cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chevalier d'industrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevaliers d'industrie
Etymology: Borrowed from French.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of knight of industry (“footpad, thief or sharper”).
synonyms: word: knight of industry
extra: footpad, thief or sharper
dagger moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagger moths
Senses: glosses: Any of various noctuid moths of the genus Acronicta, having black dagger-shaped markings on the forewings.
strain courtesy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strains courtesy
form: straining courtesy
form: strained courtesy
form: strained courtesy
Senses: examples: text: my business was great ; and in such a case as mine , a man may strain courtesy
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: To go beyond what courtesy requires; to insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others.
strain a point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strains a point
form: straining a point
form: strained a point
form: strained a point
Senses: examples: text: I want you to strain a point, Mr Bellingham, and to do me a service which I assure you you shall never have any cause to regret. I want you to wire instructions down the line to detain this Arab and his companions and to keep them in custody until the receipt of further instructions.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings.
cream nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream nuts
Senses: glosses: brazil nut
fool's parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sun shone brightly on little showers of buttercup down the bank, in the fields the fools-parsley was foamy, held very high and proud above a number of flowers that flitted in the greenish twilight of the mowing-grass below.
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 101:
glosses: Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.
kettle stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettle stitches
Senses: topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book.
chamberlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamberlins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chamberlain.
chamberlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamberlin
castratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From castrate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being castrated.
Derived terms: uncastratable
uncastratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + castratable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being castrated.
lazy tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pantograph
acorn sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quercite.
ether engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ether engines
Senses: glosses: A condensing engine like a steam engine, but operated by ether vapour instead of steam.
unwieldable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wieldable.
Senses: glosses: Not wieldable.
mesityls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesityl
accordeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accordeon
sinking fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinking funds
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A fund established by an economic entity by setting aside revenue over a period of time to fund a future capital expense or repay a long-term debt.
wet goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Liquid goods stored in a container
glosses: intoxicating liquors
tip the wink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips the wink
form: tipping the wink
form: tipped the wink
form: tipped the wink
Senses: examples: text: Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink
But spare your censure; Silia does not drink
ref: a. 1743, Alexander Pope, Epistle to a Lady:
glosses: To give (somebody) a hint or suggestion, as if by a wink; to ask or tell surreptitiously.
Delhi boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Delhi boils
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of leishmaniasis once prevailing in India, as among the British troops, and especially in Delhi; not necessarily a separate disease entity from any other form of cutaneous leishmaniasis, but the old toponymic names predated the microbiological taxonomic knowledge.
Delhi boils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Delhi boil
kala-azar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːlə əˈzɑː/
Forms: form: kala-azars
form: kala azar
form: kalazar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کالا آزار (kālā āzār) / काला आज़ार (kālā āzār, literally “black sickness”).
Senses: examples: text: A chronic disease, invariably fatal, kala azar makes its presence known by the appearance of pustulating epidermal ulcers, marasmus and enlargement of the spleen.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 298:
text: Ratanmala was afraid of these but what frightened her even more was the fever, kala azar, which had taken so many lives including that of her uncle's first born.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
text: It is administered by IV infusion in the treatment of severe systemic fungal infections and kala-azars in patients refractory to or intolerant of conventional amphotericin B therapy.
ref: 2010, Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 6th edition, St. Louis, MO: Mosby, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: black fever
glosses: Visceral leishmaniasis.
wikipedia: kala-azar
black fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * (visceral leishmaniasis): Compare kala-azar.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Visceral leishmaniasis.
examples: text: What name could I have called? Richard would say that you've got—black fever.
ref: 1964, James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, Dell, act 3, page 140:
glosses: Synonym of jungle fever.
synonyms: word: jungle fever
Related terms: sense: jungle fever
word: Asian fever
sense: jungle fever
word: blue fever
sense: jungle fever
word: jungle fever
sense: jungle fever
word: white fever
sense: jungle fever
word: yellow fever
nihil dicit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nihil dicits
Etymology: Latin, meaning "he says nothing".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A declinature by the defendant to plead or answer.
nihil debet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "he owes nothing".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The general issue in certain actions of debt.
hypnotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypno- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnotherapy.
Derived terms: hypnotherapeutically
hypnoanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypno- + analytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnoanalysis.
Synonyms: hypnoanalytical
Derived terms: hypnoanalytically
Related terms: hypnoanalyst
pantelegraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + telegraphy.
Senses: glosses: The use of the pantelegraph.
hypnoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnoanalyses
Etymology: From hypno- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: Psychiatric analysis involving hypnosis.
Related terms: hypnoanalyst
hypnoanalytic
hypnoanalytical
black silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: stephanite
fireraiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireraisers
Etymology: From fire + raiser.
Senses: examples: text: Some fireraisers suffer gnawing anguish, mixed with sexual pleasure […]
ref: 2004, Crimes and criminals, page 217:
glosses: Alternative form of fire-raiser (arsonist)
fireraisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireraiser
hypnoanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnoanalysts
Etymology: From hypno- + analyst.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out hypnoanalysis.
Related terms: hypnoanalytic
hypnoanalytical
hypnoanalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnoanalyst
pe̍h-ōe-jī
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
cheesedick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheesedicks
Etymology: From cheese (“smegma”) + dick.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Bergoff was a Machiavellian cheesedick.
ref: 1999, Howard Swindle, Jitter Joint, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: “In case you can't tell, Astin is good friends with quite a few cheesedicks in administration here.”
ref: 2010, Miriam Anwari, Circumstantiality, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:
text: “You know, Radar,” he muttered, “sometimes you can be a real cheesedick.”
ref: 2010, John Vorhaus, The California Roll, Shaye Areheart Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, annoying, or obnoxious person (usually a man).
service à la russe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French service à la russe.
Senses: glosses: serving the dishes of a meal in courses, one after another
Coordinate terms: service à la française
service à la française
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French service à la française.
Senses: glosses: serving the dishes of a meal all together in one course instead of in several courses
Coordinate terms: service à la russe
Stakhanovism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Stakhanov + -ism, from the name of Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov (Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов), a Russian coal miner whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
Senses: glosses: A system instituted in communist countries to encourage increased productivity.
Related terms: Stakhanovite
bullet loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet loans
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A loan where the payment of the entire principal of the loan is due at the end of the loan term.
Related terms: bullet payment
Lusatians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lusatian
stockgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockgirls
Etymology: From stock + girl.
Senses: glosses: A typically young woman who works in a stockroom performing duties such as unpacking boxes, placing items on store shelves, etc.
Related terms: stockboy
stockman
stockwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockwomen
Etymology: From stock + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female stockman.
Related terms: stockgirl
stockboy
dispatch case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispatch cases
form: despatch case
Senses: examples: text: He picked up his dispatch-case, mildewed under the buckles, from the desk-chair in the lounge, and walked to the door which led from the flat to the world of boys.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44:
text: There is the long row of year-books which fill a shelf, and there are the dispatch-cases filled with documents, a perfect quarry for the student not only of crime, but of the social and official scandals of the late Victorian era.
ref: 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes), published 1927:
glosses: A flat, stiff case used for carrying papers, documents, books, etc.
Issime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Aosta Valley, in northwestern Italy.
collector's editions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collector's edition
Senses: glosses: plural of collector's edition
Mousterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or from Le Moustier.
examples: text: We know that in Mousterian times, the time of Neanderthal humanity, there was a bear cult.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 126:
glosses: Characteristic of the Neanderthal inhabitants or culture of this region.
glosses: Characteristic of Paleolithic flint tools found in this region.
bring to the hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to the hammer
form: bringing to the hammer
form: brought to the hammer
form: brought to the hammer
Senses: glosses: To put up for sale by auction.
Related terms: under the hammer
turf ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turf ants
Senses: synonyms: yellow meadow ant
yellow hill ant
pavement ant
glosses: A small European ant of species (Lasius flavus).
glosses: red pavement ant, of western Eurasia and north Africa (Tetramorium caespitum)
turf ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turf ant
setting coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setting coats
Senses: glosses: The finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings.
setting dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setting dogs
Senses: examples: text: Affectation is not confined to Man, educated Animals all have a Share: the well-broke silky-hair'd English Setting-dog a large one.
ref: 1789 March, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: A dog trained to set game; a setter.
mule armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule armadillos
Senses: glosses: Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo.
mulita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulitas
Etymology: From Spanish mulita.
Senses: glosses: Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo.
mulitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulita
Buenos Ayres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Of this particular letter he remarked only that it was in a curious envelope, that it was in a man's handwriting, that the postscript was Buenos Ayres, and the stamp of the Argentine Republic.
ref: 1922, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Black Doctor:
glosses: Dated spelling of Buenos Aires: the capital of Argentina.
glosses: A town in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
vision purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visual purple.
coticule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coticules
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cōticulum / cōticula, diminutive of cōs, cōtis.
Senses: glosses: A Belgian variety of whetstone, containing spessartine.
coticules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coticule
potter's asthma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A species of asthma is rather common in some parts of North Staffordshire , commonly styled " Potter's Asthma . " The symptoms are similar to those of moist asthma . The causes are referrible to the peculiar and unhealthy occupation
ref: 1871, Robert Abercrombie, New medical system, eleventh edition:
text: the people who worked there [the platemakers], he said, usually suffered from what is known as the potter's asthma.
ref: 1885, George Moore, A Mummer's Wife:
glosses: emphysema of the lungs, once common among potters
gathering hoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gathering hoops
Senses: glosses: A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
gathering coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gathering coals
Senses: glosses: A lighted coal left smothered in embers overnight, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
change wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: change wheels
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted for one another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc.
coat card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat cards
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A face card, picture card or court card; the king, queen, or jack.
barrel bulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel bulks
Senses: glosses: A measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
word it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: words it
form: wording it
form: worded it
form: worded it
Senses: examples: text: to word it with her [a shrew]
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bandy words; to dispute; to speak excessively or angrily.
refallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of refall
bar shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar shoes
Senses: glosses: A kind of horseshoe with a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect the frog of the foot.
thumbmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbmarks
Etymology: From thumb + mark.
Senses: examples: text: There are dirty thumbmarks on the pages of this book.
glosses: The mark left by a thumb.
thumbmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbmark
volcanoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pyroclastic.
synonyms: word: pyroclastic
volcanoclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanoclastics
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pyroclastic.
synonyms: word: pyroclastic
snap flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap flasks
Senses: qualifier: moulding
glosses: A flask for small work, having its sides separable and held together by latches, so that the flask may be removed from around the sand mould.
snap riveting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: riveting in which the rivets have snapheads formed by a die or swaging tool
panisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panisses
Etymology: From French panisse.
Senses: examples: text: Serve the greens alongside a pile of panisses and garnish with a sprinkling of Pecorino Romano and the remaining lemon wedges.
ref: 2017, Jenn Louis, Kathleen Squires, The Book of Greens: A Cook's Compendium of 40 Varieties, from Arugula to Watercress, with More Than 175 Recipes, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Another summer is beginning in Marseille. Heat, rocks, panisse. Packs of Vogue cigarettes and bottles of orange wine, all emptied.
ref: 2025 June 14, Robin Van Liebergen, “How not to summer in Marseille”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
glosses: One of a portion of chickpea fries (chips), made from a kind of chickpea polenta chilled, cut into slices, dredged in flour, and fried.
niru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nirus
form: niru
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A company within the military of the Qing dynasty.
septum pellucidum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin triangular vertical membrane separating the anterior horns of the left and right lateral ventricles of the brain. It runs as a sheet from the corpus callosum down to the fornix.
onion fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion fishes
Etymology: Referring to its large eyes.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the grenadier.
walking onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking onions
Etymology: So called because the bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant.
Senses: glosses: tree onion
onion fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion flies
Senses: synonyms: onion maggot
glosses: Delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.
superdemocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdemocracy
triangle spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangle spiders
Senses: synonyms: triangle weaver
glosses: Any spider of the genus Hyptiotes, especially the small American spider (Hyptiotes cavatus) that lives among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.
rub iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rub irons
Senses: glosses: An iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.
initial reject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: initial rejects
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail channels.
shinobi-iri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 忍び入り (“to sneak into?”)
Senses: examples: text: You had so much success with shinobi-iri — but both your mind and your body have been severely strained lately.
ref: 2004, Carrie Asai, The Book of the Pearl, page 42:
glosses: ninjutsu techniques for stealth and infiltration
locating engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locating engineers
Senses: glosses: A civil engineer who determines the best course for a road or railway by surveying the available terrain.
Te Ao Māori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: The Māori world, including its languages, community practices, sites of importance, etc.
guardships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardship
French purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French purples
Senses: glosses: A dyestuff obtained from certain lichen known as orchella weeds, used for colouring woollen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.
Related terms: alt: archil, orchil, lacmus
word: orcein
taxonomic: Roccella tinctoria
word: archil lichen
word: orcinol
French red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rouge (the cosmetic)
platinum black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soft, dull black powder consisting of finely divided metallic platinum obtained by reduction and precipitation from its solutions. It absorbs oxygen to a high degree, and is employed as an oxidizer.
Coordinate terms: iridium black
typewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typewheels
Etymology: From type + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A wheel in an early telegraph or typewriter that bears the physical characters on its periphery and is used to print them onto the page.
Related terms: typeball
typewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typewheel
rust mite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rust mites
Senses: glosses: Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including:
A mite which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-coloured patches on citrus fruit.
A pink citrus rust mite (Aculops pelekassi)
glosses: Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including:
A mite which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-coloured patches on citrus fruit.
A citrus rust mite (Phyllocoptruta oleivora).
glosses: Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including:
A mite of species Aceria anthocoptes, found on Cirsium arvense, (Canada thistle).
Synonyms: sense: Aceria anthocoptes
word: russet mite
sense: Aceria anthocoptes
word: thistle mite
sense: Aceria anthocoptes
word: Canada thistle mite
Related terms: russeting
bronzing
rust joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rust joints
Senses: glosses: A joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulfur, which by oxidation becomes hard and impervious to steam, water, etc.
brown spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown spars
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.
coast waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coast waiters
Senses: glosses: A custom house officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade.
rat-mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-moles
Senses: glosses: mole rat
factory leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, once seen in young children who worked in factories.
wound gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wound galls
Senses: glosses: An elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish-brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.
lackeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lackey
lackeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lackey
gazeebo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazeebos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gazebo.
gazeebos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazeebo
winchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winchats
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of whinchat.
winchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winchat
watering place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watering places
Senses: examples: text: The station of the little watering-place was almost deserted, but a small, fat man in a fur overcoat ran forward to meet them, and greeted them warmly.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A place where water may be obtained, e.g. for a ship or for cattle.
examples: text: "You should drop all work instantly, Challenger, and take three months in a German watering-place," said he.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Newry [...] cannot be described as a tourist centre, though it is only six miles from the well-known watering place of Warrenpoint.
ref: 1940 May, H. Fayle, “The Bessbrook & Newry Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
text: At 2,248 feet in length, the pier was designed to meet the needs of steamers, with the town a popular watering-place among Victorian and Edwardian visitors.
ref: 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 49:
glosses: A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, that people visit for bathing, recreation, boating, etc.
glosses: A place where alcohol is sold and consumed; a bar.
natural vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural vowels
Senses: glosses: schwa
neutral vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral vowels
Senses: glosses: schwa
chant royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French chant royal.
Senses: glosses: A complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.
gadding car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadding cars
Senses: topics: business
mining
quarrying
glosses: A gadder (machine)
loblolly tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loblolly trees
Senses: glosses: Any of several West Indian trees with more or less leathery foliage, but otherwise dissimilar, such as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Derived terms: loblolly pine
bouncing Bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncing Bets
Senses: glosses: Saponaria officinalis, the common soapwort.
bouncing Bets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouncing Bet
overrun the constable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overruns the constable
form: overruning the constable
form: overran the constable
form: overrun the constable
Senses: glosses: Synonym of outrun the constable.
synonyms: word: outrun the constable
outrun the constable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outruns the constable
form: outruning the constable
form: outran the constable
form: outrun the constable
Senses: synonyms: overrun the constable
glosses: To spend more than one's income; to get into debt.
hypnoanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypno- + analytical.
Senses: glosses: hypnoanalytic
Related terms: hypnoanalysis
hypnoanalyst
marine acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hydrochloric acid.
Derived terms: marine acid air
email addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of email address
marine metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Denithorne, Sherson and Smith's patent for a new-invented white composition, called marine metal, particularly useful for sheathing of ships and other valuable purposes
ref: 1794, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures:
glosses: An alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships.
marine soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine soaps
Senses: glosses: Soap made with coconut oil, formerly used on shipboard because of its solubility in salt water.
vis mortua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīs mortua.
Senses: glosses: Dead force; force not carrying out any active work, but only producing pressure.
Related terms: potential energy
vis impressa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīs impressa.
Senses: glosses: Force exerted, as in moving a body, or changing the direction of its motion; impressed force.
Related terms: action
shear steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear steels
Senses: glosses: A steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.
perfectionitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfection + -itis.
Senses: glosses: excessive perfectionism
amyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amyles
Senses: glosses: Dated form of amyl.
amyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amyle
zinc green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zinc greens
Senses: glosses: A green pigment consisting of zinc and cobalt oxides.
Synonyms: cobalt green
Rinman's green
Rinmann's green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rinman's green.
zinc white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partially within English and partially as a calque of French blanc de zinc after Edme-Jean Leclaire greatly improved its quality and industrialized its production in a suburb of Paris, France.
Senses: examples: text: Such eminent and renowned scientists as Fourcroy, Berthollet and Vauquelin all enthusiastically supported zinc white, the defects of which "are so slight compared to the disadvantages of using white lead, that its adoption cannot be reasonably refused."
ref: 2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., p. 4
glosses: A form of zinc oxide powder used as an artist's pigment.
wikipedia: Edme-Jean Leclaire
Hyponyms: Chinese white
rope pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rope pumps
Senses: glosses: A pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope.
rope of sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropes of sand
Senses: examples: text: If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be detected in it, he begs to crave for them the acknowledgment that they are a chain of adamant.
ref: 1875, James Frederick Ferrier, The Institutes of Metaphysic, Section 2 Proposition 5:
text: Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand. At the slightest stress, the last least bit of cohesion flits away, and each idea flies apart from its fellows, while all clamor that he do this thing, or think this thing, in the ancient and time-honored way. He is only a clay-born; so he bends his neck. He knows further that the clay-born are a pitiful, pitiless majority, and that he may do nothing which they do not do.
ref: July 1900, Jack London, “The Dignity of Dollars”, in Overland Monthly, volume 36, number 211, pages 53–57:
glosses: Something incohesive, flimsy, disconnected or unreliable
double base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of double bass.
double note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double notes
Etymology: It is double the length of the semibreve.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: breve
double quarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double quarrels
Etymology: Calque of Latin duplex querēla.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of duplex querela.
synonyms: word: duplex querela
duplex querela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin duplex querēla.
Senses: topics: Christianity
ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: double quarrel
glosses: A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.
black latten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire
gross adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The loan of money upon bottomry, i.e. on a mortgage of a ship.
carry up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries up
form: carrying up
form: carried up
form: carried up
Senses: examples: to carry up a wall
glosses: To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
examples: text: Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]
ref: 1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425:
glosses: To trace back.
free board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel's side between waterline and gunwale.
seal manual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seals manual
Senses: glosses: The impression of a seal worn on the hand as a ring.
least count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: least counts
Senses: examples: text: The least count of a voltmeter is the minimum change that can be discerned.
glosses: The highest degree of accuracy of measurement that can be achieved.
zoomusicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzəʊəmjuːzɪˈkɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From zoo- + musicology.
Senses: glosses: A branch of zoosemiotics dealing with the musical aspects of animal sounds.
Related terms: ethnomusicology
zoomusicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + musicological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to zoomusicology.
zoomusicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomusicologists
Etymology: From zoo- + musicologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies zoomusicology.
zoomusicologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoomusicologist
bunnyhop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunnyhops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunny hop.
bunnyhops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunnyhop
fladge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædʒ
Etymology: Phonetic shortening of flagellation.
Senses: examples: text: One could find plenty of 'soft fladge' in British porn films […]
ref: 2005, Edward Shorter, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, page 227:
text: His honesty was a joy to behold: “I don't know shit about the fladge, son, but my punters can't get enough of it. […]
ref: 2011, Nick Urzdown, A Spanking Good Life, page 25:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: flagellation (as a sadomasochistic practice), or pornography that depicts it
collaboratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaboratrixes
form: collaboratrices
Etymology: From Latin collaboratrix.
Senses: glosses: Female collaborator.
Synonyms: collaboratress
collaboratrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collaboratrix
ecilop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Backslang for police.
Senses: examples: text: I don't want, when I go to shop, / A mix-up with the ecilop.
ref: 1964, Arnold Wall, The Jeweller's Window:
text: Two more patrol cars came howling into the street, dispersing the crowd. "So where's the ECILOP?"
ref: 2007, Richard De Nooy, Six Fang Marks and a Tetanus Shot, page 13:
synonyms: word: esclop
word: 5-O
word: Babylon
word: bacon
word: Big Blue Machine
word: Bill
word: boydem
word: constabulary
word: dibble
word: donut patrol
word: ducks and geese
word: ecilop
word: esclop
word: feds
word: filth
word: five-o
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gardai
word: gendarmerie
word: heat
word: law
word: monarch
word: Old Bill
word: piglice
word: plod
word: po-po
word: police
word: police department
word: police force
word: police service
word: polis
word: thin blue line
word: any plural synonym of police officer
glosses: police
blue meanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue meanies
Etymology: Introduced or popularised by the Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968).
(police officer): An allusion to the colour of their uniforms.
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
glosses: Panaeolus cyanescens, a kind of magic mushroom.
blue meanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue meanie
ducks and geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: police
donut patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the stereotype of police officers snacking on donuts.
Senses: glosses: The police.
thin blue line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the thin blue line
Etymology: By analogy with Thin Red Line. “Blue” refers to the color of the uniforms of many police departments.
Senses: examples: text: Crime wave overwhelms thin blue line [title]
ref: 2005 March 27, Tony Thompson, Martin Bright, “Crime wave overwhelms thin blue line”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: It followed dire warnings from the police staff associations that the possible loss of up to 40,000 police jobs would mean “Christmas coming early” for criminals, and the “thin blue line” left too stretched to cope with the inevitable risk of social and industrial unrest.
ref: 2010 October 13, Alan Travis, “The thinner blue line – police warning over 25% budget cut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The police.
examples: text: “Obviously, you’ve seen caravans with the Trump flag in the back of pickup trucks and then the thin blue line,” Mr. DeMasi, a former police officer, said. “I think maybe people had a good intention, but it ended up giving the meaning of the thin blue line a black eye.”
ref: 2020 November 21, Michael Gold, “What Happened When a School District Banned Thin Blue Line Flags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A flag or symbol representing the police, commonly associated with the blue lives matter movement.
Related terms: blue flu
blue line
green line
red line
single yellow line
Thin Red Line
rozz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒz
Etymology: Compare rozzer.
Senses: examples: text: They should recruit more West Indians into the rozz.
ref: 2014, Ted Scott, How The Rich Live:
glosses: The police.
Queen's cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Queen's cowboys
Senses: synonyms: Mountie
gravel road cop
glosses: A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Queen's cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Queen's cowboy
hobby bobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobby bobbies
Senses: glosses: A special constable.
hobby bobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobby bobby
cryptocommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptocommunists
Etymology: From crypto- + communist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A person with communist views they do not express publicly, often to avoid negative judgment.
cryptocommunist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryptocommunist
form: most cryptocommunist
Etymology: From crypto- + communist.
Senses: synonyms: cryptocommunistic
glosses: Privately adhering to communism.
Related terms: cryptocommunism
cryptocommunists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptocommunist
cryptocommunism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + communism.
Senses: glosses: Hidden communism; communistic views not expressed publicly.
Related terms: cryptocommunist
dole meadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dole meadows
Senses: glosses: A meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.
copper finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copper finches
Senses: glosses: chaffinch
indigo copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: covellite
covellitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more covellitic
form: most covellitic
Etymology: From covellite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to covellite.
covellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covellite
boot closer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot closers
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots.
boot crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot crimps
Senses: glosses: A frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
catching bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catching bargains
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that the contract in the bill mentioned, was free from any suggestion of falsehood or concealment of the truth; that it was a catching bargain by the purchaser
ref: 1765, Kentucky Court of Appeals, Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Kentucky:
topics: law
glosses: A bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.
dummy car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummy cars
Senses: glosses: A railroad car containing its own steam power or locomotive.
turf spade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turf spades
Senses: synonyms: peat spade
hypernyms: spade
<
hand tool
<
tool
coordinate_terms: shovel
glosses: A long, narrow spade for cutting and digging turf. Various forms exist; some have a side wing at right angles for easily cutting rectangular blocks.
Related terms: turbary
peat-smoke
cream gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream gauges
form: cream gage
Senses: glosses: An instrument to test milk, usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
cream of lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
glosses: A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
wash bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash bottles
Senses: glosses: A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents.
glosses: A washing bottle.
luna cornea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Luna (“silver in alchemy”), and Latin cornea (“horn”), which it resembles.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass
sculptured tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculptured tortoises
Etymology: From the grooved patterns on its shell.
Senses: glosses: wood turtle
red antimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: kermesite
Deacon's process
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From H. Deacon, who introduced it.
Senses: glosses: A method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, such as copper sulfate.
peppermint tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peppermint trees
Senses: examples: text: Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.
ref: 2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95:
glosses: Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group.
glosses: A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy.
animal charcoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an adsorbent and disinfectant.
Synonyms: abaiser
bone black
bone char
bone charcoal
ivory black
Related terms: vegetable carbon
organicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organicities
Etymology: From organic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Where did the new approach [of broken windows policing] go off track? The difficulty can be traced back to the categories of "honest persons" and "the disorderly." Under the broken windows theory, these categories are vested with a certain naturalness, or fixity, or organicity. It is as if the world were naturally divided into law abiders and lawbreakers.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: The quality of being organic.
organicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being organic.
nonorganics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonorganic
Negro-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of negrohead
throw about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws about
form: throwing about
form: threw about
form: thrown about
Senses: examples: text: That now vnto despaire I gin to growe,
And meane for better winde about to throwe.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: when they were got about two miles a-head, they threw about, and stood for us again
ref: 1805, The Naval Chronicle: Volume 14, July-December 1805:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: go about
put about
glosses: To change direction; to change from one tack to another.
examples: text: When the ship entered the violent storm, all the passengers were thrown about.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, about.