cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
macho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊ/
rhymes: -ætʃəʊ
rhymes: -ɑːtʃəʊ
Forms: form: more macho
form: most macho
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.
Senses: examples: text: macho culture
text: I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, “SPORTS ROUNDUP”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 56:
text: The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.
ref: 2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian:
text: Joseph Biden has described Donald Trump’s refusal to wear a mask as “macho”, an insult unlikely to wound a president, who, before his illness, began rallies with speakers blasting the Village People’s 1979 song Macho Man.
ref: 2020 October 15, Francine Prose, “Trump's macho bravado is an embarrassment. Yet it puts us all in danger”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
macho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑ.t͡ʃoʊ/
rhymes: -ætʃəʊ
rhymes: -ɑːtʃəʊ
Forms: form: machos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.
Senses: examples: text: You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk / His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
ref: 1978, “Macho Man”, performed by Village People:
synonyms: word: macho man
word: Chad
word: he-man
word: macho
word: macho man
word: man among men
word: manimal
antonyms: word: hypermasculine man
glosses: A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
examples: text: […] about how the military is anti-gay and uses intimidation and peer pressure. How it promotes a sense of false macho and patriotism.
ref: 1980 August 30, Jil Clark, quoting Bob Andrews, “Gays Talk About Registration and the Draft”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
text: Though there was plentiful evidence to the contrary that should have made plain to him the hairy masculine macho of German gays, Hitler's stereotyped image perceived them as woman-like, surrendering, and therefore essentially weak.
ref: 1981, Frank Rector, The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, page 33:
text: On this day, when tens of millions of men, and women, are watching this yearly celebration of American macho, we'd like them to stop and think about the prevalence of male violence against women and what they can do to end it.
ref: 1990 February 4, Laura Briggs, quoting Jackson Katz, “Men March Against Sexism During Superbowl”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 2:
glosses: Machismo
glosses: The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
coordinate_terms: hembra
glosses: A male llama.
Derived terms: antimacho
hypermacho
macho dancer
machodom
machoflops
machohood
macho-ish
machoism
machoistic
machoistically
macho man
machoness
machosexual
macho up
nonmacho
supermacho
ultramacho
unmacho
Related terms: machismo
masculinist
machos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of machismo.
synonyms: word: machismo
magma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡ.mə/
rhymes: -æɡmə
Forms: form: magmas
form: magmata
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ǵyéti
Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)
Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma)der.
English magma
From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).
Senses: examples: text: By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
glosses: Any soft doughy mass.
glosses: The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: alkaline magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: basaltic magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: dacite magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: felsic magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: intermediate magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: iron oxide magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: mafic magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: nonsilicic magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: rhyolite magma
sense: Hyponyms of magma (geology)
word: ultramafic magma
Derived terms: cryomagma
magma chamber
magmalike
magmasphere
magmic
postmagma
quagma
malted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Processed into malt.
Derived terms: unmalted
malted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malteds
Senses: examples: text: Among the most popular from the late nineteenth century on were malteds, milkshakes, and ice cream floats. […] Malted milk beverages were viewed as healthy, complete meal drinks that had particular appeal for men […]
ref: 2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink:
glosses: A malted milk; a milkshake with malted milk powder.
malted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malt
mambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæmbəʊ/
enpr: ʹmäm-bō
ipa: /ˈmɑmboʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: mambos
form: mamboes
form: manbo
Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
Senses: examples: text: The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
text: The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
ref: 1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 219
text: In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
ref: May 2018, Kyrah Malika Daniels, Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou, The Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 23
glosses: A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
glosses: A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
Derived terms: horizontal mambo
mambo sauce
mambo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæmbəʊ/
enpr: ʹmäm-bō
ipa: /ˈmɑmboʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: mambos
form: mamboing
form: mamboed
form: mamboed
Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
Senses: glosses: To perform this dance.
marc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑːk
homophone: mark
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque
Forms: form: marcs
Etymology: From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”).
Senses: glosses: The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
examples: text: There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 298:
text: The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs, to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 60:
glosses: An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
marc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːk/
ipa: /mɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑːk
homophone: mark
homophone: Mark
homophone: marque
Forms: form: marcs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mark (“various half-pound units of mass, various European currencies”).
marcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: marcels
Etymology: Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron.
glosses: A marcel wave.
Related terms: marcel wave
marcel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈsɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: marcels
form: marcelling
form: marcelled
form: marcelled
Etymology: Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style.
Senses: examples: text: Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment.
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus (1993), page 131:
glosses: To wave (hair) by the marcel method.
glosses: To wave.
marlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.lɪn/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪn
Forms: form: marlin
form: marlins
Etymology: A contraction of marlinspike, named so because of its pointed snout.
Senses: glosses: Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.
Synonyms: spearfish
Hypernyms: istiophorid
Coordinate terms: sailfish
swordfish
Derived terms: blue marlin
marlinspike
striped marlin
white marlin
marque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: mark
homophone: Mark
Forms: form: marques
Etymology: Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark. Ultimately cognate with marquee.
Senses: examples: text: The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car.
ref: 2001 January 31, Nicholas Bannister, “BMW's unofficial input into new MGs”, in The Guardian:
text: And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V.
ref: 2020 December 3, Brett Berk, “The S.U.V.-ification of Everything Comes to Classic British Marques”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: make
hypernyms: brand#Noun
coordinate_terms: model
glosses: A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
synonyms: letter of marque
letter of marque and reprisal
glosses: A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license.
synonyms: letter of marque
glosses: A ship commissioned for making captures.
Derived terms: countermarque
letter of marque and reprisal
marrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marrers
Etymology: From mar + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who mars or injures.
maw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː/
ipa: /mɔ/
ipa: /mɑ/
homophone: MAW
homophone: more (non-rhotic accents)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: maws
Etymology: By shortening of mother
Senses: glosses: Mother.
Derived terms: grandmaw
maw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː/
ipa: /mɔ/
ipa: /mɑ/
homophone: MAW
homophone: more (non-rhotic accents)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: maws
Etymology: See mew (“a gull”),
Norwegian måke (“a gull”)
Senses: glosses: A gull.
Related terms: mee-maw
mazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mazy: more mazy
measle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːzəl/
ipa: /ˈmizəl/
rhymes: -iːzəl
Forms: form: measles
Etymology: From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel (“leprous”), from Latin misellus (“wretched", "unfortunate”), diminutive of miser (“wretched, sick”), of unknown ultimate origin.
Senses: glosses: A red spot of the kind that appears on the skin of someone suffering from measles.
glosses: A tapeworm larva.
Derived terms: measled
measling
Related terms: measles
meated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meated
form: most meated
Etymology: From meat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Fed; fattened.
examples: September 20, 1837, William Cullen Bryant, Calhoun’s Diminished Stature
At this moment the rabbit sprang from his arms and disappeared among the brush wood. "Go to pot," said the man, "you are a good-for-nothing dry-meated beast, to make the best of you."
glosses: Having a specified kind of meat.
mediad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediad
form: most mediad
Senses: glosses: Toward the middle line.
medial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əl/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: medials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Any of various things that occur in the middle.
glosses: Any of various things that occur in the middle.
One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.
medico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicos
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.
text: He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
ref: 1929 April 8, Time:
text: "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."
ref: 2009 January 22, Christian Nicolussi, Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2009:
glosses: A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
medics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medic
medics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science of medicine.
medlar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdlə/
ipa: /ˈmɛdlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmedlɘ/
homophone: meddler
Forms: form: medlars
Etymology: From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison).
Senses: glosses: Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
glosses: Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae).
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae).
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae).
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae).
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae).
glosses: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.).
glosses: The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
glosses: The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
Especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
synonyms: open-arse
examples: text: I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
qualifier: intended sexually
glosses: A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vangueria infausta
word: African medlar
alt: Mespilus germanica
word: common medlar
alt: Mespilus germanica
word: Dutch medlar
word: Japan medlar
alt: loquat
word: Japanese medlar
taxonomic: Crataegus azarolus
word: Mediterranean medlar
taxonomic: Crataegus azarolus
word: Neapolitan medlar
taxonomic: Lycium spp.
word: red medlar
taxonomic: Amelanchier ovalis
word: Savoy medlar
word: Spanish medlar (Mimusops elengi
taxonomic: Crataegus × canescens
word: Stern's medlar
taxonomic: Crataegus azarolus
word: Welsh medlar
meed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːd/
homophone: mead
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: meeds
form: meeding
form: meeded
form: meeded
Etymology: From Middle English meden, from Old English *mēdian (“to reward, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdōn, from Proto-Germanic *mizdōną (“to reward”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰ- (“to pay”). Cognate with German Low German meden (“to hire, lease, rent”), German mieten (“to rent”).
Senses: glosses: To reward; bribe.
glosses: To deserve; merit.
Related terms: sosh meed
megohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megohms
Etymology: From meg- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megaohm.
mere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪə̯/
ipa: /mɪɚ/
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /miːɹ/
ipa: /mjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /mjɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /mɛː/
homophone: mear
homophone: mirror (some North American accents)
homophone: mare (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɛ/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹɛ
Forms: form: meres
form: meer
form: meere
form: mear
form: meare
Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).
Senses: examples: text: The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
Derived terms: dungmere
Hertsmere
mareblob
marsh
meresman
merestake
merestead
merestone
meretree
Woodmere
mere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪə̯/
ipa: /mɪɚ/
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /miːɹ/
ipa: /mjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /mjɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /mɛː/
homophone: mear
homophone: mirror (some North American accents)
homophone: mare (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɛ/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹɛ
Forms: form: meres
form: mering
form: mered
form: mered
form: meer
form: meere
form: mear
form: meare
Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mǣre, ġemǣre (“boundary; limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mairiją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).
Senses: glosses: To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
glosses: To set divisions and bounds.
examples: text: What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?
ref: 2016 April 24, David EM Andrews, “Merely a question of boundaries.”, in Sheetlines, The Charles Close Society, →ISSN:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
Related terms: mereing
mere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪə̯/
ipa: /mɪɚ/
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /miːɹ/
ipa: /mjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /mjɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /mɛː/
homophone: mear
homophone: mirror (some North American accents)
homophone: mare (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɛ/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹɛ
Forms: form: meres
form: mar
form: mear
form: meer
form: meere
Etymology: From Middle English mere, from Old English mere (“lake, pool,” in compounds and poetry “sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *mari (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate with West Frisian mar, 'lake', Dutch meer, 'lake', Low German Meer, and German Meer, 'sea'. Non-Germanic cognates include Latin mare, Breton mor, and Russian мо́ре (móre). Doublet of maar and mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”).
Senses: examples: text: When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie
On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 20 p. 16:
text: The meres of Shropshire and Cheshire.
ref: 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC:
text: As a tempest influences the sluggish waters of the deadest mere.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: A gloomy-gladed hollow slowly sink
To westward - in the deeps whereof a mere,
Round as the red eye of an Eagle-owl,
Under the half-dead sunset glared
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: […] the salt field which extends from those old salt meres at Barton, a little south of Birkdale, and on to Preesall, near Fleetwood.
ref: 1897, Transactions of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society, page 500:
text: She loved.. to watch the lovely shadows in the silent depths of the placid mere.
ref: 1913, Annie S. Swan, The Fairweathers:
text: Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber, published 2005, page 194:
glosses: A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond (formerly even a body of seawater), especially a broad, shallow one. (Also included in place names such as Windermere.)
Derived terms: mere pool
mereswine
merfolk
mermaid
merman
mere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪə̯/
ipa: /mɪɚ/
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /miːɹ/
ipa: /mjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /mjɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /mɛː/
homophone: mear
homophone: mirror (some North American accents)
homophone: mare (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɛ/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹɛ
Forms: form: meres
Etymology: See mayor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayor and mair.
mere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪə̯/
ipa: /mɪɚ/
ipa: /miə/
ipa: /miːɹ/
ipa: /mjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /mjɜː/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /mɛː/
homophone: mear
homophone: mirror (some North American accents)
homophone: mare (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹɛ/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
rhymes: -ɛɹɛ
Forms: form: meres
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori mere (“more”).
Senses: examples: text: As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 41:
glosses: A Maori war-club.
merle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːl/
ipa: /mɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: merles
Etymology: From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
Senses: glosses: The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
glosses: Any blackbird.
merle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːl/
ipa: /mɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: merles
Senses: glosses: A type of mottled coloration on dogs.
glosses: A dog having this coloration.
Derived terms: merled
meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.ɒn/
Forms: form: mesons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσον (méson, “middle”). Doublet of medium.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mesial plane dividing the body into similar right and left halves.
Derived terms: ventrimeson
dorsimeson
meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.ɒn/
ipa: /ˈmiːzɒn/
ipa: /ˈ-sɒn/
ipa: /ˈmɛ-/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.ɒn/
Forms: form: mesons
Etymology: From meso- + -on. Coined by Indian physicist Homi Bhabha in 1939, as a modification of the earlier suggestion mesotron.
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of subatomic particles having a mass intermediate between electrons and protons. (The most easily detected mesons fit this definition.)
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)
Synonyms: mesotron
Hypernyms: boson
hadron
Hyponyms: scalar meson
vector meson
Derived terms: antimeson
B meson
dimeson
eta meson
exotic meson
hybrid meson
hypermeson
intermeson
J/psi meson
K-meson
mesic
mesonic
mesonics
mesonium
multimeson
mu-meson
photomeson
pi meson
rho meson
upsilon meson
mete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meat
homophone: meet
Forms: form: metes
form: meting
form: meted
form: meted
Etymology: From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).
Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).
Senses: examples: text: Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race
ref: 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:
text: Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.
ref: 1929, Kirby Page, Jesus Or Christianity A Study In Contrasts, page 31:
text: For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:2:
text: the Power that fashions man
Measured not out thy little span
For thee to take the meting-rod
In turn,
ref: 1870s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Soothsay, lines 80-83
glosses: To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
raw_tags: with “out”
Derived terms: bemete
evenmete
metage
metely
mete out
meter
metewand
meteyard
metster
unmeted
mete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meat
homophone: meet
Forms: form: metes
Etymology: From Middle English mete, borrowed from Old French mete (“boundary, boundary marker”), from Latin mēta (“post, goal, marker”). Cognate with the second element in Old English wullmod (“distaff”).
Senses: glosses: A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
mete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːt/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meat
homophone: meet
Forms: form: more mete
form: most mete
Senses: examples: text: I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”).
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mowe, meau, from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-West Germanic *maiwī, from Proto-Germanic *mai(h)waz (“seagull”). See also West Frisian meau, miuw, Dutch meeuw, German Möwe (whence Polish mewa); akin to Latvian maût (“to roar”), Old Church Slavonic мꙑꙗти (myjati, “to mew”).
Senses: examples: text: A daungerous and detestable place,
 To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch,
 But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: From helm to sea they saw him leap,
 As arrow from the string,
 And dive into the water deep,
 As mew upon the wing.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
glosses: A gull, seagull.
Derived terms: mew gull
seamew
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
Senses: glosses: A prison, or other place of confinement.
examples: text: Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A hiding place; a secret store or den.
glosses: A breeding-cage for birds.
examples: text: A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
form: mewing
form: mewed
form: mewed
form: mue
Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
Senses: examples: text: More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall
Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;
ref: c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre”, in Charles M. Coffin, editor, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, page 84:
text: 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,
[…] Nay some have learn’d the trick
To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,
Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
text: When it came to his turn to mention Sir John Sparkle, he represented him as a man of an immense estate and narrow disposition, who mewed up his only child, a fine young lady, from the conversation of mankind, under the strict watch and inspection of an old governante, who was either so honest, envious, or insatiable, that nobody had been as yet able to make her a friend, or get access to her charge, though numbers attempted it every day […]
ref: 1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 50, in The Adventures of Roderick Random.:
text: […] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
glosses: To shut away, confine, lock up.
examples: text: The hawk mewed his feathers.
text: Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]
ref: 1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […], →OCLC, signature H3, recto:
text: Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […]
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cinyras and Myrrha, Out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: To moult.
raw_tags: of a bird
glosses: To cause to moult.
raw_tags: of a bird
glosses: To shed antlers.
raw_tags: of a deer
Derived terms: mew up
mews
unmew
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
glosses: The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
glosses: An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.
Derived terms: snow mew
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
form: mewing
form: mewed
form: mewed
Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To meow.
raw_tags: of a cat
of a kitten
glosses: To make its cry.
raw_tags: of a gull or buzzard
Derived terms: mewer
mewingly
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Etymology: From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
glosses: A gull's or buzzard's cry.
glosses: An exclamation of disapproval; boo.
mew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː/
ipa: /mju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: mu
Forms: form: mews
form: mewing
form: mewed
form: mewed
Etymology: Named after British orthodontists John Mew and his son Michael Mew.
Senses: glosses: To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
Derived terms: mewer
mewmaxx
Related terms: orthotropics
mews
mews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːz/
enpr: myo͞oz
homophone: muse
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: mews
form: mewses
Etymology: From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”).
Senses: examples: text: What penned them there, with all the plain to choose?
 No foot-print leading to that horrid mews,
 None out of it.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, chapter XXIII, in Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:
text: It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, pages 110–111:
text: It was here in the kitchen, in the passage
In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…].
ref: 1935, T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
text: It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery.
ref: 1945 September and October, “The Origin of the Euston Hotel”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
text: [Pavilion Road is] a cobbled mews lined with butchers, cheesemongers, florists and cafés offering a village-like counterpoint to the grandeur of the main thoroughfare.
ref: 2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 2:
glosses: An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A place where birds of prey are housed.
mews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːz/
enpr: myo͞oz
homophone: muse
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of mew
mews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːz/
enpr: myo͞oz
homophone: muse
rhymes: -uːz
Etymology: See mew.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mew
mica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kə/
enpr: mīkə
rhymes: -aɪkə
Forms: form: micas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).
Senses: examples: text: His little eyes glittered like mica discs with curiosity, though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
Derived terms: fluoromica
Formica
hydromica
micaceous
micaless
micalike
micanite
mica-schist
Related terms: biotite
lepidolite
muscovite
paragonite
phlogopite
micron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹɒn/
rhymes: -aɪkɹɒn
Forms: form: microns
Etymology: From French micron, from Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”).
Senses: examples: text: 2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water
As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).
text: The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds).
ref: 2018 February 28, Alexander Klotz, “Microcannons firing Nanobullets”, in Softbites:
text: Little pozzolanic reaction is evident for glass above 300 microns but the pozzolanic activity increases as the particle size is reduced below this size with good pozzolanic properties generally being achieved below about 45 microns (Federico & Chidiac 2009). […] In a second mix 20% of the Portland cement was replaced with the same Vycor glass which was ground to pass 45-micron (median particle size ~ 10 micron).
ref: 2020 May 24, Michael Thomas, David Smith, and Edward Moffatt, “THE USE OF GROUND GLASS AS A POZZOLAN”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”).
synonyms: word: micrometre
extra: one-millionth of a metre
glosses: A very tiny amount.
Synonyms: sense: 10⁻⁶ m
word: micrometer
sense: 10⁻⁶ m
word: micrometre
sense: 10⁻⁶ m
word: µm
Coordinate terms: sense: 10⁻⁶ m
word: ångström
Derived terms: chylomicron
micronic
micronisation
micronise
micronization
micronize
millimicron
submicron
supermicron
micron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹɒn/
rhymes: -aɪkɹɒn
Forms: form: microns
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of breve.
synonyms: word: breve
Synonyms: breve
mig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migs
Etymology: Probably from a pronunciation of mg.
Senses: examples: text: I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years
ref: 1997 August 29, Rob Boyd, “androstenedione”, in alt.baldspot (Usenet):
glosses: A milligram
milt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: milts
Etymology: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.
Senses: examples: text: we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
ref: 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:
glosses: The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
glosses: The semen of a male fish.
glosses: The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.
Synonyms: sense: spleen
word: spleen
sense: spleen
word: lien
sense: fish semen
word: soft roe
sense: fish semen
word: white roe
Derived terms: milter
milt-grown
milting
milt-like
milt-pain
milt-sick
milt-sickness
milt-vein
miltwaste
milt-wort
milty
Related terms: miltsiekte
miltz
milt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: milts
form: milting
form: milted
form: milted
Etymology: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.
Senses: glosses: To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
milter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milters
Etymology: From milt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A male fish during breeding season.
minter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɪntɚ/
ipa: [ˈmɪɾ̃ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: minters
Etymology: From Middle English mynter, from Old English mynetere, from Proto-West Germanic *munitārī, from Latin monētārius; equivalent to mint + -er. Doublet of monetary.
Senses: glosses: One who mints, particularly a moneyer producing coinage.
glosses: An item in mint condition (especially a motor car)
mir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirs
Etymology: Borrowing from Russian мир (mir, “community, village commune; peace; world”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.
ref: 1878, Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia, volumes 1-3, page 179:
text: The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.
ref: R. Van Bergen, The Story of Russia, page 190
text: Consisting of village elders elected by the male heads of household, the mir conducted almost all peasant business, fixing the dates for the agricultural year, deciding what, when and how crops should be grown, distributing plots of land on the open fields, collecting taxes and enforcing basic community discipline.
ref: 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 169:
glosses: A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
mire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mires
Etymology: From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).
Senses: examples: text: His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!
ref: 1872, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New, page 350:
glosses: Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
examples: text: Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.
ref: 2015 November 15, Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein, Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia, Springer, →ISBN, page 79:
synonyms: peatland
quag
hypernyms: wetland
glosses: A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
examples: text: Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.
ref: 2017 April 2, Dafydd Pritchard, “Swansea City 0-0 Middlesbrough”, in BBC Sport, London:
glosses: An undesirable situation; a predicament.
Derived terms: bemire
enmire
in the mire
mire crow
mire drum
mireland
mirish
miry
pickmire
quagmire
wallow in the mire
mire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mires
form: miring
form: mired
form: mired
Etymology: From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).
Senses: examples: text: to mire a horse or wagon
synonyms: bemire
enmire
glosses: To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
glosses: To sink into mud.
glosses: To weigh down.
examples: text: Why had I not with charitable hand
Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,
I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;
This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?
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]:
synonyms: bemire
glosses: To soil with mud or foul matter.
Derived terms: unmired