cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-x
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: raw_tags: referring to classes numbered 301, 302, 303, etc.
text: I teach all of the 30x classes.
glosses: Used to represent a value that may vary: see x.
-x
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ks/
Etymology: The letter x is prototypically pronounced [ks] in English; it therefore serves as a convenient shorthand for the digraphs (cs, ks, etc.) or trigraphs (cks etc.) that would otherwise represent that consonant cluster.
Senses: examples: text: blax (“blacks”), clox (“clocks”), fax (“facts”), folx (“folks”), hax (“hacks”), pix (“pics”), punx (“punks”), snax (“snacks”), sox (“socks”), stix (“sticks”), tix (“tickets”), trax (“tracks”)
glosses: Used to replace a /ks/ sound, especially in monosyllabic words ending in -cks or -ks.
Related terms: -z
-x
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ks/
Senses: examples: text: Dx (“diagnosis”), elex (“election”), Hx (“history”), pax (“passenger”), RX (“receive”), TX (“transmit”)
glosses: An abbreviation marker.
-x
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ks/
Etymology: From the use of x as a neutral or nonspecific placeholder.
Senses: examples: alumnx, Chicanx, Latinx
glosses: Used to replace a gendered suffix.
Related terms: x
Mainz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪnts/
ipa: /maɪn(t)s/
rhymes: -aɪnts
rhymes: -aɪns
Forms: form: Mayence
form: Mentz
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mainz, from Latin Mogontiacum, from a Celtic language.
Senses: glosses: A city, the state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the River Rhine.
Derived terms: Mainz-Bingen
luns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lun
duelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian duello.
Senses: glosses: a duel
glosses: the rules of dueling
turista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish turista (literally “tourist”), from English tourist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of traveler's diarrhea.
synonyms: word: traveler's diarrhea
Nordic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.dɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪk
Forms: form: more Nordic
form: most Nordic
form: nordic
Etymology: From French nordique, from nord (“north”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Nordic countries.
glosses: Of or relating to the light colouring and tall stature of Nordic peoples.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family of North Germanic languages.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
coordinate_terms: alpine
glosses: Of or relating to cross-country skiing or ski jumping.
Derived terms: New Nordic
new Nordic cuisine
Nordically
Nordicentric
Nordicism
Nordicist
Nordicity
Nordicization
Nordicize
Nordic model
Nordicness
Nordic noir
para-Nordic
Nordic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.dɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪk
Forms: form: Nordics
form: nordic
Etymology: From French nordique, from nord (“north”).
Senses: glosses: A person of Nordic descent or having features typical of Nordic people.
examples: text: Called “Nordics,” the aliens are human-like in appearance, of average height, and often have long, flowing hair. Contactees are typically struck by the beauty of the Nordics, as was Howard Menger (1959): “She seemed to radiate and glow,” Menger explains,
ref: 2007, Erich Goode, D. Angus Vail, Extreme Deviance, Pine Forge Press, page 41:
text: But the third most common alien is called a Nordic, or humanoid.
ref: 2012, Kelly Milner Halls, Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens, Millbrook Press, page 45:
text: Known as Nordics, these extraterrestrials are said to have blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and are anywhere from 6 to 8 feet (183cm to 244cm) tall.
ref: 2012, Patricia D. Netzley, Extraterrestrial Life: Alien Encounters, Reference Point Press, page 33
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
ufology
glosses: A race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.
Related terms: word: Norse
word: Nordish
word: Nordic combined
word: Nordic walking
word: Pleiadean
word: Tall White
raw_tags: for Nordic aliens
pp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: related: word: pp.
glosses: plural of p; abbreviation of pages.
pp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pps
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: related: word: p.p.
word: %p
glosses: Initialism of percentage point.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: p. p.
word: p.p.
word: pp.
word: PP
coordinate_terms: pres. part.
pres.part.
glosses: Initialism of past participle.
examples: text: Comparisons with ppbar and pp data reveal improvement in the description of single diffractive events..
ref: 2015, Christine O. Rasmussen, Torbjörn Sjöstrand, “Hard Diffraction with Dynamic Gap Survival”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: proton and proton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of pee-pee.
Related terms: ppbar
ff
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: examples: text: ffor, as the Love of heaven makes one heavenly, the love of vertue vertuous, ſo dothe the love of the Worlde make one become worldly, […]
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 17
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
glosses: Often written in old manuscripts or transcriptions of them, denoting a capital F.
Related terms: ff-hole
ff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ffs
form: ffing
form: ffed
form: ffed
Senses: examples: text: we can't win, ff this shit
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of forfeit.
dog rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog roses
form: dogrose
Senses: glosses: A European wild rose shrub of species Rosa canina, having fragrant white or pink flowers and stems with sharp spines.
glosses: A Rosa canina flower.
inemuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese いねむり.
Senses: glosses: The practice of dozing at school or work, interpreted in Japanese culture as evidence that a person has been working hard.
zoospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzoʊ.əˌspoɹ/
Forms: form: zoospores
Etymology: From zoo- + spore.
Senses: glosses: A motile asexual spore of some algae and fungi
Synonyms: swarm spore
Related terms: zoosporulation
setpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛtpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: setpoints
Etymology: From set + point.
Senses: glosses: The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
Related terms: set point
American as apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Josh Billings is as American as apple pie or the corncob pipe.
ref: 1932, Cyril Clemens, Josh Billings, Yankee Humorist, page 178:
text: The book is as American as apple pie, or spoon bread, or baked beans, and its influence must have been great during those times.
ref: 1934, Jerry Wallace, A Parson at Large: Being an Account of Mason Locke Weems:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Having characteristics considered quintessential to American life; very American.
Coordinate terms: Australian as a kangaroo
Canadian as maple syrup
English as apple pie
ima
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Imma.
It girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: It girls
form: it girl
form: It Girl
Etymology: Originally applied to actress Clara Bow, who starred in a film titled It (it being a euphemism for charisma).
Senses: examples: text: She's literally perfect in every way. She just has it, you know? A total it girl.
text: Passionate pursuers are a challenge to guys because while other girls may be chasing them, the It Girls are chasing their dreams.
ref: 2003, Gilda Carle, Teen Talk with Dr. Gilda: A Girl's Guide to Dating:
text: I even found the perfect venue to display my new It-girl persona: the aptly named It-girls premiere party for the It-girls documentary.
ref: 2003, Melissa de la Cruz, Karen Robinovitz, How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less:
text: She was one of the It Girls of her day.
ref: 2004, Andrea Stuart, The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine:
coordinate_terms: It boy
glosses: A woman who has "it" (effortless charm, beauty, charisma); an actress, model, or socialite in vogue.
wikipedia: Clara Bow
It (1927 film)
italicisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: italicisations
form: italicization
Etymology: From italicise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the process of italicising; something italicised
Related terms: italicize
italicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌtælɪsaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: italicizations
form: italicisation
Etymology: From italic + -ization or italicize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of italicizing; something italicized.
Related terms: italicize
gaiji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaiji
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 外字, literally "external characters".
Senses: glosses: A Japanese character that is valid in a given writing system but not included in the present font and/or character encoding, and which therefore is displayed using an additional mechanism. Mutually distinct from tofu and from mojibake.
G-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-strings
form: G string
Etymology: Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain.
Senses: coordinate_terms: C-string
glosses: A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:G-string.
glosses: A type of loincloth or breechcloth.
Synonyms: loincloth
tanga
thong
Related terms: fundoshi
G-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-strings
form: G string
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: On a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces the note of G.
layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.əz/
ipa: /lɛəz/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɚz/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of layer
layers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.əz/
ipa: /lɛəz/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɚz/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of layer
promythium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promythia
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: A section of text that comes before the story.
demi-vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-vegetarians
Etymology: From demi- + vegetarian.
Senses: glosses: A person who eats fish but not meat.
glosses: A person who eats seafood and poultry.
glosses: A demitarian; a person who makes conscious effort to reduce meat consumption largely for environmental reasons
deliverables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliverable
uncopyrightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + copyrightable.
Senses: examples: text: […] The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]
ref: 1984, MJ Touponse, “Application of Copyright Law to Computer Operating System Programs: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin”, in Connecticut Law Review, page 665:
text: […] Keeton, however, resolved that it was the idea/expression dichotomy that forms the boundary line between the copyrightable and the uncopyrightable, […]
ref: 1994, R VerSteeg, “Jurimetric Copyright: Future Shock for the Visual Arts”, in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, page 125:
text: […] to examine those director contributions that help create that overall feel and apply Judge Hand's abstractions test to filter out the uncopyrightable from the copyrightable […]
ref: 2001, R Amanda, “Elvis Karaoke Shakespeare and the Search for a Copyrightable Stage Directions”, in Arizona Law Review, page 677:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Ineligible for copyright.
uncopyrightable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncopyrightables
Etymology: From un- + copyrightable.
Senses: examples: ref: 1960 March, W. J. G., H. K. S., “‘Copyright’ Protection for Uncopyrightables: The Common-Law Doctrines”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, volume 108, number 5, pages 699–734:
text: Intrinsic state doctrines are further condemned by Sears and Compco’s second principle for their tendency to extend the equivalent of copyright protection to statutory uncopyrightables.
ref: 1969 January, Paul Goldstein, “Federal System Ordering of the Copyright Interest”, in Columbia Law Review, volume 69, number 1, Columbia Law Review Association, Inc., page 71:
text: 1974 April, Dane J. Durham, “Goldstein v. California: Validity of State Copyright under the Copyright and Supremacy Clauses”, in Hastings Law Journal volume 25 (1973–4), page 1201,
Indeed, Judge Hand himself admitted that the harshness of a complete denial of protection for statutory uncopyrightables was a persuasive element in the alternative line of thought.
glosses: That for which no one can obtain copyright.
Related terms: List of English isograms
contranym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹə.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɹə.nɪm/
Forms: form: contranyms
Etymology: By surface analysis, contra + nym; diachronically, coined in 1962 by Jack Herring as contronym from contr(a)- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of contronym.
Derived terms: contranymic
pros and cons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin prō (“for, on behalf of”) and contrā (“against”).
Senses: glosses: The positive and negative attributes of arguments.
Synonyms: word: fors and againsts
word: advantages and disadvantages
word: benefits and malefits
word: boons and banes
word: assets and liabilities
word: costs and benefits
word: gains and losses
word: opportunities and obstacles
word: strengths and weaknesses
word: positives and negatives
word: benefits and disadvantages
word: benefits and disbenefits
word: benefits and detriments
word: benefits and drawbacks
word: benefits and risks
word: highs and lows
word: good and bad
word: merits and drawbacks
pros and cons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin prō (“for, on behalf of”) and contrā (“against”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pro and con
hypomethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomethylations
Etymology: From hypo- + methylation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a decrease in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA
Related terms: hypomethylated
corposant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːpəzant/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹpəˌsænt/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹpəsənt/
Forms: form: corposants
form: composant
form: corpusant
Etymology: Latin corpus (“body”) + sanctum (“holy”)
Senses: examples: text: I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still. But do they only have mercy on long faces?--have they no bowels for a laugh? […] I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a' block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; and so, all that sperm will work up into the masts, like sap in a tree. Yes, our three masts will yet be as three spermaceti candles--that's the good promise we saw.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 498:
text: If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot.
ref: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:
glosses: An electrical discharge accompanied by a corona of ionization in the surrounding atmosphere
Synonyms: St. Elmo's fire
Saint Elmo's fire
attending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From attend + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
glosses: Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
examples: text: Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies.
ref: 1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:
glosses: Attendant, concomitant.
Derived terms: attendingly
nonattending
unattending
attending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: attendings
Etymology: From attend + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.
ref: 2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:
text: All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.
ref: 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:
glosses: A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
attending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From attend + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attend
unbleached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːtʃt
Etymology: From un- + bleached.
Senses: examples: text: There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.
ref: 2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Not bleached.
Derived terms: unbleached American
Doric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏrĭk
ipa: /ˈdɒɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Forms: form: more Doric
form: most Doric
form: Dorick
form: Dor.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δωρικός (Dōrikós, “related to Dorians”). The senses referring to dialects of Scottish are thought to have come from the Scots’ rusticness associated with the Athenians’ view of Dorians as uncivilised.
Senses: examples: text: It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick’s great Doric arch that I first sampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination!
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
glosses: Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the dialect of Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland, predominantly Morayshire and Aberdeen areas.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek dialect group once spoken in the north-west of Greece.
glosses: Synonym of Dorian; of or relating to the region of Doris in Asia Minor or the Dorians
synonyms: word: Dorian
extra: of or relating to the region of Doris in Asia Minor or the Dorians
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Belonging to a certain mode of Ancient Greek music, the Dorian mode.
Derived terms: word: Dorically
word: Doric Greek
english: Doric style of architecture
translation: Doric style of architecture
word: Doricism
word: Doric order
word: hyperdoric
word: hyper-Doric
word: hyperdoricism
word: hyper-Doricism
word: protodoric
word: proto-Doric
Related terms: Dorian
Doris
Doric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏrĭk
ipa: /ˈdɒɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Forms: form: Dorick
form: Dor.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δωρικός (Dōrikós, “related to Dorians”). The senses referring to dialects of Scottish are thought to have come from the Scots’ rusticness associated with the Athenians’ view of Dorians as uncivilised.
Senses: holonyms: Ancient Greek
meronyms: Cretan
glosses: A group of Ancient Greek dialects, once spoken in western Greece, southern Italy and Sicily.
glosses: The Mid-Northern or Northeast dialect of Lowland Scots spoken in the north-east of Scotland.
Derived terms: english: Doric Greek phrase or style
translation: Doric Greek phrase or style
word: Doricism
word: Proto-Doric
FOAD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: So which are you looking for? An apology for my opinion, or an apology for making the fatal mistake of poor political humor? ¶ FOAD if you think I'm gonna give you the former, but to be fair, I should know better than to approach OT politics in what is nominally (and normally) an anime forum.
ref: 2006 January 16, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: My anime hero is George W.Bush !!!”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of fuck off and die.
glosses: Initialism of fall over and die.
Related terms: ESAD
FGI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fucking Google it.
Related terms: JFGI
FGI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FGIs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of finished goods inventory.
monophasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monophasic
form: most monophasic
Etymology: From mono- + phasic.
Senses: glosses: of, related to or affected with monophasia
glosses: having a single phase
Derived terms: pseudomonophasic
Related terms: polyphasic
CBF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBFs
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cerebral blood flow.
CBF
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cbf
Senses: examples: text: I CBF running stress tests.
glosses: Initialism of can't be fucked
NFI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NFIs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of non-football injury; any injury sustained by a player outside of games or training.
NFI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no fucking (freaking) idea, expressing lack of knowledge on the subject matter.
glosses: Initialism of no further information, expressing lack of knowledge on the subject matter.
examples: text: Speaking of the guest list, though, it is most disappointing to find some of the third tier European princelings unable to hide their bitterness at being NFI.
ref: 2011 April 23, Marina Hyde, The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of not fucking invited.
RTFA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Derived from the initialism RTFM, which was originally used in the context of Usenet.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of read the fucking article.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of ready team fire assist.
Derived terms: TFA
Related terms: RTFM
FTFA
FTA
TLDR
ADFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Defence Force Academy.
seminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛmɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛmɪnɹi/
Etymology: From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to seed; seminal.
stylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌɪlʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈstaɪlaɪt/
Forms: form: stylites
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Greek στυλίτης (stulítēs), from Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “pillar”).
Senses: examples: text: Daniel, the famous stylite of the city, actually descended from his pillar for the first time in fifteen years, terrifying Basiliscus into the withdrawal of his edict.
ref: 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 53:
text: Stylites often became major players in Church politics, shouting down their theological pronouncements from their little elevated balconies to the expectant crowds below, or giving personalized advice to those favoured enough to climb the ladder and join them on their platform.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 208:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: pillar-saint
pillarist
glosses: A Christian ascetic in ancient times who lived alone on top of a tall pillar.
Derived terms: stylitess
stylitic
stylitism
Related terms: english: an epithet for a pillar-saint
translation: an epithet for a pillar-saint
word: Stylites
hangout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangouts
Etymology: From hang + out, as a deverbal from hang out.
Senses: examples: text: Every Friday, Geoff and his group of friends all met at their favorite hangout to talk and have a good time.
text: My connection to gay men and lesbians in Cuba came about through the help of a straight man, Rafael, whom I'd met in old Havana. A day after I told him of my search, he came to me with names of three tea houses known to be gay/lesbian hang-outs. We went together and found a mix of gay and straight people.
ref: 1990 December 16, “Going To Cuba”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 10:
glosses: A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place.
glosses: A casual meeting for informal chat.
Related terms: hang out
hang with
hang around
limited hangout
CPAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːpæp/
/siː piː eɪ piː/
Forms: form: CPAPs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous positive airway pressure, a form of artificial ventilation.
glosses: The machine used for continuous positive airway pressure therapy.
Hypernyms: english: non-invasive ventilation
translation: non-invasive ventilation
word: NIV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NPPV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NIPPV
english: positive airway pressure
translation: positive airway pressure
word: PAP
english: positive pressure ventilation
translation: positive pressure ventilation
word: PPV
Related terms: english: positive airway pressure
translation: positive airway pressure
word: PAP
english: bilevel positive airway pressure
translation: bilevel positive airway pressure
word: BiPAP
hypermethylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermethylations
Etymology: From hyper- + methylation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: an increase in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA.
methylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθɪˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: methylations
Etymology: From methyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of a methyl group to a molecule.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The addition of a methyl group to cytosine and adenine residues in DNA that leads to the epigenetic modification of DNA and the reduction of gene expression and protein production.
Derived terms: automethylation
biomethylation
demethylation
dimethylation
hemimethylation
hydromethylation
hypermethylation
hypomethylation
methylational
mismethylation
monomethylation
multimethylation
nonmethylation
overmethylation
permethylation
remethylation
transmethylation
undermethylation
unmethylation
Related terms: ethylation
methylate
Cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the word cadence.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
teste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛsti/
ipa: /ˈtɛsteɪ/
homophone: testy
Forms: form: testes
Etymology: So called from Latin teste, ablative of testis (“a witness”), because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A witness.
glosses: The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; said of a writ, deed, etc.
Related terms: testes
pesky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛski/
enpr: pĕʹski
Forms: form: peskier
form: peskiest
Etymology: Possibly from pesty. Compare similar alteration between nasty and nasky.
Senses: examples: text: Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!
text: That pesky dog is barking again.
synonyms: word: aggravating
word: aggy
word: annoying
word: bothersome
word: chagrining
word: douchetastic
word: douchey
word: gittish
word: honery
word: irksome
word: irritating
word: obnoxious
word: pesky
word: plaguy
word: troublesome
word: twattish
word: vexatious
glosses: Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
Derived terms: peskily
peskiness
Veterans Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The United States national holiday in honor of veterans past and present, observed on November 11th.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Armistice Day
Coordinate terms: Armistice Day
Remembrance Day
veterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛ.tə.ɹənz/
ipa: /ˈvɛ.tə.ɹɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of veteran
Poppy Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From being the last day on which the commemorative poppy flower is worn.
Senses: glosses: Remembrance Day.
Remembrance Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: November 11th, observed in commemoration of those in the armed forces who died in the line of duty; especially those who died during the two world wars.
Synonyms: word: Poppy Day
word: Veterans Day
word: Armistice Day
Related terms: Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: By analogy with Remembrance Day.
Senses: glosses: The Sunday closest to Remembrance Day, which falls on the 11th of November.
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
Senses: glosses: A surname
Morley Richard Kare (1922–1990), Canadian biologist and physiologist; father of Susan Kare and Jordin T. Kare
glosses: A surname
Susan Kare (born 1954), American artist and graphic designer; daughter of Morley Richard Kare and sister of Jordin T. Kare
glosses: A surname
Jordin T. Kare (1956–2017), American physicist and aerospace engineer; son of Morley Richard Kare and brother of Susan Kare
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
Senses: glosses: A surname from India
Ramnath Govind Kare (born 1934), Goan industrialist, educationist, and philanthropist
glosses: A surname from India
Lata Bhagwan Kare (born circa 1960?), celebrated Indian marathon-runner and Marathi actress
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India.
glosses: A male given name from India.
Kare Narain Pathak (born 1941), Indian theoretical condensed-matter physicist
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
Forms: form: Kãrɛ̃
form: Kareng
Senses: glosses: A people inhabiting mountainous parts of the Central African Republic’s Ouham-Pendé Prefecture and of Cameroon’s North and Adamawa Regions.
glosses: The southern Mbum language spoken by the Kare people.
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
Senses: glosses: A language in the Mabuso subfamily of Central Madang languages, spoken in the Hansemann Range of Papua New Guinea.
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Kare, Каре.
Senses: glosses: A village in Žitorađa, Toplica okrug, Serbia.
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
enpr: kăʹrā
ipa: /ˈkaɹeɪ/
enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ка́ре (Káre).
Senses: glosses: A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Berezivka Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1918.
Kare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kâr
ipa: /kɛɚ/
homophone: care
enpr: käʹrā
ipa: /ˈkɑːɹeɪ/
ipa: [ˈkaːɾe]
enpr: kăʹrā
ipa: /ˈkaɹeɪ/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kari (Congolese Bantu language spoken in the Central African Republic)
doolally tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doolally-tap
Etymology: From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “heat; fever”)).
According to one suggestion, to go doolally tap was to go crazy while waiting.
Senses: examples: text: Mrrhhhh, nothing wrong with me, sergeant, it's just the old Doolally Tap.
ref: 1971, Brian Aldiss, A Soldier Erect:
text: 'The Doolally tap,' my father would say, mysteriously, and McAllister would agree.
ref: 1994, Maurice Hayes, Seamus Heaney, Sweet Killough: Let Go Your Anchor:
text: It would probably give Mrs Doughty an attack of the Doolally-tap.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies:
text: 'He's got the doolally-taps,' she'd heard Bob say when they mentioned him, and he usually rolled his eyes and tapped his temple when he said it even though he didn't speak unkindly.
ref: 2009, Annie Murray, A Hopscotch Summer:
glosses: Camp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity.
doolally tap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doolally tap
form: most doolally tap
form: doolally-tap
Etymology: From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “heat; fever”)).
According to one suggestion, to go doolally tap was to go crazy while waiting.
Senses: examples: text: Going a bit doolally-tap, if you ask me. Getting odd ideas.
ref: 1985, John E. Gardner, The Secret Generations, page 294:
text: The whole family think I've gone doolally-tap; all except Mick, that is.
ref: 1993, Catherine Cookson, My Beloved Son, page 355:
text: Most thought that the prison sentence had sent me doolally tap.
ref: 1994, Julia Grant, Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman, page 198:
text: Madam has gone quite definitely doolally tap, if you'll pardon the rather common expression.
ref: 1996, Erin Pizzey, Kisses, page 277:
text: If he had not paid her phone bills she would have gone doolally tap, as her mother used to say, without a friendly voice now and then.
ref: 2007, Martina Cole, Faces, unnumbered page:
glosses: Mad, insane, eccentric.
Derived terms: doolally
phenomenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /fɪˈnɑmɪnəl/
ipa: /fɪˈnɔmɪnəl/
Forms: form: more phenomenal
form: most phenomenal
form: phænomenal
Etymology: From phenomenon + -al, after French phénoménal.
Senses: examples: text: phenomenal effort
text: phenomenal musician
text: phenomenal success
text: phenomenal victory
glosses: Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.
topics: sciences
glosses: Perceptible by the senses through immediate experience.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the appearance of the world, as opposed to the ultimate nature of the world as it is in itself.
Synonyms: sense: very remarkable
word: awesome
Derived terms: epiphenomenal
extraphenomenal
hyperphenomenal
isophenomenal
macrophenomenal
metaphenomenal
microphenomenal
nonphenomenal
paraphenomenal
phenomenal consciousness
phenomenalism
phenomenalist
phenomenalistic
phenomenality
phenomenalize
phenomenally
phenomenalness
phenomenal world
protophenomenal
superphenomenal
symphenomenal
transphenomenal
unphenomenal
contracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contract
contracting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
Derived terms: noncontracting
vasocontracting
contracting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contractings
Senses: examples: the contractings of his muscles
glosses: The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
glosses: Work done on a contract basis.
talis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tallit.
talis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tali
Related terms: talis qualis
vae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voe (“sea inlet”).
ve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ves
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
ve
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /vi/
homophone: V
homophone: v
homophone: vee
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ver
form: vis
form: vers
form: verself
Etymology: First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).
Senses: examples: text: And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).
ref: [1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426:
text: Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.
ref: 1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.
ref: 1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
ve
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /vi/
homophone: V
homophone: v
homophone: vee
rhymes: -iː
Senses: examples: text: Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?
ref: 1872, Charles Camden, “The Travelling Menagerie”, in George Mac Donald, editor, Good Words for the Young, London: Strahan & Co., […], chapter V (A Tiger Hunt in England), page 208, column 1:
text: But ve have grounds larger even than these – though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them.
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Yule Ball”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:
text: “My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”
ref: 2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
text: In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”
ref: 2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of we.
Derived terms: ve haf vays of making you talk
hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of hoe
glosses: plural of ho
hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoe
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ho
eyebrow-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Guardiola switched to a 5-5-0 formation in the 76th minute following the eyebrow-raising decision to haul off Haaland and send on defensive midfielder Nico Gonzalez - a tactical manoeuvre which could have come right out of the Jose Mourinho playbook.
ref: 2025 September 21, Shamoon Hafez, “Guardiola gamble almost pays off as Liverpool cash in”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: That causes surprise, wonder or disbelief.
Related terms: eyebrow raising
hair-raising
Eurocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more Eurocentric
form: most Eurocentric
Etymology: From Euro- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The present curriculum / I put my fist in 'em / Eurocentric every last one of 'em / See right through the red, white, and blue disguise / With lecture I puncture the structure of lies / Installed in our minds and attempting to hold us back / We've got to take it back / Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears / One-sided stories for years and years and years
ref: 2005, Rage Against the Machine, “Take the Power Back”:
glosses: Focused on Europe or the people and culture of Europe.
Synonyms: Europocentric
Hypernyms: Westcentric
Hyponyms: Anglocentric
Danocentric
Gallocentric
Germanocentric
Hellenocentric
Hibernocentric
Nordicentric
Polonocentric
Russocentric
Scotocentric
Serbocentric
Swedocentric
Related terms: Eurocentrism
Eurocentristic
Eurocentrically
eulogium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eulogiums
form: eulogia
Etymology: From Medieval Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ēlogium and eulogia. Doublet of eulogy.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, wonderful poet, thou shalt be immortal, if my eulogiums can make thee so!
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: Her eulogium on Rousseau was accidentally put into my hands, and her sentiments, the sentiments of too many of her sex, may serve as the text for a few comments.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: Let the grave close over the hand that has laboured through feverish midnights,—over the warm heart that beat so painfully; let the ear be closed to that applause which was its sweetest music;—and then how lavish we grow of all that was before so harshly denied! Then the marble is carved with eulogium; then the life is written; and thousands are lavish of pity and sympathy: every thing is given when it is too late to give anything!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: --and you have been weak enough, traitor, to listen to the eulogiums of a nurse on her child!"
ref: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
glosses: A eulogy.
elogium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elogia
form: elogiums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēlogium (“short saying, inscription”), from Ancient Greek ἐλεγεῖον (elegeîon, “elegy”), from ἔλεγος (élegos, “song, melody”). Doublet of elogy.
Senses: glosses: a eulogy
ETV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ETVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of educational television.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: Initialism of extraterrestrial vehicle.
Etruscologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Etruscologists
Etymology: From Etruscology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A historian or archaeologist who specializes in the Etruscans.
etiolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.tɪ.ə(ʊ).leɪ.tɪd/
Etymology: From etiolate + -ed (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of etiolate
ethnic minority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnic minorities
Senses: examples: text: Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: A group of people who have a different ethnicity, religion, language or culture from that of the majority of people in the place where they live.
percolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːkəleɪtə/
ipa: /ˈpɝkəleɪtɚ/
Forms: form: percolators
Etymology: From percolate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: She heard the percolator bell ring.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 176:
glosses: A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.
glosses: A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
Derived terms: perk
enquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: inquiring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enquire
enquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: enquirings
form: inquiring
Senses: examples: text: We are thankful for what God has already wrought; for those thousands who now acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ; […] for the earnest enquirings after true religion which are found in some; […]
ref: 1876, Rev. James Vaughan, The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross:
glosses: An instance of making an enquiry; an asking.
enquiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more enquiring
form: most enquiring
form: inquiring
Senses: glosses: Curious, inquisitive or investigative.
Derived terms: unenquiring
semi-deponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semideponent
Etymology: From semi- + deponent.
Senses: glosses: Of a verb whose present system is normal but whose perfect system is deponent.
semi-deponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-deponents
form: semideponent
Etymology: From semi- + deponent.
Senses: glosses: A verb of this kind.
enhalo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪləʊ
Forms: form: enhalos
form: enhaloes
form: enhaloing
form: enhaloed
form: enhaloed
Etymology: From en- + halo.
Senses: examples: text: Does not every bird's eye in its sapphire excellence recall a trusty bénédicité, "speed well,"—the story of lives compressed in two words? Smiles and tears enhalo it, and it surely accelerates our buoyancy of movement to the rivulet, where forget-me-nots—a treasure trove—are garrisoned by King Cup and Spear-grass.
ref: 1880, C. J., “Winter and Summer”, in The Sunday Magazine; For Family Reading, London: Isbister and Company Limited:
text: I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen over-night, just as death had overtaken them.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 284:
glosses: To surround something with a halo.
tieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪləs
Etymology: From tie + -less.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as I walked in, however, I saw the tieless man in the same pinstripe suit.
ref: 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 325:
glosses: Not having or wearing a tie (neckwear).