cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woughs
form: waugh
form: wogh
form: woghe
form: wau
form: waw
form: woa
form: woh
form: wo
Etymology: From Middle English wough (“wall”), from Old English wāh, wāg, wǣg (“interior wall, separating structure”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall, structure”). Cognate with Scots wauch, waw (“wall”).
Senses: glosses: A wall.
Related terms: waw
wough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it.
ref: 1922, Gordon Casserly, The Jungle Girl:
text: The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.
ref: 1884, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches:
text: Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!
ref: 1863, Various, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets:
glosses: Alternative form of woof.
wote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wotes
form: woting
form: woted
form: woted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: wote
form: wote
form: woted
form: wote
form: wotest
form: woted
form: wotedst
form: wotes
form: woteth
form: woted
form: wote
form: woted
form: wote
form: woted
form: wote
form: -
form: woting
form: woted
Senses: examples: text: Now (sayd the Lady) draweth toward night, And well I wote, that of your later fight Ye all forwearied be: for what so strong, 285 But wanting rest will also want of might?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: He builded within the citie of ] London then called Troinouant, a temple, and named it the temple of peace: the which (as some hold opinion, I wote not vpon what ground) was the same which now is called Blackwell hall, where the market for buieng and selling of cloths is kept.
ref: 1577, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8):
glosses: Alternative form of wot.
hectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.tiː/
ipa: /hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [hɛkˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪvɪti
Forms: form: hectivities
Etymology: Blend of hectic + activity.
Senses: examples: text: I headed from my apartment over to a corner diner for a late break fast^([sic]), and I don't recall the normal crush of people packing the New York streets or the usual hectivity.
ref: 2002, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann, Warner Books, published 2002, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of constant, frenzied, and typically stressful activity.
examples: text: Out here on the Pacific, there's no rush, no tension, none of the "hectivities" of everyday life ashore.
ref: 1962 March 11, “A Day on a Luxury Liner, Cruising on a Sunlit Sea”, in Boston Globe:
glosses: A frenetic or stressful activity.
worne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: There are seldom more than a few lines together which possess any distinguishing merit, such as an indulgent editor has found in Bellula's exclamation when she first falls in love with Callidora: How red his cheekes are! so our garden apples Looke on that side where the hot Sun salutes them; (I. ii.) or in the lines with which Callidora prepares to meet death from her brother's sword: As sick men doe their beds, so have I yet Injoy'd my selfe, with little rest, much trouble: I have beene made the Ball of Love and Fortune, And am almost worne out with often playing; And therefore I would entertaine my death As some good friend whose comming I expected.
ref: 1906, Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama:
text: Bolton says, "The sayd victorious Princes tombe is in the goodly Cathedral Church erected to the honour of Christ, in Canterburie; there (beside his quilted coat-armour, with half-sleeves, Taberd fashion, and his triangular shield, both of them painted with the royall armories of our kings, and differenced with silver labels) hangs this kind of Pavis or Target, curiously (for those times) embost and painted, and the Scutcheon in the bosse being worne out, and the Armes (which, it seemes, were the same with his coate armour, and not any particular devise) defaced, and is altogether of the same kinde with that upon which (Froissard reports) the dead body of the Lord Robert of Dvras, and nephew to the Cardinall of Pierregoort, was laid, and sent unto that Cardinale, from the Battell of Poictiers, where the Blacke Prince obtained a Victorie, the renowne whereof is immortale."
ref: 1850, Various, Notes & Queries 1850.01.19:
text: My inclinations for the sea were by this time worne out, or I might now have gratify'd them.
ref: c. 1788, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
text: Also Mrs. Clerke's kinswoman sings very prettily, but is very confident in it; Mrs. Clerke herself witty, but spoils all in being so conceited and making so great a flutter with a few fine clothes and some bad tawdry things worne with them.
ref: 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, June/July 1664:
text: VII Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, 55 A shadie grove[*] not far away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand: Whose loftie trees yclad with sommers pride Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starre: 60 And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farre: Faire harbour that them seemes; so in they entred arre.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: Not long after, the theeves laded us againe, but especially me, and brought us forth of the stable, and when wee had gone a good part of our journey what with the long way, my great burthen, the beating of staves, and my worne hooves, I was so weary that I could scantly go.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of worn, past participle of wear.
hectivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hectivity
worldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more worldy
form: most worldy
Etymology: From Middle English worldy, worldi. By surface analysis, world + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul.
ref: 1919, Marguerite Stockman Dickson, Vocational Guidance for Girls:
text: Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns.
ref: 1992 November 27, Ted Shen, “Yo-Yo Ma”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Already on her second marriage when she met Chandler, she was worldy, sexually wise and 18 years his senior, a fact he apparently didn’t know until after they were married.
ref: 2007 December 30, Tom Shone, “The Big Sleepover”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of worldly.
synonyms: word: worldly
worldy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldies
Etymology: From world + -y, from world-class.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worldie (“anything particularly excellent of its kind”).
woolsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mickey was the best hurler in the barony, no mean performer on the violin, could dance the national bolero of "Tatter Jack Walsh" in a way that charmed more than one soft heart beneath a red woolsey bodice, and had, withal, the peculiar free-and-easy devil-may-care kind of off-hand Irish way that never deserted him in the midst of his wiliest and most subtle moments, giving to a very deep and cunning fellow all the apparent frankness and openness of a country lad.
ref: 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2):
text: "But, please, sir, won't you let our Tommy out first?" cried Jerry, as the strong woman lapped up the two youngest in her woolsey apron and ran off with them.
ref: 1880, R. D. Blackmore, Mary Anerley:
text: His mighty legs were spread at ease, his shoulders solid against a cask, his breast (like an elephant's back in width, and bearing a bright blue crown tattooed) shone out of the scarlet woolsey, whose plaits were filled with the golden shower of a curly beard, untouched with gray.
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
text: Pending this infliction (for I confess I suffered under sciatica as well as the easterly wind), I left home rather early one morning, muffled in two coats, a cloak, muffler, "bosom friend," worsted wrists, and woolsey gloves; and yet as I closed the door, I half repented that I had faced the blast.
ref: 1903, Jasper W. Rogers, Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England!:
text: In "shops" that were set up in the morning and taken down at night, drygoods dealers were selling colored sashes, strips of cotton cloth and calico, and black woolsey, the eternal garb of every native of the Jucar valley.
ref: 1921, Vicente Blasco Iba, The Torrent:
glosses: A material made of cotton and wool.
Derived terms: linsey-woolsey
juxtaglomerular apparatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juxtaglomerular apparatuses
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A minuscule structure inside the kidney, involved in the regulation of the activity of each nephron.
wole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wole
form: most wole
Senses: examples: text: I war sory to hear that My brother war sol i am glad that i did come away when i did god works all the things for the Best he is young he may get a long in the wole May god Bless hem ef you have any News from Petersburg Va Plas Rite me a word when you anser this Letter and ef any person came form home Letter Me know.
ref: 1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad:
text: To make Pig Brawn Take a white or red Pig, for a spotted one is not so handsome, take a good large fat one, and being scalded and drawn bone it whole, but first cut off the head and the hinder quarters, (and leave the bone in the hinder quarters) the rest being boned cut it into 2 collars overwart both the sides, or bone the wole Pig but only the head: […]
ref: 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of whole.
wizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wizzards
Senses: examples: text: Are you a wizzard that you have so drawn me on?
ref: 1870, William H. Sparks, The Memories of Fifty Years:
text: "I should like to read 'Manfred' here," said Molly one morning (Byron was one of her favorites) "It is just the place, mountains, forests and all, and who knows--the wizzard."
ref: 1803, Various, The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wizard.
withoutside
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Soon after, a fire was made withoutside the cabin, in the open air, and a kettle hung over it to boil.
ref: 1912, Sir Harry Johnston, Pioneers in Canada:
text: We build our houses on the sand Comely withoutside and within; 20 But when the winds and rains begin To beat on them, they cannot stand; They perish, quickly overthrown, Loose from the very basement stone.
ref: 1830, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems:
text: At noon, he got withoutside of the reef by a second opening more to the north; for, having observed the latitude to be 22 deg. 17', his intention was to seek for the River of Jacob Remessens (near the North-west Cape); but the wind veering to north-east, he could no longer follow the direction of the coast.
ref: 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:
glosses: outside
wisha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise.
Senses: examples: text: "Wisha! wisha," says I. "A pound of chops," says he, "coming into the Mansion House."
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: An expression of surprise.
windes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winde
wimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wimple
wimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wimplings
Senses: glosses: A rippling or meandering.
willes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The latter bond of adherence was, however, the more slender; for, in the acts regulating the borders, we find repeated mention of "Clannes having captaines and chieftaines, whom on they depend, oft-times against the willes of their landeslordes."
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):
text: Whereupon, by reason also that Winter was come vpon them, and foule weather increased with fogs and mists that so couered the land, as without danger of perishing they could not approch it: Sir Humfrey Gilbert and M. Hays were compelled much against their willes to retyre homewards: And being 300. leagues on their way, were after by tempestuous weather separated the one from the other, the ninth of September last, since which time M. Hays with his Barke is safely arriued, but of Sir Humfrey as yet they heare no certaine newes.
ref: 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:
text: King Edmund, who hated nothing woorse than to linger his businesse, assembled his people, and marching forward toward his enimies, approched neere vnto them, & pitcht downe his tents not farre from his enimies campe, exhorting his people to remember their passed victories, and to doo their good willes, at length by one battell so to ouerthrow them, that they might make an end of the warre, and dispatch them cleerelie out of the realme.
ref: 1577, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8):
glosses: plural of wille
wildered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wilder
whoof
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a dog barking.
examples: text: Whoof! whoof! its steaming breath hissed at her.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5:
glosses: The sound of a steam train, steam boat, etc.
whoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoofs
Senses: examples: text: Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa.
ref: 1918, James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King:
text: A little whoof, like the sound that would be made by a baby and it asleep, came from Cona'n.
ref: 1920, James Stephens, Irish Fairy Tales:
glosses: Alternative spelling of woof.
whoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whoofs
form: whoofing
form: whoofed
form: whoofed
Senses: examples: text: It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291:
glosses: To make sound like a dog's bark; to bark.
examples: text: He kicked Leo in the ribs to wake him up. Leo grunted and whoofed.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game:
glosses: To make a snuffling noise, like a bear vocalising, or a steam engine puffing.
whith
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Boil half a pound of French barley in 3 several waters, keep the last water to make your milk of, then stamp half a pound of almonds with a little of the same water to keep them from oyling; being finely beaten, strain it whith the rest of the barley water, put some hard sugar to it, boil it a little, and give it the party warm.
ref: 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:
text: Winthrop, whith such directions as he conceived fitt, and, as I hear, hath given his debte, which he maks 544^li. unto y^e gentlemen of y^e Bay. Indeed, M^r.
ref: 1898, William Bradford, Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation':
glosses: Obsolete form of with.
superfluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfluorescences
Etymology: From super- + fluorescence.
Senses: examples: text: In this approach, a source of parametric superfluorescence (an OPG with optical gain of 10 10 to 10 12 ) provides the seed pulse (energy 10 to 100 nJ) for subsequent parametric amplification (with an OPG with optical gain of 10 3 to 10 5 ).
ref: 1999 November 19, Malcolm H. Dunn, Majid Ebrahimzadeh, “Parametric Generation of Tunable Light from Continuous-Wave to Femtosecond Pulses”, in Science, volume 286, number 5444, →DOI, pages 1513–1517:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: fluorescence as a result of spontaneous correlation of excited atomic states
Related terms: superfluorescent
sulcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In addition, five of six subjects showed right frontal-lobe activation for novel pictures in the inferior frontal sulcal region between middle and inferior gyri.
ref: 1997 April 11, “Separate Neural Bases of Two Fundamental Memory Processes in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe”, in Science, volume 276, number 5310, →DOI, pages 264–266:
glosses: of or relating to a sulcus
synsacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Retroverted pubis, separated from the main synsacral axis by an angle smaller than 45~: absent (0), present (1).
ref: 2009 //, Science, pages 1955–1959:
text: Most preserved parts of the axial column (the last 6 dorsal, the synsacral, and the first 12 caudal vertebrae and chevrons) were found in virtually direct articulation.
ref: 1998 March 20, Catherine A. Forster et al., “The Theropod Ancestry of Birds: New Evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar”, in Science, volume 279, number 5358, →DOI, pages 1915–1919:
glosses: Of or relating to the synsacrum
scampy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scampy
form: most scampy
Etymology: From scamp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “One Grand Passion”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 101:
text: Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant.
ref: 1988 September 30, Henry Sheehan, “The White Woman's Burden”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth.
ref: 1991 December 20, Toni Schlesinger, “Heart Beat”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: scampish
broodiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broody + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them.
ref: 1998 March 6, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Bohmes Liebeslied, for flute and piano, is arresting in its low-key broodiness; Bittersweet Music I, its piccolo a lonely bird in its nervous twitters, continued the despairing mood.
ref: 1991 September 13, Ted Shen, “Composing Women”, in Chicago Reader:
text: When a hen shows signs of broodiness remove her to the sitting-room.
ref: 1911, Milo M. Hastings, The Dollar Hen:
glosses: The state of being broody
bruskness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brusk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: On further acquaintance I concluded that Mr. Spear's bruskness was assumed, and that beneath the tough husk there beats a very tender heart.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14):
text: "Why didn't you send for me at once?" asked the older man with increasing bruskness.
ref: 1912, Vaughan Kester, The Just and the Unjust:
text: When he had eaten, hungrily and in silence, responding to the mildly ironical sociability of his fellows with a brevity which only his soft voice saved from bruskness, he unrolled his new bed and lay down with not a thought for the part he was playing.
ref: 1904, B. M. Bower, The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories:
glosses: The state of being brusk
bulginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bulgy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days' growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance.
ref: 1918, Robert J. C. Stead, The Cow Puncher:
text: There is nothing in Grown-up Land that equals the thrill the delicious bulginess of the stocking, gripped in the darkness, gave one.
ref: 1912, O. Douglas, Olivia in India:
text: For if that huge and hideous machine Should thrust its bilious bulginess between A blameless couple, such as we have been, My SERAPHINE, I will not condescend to make a "scene," But--if you needs must have your crinoline-- Good-bye!
ref: 1893, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893:
glosses: The state of being bulgy
dauphiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dauphinesses
Etymology: From dauphin + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: As dauphin and dauphiness they naturally had a great following, and as king and queen their taste was paramount, and the style became established.
ref: 1920, Lucy Abbot Throop, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste:
text: After gaining his confidence by her sincerity and trustworthiness, and making herself indispensable to him, she succeeded in bringing about the desired separation, through the medium of the dauphiness, whom she won over to her cause.
ref: 1908, Hugo P. Thieme, Women of Modern France:
text: Melvil was born in Fifeshire in the year 1530, of a family patronized by the queen regent, Mary of Guise, who having taken into her own service his brothers Robert and Andrew, both afterwards noted in public life, determined to send James to France to be brought up as page to the queen her daughter, then dauphiness.
ref: 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: Synonym of dauphine.
synonyms: word: dauphine
manfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English manfulnesse; equivalent to manful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!"
ref: 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present:
text: He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness, of power.
ref: 1881, Charles Kingsley, Westminster Sermons:
text: Nor were these sentiments, be it remembered, the mere boasting manifesto of a hot-brained inexperienced youth, entering on literature with feelings of heroic ardour, which its difficulties and temptations would soon deaden or pervert: they are the calm principles of a man, expressed with honest manfulness, at a period when the world could compare them with a long course of conduct.
ref: 1825, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller:
glosses: The state of being manful
objectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectnesses
Etymology: From object + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness.
ref: 1998 May 15, Fred Camper, “Dreams of Power”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Like much of the work, these are surrounded by painted frames that are part of the overall composition and underscore the objectness of the artwork.
ref: 1994 July 1, Thomas Connors, “The Inscrutable Nutt”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The state of being an object
personalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From personal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: As the mutual education of marriage is an individual affair,--as the more individualness, the more personalness there is in the relation is what the relation itself is for, the mutual education of employers and employees is going to be found to have more meaning, value and power, the more individual and personal--that is to say, the more alive it is.
ref: 1920, Gerald Stanley Lee, The Ghost in the White House:
text: Not the least part of the charm of this museum is the fact that it is not of great size, and that one may consequently visit it without fatigue; but the chief fascination of the place is the dramatic personalness of its exhibits.
ref: 1917, Julian Street, American Adventures:
text: And they do not resemble English storms, but rather Arctic ones, in a certain very suggestive something of personalness, and a carousing malice, and a Tartarus gloom, which I cannot quite describe.
ref: 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
glosses: The state of being personal
salutariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From salutary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The security derived from the innate integrity of men is more pleasing than that which arises from their fears. The nation that boasts of the multiplicity and salutariness of its regulations conveys satire in self-applause; and, though the paradox is not in all cases just, we may venture to affirm, that those who have the best laws often need them the most.
ref: 1771, James Macpherson, “Government of the Ancient British Nations”, in An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Dublin: James Williams, page 250:
text: […] Mrs. Gascoigne was disposed to hope that trouble would have a salutary effect on her niece, without thinking it her duty to add any bitters by way of increasing the salutariness.
ref: 1876, George Eliot, chapter 24, in Daniel Deronda:
text: It is true that the spectacle is painful, horrible; but in pain and horror there is often hidden a certain salutariness, and the repulsion of which we are conscious is as likely to arise from debilitation of public nerve, as from a higher reach of public feeling.
ref: 1907, Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp:
glosses: The state of being salutary.
treelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treelets
Etymology: From tree + -let.
Senses: examples: text: At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each.
ref: 2000 May 26, Richard Condit et al., “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species”, in Science, volume 288, number 5470, →DOI, pages 1414–1418:
text: The people are sorely in need of firewood, and not being far-seeing enough to realize what a menace it is to the country to denude it so unscientifically, they have razed every treelet.
ref: 1920, Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell, Katie Spalding, Le Petit Nord:
text: A single tiny treelet broke the plain just at the skyline of the rise.
ref: 1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints:
text: Once a redbird shot confidently down from above on half-closed wing, caught sight of these intruders, brought up with a swish of feathers, and eyed them gravely for some time from a neighbouring treelet.
ref: 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
glosses: a small tree
heroinware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heroin + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, Jaffe found refuge and eventual salvation with On-Line Gamers Anonymous, one of several online self-help groups that have sprung up to deal with the fallout from electronic entertainment they call heroinware. Its forums are swollen with refugees of various online worlds, all with harrowing stories of runaway gaming habits, lives ruined, friends lost, marriages broken.
ref: 2003 April 3, David McCandless, “Just one more go…”, in The Guardian:
topics: video-games
glosses: An addictive computer game, especially one played to the extent it interferes with the everyday life of the player.
scarabee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarabees
Senses: examples: text: From one of the upper buttonholes dangled a thin gold chain, supporting a bunch of small charms against the evil eye, a little coral horn, a tiny silver hunchback, a miniature gilt bell, and two or three coins of gold and silver, besides an Egyptian scarabee in a gold setting.
ref: 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara:
text: We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee, Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss, And flood with rapturous tears, and bear with us To be our dear companions in the dust, Such magic works an image in our souls!
ref: 1882, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table:
text: From college to the farm-house where I dwelt I took my books, friends who are never cold, With fragile instruments of chemistry, And cabinets of mineral and rock With limestone encrinites; asterias Old as the mountains, or the sea's white lash Wherewith he smites the shoulders of the shore; Tarentula and scarabee I brought, And, too, I brought my diamond microscope Which magnifies a pin's head to a man's, And gives me sights in water and in air The naturalists have not yet touched upon.
ref: 1869, Henry Abbey, Stories in Verse:
glosses: A beetle
scaredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scaredly
form: most scaredly
Etymology: From scared + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He then turned round and looked scaredly at Crean and myself.
ref: 1921, Edward R. G. R. Evans, South with Scott:
text: Wha, like the stricken deer, chased by the hunter's spear, Fled frae the hills o' his father sae scaredly; But wha, by affection's chart, reigns in auld Scotland's heart-- Wha but the royal, the gallant Prince Charlie?
ref: 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:
glosses: In a scared manner, with fear.
sequenator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequenators
Senses: examples: text: Essentially a “robot chemist", the sequenator or sequencer carries out the coupling, wash, cleavage, and extraction steps of the cycle.
ref: 1994, Roger L. Lundblad, Techniques in Protein Modification, →ISBN, page 40:
text: For amino acid sequencing, the two major proteins were sequenced by automated Edman degradation with an Applied Biosystem 473 sequenator.
ref: 2000 August 18, Abderr azzaq Belaaouaj et al., “Degradation of Outer Membrane Protein A in Escherichia coli Killing by Neutrophil Elastase”, in Science, volume 289, number 5482, →DOI, pages 1185–1187:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequencer; a device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA.
Breivik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Breivik.
Senses: examples: text: Even at a time when Anders Behring Breivik is on trial in Norway for killing 77 people in a terror attack last year – and the remote possibility he could end up at Bastoy or a similar prison some day – Nilsen and others stand up for this brand of justice.
ref: 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
seed stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed stock
hard-bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard-bill
hopium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.pi.əm/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.pi.əm/
rhymes: -əʊpiəm
Forms: form: hopeium
Etymology: Blend of hope + opium, as though it were a drug; regarding the surface analysis as hope + -ium, see copium § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Hopium can make you see potential in the grimmest set of circumstances.
ref: 2016, Tracy Schorn, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life: The Chump Lady's Survival Guide, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: This way, we might avoid depression, panic, denial, and hopium for good or bad news, any of which renders us more unrealistic, unprepared, and unwell.
ref: 2020, Jack Adam Weber, Carolyn Baker, Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Planet, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
glosses: A clinging to unreasonable or unfounded hopes.
Related terms: copium
hopenosis
elderlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elderly
autumn years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autumn year
Senses: glosses: The later years of one's life, especially after one has finished one's career.
weaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiki/
ipa: /ˈweɪki/
ipa: /ˈwiːkɪ/
ipa: /ˈweːkɪ/
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homophone: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: weakier
form: weakiest
form: weekey
form: weeky
Etymology: From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky.
*Weak is from Middle English *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr (“moist; damp; wet”) and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva (“moisture; juice”), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture; wetness; open water; icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”).
Cognates
Germanic cognates include Scots wak, wakke, waik (“moist; damp; wet", also "moisture; wetness”); Dutch wak (“icehole; blowhole”) and its earlier form, Middle Dutch wac (“flexible; liquid; moist; soft”); Middle Low German wake (“hole in the ice; open water in the ice”); Swedish vak (“hole in the ice”); Icelandic vökur (“moist”) and vökvi, vökva (“fluid”).
Indo-European cognates include Latin ūmeō (“to be wet, moist or damp”), whence English humid, humidity, and humidify; Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet; moist; fluid”, adjective), whence English hygro-; Sanskrit उक्षति (ukṣáti, “to wet; moisten; sprinkle”).
Senses: glosses: moist; damp; clammy
glosses: juicy; mellow
glosses: watery
glosses: pliant; soft
Derived terms: weakiness
weakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weaky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Moisture.
sukūn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sukūns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sukun.
sukūns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sukūn
sukuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sukun
tamping iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamping irons
Senses: examples: text: The world's most famous tamping iron is the one that struck the head of Phineas Gage.
hypernyms: tamper#Noun
iron
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tool#Noun
glosses: An iron rod used for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.
Related terms: tamping machine
besmell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmells
form: besmelling
form: besmelled
form: besmelled
form: besmelt
form: besmelt
Etymology: From be- + smell.
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you News, Sirs, I carry a little Muist-box (which is the Word of GOD) in my Bosom, and when I meet with the ill Air of ill company, that's like to gar me Swarf, I besmell my self with the 'sweet lavour of it, and with the Name ...
ref: 1708, Michael Bruce, Good news in evil times for fainting believers:
text: Juan positioned himself by the side of the building, peeked through an open window, and found the feast a sight to behold, and a scent to besmell.
ref: 2012, George R.R. Washington, Alan Goldsher, A Game of Groans: A Sonnet of Slush and Soot:
glosses: To smell out; sniff about, around, or all over; investigate or check by smelling; detect a smell or a scent.
besnew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besnews
form: besnewing
form: besnewed
form: besnewed
Etymology: From Middle English besnewen, bisnewen, from Old English *besnīwian (attested in past participle besnīwod (“besnowed”)), equivalent to be- + snew.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of besnow.
home loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home loans
form: homeloan
form: home-loan
Senses: glosses: A loan taken for the purpose of purchasing a house, or other type of residential property.
besleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besleeves
form: besleeving
form: besleeved
form: besleeved
Etymology: From be- (“off, away”) + sleeve.
Senses: glosses: To take the sleeves from (a bishop).
Derived terms: besleeving
beslap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beslaps
form: beslapping
form: beslapped
form: beslapped
Etymology: From be- + slap.
Senses: glosses: To slap around or about; slap all over; slap soundly or completely.
bestay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestays
form: bestaying
form: bestayed
form: bestayed
Etymology: From be- + stay, from Middle English *stayen, steyen, from Old French estaier, estayer (“to prop, stay, support”), from estaye (“prop, support”), of Proto-Germanic origin. More at stay.
Senses: examples: text: Mid the half-furrowed field bestay the plough, Bid the twin toilers of the yoke go free, And aught that doth thee patient servitude, From closing sabbath to its blest return, [...]
ref: 1834, Theodore Sedwick Fay, George Pope Morris, Samuel Woodworth, New-York mirror:
text: Hereupon the magistrates of the town cried "Hola, hola, bestay the matter."
ref: 1874, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of state papers, foreign series, of the reign of Elizabeth:
text: Bestay thee, bestay thee in fighting!
ref: 1940, Thornwell Jacobs, Red lanterns on St. Michael's:
glosses: To secure or steady; cause to come to a fixed position or state; bring to a halt or stop.
unresolve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Etymology: From un- + resolve.
Senses: examples: text: But the truth is that all of us, including this Union, are now poised at a dangerous place midst the unresolve of God that flows off as unresolve into the real world around us.
ref: 1996, Walter Brueggemann, Charles Campbell, The threat of life: sermons on pain, power, and weakness, page 37:
glosses: The lack of the quality of resolve.
unresolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: unresolves
form: unresolving
form: unresolved
form: unresolved
Etymology: From un- + resolve.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, the visual dynamics of cubo-futurist and expressionist designs also found their way into constructivist architecture. On the one hand, the dynamics consisted of unresolving the visual tensions between the component parts and […]
ref: 1981, Kestutis Paul Zygas, Form follows form, page 77:
text: […] remembered experience in QuickTime is often "bit-mapped" and "pixelated": boxed fragments of photorealist images are fragmented and compartmentalized further into smaller boxes yet, unresolving the personal meaning and contours of human memory and resolving them as the visible and controlled geometry that informs the computer's underlying memory and structuration.
ref: 2004, Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture, page 316:
glosses: To undo a resolution.
polars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polar
Things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thing
recouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recouch
mignardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mignardises
Etymology: From French mignardise.
Senses: glosses: A bite-sized dessert sometimes served at the end of a meal.
Platonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈtɒnɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more Platonical
form: most Platonical
form: platonical
form: Platonicall
Etymology: From Latin Platōnicus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Pythagoricall, and Platonicall perfect scholer, and the constant profound Philosopher, with more ease and spede, may (like the Bee,) gather, hereby, both wax and hony.
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
text: Plutarkes opinions are Platonicall, gentle and accommodable unto civill societie[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to Plato or his philosophy; Platonic.
glosses: Affectionate but non-sexual; platonic.
availful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more availful
form: most availful
Etymology: From avail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: These Logicall and Aristotelian ordinances are not availfull [translating à propos] for me, who onely endevour to become more wise and sufficient, and not more wittie or eloquent.
ref: , II.10
glosses: Profitable, useful; of much avail.
speculoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculoos
Etymology: From Dutch speculoos, Belgian form of speculaas, apparently from a now-lost secondary meaning of "pleasure, desire".
Senses: glosses: A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit.
glosses: A type of spiced shortcrust biscuit.
The Belgian version of this biscuit, as contrasted with a Dutch speculaas or German Spekulatius.
glosses: A type of spread made with the biscuit.
Synonyms: sense: biscuit
word: speculaas
sense: spread
word: cookie butter
Hyponyms: word: speculaas
exogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exogamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to exogamy.
butchers' paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of butcher paper.
cymata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹmətə
ipa: /ˈsaɪmətə/
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cymata.
glosses: plural of cyma
cyma rectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymata recta
Senses: examples: text: Wolmut certainly had some drawings like these, because a cornice with pipes tops the doorframe of the Prague Belvedere and above it, there is a cyma rectum separated from the cornice by an astragal.
ref: 2002, Listy Filologické, CXXV, page 44:
glosses: Synonym of cyma recta.
synonyms: word: cyma recta
rubber plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubber plant
spray gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray guns
Senses: synonyms: paint gun
glosses: paint sprayer, powered by compressed air or other gas, larger than an airbrush.
TOTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Top of the Pops (“British TV show”).
TOTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TOTPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: HOTP
glosses: Initialism of time-based one-time password.
calorimetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calorimetre
metathesiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See metathesis and -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Then, metathesiophobia, fear of change.
ref: 2007, Susan Vaught, Big Fat Manifesto, →ISBN, page 145:
text: There is a related fear, metathesiophobia, the fear of change.
ref: 2008, Gérald Zaltman, Lindsay H. Zaltman, Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers, →ISBN, page 4:
text: I felt myself growing dizzy. “I can't,” I whispered. “Meta . . . metathesiophobia.” Maggie sighed impatiently.
ref: 2009, Amy Jones, What Boys Like: And Other Stories:
glosses: The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.
Boro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: They created the better chances while Boro, looking every inch a troubled team, rarely looked like avoiding a third successive goalless home draw.
ref: 1999, Stuart Barnes, “Boro's form keeps failing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:
text: If, however, Boro let their guard slip, you can bet the Tigers will tear their guests for the day to shreds. In not one game this season have City sat back. Against Middlesbrough it will surely be no different.
ref: 2009, Ian Waterstone, Live Through the Dream: The Epic Journey Depicting Hull City's First Ever Season in the Top Flight of English Football, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Last week, the man from the local paper told the 24-year-old author that in years to come the "Linny", as the pub is known, will feature prominently on "Richard Milward Tours" of Boro.
ref: 2009, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, “A night out with the young bard of Boro”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The town of Middlesbrough, and more specifically Middlesbrough FC football club.
examples: text: Craig Reid struck the United woodwork, while Boro goalkeeper Chris Day had to tip over a header from his own midfielder Michael Bostwick.
ref: 2012 May 11, Chris Osborne, “Stevenage 0-0 Sheff Utd”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Stevenage Football Club, a football team from Stevenage formerly known as Stevenage Borough Football Club
caped crusader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpt kɹuːˈseɪdə/
Forms: form: the caped crusader
Senses: glosses: The superhero Batman.
level pegging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably from the pegging in a cribbage board used to keep track of player's scores.
Senses: glosses: equal (having the same number of points, or being in the same position)
raw_tags: of two contestants
secesh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: This is true, for Mrs. Sherman has an idea that St. Louis is unhealthy for our children, and because most of the Catholics here are tainted with the old secesh feeling.
ref: 1864, William T. Sherman, The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Vol. II., Part 4:
text: But he was mistaken; for as the current swept the bateau around the bend of the river, he discovered, to his astonishment and chagrin, the two secesh soldiers, who had left the picket post some time before, standing at convenient distances from each other and from the shore, in the water, ready to rescue him from the fate before him.
ref: 1864, Oliver Optic, The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army:
text: Nearly every building was draped, no matter whether its occupants were pinched or prosperous. Even secesh families hung crepe. Sometimes, the more secesh, the more crepe. It was the same way across the country, as Sarah Morgan, a young Baton Rouge belle, wrote in her diary. "The more violently secesh and the more thankful they are for Lincoln's death, the more profusely the houses are decorated with emblems of woe."
ref: 2015, Kathryn Canavan, Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
glosses: Secessionist, supportive of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.