cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
croft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔf/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɒft/
enpr: krôft
ipa: /kɹɔft/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɑft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: crofts
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...
ref: 1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)
text: Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
ref: 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 139:
synonyms: quillet
glosses: An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.
Derived terms: croftland
goodman's croft
Moorcroft
toft and croft
croft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔf/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɒft/
enpr: krôft
ipa: /kɹɔft/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɑft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: crofts
form: crofting
form: crofted
form: crofted
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
glosses: To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
Derived terms: crofter
crofting
croft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔf/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɒft/
enpr: krôft
ipa: /kɹɔft/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɑft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: crofts
Etymology: From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.
Senses: glosses: An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
glosses: A cave or cavern.
Derived terms: undercroft
croft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔf/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɒft/
enpr: krôft
ipa: /kɹɔft/
enpr: krŏft
ipa: /kɹɑft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: crofts
Etymology: A variant of carafe.
Senses: glosses: A carafe.
irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪɚnz/
ipa: /ˈaɪənz/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)nz
Senses: glosses: plural of iron
irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪɚnz/
ipa: /ˈaɪənz/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)nz
Senses: examples: text: He’s been clapped in irons!
glosses: Shackles.
examples: text: Alice steered the boat into the wind, so we were stuck in irons.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A lack of forward motion.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The stirrups.
Derived terms: eating irons
fighting irons
in irons
irons in the fire
leg irons
irons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪɚnz/
ipa: /ˈaɪənz/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)nz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iron
dickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪkɪnz/
ipa: /ˈdɪkənz/
rhymes: -ɪkənz
Etymology: Origin: 1590–1600; apparently a fanciful use of the proper name Dicken, diminutive form of Dick.
Senses: examples: text: She can go to the dickens for what she said.
text: You scared the dickens out of me.
text: “Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”
ref: 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (8:49 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: The devil.
examples: text: Why the dickens did he do that?
text: We had the dickens of a row.
text: For quotations using this term, see the dickens.
glosses: In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
examples: text: Hugh considered saying, Then I guess I'll just have to kick you a few times instead, you frog son of a bitch. Then he thought of that fat bastard Keeton, handing him a pink slip for kicking up dickens in the local tavern.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: And lastly, thanks to my children, Dutch and Tallulah, for allowing me to see the magic of everything I love about popular culture anew through their eyes. This one is for you two dickens!
ref: 2013, Robert C. Sickels, “Acknowledgments”, in 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: A disturbance or row.
Synonyms: word: on earth
word: the hell
word: the devil
word: the heck
word: the fuck
Derived terms: play the dickens with
the dickens you say
Related terms: Dickensian
take something in one's stride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes something in one's stride
form: taking something in one's stride
form: took something in one's stride
form: taken something in one's stride
form: take something in stride
Senses: glosses: Not to allow oneself to be set back, daunted, upset or embarrassed by unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
propanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An IUPAC systematic name for the chemical originally named propionic acid. The prop- prefix is derived from propionic.
Senses: glosses: A colourless liquid with a sharp unpleasant odour; produced by the bacterial breakdown of fatty acids and therefore found in sweat and some cheese.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The short chain aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃CH₂COOH, used as a preservative, and in the manufacture of many chemical compounds.
Synonyms: E280 when used as a preservative
propionic acid
Related terms: propionate
propionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French acide propionique, coined by chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) ("first") and πίων (píōn) ("fat"), because it was the smallest carboxylic acid that exhibited the properties of the other fatty acids, such as producing an oily layer when salted out of water and having a soapy potassium salt.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound with the formula CH₃CH₂COOH, a naturally occurring carboxylic acid with a pungent odor.
wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Synonyms: propanoic acid
E280 when used as a preservative
Derived terms: isobutylphenyl propionic acid
propionate
The widely used prop- prefix
when pigs fly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: when pigs can fly
Etymology: Referencing the fact that pigs do not have wings and cannot fly.
Senses: synonyms: word: at latter Lammas
word: at no time
word: in the reign of Queen Dick
word: ne'er
word: never
word: never ever
word: not while pussy's a cat
word: on the second Tuesday of the week
word: sine die
word: when Hell freezes over
word: when pigs fly
word: when two Sundays come together
word: when two Sundays meet
glosses: Never.
Related terms: camel through the eye of a needle
a cold day in Hell
ad kalendas Graecas
first of never
never in a month of Sundays
snowball's chance in hell
when Hell freezes over
propionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propionates
Etymology: From propionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of propionic acid.
Synonyms: propanoate
Derived terms: amphopropionate
aryloxyphenoxypropionate
calcium propionate
dimethylsulfoniopropionate
dipropionate
estrapronicate
polypropionate
propionigenesis
pyrogallic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyrogallol.
synonyms: word: pyrogallol
trihydroxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + hydroxy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Three hydroxy groups in a molecule
pyrogallol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + gallic + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: pyrogallic acid
glosses: A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,3-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used as a photographic developer.
Related terms: pyrogallate
phloroglucinol 1
3
5-trihydroxybenzene
hydroxyquinol 1
2
4-trihydroxybenzene
mastoiditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastoiditides
form: mastoidites
Etymology: From mastoid + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
Derived terms: otomastoiditis
phloroglucinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phloroglucinols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used as a bone decalcifying agent.
Derived terms: phlorotannin
polyphloroglucinol
Related terms: pyrogallol 1
2
3-trihydroxybenzene
hydroxyquinol 1
4-trihydroxybenzene
hydroxyquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy- + quinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a poisonous trihydroxy phenol, 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene, C₆H₃(OH)₃, used in organic synthesis
Related terms: pyrogallol 1
2
3-trihydroxybenzene
phloroglucinol 1
3
5-trihydroxybenzene
fish farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish farms
Etymology: fish (“vertebrate animal that lives in water”) + farm (“place to raise livestock”)
Senses: glosses: A place or facility dedicated to the raising of fish or other seafood for sale.
Synonyms: word: fishery
word: piscary
sense: small
word: fishtank
word: fish tank
sense: medium
word: fish pond
word: piscina
word: piscine
Related terms: sense: act
word: fish farming
sense: act
word: aquaculture
sense: act
word: pisciculture
sense: act
english: in the open sea
translation: in the open sea
word: mariculture
word: piscinal
word: fish farmer
word: pisciculturist
word: aquaculturist
word: mariculturist
yikes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jaɪks/
rhymes: -aɪks
Forms: form: yipes
Etymology: Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown.
Alternatively, it may be derived from yipes, which is an earlier exclamation of similar usage as yikes (and is often considered to be an alternative form of yikes). Yipes may be derived from yipe, which itself may be derived from the yie sound often used to express pain or dismay, with the -p adding onto it in the same way as yep and nope. Or, yipes may be derived from the yipping sound that dogs make.
Or, possibly a conflation of both of the previous.
Senses: examples: text: Yikes! A monster!
text: Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!
glosses: Expression of shock and alarm.
examples: text: John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!
glosses: Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.
Synonyms: sense: expressing unpleasant surprise
word: eek
english: Wow!; Note: can also be used for a pleasant surprise
translation: Wow!; Note: can also be used for a pleasant surprise
word: wow
Derived terms: big yikes
yikes on bikes
Related terms: sheesh
yeesh
eek
uh-oh
jeez
house wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house wines
Senses: glosses: A relatively inexpensive wine sold in a restaurant, often by the glass as well as by the bottle or unmarked carafe; both red and white are normally offered.
whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: h
enpr: wīlz
ipa: /(h)waɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
homophone: wiles (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.
Senses: examples: text: Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity.
ref: 1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood, published 1988, page 14:
glosses: sometimes; at times
examples: text: the good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: meanwhile
whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: note: h
enpr: wīlz
ipa: /(h)waɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
homophone: wiles (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From while (noun) + -s (adverbial suffix); compare whilst.
Senses: examples: text: Portia: […]Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: for it so falls out,
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: while, whilst
Related terms: to-whiles
whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: h
enpr: wīlz
ipa: /(h)waɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
homophone: wiles (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of while
whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: h
enpr: wīlz
ipa: /(h)waɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
homophone: wiles (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of while
crofter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crofters
Etymology: From croft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1795: Sir John Sinclair
...yet even these sub-divisions are diminished by a still lower order of occupiers (if such they may be deemed) under the name of acre men or crofters. This extraordinary class of cultivators appear to have been quartered upon the tenants after the farms were split down into their smallest size: the crofters being a species of sub-tenants on the farms to which they are respectively attached
text: The passage is remarkable, as proving that at the end of the eighteenth century the crofters were not only hardly recognized but were at the very bottom of the scale in the rural economy of the Central Highlands.
ref: 1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History:
text: Many of the crofters on Fair Isle and Shetland know as much about the birds as the birders.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 47:
glosses: One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
Derived terms: crofterization
fibula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪb.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɪb.jəl.ə/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə
Forms: form: fibulae
form: fibulas
form: fibulæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.
ref: 1949, N. P. Toll, “Fibulae”, in Teresa G. Frisch, N. P. Toll, edited by M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff, A. R. Bellinger, F. E. Brown, N. P. Toll, and C. B. Welles, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Part IV. The Bronze Objects: Fascicle 1. Pierced Bronzes, Enameled Bronzes, and Fibulae, number Final Report IV, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, Bow Fibulae, page 56:
glosses: An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: calf bone
glosses: The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg.
Derived terms: femur fibula ulna syndrome
fibular
fibulate
fibulectomy
fibulo-
fibul-
tibiofibula
Related terms: fibularis
peroneal
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of footnote.
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNs
Etymology: Initialism of Fabrique Nationale.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
examples: text: I know your purse say D and G, holdin' my FN
ref: 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly:
glosses: Diminutive of FN Five-seven (the pistol derivative of the FN-FAL)
Synonyms: FN-FAL
FAL
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fibronectin.
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNs
Senses: examples: text: A FN diagnosis, on the other hand, can give a patient the illusion of good health (and the patient will not get the necessary treatment).
ref: 2015 July 24, Krzysztof J. Cios, Dat T. Nguyen, “Data mining and data visualization”, in Susan J Henly, editor, Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research, Routledge, →ISBN, page 316:
text: From the optics of fairness, we care more about FPs than FNs because it's more unfair to put an innocent person in prison than it is to leave a guilty person in the streets.
ref: 2021 March 26, Serg Masís, Interpretable Machine Learning with Python: Learn to build interpretable high-performance models with hands-on real-world examples, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 291:
coordinate_terms: TN
TP
FP
glosses: Initialism of false negative.
FN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of falling number.
Related terms: green FN
meals on wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A service that delivers food to those unable to cook for themselves, such as the elderly and people with disabilities.
meals on wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Meals on wheels are served at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Twenty-four volunteers delivered approximately 1,000 meals in 1989, for an average of about 6 or 7 clients per day.
ref: 1992, Gallatin National Forest (N.F.), East Boulder Mine Project:
glosses: The foods delivered by this service.
Monmouthshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒn.məθˌʃɪəɹ/
/ˈmɒn.məθ.ʃəɹ/
Etymology: From Monmouth + shire.
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of England and Wales, bordered by to the east by Gloucestershire, to the northeast by Herefordshire, to the north by Brecknockshire, to the west by Glamorganshire and to the south by the Bristol Channel. It was part of England until renamed Gwent and taken into Wales in 1974.
glosses: A county and local government principal area of Wales which replaced Gwent, bordered by the Forest of Dean, Herefordshire, Powys, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Newport.
when Hell freezes over
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "Will you go out with him?"
"When Hell freezes over!"
text: "When will the sun shine in Dunedin?"
"When Hell freezes over!"
synonyms: word: at latter Lammas
word: at no time
word: in the reign of Queen Dick
word: ne'er
word: never
word: never ever
word: not while pussy's a cat
word: on the second Tuesday of the week
word: sine die
word: when Hell freezes over
word: when pigs fly
word: when two Sundays come together
word: when two Sundays meet
glosses: Never; not in this lifetime or a time in the unforeseeably distant future; not a chance.
Related terms: cold day in Hell
snowball's chance in hell
until hell freezes over
all hell breaks loose
first of never
when pigs fly
Tallahassee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtæləˈhæsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Etymology: Borrowed from Creek tvlvhasse, pronounced [talaháːssi], from etvlw (“town”) + vhassē (“old”). Compare Tulsa, from the same or a similar term.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Florida, United States and the county seat of Leon County.
Brythonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈθɒnɪk/
Etymology: From Brython + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A Celtic language.
Brythonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪˈθɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more Brythonic
form: most Brythonic
Etymology: From Brython + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Brythonic language subgroup, a set of Celtic languages.
Related terms: Breton
Brittonic
Welsh
Cornish
traditional county
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditional counties
Senses: glosses: A county without direct administrative functions. e.g. Yorkshire, Perthshire, Dublin or Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
glosses: any of the historic divisions of Great Britain no longer used for administrative purposes in favour of ceremonial counties and administrative counties
glosses: any of the historical sub-national divisions used for the purposes of geographic demarcation, local government, and sport.
Heinz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Forms: form: Heinzs
form: Heinzes
Senses: examples: text: Three weeks after the couple and their young daughters, Amelia and Jane, had moved into the home, the Heinzs began to suspect their dream house contained the stuff that nightmares are made of.
ref: 2010, Carolyn Molnar, Compassionate Messenger: True Stories from a Psychic Medium, page 151:
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: Heinz 57
Heinz body
Heinz dilemma
Heinz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Forms: form: Heinzes
form: heinz
Etymology: From the H. J. Heinz Company's "57 Varieties" slogan.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A five and a seven as starting cards in Texas hold 'em
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A full-cover bet of doubles and upwards, consisting of six selections in 57 bets.
cripes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪps/
rhymes: -aɪps
Etymology: Euphemistically for Christ.
Senses: glosses: A mild curse or expression of surprise.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: for cripes sake
sliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪst
Senses: examples: text: sliced bread
glosses: That has been cut into slices.
sliced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slice
Derived terms: best thing since sliced bread
best thing since sliced pan
greatest thing since sliced bread
sliced bread
sliced pan
PIG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIGs
form: P.I.G.
Senses: glosses: Persuade, Identify, GOTV, an electoral technique commonly employed in the United Kingdom.
glosses: Police in gear.
glosses: Acronym of pipe inspection gauge.
saltus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltus
form: saltuses
Etymology: From Latin saltus (“a leap”). Doublet of salto.
Senses: glosses: A break of continuity in time.
glosses: A leap from premises to conclusion.
FORTRAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The brothers wrote the machine’s application software in FORTRAN, a programming language that is “a dinosaur from the late fifties,” Gregory said, adding, “There is always new life in this dinosaur.”
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fortran, particularly its early forms.
colour triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour triangles
form: color triangle
Senses: glosses: A plane triangular graph on which are drawn all the colours that can be made by the additive mixing of red blue and green; these three primary colours are at the apices, while white is in the middle.
Related terms: colour wheel
color triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color triangles
form: colour triangle
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colour triangle.
tights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Etymology: From tight.
Senses: synonyms: word: pantyhose
glosses: A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A similar, non-sheer garment worn by dancers of either sex, especially by ballet dancers.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
topics: business
mining
glosses: In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.
truth table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truth tables
Senses: examples: text: Each row of a truth table corresponds to a distinct interpretation. The columns on the left side assign truth values to the letters (of the truth table's given formula), and the column on the right side shows the truth value for the entire formula, which computably depends on the truth values of its letters.
text: Each of these identities can be proven by simply creating a fully-enumerated truth table for the expression on the left (of the equality sign, not of the table) and another for the expression on the right. Afterward, the truth table shows that they produce the same result for every possible input combination. For this article's purposes, this approach will be done for each identity. […] Below (Tables 5 and 6) you'll see two truth tables for dominance of 1 under OR and dominance of 0 under AND, respectively.
ref: 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A table showing all possible truth values for an expression, derived from the truth values of its components.
Hypernyms: table
Related terms: truth tree
zygomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + -morphic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bilateral symmetry.
nucleoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleoplasms
Etymology: From nucleo- + plasm.
Senses: glosses: The protoplasm of a cell nucleus
Synonyms: karyoplasm
kytoplasma
Derived terms: nucleoplasmic
Related terms: nucleoplasmatic
Hants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Etymology: From Old English Hāntesċire, the Domesday spelling of Old English Hāmtūnsċīr, from Old English Hāmtūn + scir (“district”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Hampshire
wikipedia: Domesday Book
Derived terms: East Hants
Related terms: Northants
lozenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈlɑz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈlɔz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: lozenges
form: losenge
Etymology: From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin. See the Old French for more.
Senses: examples: text: Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167:
text: How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vani8ty Fair:
text: The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 14:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: word: diamond
hypernyms: rhombus
qualifier: shapes
glosses: A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
ref: 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012:
synonyms: pastille
throat pastille
troche
lozzy
glosses: A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
Derived terms: conversation lozenge
lozenge coach
lozengelike
lozengeways
lozengewise
throat lozenge
Related terms: lozengy
lozenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈlɑz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈlɔz.ɪnd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: lozenges
form: lozenging
form: lozenged
form: lozenged
form: losenge
Etymology: From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin. See the Old French for more.
Senses: glosses: To form into the shape of a lozenge.
glosses: To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
animat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ɪ.mət/
/ˈæn.ə.mət/
Forms: form: animats
Etymology: Coined by Scientist Stewart W. Wilson in 1985 as a blend of animal + material. Whether the coincidences with Latin animat and/or a nominalization of Middle English animat were intended is unclear.
Senses: glosses: An artificial animal.
wikipedia: Latin
Middle English
Related terms: robot
nights
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nightes, from Old English nihtes (“at night, by night”), equivalent to night + -s (adverbial genitive suffix). Cognate with Old Frisian nachtes, Old Saxon nahtes, German nachts (all “nights, at night”).
Senses: examples: text: I work nights, my brother only afternoons, and my son days.
synonyms: by night
antonyms: days#Etymology_2
glosses: At night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis).
nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of night
kith and kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English kith and kynne.
Literally, friends (“kith”) and family (“kin”).
Senses: examples: text: I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2:
text: Surely all those abominable rebels must see that their obstinacy and treachery redounds upon their own kith and kin.
ref: 1916, Baroness Orczy, Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders:
glosses: Both friends and family.
Related terms: kith and kine
fess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: fesses
form: fessing
form: fessed
form: fessed
form: 'fess
Etymology: Clipping of confess.
Senses: glosses: To confess; to admit.
Derived terms: fess up
fess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: fesses
form: fesse
form: feese
Etymology: From Middle English fesse, from Old French fesse, an alteration of faisse, from Latin fascia. Cognate with fajita, fascia, and fascism.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral—Hum! Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Norton, published 2005, page 294:
text: The space where the arms of Wolsey used to be is being repainted with his own newly granted arms: azure, on a fess between three lions rampant or, a rose gules, barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 420:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
hypernyms: ordinary
coordinate_terms: bar
barrulet
closet
glosses: A horizontal band across the middle of the shield.
Derived terms: fess point
fessways
fesswise
per fess
fess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: examples: text: Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:
glosses: Proud; conceited.
glosses: Lively; active; strong.
glosses: Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce.
constructivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructivisms
Etymology: From constructive + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
examples: text: There is no single theory of constructivism. In fact, there are many shades and varieties of constructivism spanning a range of perspectives. There is also no single individual who can be identified as the founder of constructivism. In fact, rather than tracing a linear development along one line of philosophical thought, constructivism seems to circumscribe a set of thinkers, theories and approaches that spring from a plethora of historical and cultural origins.
ref: 2000, Donald Kiraly, A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education, St. Jerome Publishing, p. 18
text: According to constructivism, all systems are artificial abstractions. They are not made by nature and presented to use to be discovered, but we construct them by our perceptual and mental capabilities with the domain of our experiences.
ref: 2001, George J. Klir, Facets of Systems Science:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
Derived terms: anticonstructivism
social constructivism
socioconstructivism
Related terms: constructionism
regalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regalos
form: regalio
Etymology: From Italian and Spanish regalo.
Senses: glosses: A gift of fine foods and/or wines.
blazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪzən/
rhymes: -eɪzən
Forms: form: blazons
Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).
Senses: examples: text: ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
ref: 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
examples: text: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
text: We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...
ref: 1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
examples: text: He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...]
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XV, page 264:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
examples: text: Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
ref: 1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects:
text: Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
Derived terms: blazonment
blazonry
blazon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪzən/
rhymes: -eɪzən
Forms: form: blazons
form: blazoning
form: blazoned
form: blazoned
Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).
Senses: examples: text: the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English
ref: 10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104
text: After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto
ref: 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
glosses: To describe a coat of arms.
examples: text: O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act VI, scene iii]:
text: There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
ref: 1774, John Trumbull, An Elegy on the Times:
text: 18th century, William Cowper, Retirement
In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
Retires to blazon his own worthless name
glosses: To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
glosses: To display conspicuously or publicly.
glosses: To shine; to be conspicuous.
examples: text: She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
ref: 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:
glosses: To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
Derived terms: blazoner
reblazon
Related terms: blazonable
blazoned trail
device
emblazon
Glamorganshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡləˈmɔː(ɹ)ɡənʃɪə(ɹ)/
/ɡləˈmɔː(ɹ)ɡənʃə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: Trevithick's first use of steam traction on rail took place at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.
ref: 1951 March, E. W. Twining, “The First Railway Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 197:
glosses: A synonym, probably archaic, of Glamorgan, a traditional county of Wales.
Brecknockshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛknɒkʃɪɚ/
/ˈbɹɛknɒkʃɚ/
Etymology: From Welsh Brycheiniog + English shire.
Senses: glosses: An inland traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire.
Synonyms: Breconshire
Brecknock
assailant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈseɪlənt/
Forms: form: assailants
Etymology: From Old French assaillant, from the verb assaillir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“to, towards”) + salīre (“to jump”). Equivalent to assail + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire,
And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
The like do you; so shall we pass along,
And never stir assailants.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: […] commonly some of us used to get up a tree to look out for any assailant, or kidnapper, that might come upon us; for they sometimes took those opportunities of our parents absence to attack and carry off as many as they could seize.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 2, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, volume 1, London: for the author, page 47:
text: […] just as he leaned over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and, with a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the not over clean ground—for we were now in the cow yard.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 17, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 244:
text: In the middle of a crowded street a young man would be attacked, stripped, thrashed, and left bleeding on the pavement; in fifteen seconds it was all over and the assailants had disappeared.
ref: 1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 8, in Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1961, page 89:
text: In the village of Aqraba, the Sheikh Saadeh Mosque was set on fire before the assailants graffitied the words “price tag” and “revenge” on its walls.
ref: 2018, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine:
synonyms: attacker
glosses: Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
examples: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne and Son and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 3, p. 41,
[…] the assailants of the quill have their honour as much at heart as the assailants of the sword.
glosses: A hostile critic or opponent.
assailant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈseɪlənt/
Etymology: From Old French assaillant, from the verb assaillir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“to, towards”) + salīre (“to jump”). Equivalent to assail + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, line 1687 to 1696:
glosses: Assailing; attacking.
Carmarthenshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈmɑː(ɹ)ðənʃə(ɹ)/
/kə(ɹ)-/
/-ʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Carmarthen + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Glamorganshire, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire.
glosses: A local government principal area, bordered by Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Powys, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
Pembrokeshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɛmˈbɹʊkʃə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Pembroke + -shire.
Senses: examples: text: It [the word pittance] does not signify the whole share of each individual in a conventual meal, but merely that smaller portion of more tasty viands which in frugal housekeeping is used to give relish to the bread or pottage constituting the substance of the meal; what is still called sowl or sowling in some parts of England. The Pembrokeshire peasant says, "I have not had a bit of sowl to my bread for these six months".
ref: 1850 May 10, Hensleigh Wedgwood, “English Etymologies [continued]”, in Proceedings of the Philological Society, volume IV, number 97, London: Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: A maritime traditional county of Wales, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire.
glosses: A local government principal area, bordered by Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.
armigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈmɪ.dʒə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ɑɹˈmɪ.d͡ʒɚ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From armiger + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go?
ref: 1903, George Angus, "Arms of Married Women", Notes and Queries (ser. 9) 9 (Jan-Jun): 197
text: Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.
ref: 1981, Nigel Saul, Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, page 23:
glosses: Entitled to bear a coat of arms.
Synonyms: armigeral
Derived terms: nonarmigerous
Related terms: armiger
arms
gules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːlz/
ipa: /ˈɡjulz/
homophone: ghouls (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -uːlz
Forms: form: gu.
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.
Senses: examples: text: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.
Derived terms: guly