cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
GLBT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Gayglers include the company's GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual) employees.
ref: 2009, Janet Lowe, Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual.
rugose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊˈɡəʊs/
ipa: /ˌɹuːˈɡoʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: more rugose
form: most rugose
Etymology: From Latin rūgōsus (“wrinkled”).
Senses: glosses: Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
glosses: Rugged, rough, unrefined.
examples: text: Petraea foliis rugosis ovatis. The oval, rugose-leaved Petraea. The root is brachiated; the shrub rises to ten feet high: the leaves are three inches long, an inch and a half broad, even at the edges, and very rough to the touch: (Note: In modern nomenclature, the plant in question probably is Petrea rugosa, as the spelling "Petraea" does not seem to match any extant genus,)
ref: 1751, anonymous author, A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions Of The Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Of the Different Parts of the World, Thomas Osborne, pages 261–:
text: The original leaves were flat and very rugose, and almost hid by the numerous single-stemmed flowers; while the leaves produced in the umbellate state were larger, more upright, and less wrinkled.
ref: 1866, Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Transactions of the Botanical Society, pages 459–:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. "rugose-veined" or "rugose-leaved".
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
Synonyms: sense: having rugae
word: bewrinkled
word: purfly
word: wrinkly
word: wrinkled
sense: rugged, rough
word: coarse
word: harsh
word: squarrose
word: rough
Derived terms: lacuno-rugose
rugose mosaic
rugosimeter
rugulose
CDE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Common Desktop Environment.
CDE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of coastal depositional environment.
excitement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭk-sītʹmənt
ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/
Forms: form: excitements
Etymology: From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to excite + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: to get caught up in the excitement
text: By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaal:
text: In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
glosses: The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
glosses: Something that excites.
Derived terms: counterexcitement
hyperexcitement
overexcitement
gleed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glede (“live coal”).
rejoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rejoinders
Etymology: From Middle English rejoinder, rejonder, rejoynder, from Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. Doublet of rejoin.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The defendant's answer to the replication.
examples: text: "76. ... P-R8(N) mate! Certainly not 76... P-R8(Q), though threatening mate on the move in seven different ways--as 77 Q-N5 mate would have been the painful rejoinder."
ref: 1953 March, Irving Chernev, “Chernev's Chess Corner”, in Chess Review:
glosses: A response that answers another response.
examples: text: I have passed perhaps more time than any other man of my age and country in visits and assemblies, where the polite persons of both sexes distinguish themselves; and could not without much grief observe how frequently both gentlemen and ladies are at a loss for questions, answers, replies, and rejoinders.
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page ii:
text: "I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet." I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 38, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: The simplest rejoinder to all of Daenerys’ justifications is that this bloodshed could have been avoided. She was given a moment to choose, and she chose blind vengeance, the kind that eliminates any benevolence she hoped to bring to the seven kingdoms by burning it right out of the minds of anyone who saw her astride Drogon, mowing down men, women, and children with abandon.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
synonyms: comeback
retort
glosses: A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question.
topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.
rejoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪndɚ/
rhymes: -ɔɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rejoinders
form: rejoindering
form: rejoindered
form: rejoindered
Etymology: From Middle English rejoinder, rejonder, rejoynder, from Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. Doublet of rejoin.
Senses: glosses: To issue a rejoinder.
glosses: To say as a rejoinder.
trot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑt/
ipa: /tɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: trots
form: trotting
form: trotted
form: trotted
Etymology: From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
text: The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
text: I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv
text: They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
ref: c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane
text: It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
glosses: To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
raw_tags: of a horse
glosses: To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
examples: text: A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.
ref: 1927, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The Parliamentary Debates (Official Report), page 2221:
glosses: To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
Synonyms: word: run
sense: to walk rapidly
word: jog
sense: to walk rapidly
word: pace
Derived terms: hot to trot
strong enough to trot a mouse on
trot off
trot out
trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑt/
ipa: /tɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.
Senses: glosses: A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
Synonyms: ppongjjak
trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɑt/
ipa: /tɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: trots
Senses: examples: text: The problem is that the likes of Shapps and his boss Boris Johnson are eager for a fight with the unions. They are being deliberately provocative, so they can portray railway workers as 'troublesome trots'.
ref: 2022 June 15, Christian Wolmar, “What do the railways need and how can we fulfil that need?”, in RAIL, number 959, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”).
hollow rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollow rails
Senses: glosses: A type of curtain rail having a slit along the length at the bottom in which gliders attached to pliable curtains can slide.
guillotine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪlətiːn/
ipa: /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˈɡɪləˌtin/
ipa: /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/
Forms: form: guillotines
Etymology: Borrowed from French guillotine, named after the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), who proposed its use for capital punishment.
Senses: examples: text: For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Procession”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General), pages 143–144:
glosses: A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
glosses: A device or machine with a cutting blade.
A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A device or machine with a cutting blade.
An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
hyponyms: word: tonsillotome
english: for tonsils
translation: for tonsils
word: tonsilotome
word: uvulotome
examples: text: The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here.
ref: 2019 October 22, Stephen Kerr, Member of Parliament for Stirling, “Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Commons)^(https://web.archive.org/web/20191024000813/https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-10-22/debates/277C5A20-456D-469B-A415-D04AFFD83248/EuropeanUnion(WithdrawalAgreement)Bill), volume 666, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019, column 860:
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
Derived terms: antiguillotine
dry guillotine
guillotine choke
guillotine clause
guillotinism
guillotinist
Hume's guillotine
guillotine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪlətiːn/
ipa: /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˈɡɪləˌtin/
ipa: /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/
Forms: form: guillotines
form: guillotining
form: guillotined
form: guillotined
Etymology: Borrowed from French guillotiner (“to execute with a guillotine, to guillotine”), from guillotine (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).
Senses: examples: text: Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
text: Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:
glosses: To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
glosses: To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
Derived terms: word: guillotinable
word: guillotined
word: guillotinee
word: guillotinement
word: guillotiner
word: guillotining
word: unguillotined
surely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈʃɔːli/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈʃʊəli/
ipa: /ˈʃʊɹli/
ipa: /ˈʃɔɹli/
ipa: /ˈʃɝli/
homophone: Shirley (in some dialects)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)li
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: surelier
form: more surely
form: sureliest
form: most surely
Etymology: From Middle English surely; equivalent to sure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: slowly but surely
glosses: Without fail.
examples: text: Surely, you must be joking.
text: You don’t suppose we're going to pay for you, surely?
text: She’s surely got the letter by now.
text: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Ted Striker: The stewardess said... both pilots?!
Dr. Rumack: Can you fly this plane and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Dr. Rumack: I am serious; and don't call me Shirley.
ref: 1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Airplane! (motion picture), Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays (actors):
text: Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'
ref: 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:
qualifier: sentence adverb
glosses: Certainly, undoubtedly.
examples: text: His feet were planted surely on the ground.
text: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us[…].
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
glosses: With confidence.
Synonyms: word: certainly
word: wis
Derived terms: almost surely
quadragenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: quadragenarians
Etymology: From Latin quadrāgēnārius (“containing 40”) + -an, either directly or via French quadragénaire, from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Cognate with quadragenary, quadragenarious, and quadragene.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fortysomething: a person between 40 and 49 years old.
synonyms: word: fortysomething
extra: a person between 40 and 49 years old
Coordinate terms: vicenarian (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
quinquagenarian (50–59)
sexagenarian (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
supercentenarian (110+)
quadragenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Etymology: From Latin quadrāgēnārius (“containing 40”) + -an, either directly or via French quadragénaire, from Latin quadrāgēnus (“40 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quadrāgintā (“four tens, forty”). Cognate with quadragenary, quadragenarious, and quadragene.
Senses: coordinate_terms: vicenarian
tricenarian
quinquagenarian
semicentenarian
hexagenerian
sexagenarian
septuagenarian
octogenarian
nonagenarian
centenarian
supercentenarian
glosses: Of or related to fortysomethings.
Synonyms: quadragenary
quadragenarious
requests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɛsts/
ipa: /ɹəˈkwɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of request
requests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɛsts/
ipa: /ɹəˈkwɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: plural of request
Freitag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freitags
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
go the way of the dinosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the way of the dinosaurs
form: going the way of the dinosaurs
form: went the way of the dinosaurs
form: gone the way of the dinosaurs
Senses: examples: text: Washboards went the way of the dinosaurs when washing machines became commonplace.
text: It is good for man to try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish / Not to go down the dinosaur's way until all his capacities have been explored
ref: 1973, “California Saga (The Beaks Of Eagles)”, in Robinson Jeffers (lyrics), Holland, performed by The Beach Boys:
synonyms: go the way of the dodo
antonyms: catch on
glosses: To go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common use or practice; to become a thing of the past.
eleventh hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eleventh hours
form: eleventh-hour
form: 11th hour
Etymology: From a parable in the Bible of workmen hired at the eleventh hour (that is, late in the day), known as the Parable of the Workers of the Eleventh Hour or the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard:
* King James Bible, Matthew 20:6 & 20:9:
*: And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? … And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Senses: examples: text: If she repented, though at the eleventh hour, it was not too late.
ref: 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 85, in The Virginians:
text: Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finish might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: I have extricated myself so far at many eleventh hours and perhaps there is some hope in this.
ref: 1961, Philip Toynbee, Underdogs: Eighteen Victims of Society, page 56:
text: Egypt had managed to bring the two sides to the brink of a deal two weeks ago, before internal political dynamics prompted the Israelis to back out at the eleventh hour.
ref: 2009 March 3, Tony Karon, “Why Money Alone Will Not Fix Gaza”, in Time:
text: Thus, the famous title of the dictionary is, at base, derogatory. This explains why Yule kept the title secret until the eleventh hour, why some contemporary reviewers took exception to the title, and why Yule highlighted Burnell’s approval of the title.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59:
glosses: A point in time which is nearly too late; the last minute.
wikipedia: Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
Related terms: film at 11
quadriplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑdɹɪˈplid͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈpliːd͡ʒə/
Forms: form: quadriplegias
Etymology: From quadri- (“four”) + -plegia, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegia.
Senses: glosses: Paralysis from the neck down.
glosses: Paralysis of all four limbs.
Synonyms: tetraplegia
Related terms: paraplegia
paraplegic
quadriplegic
speechless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːt͡ʃ.lɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English specheles, from Old English sprǣċlēas (“speechless; without the power of speak”), from Proto-Germanic *sprēkalausaz, equivalent to speech + -less. Cognate with West Frisian sprakeleas (“speechless”), Dutch sprakeloos (“speechless”), German Low German spraaklos (“speechless”), German sprachlos (“speechless”).
Senses: examples: text: When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless.
text: The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:
glosses: Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.
examples: text: Immortal Pleaſures round my ſwimming Eyes did dance,
And ſpeechleſs Joys, in whoſe ſweet Tumult toſt,
I thought my Breath, and my new Being loſt.
ref: 1690, John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man, J.M., page 14:
text: O Mother Earth, O Sun that makest clean,
What poison have I heard, what speechless sin !
ref: 1902, Gilbert Murray, Euripides, Longmans, Green, and co., page 32:
glosses: Synonym of unspeakable.
synonyms: word: unspeakable
Derived terms: speechlessness
quadriplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɒd.ɹɪˈp(ə)liː.dʒɪk/
ipa: /ˌkwɑdɹɪˈp(ə)lid͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -iːdʒɪk
Etymology: From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
quadriplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɒd.ɹɪˈp(ə)liː.dʒɪk/
ipa: /ˌkwɑdɹɪˈp(ə)lid͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -iːdʒɪk
Forms: form: quadriplegics
Etymology: From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
Senses: examples: text: Their life together changed on November 13, 1983, when Kowalski was involved in a car accident that left her a quadriplegic.
ref: 1985 August 24, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Disabled Lesbian Allowed Visitation by Lover”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 1:
glosses: One who suffers from quadriplegia.
Synonyms: tetraplegic
Related terms: quadriplegia
paraplegic
paraplegia
maligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maligned
form: most maligned
Senses: glosses: Assailed with contemptuous language
Derived terms: unmaligned
maligned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malign
quintuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quintus (“fifth”) + plicare (“to fold”); probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare (“to double”).
Senses: glosses: Multiplied by five.
glosses: Being the fifth in a set of five.
quintuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintuplicates
Etymology: From Latin quintus (“fifth”) + plicare (“to fold”); probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare (“to double”).
Senses: glosses: A set of five similar or identical things.
glosses: One element of such a set.
quintuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quintuplicates
form: quintuplicating
form: quintuplicated
form: quintuplicated
Etymology: From Latin quintus (“fifth”) + plicare (“to fold”); probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare (“to double”).
Senses: glosses: To multiply by five.
glosses: To make five copies of.
play by ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays by ear
form: playing by ear
form: played by ear
form: played by ear
Senses: glosses: To play guided by one's musical perception and intuition, rather than from a written score.
raw_tags: of music
examples: text: If they ask for something we didn't prepare, we will have to play it by ear.
text: There over, hereunder / Or up above, don't wonder / We can always play by ear / But that's the deal, my dear
ref: 2001 August 30, Shakira, “Whenever, Wherever”, in Laundry Service:
glosses: To do by guessing, intuition, or trial and error; to react to events as they occur, often with risk of negative outcomes; to improvise.
Synonyms: sense: do by guessing, intuition, etc, reacting to events as they occur
word: fly by the seat of one's pants
sense: do by guessing, intuition, etc, reacting to events as they occur
word: make it up as one goes along
sense: do by guessing, intuition, etc, reacting to events as they occur
word: wing it
bg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bgs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of background.
topics: games
gaming
antonyms: gg
glosses: Initialism of bad game.
coordinate_terms: word: g
english: grin
translation: grin
word: vbg
english: very big grin
translation: very big grin
glosses: Abbreviation of big grin; often enclosed in * * or < > to indicate that the user is grinning widely.
bg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of begin and inflections beginning, began, begun.
vanilla bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanilla beans
Senses: glosses: A seedpod of any plant in genus Vanilla, (family: orchid) especially species Vanilla planifolia.
username
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usernames
form: user name
Etymology: From user + name.
Senses: examples: text: His username and password on his Apple PC is VolvestarcXXX.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: access
access code
credential
handle
identity
login name
hypernyms: name
holonyms: user account
coordinate_terms: password
user account
user ID
glosses: A name or string of characters used as a person's identification on an individual computer system.
fervently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝvəntli/
ipa: /ˈfɜːvəntli/
Forms: form: more fervently
form: most fervently
Etymology: From Middle English fervently; equivalent to fervent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 225:
glosses: In a fervent manner.
variability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛəɹ.i.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: /-ɪ.ti/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌvæɹ.i.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-ɪ.ti/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌvɛɹ.i.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /-ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: variabilities
Etymology: Derived form of variable, from Old French variable; see variable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being variable.
glosses: The degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.
Synonyms: variableness
Derived terms: biovariability
covariability
histovariability
hypervariability
intervariability
microvariability
Davis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪ.vɪs/
rhymes: -eɪvɪs
Forms: form: Davises
Senses: examples: text: The use of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has Survivor’s Jim Peterik “risin’ up to the challenge” – and threatening action.
ref: 2015 September 9, Todd Leopold, “Band unhappy with use of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Kim Davis”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname
glosses: A surname
A Welsh and English surname originating as a patronymic, variant of Davies.
glosses: A surname
An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Damháin, Ó Daimhín (whence Devine).
glosses: A surname
An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Mac Dáibhidh (whence McDavid).
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename:
A community in the Rural Municipality of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada; named for politician Thomas Osborne Davis.
examples: text: Drivers like the idea of increasing traffic flow and reducing congestion on the portion of I-80 between Davis and West Sacramento.
ref: 2024 May 17, Orko Manna, “Toll lane project on Interstate 80 between West Sacramento and Davis gets green light”, in KCRA:
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A city in Yolo County, California; named for agriculturalist Jerome C. Davis.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A village in Rock Run Township, Stephenson County, Illinois; named for founder S. J. Davis.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Carteret County, North Carolina.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A city in Garvin County and Murray County, Oklahoma; named for early settler Samuel H. Davis.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A small town in Turner County, South Dakota; named for an early settler.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A town in Tucker County, West Virginia; named for senator Henry Gassaway Davis, or his family.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in the United States.
A number of townships, listed under Davis Township.
glosses: University of California, Davis.
Derived terms: Abdallat-Davis-Farrage syndrome
Davis-Barnes effect
Davis County
Davis Junction
Davis Line
Davis Strait
Fort Davis
Jeff Davis County
Jefferson Davis County
Jefferson Davis Parish
Mount Davis
Allen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lən/
rhymes: -ælən
Forms: form: Allens
form: Alan
form: Allan
form: Alen
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Alan.
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Alan; in modern use often transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Pima County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Allen County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Lyon County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Floyd County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Wicomico County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Dixon County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Allegany County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hughes County and Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Bennett County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Collin County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clear Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Allen Township.
glosses: A number of rivers in England:
A river in Dorset, which joins the (Dorset) Stour at Wimborne Minster.
glosses: A number of rivers in England:
A river in Northumberland, which joins the South Tyne.
glosses: A number of rivers in England:
A river in north Cornwall, which joins the River Camel near Sladesbridge.
glosses: A number of rivers in England:
A minor river in south-west Cornwall, which forms the Truro River at Truro.
glosses: A village in County Kildare, Ireland.
glosses: A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A city in Río Negro province, Argentina.
glosses: A municipality in Northern Samar, Philippines.
Derived terms: Allen County
Allenesque
Allenfarm
Allen key
Allen Parish
Allen Park
Allentown
Camp Allen
Lough Allen
Port Allen
Upper Allen
West Allen
Allen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lən/
rhymes: -ælən
Forms: form: Allens
form: Alan
form: Allan
form: Alen
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Allen wrench.
Bruce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːs/
ipa: /ˈbɹʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Etymology: From a Norman place name, Brix, of disputed meaning.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname, most notably of Robert the Bruce.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
glosses: A town and locality north of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A hamlet in Beaver County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former town in Rock County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Calhoun County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Brookings County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Some townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan (2), Minnesota, and North Carolina (2), listed under Bruce Township.
Derived terms: bruce
Bruce County
Bruce Peninsula
Roy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: Roi
Forms: form: Roys
Etymology: From various sources:
* Anglo-Norman roy (“king”) a variant of Old French roi, from Latin rēx, rēgem from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of Rey.
* Scottish Gaelic ruadh (“red, red-haired”) from Old Irish rúad, from Proto-Celtic *roudos from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
* Anglicisation of Bengali রায় (raẏ, surname). Doublet of Rai, rex, and rajah.
Senses: examples: text: - - - The real pity is that the only name William Burton remembers is Roy ...it was a popular name in the fifties and sixties so there were probably quite a few of them."
"Not that popular," said George. "Surely it's Roy Trent?"
"Roy Rogers...Roy Orbison... Roy of the Rovers...Roy Castle..."
"At least one of those was a comic-book character," said Andrew.
"So? Bill Clinton and David Beckham named their children after places. All I'm saying is we can't assume Roy Trent from Roy."
ref: 2003, Minette Walters, Disordered Minds, Macmillan., →ISBN, page 173:
text: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
ref: 2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Old French.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Bengali.
glosses: A placename
A city in Utah, United States.
glosses: A placename
A river and glen (see Glen Roy) in Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Derived terms: Roybridge
Roy Bridge
ventral tegmentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventral tegmentum
form: ventral tegmental area
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A part of the midbrain, close to the substantia nigra and the red nucleus, that contains dopamine and serotonin.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The part of the mesencephalon that projects to the nucleus accumbens via the mesolimbic pathway and to the cortex via the mesocortical pathway
Related terms: midbrain tegmentum
Vercingetorix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vɜː(ɹ).sɪnˈd͡ʒɛ.tə.ɹɪks/
Etymology: From Latin Vercingetorix, from Gaulish *Werkingetorīx (literally “super-warrior-king, king of super-warriors”).
Senses: glosses: 72 BCE–46 BCE, the chieftain of the Arverni, leader of the great Gallic revolt against the Romans in 53–52 BCE.
Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in north eastern Côte d'Ivoire.
Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: King Kong
glosses: The fictional gigantic gorilla from the story King Kong.
Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 孔 (kǒng) or Cantonese 江 (gong1).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯀꯣꯡ (kong).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kongbam surname of Meitei origin
glosses: Alternative form of Kongkham surname of Meitei origin
Related terms: english: cartographic mistake in Africa
translation: cartographic mistake in Africa
word: Kong Mountains
verminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verminates
form: verminating
form: verminated
form: verminated
Etymology: From the Latin verminare (“to have worms”), from vermis (“worm”).
Senses: examples: text: That old dog just doesn't do much anymore; he mostly masticates and verminates.
glosses: To breed vermin.
oversight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈo̝vərˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈoːbʱə(ɾ)ˌsaɪt/
homophone: overcite
Forms: form: oversights
Etymology: From over- + sight. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.
Senses: examples: text: A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.
glosses: An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
examples: text: oversight mechanism
text: The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: The drone operation is subject to strict regulatory oversight. Russell notes that due to UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and privacy laws, BTP can only fly its drones if they have a named specific purpose to do so.
ref: 2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50:
text: "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
ref: 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
glosses: Supervision or management.
examples: text: A large map of the kingdom, in which the Protestant churches, including the Unitarian, are indicated in colors, gives a convenient oversight of the matter treated of by the writer.
ref: 1908 December 10, Charles W. Wendte, “Foreign Books”, in The Christian Register:
coordinate_terms: undersight
glosses: Overview.
Derived terms: alternative episcopal oversight
oversight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈo̝vərˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈoːbʱə(ɾ)ˌsaɪt/
homophone: overcite
Forms: form: oversights
head_nr: 1
form: oversighting
head_nr: 1
form: oversighted
head_nr: 1
form: oversighted
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From over- + sight. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: To oversee; to supervise.
head_nr: 2
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.
Derived terms: oversighter
wp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of WP.
purloin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːˈlɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: purloins
form: purloining
form: purloined
form: purloined
Etymology: From Middle English purloynen (“to remove”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman purloigner (“to put far away”), one of the variants of Old French porloignier. Doublet of prolong.
Senses: examples: text: Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned.
ref: 1900, One Who Was in It, chapter 8, in Kruger's Secret Service, pages 168–169:
text: The refreshment room was full of chatter and babble, which attracted everybody's envious glances. Some one had left his set in the middle of the dance, purloined a sandwich from the buffet, and was now chewing away proudly as he swerved and stamped, to the amusement of the rest.
ref: 1916, chapter 4, in A. Cecil Curtis, transl., Royal Highness, translation of Königliche Hoheit by Thomas Mann:
text: Or was this simply another item Mr. Stink had purloined during his career as a gentleman thief?
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
examples: text: The Apostle expressly forbiddeth servants to purloin (Titus 2:10).
ref: 1622, William Gouge, Of Domestical Duties, published 2006, →ISBN, page 454:
glosses: To commit theft; to thieve.
vernalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernalizations
form: vernalisation
Etymology: From vernal + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: This low temperature requirement for flowering, called vernalization, begins at germination. Vernalization is assumed to occur at temperatures between 0 and 18°C (Ahrens and Loomis, 1963; Tirone and Metzer, 1970).
ref: 1998, J. T. Ritchie, U. Singh, D. C. Godwin, W. T. Bowen, Cereal growth, development and yield, Gordon Yukio Tsuji, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Philip Thornton (editors), Understanding Options for Agricultural Production, Volume 7, page 88
text: Species needing vernalization do not flower when grown in a warm climate.
ref: 2005, Helgi Öpik, Stephen A. Rolfe, Arthur John Willis, The Physiology Of Flowering Plants, page 275:
text: For some plants, however, exposure to low temperatures during winter is an essential step in their development. Two of these processes, vernalisation and the breaking of winter dormancy, have important implications for gardeners.
ref: 2008, David S. Ingram, Daphne Vince-Prue, Peter J. Gregory, editors, Science and the Garden: The Scientific Basis of Horticultural Practice, page 201:
text: Furthermore, vernalization has been shown to override the late-flowering phenotype. […] Both VRN1 and VRN2 genes have been identified to be associated with vernalization.
ref: 2010, H. Yamashita, Y. Komeda (chapter authors), Eng Chong Pua, Michael R. Davey (editors), Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 1, page 202
synonyms: jarovization
antonyms: devernalization
glosses: The treatment of seeds or bulbs by exposure to low temperatures so as to decrease the vegetative period or to cause the plant to flower or bear fruit more quickly.
Related terms: vernalize
nightie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: nighties
form: nighty
Etymology: From night + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.
text: The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing.
ref: 2023 March 28, Philip Oltermann, “Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.
Derived terms: off like a bride's nightie
Related terms: lingerie
negligee
nightie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Etymology: From night + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nighty (“good night”).
nightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
homophone: knightly
Etymology: From Middle English nyȝtly, nihtlich, nihtlic, from Old English nihtlīċ, nihtelīċ (“nocturnal, nightly, of the night, at night”), equivalent to night + -ly. Cognate with Scots nichtlie (“nightly”), West Frisian nachtlik (“nightly, nocturnal”), Dutch nachtelijk (“nightly, nocturnal”), German nächtlich (“nocturnal, nightly”), Danish natlig (“nightly”), Swedish nattlig (“nightly, nocturnal”).
Senses: examples: text: nightly dews
text: A cobweb spread above a blossom Is sufficient to protect It from nightly chill.
ref: 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews:
glosses: Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
examples: text: The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
glosses: Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.
glosses: Used in the night.