cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rosemaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlɪŋ/
ipa: /-sə-/
ipa: /-ˌmɔː-/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊzəˌmɑlɪŋ/
Forms: form: rosemåling
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaling (“rose painting”), from rose (“rose”) + maling (“painting”) (from male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -ing (suffix used to form nouns from verbs)).
The form rosemåling is borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk rosemåling with unadapted script.
Senses: examples: text: Rosemaling is the most recent of the Norwegian peasant crafts.
ref: 1957, Sons of Norway, volume 54, Minneapolis, Minn.: Grand Lodge, Sons of Norway, →OCLC, page 209:
text: The recent ethnic and arts and crafts revivals are reflected directly in what has happened among the Norwegians in Minnesota. For them the movement began with rosemaling, which in Minnesota has roots going back to about 1940. No rosemaling was done in Minnesota previously on which to base the movement. It was a direct extension of a slightly earlier rosemaling revival in Wisconsin, […]
ref: 1989, Marion J. Nelson, “Folk Art in Minnesota and the Case of the Norwegian American”, in Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn.: Published for the University of Minnesota Art Museum by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Among the traditions the immigrants [from Norway to the US Upper Midwest] brought with them was rosemaling, decorative painting of stylized flowers and scrolls, with occasional figures. Originally painted onto the interior walls of peasant homes in Norway, rosemaling also adorned furniture, such as the Amerika trunks the immigrants used for storing valuables over their ocean voyages to the New World.
ref: 2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 410:
text: You've probably seen rosemåling before, even if the word is new to you. It's a style of Norwegian folk painting that features leaves, flowers, geometric patterns, and lush scrollwork. Since my family is very proud of its Norwegian heritage, and since both my mom and nana were really interested in folk painting when I was growing up, I've been surrounded by rosemåling for as long as I can remember.
ref: 2016, Melissa Bahen, “Afternoon Fika”, in Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast: 70 Simple Recipes & Crafts for Everyday Celebrations, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A Norwegian style of stylized floral decoration with scrollwork and geometric elements.
wikipedia: Udval
Uvdal Stave Church
Derived terms: rosemaled
rosemaler
routined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more routined
form: most routined
Etymology: From routine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Controlled or regulated by routine.
routinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: routinisms
Etymology: From routine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: prevalence of, or domination by, routine
Related terms: routinist
lie upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies upon
form: lying upon
form: lay upon
form: lain upon
Senses: examples: text: It lies upon the prosecution to prove that the defendant is guilty.
glosses: To be incumbent upon; to be up to (someone); to be obligatory upon.
examples: text: She was lying upon the bed.
glosses: To lie on.
examples: text: The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him.
glosses: To importune; to urge; to solicit.
let me see
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Now, let me see. When did you want the appointment?
text: Let me see. What should I make for dinner tonight?
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
examples: text: Let me see if I can find that book for you.
text: Let me see if this microphone works.
glosses: Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
examples: text: Let me see if I understood you correctly.
text: Let me see if I have this straight.
glosses: Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
examples: text: […] Eric stepped in front of Shala, unaware that he was blocking her view. […]
“Let me see,” Shala demanded, trying to peer around him.
ref: 1994, Betty Brooks, Viking Mistress (Zebra Historical Romance), Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
Synonyms: sense: filled pause
word: let's see
gists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Forms: form: gests
Etymology: From gist + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Senses: glosses: A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
gists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Etymology: From gist + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: glosses: plural of gist
sea-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-pies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea pie (“food”).
examples: text: And the terns hovered over Tom like huge white dragon-flies with black heads, and the gulls laughed like girls at play, and the sea-pies, with their red bills and legs, flew to and fro from shore to shore, and whistled sweet and wild.
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
glosses: Alternative form of sea pie (“bird”).
scopophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoptophobia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “examine, inspect, look to or into, consider”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An unreasonable fear of being seen, or stared at.
Synonyms: ophthalmophobia
Related terms: scopophobic
familar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of familiar.
shantyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shantymen
Etymology: From shanty + -man.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
nautical
transport
glosses: The sailor who sings the main line of a sea shanty (the other sailors singing the responses or choruses)
Synonyms: chanteyman
shantyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shantymen
Etymology: From shanty + -man.
Senses: glosses: A lumberjack
Synonyms: lumberjack
logger
sheeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheeters
Etymology: From sheet + -er.
Senses: glosses: An industrial machine (similar in principle to a roller-type pasta machine) that produces a sheet of dough, fondant etc. of a regular thickness.
examples: text: The Army provided a yard foreman, sheeters, loaders, and checkers to augment the railway staff of two men porters, one lad porter, and a female clerk.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A person who put sheets (tarpaulins) on open railway wagons to keep the loads secure and dry in transit.
examples: text: This test is a four-sheeter
text: A boat is a red-sheeter
glosses: Something with a certain number or type of sheets.
raw_tags: in combinations
Related terms: history-sheeter
rowdy-sheeter
shoreweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoreweeds
Etymology: From shore + weed.
Senses: glosses: A small European plantain, Littorella uniflora, that grows in shallow water or mud at the edges of ponds
shorthold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From short + hold.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Describing a tenancy that exists for an agreed term, at the end of which the property may be recovered by the landlord.
shorthold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortholds
Etymology: From short + hold.
Senses: glosses: A tenancy of this kind.
Related terms: shortholder
lation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Latin lātiō.
Senses: examples: text: Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre of the Universe, exempt from any sort of lation.
text: 17th century, John Donne, Elegy XI: The Autumnal
Since such love's natural lation is, may still
My love descend, and journey down the hill,
Not panting after growing beauties. So,
I shall ebb on with them who homeward go.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Motion of a celestial object from one place to another; local motion.
showband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showbands
Etymology: From show + band.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A band that plays cover versions of popular songs.
soapfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapfishes
form: soapfish
Etymology: From soap + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus bicolor (mottled soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus bornoi (largespotted soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus carpenteri (slope soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus courtenayi (Socorran soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus randalli (plain soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Rypticus spp.
Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Pogonoperca ocellata (Indian soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)
glosses: Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
Diploprion drachi (yellowfin soapfish)
glosses: A species of lizardfish (Synodus foetens)
soaraway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soar + away.
Senses: glosses: That achieves rapid or impressive progress; runaway, roaring.
sobersides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobersides
Etymology: From sober + sides.
Senses: glosses: A serious and sedate person
Related terms: sobersided
squawroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squawroots
form: squaw root
Etymology: From squaw + root.
Senses: glosses: Either of two not closely related plants from eastern North America:
Conopholis americana which is parasitic on the roots of other trees.
glosses: Either of two not closely related plants from eastern North America:
Trillium erectum, that has foul-smelling, yellow to purple flowers.
stapedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stapes
stigmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stigmatists
Senses: glosses: A person whose body is marked by stigmata; a stigmatic
stilboestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪlˈbiː.stɹɒl/
Forms: form: stilboestrols
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: UK spelling of stilbestrol.
stinkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkwoods
Etymology: From stink + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of several not closely related trees whose wood has an unpleasant smell, but especially Ocotea bullata, a south African tree yielding hard, heavy wood.
glosses: The wood of such a tree.
stipulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stipulators
Senses: glosses: A person who stipulates
suspensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspensive
form: most suspensive
Etymology: From suspense + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Effect of an appeal – In principle, an appeal has a suspensive effect (Art. 51(1) VRP). The term suspensive effect denotes the fact that the legal consequence prescribed by the ruling does not become effective until the conclusion of the appeal procedure.
topics: law
glosses: That suspends (temporarily stops)
glosses: Characterized by suspense; suspenseful
Derived terms: topics: law
word: suspensive condition
tallowwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallowwoods
form: tallow wood
form: tallow-wood
Etymology: From tallow + wood.
Senses: glosses: An Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus microcorys, whose wood has a greasy feel when cut
synonyms: mountain plum
glosses: Ximenia americana, a tree of the tropics bearing cherished fruits.
examples: text: The Tallowwood family numbers about 27 genera and nearly 150 species of trees, shrubs and lianas scattered throughout the tropical forests of the world. […]
The tallowwoods
Ximenia L.
 These are a small genus comprising five species of widely distributed tropical trees and shrubs. One of them, X. americana L., extends northward into southern Florida.
Tallowwood hog-plum
Ximenia americana L.
ref: 1946, Ellwood Scott Harrar, Jacob George Harrar, Guide to Southern Trees, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1962, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: The tropical fruit-tree genus Ximenia.
Derived terms: word: tallowwood plum
word: tallow-wood plum
taxonomic: Ximenia americana
word: tallow wood plum
taxonomic: Ximenia americana
word: tallowwood hog-plum
teaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tea
teaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tea
terminational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From termination + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to termination.
glosses: That terminates.
tonepad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonepads
Etymology: From tone + pad.
Senses: glosses: A form of simple modem that generates tones used to control a device at the other end of a telephone line.
topwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: top-water
Etymology: From top + water.
Senses: glosses: Describing an angling lure or bait that floats near or on the surface of the water
trapball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trap + ball.
Senses: glosses: A game in which a batsman makes a ball hit a trap (device) that sends the ball into the air, where the batsman has to hit it again.
truckage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckages
Etymology: From truck + -age.
Senses: glosses: the carrying of goods by truck
glosses: a charge for this
examples: text: The truckage of perishing coin.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: exchange; bartering; truck
tuberculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuberculations
Etymology: From tubercule + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of tubercules.
Related terms: tuberculate
turkeycock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkeycocks
form: turkey cock
form: turkey-cock
Etymology: By surface analysis, turkey + cock. See turkey.
Senses: synonyms: tom#Noun
stag
hypernyms: cock
coordinate_terms: turkey-hen
;
peacock
glosses: A male turkey.
synonyms: peacock
glosses: A pompous or vainglorious person.
igneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more igneal
form: most igneal
Etymology: From Old French ignel, from Late Latin *ignealis, from Latin igneus (“fiery”), from ignis (“fire”).
Senses: glosses: Fiery; of or pertaining to fire.
unconsenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsenting
form: most unconsenting
Etymology: From un- + consenting.
Senses: glosses: Not consenting
unconstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconstricted
form: most unconstricted
Etymology: From un- + constricted.
Senses: glosses: Not constricted
unconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + constructed.
Senses: examples: text: In 1897 the Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Dock Company obtained an Act to take over the authorised, but unconstructed line of the L.D. & E.C. proposal between Lincoln and Mumby Road, the station between Willoughby and Sutton, [...].
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: An Early G.N.R. Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, pages 284–285:
glosses: Not (yet) constructed.
unrested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrested
form: most unrested
Etymology: From un- + rested.
Senses: glosses: Not rested
unresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresting
form: most unresting
Etymology: From un- + resting.
Senses: glosses: Not resting; ceaseless
deck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decks out
form: decking out
form: decked out
form: decked out
Senses: examples: text: They decked the bar out with World Cup paraphernalia for June and July.
synonyms: adorn
bedeck
glosses: To decorate (something).
examples: text: He was decked out as a successful pimp.
synonyms: dress up
glosses: To dress (someone) in fancy clothes.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To forfeit by running out of cards in a deck.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To fall off a mountain or climbing wall and hit the ground.
unrequitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unrequited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A fortyish man meets a twentyish man with whom he'd been unrequitedly in love some years before.
ref: 1981 April 11, Duncan Mitchel, “Hansen's Short Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: In an unrequited manner
underhung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + hung.
Senses: examples: text: Slidebars of the three-bar type are provided in conjunction with an underhung crosshead.
ref: 1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:
glosses: Hung or suspended from above.
examples: text: [H]e was marked with small-pox, had large features, high cheek-bones, deeply set eyes, and a very long chin; and had got the trick which many underhung men have of compressing the upper lip.
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “A Row on the River”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 23:
text: His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Subject Continued”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 336:
glosses: Having the lower jaw projecting.
examples: text: Usually, [railroad] car doors slide on the top door-track, being then termed overhung doors; the underhung door being one supported and sliding on a rail below the door.
ref: 1919, Marshall Monroe Kirkman, Cars, Their Construction and Handling, page 383:
glosses: Of a sliding door: resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended.
undersow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undersows
form: undersowing
form: undersowed
form: undersown
Etymology: From under- + sow.
Senses: glosses: To sow a second crop after a first one (the cover crop) has become established, such that they both develop at the same time
understairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + stairs.
Senses: glosses: A basement or cellar constructed, or accessed, from underneath the stairs.
understocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understock
understocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understocked
form: most understocked
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently stocked
unrequitedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrequited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unrequited.
unreserve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unreserves
Etymology: From un- + reserve.
Senses: examples: text: Kitty, tho' perhaps not authorized to address him with so much familiarity on so short an acquaintance, could not forbear indulging the natural Unreserve and Vivacity of her own Disposition, in speaking to him, as he spoke to her.
ref: c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia
glosses: A lack or absence of reserve; frankness; uninhibitedness.
glosses: A forest that is not set aside as a reserve.
unreserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreserves
form: unreserving
form: unreserved
form: unreserved
Etymology: From un- + reserve.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To undo or cancel a reservation.
Related terms: unreservation
forcasten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forcasten
form: most forcasten
Etymology: Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- + cast.
Senses: glosses: Felled, fallen.
examples: text: I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.
ref: 1891, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford:
glosses: Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
examples: text: They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.
ref: 1976, David Craig, Scottish literature and the Scottish people:
glosses: Abandoned; forlorn.
kidding aside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Phyllis Diller used to joke that it is important to be nice to your children because they ultimately decide which nursing home to place you in! Kidding aside, if you don't take the time for children and family […]
ref: 2004, Lillie Weiss, Therapist's guide to self-care, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of all kidding aside.
the quality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Quality
Etymology: From quality (“high social position”).
Senses: examples: text: 20 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian
I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their travelling habits.
text: The rector kept open house on that day, but by degrees the “quality” gave up going, and the fair, of course, became disreputable, till at last it was put down as a nuisance.
ref: 1887, The, Athenaeum, p. 445:
text: I would have spoken further, but before I could get under way the door opened, revealing Ma Cream, and [my manservant Jeeves] shimmered silently from the room. Unless expressly desired to remain, he always shimmers off when what is called the Quality arrive.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: [In 1919 Ireland.] ‘Be quiet, Ripon! It's not nonsense at all. Ripon's father calls us “fish-eaters” and “Holy Romans” and so on. So does Ripon. So will you, Major, when you're among the “quality”. In fact, you'll become a member of the “quality” yourself, high and mighty, too good for the rest of us.’
ref: 1970, James Gordon Farrell, Troubles, 1st edition, page 34:
text: Yet they did not pretend to be members of ‘the quality’, the people of fashion, the cosmopolitan beau monde or the ton, although they were not above harping on their exalted acquaintances among the nobility or the antiquity of their lineage when they saw fit.
ref: 2006, James Alan Downie, "Who Says She's a Bourgeois Writer? Reconsidering the Social and Political Contexts of Jane Austen's Novels", in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 40, Nr. 1, Fall 2006
glosses: The upper class, the high society, the gentry; the people of quality.
the Quality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I would have spoken further, but before I could get under way the door opened, revealing Ma Cream, and [my manservant Jeeves] shimmered silently from the room. Unless expressly desired to remain, he always shimmers off when what is called the Quality arrive.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of the quality (the upper class)
decked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deck out
stereoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stereoptical
Etymology: From stereo- + optic.
Senses: glosses: Involving the simultaneous use of both eyes, to obtain a three-dimensional image.
Derived terms: stereoptically
forbiddance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbiddances
Etymology: From forbid + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat such Shows should be prohibited is very rational & proper—it is however curious to see how little forbiddance is necessary; for these Superstitious Brutalities die away of themselves gradually […].
ref: 1786 August 16, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: An act of forbidding, prohibition; an official edict against something.
Synonyms: ban
Related terms: prohibition
forbiddances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forbiddance
underly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: more underly
form: most underly
Etymology: From under + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Poor; inferior.
underly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: more underly
form: most underly
Etymology: From under + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Seed-Branch […] is presently divided into two main Branches, and those two into other less; whereof some underly, others aloft, run along the Coat.
ref: 1672, Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of vegetables begun:
glosses: At a lower level.
examples: text: In this case, we are not in a position—at least from the perspective of the rules themselves and the values that lie behind them—to say that they are overly or underly inclusive.
ref: 2000, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, From Social Justice to Criminal Justice, page 109:
text: Overly madeup and underly dressed young women were dancing in a cluster on the floor.
ref: 2014, Jass Richards, Licence to Do That:
text: Better to struggle claustrophobically from the grasp of an overly adoring parent than to fall serially in love with emotionally cruel or distant partners, which is what everyone with underly adoring parents always does.
ref: 2016 July 3, Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Observer:
glosses: In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly).
underly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/
/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈlaɪ/
/ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/
Forms: form: underlies
form: underlying
form: underlay
form: underlain
Etymology: Back-formation from underlying.
Senses: examples: text: I asked him what principles he felt should underly the care provided during such a voyage.
ref: 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of underlie.
Related terms: underlied
Kasparian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
counterintuitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterintuitivities
Etymology: From counterintuitive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being counterintuitive.
glosses: Something counterintuitive.
Gasbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Gasbaryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Gasparian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Gasparyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gasparyans
form: Gasbarian
form: Gasbaryan
form: Gasparian
form: Kasbaryan
form: Kasbarian
form: Kasparian
form: Kasparyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Kasbaryan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Kasbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kasbarians
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Kasparyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kasparyans
Etymology: Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Aghayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Աղայան (Aġayan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Abovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abovyan.
Abovyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abovian
form: Apovian
form: Apovyan
form: Abovian
Etymology: From Armenian Աբովյան (Abovyan).
Senses: examples: text: Khachatur Abovyan
glosses: A surname from Armenian.
glosses: A town in Kotayk, Armenia.
glosses: A village in Ararat, Armenia.
Synonyms: sense: town in Kotayk
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Elar
Apovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abovyan.
Apovyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abovyan.
valonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈləʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /vəˈloʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: valonias
form: valonia oak
form: velani
form: velani oak
form: valonea
form: valonea oak
form: vallonea
form: vallonea oak
Etymology: From the Venetan name Valona of the now Albanian city Vlorë around which it grows, unlike in Italy. One of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, with Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and become popular in Germany only by the 1880s.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Quercus macrolepis, now subspecies Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis or Quercus aegilops of European evergreen oak trees
glosses: A dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning.
Related terms: word: dyer's oak
english: Quercus infectoria
translation: Quercus infectoria
word: Aleppo oak
english: Quercus velutina
translation: Quercus velutina
word: black oak
valvate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valvate
form: most valvate
Etymology: From valve + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having or resembling valves (that open and close).
examples: text: flowers with valvate petals
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Meeting at the edges without overlapping.
variationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variationists
Etymology: From variation + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
variationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From variation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random.
ref: 2013, Robert Bayley, “Variationist sociolinguistics”, in Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Focused on systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
varietist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more varietist
form: most varietist
Etymology: From variety + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: We would call it today an "open marriage", at once permissive and varietist
ref: 1973 November 9, Max Lerner, “Marriage: What's in That Name?”, in The Iowa Press-Citizen:
glosses: Of, relating to, or practicing sexual varietism.
varietist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varietists
Etymology: From variety + -ist.
Senses: examples: 2015 March 23, David S. D'Amato, Free Love: Victoria Woohhull, Libertarianism.orghttp://www.libertarianism.org/columns/free-love-victoria-woodhull
In her periodical, Woodhull stated that her proposition was to "advocate sexual freedom for all people - freedom for the monogamist to practice monogamy, for the varietist to be a varietist still.".
glosses: A person who is nonmonogamous.
Related terms: varietism
veinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪ.nəs/
rhymes: -eɪnəs
Forms: form: more veinous
form: most veinous
Etymology: From vein + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
synonyms: veiny
glosses: Having prominent veins.
examples: text: I do a veinous draw once a month at the doctor's lab.
text: Farriers should have an awareness of blood flow and veinous arterial and capillary blood flow in the foot and how this flow changes under load and when it's unloaded.
ref: 2004, Henry Heymering, American Farriers' Journal, volume 30:
synonyms: venous
venal
glosses: From, or related to veins.
veinstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veinstones
Etymology: From vein + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of this mixture is to reduce the per centage of copper, which is further depressed by the impossibility of separating, even by the most perfect machinery, all the adherent rock and veinstone from the ore.
ref: 2011, Robert Kane, The Industrial Resources of Ireland, page 183:
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of gangue.
synonyms: word: gangue
veitchberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veitchberries
Etymology: From Veitch + berry, from the surname of the men who raised it.
Senses: glosses: A form of loganberry: specifically, a cross between R. fruticosus and R. idaeus.
washery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washeries
Etymology: From wash + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The place in the above-ground part of a coal mine where coal is washed.
glosses: Synonym of laundromat, launderette.
synonyms: word: laundromat
word: launderette
Related terms: scullery
washhouse
washland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washlands
Etymology: From wash + land.
Senses: examples: text: Martyn Wilson, senior asset manager (geotechnics), explains: "In that part of Yorkshire, more than 3,000 acres of washlands had been allowed to flood [in line with the Environment Agency's local flood management plan]. That's 80% of the size of Windermere, so when it floods it becomes the second-largest lake in England.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: Any land that is flooded by a river from time to time.
wonderstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderstruck
form: most wonderstruck
form: wonderstricken
Etymology: From wonder + struck.
Senses: examples: text: 1611, Thomas Middleton, No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657, Act II, Scene 1, p. 50,
I am so wonder-struck at your blest presence,
That through amaz’d Joy, I neglect my duty!
text: Great and astonishing as this difference is, we ought not to be so wonder-struck at it, as to attribute it to the miraculous interposition of heaven.
ref: 1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 7, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, page 127:
text: Soft shall we live, my love, and easy shall we go. Crowned shall we be with the diadem of Kings. Worshipping and wonder struck all peoples of the world, Blinded shall fall before our beauty and might.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: When the morning [running] practice was over the trainer would make his comments and sometimes illustrate them by shuffling along for a yard or so comically in an old pair of blue canvas shoes. A small ring of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch him […]
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
synonyms: awestruck
glosses: Filled or overcome with wonder.
Related terms: wonder-striking
interactomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the interactions between proteins and other components of a cell
Related terms: interactome
interactomic
metastastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metastatic.
microRNAome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microRNAomes
Etymology: From microRNA + -ome (“complete set”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complete set of microRNAs in an organism
microfibrillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From micro- + fibrillar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microfibrils
Derived terms: nonmicrofibrillar
ménagerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ménageries
Senses: examples: text: In one of his flights, he happened to alight in the middle of a ménagerie of peacocks. […] Just at this moment the master of the ménagerie called his birds into a little inclosure, that he might give them their breakfast. […] There was a pond in the middle of the ménagerie, that served him for a looking-glass.
ref: 1818, Edward Baldwin [pseudonym; William Godwin], “The Daw and the Borrowed Feathers”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern. Adapted for the Use of Children. […], 2nd American edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Benjamin Warner, […], page 74:
text: Viperine venom was fixed upon, as being powerful enough to ensure a counteracting affection; and nine live vipers were procured from Prince Napoleon Jerome Buonaparte, who keeps a ménagerie of those animals for philosophical purposes.
ref: 1844 July, J[ohn] G[eorge] Francis, “Florence”, in Notes from a Journal Kept in Italy and Sicily, during the Years 1844, 1845, and 1846. […], London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1847, page 33:
text: People grew accustomed to the announcement of their names, the sight of their faces and sound of their voices, as to the quadrilles of Laurent’s Orchestra, or the ices of Gunter; and in the orchid-house-atmosphere of ministerial Soirées, amidst a confusion of tongues capable of deafening an artilleryman or the keeper of a ménagerie, the two sisters,—the most rising nobodies of the day,—might be heard sympathising cheerfully with Lady Brookdale concerning the annoyance likely to arise to poor Mrs. Warwick, from the death of her fellow-passenger in the Lightning!
ref: 1858, [Catherine] Gore, chapter XIII, in Heckington. […], volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 257:
text: In such a ménagerie of travellers, one occasionally meets with most desirable company, but caution and selection are needful, and in this matter our party was fortunate.
ref: 1876, William Young Martin, “Egypt”, in The East: Being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. […], London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of menagerie.
extrathoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + thoracic, the latter part being from thorax + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside the chest.
logodaedalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logodaedalists
form: logodædalist
Etymology: From logodaedaly + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But when pedants have the effrontery to address the public from the pulpit or the chair, in technical phraseology, calculated singly for the school, that cannot be properly charged on any philosophic system, any more than the follies of a logodaedalist are to be charged on grammar.
ref: 1886, Immanuel Kant, John William Semple, Henry Calderwood, The metaphysic of ethics, page 154:
glosses: One skilled in logodaedaly, that is, the use of words or wordplay.
monologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monologizes
form: monologizing
form: monologized
form: monologized
form: monologise
Senses: examples: text: "No, Mr. Blenkinsop," he replied to the submissive curate, standing on his hearth-rug at full height and regarding the cornice as his habit was when he began to monologize—"no, I find it impossible to entertain such an accusation."
ref: 1892, George Gissing, chapter 26, in Denzil Quarrier:
glosses: To deliver a monologue.
glosses: To deliver in the form of a monologue.
Synonyms: word: monologue
Related terms: soliloquize
monologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monologises
form: monologising
form: monologised
form: monologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of monologize.
monologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monologize
monologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monologize
monologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monologize
monologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monologise
monologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monologise
monologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monologise
chlorella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: chlorellae
form: chlorellas
Etymology: A use as a common noun of the genus name Chlorella.
Senses: examples: text: Many people use chlorella for a nutrient factor isolated in the 1950s and not available in other green foods: "Chlorella Growth Factor" (CGF). CGF is related to the special nature of chlorella's nucleic acid. The nucleic acid in the human body ...
ref: 2002, Paul Pitchford, Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: Any single-celled green alga, of the genus Chlorella, found especially in stagnant water; now produced commercially as a food supplement.
leaves behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leave behind
leaving behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leave behind
left behind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave behind
evolutionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evolutionistic
form: most evolutionistic
Etymology: From evolution + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to evolutionism.
Derived terms: evolutionistically
Related terms: evolution
evolutionary
evolutionism
evolutionist
amygdalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amygdala + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the amygdala
Derived terms: periamygdalar
striatoamygdalar
thalamo-amygdalar
deuteronlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From deuteron + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a deuteron
granulometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to granulometry (measurement of the size of grains in sedimentary deposits)
granulometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granulometries
Etymology: From granule + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The measurement of the sizes of mineral grains in sedimentary rock
glosses: The measurement of the size distribution in granular material
Related terms: granulometer
magnetostrictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetostriction
knawvshawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knawvshawls
form: knawvshawling
form: knawvshawled
form: knawvshawled
form: cnawvshawl
form: knauvshawl
Etymology: From Irish cnáimhseáil (“grumbling, complaining”).
Senses: examples: text: On the way home in the trap, that night, the uncle started to cnawvshawl. "Houl', you hoor," said Dan, "there's a woman as has been watching your nephew this while will be rightly annoyed now that he's promised.
ref: 1984, John B. Keane, Man of the triple name, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Suzanne Vega stereotyped 'Calypso' as we knawvshawled about our families (our begetters and begotten, no worse than the next, whose umbilical cords we're still spancelled to) before we went on to our respective wanderings.
ref: 1997, The Irish review, numbers 20-21, page 123:
text: Secured with ballast of repartee, we drifted past murky, shallow waters of literary knawvshawl and found ourselves navigating a course I can't recall we ever traversed.
ref: 1999, “The Leper and Civil Disobedience”, in Fortnight, numbers 376-390:
text: Nothing would do her but that the fort should be levelled, and she was ever grumbling and knawvshawling about it, if it wasn't about something else.
ref: 2000, Rory O'Connor, Gander at the gate, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: to mutter or complain sullenly
microfluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + fluorescence.
Senses: glosses: fluorescence from very small areas of a sample; used especially to analyze surface contaminants
Related terms: fluorescence microscopy
knawvshawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knawvshawl
knawvshawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knawvshawl
knawvshawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knawvshawl
cnawvshawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cnawvshawls
form: cnawvshawling
form: cnawvshawled
form: cnawvshawled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knawvshawl.
multiclassifier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-classifier
Etymology: From multi- + classifier.
Senses: glosses: That employs multiple classifiers
multifibre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multifiber
Etymology: From multi- + fibre.
Senses: glosses: Employing multiple fibres
glosses: Composed of several different types of (plant) fibre
multiprong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + prong.
Senses: glosses: multipronged