cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
appellational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appellation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It will, moreover, be convenient to keep a separate place (6) for names attributable to miscellaneous fancies; while, lastly (7), we shall speak of those appellational oddities which cease to be oddities, or become less odd than before, when they area rightly understood.
ref: 1882, “Oddities of Personal Nomenclature”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 45, page 213:
text: From thy appellational womb / spew birth-gusts of great worms
ref: 1995, Gregory Corso, “Bomb”, in John Bradley, editor, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, page 49:
text: In the military, appellational protocol is mandatory. A corporal or sergeant would never dare address a captain or a major by his or her first name.
ref: 2012, Abné M. Eisenberg, Prescriptive Communication for the Healthcare Provider, page 256:
glosses: Relating to appellation or naming.
Musumano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Tatigian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Թաթիկյան (Tʻatʻikyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Sidnee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A very rare spelling variant of Sidney.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Paulena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare (non-standard) variant of Paulina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Tai Long
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A certain Tai people.
Tai Long
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A certain Tai language.
Tai Long
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 大浪 (daai⁶ long⁶).
Senses: examples: text: Yu Yuk-chun, 85, moved to Tai Long on Lantau Island some 40 years ago to live with her husband, an indigenous resident of the village.
ref: 2014 March 17, Fanny W. Y. Fung, “Residents of remote Lantau village reveal their plight”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2014, Hong Kong:
glosses: A village of South Lantao Rural Committee in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A village of Sai Kung Rural Committee, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: Tai Long Tsuen
Related terms: Tai Long Wan
skiis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of skis, plural of ski.
ornamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ornamentary
form: most ornamentary
Etymology: From ornament + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Ornamental.
pre-occlusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preocclusion.
preoccluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pre-occluded.
pre-occluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preoccluded
Etymology: From pre- + occluded.
Senses: glosses: Marked by or featuring the phonological process of preocclusion.
Synonyms: prestopped
pre-stopped
preploded
Related terms: pre-occlusion
preocclusion
prestopping
pre-stopping
preplosion
preploded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pre-occluded; marked by the phonological process of preocclusion.
Related terms: plosive
prestopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pre-stopped.
pre-stopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prestopped
Etymology: From pre- + stopped.
Senses: glosses: Pre-occluded; marked by the phonological process of preocclusion.
pre-stopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prestopping.
preplosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + plosion.
Senses: glosses: The phonological process of preocclusion.
prestopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + stopping.
Senses: glosses: The phonological process of preocclusion.
friendly society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendly societies
Senses: examples: text: At a lower social level the eighteenth century saw the launching of pioneer insurance schemes by industrial firms for their employees and the proliferation of working-class friendly societies.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 635:
glosses: Any of various early types of life insurance or mutual support associations.
Synonyms: benefit society
Hyponyms: burial society
friendly societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendly society
double doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double double
benzene ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzene rings
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The arrangement of six carbon atoms in a ring, joined by alternating single- and double bonds, that is found in many organic compounds.
Boston marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boston marriages
Etymology: Unknown, first used in late 19th century New England, and sometimes connected to The Bostonians (1885) by Henry James, which describes such a relationship.
Senses: examples: text: Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit. A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex.
ref: [1894 May 3, “Vanity Fair”, in The Argonaut, page 9:
text: […] several times I was within an inch of coming down here and asking you out for a ride in my red convertible, but the Weird Sisters (indicating Meg and Louisa) told me not to disturb you. But I'm big enough to understand; I wasn't born yesterday. I understand this sort of menage, you know; it's called a Boston Marriage.
ref: [1952, John Horne Burns, Cry of the Children:
text: Often, in marked contrast to Boston marriages in previous times, these lesbians keep their asexuality hidden from the community.
ref: 2002, Marilyn Yalom, Laura L. Carstensen, Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges, University of California Press, page 81:
text: Thus, unlike in contemporary relationships, participants in a Boston marriage may or may not have considered genital activity to be an important element in their relationship.
ref: 2006, Laura Castañeda, Shannon B. Campbell, News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity, SAGE, page 217:
glosses: A long-term monogamous relationship between two unmarried women, especially in New England between the 18th and early 20th centuries.
wikipedia: Henry James
The Bostonians
satellite dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satellite dish
anoxygenic photosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of photosynthesis, employed by certain bacteria, in which oxygen is not produced.
calcium arsenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The inorganic salt Ca₃(AsO₄)₂ that is used as a pesticide and germicide
Alytus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈliːtəs/
/ə.liːˈtʊs/
Etymology: From Lithuanian.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality, the administrative centre of Alytus County, Lithuania.
glosses: A county of Lithuania.
Barysaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бары́саў (Barýsaw).
Senses: glosses: A city in Belarus.
Rousse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rousses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rousse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Rousse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ruse.
Matoury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in French Guiana department.
Izmit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: İzmit
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish ازمید (İzmit) and Turkish İzmit, from Byzantine Greek Νικομήδεια (Nikomḗdeia), from Ancient Greek Νικομήδης (Nikomḗdēs) + -ιᾰ (-iă, “-ia: forming place names”). Doublet of Nicomedia.
Senses: glosses: A city in Kocaeli Province, Turkey.
Synonyms: word: Nicomedia
Halluin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
Fresnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A town in Loir-et-Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
glosses: A town in Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A town in Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
Ermont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Val-d'Oise department, Île-de-France, France.
Niksar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Turkey.
Uzyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Узи́н (Uzýn)
Senses: glosses: A city in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Vilyeyka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Belarus.
Xirdalan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Azerbaijan.
Zwettl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Austria.
Ternivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Терні́вка (Ternívka).
Senses: glosses: A city in Pavlohrad Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Marmande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Lot-et-Garonne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
ashe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sacred world of Santeria is motivated by ashe.
ref: 2011, Joseh M. Murphy, Santeria: African Spirits in America, page 130:
glosses: Alternative form of ase.
glosses: Alternative form of aush.
slow dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slow dance
slow danced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slow dance
orgonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orgone + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of fiberglass resin, metal shavings, quartz, etc., supposed to convert negative energy into positive.
nimieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nimiety
beginninglessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beginningless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of having no beginning; eternalness.
whited sepulcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whited sepulchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whited sepulchre.
ethnozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + zoology.
Senses: glosses: The study of past and present interrelationships between human cultures and animals.
ethnozoological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + zoological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to ethnozoology
ethnozoological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnozoologicals
Etymology: From ethno- + zoological.
Senses: glosses: Such a material
ethnozoologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnozoologists
Etymology: From ethnozoology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ethnozoology.
ethnozoologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnozoologist
planetwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more planetwards
form: most planetwards
Etymology: From planet + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Towards a planet.
Corpus Christi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːpəs ˈkɹɪstaɪ/
ipa: /-tɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹːpəs ˈkɹɪstaɪ/
ipa: /-tɪ/
Etymology: From Latin, meaning “body of Christ”.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A feast day in honor of the Eucharist, observed by Roman Catholics and high-church Anglicans on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
glosses: A coastal city, the county seat of Nueces County, Texas.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Ellipsis of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
dance on nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances on nothing
form: dancing on nothing
form: danced on nothing
form: danced on nothing
Senses: examples: text: Oh! Do hang him-we have waited
Many a day for such a chance;
Let the hempen cord be baited;
See how gracefully he'll dance
Dance on nothing! oh, how funny![…]
ref: 1849, A. H. Baker, “Hang the Black Rascal”, in The Prisoners' Friend:
text: I would much rather be here, my lady, than dancing on nothing in the Hanging-wood, near Parkend
ref: 1831, David Erskine, James III […] :
synonyms: word: dance on a rope
word: dance upon nothing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be hanged.
dance on a rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dances on a rope
form: dancing on a rope
form: danced on a rope
form: danced on a rope
Senses: examples: text: He sat and watched him dancing on a rope, choking and fighting for every breath, until his tongue swelled up in his mouth and his face turned black and still he struggled.
ref: 2011, Karen Maitland, The Gallows Curse:
text: 'Here. they arrest some jumped-up little rebel called Rose.' His finger hits nine o'clock. His voice rising with urgency. 'I meet her in my office, she shows no remorse. I think how lovely she'll look dancing on a rope.' He moves his finger close to the first line — the twelve o;clock line. 'I watch the bitch hang, the crowd turns and rips the gallows to the ground, then . . . Bam.'
ref: 2018, Anna Day, The Fandom:
text: “I ain't no murderer and I don't care to dance on a rope!” “Me neither!” Gravelling's voice was just as shaky. “I'm lookin' at a few years, but not the hangman!”
ref: 2022, Robert McCammon, The King of Shadows:
synonyms: word: hang
word: swing
word: dance on a rope
word: dance on nothing
word: dance the hempen jig
word: dance the Tyburn jig
word: dance upon nothing
word: dangle
word: hang
word: ride a horse foaled by an acorn
word: stretch hemp
word: string up
word: swing
word: take a ride to Tyburn
word: trine
word: truss
word: wag hemp
glosses: To be hanged.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, rope.; to dance on a tightrope or slack rope as an entertainer.
colorphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colorphobic
form: most colorphobic
form: colourphobic
Etymology: From color + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting colorphobia.
isotachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotach
duck ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck ants
Etymology: Its shape is supposed to resemble that of a duck.
Senses: glosses: A white termite of Jamaica, of species Nasutitermes nigriceps, which builds large nests in trees.
cameo conch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cameo conches
Etymology: So-called as it was used to cut cameos (jewels)
Senses: glosses: A large marine univalve shell, especially Cassis madagascariensis, Cypraecassis rufa, or similar species.
cameo conches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameo conch
Pontefract cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pontefract cakes
Etymology: From the Yorkshire town of the same name, Pontefract, where production of the sweets can be traced back to the 1500s.
Senses: glosses: A small, disc-shaped sweet with an impressed castle, made from locally grown liquorice.
wikipedia: Pontefract
camwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camwheels
Etymology: From cam + wheel.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face, one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.
camwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camwheel
Dunkerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dunker + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Dunkers.
enneagrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to enneagrams.
reel oven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reel ovens
Senses: glosses: A baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. .
pragmatic sanction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pragmatic sanctions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A sovereign's solemn decree on a matter of primary importance, having the force of law.
lath nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lath nails
Senses: glosses: A slender nail for fastening laths.
lath brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lath bricks
Senses: glosses: A long, slender brick used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln.
lath bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lath brick
bill and coo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bills and coos
form: billing and cooing
form: billed and cooed
form: billed and cooed
Senses: glosses: To coo and rub beaks as a prelude to mating.
raw_tags: of birds such as pigeons and doves
examples: text: To be brave, handsome, twenty-two; / With nothing else on earth to do, / But all day long to bill and coo; / It were a pleasant calling.
ref: 1869, William Thackeray, “Piscator and Piscatrix”, in Ballads, published 1881, page 88:
text: "It's not as if you two were young people, and wanted to be billing and cooing," Lady Ball had said to her the same evening. Miss Mackenzie, as she thought of this, was not so sure that Lady Ball was right. Why would she not want billing and cooing as well as another?
ref: 1875, Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie, Norilana Books, page 122:
text: Take a sweet girl just like you / How nice if only we could bill and coo
ref: 1973, Bryan Ferry, “Pyjamarama”, performed by Roxy Music:
glosses: To exchange loving and affectionate behaviour, such as caresses and kisses.
raw_tags: of romantic couples
Related terms: lovebird
lovey-dovey
wear weary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears weary
form: wearing weary
form: wore weary
form: worn weary
Senses: glosses: To grow weary; to become tired (of something).
troll plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troll plates
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rotary disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, such as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.
troll plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troll plate
flip dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flip dogs
Senses: examples: text: Away went Philemon, having first thrust the heavy end of the flip-dog into the bed of coals glowing under the forestick.
ref: 1865, Charles Ames Washburn, Gomery of Montgomery: a Family History, page 198:
text: One of the most popular is said to have been of "home brewed beer", sweetened with sugar, molasses, or dried pumpkin, and flavored with a liberal dash of rum, then stirred in a great mug or pitcher with a red hot hottle or flip dog, which made the liquor foam and gave it a burnt, bitter taste.
ref: 1902, Edward Field, The political development of the towns, page 574:
text: A flip dog is not much on the bark, for it is only a bar of iron shaped somewhat like a poker, and when it was in use had to be heated red-hot and then plunged into the glass containing the flip, which by the way was made, according to the taste of the drinker, either from ale, cider, or wine, and highly spiced; sometime an egg was stirred in it to give it a little more body.
ref: 1908, Edward Randolph Emerson, Beverages, past and present, page 272:
text: The flips of today have gone cold, and the flip-dog remains chilled and neglected by the fireplace, its solitary use now to poke the burning logs.
ref: 1937, Stanley Clisby Arthur, Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to Mix 'em, page 79:
text: The hot and heady New England tavern concoction called flip was slightly sweet, rum, ale and spice beverage heated to a caramelized froth with the wrought iron flip dog.
ref: 2015, Elyse Moore, “Flip Dog in the Shad House: Commercial Fisheries Markets and Tavern Culture at Hadley Falls 1730-1880”, in Mark McWilliams, editor, Food & Markets: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2014, page 275:
synonyms: loggerhead
glosses: A heated iron used to warm flip (the drink).
examples: text: A fun backbend, Flip Dog opens your chest and strengthens your shoulder girdle, working the opposite direction of how you use your shoulders while climbing.
ref: 2016, Nicole Tsong, Yoga for Climbers: How to Stretch, Strengthen and Climb Higher:
text: Keep your hips lifted as much as possible during the transition from three point to flip dog.
ref: 2015, Jennifer DeCurtins, The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions, page 19:
text: Before we explore the common "flip dog" entrance, let's look at coming into wild thing from side plank, an entrance that is often more accessible and less taxing on the shoulders.
ref: 2020, Dianne Bondy, Kat Heagberg Rebar, Yoga Where You Are, page 151:
synonyms: wild thing
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A backbend in which the body is supported by one arm and one leg, usually entered from either a side plank pose or from downward-facing dog.
flip dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flip dog
copper barilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia
Related terms: copper sand
in present
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: With them, in present, half his kingdom; the rest to follow at his death.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: At once, without delay.
Hoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: Hoyles
Etymology: From Old English halh (“hollow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Heyshott parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SU9018).
Derived terms: according to Hoyle
Hoylean
hoydenishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hoydenishly
form: most hoydenishly
Etymology: From hoydenish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hoydenish manner.
hoydenishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoydenish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hoydenish.
pelt rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A disease affecting the hair or wool of an animal.
flutter wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutter wheels
Etymology: So called from the spattering of water and the fluttering noise it makes.
Senses: glosses: A water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats.
Coordinate terms: tub wheel
undershot wheel
breast wheel
central-discharge wheel
overshot wheel
Related terms: turbine wheel
flutter wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutter wheel
chevron bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevron bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the V-shaped subvertebral arches which enclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.
chevron bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevron bone
morning gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning gowns
Etymology: So called because it is worn before one is dressed in the morning.
Senses: examples: text: He therefore crept out of bed, tho' not without great repugnance, and wrapping himself in his morning-gown, was supported down stairs, rubbing his eye, yawning fearfully, and grumbling all the way.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dressing gown.
morning gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning gown
succade gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succade gourds
Senses: glosses: vegetable marrow (Cucurbita pepo)
succade gourds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succade gourd
whirling table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirling tables
Senses: glosses: An apparatus fitted with one or more revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, etc., for illustrating physical laws and phenomena.
glosses: A potter's wheel.
whirling tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whirling table
Dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daggers
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player, supporter or other person connected with Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.
Shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shrimps
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.
Gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gulls
head_nr: 1
Etymology: In reference to the seagulls found in Torquay, a coastal town.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
head_nr: 1
glosses: A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.
Gull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to the seagulls found in Torquay, a coastal town.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
grab game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the grab game
Senses: examples: text: SMN October 16 , 1887: 8/1 - Philip Henry an athletic young Negro, tried the grab game in Falk & Sons' clothing house last night, and will be called upon in Police Court to-morrow to explain […]
ref: 1887, Annals of Savannah, 1850-1937, page 441:
synonyms: snatch and run
glosses: The practice of theft by grabbing or snatching property, such as a purse, from someone.
striking plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striking plates
Senses: glosses: The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed.
glosses: Part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.
striking plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striking plate
polka jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polka jackets
Senses: examples: text: All the dresses were en suite, and consisted of a pair of very full trousers, joined together half way up the leg, a robe called a yebek, with tight sleeves, and either opening half-way down the chest and then buttoning to the waist, or closed from the throat; the skirt is divided into three parts, the back hanging down so as to form a long train, the two front ones coming off into points which, as they showed me, they tuck into the scarf: this is twisted as a belt round the waist when they sit down, and held between their ankles when they walk; and as they shuffle along, never raising their feet from the ground, the ends do not drop down, as they would infallibly do with us. A polka jacket completes the costume. The embroidery on the dresses was literally sumptuous; what I most admired was a dove-coloured watered silk with a deep embroidery of wheat-ears in pure gold, the finest jeweller’s gold laid on in solid pieces for the leaves and ears, the stalks in gold thread.
ref: 1862, Margaret Domville, “A visit to the hareem of Saïd Pacha”, in Once a Week:
text: When expecting company, they were decked out suitably. Calico for chemises was once issued, and, doubtless, made up by some of them in olden days. The polka jacket was gaily got up, though only worn on festive occasions. When I made a remark as to the paucity of clothes, and their miserable appearance in such weather, there was the repetition of the complaint of their selling for drink the dresses, even though all had been stamped with the Government mark.
ref: 1870, James Bonwick, The Last of the Tasmanians, Chapter 9:
text: In towns the sari is not passed between the legs, but hangs in loose folds so as to hide the trousers. The upper classes wear a sleeved polka''' jacket instead of the bodice.
ref: 1911, “India”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.:
text: the digger, whose very pores oozed gold, planked down handfuls of dust and nuggets, and brushed aside a neat Paisley shawl for one of yellow satin, the fellow to which he swore to having seen on the back of the Governor's lady herself. He showered brandy-snaps on the children, and bought a polka-jacket for a shabby old woman.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Part I/Chapter I:
synonyms: polka
glosses: A tight-fitting knitted jacket worn by women. It was fashionable in the 19th century.
Theban year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Theban years
Senses: examples: 1774-1776, Jacob Bryant, A New System or Analysis of Ancient Mythology
They had another year in Upper Egypt, which was heliacal, and styled the Theban. This consisted of three hundred sixty-five days, and six hours.
glosses: The ancient Egyptian year of 365 days and six hours.
Theban years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Theban year
Malay apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌleɪ ˈapəl/
ipa: /ˌmeɪleɪ ˈæpəl/
ipa: /məˌleɪ ˈæpəl/
Forms: form: Malay apples
Senses: examples: text: A romance must have begun very gradually, beneath the bushy-topped Malay apple trees of the church square […].
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 141:
synonyms: mountain apple
nakavika
ohia
pommerac
pomarrosa
rose apple
glosses: A myrtaceous tree (Syzygium malaccense) native to Malaysia and Australia, or the fruit of this tree.
Malay apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malay apple
acupunctural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acupuncture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to acupuncture.
Derived terms: acupuncturally
acupuncturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acupunctural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of acupuncture.
luxuriant flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxuriant flowers
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flower in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.
luxuriant flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luxuriant flower
toastiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊstɪnəs/
Etymology: From toasty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being toasty.
hyperreal numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperreal number
ischiadic passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sciatica
miner's inch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miner's inches
Senses: glosses: A unit of flow in terms of volume per unit time. It is not a standard unit but varies by location.
podology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From podo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: podiatry, chiropody
Derived terms: podologist
flapper skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flapper skates
Senses: glosses: A European skate, Dipturus intermedius, a subspecies of the common skate.
miner's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: golfer's elbow
nursemaid's elbow
;
tennis elbow
glosses: A swelling on the back of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon.
Related terms: miner's disease
miner's lung
phlox worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlox worms
Senses: glosses: The larva of an American moth (Heliothis phloxiphaga), destructive to phloxes.
phlox worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlox worm
pastellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastellist
pastelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastelists
Etymology: From pastel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pastellist.
pastelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastelist
imbuia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbuias
Etymology: From Portuguese imbuia, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: Ocotea porosa, a tree of southern Brazil, a source of high-end timber.
garnish bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnish bolts
Senses: examples: text: The cap-squares for trunnions are fixed with joint bolts, spring keys with chains and staples; garnish bolts; rosebuds; diamond headed and counter-sunk nails; upper and under pintle plates, &c.
ref: 1809, Louise de Tousard, American Artillerist's Companion:
glosses: A bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.
resting spore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resting spores
Senses: examples: text: Resting spores appear never to form a mycelium […]
ref: 1893, Charles Edwin Bessey, The essentials of botany:
glosses: A spore, in certain orders of algae, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time.
resting spores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resting spore
logocyclic curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logocyclic curves
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: foliate
glosses: A right strophoid.
strophoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophoids
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of a point that has a certain relationship with a given curve
strophoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophoid
foliate curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foliate curves
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: folium
aqua Tofana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Giulia Tofana, the woman supposed to have produced it.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the women don’t mention Aqua Tofana specifically but instead show off their “poison rings,” wearable baubles with a hidden compartment supposedly made to hold a lethal dose of a toxin.
ref: 2024 November 10, Chris Nesi, “Women furious about Trump’s win start ‘MATGA’ movement — which glorifies poisoning men: ‘They asked for it’”, in New York Post:
text: One woman in the video leans toward the camera and whispers: "Aqua Tofana, am I right? Aqua Tofana. If you know, you know."
ref: 2024 November 11, Emma Marsden, “What Is 'MATGA?' Anti-Trump Women's Deadly New Trend”, in Newsweek:
glosses: A strong poison, containing arsenic, said to have been widely used in Naples and Rome in the 17th century.
cliff swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff swallows
Etymology: Compound of cliff + swallow.
Senses: glosses: Any of various birds in the genus Petrochelidon that nest in cliffs.
glosses: Any of various birds in the genus Petrochelidon that nest in cliffs.
Synonym of American cliff swallow (“Petrochelidon pyrrhonota”).
synonyms: word: American cliff swallow
extra: Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
raw_tags: in particular
on a sudden
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: How are thou loſt, how on a ſudden loſt,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book CCXLVII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 900:
text: On a sudden he was aware of a man linking along at his side. He cried a fine night, and the man replied.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: all of a sudden; suddenly
letters of horning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In untechnical language, we may describe letters of horning as the authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith.
ref: 1876, A concise law dictionary by Herbert Newman Mozley and George Crispe Whiteley, barrister at law:
topics: law
glosses: The process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply.
mussel digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussel diggers
Senses: glosses: gray whale
Related terms: clamdigger
fag out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fags out
form: fagging out
form: fagged out
form: fagged out
Senses: glosses: To become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To come on as a fielder at the behest of a senior student in British schools.
odontoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontoid
Elu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈ(h)ɛluː/
Forms: form: Hela
form: Helu
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese එළු (eḷu), හෙළු (heḷu), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀻𑀳𑀮 (sīhala) (compare Pali sīhala), from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + -ल (-la). Doublet of Ceylon and Sinhala.
Senses: glosses: the ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
Related terms: Sinhala
flairtending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of flair + bartending
Senses: glosses: flair bartending
enteric fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: typhoid fever
skinbound disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sclerema neonatorum
phocenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phocenates
Etymology: From phocenic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of phocenic acid.
phocenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phocenate
lapis calaminaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin lapis calamīnāris, from lapis (“stone, mineral”) + calamīnāris (“of or related to calamine”), from calamīna (“calamine”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from Latin cadmia, from Ancient Greek κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kădmĭ́ā), variant of Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kădmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Doublet of cadmia, calamine, and calaminaris.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.
synonyms: word: calamine
extra: a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation
lapis infernalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: glosses: Fused silver nitrate; lunar caustic.
house of assignation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of assignation
Senses: glosses: brothel
play booty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays booty
form: playing booty
form: played booty
form: played booty
Senses: examples: text: So that we understand what we ought to do; but when we come to deliberate, we play booty against ourselves
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hustle (play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one).
examples: text: Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that’s what’s wrong with you.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: To double-cross someone.
Handsel Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The first Monday of the new year, when presents were traditionally given to servants and children.
spathic iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: siderite
mobsterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mobster + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Drug dealing, gun running, money laundering, prostitution, heists, artifact theft, and bribery are all forms of mobsterism.
glosses: The practices of a mobster; organized crime.
kissing comfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissing comfits
Senses: examples: text: let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves; hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: A perfumed sugar-plum previously used to sweeten the breath.
kissing comfits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing comfit
peck at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pecks at
form: pecking at
form: pecked at
form: pecked at
Senses: examples: text: "Ghouls and harpies!" Brissenden snapped out with clicking teeth. "Yes, I know the spawn—complacently pecking at him for his Father Damien letter, analyzing him, weighing him—"
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter 32, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC:
glosses: To nag
synonyms: pick at
glosses: To eat unenthusiastically and in small bites.
mignonette pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coarsely ground pepper, sometimes referred to as "shot pepper"
mesh stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesh sticks
Senses: glosses: A stick on which the mesh is formed in netting.
mesh sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesh stick
Alesund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ålesund.
Queluz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Queluz.
Senses: glosses: A city in Sintra, district of Lisbon, Portugal.
glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
Xanthi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Ξάνθη (Xánthi).
Senses: glosses: A city in Thrace, northeastern Greece.
women's shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women’s shelters
Senses: glosses: plural of women's shelter
planet wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planet wheels
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gear wheel that revolves around the wheel with which it meshes, in an epicyclic train.
planet wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planet wheel
pinking iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinking irons
Senses: glosses: An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc.
pinking irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinking iron
scot and lot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parish tax laid on subjects according to their ability.
examples: text: Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
glosses: Obligations of every kind regarded collectively.
Samian earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of clay from the island of Samos, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.
hitch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hitches up
form: hitching up
form: hitched up
form: hitched up
Senses: glosses: To fasten up.
examples: text: hitch up your skirt
text: And I'm trying not to notice / That she's hitching up her skirt
ref: 1987, “Tom's Diner”, in Suzanne Vega (lyrics), Solitude Standing:
glosses: To pull up, or raise with a jerking movement.
examples: text: Hitch up the trailer.
glosses: To attach (a horse, etc.) to a vehicle.
qualifier: "get hitched up"
glosses: To marry.
imposing stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imposing stones
Senses: examples: text: [The printer] gathers the letters marked as corrections in the margin, together with a quantity of spaces of all sizes, and returns to the forms, which in the meanwhile one of them has laid up on the imposing-stones and unlocked.
ref: 1841, Thomas Curson Hansard, Treatise on Printing and Type-founding:
text: Imposition is the process of arranging type forms in the desired position for printing so that they may be locked-up om readiness for the press. It is commonly known as stone-work to the practical printer, because the forms are placed and handled on an imposing stone, and the workmen are known as Impositors.
ref: 1922, Clifford Wilson Hague, Textbook of Printing Occupations, page 137:
text: After the type form has been proofed, corrected, and tied up again, it is ready for printing and must be locked up. This is done on the imposing stone (called a stone because of the flat marble or sandstone on top of the imposing table.
ref: 1971, Technical Manual: TM 8-290: Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, United States Department of the Army, page 12-25:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms.
Related terms: imposing table
stone editor
imposing stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imposing stone
clove hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clove hooks
Senses: glosses: An iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails.
Synonyms: clip hook
cardiac passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: heartburn
gentle craft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, laureate of the gentle craft, Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed.
ref: 1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Nuremberg”, in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems:
glosses: Shoemaking or cobbling; the trade of a shoemaker or cobbler.
examples: text: Another fisherman was picked up here—and that so silently, that if Young Jerry had been superstitious, he might have supposed the second follower of the gentle craft to have, all of a sudden, split himself into two.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in A Tale of Two Cities:
text: [O]n Sundays he went fishing, being devoted to the gentle craft.
ref: 1892, W. H. Hudson, chapter 20, in Fan: The Story of a Young Girl's Life:
text: Dangerfield was of good Colonel Venables' mind, that 'tis well in the lover of the gentle craft to associate himself with some honest, expert angler, who will freely and candidly communicate his skill unto him.
ref: 1904, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 28, in The House by the Church Yard:
glosses: Fishing; angling.