast downhill skiing.
Related terms: schuss
schussboomer
schussboomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schussboom
schussbooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schussboom
schussbooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schussboom
Crowthorne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bracknell Forest borough, and in Wokingham Without parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8464).
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Free Quaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Free Quakers
Senses: examples: text: The flags used by the army were made by a "Free Quaker woman," who was on this account disowned by the meeting of which she was a member. Many other services were openly rendered by Friends […]
ref: 1896, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, page 836:
text: We met no one on the way save a farmer or two, and here, being near to the Schuylkill, my old master farrier took leave of me at the farm of Edward Masters, which lay in our way, and commended me to the care of this good Free Quaker.
ref: 1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington, page 290:
text: In 1782 the Philadelphia Free Quakers, who had been conducting their meetings in private residences to that time, purchased a lot […] for the construction of a Free Quaker meetinghouse.
ref: 1990, William C. Kashatus, Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Philadelphia, he said, had thirty-four places of worship representing eighteen religious sects: three Swedish churches, three Quaker, one Free Quaker, three Episcopal, one Baptist, two Presbyterian, four Catholic, two German Lutheran, […]
ref: 2001, Joyce Oldham Appleby, INHERITING THE REVOLUTION, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Born in 1736, Wetherill began his career in Philadelphia as a carpenter. Although he was also a Quaker preacher, he actively supported the Revolution and was one of the leaders of the pro-Revolutionary Free Quaker movement.
ref: 2010, Lawrence A. Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry, JHU Press, →ISBN:
text: A splinter group of Friends, the Free Quakers, supported the patriot cause, […]
ref: 2018, Mitchell K. Hall, Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements [2 volumes], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A member of a now largely defunct American Quaker (Christian) sect which did not adhere to the Peace Testimony and therefore supported or engaged in military action during the American Revolutionary War.
Free Quakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Free Quaker
scorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorps
Etymology: From scorpion.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of scorpion.
glosses: Clipping of scorper.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A resident of Gibraltar.
scorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorps
Senses: glosses: A woodworking tool for roughing out concave shapes such as bowls and spoons.
rock scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock scorpion
scorps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorp
Lanphier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lanphiers
Etymology: Variant of Lanfear.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
Lanfear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lanfears
form: Lamphear
form: Lamphere
form: Lanphear
form: Lanpher
form: Lanphere
form: Lanphier
Etymology: A Cornish surname, with the first element being from lann (“enclosure (religious)”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
Cooksbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Hamsey parish, Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4013).
hundred-thousandths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundred-thousandth
extra-society
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: extrasociety
Senses: glosses: Beyond society.
Universal Friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before the Universal Friends left New England, they had, according to their means, contributed and pledged themselves to contribute to a joint fund for the purchase of land, […]
ref: 1873, Stafford Canning Cleveland, History and Directory of Yates County, page 56:
text: A typewritten manuscript, […] compiled by the Rev. Willoughby Newton, traces the history of the Universal Friends' meetinghouse in New Milford.
ref: 1965 (edition: 2009), Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., Pioneer Prophetess, page 222
text: At the time of the Revolution itself, however, the new sects that were both the most coherent and the most fully imbued with their own sense of millennial mission were the Shakers and the Universal Friends.
ref: 1988, Ruth H. Bloch, Visionary Republic: Millennial Themes in American Thought, page 88:
text: Despite their obvious similarities (both, for instance, used dreams and visions as vehicles of prophetic expression, and both incorporated millennial themes in their soteriology), the Shakers and the Universal Friends offered dramatically different models of spiritual authority […]
ref: 1996, Susan Juster, Lisa MacFarlane, A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism, page 34:
text: Among the signatures attached to the document was that of its author, James Parker. Joining his name are those of several other Universal Friends who had turned against the prophet […]
ref: 2015, Paul B. Moyer, The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America, Cornell University Press, page 169
glosses: An American Quaker (Christian) sect (from the 1770s to 1860s), the "Society of Universal Friends", which followed the teachings of the Public Universal Friend.
Mallaig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and port in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM6796).
glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada, named after the Scottish village.
scrieve board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrieve boards
Senses: glosses: A large section of floor in the mold loft, on which the lines of the body plan are scribed or cut with a knife.
scrieve boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrieve board
oilbath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilbaths
form: oil bath
Etymology: From oil + bath.
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body
But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.
text: The next day, the sons take oilbaths.
ref: 2001, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India (volume 40, part 2, page 696)
glosses: A bath of oil.
oilbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilbath
pervicaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pervicaciously
form: most pervicaciously
Etymology: From pervicacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pervicacious manner.
Floridisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]he bland refusal of public accountability which has allowed unparalleled extravagance in the provision of space, furniture, fittings and accoutrements for the Parliament while leaving schools ill-equipped and underprovided; and it does not record the results of the ‘Floridisation’ policy [...]
ref: 1986, Australian Book Review, Melbourne, Vic.: National Book Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:
text: Indeed, another plausible view is the Floridisation of American politics, the idea that it is now in an exact two-party balance.
ref: 2002 September 26, “Is America moving leftward?”, in The Economist, volume 364, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: The greatest twin victory of humanity over health issues has delivered one of the greatest challenges to man: Population ageing. Often described as ‘Floridisation of the World’, population ageing is the outcome of man’s victory over death and deceases as well as unwanted child bearing [...].
ref: 2005, The Asian Economic Review, volume 47, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: Indian Institute of Economics, →OCLC, page 1:
text: A number of critics of Florida's creative class thesis have argued that it is an insufficient basis for urban competitiveness and that attention is deflected away from lower social groups [...] Finally, the numbers of people who make up the creative class in a city are relatively small compared with the wider economy, and might therefore represent a small contribution to a city’s growth and competitiveness. Pursuit of the ‘Floridisation’ of cities should be treated with caution [...].
ref: 2010, Andrew Tallon, “Urban Competitiveness”, in Urban Regeneration in the UK, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Taking after what America did to [Fidel] Castro's Cuba, since 2000, we have witnessed a trend towards "Floridisation" of Zimbabwean politics, which is to say an attempt to encourage an outbound movement of Zimbabwean nationals in the hope of creating a critical voting mass that can be relied upon to capture the Zimbabwean State, Hamid Karzai-style.
ref: 2017 March 18, Nathaniel Manheru, “2018: Sifting real issues from so much chaff”, in The Herald, Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Floridization.
Martling Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martling Men
Etymology: Named after Abraham Martling.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Tammany Hall society.
Martling Men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martling Man
salt out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salts out
form: salting out
form: salted out
form: salted out
Senses: examples: text: If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.
ref: 1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29:
text: […] by instillation of hypertonic saline or hyperosmolar urea into the amniotic sac to “salt out” the fetus.
ref: 2018, John V. Knaus, Marko J. Jachtorowycz, Allan A. Adajar, Ambulatory Gynecology, page 279:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To precipitate out of a solution.
raw_tags: of a solute
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause a solute to precipitate out of a solution.
Stepps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6568).
Stepps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stepp
sand and spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He left to supervise the repainting of the Flying Fortress. It was already beginning to sport the British "sand and spinach" color scheme […]
ref: 2012, Stuart Slade, A Mighty Endeavor, page 81:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A form of camouflage in dull green and olive colors.
sarbut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarbuts
Senses: examples: text: If a sarbut suddenly went bent, then it was only to be expected. He walked across to a desk set beside the doorway of the crime squad office, leafed through the pages of the duty book and absently wrote in Shakespeare's name and rank […]
ref: 1973, Roger Busby, Pattern of Violence, page 20:
text: Rowley nodded. 'Put it on paper, Kate. But don't call him an informant. It's sarbut up here. And I tell you, though I hate to admit it, we don't often get women managing sarbuts.'
ref: 2014, Judith Cutler, Power Games:
glosses: A police informer.
sarbuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarbut
satellited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of satellite
satelliting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of satellite
satisfaction note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satisfaction notes
Senses: examples: text: The same result was reached in Brown & Davis Ltd v Galbraith, and it was held to be irrelevant to the outcome that the assured had signed a satisfaction note confirming the suitability of the repairs […]
ref: 2004, Robert M. Merkin, Jeremy Stuart-Smith, The Law of Motor Insurance, page 182:
text: The repairer is paid on receipt of the final bill and a satisfaction note from the insured.
ref: 2008, Shashidharan K. Kutty, Managing Life Insurance:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: A document in which the claimant confirms that the insurer-funded repairs to his/her vehicle are satisfactory.
satisfaction notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satisfaction note
junk gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk guns
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Synonym of Saturday-night special.
synonyms: word: Saturday-night special
junk guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk gun
zamaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zamak
zama-zamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zama-zama
sausage board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage boards
Etymology: From the resemblance in shape to the meat product.
Senses: examples: text: But in my dream or whatever it was I imagined Harley opening a surf shop. […] But Harley was known for his long Malibu sausage board.
ref: 1996, Crazy Horse, numbers 50-51, page 105:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surfboard with two rounded ends.
sausage boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage board
Shortlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3968).
cut the baby in half
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts the baby in half
form: cutting the baby in half
form: cut the baby in half
form: cut the baby in half
Senses: examples: text: […] courts of inquiry have one inevitable end — to cut the baby in half; to settle half way between the employers' final offer and the last trade union demand.
ref: 1971, The Weekly Review, page 22:
glosses: Synonym of split the baby.
synonyms: word: split the baby
saw the baby in half
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saws the baby in half
form: sawing the baby in half
form: sawed the baby in half
form: sawed the baby in half
Senses: examples: text: Thus OKW sawed the baby in half, giving to the Army a landing force which it thought inadequate, and saddling the Navy with a transport responsibility which it thought excessively dangerous.
ref: 1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940:
text: The Khrushchev government did not believe them and, after much hemming and hawing, settled on a particularly cruel way of sawing the baby in half: […]
ref: 2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy:
glosses: Synonym of split the baby.
synonyms: word: split the baby
split the baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits the baby
form: splitting the baby
form: split the baby
form: split the baby
Etymology: In reference to the Judgment of Solomon.
Senses: examples: text: As the proposal evolved, it is clear that the authors tried to split the baby—benefits would be linked to the worker's covered earnings, out of which contributions would be made, but there would be some subsidization.
ref: 2012, Sylvester J. Schieber, The Predictable Surprise:
synonyms: cut the baby in half
saw the baby in half
glosses: To resolve a dispute in a way that is disadvantageous to both parties.
wikipedia: Judgment of Solomon
Related terms: Solomonic
split the difference
put the arm on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the arm on someone
form: putting the arm on someone
form: put the arm on someone
form: put the arm on someone
Senses: glosses: To demand money from someone.
Blanchflower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bantersaurus Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæn.təˈsɔː.rəs ˈrɛks/
Forms: form: Bantersaurus Rexes
Etymology: Blend of banter + Tyrannosaurus rex.
Senses: examples: text: And there's always one massive Bantersaurus Rex show-off contestant hogging Noel's attention.
ref: 2014 August 23, Grace Dent, “Grace Dent on TV: When two tribes went to war all you got was Richard Osman’s first flop”, in The Independent:
text: He believed himself to be the most banterous emoji in Emojitown, referring to himself as a 'bantelope', the 'Bantersaurus Rex', and One time even 'Banter Claus'.
ref: 2016, Emoji: Laughing Crying (An Official Emoji Story):
text: If it saw itself in the mid-nineties as a Bantersaurus Rex with a Liam Gallagher haircut and simian gait, by the second decade of the twenty-first century it wanted drinkers to see it as some combination of George Clooney and Professor Brian Cox.
ref: 2017, Pete Brown, Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast and the Nature of Beer:
text: The 34-year-old is expected to be the life and soul of the camp with his big personality and humour, which has seen him being labelled the Bantersaurus Rex of rugby.
ref: 2019 November 17, “I’m A Celebrity’s James Haskall says he won’t miss sex with wife Chloe Madeley in the jungle because he’ll be too hungry”, in The Sun:
synonyms: Archbishop of Banterbury
glosses: A person full of witty banter.
Uffington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Uffa + -ing (“belonging to”) + tun (“town”). The first element is a variant of Æffa, a king of the Angles (c. 575), attested in names such as Effingham, Abridge, and Ufford, but of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0607).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3089).
glosses: A village and civil parish east of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5213).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
lifelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifeling
Quakerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Quaker + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: From his second year at Haverford Arishima began to read Quakerist classics like the Journal of George Fox (1694) and works written about Quakerism like […] The Life of William Penn (1882).
ref: 1981, Harold Bolitho, Alan Rix, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, A Northern prospect: Australian papers on Japan
text: DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States.
ref: 1920, P. Austin Nuttall, J. Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopedia, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: WASPS have a great churchgoing tradition, belonging as they do, to Baptists, Methodist, Quakerist, or even Calvinist or Lutheran congregations, and there is nothing like a maiden trained in complete submission to the will of her master.
ref: 1988, M. Z. Farrukh, Thursday Notes:
text: Yet neither Pennsylvania's Quakerist tendencies toward gender equality nor Connecticut's legacy of radical Protestantism prevented these two colonies from sacrificing a widow's rights to commercial considerations.
ref: 1997, Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, Hill and Wang, →ISBN:
text: Jones does attempt to differentiate Platonic from “New Testament” mysticism, in keeping with his Quakerist Protestantism, but for all that he is compelled to acknowledge that Platonism is the headwaters of all European mysticism.
ref: 2017, Arthur Versluis, Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Quaker or Quaker-like.
unsubmersible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + submersible.
Senses: examples: text: The car will be prepared for all emergencies by making it unsubmersible and furnishing it with runners for use as a sledge.
ref: 1890 December 20, “To the North in a Balloon”, in Scientific American, volume 63, page 392:
text: The last problem with dikes was that dike failure was seldom included in waring plans, primarilty because they often are believed unsubmersible by riverside dwellers.
ref: 2008, David G. Proverbs, C. A. Brebbia, Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell, Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, page 115:
text: Observation results indicated that drums/buckets or unsubmersible motor pumps were often used to collect water from dug wells/mixed dug well-boreholes.
ref: 2010, Kensuke Fukushi, K M Hassan, R Honda, Sustainability in Food and Water: An Asian Perspective, page 128:
glosses: Not submersible.
examples: text: It is conceivable that there might be in man a virtue as strong and buoyant, as unconquerable and unsubmersible, as the physical characteristics of his race, like them remaining insistently dominant through all the ages.
ref: 1914, Katherine Clemmons Gould, The crystal rood, page 7:
text: "He is unsubmersible." And he adds: "He believes in his wife, his belief is unshakable."
ref: 1980, Stuart Schneiderman, How Lacan's Ideas Are Used in Clinical Practice, page 51:
text: his work — both positive and negative — tolled the knell of European empires in the long run to replace them by the unsubmersible nations of today.
ref: 1991, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography - Volume 17, page 85:
glosses: Buoyant and resilient; unquashable.
desilencings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desilencing
desiltations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desiltation
desiltings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desilting
desmodontines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmodontine
desobliterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desobliteration
desodiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desodiation
desosaminyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desosaminyl
desoxyoligonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desoxyoligonucleotide
desoxyribonucleosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desoxyribonucleoside
destainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destainer
desulfurications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulfurication
desulfurylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulfurylase
desulphations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulphation
desulphonations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulphonation
desulphurications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desulphurication
Wilkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: She began to preach, announcing herself as "the Publick Universal Friend," and soon [...succeeded] in organizing groups of Wilkinsonian celibates at New Milford, Conn., and at East Greenwich and South Kingston, R.I.
ref: 1939, Henry Louis Mencken, [New] American Mercury, page 293:
text: J. Hagadorn Wells, who was born in Kingston (Little Rest) in 1817, recalled in his reminiscences, recorded in 1897: "[…] more than once I joined a raiding party of young fellows, to ransack the empty apartments, scare up the ghosts of generations of rural gentry and Wilkinsonian saints, dead; but never omitting a less romantic visit to the pear trees."
ref: 2009, Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Moreover, not every resident of Jerusalem was a devoted Universal Friend; […] Even so, Wilkinson appeared to be making inroads. Historians have missed this Wilkinsonian renaissance, perhaps because they have been influenced by the repeated insistence of anti-Wilkinsonians that her influence was in decline […]
ref: 2017, Adam Jortner, Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend, or to the Society of Universal Friends.
examples: text: A retreat was not to be thought of, and in case any craven spirit should exist amongst the four thousand, (save one,) breasts animated with Wilkinsonian ardour, (perhaps as James has it "as an additional stimulus to glory") a picked man was […]
ref: 1855, Gilbert Auchinleck, A History of the War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: During the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814, Maclear, page 281:
text: I have a Wilkinsonian admiration for T. F. Powys, ranking him in English literature with Bunyan, Swift and Blake.
ref: 1962, Review of English Literature:
text: Even today, despite the experience of the Cold War, despite Kissinger's strictly un-idealistic balance-of-power diplomacy, it must be said that it is not the Wilkinsonian viewpoint which dominates British opinion at large but, however modified, […]
ref: 1975, Correlli Barnett, Strategy and Society, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Pertaining to any of a large number of other people with the surname Wilkinson,
Wilkinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɪl.kɪnˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Wilkinsonians
Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Wilkinsonians are equally to the present point. They lived, for the most part, not more than twenty- five miles from Manchester, New York, the town in which Mormonism was first preached; […]
ref: 1994, Ruth Kauffman, Reginald Wright Kauffman, The Latter Day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Yet Wilkinsonians (or the Universal Friends, as they dubbed themselves), despite their obscurity, provide a crucial case study. The prophetic and supernatural claims of the Wilkinsonians preceded all their contemporaries, but […]
ref: 2017, Adam Jortner, Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A follower of the Quaker preacher Jemima Wilkinson, known as the Public Universal Friend; a member of the Universal Friends.
examples: text: If Mr. Doulton does not know what consistency is, teach him, and place Mr. Wilkinson at the head of the poll. That was regarded as "vituperation," and the St. Giles's poet was called into play. This was the shot he fired at the Wilkinsonians […]
ref: 1879, George Hill, The electoral history of the borough of Lambeth since 1832, page 134, referring to supporters of William Arthur Wilkinson
text: Pagitt proceeds to discriminate the varieties of the Separatists. In addition to Brownists, there are Barrowists, Wilkinsonians, Johnsonians, Ainsworthians, Robinsonians, and followers of John Smith and Thomas Lemar.
ref: 1885, Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, page 103:
text: The Wilkinsonians, unaware that the Commander-in-Chief knew of their plots, continued their disloyal practices. They spread rumors among the Kentuckians that trouble with the commissariat was all Wayne's fault, and that […]
ref: 1970, Harry Emerson Wildes, Anthony Wayne, Trouble Shooter of the American Revolution (Greenwood), referring to supporters of James Wilkinson
text: Edith Sitwell, in her charming history of Bath, lists, at the time of Jonathan Swift's sojournal there, just a few of the sects available, […]. There were Antinomians, Hederingtonians, Theaurian Joanites, Seekers, Waiters, Reevists, Brownists, Baronists, Wilkinsonians, Familists, Ranters, Muggletonians, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.
ref: 2011, Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, page 97:
glosses: A supporter of any of a number of other people named Wilkinson.
Related terms: Wilkinsonianism
Wilkinsonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilkinsonian
CEMB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Center for Applied and Molecular Biology.
glosses: Initialism of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
BRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British racing green.
Cleopatraesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cleopatraesque
form: most Cleopatraesque
Etymology: From Cleopatra + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
ref: 2014, John Shirley, Her Hunger:
glosses: Reminiscent of Cleopatra.
hotelwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hotel + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Toward a hotel.
Buckenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buckenhams
form: Bucknam
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Bucca + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in Strumpshaw parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3505)
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: New Buckenham
Wilkinsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilkinsonites
Etymology: From Wilkinson + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: But the solicitor calmed her by degrees, and so litigation began. There were a good many preliminary skirmishes. Topham society got wind of what was goin on, and divided itself with much fervour into Macphersonites and Wilkinsonites.
ref: 1903, The Royal Magazine, page 444:
text: After all, we are a strange people. The established church won the battle with the reformed congregation in Pomfret, but only because its pastor had an unquenchable thirst and no discretion. It kept the Rogerenes and the Wilkinsonites from ...
ref: 1945, Clarence Mertoun Webster, Town Meeting Country:
text: Since then the old jealous attitude of the Wilkinsonites is very marked and I almost wonder if Sharp is happy that I have been so successful, for I have some splendid classes here & offers of more.
ref: 1990, Folk Music Journal:
glosses: Synonym of Wilkinsonian (“supporter of someone named Wilkinson”).
synonyms: word: Wilkinsonian
extra: supporter of someone named Wilkinson
Wilkinsonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilkinsonite
unsubstantiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsubstantiate
form: most unsubstantiate
Etymology: From un- + substantiate.
Senses: examples: text: He thought of his parents and Mary with the tenderness of separation, and felt ashamed because he had neglected his mother's letter for this unknown, unsubstantiate Martha's.
ref: 1921, Olive Mary Salter, Martha and Mary, page 43:
text: He steps over from Divinity unsubstantiate to spiritual substance just as he once descended into the world of matter.
ref: 1931, Abdruschin, In the Light of Truth, page 216:
text: The froth bubbling on, at the surface, is merely the run of the cotton, soft and unsubstantiate.
ref: 2007, S. S. Prabhakar Rao, The Golden Bouquet, page 269:
glosses: Lacking substance; insubstantial.
examples: text: This, however, was a case where the defendant (described in the file as a possible “fly-by-nighter”) made a quite unsubstantiate claim for the goods he was selling.
ref: 1974, Law Reform Commission of Canada, Studies in Strict Liability, page 89:
text: The unsubstantiate slanders made by Teng Hsiao-p'ing can only expose his rapacious design of trying to reverse verdicts, settle accounts and carry out restoration.
ref: 1976, Survey of People's Republic of China Press:
text: Iran responds to unsubstantiate accusations by the New York Times that Iran hired five Russian scientists from Russia and Kazakhstan;
ref: 1999, The Middle East, Abstracts and Index - Volume 22, Part 3, page 262:
glosses: Unsubstantiated; unproven.
unsubstantiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsubstantiate
unsubstantiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsubstantiate
Chinley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK0482).
human services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention and remediation of problems.
Glenwhilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A location in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, formerly in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX1771).
unsuffocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsuffocates
form: unsuffocating
form: unsuffocated
form: unsuffocated
Etymology: From un- + suffocate.
Senses: examples: text: And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
ref: 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan in sixteen cantos:
text: But here is an honest attempt to unsuffocate the central part of the city, which was like a plumpish woman with a pair of diabolical tight corsets cutting into her waist.
ref: 1955, Technique; Revue Industrielle. Industrial Review:
text: Because academics have had cause from earliest times to unsuffocate themselves, as it were, in the fields?
ref: 1963, The Poetry Magazine, page 36:
text: He had spent his life, it seemed, re-covering David and unsuffocating John.
ref: 2013, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe:
glosses: To unsmother; to free from suffocation or suffocating circumstances.
unsuffocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsuffocate
unsuffocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsuffocate
unsuffocating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuffocating
form: most unsuffocating
Senses: examples: text: Overhead the air is free and unsuffocating.
ref: 1964, Raul S. Manglapus, Rodolfo Severino, Revolt Against Tradition, page 7:
text: By the 1990s, while still championing active government, he aligned himself publicly with the prevailing orthodoxy that 'African countries [should] promote a strategy of privatesector led growth with government mainly concerned with providing the hospitable environment and unsuffocating regulatory framework.
ref: 2011, John Iliffe, Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World, page 129:
text: For Gibreel, Allie Cone the vanquisher of Everest is the exotic other, is powerful independent unsuffocating Western woman.
ref: 1996, Bruce Bennett, Jeff Doyle, Satendra Pratap Nandan, Crossing Cultures, page 150:
glosses: Not suffocating; allowing freedom and ease.
unsmother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsmothers
form: unsmothering
form: unsmothered
form: unsmothered
Etymology: From un- + smother.
Senses: examples: text: A tale, a very tale, Angelo ! enter for the love of heaven! enter and unsmother me!
ref: 1611, George Chapman, May Day: A Comedy:
text: Write out a conversation of " smothered thoughts . " Then " unsmother ” them .
ref: 1972, Dalton H. McBee, Writer's Journal: Explorations, page 12:
text: In addition, we also often insert inactive verb motors in our writing that really drag. We must then both unsmother our verbs and replace them with words that make the sentence move.
ref: 1975, Duane G. Newcomb, Word power makes the difference: making what you write pay off:
text: No more strangleholds! Ungag our souls!! Unstrangle our souls!! Unsmother our souls!!
ref: 1980, Antler, Factor, page 61:
text: I am quite smothered with grief, but love requires me to unsmother what unhappiness smothers in me, and my smothered mutterings must be mutedly unsmothered, for I can no longer smother the mutterings I now must unsmother.
ref: 1994, John Fox, The Poetry of Fifteenth-century France - Volume 1, page 63:
text: He bent down to unsmother a still-warm vineroot and coaxed it alive.
ref: 1997, Karin Kavelin Jones, Antonio Ligabue, Beast in the Mirror: The Life of Outsider Artist Antonio Ligabue, page 90:
glosses: To release from smothering.
unsmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsmother
unsmothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsmother
unsmothering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsmothering
form: most unsmothering
Senses: examples: text: He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.
ref: 2011, Ann Widdecombe, Father Figure:
text: Ferguson could never let go of his mother, his unsmothering mother whose love was the source of all life for him, and merely to see her frown at him with that sad look in her eyes was a devastation, a bullet in the heart.
ref: 2017, Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1: A Novel, page 445:
text: You are the very model of unsmothering motherhood.
ref: 2018, Molly MacRae, Scones and Scoundrels:
glosses: Not smothering.
unstrangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstrangle
unstrangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstrangle
concasséd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concassé
wait around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits around
form: waiting around
form: waited around
form: waited around
Senses: examples: text: Looks as if we were all sold out. But if you'll wait around till the old man comes along maybe he can put his hand on it.
ref: 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter VI, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 110:
text: "A terrible organization!" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. "If you could see how the delegates behave! […]. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting."
ref: 1960 October 31, “United Nations: Last Words”, in Time, retrieved 18 Feb 2020:
text: "In the beginning, I was waiting around by the phone," he said. "Then I got myself an answering machine."
ref: 1993 November 14, William Glaberson, “Waiting for The Post to Call”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Feb 2020:
text: "Too many women wait around depending on men to bring them happiness. I didn't depend on men for mine."
ref: 2007 September 21, Charlotte Chandler, “Great interviews of the 20th century (Mae West, 1979)”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 18 Feb 2020:
glosses: To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome.
STE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SHARON ARANA
12900 PARAMOUNT BLVD STE B
DOWNEY, CA 90242
ref: 2003, U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Register, page 28:
glosses: Abbreviation of suite (STE is preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Ste. and ste.)
TANF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The authors' research -- which included data analysis and interviews with ultrapoor families in four regions -- found that many families weren't even aware of TANF.
ref: 2015 September 1, Aimee Picchi, “The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor”, in CBS News:
text: Sadly, structural issues allow—and even incentivize—states to exploit and manipulate the TANF program. Moreover, waste, fraud, and abuse are occurring, undermining the program and diverting already limited resources. The lack of attention to these issues by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers TANF at the federal level, adds to the program’s inefficiencies.
ref: 2024 September 23, Sam Adolphsen, Paige Terryberry, “WITH REFORM, TANF CAN LIFT AMERICAN FAMILIES OUT OF DEPENDENCY”, in Foundation for Government Accountability, page 3:
glosses: Initialism of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
predead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dead.
Senses: examples: text: Ads that had created the most visually sophisticated audience on earth: the American TV viewer. For such an audience, Radler knew, the shows being churned out by the networks were . . . predead.
ref: 1984, Mark Christensen, Cameron Stauth -, The Sweeps: Behind the Scenes in Network TV, page 356:
text: In sum, the fact that beings are neither Being nor capable of nonbeing is chastening — but sadness would seem considerably alleviated by the realization that (contra Sartre's No Exit) inability to exist in every way as in our predead days we wanted to exist is no block to awareness, choice, and change for the better, the natural.
ref: 1988, Joseph Hynes, The art of the real: Muriel Spark's novels, page 96:
text: All that came bubbling up from his memory, seeping through remembrances of long winter nights suffering with the predead stench of the human sties the Yankees called prison cells at Rock Island in Illinois.
ref: 1994, Terry C. Johnston, Winter Rain, page 28:
text: Tammany members could visualize Indian contemporaries — the challenging savages on the border — as simply predead Indians who, upon dying, would become historical, locked in a grand narrative of inevitable American progress.
ref: 2009, John Hausdoerffer, Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics, page 113:
text: There are two types of human entities— the dead and the predead, so while you're waltzing from predead to dead, have a lot of kids in your life, laugh a lot (because life is ridiculous), have a lot of sex until the walls rattle, and have a good time.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Braun Levine, The Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood:
text: To you predead people. like it or not, postalive people are not your bitches.
ref: 2013, Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of pre-dead.
predead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + dead.
Senses: examples: text: The antifemale violence implicit in such targettings of the sex appeal of the inorganic is made explicit in the everyday identification of fashion victim as zombie, the predead or undead (one of the recurrent "signatures" both of the serial killer and his victims).
ref: 1997, October - Issues 79-82, page 23:
text: He asked after the hand mirror and in the mirror he learned his eyes were shoe black and his stitched face gaunt and worn down as the predead.
ref: 2010, Robert Olmstead, Far Bright Star, page 152:
glosses: Alternative form of pre-dead.