cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wagers
Etymology: From the verb, wage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.
ref: 1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, page 65:
text: Hatshepsut was no wager of wars, no bloodstained conqueror.
ref: 1957, Elsa Maxwell, How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining, page 7:
glosses: Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
Related terms: minimum-wager
wagonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonettes
form: waggonette
Etymology: From wagon + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The cabs here are mostly covered waggonettes, with one horse. They hold four people; the sides have coloured glass, and behind the driver there is a window which is drawn aside when you communicate with him.
ref: 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 298:
text: On glowing summer afternoons wagonettes came full of Americans and cultured suburbans to see the sepulchre
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: He was a peasant worker from Tienchen County, and had been working on the dam, carrying earth and stone or pushing wagonettes here for half a year.
ref: 1954, People's China, numbers 1-12, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
glosses: A kind of four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, normally uncovered.
waif
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: waifs
form: waifing
form: waifed
form: waifed
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English weif (“ownerless property subject to seizure and forfeiture; the right of such seizure and forfeiture; revenues obtained from such seizure and forfeiture”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman waif, weif [and other forms] (compare Anglo-Latin waivum [and other forms], Medieval Latin waivium), possibly from Old French waif, a variant of gaif, gayf (“property that is lost and unclaimed; of property: lost and unclaimed”) (Norman) [and other forms], probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse veif (“flag; waving thing”), from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It is true that Guy, Count of Ponthieu, holds fief under me, but I have no control over the laws of his realm. And by those laws, he hath right of life and death over all stranded and waifed on his coast.
ref: 1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book IX (The Bones of the Dead), pages 293–294:
glosses: To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
waif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: waifs
Etymology: Possibly from Old Norse veif (“flag; waving thing”); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: [page 440] The allusion to waifs and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge. […] [page 441] [A] fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognised symbol of possession; so long as the party waifing it plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their intention to do so.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Fast-fish and Loose-fish”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 440–441:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: chiefly whaling
glosses: A small flag used as a signal.
Related terms: waff
waft
wheft
waif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: waifs
Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to the following words:
* waff (“waving movement; gust or puff of air or wind; odour, scent; slight blow; slight attack of illness; glimpse; apparition, wraith; of the wind: to cause (something) to move to and fro; to flutter or wave to and fro in the wind; to produce a current of air by waving, to fan”) (Northern England, Scotland), a variant of waive (etymology 2) or wave (see further at those entries).
* Middle English wef, weffe (“bad odour, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan).
Senses: glosses: Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
wail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wāl
ipa: /weɪl/
ipa: [weɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: wale
homophone: whale (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wails
form: wailing
form: wailed
form: wailed
Etymology: c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14ᵗʰ c.. The noun came from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: groan
moan
glosses: To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
synonyms: word: burst into tears
word: beweep
word: burst into tears
word: cry
word: cry one's eyes out
word: greet
word: shed a tear
word: shed tears
word: squirt some
word: wail
word: weep
glosses: To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
examples: text: The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
synonyms: keen
ululate
glosses: To make a noise like mourning or crying.
examples: text: to wail one's death
text: My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 2]:
synonyms: word: lament
word: mourn
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
examples: text: Another outstanding surfer from Hawaii - Fred Hemmings. Fred only stands up on alternate Wednesdays, but when he does, he really wails.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
text: At Boston's Roseland, as "the Count's band was wailing," he grabbed Mamie, an avid dancer. The "band was screaming when she kicked off her shoes and got barefooted
ref: 1999, Lewis A. Erenberg, Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture, page 111:
text: The band was really wailing as we quickly made our dance moves in a most provocative manner.
ref: 2012, Robert Lewis Barrett, A Portrait of the First Born As a Child, page 377:
text: We had a nondenominational wedding, with a bunch of great Sufi musicians really wailing, and my wildly enthusiastic mother in attendance.
ref: 2013, Joan Silber, Fools, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To perform with great liveliness and force.
Derived terms: bewail
wailer
wail on
wailingly
wail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wāl
ipa: /weɪl/
ipa: [weɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: wale
homophone: whale (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wails
Etymology: c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14ᵗʰ c.. The noun came from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: She let out a loud, doleful wail.
glosses: A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
examples: text: The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
text: A bird's wail in the night.
glosses: Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
glosses: A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
Derived terms: widow-wail
wail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wāl
ipa: /weɪl/
ipa: [weɪɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: wale
homophone: whale (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wails
form: wailing
form: wailed
form: wailed
Etymology: From Old Norse val (“choice”). Compare Icelandic velja (“to choose”). More at wale.
Senses: examples: text: Wailed wine and metes
ref: c. 1500, Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid:
glosses: Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”).
synonyms: word: wale
extra: to choose; to select
wailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪlə/
enpr: wāʹlər
ipa: /ˈweɪlɚ/
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
homophone: whaler (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wailers
Etymology: From Middle English wayler, weilere; equivalent to wail + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who wails or laments.
synonyms: word: moirologist
glosses: A professional hired mourner.
wailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪlə/
enpr: wāʹlər
ipa: /ˈweɪlɚ/
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
homophone: whaler (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wailers
Etymology: From wail + -er; see wail (“choose, select”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A boy employed to pick out stones, pyrites, etc. remaining in the coal after it is screened.
wallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: wallows
form: waller
Etymology: From Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, from Old English wealwian (“to roll”), from Proto-West Germanic *walwōn, variant of *walwijan, from Proto-Germanic *walwijaną (“to roll”), from Proto-Indo-European *welw-, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“roll, tumble”, verb).
Senses: glosses: An instance of wallowing.
examples: text: However, we have no time to linger, and picking our way among the countless buffalo wallows which indent the level surface of the summit, the wagon, […]
ref: 1901, George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt, editors, American Big-Game Hunting:
text: Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.
ref: 2003, Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves:
glosses: A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
glosses: A kind of rolling walk.
Derived terms: hog wallow
wallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: wallows
form: wallowing
form: wallowed
form: wallowed
form: waller
Etymology: From Middle English walwen, from Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old English fealwian (“to grow pale, turn yellow, ripen, wither”). Alternatively, perhaps related to Middle English welken (“to fade, droop, wither”), modern English welk.
Senses: glosses: To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
raw_tags: of plants
wallow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -ɒləʊ
Forms: form: more wallow
form: most wallow
form: waller
Etymology: From Middle English walwe, walh, from Old English wealg, from Proto-West Germanic *walg, from Proto-Germanic *walgaz. Cognate with Dutch walg (“disgust”), dialectal Norwegian valg (“tasteless”). Doublet of waugh.
Senses: glosses: Tasteless, flat.
Derived terms: wallowish
wane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: wain
homophone: Wayne
Forms: form: wanes
form: wain
form: waine
form: wean
Etymology: From Scots wean.
Senses: glosses: A child.
wane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: wain
homophone: Wayne
Forms: form: wanes
form: wone
Etymology: From Middle English wōne, wāne (“dwelling," "custom”), of unclear origins, compare wont.
Senses: glosses: A house or dwelling.
wary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈweːɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈweəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈwiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈweɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈweɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈwɜːɹɪ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: weary (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: whirry (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: warier
form: wariest
Etymology: From the adjective ware + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He is wary of dogs.
synonyms: circumspect
scrupulous
careful
glosses: Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
glosses: Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
glosses: thrifty, provident
Synonyms: cautious
guarded
careful
chary
Derived terms: unwarily
unwary
warily
wariness
wary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈweːɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈweəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈwiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈweɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈweɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈwɜːɹɪ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: weary (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: whirry (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: waries
form: warying
form: waried
form: waried
Etymology: From Middle English warien, from Old English wierġan (“to curse, do evil”), from Proto-West Germanic *wargijan, from Proto-Germanic *wargijaną (“to condemn, curse”), from Proto-Germanic *wargaz (“criminal”). Doublet of warry.
Senses: glosses: To curse, revile.
Related terms: wargus
weary
waster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪstə/
rhymes: -eɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wasters
form: wastor
form: wastour
Etymology: From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
Senses: synonyms: word: big spender
word: dingthrift
word: neve
word: overspender
word: prodigal
word: profligate
word: saprophage
word: scattergood
word: slipstring
word: slipthrift
word: sparkler
word: spend-all
word: spendthrift
word: splurge
word: splurger
word: squanderer
word: unthrift
word: waster
word: wastegood
word: wastethrift
word: wastrel
glosses: Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
synonyms: thief
glosses: An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
examples: text: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 18:9:
glosses: A destroyer or plunderer.
examples: text: Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.
ref: 1895, Richard Smith-Casson, “Small Cast Steel Ingots”, in Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 46, page 215:
glosses: An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
Derived terms: candle-waster
oxygen waster
time-waster
waster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪstə/
rhymes: -eɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wasters
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 6:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
glosses: A leister; a spear for catching fish.
wavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪvi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: wavier
form: waviest
form: wavey
Etymology: From wave + -y.
Senses: examples: text: wavy seas
glosses: Rising or swelling in waves.
examples: text: wavy swimming pool
glosses: Full of waves.
examples: text: wavy bridge
synonyms: wiggly
glosses: Moving to and fro; undulating.
examples: text: wavy hair
glosses: Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
raw_tags: of a margin
examples: text: Per pale erm. and az. a fess wavy gu.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials; Upon an Entirely New Plan ..., page 708:
text: Parted per fess wavy gu. and arg.; over all a lion passant sa. pierced with a dagger ppr., hafted and pommelled of the second, the haft appearing between the shoulders and the point under the belly, tending towards the hind legs[…]
ref: 1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 105:
text: On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
ref: 1957 February 24, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines, especially to symbolize a river.
glosses: Drunk.
examples: text: Wavy like Beyoncé on a surfboard
ref: 2016, “Wavy”, Tyrone Griffin, Jr., Joseph Allen, Dijon McFarlane (music), performed by Ty Dolla Sign:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Cool and fashionable.
Derived terms: counterwavy
handwavy
wavy-leaved eremophila
wavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪvi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: wavies
Etymology: See wavey.
Senses: examples: text: According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
ref: 1862, The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, volume 20, page 7835:
text: The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.
ref: 1888, Journals of the Senate of Canada, volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of wavey (goose).
weaponry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛp.ən.ɹi/
Forms: form: weaponries
Etymology: From weapon + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The army has a wide array of weaponry.
text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: Holy shit! Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail, much less Earth-ending weaponry. People who work there must watch WarGames and go “One day, one day, we’ll get to play with that stuff.”
ref: 2014 July 27, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Nuclear Weapons”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 12, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Weapons collectively
Synonyms: word: arms
word: munitions
word: ordnance
word: weaponry
Hyponyms: word: armament
word: arsenal
word: artillery
word: battery
word: gunnery
word: missilery
word: musketry
word: small arms
Meronyms: word: weapon
Related terms: word: conventional weaponry
word: cannonade
word: fusillade
word: materiel
weighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪti/
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: weightier
form: weightiest
form: weightie
Etymology: From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y.
Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig.
Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).
Senses: examples: text: And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm
ref: 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Confiding Peasant and the Maladroit Bear:
text: To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.
ref: 2018, Thom Nickels, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls:
glosses: Having a lot of weight; heavy.
examples: text: a weighty argument
text: But I have now reached a point in the progress of my narrative, when it becomes necessary to turn away from these light descriptions, to the more grave and weighty matter of the second battle with Master Tibeats, and the flight through the great Pacoudrie Swamp.
ref: 1853, Solomon Northup, chapter IX, in [David Wilson], editor, Twelve Years a Slave. […], London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, →OCLC, page 130:
synonyms: word: grave
word: solemn
word: austere
word: frightful
word: demure
word: serious
word: grave
word: earnest
word: grievous
word: lack-laughter
word: thoughtful
word: sad
word: sage
word: saturnine
word: sedate
word: solemn
word: solemncholy
word: sober
word: somber
word: sombre
word: staid
word: stern
word: sweer
word: weightsome
word: weighty
glosses: Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
glosses: Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Derived terms: weightily
weightiness
Weld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Johnson’s latest misstep played out during an extraordinary and awkward 50 seconds of live television on MSNBC, where Johnson and running mate William Weld were appearing in a town hall. Host Chris Matthews ticked through a list of regions, hoping to jog the Libertarian Party candidate’s memories, but to no avail.
ref: 2016 September 29, Josh Lederman, Patrick Mairs, “Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can’t name favorite world leader”, in PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2018:
glosses: A surname from Old English possibly deriving from the Old English word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
glosses: A town in Franklin County, Maine, United States, named after Benjamin Weld.
Derived terms: Port Weld
Weld County
welder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛldə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: welders
form: weldor
Etymology: From weld + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.
glosses: One who welds, or wields.
glosses: An item of equipment for welding with: an electric welder.
Derived terms: arc welder
welder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛldə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: welders
Etymology: Of Irish origin.
Senses: glosses: A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
wheeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēz
ipa: /ʍiːz/
ipa: /wiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: wees
homophone: Wiis (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wheezes
form: wheezing
form: wheezed
form: wheezed
Etymology: From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
Senses: examples: text: If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
glosses: To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
examples: text: Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.
ref: 1932, Herbert George Jenkins, Bindle Omnibus, page 408:
text: He began to wheeze again, and tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks. Nate was laughing, too, infected by Check's contagious wheezing.
ref: 1973, Robert Boston, A Thorn for the Flesh, page 30:
text: Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Oldfield, Beware of Married Men, page 47:
text: The man wheezed, his laughter like an accordion whine.
ref: 1993, Richard S. Wheeler, The Two Medicine River, page 221:
glosses: To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
examples: text: "Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 184:
text: One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.
ref: 2009, J. P. White, Every Boat Turns South, page 112:
glosses: To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
wheeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēz
ipa: /ʍiːz/
ipa: /wiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: wees
homophone: Wiis (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wheezes
Etymology: From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
Senses: glosses: A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
glosses: An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
examples: text: Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[V]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze: it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
ref: 2011 November 19, “Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy”, in The Economist:
text: The Constitution cult in the US—deliberately stoked in the early twentieth century in a part as a bulwark against socialism—is a nastily brilliant wheeze by capitalism's apologists.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: An ulterior scheme or plan.
examples: text: The new comedy is a wheeze.
text: You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!
synonyms: word: joke
glosses: Something very humorous or laughable.
examples: text: At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died.
ref: 2016, Heather Hildenbrand, A Bet Worth Making:
glosses: A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
Derived terms: wheeze rate
whirlwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːlwɪnd/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɝlwɪnd/
Forms: form: whirlwinds
Etymology: From Middle English whirlewind, whirlewynde, equivalent to whirl + wind. Compare Middle Dutch wervelwint, Old Norse hvirfilvindr.
Senses: examples: text: VVhile in the mean time there iſſued out on the Eaſt-ſide a ſtrong VVind, but pure and refreſhing, vvhich dividing into ſeveral parts that turned round became ſo many innocuous VVhirl-vvinds of ſincere Air, tinctured only vvith a cool refreſhing ſmell, as if it had paſſed over ſome large field of Lilies and Roſes.
ref: 1713, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Fifth Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], →OCLC, paragraph XXXVIII, page 515:
text: And his hoofs ground the rocks to fire and dust, / His strong sides made the torrents rise in spray, / And turbulence, as if a whirlwind’s gust / Surrounded us; […]
ref: 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Revolt of Islam; […], London: […] [F]or C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
examples: text: Once he got that new scooter he turned into a whirlwind and damaged all the flowers.
text: The weeks leading up to the convention were a whirlwind of preparation and hurried activity.
glosses: A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
Hyponyms: dust devil
fire whirl
landspout
tornado
waterspout
Derived terms: sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
whirlwind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːlwɪnd/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɝlwɪnd/
Etymology: From Middle English whirlewind, whirlewynde, equivalent to whirl + wind. Compare Middle Dutch wervelwint, Old Norse hvirfilvindr.
Senses: examples: text: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance
text: So you aren't deserting the Caversham ship. They'll understand. After all, their courtship was pretty whirlwind itself.
ref: 2016, Nina Milne, Rafael's Contract Bride, page 60:
glosses: Rapid and minimal.
Related terms: whistle-stop
witless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witless
form: most witless
Etymology: From Middle English witles, from Old English witlēas (“senseless; witless”), from Proto-Germanic *witjalausaz (“witless”), equivalent to wit + -less. Cognate with Swedish vettlös (“senseless; witless; wild”), Icelandic vitlaus (“senseless; witless; foolish; mad”).
Senses: examples: text: Then will we march to all thoſe Indian Mines,
My witleſſe brother to the Chriſtians loſt:
And ranſome them with fame and vſurie.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
text: To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't;
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:
glosses: Lacking wit or understanding; foolish.
glosses: Indiscreet; not using clear and sound judgment.
examples: text: Rage warps my clearest cry
To witless agony.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Mindless, lacking conscious thought or the capacity for it.
Derived terms: witless wonder
witlessly
witlessness
worth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːθ/
ipa: /wɝθ/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /wɜ(r)t̪ʰ/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /wərt̪ʰ/
note: backing after W
ipa: /(w)ɵrt̪ʰ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: worths
form: worthing
form: worth
form: worthed
form: worth
form: worthed
form: worthen
form: word
Etymology: From Middle English worthen, wurthen, werthen (“to be; exist; come into being; come into existence”), from Old English weorþan (“to come into being; be made; become; arise; be”), from Proto-West Germanic *werþan, from Proto-Germanic *werþaną (“to come about; happen; come into being; become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; turn out”).
Cognate with Dutch worden, dated Low German warrn, German werden, Old Norse verða (Norwegian verta, Swedish varda), Latin vertere.
Senses: examples: text: Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 30:2:
text: For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: Woe worth the man that crosses me.
text: Well worth thee, me friend.
qualifier: except in set phrases or dialectal
glosses: To be, become, betide.
Derived terms: forworth
wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: rack
Forms: form: wracks
form: wrake
Etymology: From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.
Senses: glosses: Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
examples: text: Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack,
Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
ref: c. 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, page 7:
qualifier: except in dialects
glosses: Ruin; destruction.
examples: text: Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack.
ref: 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Mr. Lytle: An Essay”, in Pulphead:
glosses: The remains of something; a wreck.
Derived terms: wrack and ruin
wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: rack
Forms: form: wracks
form: wracking
form: wracked
form: wracked
Etymology: From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.
Senses: glosses: To execute vengeance on; avenge.
glosses: To worry; tease; torment.
wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: rack
Forms: form: wracks
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”), the source of wreak and wreck. Doublet of vraic.
Cognate with German Wrack, Old Norse rek, Danish vrag, Swedish vrak, Old English wræc); also compare Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wrakjan, “persecute”), Old Norse reka (“drive”).
Senses: glosses: Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
glosses: The right to claim such items.
glosses: Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
glosses: Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
examples: text: A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.
ref: 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:
glosses: A high, flying cloud; a rack.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Fucus serratus
word: black wrack
taxonomic: Fucus vesiculosus
word: bladder wrack
taxonomic: Fucus vesiculosus
word: buckey wrack
taxonomic: Pelvetia canaliculata
word: channelled wrack
taxonomic: Ascophyllum nodosum
word: egg wrack
taxonomic: Fucus spiralis
word: flat wrack
alt: eelgrass
word: grass wrack
english: Flustra
translation: Flustra
word: horn wrack
taxonomic: Ascophyllum nodosum
word: knobbed wrack
taxonomic: Ascophyllum nodosum
word: knotted wrack
taxonomic: Fucus vesiculosus
word: lady wrack
taxonomic: Fucus serratus
word: notched wrack
taxonomic: Fucus serratus
word: serrated wrack
taxonomic: Fucus spiralis
word: spiral wrack
word: tangle-wrack
word: tidewrack
taxonomic: Fucus serratus
word: toothed wrack
word: wrack line
word: wrack zone
wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: rack
Forms: form: wracks
form: wracking
form: wracked
form: wracked
form: wrackt
form: wrackt
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wrack
form: wrack
form: wracked
form: wrack
form: wrackest
form: wracked
form: wrackedst
form: wracks
form: wracketh
form: wracked
form: wrack
form: wracked
form: wrack
form: wracked
form: wrack
form: -
form: wracking
form: wracked
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”), the source of wreak and wreck. Doublet of vraic.
Cognate with German Wrack, Old Norse rek, Danish vrag, Swedish vrak, Old English wræc); also compare Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wrakjan, “persecute”), Old Norse reka (“drive”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115:
qualifier: usually passive voice
glosses: To wreck, especially a ship.
examples: text: It marked her first performance in over four years after revealing that her body had been wracked with painful spasms following her diagnosis with the rare and chronic neurological disorder.
ref: 2024 July 26, “Fans rave as Celine Dion and a FLYING cauldron save washout Paris Olympics opening ceremony”, in dailymail.co.uk:
glosses: Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”).
Derived terms: storm-wracked
wrasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: wrasses
Etymology: Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.
Senses: glosses: Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.
Hyponyms: sense: species called wrasse
urls: http://www.fishbase.org/ComNames/CommonNameSearchList.php?resultPage=3&crit1_fieldname=COMNAMES.ComName&lang=English&crit1_fieldtype=CHAR&crit1_operator=EQUAL&CommonName=wrasse
word: wrasse at FishBase
Derived terms: word: ballan wrasse
taxonomic: Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura
word: blueside wrasse
taxonomic: Coris picta
word: comb wrasse
taxonomic: Cheilinus undulatus
word: humphead wrasse
word: East Atlantic peacock wrasse
word: Galápagos sheepshead wrasse
word: Maori wrasse
taxonomic: Halichoeres radiatus
word: puddingwife wrasse
word: rainbow wrasse
taxonomic: Epibulus insidiator
word: slingjaw wrasse
taxonomic: Hemiemblemaria simulus
word: wrasse blenny
urls: https://www.onelook.com/?w=%2Awrasse&ls=a
word: in .
wreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēth
ipa: /ɹiːθ/
ipa: /ɹiːθ/
rhymes: -iːθ
Forms: form: wreaths
Etymology: From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English wrǣd, wrǣþ, wriþa (“bandage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.
Senses: examples: text: a wreath of smoke    a wreath of clouds
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid: A Tale of Adventures, being the Strange Experiences of Roy LeFevre in the Desert during the Year 1884, London; Glasgow; Edinburgh; Dublin: Blackie and Son, →OCLC:
glosses: Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
examples: text: So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
glosses: A defect in glass.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: orle
torse
glosses: An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
Derived terms: Advent wreath
bridal wreath
Hippocratic wreath
laurel wreath
oak wreath
olive wreath
wreath product
wreathwork
Yule wreath
writhe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rīth
ipa: /ɹaɪð/
rhymes: -aɪð
Forms: form: writhes
form: writhing
form: writhed
form: wrothe
form: writhed
form: wrothe
form: writhen
Etymology: From Middle English writhen, from Old English wrīþan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist, writhe”). Cognate with Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”), dialectal German reiden (“to turn, twist, lace”), Danish vride (“to twist”), Swedish vrida (“to turn, twist, wind”), French rider (“to wrinkle, furrow, ruffle”, (< Germanic)). Compare also Lithuanian riēsti (“to unbend, wind, roll”).
Senses: glosses: To twist, wring (something).
examples: text: Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IV, pages 50–51:
glosses: To contort (a part of the body).
examples: text: The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
glosses: To extort.
Derived terms: writhingly
writhedly
writher
writhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīth
ipa: /ɹaɪð/
rhymes: -aɪð
Forms: form: writhes
Etymology: From Middle English writhen, from Old English wrīþan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist, writhe”). Cognate with Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”), dialectal German reiden (“to turn, twist, lace”), Danish vride (“to twist”), Swedish vrida (“to turn, twist, wind”), French rider (“to wrinkle, furrow, ruffle”, (< Germanic)). Compare also Lithuanian riēsti (“to unbend, wind, roll”).
Senses: glosses: A contortion.
qualifier: knot theory
glosses: The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
Yule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːl/
ipa: /jʉl/
homophone: you'll (most accents)
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: Yules
form: Yuill
form: Yuille
Etymology: From Middle English yol, youle, from Old English ġeōl (“Christmas, Yule”), either cognate with or from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą. Cognate with Gothic 𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃 (jiuleis); see also Old English ġēola and Old Norse ýlir.
Senses: glosses: Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25ᵗʰ and January 5ᵗʰ).
glosses: A pagan wintertime holiday celebrated by Germanic peoples, particularly the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples, or a modern reconstruction of this holiday celebrated by neo-pagans.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Yulefest
Yule lad
Yule log
Yuletide
Yule tree
Yule wreath
Yule
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːl/
ipa: /jʉl/
homophone: you'll (most accents)
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: Yuill
form: Yuille
Etymology: From Middle English yol, youle, from Old English ġeōl (“Christmas, Yule”), either cognate with or from Old Norse jól, from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą. Cognate with Gothic 𐌾𐌹𐌿𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍃 (jiuleis); see also Old English ġēola and Old Norse ýlir.
Senses: examples: text: In the Countrey churches, at Christmas in the Holy-daies after Prayers, they will dance in the Church, and as they doe dance, they cry (or sing) Yole, Yole, Yole etc.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 5:
glosses: A proclamation of joy at Christmas.
Related terms: jolly
blót
Sabbat
Christmas
zaffre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzæfə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zaffres
form: zaffer
form: zaffree
form: zaffar
form: zaffir
form: zaphara
Etymology: From Italian zaffera, from Latin sapphirus (“sapphire”). Doublet of sapphire.
Senses: examples: text: If Zaffre or Regulus of Cobalt be dissolved in the same manner in spirit of nitre, or aqua fortis, a reddish colour is produced on exposing the paper to heat.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 49:
glosses: A blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore.
glosses: A cobalt blue colour, like that of the pigment.
intensify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: intensifies
form: intensifying
form: intensified
form: intensified
Etymology: From intense + -ify. Compare French intensifier.
Senses: examples: text: to intensify the heat or cold
text: to intensify colors
text: to intensify a photographic negative
text: to intensify animosity
glosses: To render more intense
examples: text: Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.
ref: 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
Synonyms: sense: become intense or more intense
word: intensen
sense: become intense or more intense
word: exalt
Derived terms: reintensify
Related terms: intensification