cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
weaponized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weaponized
form: most weaponized
form: weaponised
Senses: examples: text: Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.
text: Trace that logic out a bit, and you arrive at a kind of weaponized incompetence: Your husband isn’t good at certain tasks, so he shouldn’t have to do them.
ref: 2018 May 8, Steve Almond, “Save Me From This Domestic Drudgery! The Sweet Spot column”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
Derived terms: weaponized incompetence
weaponized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weaponised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weaponize
cry out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries out for
form: crying out for
form: cried out for
form: cried out for
Etymology: cry + out + for
Senses: examples: text: This state of affairs is crying out for an independent investigation.
text: The pull-out or pull-down tables and litter bins in every compartment and seating bay are amenities which women, particularly those with young children, have been crying out for almost as long as railways have been in operation.
ref: 1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
glosses: To be in urgent need (of)
developmental disability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: developmental disabilities
Senses: glosses: Any lifelong disability attributable to a mental or physical impairment, manifested during childhood or later in the human development age.
glosses: Mental retardation.
Synonyms: developmental disorder
DD
Hyponyms: learning disability
intellectual disability
cognitive disability
difficulty level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: difficulty levels
Senses: glosses: The relative difficulty of completing a task or objective.
topics: video-games
glosses: A variable setting in a video game determining how challenging it is to play.
learning disability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learning disabilities
Senses: glosses: A disability which prevents the sufferer from learning in a typical manner.
Synonyms: learning difference
learning difficulty
Related terms: developmental disability
intellectual disability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intellectual disabilities
form: ID
Senses: examples: text: It is claimed that 20 per cent of children will have an intellectual disability at some time in their lives, which may result from medical problems, sensory impairments, hysical disabilities, emotional and behavioural difficulties, language impairments, or specific learning problems such as dyslexia or autism [Emerson et al. 2001:7].
ref: 2008, Linda Leung, Digital Experience Design: Ideas, Industries, Interaction, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Students with intellectual disabilities, such as reading or developmental disabilities, may be given picture cues of certain emotions to match with nature.
ref: 2014, Suzanne Degges-White, Bonnie R. Colon, Expressive Arts Interventions for School Counselors, →ISBN, page 309:
text: Rather, my subjects are independent people who are older than 18—not teenagers or children—who are without intellectual disabilities—such as Alzheimer's disease.
ref: 2015, Ruiping Fan, Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives, →ISBN:
glosses: Any disability that affects the intellect or cognitive ability of a person.
glosses: Mental retardation, usually specifically an IQ below 70 or a severely below average ability to reason and to develop basic living skills.
Related terms: intellectually disabled
cognitive disability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognitive disabilities
Senses: glosses: intellectual disability
bald-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bald-faced
form: most bald-faced
form: baldfaced
Senses: examples: text: bald-faced hornet
glosses: Having white markings on the face.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: a bald-faced lie
text: What kind of deformed party will such a dynamic produce? A party so willing to be marinated in such a baldfaced lie will lie about anything, including who wins the next election and every one after that.
ref: 2021 May 4, Thomas L. Friedman, “Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021:
synonyms: barefaced
glosses: Shameless and undisguised.
cry off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries off
form: crying off
form: cried off
form: cried off
Etymology: cry + off
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, but I have to cry off the game on Saturday, as my mother-in-law is coming to visit.
glosses: To cancel something previously arranged with someone.
glosses: To leave.
glosses: To confess; to snitch or inform on (someone).
Synonyms: beg off
cardholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardholders
Etymology: From card + holder.
Senses: glosses: A case for holding cards, as credit cards, bankcards, or business cards.
glosses: An authorized user of a card used for financial transactions, etc.
wood-elf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-elves
form: wood elf
form: woodelf
Etymology: From wood + elf; compare Old English wuduielfen, from wudu (“wood”) + ielfen (“female elf”).
Senses: examples: text: This was the chorus of the wood-elves, with which the Moonlight Ball begins.
ref: 1890, M.A. Curtois, Elf-Knights, London: Remington and Co., page 10:
text: It was quite clear now, even if proof had not been needed before, that poor George was not clever, or he would never have picked out such a wife. It was no answer to this argument that Magdalen had the free beauty of a wood-elf, or that the general, her father, had brought a heavy store of Indian rupees back with him to his native town. George Fossebraye was too dull to be supposed to be susceptible to beauty or to be influenced by prudent motives.
ref: 1893 February, Robert Fortune, “Earlscourt : A Novel of Provincial Life”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume DCCCCXXVIII, number CLIII, page 191:
text: The word alf (alfr/elf) is used for many sorts of wight: not only the Light Alfs, Dark Alfs (mound-elves), and Swart Alfs that Grimm separates out of German folklore and the Norse sources, but also different sorts of land wights (wood-elves, field elves, water-elves, and sea-elves).
ref: 1993, Our Troth, the Ring of Troth and other true folk, →ISBN, page 227:
text: To wood-elf and field-elf I pour out this greeting, And bid you bless this holy rite.
ref: 1999, Thunder, issue 11, Ceremony for the Handfasting of Dragon Earthson and Thorskegga Thorn (Math Jones)
text: Late in the night when the midnight sun cast a long shadow from the caves peak over his camp, Hother crept into the wood-elf's cave, overpowered him and bound him securely.
ref: 2001, Thunder, issue 18, The Courting of Nanna (Thorskegga Thorn)
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: An elf which inhabits woodland, usually depicted as a subrace of elf.
eye-hand coordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-hand coordinations
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, but I just don't think you have the eye-hand coordination to be a juggler in this circus.
glosses: Synonym of hand-eye coordination.
synonyms: word: hand-eye coordination
Synonyms: hand-eye coordination
foot brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot brakes
Senses: glosses: A brake controlled by foot, as opposed to a hand brake.
Related terms: brake pedal
catchcry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchcries
Etymology: From catch + cry.
Senses: examples: text: Monotonous, frequently quite incomprehensible to the dark mass, these catchcries filled the columns of all the papers born as the offspring of the Pravda and German gold; they acted like a curse, rousing, infuriating, confusing the more sincere and the more honest.
ref: 1918, Arkady Joseph Sack, The Birth of the Russian Democracy, page 528:
glosses: A slogan, particularly one intended for mass repetition.
Related terms: catchphrase
catchword
handbrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbrakes
form: hand brake
Etymology: From hand + brake.
Senses: examples: text: On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.
ref: 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:
topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.
Synonyms: parking brake
Derived terms: handbrake turn
release the handbrake
handbrake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handbrakes
form: handbraking
form: handbraked
form: handbraked
form: hand brake
Etymology: From hand + brake.
Senses: glosses: To apply the handbrake in a vehicle.
catchcries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchcry
hand brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand brake
foot brakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot brake
begs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beg off
begging off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beg off
begged off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beg off
posthockery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post hoc + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the dangers of posthockery implicit in the approach that has been taken here, it can cast some light on word-formation which other approaches would not be able to.
ref: 1983, Laurie Bauer, English word-formation:
text: This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism.
ref: 1997, Olav Schram Stokke, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience, page 62:
glosses: Use of post hoc reasoning, especially when excessive.
Neginoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neginot
Etymology: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew נְגִינוֹת (nəḡīnōṯ), plural of נְגִינָה (nəḡīnā, “playing of music on a stringed instrument”).
Senses: examples: To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. (Psalms 4:1, WBS)
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah (Psalms 67:1, WBS)
More Psalms with Neginoth: 6, 54, 55, 61, 76.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A direction for the musical accompaniment of a psalm that has been interpreted as "stringed instruments".
cries off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cry off
crying off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cry off
cried off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry off
zygodactylae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zygodactylæ
Senses: glosses: The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense, applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds.
zoophytology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöphytology
Etymology: From zoophyte + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The science of zoophytes.
neginot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Neginoth.
Neginah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neginoth
Senses: examples: To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. Psalms 61:1 (WBS)
glosses: singular of Neginoth
zoophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoophorouses
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophorus.
Falkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(l).klənd/
ipa: /ˈfɒl.klənd/
ipa: /ˈfɔ.klənd/
ipa: /ˈfɑ.klənd/
rhymes: -ɔːklənd
Etymology: From either Scottish Gaelic falaichte (“hidden”), failc (“bathe, wash”), or falc (“heavy rain”) + Old English land.
Senses: glosses: A village and former royal burgh in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2507).
glosses: A viscountcy
glosses: Ellipsis of Falkland Islands.
glosses: A town in North Carolina.
Derived terms: East Falkland
Falklander
Falkland fox
Falkland Islander
Falkland Islands
Falklands
Falkland Sound
Falklands War
Newton of Falkland
West Falkland
earle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earles
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of earl.
citie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cities
Senses: examples: text: Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of city.
cambré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambrés
Etymology: Borrowed from French cambré.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A bending at the waist in any direction.
cambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambres
Senses: examples: text: To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin‐de‐flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.
ref: 1858, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page 613:
glosses: Obsolete form of camber.
glosses: Alternative spelling of cambré.
cambres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambre
cambrés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambré
RTG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Radeon Technology Group (“a division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), who produces a brand of computer products”).
glosses: Initialism of Radio Télévision Guinéenne (“a public broadcaster in Guinea”).
glosses: Initialism of Retargetable graphics (“a device driver API for the AmigaOS operating system”).
glosses: Initialism of Royal Thai Government.
RTG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RTGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of radioisotope thermoelectric generator (“a device that generates electricity from the natural decay of radioactive material”).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of radiotelegraph.
glosses: Initialism of renal threshold of glucose (“a factor in the medical condition of glycosuria”).
glosses: Initialism of regular tree grammar (“a mathematical formal grammar”).
glosses: Initialism of research task group (“an R&D administrative entity within NATO”).
glosses: Initialism of rubber tyred gantry (“a type of crane”).
Related terms: RHU
radioisotope
thermoelectric
generator
Mona Lisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməʊnə ˈliːzə/
ipa: /ˌmoʊnə ˈlisə/
rhymes: -iːzə
rhymes: -iːsə
Forms: form: Mona Lisas
form: Monna Lisa
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Monna Lisa (literally “my lady Lisa”), from monna (abbreviation of madonna) + Lisa, the given name of Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini (1479–1542).
Senses: examples: text: For centuries, the Mona Lisa was a relatively obscure painting languishing in the private residences of kings—still a masterpiece, to be sure, but only one among many. Even when it was moved to the Louvre, after the French Revolution, it did not attract as much attention as the works of other artists[…]
ref: 2011, Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious, Crown Business, →ISBN, page 56:
text: If one were to ask the rhetorical question as to why one of the two original Mona Lisas has columns, and the other does not, the logical answer is that they are two separate compositions – with certain deliberate similarities, and with certain distinct differences of which only the artist was aware – and never intended to be copies of each other.
ref: 2012, “[Connoisseurship: Critical Comparisons] The Vital Importance of the Columns”, in Mona Lisa: Leonardo’s Earlier Version, The Mona Lisa Foundation, →ISBN, page 204, column 1:
text: In order to better discuss the hidden portrait, discovered under the Louvre Mona Lisa, Figure 35 presents both the Louvre Mona Lisa and the Isleworth Mona Lisa beside Raphael’s drawing; then, Table 4 below raises some points of reference of this drawing (without considering the garment drawn by Raphael): (1) the columns, (2) the hairstyle, (3) the age of the model and (4) the landscape. These points will be considered in both Mona Lisas painted by Leonardo and in the model of the hidden portrait, seen in Figure 34.
ref: 2022, Beatriz M. Mikusinski Zawislak, translated by Adriana Krainski, Mona Lisa and Her Mysteries, Editora AGE, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: A portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci, widely considered to be the most famous painting in history.
examples: text: Beltraffio knew that she was a Napoletana, of an ancient family, the daughter of Antonio Gerardini, a grandee who had at one time been wealthy, but who had become ruined during the French invasion of 1495; and the wife of the Florentine citizen, Francesco dell' Giocondo, who had married Mona Lisa after being twice a widower.
ref: 1961, Orville Prescott, The Undying Past, page 304:
glosses: The subject of the painting, Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini (1479–1542).
raw_tags: without definite article
Synonyms: word: Gioconda
word: Joconde
Derived terms: Mona Lisan
Mona Lisa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməʊnə ˈliːzə/
ipa: /ˌmoʊnə ˈlisə/
rhymes: -iːzə
rhymes: -iːsə
Forms: form: Mona Lisas
form: Monna Lisa
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Monna Lisa (literally “my lady Lisa”), from monna (abbreviation of madonna) + Lisa, the given name of Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini (1479–1542).
Senses: examples: text: This small and deceptively simple, but extremely interesting molecular system was rightly characterized by Cram and coworkers as ‘The Mona Lisa of Organic Chemistry’, because of its ability to elicit wonder, to stimulate imagination and, last but not least, by its enigmatic elusiveness and numerous outstanding features.
ref: 2005, Zvi Rappoport, Joel F. Liebman, The Chemistry of Cyclobutanes, page 18:
text: I told him I didn't care if the painting was a Mona Lisa or pure nonsense, I just wanted him to have the experience of painting on canvas.
ref: 2007, Tiffany Christensen, Sick girl speaks!: lessons and ponderings along the road to acceptance, page 128:
text: Now, in fifth grade, I’m still drawing stick figures and she’s making Mona Lisa'''s.
ref: 2021, Kate Biberdorf, Hillary Homzie, “An Educated Guess”, in The Birthday Blastoff, Philomel Books, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A masterpiece, an outstanding work.
examples: text: She let him take it and sat on, smiling very faintly. It was a Mona Lisa effort.
ref: 1972, John Newton Chance, The dead tale-tellers, page 111:
text: […]found Florence Thompson, the Mona Lisa of the 1930s, a migrant mother whose picture haunted the nation.
ref: 1985, Bob Dotson, ...In pursuit of the American dream, page 4:
text: They saw each other at the same time, and their gazes met and held.[…]Alex's heart beat faster and harder. He smiled what felt like a Mona Lisa smile[…]
ref: 2000, Edward A. Molnar, Shadows on a Mirror, page 188:
text: The panels depicting scenes from the life of Dionysos are framed with acanthus leaves, some of which form medallions, including one showing a fascinating woman who has come to be known as the Mona Lisa of Galilee.
ref: 2005, Ariel Lewin, The Archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine, page 84:
text: It was all enhanced by Melissa's thin smile as she continued working like a Mona Lisa on Red Bull.
ref: 2020, Michael Shenk, Always A Brother, page 108:
synonyms: Joconde
glosses: A woman who resembles the subject of this painting, renowned for her beauty and enigmatic smile.
jutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jute
weaponizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weaponize
weaponizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weaponize
weaponise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weaponises
form: weaponising
form: weaponised
form: weaponised
Etymology: From weapon + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Post-Love Island, we have the weaponised horniness of Too Hot to Handle, the hoodwinkery of Ready to Mingle, we have a landscape where Love Is Blind is allowed to happen, and I would even argue that the ancient format of Married at First Sight had a Love Island-adjacent uplift.
ref: 2022 March 19, Joel Golby, “Love in the Flesh: it's Love Island-lite – but have they swapped nudes beforehand?”, in The Guardian:
text: Like Twin Peaks: The Return, another rare reboot that worked, Party Down weaponises the fact that so much time has passed since the original series, that the cast is older and slightly more crinkled around the forehead.
ref: 2023 April 7, Gwilym Mumford, “The Guide #81: Party Down is the rarest kind of reboot – it actually has something to say”, in The Guardian:
text: Vladimir Putin is seeking to weaponise the threat of mass migration to divide and weaken Europe as supporters of Ukraine struggle to maintain unity to defeat Russia, Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, says.
ref: 2024 May 17, Patrick Wintour, “Putin seeking to weaponise threat of mass migration, warns Estonian PM”, in The Guardian:
text: International scrutiny had driven Chinese authorities away from extrajudicial detention towards forms of "lawfare" and weaponising criminal prosecutions, Ms [Rayhan] Asat said.
ref: 2024 August 23, Max Walden, “China’s Uyghur Policies a ‘Racialised Atrocity Crime’, Harvard Law Scholar Finds”, in ABC News, Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2024:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponize.
weaponised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weaponised
form: most weaponised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponized.
Derived terms: weaponised incompetence
weaponised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weaponise
weaponises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weaponise
weaponising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weaponise
DRF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Development Request Form.
qualifier: dimension
glosses: Datum Reference Frame
Turín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Turín, likely from Italian Turin.
Senses: glosses: A town in Ahuachapán department, El Salvador.
suppute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supputes
form: supputing
form: supputed
form: supputed
Senses: examples: text: Others supputing the times by the Succession of the Kings of the Lacedæmonians, affirm that he was not a few years older than the first Olympiad.
ref: 1727, Isaac Newton, Antient Chronologies Amended, Introduction, 4:
glosses: To calculate; to compute; to reckon; to supputate.
supputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suppute
repassant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French repassant, present participle.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Hee beareth, Sable, two lyoncels, the one paffant, the other repassant, Argent, both collared, Gules, but in mine opinion no man by this last blazon is able to tricke, or expresse the true portraiture and manner of the bearing of these lioncels, […]
ref: 1638, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 194:
text: REPASSANT, a. [...] in her., term applied when two lions or other animals are borne going contrary ways, one of which is passant, by walking toward the dexter side of the shield in the usual way, and the other repassant by going toward the sinister.
ref: 1891, Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, page 23:
text: […] To the right of the window is the image of a single passant repassant lion, which marches along the decorative[…]
ref: 1995, Lynn Anne Jones, Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal Iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Counterpassant.
repasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repass
African Union
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the African Union
Senses: glosses: A multinational organisation consisting of 54 African nations.
Related terms: afro
AU
sucres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucre
façonnés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of façonné
sugarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarers
Etymology: From sugar + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who sugars foods, who adds sugar to food products.
examples: text: March 2004, Naples News - Teen has even higher goals for acclaimed maple syrup
Fisk, a fifth-generation sugarer and high school sophomore, is one of more than 900 syrup producers in the state, many of whom tap only a handful of trees and produce just enough for their families.
text: If you are such a frustrated maple sugarer, I have a solution to offer whereby you can sugar this spring with no physical effort...
ref: 1990, Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A manufacturer of maple syrup.
cloué
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kluˈeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French cloué.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cloué.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
qualifier: horseshoe; etc; horseshoe; etc
glosses: Studded with nails (of a specified tincture).
raw_tags: of a trellis
clouée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cloué.
rampions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampion
pieróg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pierogi
form: pierog
Etymology: From Polish pieróg. Doublet of pirog.
Senses: examples: text: That thing certainly does not look anything like a pieróg. To me, it looks like sliced boiled potato.
ref: 2010 November 19, Victor Sack, “Pelmeni, perogie, peroshki...”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
text: So what is a pieróg, exactly? (Plural is pierogi or can be pierogies.) Well, it’s essentially a dough dumpling stuffed with savory goodness like potato and cheese or onion, hot sausage, or sauerkraut, to name a few fillings.
ref: 2014 April, Jenny Bowman, “Delicacy of the north: Pierogies, recently opened in Oak Island, dishes up Polish dumplings to perfection”, in Southport Magazine, volume two, number seven, page 14:
text: Giving Back to the Community One Pieróg at a Time
ref: 2018, Kaitlyn Cammer, “St. Volodymyr’s the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church”, in Utica Proud, volume one, page 30:
text: But there was also one pieróg version that did not win the popularity contest. It was called pizzowego (pizzarogis), a pieróg filled with a combination of sausage, pepperoni, and cheese, doused with tomato sauce.
ref: 2019 September, Geraldine Balut Coleman, “Tekla Klebetnica Thrills Crowds”, in Polish American Journal, volume 108, number 9, section “Celebrating Pierogi”, page 7, column 3:
text: In the photo she's wearing a green floral headscarf and spooning cherry filling into a pieróg.
ref: 2022 April 14, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, “At this Ukrainian restaurant, dumplings go by many names, but always taste like home”, in The Arizona Republic:
glosses: Rare form of pierogi.
stercoricolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Inhabiting deposits of excrement.
écorché
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪkɔːˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /eɪkoɹˈʃeɪ/
Forms: form: écorchés
Etymology: Borrowed from French écorché (“flayed”).
Senses: examples: text: Apollo with a potato peeler, she flays the Marsyas of humanity, exposing raw nerve. Man is a red-ribboned écorché in her laboratory.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A figure drawn, painted or sculpted so as to show the muscles of the body without skin.
écorchés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of écorché
remontant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French remontant (“rising again”). Compare remount.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That flowers more than once in each season.
raw_tags: of cultivated roses
remontant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remontants
Etymology: From French remontant (“rising again”). Compare remount.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that flowers more than once in each season.
snuffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnʌfi/
Forms: form: snuffier
form: snuffiest
Etymology: From snuff + -y.
Senses: glosses: Soiled with snuff.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
examples: text: I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
ref: May 27 1680, Marchioness de Sévigné, letter to her daughter, published in English in 1745
text: The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Sulky; angry; vexed.
examples: text: She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.
ref: 2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland:
glosses: Drunk.
examples: text: Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32:
glosses: That causes sniffing and nasal irritation due to dust.
Derived terms: snuffily
snuffiness
firelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəlɒk/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ(ə)ɹˌlɑk/
Forms: form: firelocks
Etymology: From fire + lock.
Senses: glosses: A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.
examples: text: He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean well-oiled fowing-piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel encrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm-eaten.
ref: 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 76–77:
text: Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other […]
ref: 1824, Town and Country Tales, page 115:
text: Before we were out of the forest, however, we saw about ten peasants, some armed with firelocks [translating Feuer-rohren], others busy burying something.
ref: 1999, Jakob Grimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell, Simplicius Simplicissimus, Dedalus, published 2016, page 48:
glosses: A firearm using such a gunlock.
nonrecourse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recourse.
Senses: examples: nonrecourse loan
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
democratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more democratical
form: most democratical
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of democratic
securities lending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: securities industry
glosses: The lending of securities by one brokerage to another, typically for a secondary purpose such as to cover a stock short position. Not to be confused with collateral-type stock loans.
extinguishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinguishments
Etymology: From extinguish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
ref: 1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre:
glosses: The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
topics: law
glosses: The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
extinguishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extinguishment
sacrificer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrificers
Etymology: From sacrifice + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,
And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,
To doe profane autumnall offices,
Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;
ref: 1631, John Donne, “To the Countesse of Bedford”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, p:
text: So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,
Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,
His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “Book 12”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 418:
text: […] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.
ref: 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 3, in The World I Live In, New York: Century, page 35:
glosses: Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
Synonyms: sacrificant
sacrificator
sacrificatrix
sacrificial priest
sacrificial priestess
sacrificing priest
sacrificing priestess
Related terms: self-sacrificer
cotemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cotemporary
form: most cotemporary
Etymology: From co- + temporary.
Senses: examples: text: The delusion of the young woman herself, and the envy of the cotemporary belles, sometimes lasted till the removal of the corps to another station […].
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of contemporary.
cotemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotemporaries
Etymology: From co- + temporary.
Senses: examples: text: 'I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.'
ref: 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:
text: Uneasy at your present Condition for Reasons which threaten your unhappy Posterity with still greater Uneasyness, you will perhaps wish it were in your Power to go back; and this Sentiment ought to be considered, as the Panegyrick of your first Parents, the Condemnation of your Cotemporaries, and a Source of Terror to all those, who may have the Misfortune of succeeding you.
ref: 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of contemporary.
cotemporaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotemporary
blazonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪ.zən.ɹi/
Forms: form: blazonries
Etymology: From blazon + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: But as ashore, knightly valor, tho' shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seas, […] did the nobler qualities of such naval magnates as Don John of Austria, Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admirals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: A blazon.
A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.
glosses: A blazon.
The specialized language used in blazoning arms.
glosses: An artistic representation or display.
blazonries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blazonry
ejectment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejectments
Etymology: From eject + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: She had only, therefore, to save herself an actual ejectment, by quitting a house in which she was exposed to such a disgrace.
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, V.x.4:
topics: law
glosses: The legal process of ejecting someone from their property or holdings.
qualifier: generally
glosses: A casting out, an ejection.
Synonyms: sense: casting out
word: ejection
ejectments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ejectment
belave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belaves
form: belaving
form: belaved
form: belaved
Etymology: From Middle English bilaven (“to wash all over”), from bi-, be- + laven (“to wash, pour water on”), equivalent to be- + lave.
Senses: glosses: To lave or wash about; wash all over; wash.
belave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belaves
form: belaving
form: belaved
form: belaved
Etymology: Anomalous alteration of beleve (“to remain, be alive”) and belive (“to remain, stay”), both from Middle English beliven (“to remain”), from Old English belīfan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilībaną (“to remain”). More at belive, leave.
Senses: glosses: to remain, continue; to belay
glosses: to be alive
Related terms: belive
lay on the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays on the line
form: laying on the line
form: laid on the line
form: laid on the line
Senses: examples: text: Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms.
ref: 1957 June 10, “The Budget: Remember Guam!”, in Time:
text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
The way I felt about my approach to him—I just wanted to lay it on the line, get an answer & split, I was so nervous. I didn't have any confidence to flirt my way into getting him to my place. Joyce said I can't just take the male role like that.
text: Finally, though, he laid it on the line. “I said to her, ‘You gotta tell me if you still love me.’”
ref: 2011 June 10, David Colman, “Crosses That Bear the Past”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Jul 2011:
glosses: To state strongly, clearly, and accurately.
examples: text: California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals.
ref: 1959 July 5, “National Affairs: The Democratic Governors in 1960”, in Time:
text: It was King and his network of Christian and Jewish clergy who laid their jobs and, in some cases, their lives on the line until my fellow Southerners were too ashamed and embarrassed to continue their wickedness.
ref: 2011 March 13, Oliver Thomas, “America's churches can change the world”, in USA Today, retrieved 30 Jul 2011:
glosses: To risk.
dandyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandyisms
Etymology: From dandy + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: beauism
dandyishness
foppery
foppishness
glosses: The manners and dress of a dandy.
dandyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandyism
brachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɪəl/
ipa: /ˈbɹækɪəl/
rhymes: -eɪkiəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bracchialis, from bracchium (“arm”). Doublet of brachialis.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining or belonging to the arm.
glosses: Of the nature of an arm.
Derived terms: antebrachial
brachial artery
brachialgia
brachially
brachial plexus
cervicobrachial
coracobrachial
faciobrachial
interbrachial
intercostobrachial
intrabrachial
monobrachial
parabrachial
postbrachial
prebrachial
scapulobrachial
spinobrachial
transbrachial
brachial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɪəl/
ipa: /ˈbɹækɪəl/
rhymes: -eɪkiəl
Forms: form: brachials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bracchialis, from bracchium (“arm”). Doublet of brachialis.
Senses: examples: text: The first brachials are somewhat broader than long and are not entirely in contact interiorly. The second brachials are squarish. The first and most of the second brachials bear spines […]
ref: 1950, Austin Hobart Clark, A monograph of the existing crinoids, page 33:
text: Cup conical, weakly developed basal flange, six arms per ray, one exotomous branching, all brachials biserial within two to five brachials of branching, cup ornamentation probably striae radiating from base of arms onto basals.
ref: 1997, Gary D. Webster, David D. Gillette, Lower Carboniferous Echinoderms from Northern Utah and Western Wyoming, page 14:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Denoting the upper valve of a brachiopod's shell
Claymore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: claymore
Etymology: Possibly named for the sword claymore.
Senses: glosses: An American-made anti-personnel mine designed to lay down a wide arc of steel ball bearings in order to inflict casualties.
deathful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deathful
form: most deathful
Etymology: From Middle English dethful, equivalent to death + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Five hapless swains with soft allusive smiles / The harlot meshes in her deathful toils […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 111:
glosses: Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly.
glosses: Subject to death; mortal.
Derived terms: deathfully
deathfulness
stock loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock loans
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A loan structure using free-trading stock or in some cases restricted stock as collateral.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The loan of securities by one broker to another, such as to cover a customer short sale. More commonly known as securities lending.
raw_tags: used in securities brokerages and investment banking
embassage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embassages
form: ambassage
Etymology: A variant of ambassade, from French ambassade.
Senses: glosses: An embassy.
glosses: Message; errand.
embassages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embassage
arsenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈsɛnɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more arsenical
form: most arsenical
Etymology: From Latin arsenicum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic.
Derived terms: arsenical bronze
arsenical copper
arsenical iron
biarsenical
nonarsenical
organoarsenical
arsenical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈsɛnɪkl̩/
Forms: form: arsenicals
Etymology: From Latin arsenicum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Thus Mercury cures the holes which it has provoked and other Arsenicals do likewise.
ref: 1999, Paracelsus, “Opus Paramirum”, in Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, transl., Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books, page 95:
glosses: Any drug or other substance containing arsenic.
spokescat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokescats
Etymology: By analogy to spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., with cat.
Senses: examples: text: Superstar Arthur was the spokescat for a large cat food manufacturer until the cat food company decided to have Arthur's teeth removed.
ref: 2005, Alexandra Powe Allred, Cats' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Mysterious Mousers, Talented Tabbies ..., page 174:
glosses: A feline mascot.
Corvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːɹˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: Corvettes
Etymology: From corvette (“a small, manoeuvrable warship”).
Senses: glosses: A type of sports car, manufactured by Chevrolet from 1953 to present.
Synonyms: Vette
contexture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contextures
Etymology: From Middle French contexture, from contexte + -ure after texture.
Senses: glosses: A weaving together of parts.
glosses: A body or structure made by interweaving or assembling parts.
glosses: The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing.
examples: text: He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty.
ref: 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England:
text: Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: The structural character of a thing.
glosses: Context.
Derived terms: contextural
contexture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contextures
form: contexturing
form: contextured
form: contextured
Etymology: From Middle French contexture, from contexte + -ure after texture.
Senses: glosses: To weave together.
contextures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contexture
assimilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assimilative
form: most assimilative
Etymology: From the French assimilatif, assimilative, from the Late Latin assimilātīvus; equivalent to assimilate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.
Derived terms: assimilativeness
disassimilative
unassimilative