cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dej
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Dej.
Senses: glosses: A city in Cluj County, in northwestern Romania.
Hunedoara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Hunedoara.
Senses: glosses: A city in Hunedoara County, in western Romania.
glosses: A county in western Romania, whose capital city is Deva.
Medgidia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Medgidia.
Senses: glosses: A city in Constanța County, in southeastern Romania.
Oradea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Bihor County, Romania.
Urziceni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Ialomiţa, in southeastern Romania.
Yateley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjeɪtli/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, southern England (OS grid ref SU8160).
Oswestry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Oswaldestroe in 1191, a tree of a man called Oswald; from Old English trēow.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).
glosses: A former borough in Shropshire, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Shropshire unitary authority.
Derived terms: Oswestry Rural
Paignton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Torbay district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8960).
Queensferry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From queen + -s- + ferry
* In Flintshire, named in honour of Queen Victoria; previously Kingsferry.
* In Scotland, named after the Queen of Scots, Saint Margaret of Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3168).
synonyms: South Queensferry
glosses: A town on the Firth of Forth in Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1378).
Related terms: english: in Fife
translation: in Fife
word: North Queensferry
Teignmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪnməθ/
rhymes: -ɪnməθ
Etymology: From Teign + mouth, at the mouth of the River Teign.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9473).
Valetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Valletta.
Nuwaubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nuwaubians
Etymology: Related to Arabic نَبُوءَة (nabūʔa, “prophecy”) or Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb, “delegates”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Nuwaubian Nation, a black-supremacist religious movement originally based on Islam and later on Ancient Egyptian and extraterrestrial themes.
Derived terms: Nuwaubianism
Moorish Scientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moorish Scientist
Nuwaubians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nuwaubian
Lahori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lahori
form: most Lahori
Etymology: From Punjabi لَہَوری (lahaurī); which means "of Lahore" from Lahore, a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Equivalent to Lahore + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Outside their window Yousaf is shaving the leaves from the trees with a scythe, assisting the halfhearted Lahori fall to complete its task.
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 73:
glosses: Relating to Lahore.
Lahori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lahoris
Etymology: From Punjabi لَہَوری (lahaurī); which means "of Lahore" from Lahore, a city in Punjab, Pakistan. Equivalent to Lahore + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Lahorite
glosses: A person from Lahore.
synonyms: Lahorist
glosses: An Ahmadi who views Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a reformer rather than as a prophet.
Qadiani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Qadiani
form: most Qadiani
Etymology: From Urdu قادیانی (qādiyānī); which means "of Qadian" from Qadian, a town in Punjab, India; the location in which the religious movement began.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at movement.
Qadiani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qadianis
Etymology: From Urdu قادیانی (qādiyānī); which means "of Qadian" from Qadian, a town in Punjab, India; the location in which the religious movement began.
Senses: glosses: A follower of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at movement.
Synonyms: Qadianist
Qadianite
Lahoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lahori
Qadianis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Qadiani
ton-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: fond of travelling at high speeds
ton-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ton-ups
Senses: examples: text: Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?
It's the time that every Santa has a ball
Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer?
Does a ton-up on his sleigh
Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
ref: 1973, Slade, Merry Xmas Everybody:
glosses: A speed of 100 miles an hour, especially on a motorbike.
Derived terms: ton-up boy
nasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasse
C3ISTAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance.
Ashrafi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ashrafis
Etymology: From Arabic أَشْرَفِيّ (ʔašrafiyy).
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Sufi Muslim order.
Akbari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akbaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian اکبری
Senses: glosses: A Sufi Muslim of the Akbariyya branch.
glosses: A surname from Persian
Naqshbandi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Naqshbandi
form: most Naqshbandi
Etymology: From Persian نقشبندی (naqšbandi), from نقشبند (naqšband, “[Baha' al-Din] Naqshband”) + ـی (-i).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Baha' al-Din Naqshband, founder of one of the largest Sunni Sufi orders.
Naqshbandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Naqshbandis
Etymology: From Persian نقشبندی (naqšbandi), from نقشبند (naqšband, “[Baha' al-Din] Naqshband”) + ـی (-i).
Senses: glosses: A member of the Naqshbandi order.
Synonyms: Naqshbandist
Naqshbandite
Related terms: Naqshbandiyya
Tijani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tijanis
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of the Tijaniyyah, a subgroup of Sufi Muslims.
Uwaisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uwaisis
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular school of Sufi Islam.
Chishti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chishti
form: most Chishti
Etymology: From Classical Persian چشتی (cištī); which means "of Chisht" from Chisht, a town in Herat, Afghanistan; the location in which the order began.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Chishti order.
Chishti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chishtis
Etymology: From Classical Persian چشتی (cištī); which means "of Chisht" from Chisht, a town in Herat, Afghanistan; the location in which the order began.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of a major Sunni spiritual order of Sufism.
Synonyms: Chishtist
Chishtite
Mevlevi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mevlevis
form: Mevlevi
Etymology: From Persian مولویه.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sufi Muslim who styles themselves after the Sufi mystic Rumi; a member of the so-called Whirling Dervishes.
Jelveti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jelvetis
Senses: glosses: A member of a Sufi Muslim order founded by Akbıyık Sultan.
holophyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being holophyletic.
crabgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crabgrass
butyrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyrin
dog-faced baboon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-faced baboons
Senses: glosses: A hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas).
Synonyms: word: dog-faced ape
dog-faced baboons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-faced baboon
obstetrical toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstetrical toads
Senses: synonyms: common midwife toad
glosses: A European toad of the genus Alytes, especially Alytes obstetricans, the eggs of which are laid and then carried by the male, entwined around his legs and back.
obstetrical toads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstetrical toad
glottal catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glottal catches
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: glottal stop
glottal catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glottal catch
go it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes it
form: going it
form: went it
form: gone it
Senses: examples: text: The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it. Hasn't any kind friend told you that she's the most dangerous woman in Simla?”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
text: ‘Perhaps you would like to tell me what kept you?’
‘Not really, sir.’
Something of a gasp ran around the form-room. This was going it a bit strong, even for Healey.
‘I beg your pardon?’
ref: 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 32:
glosses: To act or behave in a certain manner, especially in an excessively bold, forceful, or audacious manner.
examples: text: Boot after boot was tried on until at last a fit was obtained, when in rushed a man, snatched up the customer's hat left near the door, and ran down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. Away went the customer after his hat, and Crispin, standing at the door, clapped his hands, and shouted, “Go it, you'll catch him!”—little thinking that it was a concerted trick, and that neither his boots nor the customer would ever return.
ref: 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
glosses: To proceed, to make progress; go on (expressing encouragement).
Derived terms: go it, ye cripples
go it alone
go one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes one's way
form: going one's way
form: went one's way
form: gone one's way
Senses: glosses: To set forth on a path; to depart.
examples: text: The feistiness off the pitch translated on to it too - referee Kateryna Monzul awarded two early yellow cards for innocuous fouls by England, and the crowd were frustrated for much of the first half when decisions didn't go their way.
ref: 2022 July 31, Emma Sanders, “England 2-1 Germany”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To go favorably for one. (of an event, circumstance, etc.)
Related terms: go one's own way
go one's ways
go it blind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes it blind
form: going it blind
form: went it blind
form: gone it blind
Senses: glosses: To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To bet without having examined the cards.
apteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On a bird, apteric skin is found on the face, abdomen, and feet.
glosses: Relating to, or containing apteria
Synonyms: featherless
unfeathered
Related terms: alopecic
gnathic index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98 to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous.
glosses: In a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw.
Synonyms: alveolar index
bathward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bath + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a bath.
bathwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bath + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Toward a bath.
gag rein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gag reins
Senses: glosses: A rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth.
gag runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gag runners
Senses: glosses: A loop on the throatlatch guiding the gag rein.
juniper worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juniper worms
Senses: glosses: The larva of the juniper-twig geometer (Patalene olyzonaria), feeding upon the leaves of the juniper.
juniper worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juniper worm
butment cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butment cheeks
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.
butment cheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butment cheek
butlerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butlership
Johnny Crapaud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnny Crapauds
Senses: examples: text: "I say, you fellows, Johnny Crapaud says he can play cricket!” exclaimed Crow one morning. “What fun!”
ref: 1887 July 24, Henry Frith, “Our Cricket-Match at Sandilands”, in The Boy's Own Paper, number 101, Canadian reprint of volume 9, number 438 (June 4, 1887), Toronto: Warwick & Sons, page 579:
text: The French were very sore about the unceremonious manner in which the Dual Control was dispensed with. Their simple statesmen seemed to think that we, who had complacently picked the chestnuts out of the fire, were going to share them. Earl Granville, in kindness of heart, offered Johnny Crapaud a consolation sop in the form of the Presidency of the Public Debt Department, which was sulkily refused, and Johnny Crapaud retired to his tent, thence to cause us petty annoyances whenever he could.
ref: 1901, Edward Vizetelly, “Cairo After the Occupation”, in From Cyprus to Zanzibar, by the Egyptian Delta, page 231:
glosses: A Frenchman.
powdering tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powdering tub
Hunsrück
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hunsrück.
Senses: glosses: A low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Related terms: Hunsrik
occupation bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occupation bridges
Senses: examples: text: Ittig, Conrad, for building an occupation bridge, across the canal, on his farm, in the town of Frankfort
ref: 1825, Laws of the State of New York, in Relation to the Erie and Champlain Canals, page 431:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bridge connecting the parts of an estate or property separated by a road, railway, or canal.
synonyms: accommodation bridge
glosses: A bridge that is required by a landowner in order to access the property, as opposed to one that serves a broader purpose.
occupation bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occupation bridge
semen contra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A strong aromatic bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.
tabular spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: wollastonite
pleurisy root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The large tuberous root of the butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), used as a remedy for pleurisy and other diseases.
synonyms: butterfly milkweed
butterfly weed
windroot
glosses: The plant itself, which has deep orange-coloured flowers
hobnail liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobnail livers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A liver that is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails, resulting from cirrhosis.
hobnail livers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobnail liver
overexactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overexact + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being overexact.
sympathetic ink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathetic inks
Senses: glosses: Invisible ink.
Kori Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tidal creek near the Rann of Kutch and near the border between India and Pakistan.
diriment impediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diriment impediments
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: An impediment that nullifies marriage.
Cretan rockrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cretan rockroses
Senses: glosses: A shrub, Cistus creticus, a rockrose that yields labdanum.
Cretan rockroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cretan rockrose
weak sore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak sores
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sore covered with pale, flabby, sluggish granulations.
Synonyms: weak ulcer
weak sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weak sore
Spanish nectarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish nectarines
Senses: synonyms: cocoplum
paradise plum
abajeru
icaco
fat pork
glosses: The plum-like fruit of the tree Chrysobalanus icaco; the cocoplum, found in the Caribbean, and some parts of Africa.
Spanish nectarines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish nectarine
swan goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swan geese
Senses: glosses: A large migratory goose (Anser cygnoides) belonging to the subfamily Anserinae.
French sash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French sashes
Senses: glosses: A casement swinging on hinges, rather than sliding up and down.
French sashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French sash
dormant window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormant windows
Senses: glosses: A dormer-window.
Gasserian ganglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gasserian ganglion
Gasserian ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gasserian ganglia
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trigeminal ganglion.
synonyms: word: trigeminal ganglion
dip sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dip sectors
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon.
dip sectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dip sector
tailorbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailorbirds
Etymology: From tailor + bird, from the way they sew leaves to make their nests.
Senses: glosses: A small warbler of the genera Orthotomus and Phyllergates, usually brightly coloured, with green or grey upperparts and yellow white or grey underparts.
Derived terms: dark-necked tailorbird
tailorbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailorbird
file with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files with
form: filing with
form: filed with
form: filed with
Senses: examples: text: The students should file their assignments with the professor before the deadline.
text: I'll help you file your report with the supervisor once it's complete.
synonyms: submit to
hand in to
glosses: To officially submit or present paperwork or information to a specific authority.
examples: text: My endeavours / Have ever come too short of my desires, / Yet filed with my abilities
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To follow closely, like one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.
smelter dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smelter dusts
Senses: glosses: A smoke or dust released during the refining of metals; often contains volatile elements such as arsenic
flatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of flatulence.
magistral line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magistral lines
Senses: glosses: The guiding line, or outline, by which the form of a fortified work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.
magistral lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magistral line
vadium vivum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivum vadium
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin vadium vivum (“living pledge”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A living pledge, which exists where an estate is granted until a debt is paid out of its proceeds.
noon of night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noons of night
Senses: examples: text: When full before him, at the noon of night,
(The moon was up, and shot a gleamy light)
He saw a quire of ladies in a round,
That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground;
ref: 1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, lines 213–216:
text: 'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still,
Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.
ref: 1806, George Gordon Byron, Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country:
text: Of sunken suns at eve – at noon of night,
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light
ref: 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf:
glosses: midnight
Synonyms: 12 a.m.
noon
midnight
transmission tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmission towers
Senses: glosses: electricity pylon
babies in the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shee clung about his necke, gave him ten kiſſes, / Toy'd vvith his locks, look'd babies in his eyes, […]
ref: 1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act I:
text: "Nay, my lord, you must give me leave to conclude my picture.--Sussex governs England--the Queen's health fails--the succession is to be settled--a road is opened to ambition more splendid than ambition ever dreamed of. You hear all this as you sit by the hob, under the shade of your hall-chimney. You then begin to think what hopes you have fallen from, and what insignificance you have embraced; and all that you might look babies in the eyes of your fair wife oftener than once a fortnight."
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The minute reflection which one sees of oneself in the eyes of another.
pencil flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil flowers
Senses: glosses: An American perennial leguminous herb of species Stylosanthes biflora.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Stylosanthes.
pencil flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil flower
rosary shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosary shells
Senses: glosses: The shell of any marine gastropods of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-coloured and pearly.
rosary shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosary shell
tripping line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripping lines
Senses: examples: text: Shot-plug and lead were lowered through the chute, tending the tripping-line of the toggle.
ref: 1863, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Text-Book of Seamanship:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor.
tripping lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripping line
soc and sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socan and sacan
form: sake and soke
form: sac and soc
Etymology: From Old English sōcen and sacan, equivalent to the Anglo-Norman oyer and terminer.
Senses: examples: text: King John granted to the prior and convent, in all their manors and lands, sac, soc, tol, and theam, infangenthef, and outfangenthef, with the ordeals or judgment by fire, water, and iron, and a common gallows in each manor; with a view of frankenpledge, and assize of bread and ale, of all their tenants […]
ref: 1806, Francis Bloomfield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. IV, p. 517
topics: law
glosses: The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.
Synonyms: oyer and terminer
Related terms: infangenthef
outfangenthef
breeze up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breezes up
form: breezing up
form: breezed up
form: breezed up
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To blow increasingly cooler.
raw_tags: of the wind
scabiouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scabious
Popess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Popesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of popess.
zygotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygote + -al.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or connected with, a zygote.
European redbud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European redbuds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Judas tree.
synonyms: word: Judas tree
QEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QECs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of quick engine change.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of quantum error correction.
thone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: thoner
form: more thone
form: thonest
form: most thone
form: thoan
form: thooan
form: thwooan
Etymology: From Middle English *thon, from Old English þān (“moist, damp, wet; having water, watered, irrigated”), from Proto-West Germanic *þain, from Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt, flow”). Cognate with Scots thane, thain (“moist, damp”). Related to thaw.
Senses: synonyms: word: drenched
word: saturated
word: sodden
word: bewatered
word: damp
word: drenched
word: dripping
word: drunk
word: humid
word: irriguous
word: madid
word: moist
word: moisty
word: overwatered
word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: sodden
word: soggy
word: spewy
word: spongy
word: squidgy
word: thoan
word: thone
word: undried
word: watered
word: waterlogged
word: watery
word: wet
word: wetter than an otter's pocket
word: wiery
glosses: damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.
Derived terms: thone-corn
thone-wheat
thoney
thony
thonish
thone
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: th'one
Senses: examples: text: This Indenture made ⁊c. Betweene ſir E. A. and dame M. his wife on thone party, and J. N. of ⁊c. and W. his wife on thother partie, Witneſſeth, that where the ſaid Sir E. A. ⁊ M. ſtand ſeiſed of, and in the manoꝛ of M. and of one capitall meſuage called E. and the sſite of demeane of the late diſſolued Monaſtery of E. in the county of W. and of diuers maſuages, lands, temenents, and hereditaments in E. S. A. and B. in the ſaid county of W.
ref: 1615, William West, The First Part of Simboleography. […], London: […] Companie of Stationers, unnumbered page:
glosses: Contraction of the one.
Related terms: thother
thoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: thoaner
form: more thoan
form: thoanest
form: most thoan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thone ("damp, moist").
man dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man date
ex contractu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛks kənˈtɹækt(j)uː/
ipa: /ɛks kənˈtɹæktu/
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + contractū (ablative singular of contractus (“contract”)).
Senses: examples: text: This act [An Act anent the Aliment of Poor Prisoners 1696 (chapter 32; Parliament of Scotland)] was clearly intended to regulate the case of civil debts; but the question occurred whether by civil debts was meant debts ex contractu, or debts also ex delicto; and the Court were at first of opinion that debtors, whose debts arose ex delicto, were not entitled to the benefit of the statute. [...] The opinion was however given up by the Court in 1787; and debts, though arising ex delicto, were held to be civil debts in the sense of the act, and as such, did not exclude the debtor from the benefit of the statute.
ref: 1815, Robert Bell, A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland: […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by Alex. Smellie, for John Anderson & Company; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, →OCLC, page 13:
text: Personal actions are in form ex contractu or ex delicto, or, in other words, are for breach of contract, or for wrongs unconnected with contract. Those upon contracts are principally assumpsit, debt, covenant, and detinue [...]
ref: 1837, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, and on Pleading: […], 7th American edition, volume I, Springfield, Mass.: G. and C. Merriam, →OCLC, page 110:
text: In drawing the pleadings, and framing the declaration of the cause of action against a husband, or an executor, in respect of the funeral expenses of the wife or the testator, it must be stated, in order to show a good legal ground of action ex contractu upon the record, that the things furnished were supplied at the request of the husband, or the executors, and a promise to pay for them must be alleged.
ref: 1847, C[harles] G[reenstreet] Addison, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex Contractu, London: W. Benning & Co., →OCLC, page 213:
text: The leading distinction between obligations ex contractu and obligations quasi ex contractu is, that in the former one chooses to bind himself to another, in the latter he is placed in such circumstances that he is thereby bound to another.
ref: 1874, Thomas Collett Sandars, The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes, 5th edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 379:
text: Obligations quasi ex contractu are those, for the most part, for which a liability is implicit in a relation and is imposed by law, though not created or undertaken by any direct act of the obligor.
ref: 1936, C[harles] Reinold Noyes, The Institution of Property: A Study of the Development, Substance and Arrangement of the System of Property in Modern Anglo-American Law, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Longmans, Green and Co.; London: Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 212:
topics: law
glosses: Of a legal obligation: arising from a contractual relationship.
Related terms: ex delicto
ex contractu
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛks kənˈtɹækt(j)uː/
ipa: /ɛks kənˈtɹæktu/
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + contractū (ablative singular of contractus (“contract”)).
Senses: examples: text: The diviſion of obligations, into thoſe ariſing from a contract, or quaſi ex contractu; from a delict, or quaſi ex delicto, takes place in the law of England [marginal note]. [...] Obligations civil, in a large ſenſe, may be divided into ſuch as ariſe from a contract, or quaſi contract; or from a delinquency and crime, or a quaſi delinquency, as they are termed in the civil law.
ref: 1751, Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: With Observations Upon the Agreement or Diversity Between Them and the Laws of England. In Four Books. […], volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A[lexander] Donaldson, […], →OCLC, page 104:
text: Actio personalis moritur cum persona. – A personal action dies with the person. [i.e. An action merely personal, arising ex delicto, for a tort, but not an action arising ex contractu, from contract. [...]]
ref: 1824, Thomas Branch, William Waller Hening, Principia Legis et Æquitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings, in Law and Equity; […], 1st American edition, Richmond: T. W. White, →OCLC, page 12:
topics: law
glosses: From a contractual relationship.
Related terms: ex delicto
ex delicto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛks dəˈlɪktoʊ/
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + dēlictō, ablative singular of dēlictum (“transgression”).
Senses: examples: text: The diviſion of obligations, into thoſe ariſing from a contract, or quaſi ex contractu; from a delict, or quaſi ex delicto, takes place in the law of England [marginal note]. […] Obligations civil, in a large ſenſe, may be divided into ſuch as ariſe from a contract, or quaſi contract; or from a delinquency and crime, or a quaſi delinquency, as they are termed in the civil law.
ref: 1751, Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights: With Observations Upon the Agreement or Diversity Between Them and the Laws of England. In Four Books. After the General Method of the Viscount of Stair's Institutions., volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A[lexander] Donaldson, and sold by them and other Booksellers, →OCLC, page 104:
text: Actio personalis moritur cum persona. – A personal action dies with the person. [i.e. An action merely personal, arising ex delicto, for a tort, but not an action arising ex contractu, from contract.[…]] […] [Ex delicto — From tort.]
ref: 1824, Thomas Branch with William Waller Hening, Principia Legis et Æquitatis: Being an Alphabetical Collection of Maxims, Principles or Rules, Definitions, and Memorable Sayings, in Law and Equity; Interspersed with such Law Terms, and Latin Words and Phrases as most Frequently Occur, in the Study and Practice of the Law, 1st American edition, Richmond: T. W. White, →OCLC, pages 12 and 43:
text: What the Romans said is that, whereas some obligations arose ‘ex delicto’ (that is, from a delict or wrong), others arose ‘quasi ex delicto’ (and likewise for contract).
ref: 2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: law
glosses: From a delict or tort, or some other wrongful act.
Related terms: ex contractu
Jincheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃɛŋ/
other: /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
Forms: form: Kincheng
form: Chincheng
form: Chin-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金城 (Jīnchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Kinmen is the main island, and Jincheng is Kinmen’s main town, offering most of the accommodation and other services. Here you'll also find Jyuguanglou, one of a number of monuments, buildings, and museums glorifying and memorializing the feats of Taiwan’s military against mainland China.
ref: 2007, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 2nd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200, column 1:
text: THE MAN, WHO was calling himself George Chow, took Olivia into Jincheng: a fishing town at the island’s western end.
ref: 2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde (Fiction), London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 511:
text: At a bohemian restaurant inside the island's biggest town, Jincheng, ukulele instructor Xu Yi Teng, 26, wants to keep the mainland at more than an arm's length.
ref: 2016 September 11, Rob Schmitz, “On A Rural Taiwanese Island, Modern China Beckons”, in NPR, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2016, Asia:
text: In Kinmen County, the sunset would be visible at 5:29pm at Jiangong Islet (建功嶼) at the mouth of the Wujiang River (浯江溪) in Jincheng Township (金城) and at Cih Lake (慈湖).
ref: 2021 December 28, “Orchid Island to catch first sunrise of new year: CWB”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2014:
glosses: An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.
Jincheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃɛŋ/
other: /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
Forms: form: Kincheng
form: Chincheng
form: Chin-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 晉城／晋城 (Jìnchéng).
Senses: examples: text: A sprawling, mountainous administrative region in the south of Shanxi province, Jincheng is still dominated by coal. Though many pits have been shut, the craggy landscape bears the scars of decades of excessive mining.
ref: 2018 November 26, David Stanway, Joseph Campbell, Muyu Xu, Shanghai newsroom, “Smog war casualty: China coal city bears brunt of pollution crackdown”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2018, World News:
text: The man, surnamed Chai, from Jincheng city in Shanxi province, was outraged after he discovered the abandoned little puppy, according to Toutiao News.
ref: 2022 October 31, Liya Su, “Heartwarming tales of man’s best friend: dog finds way home after 6 years, canine’s face scanned to open gate, puppy wrapped in plastic bag rescued”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2022, People & Culture:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
telesonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + sonic.
Senses: glosses: Using sound over a distance.
Alishan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: äʹlēʹshänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 阿里山 (Ālǐshān).
Senses: examples: text: Based on evidence of tree-ring patterns in the Japanese cypress tree of Mt. Alishan, Formosa, and from other sources, it is concluded that secular jet-streams are responsible for the climatic variations which influence world wide behavior of glaciers.
ref: 1964 June, “Abstracts”, in Bibliography on Snow, Ice and Permafrost, with abstracts with Abstracts, volume XVIII, Hanover, New Hampshire: U.S. Army Materiel Command, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 2:
text: In contrast, the convoys of tour buses filled with mainland Chinese tourists have caused many Taiwanese to cringe. Some destinations, like Mount Alishan or the Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, are often extremely overcrowded and the media often reports about the rude behavior of Chinese tourists.
ref: 2017 February 21, Klaus Bardenhagen (tko), “Taiwan reduces reliance on mainland Chinese tourists”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2017, Asia:
glosses: Mount Ali, a famous mountain in Taiwan.
glosses: Alishan National Scenic Area, a mountain resort in Chiayi County, Taiwan.
Zhubei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jo͞oʹbāʹ
Forms: form: Chupei
form: Jhubei
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 竹北 (Zhúběi).
Senses: examples: text: A migrant worker from the Philippines was arrested in Zhubei early Sunday on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend after she rejected his marriage proposal, according to the Hsinchu County Police Bureau.
ref: 2022 August 14, Kang-chun Lu, Matthew Mazzettta, “Migrant worker allegedly kills girlfriend after failed marriage proposal”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022, Society:
glosses: A city in and county seat of Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan.
Douliu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dōʹlyōʹ
Forms: form: Touliu
form: Douliou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 斗六 (Dǒuliù).
Senses: examples: text: On March 5, all the government and military institutions in Gaoxiong were occupied, and over 700 Kuomintang troops were held captive. The people’s forces from Taizhong, Douliu, Dounan, and Zhushan converged on Huwei, and regrouped into a combined force to capture Huwei airport. All the Chiang troops there surrendered.
ref: 1979 April, “The Turning Point in the Civil War”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 2:
text: In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned a woman I interviewed who paid her Daoist master NT$20,000 for a three-day ceremony. She attended all three days of this ceremony at an apartment temple in the city of Douliu, about 70 kilometers south of Taizhong.
ref: 1999, Marc L. Moskowitz, Fetus-Spirits: New Ghosts in Modern Taiwan, →OCLC, page 98:
text: Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen wave flags during a campaign rally in Douliu, Taiwan, January 11, 2016.
ref: 2016 January 12, “In Taiwan's south, calls for independence from China entrenched as poll looms”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022, 8 / 16:
text: A restaurant in Douliu City, Yunlin County debuted its "Godzilla" ramen featuring crocodile meat as its main ingredient.
ref: 2023 June 26, Lyla Liu, “Taiwan restaurant launches 'Godzilla' crocodile ramen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023, Travel & Cuisine:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Yunlin County, Taiwan.
Synonyms: sense: from Hokkien
word: Tau-lak
Lienchiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lyěnʹjyängʹ
Forms: form: Lien-chiang
raw_tags: from Wade–Giles
form: Lianjiang
form: Lienkiang
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 廉江 (Liánjiāng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lien²-chiang¹.
Senses: examples: text: 6. Chinese Communists are concentrating their activities in southwest Kwangtung in the vicinity of Lienchiang (109-07, 21-33) [110-16, 21-36?] and Huahsien (110-39, 21-38) where they have about 2,000 men and 100 Japanese soldiers.
ref: 1947 July 22, “Political and Military Information: Communist Activities in South China”, in CIA:
text: Peasants of Lienhsien, Kwangtung, used 300,000 catties of grain for wine making and liquor distilling during last autumn; 85 per cent of all households in the hsien were guilty. 1,332 households in the 6th chu, Lienchiang hsien, consumed 76,000 catties of grain for wine making and liquor distilling in a little more than 10 days.
ref: 1957, Ygael Gluckstein, “State Monopoly of Trade in Grain and other Agricultural Products”, in Mao's China: Economic and Political Survey, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, →OCLC, page 135:
text: During the first phase of construction much of the investment was concentrated in overhead capital in the form of the Lienchiang-Maoming branch of the Lichan Railway and the Maoming-Sansui branch railway.
ref: 1976, Chu-yuan Cheng, China's Petroleum Industry, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, pages 69-70:
text: Different prevalence rates were noted in different parts of Kwangtung Province: 54.8 for Chungshan County in the central part of Kwangtung Province, 23.24 for Chiehyang County in the eastern part and 16.81 for Lienchiang County in the western part, showing an uneven geographic distribution of NPC (Fig.1).
ref: 1981, Li Chen-Chuan, edited by Paul A. Marks, NPC Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Screening for Early Detection (中美两国的癌症研究 [Cancer Research in the People's Republic of China and the United States of America]), Grune & Stratton, →ISBN, page 199:
english: Cancer Research in the People's Republic of China and the United States of America
translation: Cancer Research in the People's Republic of China and the United States of America
glosses: Alternative form of Lianjiang, a county in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
smart grid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart grids
Senses: examples: text: In an interview with the Guardian, Cameron said "smart grid technology", one of the centrepieces of Barack Obama's planned multibillion dollar infrastructure investment programme, was the equivalent of "the internet for electricity.[…]"
ref: 2009 January 16, Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt, Dan Milmo, “Cameron: we will build £1bn 'smart grid' to green Britain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A computerized power grid which gathers and analyzes information from users to determine the most efficient and reliable operation of electricity distribution
advice animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advice animal
Advice Animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Advice Animal
ostrich-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostrich-like
form: most ostrich-like
Senses: examples: text: On to that financial setup, forever teetering on a cliff edge, drop two parking tickets. The sort of thing that might make others sigh, before pulling out a credit card. But for Spice, it’s another impossible claim when she’s behind on rent, the water, the electric, council tax. So, ostrich-like, she ignores the letters – until finally she ends up in the world of bailiffs. And that’s when the trouble really begins.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ostrichlike.
wax poetic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæks pəʊˈɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˈwæks poʊˈɛtɪk/
Forms: form: waxes poetic
form: waxing poetic
form: waxed poetic
form: waxed poetic
Etymology: From wax (“become”) + poetic.
Senses: glosses: To become increasingly verbose.
glosses: To speak in an increasingly verbose manner, as if constructing poetry.
Related terms: wax eloquent
waxes poetic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wax poetic
waxing poetic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wax poetic
waxed poetic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wax poetic
says goodbye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of say goodbye
saying goodbye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of say goodbye
said goodbye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of say goodbye
takes leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take leave
taking leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take leave
took leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take leave
taken leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take leave
does business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do business
doing business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do business
did business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do business
done business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do business
number 2 pencils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number 2 pencil
indium arsenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A semiconductor binary compound of indium and arsenic (InAs)
monials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monial
Kernen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kernens
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Kernen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cannabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cannabic
form: most cannabic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis) + -ic. Doublet of hempy.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to hemp or cannabis.