cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recoronate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoronates
form: recoronating
form: recoronated
form: recoronated
Etymology: From re- + coronate.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Republican convention was predestined to recoronate Reagan, the platform fights, speech making, and general politicking that occurred there revealed that party unity extended only as far as the choice of a nominee.
ref: 1985, Gary R. Orren, “The Nomination Process: Vicissitudes of Candidate Selection”, in Michael Nelson, editor, The Elections of 1984, CQ Press, →ISBN, section “The Republicans in 1984”, page 72:
text: Cant take our bodies / when the bomb lets us in / cant take hearing cant take eyesight / when the bomb opens, / cant take John Kennedy, / cant take the trail up the silent mountain, / cant return prettier, more peaceful / to tend the garden / when the sparrow flies up / in the thorny courtyard, / cant go back home / cant go back home / cant buy out, cant change the election, / cant storm the fences with suitcases of proof / when the chain of command, / when the executives rush to the elevators / for the trade-off, / when the first strike squadron enters Soviet airspace, / cant reswallow our souls / at the moment of detonation / cant recoronate the lamb on the heart’s throne / and pardon the Thief, when the bomb opens / its flower of heavy elements
ref: 1986, Steve Silberman, “from Reconsecrating Ground Zero”, in Michael Mayo, editor, Practising Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry, San Francisco, Calif.: Seismograph Publications, →ISBN, page 184:
text: The only purpose was to recoronate the President and Dick Mason with as little fuss as possible; […]
ref: 1998, Richard North Patterson, chapter 4, in No Safe Place, BCA, page 281:
text: In October 1937 the former king, now Duke of Windsor, visited Germany and was honored by the Nazi Party. Hitler later devised a fanciful plan to recoronate the duke King of England.
ref: 2001, Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivett, editors, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921–1960, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 100:
text: O king! May Varuna, Som, Indra make your people recoronate you and defeating the enemies may you get back your lost glory.
ref: 2006 [revised edition; a. 1972], Rajbali Pandey, Atharvaveda (Sookta-wise Translation), Diamond Books, →ISBN, page 28:
text: “[…] No one could accuse this incumbent of arrogantly sitting back and expecting voters to recoronate him.”
ref: 2007, Wellington Webb, Cindy Brovsky, Wellington Webb: The Man, the Mayor, and the Making of Modern Denver, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 303:
text: It is said he wanted Arundel to recoronate him with the holy oil supposedly given to Thomas Becket by the Virgin Mary, recently discovered among his possessions.
ref: 2013, Malcolm B. Yarnell III, Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
synonyms: recrown
glosses: To coronate again.
Related terms: recoronation
vernadskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed mineral obtained from Vesuvius, later found to be a pseudomorph of antlerite.
pseudomorphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pseudomorph
Loudonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Loudonian
form: most Loudonian
Etymology: From Loudon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), Scottish botanist, garden designer and author.
veldschoen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veldschoens
form: veldschoene
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veldskoen.
veldschoens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldschoen
veldschoene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldschoen
tolype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolypes
Senses: examples: text: When adult female tolypes lay eggs, they cover them with black scales from their own bodies.
ref: 2007, Eric R. Eaton, Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, page 264:
glosses: A moth of the genus Tolype.
tolypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolype
velvet ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet ashes
Senses: synonyms: Arizona ash
Modesto ash
glosses: A North American ash tree, of species Fraxinus velutina.
Arizona ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arizona ashes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of velvet ash (Fraxinus velutina)
synonyms: word: velvet ash
extra: Fraxinus velutina
Modesto ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Modesto ashes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of velvet ash (Fraxinus velutina)
synonyms: word: velvet ash
extra: Fraxinus velutina
velvet ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvet ash
Arizona ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arizona ash
Modesto ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Modesto ash
vegetable caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetable caterpillars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of caterpillar fungus (“Ophiocordyceps sinensis”).
synonyms: word: caterpillar fungus
extra: Ophiocordyceps sinensis
vegetable caterpillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable caterpillar
caterpillar funguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caterpillar fungus
collared lemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collared lemmings
Senses: glosses: Any rodent in the genus Dicrostonyx.
collared lemmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collared lemming
varpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varpu
constitutioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutioner
Varsha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varshas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
varsha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The monsoon season according to the Hindu calendar.
annas in the rupee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the second day he was so dark that he looked to be at least eight annas in the rupee […]
ref: 1930, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 44, page 285:
text: And in the end, all knew that it was true, Rosalie was only four annas in the rupee.
ref: 2007, Indu Sundaresan, The Splendor of Silence, page 98:
glosses: Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent.
blaffert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blafferts
form: blaphart
form: plappart
form: plappert
Senses: glosses: An old European coin.
blafferts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaffert
blood alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood alleys
Senses: glosses: A marble (small ball used in games) made from alabaster or similar material and patterned with red streaks.
blood alleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood alley
Cortlandt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from the surname Van Cortlandt.
Senses: glosses: A town in Westchester County, New York, United States.
blood typing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The determination of the blood type of a sample.
blue-and-yellow macaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-and-yellow macaws
Senses: synonyms: ara
blue-and-gold macaw
glosses: Ara ararauna, a large South American parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow/orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head.
blue-and-gold macaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-and-gold macaws
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue-and-yellow macaw.
synonyms: word: blue-and-yellow macaw
blue dandelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue dandelions
Senses: glosses: Common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
blue dandelions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue dandelion
recoronations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoronation
blue-chipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-chippers
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A blue chip company.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A talented collegiate athlete who is sought by professional sports teams.
blue-chippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-chipper
blue-fronted jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-fronted jays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Steller's jay.
synonyms: word: Steller's jay
bluegrasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluegrassers
Etymology: From bluegrass + -er.
Senses: glosses: A bluegrass musician.
bluegrassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluegrasser
blue-rinsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the hair dyed with a blue rinse.
blue-rinsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blue-rinse
blue sage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants:
Eranthemum nervosum.
glosses: Any of various plants:
Salvia azurea.
glosses: Any of various plants:
Salvia clevelandii.
glosses: Any of various plants:
Salvia nemorosa.
glosses: Any of various plants:
Salvia pachyphylla.
surgical-gowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From surgical gown + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The old woman lovingly polishing a hubcap; the operation on a crash victim that involves surgical-gowned hospital attendants removing the man’s shoes and watch; […]
ref: 2000, Michael Bliss, Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: […] the medics said Big Gulp might even have contractions—in an hour, in a day, a week or a month—a month!—forcing lumpen drowned nacreous soul into the hands of surgical-gowned death-maidens and the fresh mocking air, failed goddess who could not sculpt life from Her offal.
ref: 2006, Bruce Wagner, Memorial, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 481:
text: Occasional rush of make way as a human hooked to machines and entourage of surgical-gowned people run through.
ref: 2022, Stephanie Heit, Psych Murders, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: surgically gowned
glosses: Wearing a surgical gown.
bluft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blufts
form: blufting
form: blufted
form: blufted
Senses: glosses: To blindfold.
blufted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluft
blufts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bluft
blufting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluft
mares' nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mare's nest
boar's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boar's nests
form: boars' nests
Senses: glosses: A very messy or dirty place.
Marechal-Rosin test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Marechal-Rosin test
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Marechal's test.
synonyms: word: Marechal's test
emu parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emu parade
emu patrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emu patrol
emu bobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emu bob
unmeterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + meterable.
Senses: glosses: Not meterable.
meterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meter + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a meterable water supply
glosses: Able to be metered.
Derived terms: unmeterable
Goyder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A locality in Wakefield regional council area, South Australia.
examples: Both of the above places are named after George Goyder.
glosses: A local government area in the Mid North region, South Australia; in full, the Regional Council of Goyder.
Arakelov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Араке́лов (Arakélov), a Russified form of Armenian Առաքելյան (Aṙakʻelyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surname from Armenian
Soviet-Armenian mathematician Suren Arakelov.
Mid North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of South Australia.
lay-brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-brothers
form: lay-brethren
Senses: examples: text: The architecture of the cathedral, and of most of the churches, is likewise ascribed to the lay-brothers of that community.
ref: 1809, “Art. X. History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres; […]. By Samuel Hull Wilcocke […]”, in The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged: […], volume LX, London: […] Becket and Porter, […], page 91:
text: This image was in great veneration some years ago, and the lay-brethren of that convent were very much respected by all the people of that city, because they had given out that there was always one lay-brother in that convent so godly that he was in high esteem and favor with the virgin de la Aurora, but unhappily for that image, for the convent, and for the lay-brethren of it; […]
ref: 1812, Anthony Gavin [i.e., Antonio Gavin], A Master-Key to Popery, Giving a Full Account of All the Customs of the Priests and Friars, and the Rites and Ceremonies of the Popish Religion, in Four Parts, […], […] for the Publisher, page 271:
text: By this writer we are informed that the map was planned, drawn, and magnificently illuminated by one of the lay-brethren of that community, an able cosmographer and ingenious artist, about the year 1450, or a century and a half later than the appearance of our author’s Travels.
ref: 1818, Marco Polo, translated by William Marsden, The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century: Being a Description, by That Early Traveller, of Remarkable Places and Things, in the Eastern Parts of the World, London: […] [F]or the Author, by Cox and Baylis, […], page xli:
text: “Ay, ruin follows us every where,” said an old man, with a spade in his hand, and dressed like a lay-brother, of whose presence, in the vehemence of his exclamation, the Abbot had not been aware—[…]
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 349:
text: Indeed, the continual rounds performed by the lay-brothers of that and by those of the later reformed Franciscans, give these societies an immediate access to the people, not possessed by the Dominicans and other friars who do not go abroad to beg.
ref: 1845, William Spalding, Italy and the Italian Islands, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, 3rd edition, volume III, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, […]; and Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, page 237:
text: It has always struck us that the life of the lay-brethren of that great order which has done so much for the Church of God is one of the most striking features of its history; and this was a lay-brother indeed.
ref: 1873, “[Notices of Books.] The Life of B. Alphonsus Rodrigues, Lay-Brother of the Society of Jesus. By a Lay-Brother of the same Society. […]”, in The Dublin Review, volume XXI, London: Burns, Oates, & Co., […], page 501:
glosses: Archaic form of lay brother.
lay-brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lay-brother
lay-brethren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lay-brother
virginize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: virginizes
form: virginizing
form: virginized
form: virginized
Senses: glosses: To make virgin, give a virgin character to.
wash a blackamoor white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes a blackamoor white
form: washing a blackamoor white
form: washed a blackamoor white
form: washed a blackamoor white
form: wash the blackamoor white
form: wash blackamoors white
Senses: examples: text: It is not my Intention to put myself in a Perspiration concerning any of the Hieroglyphic Emblems, or Monstrosities of the Egyptians, for it is all Labour in vain, or washing a Blackamoor white.
ref: 1778, John van Rymsdyk, Andreas van Rymsdyk, Museum Britannicum […], page 33:
text: And universally, all Endeavours to vindicate a bad Cause, are but making it the worse. The Moral in my Last Paper was intended to caution you against attempting to wash the Blackamoor white: but you are resolved to struggle.
ref: 1786 November 29, “Invisibilis”, “To the Captain”, in Bostonian Scintillations; or, A War of Words […], published 1787, page 30:
text: Folly then announces herself as the bright being whose mere aspect dispels all gloom; her present purpose being a panegyric upon herself, “which, who dares say he has a better claim than I to pronounce? and is not this candour better than a rhetorician’s apish display of his power to wash a blackamoor white?[…]”
ref: 1874, Arthur Lionel Smith, Erasmus: The Lothian Prize Essay, 1874, page 25:
text: Therefore it is washing a blackamoor white to describe the French pre-war policy as peaceful and defensive. It had chained itself to Russia, and as yet nobody has maintained that the latter’s policy was defensive.
ref: 1932 [1930], Johannes Haller, translated by Dora von Beseler, France and Germany: The History of One Thousand Years, page 262:
synonyms: word: wash a negro white
word: wash a nigger white
english: very offensive
translation: very offensive
glosses: To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is; to whitewash.
Related terms: put lipstick on a pig
Sims position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sims positions
form: Sims' position
Etymology: Named after American physician J. Marion Sims (1813–1883).
Senses: examples: text: The conventional positions now generally in use in obstetrics are the modified lithotomy position, with the patient on her back, and to a lesser extent the Sims position, wherein the patient reclines on her side, the upper knee being drawn up on the abdomen.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical position in which the patient lies on the left side with the right hip and knees bent and the left hip and lower extremity straight, often used for rectal and vaginal examinations.
wikipedia: J. Marion Sims
inediate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈiːdi.ɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈiːd͡ʒi.ɪt/
rhymes: -iɪt
Senses: glosses: Not requiring food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.
inediate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈiːdi.ɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈiːd͡ʒi.ɪt/
rhymes: -iɪt
Forms: form: inediates
Senses: glosses: One who does not require food (and, in some cases, water) to survive.
Related terms: inedia
washing a blackamoor white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wash a blackamoor white
washed a blackamoor white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash a blackamoor white
washes a blackamoor white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wash a blackamoor white
paraklausithyron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraklausithyrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paraclausithyron.
midforceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midforceps
form: mid forceps
form: mid-forceps
Etymology: From mid- + forceps.
Senses: examples: text: Those who are using block anaesthesia are familiar with the fact that the mother has lost the expulsive urge, midforceps are not unusual and outlet forceps are almost routine with a block.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: high forceps
low forceps
outlet forceps
glosses: An obstetrical method for delivery of a baby using a forceps when the head is already engaged and the station is above +2 cm (or, formerly, when the head is already engaged but the criteria for low forceps are not met).
Thomas test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A physical assessment procedure to evaluate the flexibility and mobility of the hip flexor.
herd-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herd-like
form: most herd-like
Senses: examples: text: Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—“forty feeding like one.”
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Quaker’s Meeting”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 110:
text: Hitler also exploited the increased susceptibility of people when they were weary by gathering them in the evenings, and when they were in large crowds, and hence more inclined to respond according to a herd-like instinct.
ref: 1997, Rosalind W[right] Picard, “Emotions Are Physical and Cognitive”, in Affective Computing, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, published 2000, →ISBN, section I (Envisioning Affective Computing), page 42:
text: First question with regard to hierarchy: how solitary or how herd-like someone is (in the latter case his value lies in the qualities which secure the existence of his herd, his type, in the former case, in what separates, isolates, defends and makes it possible to be solitary.)
ref: 2008, Herman W. Siemens, “Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’”, in Herman W. Siemens, Vasti Roodt, editors, Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section II (Nietzsche and Democracy/Nietzsche contra Democracy), subsection 3 (Nietzsche’s equivocal relation to democracy), page 259:
glosses: Alternative form of herdlike.
midpelvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midpelvises
Etymology: From mid- + pelvis.
Senses: examples: text: At the midpelvis, transverse narrowing may result either from convergent sidewalls or prominent spines or both.
ref: 1963 May 1, David N. Danforth, Averon H. Ellis, “Midforceps delivery—a vanishing art?”, in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, volume 86, number 1, →DOI, page 32:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A pelvic plane defined by the ischial spines, the lower edge of the pubic symphysis, and the boundary of the fourth and fifth sacral vertebra.
Related terms: midpelvic
officer-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more officer-like
form: most officer-like
Senses: examples: text: […] for from her husband’s representations of me, she had formed a notion that she was to see a fine, tall, officer-like looking man (I use her very words); […]
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: The Secretary of Legation came next, then Captain Fairfax, commander of the Enchantress, and then by degrees stepped forward more tall, officer-like gentlemen—majors, lieutenants, colonels, captains, &c., whose names I need not mention.
ref: 1876, Robert Brewin, “Visits and Visitors”, in Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, Wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches Missionary in Eastern Africa, London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., […], pages 164–165:
text: Understanding how divergent codes of masculinity informed ideas about officer-like conduct and gentlemanliness therefore reveals the values, assumptions, and taboos in military culture.
ref: 2022, Matthew Barrett, “Introduction”, in Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914–45, University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of officerlike.
Crowner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crowners
Etymology: Occupational surname for a coroner, from Middle English crouner.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Dajani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dajanis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دجاني, a Jordanian surname of unexplained origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Dajanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dajani
Crowners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crowner
Czechowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Czechowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Czechowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Czechowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Czechowski
Datzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Datz
tigress-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tigress-like
form: most tigress-like
Senses: examples: text: Extinct are those smiles, with that beautiful countenance, with which (for thou wert the Nireus formosus of the school), in the days of thy maturer waggery, thou didst disarm the wrath of infuriated town-damsel, who, incensed by provoking pinch, turning tigress-like round, suddenly converted by thy angel-look, exchanged the half-formed terrible “bl⁠⸺,” for a gentler greeting—“bless thy handsome face!”
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 49:
text: A positive ‘effect’ causes us to infer experientially a positive cause. A negative ‘effect’ causes us to infer there is no such cause as we supposed existed. Lady Macbeth declares to her husband that if he will but ‘look up clear,’ she will do all else. Here is a positive ‘effect,’ in which we read such tigress-like ferocity that we are persuaded she can and will do the deed alone. But after we believe and expect, she proves even with the help of drink—unequal to the murder.
ref: 1893, L[ucius] A[delno] Sherman, “Notes”, in Analytics of Literature: A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose and Poetry, Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, page 416:
text: One moment she is frank,—light-hearted, and just like a bright American girl; the next, without any apparent reason, she has changed into a tigress-like creature, cold and mysterious, with a foreign grace that makes one fear her.
ref: 1908, L. C. Violett Houk, The Girl in Question: A Story of Not So Long Ago, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of tigresslike.
Decelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Decelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Decelle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Dishmon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dishmons
Etymology: Variant of Dishman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dishmons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dishmon
lipocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the buildup of fat in the heart.
Christeson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Christesons
Etymology: Variant of similar surnames, such as Christerson, Christison, or Christensen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wash a negro white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes a negro white
form: washing a negro white
form: washed a negro white
form: washed a negro white
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wash a blackamoor white.
synonyms: word: wash a blackamoor white
Egerts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Egert
five stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fivestones (“the game of jacks”).
Christesons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christeson
HEI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HEIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of higher education institution.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of high-explosive incendiary.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of hot-carrier injection.
glosses: Initialism of human-environment interaction.
glosses: Initialism of high-efficiency incandescent (“a type of light bulb”).
HEI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Healthy Eating Index.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of high energy ignition.
HEIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HEI
Colandrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Colandreas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Colandrea.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Harrington farthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harrington farthings
Etymology: King James I of England granted a royal patent to Lord John Harrington in 1613 to produce such tokens.
Senses: glosses: A small English copper alloy token worth a farthing.
Harrington farthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harrington farthing
Colandreas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Colandrea
Chiaras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chiara
skrunkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skrunklier
form: skrunkliest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrunkly.
skrunkly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skrunklies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrunkly.
scrunklier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scrunkly: more scrunkly
scrunkliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scrunkly: most scrunkly
scrunklies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunkly
skrunklier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skrunkly: more skrunkly
skrunkliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skrunkly: most skrunkly
skrunklies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skrunkly
purple passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Gynura.
Bucknam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bucknams
Etymology: Variant of Buckenham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brusco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bruscos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Brusco.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
warm space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm spaces
Senses: synonyms: warm hub
glosses: A place that members of the public can visit free of charge for warmth, companionship, and possibly food, established in response to the 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis.
warm spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warm space
Cooners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cooner
Bucknams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bucknam
Bruscos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brusco
badge in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: badges in
form: badging in
form: badged in
form: badged in
Senses: antonyms: badge out
glosses: To check in to a workplace or restricted area by showing or electronically scanning one's badge.
evidenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evidenceable
form: most evidenceable
form: evidencable
Etymology: From evidence + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The colors, shapes, and biological conditions of the plants as well as their spatial, temporal, and causal relations with other objects are natural determinations and evidenceable.
ref: 1995, Don E. Marietta Jr., Lester Embree, editors, Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Activism, Lanham, M.D.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, pages 59–60:
text: Therefore it is important in consent processes that participants have had the opportunity to become informed about the research and their role within it, to ask questions and clarify concerns, and that this process is recordable and evidencable in some way.
ref: 2012, Tristram Hooley, John Marriott, Jane Wellens, What Is Online Research?: Using the Internet for Social Science Research, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Capable of being evidenced; demonstrable, provable.
Derived terms: evidenceableness
evidenceably
evidencable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evidencable
form: most evidencable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of evidenceable.
HAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HAAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high-altitude airship.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of haloacetic acid.
HAA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Honolulu Academy of Arts.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Healthy Americans Act.
HAA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of heavy anti-aircraft.
HAAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HAA
Shinfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shinfields
Etymology: From the Old English personal name sciene (“bright”) + feld (“field”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7368).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Shinfields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shinfield
Buckenhams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Buckenham
Sopwiths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sopwith
northern anchovy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern anchovies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Californian anchovy.
synonyms: word: Californian anchovy
northern anchovies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern anchovy
Californian anchovy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Californian anchovies
Senses: synonyms: northern anchovy
glosses: Engraulis mordax, an anchovy found in the Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia.
Californian anchovies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Californian anchovy
huldee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For yellow dyeing the cloth is steeped during two hours in a vessel containing half a seer of huldee and a tola of papur khar ground together.
ref: 1870, John Matheson, England to Delhi: A Narrative of Indian Travel, page 477:
glosses: turmeric
oftens
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of often.
synonyms: word: often
any which way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In any direction, or according to any method.
Related terms: every which way
out of gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: Of cargo: that cannot be loaded in a standard dry container due to its excessive dimensions or weight.
examples: text: During the year 1949, well over 7,500 exceptional and out-of-gauge loads were carried in the London Midland Region of British Railways. Among them were railway coaches for Egypt, locomotives for Ireland, and specially-constructed wagons and large pieces of machinery for various parts of the world.
ref: 1950 February, “Notes and News: Out-of-Gauge Loads, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 140:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of rail vehicles, or loads carried on freight vehicles: where dimensions exceed the loading gauge or structure gauge for a particular line or route.
aphidlion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphidlions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aphid lion.
aphid wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphid wolves
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aphid lion.
synonyms: word: aphid lion
aphidlions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphidlion
aphid wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphid wolf
aphid lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphid lions
form: aphidlion
Senses: synonyms: aphid wolf
glosses: The larva of the green lacewing.
aphid lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphid lion
apple blossom weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple blossom weevils
Senses: glosses: A weevil of species Anthonomus pomorum, that is a univoltine herbivore of apple trees.
SBFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sooty blotch and flyspeck.
apple summer disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sooty blotch and flyspeck.
synonyms: word: sooty blotch and flyspeck
sooty blotch and flyspeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: apple summer disease
word: SBFS
glosses: A plant disease caused by a complex of saprophytic fungi which colonize the epicuticular wax layer of the apple and other trees and vines.
apple martini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple martinis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of appletini.
synonyms: word: appletini
apple martinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple martini
martini shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martini shot
apple honey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple honeys
Senses: glosses: Honey produced by bees from apple blossom nectar.
glosses: A syrup made with apples, used as a sweetener.
apple honeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple honey
flat stick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flat stick
form: most flat stick
form: flatstick
Senses: examples: text: I've been digging around for some stuff for you. Unfortunately we're a bit pushed for time at the moment as we're heading back to the homeland—New Zealand—via Britain & Europe—so what with packing our stuff up and getting that off and trying to make the odd arrangement for travel we've been "flat stick."
ref: 1970 September, Peter Hansen, “Summer in Fort Resolution”, in Whole Earth Catalog, Point Foundation, page 24, column 2:
text: "Only thing is, I'm flat stick. Can't get onto it until the end of the month. You wanna courtesy car?"
ref: 2010, Michael Brown, Finding the Field: An Adventure of Body, Mind and Spirit, →ISBN, page 142:
text: You start your career through sevens. It's such a great way to learn the game. It's flat stick and you have to make decisions under pressure. It's a fast-track to becoming a very good rugby player.
ref: 2017 January 21, George Gregan, quotee, “Rugby: Gregan sticks with Cheika”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: NZME, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023:
text: At 9am on a Wednesday morning it's flat stick at Jet Patel's cafe, Kanteen. It's the second rush of the morning – a bunch of Wellington office workers already got their fix a few hours before.
ref: 2022 August 6, Bess Manson, “Hospo workers busting a gut to keep our public living rooms open”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2022:
glosses: Extremely busy or fast-paced.
flat stick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flat stick
form: most flat stick
form: flatstick
Senses: examples: text: Wade placed him in a large plastic rubbish bin full of sea water and off we went flat stick back to the El Torito near the Sand Garden. Howard tagged Sammy and let him go in this alien world, Walt filming the reactions of the other males to this stranger.
ref: 1975, Wade Doak, Sharks and Other Ancestors: Patterns of Survival in the South Seas, Auckland […]: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 303:
text: He then drives us flat stick into the setting sun to home.
ref: 2012, Gail Brenssell-Rakuraku, Go Kick Arse Ma!, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: As quickly as possible; at top speed.
flat stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat sticks
form: flatstick
Senses: examples: text: As I walked (it was time for a break) off the fourteenth green, it hit me what I'd just done: I'd just birdied five holes in a row while running—without a putter. I've never birdied those holes consecutively before or since that moment, and I've played them dozens of times with my trusty flatstick in the bag and plenty of time to read the green.
ref: 2007, Christopher Smith, I've Got 99 Swing Thoughts but "Hit the Ball" Ain't One, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Cameron Smith's 150th Open Championship came, above all else, with his putter. And deservedly so. His flat stick caught fire on Sunday, helping him onto five birdies to start the back nine and a 64 seize the trophy from Rory McIlroy's grasp.
ref: 2022 July 17, Luke Kerr-Dineen, “How the beer-loving Cameron Smith lost weight — and gained distance”, in Golf Magazine, New York, N.Y.: EB Golf Media LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf club intended for putting; a putter.
examples: text: Flat sticks are very uncommon in nature—in fact, tree branches usually tend to be rather round.
text: If the seam still refuses to stay flat, it will have to be held down, giving the adhesive more time to cure. One way is to press a flat stick or board against the seam and hold it in place with a heavy chair or other piece of furniture.
ref: 1992 February 15, Gene Austin, “How to mend vinyl wallpaper seams”, in The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, M.D.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2021:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, stick.
flatstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatsticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flat stick (“a putter”).
flat sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flat stick
flatsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatstick
beach day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach days
Senses: glosses: A day when the weather is ideal for going to the beach.
almond eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond eyes
Senses: glosses: An almond-shaped eye.
Related terms: almond-eyed
almond eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond eye
all-sliming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of grinding ore down to a slimy consistency so that it will pass through a screen.
mind eraser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mind erasers
Senses: glosses: A Black Russian cocktail topped up with carbonated water.
mind erasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mind eraser
almond moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almond moths
Senses: synonyms: tropical warehouse moth
glosses: Cadra cautella, a moth that infests stored grains and fruits.
almond moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almond moth
tropical warehouse moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical warehouse moths
Senses: glosses: Synonym of almond moth.
synonyms: word: almond moth
tropical warehouse moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical warehouse moth
alpinias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpinia
Churano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Toronto.
ambilanak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of marriage in Sumatra by which the husband is taken into the wife's family as a subordinate.
Codava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Codavas
form: Codava
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kodava.
Codavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Codava
angel's hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angel hair (“type of pasta”).
glosses: Alternative form of angel hair (“sweet Portuguese food”).
anilo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anilao.
academic weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academic weapon
antimachismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + machismo.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to machismo.
apple maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple maggots
Senses: synonyms: railroad worm
glosses: Rhagoletis pomonella, a species of fruit fly that is a pest on apples.
apple maggots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple maggot
architectural concrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: architectural concretes
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Concrete that is exposed to view because it forms part of a surface, and may therefore need special attention given to its appearance.
architectural concretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of architectural concrete
Glandon blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Glandon blues
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arctic blue (“type of butterfly”).
synonyms: word: Arctic blue
extra: type of butterfly
Glandon blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glandon blue
Pura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Tarlac, Philippines.
arcwelder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcwelders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arc welder.
arcwelders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcwelder
arc welder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arc welders
form: arcwelder
Senses: glosses: One who arc welds.
arc welders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc welder
arcwaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcwallers
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of arcwall machine.
synonyms: word: arcwall machine
arcwallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcwaller
as always
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: As always, the sun will rise again.
text: As always, Joe was late for school.
text: As always, Doncaster has plenty of railway interest.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:
coordinate_terms: as usual[as usual#Adverb|its synonyms]]>
glosses: In the way that invariably happens, either literally or hyperbolically.
as big as life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of as large as life.
synonyms: word: as large as life
astral crown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astral crowns
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A gold crown surmounted with eight low points. The centrals and laterals points are topped with a star, with an unspecified number of points, between two wings. It is mounted atop the shields of coats of arms of units belonging to some air forces or the personal arms of its distinguished commanders.
astral crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astral crown
yiddishkayt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yiddishkeit.