cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gô
ipa: /ɡɔː/
enpr: gôr
ipa: /ɡoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōr
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gores
form: goring
form: gored
form: gored
Etymology: From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Senses: glosses: To cut into a triangular form.
examples: text: to gore an apron
text: If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.^([sic])
ref: 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:
glosses: To provide with a gore.
gracioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graciosos
Etymology: From Spanish gracioso. Doublet of gracious and grazioso.
Senses: glosses: A court favourite.
examples: text: I ſhall never ceaſe to wonder that the Engliſh, who are certainly a ſenſible and diſcerning people ſhould be ſo much infatuated, as to applaud and careſs with the moſt extravagant approbation, not to ſay adoration and regard, one or two gracioſo's, who, I will be bold to ſay, would ſcarce be able to earn their bread by their talents, on any other theatre under the ſun.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter LV, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A clown or jester in early-modern Spanish comedy.
assign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: assigns
form: assigning
form: assigned
form: assigned
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin signō
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
Senses: examples: text: to assign a day for trial
glosses: To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
examples: text: to assign counsel for a prisoner
glosses: To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
examples: text: “I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, volume I, London: John Murray, page 210:
text: He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
ref: 1857, William Hickling Prescott, “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, new edition, volume I, London: G. Routledge & Co., page 116:
text: Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To allot or give (something) as a task.
glosses: To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
glosses: To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
topics: law
glosses: To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
examples: text: We assign 100 to x.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To give (a value) to a variable.
Synonyms: sense: set apart something for some purpose
word: allocate
word: earmark
word: set apart
sense: transfer property
word: consign
word: convey
word: transfer
Derived terms: assignability
assignor
misassign
nonassigned
preassign
preassigned
reassign
unassign
unassigned
assign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: assigns
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin signō
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
Senses: examples: text: Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: An assignee.
examples: text: The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
glosses: An assignment or appointment.
examples: text: He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.
ref: 1609, John Ford, “Fame's Memorial: An Elegy upon the Earl of Devonshire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 9:
glosses: A design or purpose.
tough
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌf/
ipa: /tɐf/
ipa: /tʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: tuff
Etymology: From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian toai (“tough, strong”), Bavarian zaach, zach (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Dutch taai (“tough, resilient”), German zäh, zähe (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Luxembourgish zéi (“tough, rugged, hardy”).
Senses: examples: text: If you don't like it, tough!
glosses: Used to indicate lack of sympathy
tough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌf/
ipa: /tɐf/
ipa: /tʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: tuff
Forms: form: toughs
Etymology: From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian toai (“tough, strong”), Bavarian zaach, zach (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Dutch taai (“tough, resilient”), German zäh, zähe (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Luxembourgish zéi (“tough, rugged, hardy”).
Senses: examples: text: They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch of toughs from the opposition.
text: One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
text: He was in his early fifties, extensively tattooed, just the sort of tough I wouldn't want to meet alone in a parking lot at night, but right then he was whimpering.
ref: 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌf/
ipa: /tɐf/
ipa: /tʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: tuff
Forms: form: toughs
form: toughing
form: toughed
form: toughed
Etymology: From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian toai (“tough, strong”), Bavarian zaach, zach (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Dutch taai (“tough, resilient”), German zäh, zähe (“tough, tenacious, dogged”), Luxembourgish zéi (“tough, rugged, hardy”).
Senses: examples: text: We shall reminisce on how we toughed it through the winters as they reached the firm, long arm around to give the cold embrace, with ardor seldom loosed till warm winds Marched or Apriled in to soften winter's knuckles -- send rivulets of courage down to dandelions and tulips.
ref: 2009, Paul Walsh, You and I and Others, →ISBN, pages 64 - 65:
text: “No,” said Minott, “I've toughed it through the winter, and i want to stay and hear the bluebirds once more.
ref: 2011, Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861, →ISBN, page 254:
text: Universal Plant Edibility Test The following sounds like a lot of work—it is!—but that's because it comes from the US Army Survival Manual as republished in 1994 as "a civilian's best guide for toughing it, anyplace in the world...a must for campers, hikers, explorers, pilots, and others whose vocation or avocations require familiarity with the wilderness or out-of-doors..."
ref: 2012, Jerry Hopkins -, Extreme Cuisine: The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat, →ISBN:
glosses: To endure.
glosses: To toughen.
Derived terms: tough out
tough it out
teleradiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + radiology.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: telehealth, telemedicine
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiology services provided remotely via telecommunications: a means of electronically transmitting radiologic images and consultative text from location to another, even over long distances.
Related terms: telepathologist
telepathology
teleradiologist
contents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛnts/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of content
contents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛnts/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛnts/
Senses: examples: text: It is not covered in your homeowner's policy. You need contents insurance.
text: The contents of the cup had a familiar aroma.
text: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: That which is contained.
examples: text: I always start a book by reading the dustjacket and the contents before I really dig in to the content itself.
glosses: A table of contents, a list of chapters, etc. in a book, and the page numbers on which they start.
Derived terms: contents insurance
contents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛnts/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of content
gauche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊʃ/
ipa: /ɡoʊʃ/
ipa: /ɡaʊʃ/
ipa: /ɡoʊʃ/
rhymes: -əʊʃ
Forms: form: more gauche
form: most gauche
Etymology: Borrowed from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish *walkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.
Senses: examples: text: Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
In 'good society', to make her way
ref: 1836, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Outcast and Other Poems, The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence, page 102:
text: She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.
ref: 1879, George Meredith, “chapter XLVI”, in The Egoist:
text: "He's a trifle gauche" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less gauche."
ref: 1895, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 18”, in The Wonderful Visit (Macmillan’s Colonial Library), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Skewed, not plane.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
Synonyms: sense: lacking in social graces
word: graceless
sense: lacking in social graces
word: tactless
sense: lacking in social graces
word: unsophisticated
sense: lacking in social graces
word: unpolished
sense: lacking in social graces
word: gawky
Derived terms: gauchely
gaucheness
Related terms: gauche caviar
gauche effect
main-gauche
main gauche
très gauche
USS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “We are aware that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras onboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) of the F-35C Lightning II crash that occurred Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of the shipboard video footage,” Cmdr. Zach Harrell, spokesperson for Commander, Naval Air Forces, said in an email.
ref: 2022 February 7, Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, “Newly leaked video shows F-35 crashing in flames on aircraft carrier”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of United States Ship.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Upshaw-Schulman syndrome.
USS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Steel (a steel company)
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of United States of Saurashtra.
lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɑts/
enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: examples: text: The men cast lots.
text: They purchased all of the adjacent lots.
glosses: plural of lot
lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɑts/
enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: examples: text: Lots of the ways you can help are really easy.
text: Don't worry, my family has lots of money.
text: She made lots of new friends.
glosses: A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.
Derived terms: lots of love
lots
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɑts/
enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: examples: text: I feel lots better about it now that we've talked.
text: I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.
glosses: A great deal; very much.
lots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɑts/
enpr: lŏts
ipa: /lɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lot
composer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kəm-pōzʹər
ipa: /kəmˈpoʊzəɹ/
enpr: kəm-pōzʹər
ipa: /kəmˈpəʊzə/
rhymes: -əʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: composers
Etymology: From compose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who composes; an author.
glosses: One who composes; an author.
Especially, one who composes music.
examples: text: The exertion necessary to soothe and subdue Lucy's passionate sorrow was the best composer to Francesca's own agitation.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 43:
text: Where, mighty Anna, will thy Glories end.
Thou Great Composer of distracted states.
ref: 1713, Joseph Trapp, Musicus Apparatus Academicus set to music by William Croft, pages 38–41, →MDZ
glosses: One who, or that which, quiets or calms.
Derived terms: chamber composer
cocomposer
composeress
composerly
noncomposer
photocomposer
Related terms: compose
composite
composition
compositionist
compositor
retort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: retorts
Etymology: From Middle English retorte, from Latin retortus, from retorquēre (“to be forced to twist back”).
Senses: examples: text: He countered her insult with a clever retort.
glosses: A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
retort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: retorts
form: retorting
form: retorted
form: retorted
Etymology: From Middle English retorte, from Latin retortus, from retorquēre (“to be forced to twist back”).
Senses: examples: text: “It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' egg, and is every bit as simple.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
examples: text: to retort the charge of vanity
text: And with retorted scorn his back he turned.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
examples: text: a retorted line
text: With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bend or curve back.
examples: text: As when his virtues, shining upon others, / Heat them and they retort that heat again / To the first giver.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Glasses were filled, arresting the trooper on a theme of passion; the pariahdom of the country cop, whose self-respect is to retort the law's blackmail for blackmail levied on his self-respect.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
Synonyms: sense: sharp reply
word: comeback
sense: sharp reply
word: rejoinder
sense: sharp reply
word: back answer
retort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: retorts
Etymology: From French retorte.
Senses: examples: text: A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, page 670:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hyponyms: pelican
glosses: A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
glosses: An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
examples: text: The retort is above boiling water. Beneath is a furnace. To the right a man is removing the chips from which the camphor has been extracted.
ref: March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 268:
glosses: A pressure cooker.
glosses: A crematory furnace.
Derived terms: retort cell
retort curry
retort food
retort pouch
retort processing
retort stand
retort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: retorts
form: retorting
form: retorted
form: retorted
Etymology: From French retorte.
Senses: glosses: To heat in a retort.
anytime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: any time
Etymology: From Middle English any time, ony tyme, from Old English ǣniġum tīman, equivalent to any + time.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t like beer much. Give me a fine wine anytime.
text: But despite the President’s offer, it’s unlikely that an influx of Norwegians will begin to settle in the US anytime soon.
ref: 2018 January 12, Kara Fox, “Norwegians aren’t likely to move to the US, even if they’re welcome”, in CNN:
glosses: At any time.
Derived terms: anytime now
anytime soon
anytime
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: any time
Etymology: From Middle English any time, ony tyme, from Old English ǣniġum tīman, equivalent to any + time.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks so much for looking after grandpa. ~ That’s all right. Any time, dawg.
glosses: A form of you're welcome in response to thank you or thanks.
anytime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: any time
Etymology: From Middle English any time, ony tyme, from Old English ǣniġum tīman, equivalent to any + time.
Senses: examples: text: they appeal to consumers looking for a cookie to eat with breakfast coffee or tea as well as an any-time snack.
ref: 1992, Snack Food, volume 81, page 8:
text: Freeze them and reheat them for a perfect any time snack.
ref: 2013, Alain Braux, Paleo French Cuisine, page 109:
text: They store beautifully for tomorrow's breakfast or an anytime snack. Wrap them individually for a super convenient snack on the go.
ref: 2014, Lisa Viger, Easy, Affordable Raw: How to Go Raw on $10 a Day, page 88:
glosses: suitable for any time; not associated with any particular time.
behave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈheɪv/
ipa: /biːˈheɪv/
ipa: /bɪˈheɪv/
ipa: /bi-/
ipa: /bə-/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: behaves
form: behaving
form: behaved
form: behaved
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: behave
form: behave
form: behaved
form: behave
form: behavest
form: behaved
form: behavedst
form: behaves
form: behaveth
form: behaved
form: behave
form: behaved
form: behave
form: behaved
form: behave
form: -
form: behaving
form: behaved
Etymology: From Middle English behaven, bihabben (“to restrain, behave”), from Old English behabban (“to surround, embrace, hold, contain, hold back, withhold, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan, equivalent to be- + have. Cognate with Middle Low German behebben, behāven (“to receive, acquire, reach, keep”), Low German behebben (“to act, behave”), German behaben (“to behave”).
Senses: examples: text: You need to behave yourself, young lady.
text: And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 2:21:
glosses: To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
examples: text: He behaves like a child whenever she's around.
text: How did the students behave while I was gone?
text: My laptop has been behaving erratically ever since you borrowed it.
text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
synonyms: deport
tread
glosses: To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
examples: text: He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 88:
text: But who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 3, verse 40:
glosses: To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
examples: text: His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.
text: One time when Willie was more set on clowning than on learning about Jesus, Miss Helen ordered, "Willie Mack, you stand up against the wall until you learn to behave."
ref: 2009, Roger L. Van Ommeren, From Rebellion to Submission, page 48:
glosses: To act in a polite or proper way.
Derived terms: behave oneself
behaver
misbehave
Related terms: behavior
behaviour
behavioral
behavioural
behaviorist
behaviourist
behaviorism
behaviourism
cloudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈkɫaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈklaʊːdɪ/
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: cloudier
form: cloudiest
form: clowdy
Etymology: From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English clūdiġ (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud + -y.
Senses: synonyms: clouded
overcast
antonyms: cloudless
noncloudy
unclouded
uncloudy
glosses: Covered with or characterised by clouds.
examples: text: […] aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place — it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless.
ref: 2002, “Best Inventions of 2002”, in Time:
glosses: Not transparent or clear.
glosses: Not transparent or clear.
Containing pith
raw_tags: of fruit juice
glosses: Uncertain; unclear.
examples: text: a cloudy infrastructure
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Using or relating to cloud computing.
glosses: shady; sketchy; suspicious
examples: text: cloudy marble
glosses: Having cloudlike markings.
Derived terms: cloudily
cloudiness
cloudywing
cloudy wing virus
noncloudy
uncloudy
Related terms: cloud ceiling
cloud cover
lately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪt.li/
rhymes: -eɪtli
Forms: form: latelier
form: more lately
form: lateliest
form: most lately
Etymology: From Middle English lately, latly, equivalent to late + -ly. Compare Old English lætlīċe (“slowly, tardily”), Middle Low German lātlîk (“careless, slack, sloppy”).
Senses: examples: text: I'd lately returned from Japan.
text: It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.
text: Ant. […]I am content : ſo he will let me haue / The other halfe in vſe, to render it / Vpon his death, vnto the Gentleman / That lately ſtole his daughter. / Two things prouided more,[…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 181:
glosses: Recently; not long ago; of late.
examples: text: Don't try to come lately and change your answer now after you've heard everyone else's response.
glosses: In a late manner; after-the-fact.
examples: text: David George Philip Cholmondeley, The Marquess of CHOLMONDELEY, K.C.V.O., lately Lord Great Chamberlain, Royal Household.
ref: 2023, “Honours list on the demise of HM Queen Elizabeth II”, in London Gazette, number 64008, page D2:
text: The ¼th of the manor of Dunterdon is held of the king by knight's service as of his honour of Okehampton, now in the king's hands by reason of the atteinture of Henry lately Marquis of Exeter for high treason, and is worth 55s 6d yearly.
ref: 1545, Inquisition post mortem of John Arundell of Lanherne knight's lands in Devon:
glosses: Formerly.
raw_tags: of a peer
Synonyms: freshly
recently
Derived terms: Johnny-come-lately
lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsn̩/
ipa: [ˈlɛsn̩]
homophone: lessen
rhymes: -ɛsən
Forms: form: lessons
form: lessoning
form: lessoned
form: lessoned
Etymology: From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
Senses: examples: text: And you, my sister—you, who lesson me on endurance, your cheek is pale, and your step languid; even with you, how much has life lost its interest!
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: To instruct to teach.
lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsn̩/
ipa: [ˈlɛsn̩]
homophone: lessen
rhymes: -ɛsən
Forms: form: lessons
Etymology: From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
Senses: examples: text: In our school a typical working week consists of around twenty lessons and ten hours of related laboratory work.
glosses: A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
glosses: A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
examples: text: Nature has many lessons to teach to us.
glosses: Something learned or to be learned.
examples: text: I hope this accident taught you a lesson!
text: The accident was a good lesson to me.
glosses: Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
examples: text: Here endeth the first lesson.
glosses: A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
examples: text: She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
Synonyms: word: lear
sense: religious reading
word: lection
Derived terms: double lesson
e-lesson
epistle lesson
learn one's lesson
lessoner
lesson plan
lessons learned
life lesson
life's lesson
lime lesson
microlesson
minilesson
object lesson
teach someone a lesson
Related terms: lectern
lection
lecture
lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsn̩/
ipa: [ˈlɛsn̩]
homophone: lessen
rhymes: -ɛsən
Forms: form: lessons
form: lessoning
form: lessoned
form: lessoned
Etymology: From Middle English lessoun, from Old French leçon, from Latin lēctiō, lēctiōnem (“a reading”), from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lection.
Senses: examples: text: her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee
 Made her companion, and her lessoned
 In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,
 Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza LXVIII:
glosses: To give a lesson to; to teach.
Related terms: Lesson in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
flapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: flapping sails
glosses: that flaps or flap
Derived terms: flappingly
unflapping
flapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: flappings
Senses: glosses: An instance where one flaps.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
examples: text: Greyhound racing had its origins in whippet racing, which was derived in turn from hare coursing. By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.
ref: 2009, Mark Clapson, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century, page 332:
text: Flapping is racing which is not licensed by the Jockey Club. […] Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off.
ref: 2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing, page 81:
text: Flapping is the arse end of greyhound racing, the lowest of the low. Part sport, part fairground attraction, flapping is the bare-knuckle fighting of dog racing.
ref: 2016, David Matthews, Man Buys Dog:
glosses: The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
flapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flap
carnivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈnɪv.ə.ɹəs/
ipa: /kɑɹˈnɪv.ə.ɹəs/
ipa: /kaːˈnɪv.ə.ɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more carnivorous
form: most carnivorous
Etymology: From Latin carnivorus (“flesh-eating”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
glosses: Predatory or flesh-eating.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
Synonyms: sarcophagic
sarcophagous
Derived terms: anticarnivorous
carnivorously
carnivorousness
hypercarnivorous
hypocarnivorous
macrocarnivorous
mesocarnivorous
noncarnivorous
protocarnivorous
uncarnivorous
al-Qaeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑl ˈkaɪdə/
ipa: /æl ˈkaɪdə/
ipa: /æl ˈkeɪdə/
ipa: /ˌæl kaɪˈiːdə/
ipa: /ˌæl kɑːˈiːdə/
ipa: /æl ˈkaɪdə/
rhymes: -aɪdə
rhymes: -eɪdə
Forms: form: al-Qaida
form: al-Qaʼida
form: Al Qaeda
form: AQ
form: Qaeda
Etymology: From Arabic الْقَاعِدَة (al-qāʕida), definite form of قَاعِدَة (qāʕida, “foundation, base”).
Senses: examples: text: Al-Qaeda often kills non-Muslim and non-Sunni civilians.
text: Terror groups linked to al Qaeda and ISIS have been active in Niger for years.
ref: 2023 March 20, Kylie Atwood, “American citizen held hostage for 6 years in West Africa has been freed”, in CNN:
glosses: A worldwide network of militant Sunni Islamic organizations and individuals.
Coordinate terms: Boko Haram
Derived terms: word: al-CIAda
word: al-Qaedaesque
alt: AQI
word: al-Qaeda in Iraq
alt: AQAP
word: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
alt: AQIM
word: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
word: AQ
word: Y'all Qaeda
Related terms: al-CIAda
fut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Truncation of God's foot
Senses: examples: text: Nay, pre-thee, fut, feere not, he's no edge-toole; you may jest with him.
ref: 1601, John Marston, What You Will:
text: My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in th firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
ref: 1606, William Shakespeare, (King Lear)::
text: S'fut, thou liest in thy throte, thou knewst me as well as my selfe.
ref: 1611, George Chapman, May Day:
glosses: Alternative form of 'sfoot.
fut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /fʉt/
Forms: form: feet
Etymology: From standard foot.
Senses: examples: text: There's half a fut of clabber on the street outby;
ref: 1983, William Forbes Marshall, Sarah Ann and Our Son:
glosses: foot
outright
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: out-rītʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
enpr: outʹrīt
ipa: /ˈaʊtɹaɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English outright, equivalent to out + right.
Senses: examples: text: I refute those allegations outright.
text: Special facilities frequently are provided to enable visiting photographers to get the best results, whereas in the past cameras were sometimes banned outright.
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
synonyms: word: downright#Adverb
word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: Wholly; completely; entirely.
examples: text: I have just responded outright to that question.
glosses: Openly and without reservation.
examples: text: Two people died outright and one more later.
glosses: At once.
examples: text: I have bought the house outright.
glosses: With no outstanding conditions.
examples: text: That was an outright stupid thing to say.
glosses: Blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously.
outright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: out-rītʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
enpr: outʹrīt
ipa: /ˈaʊtɹaɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English outright, equivalent to out + right.
Senses: examples: text: I demand an outright apology.
glosses: Unqualified and unreserved.
examples: text: We achieved outright domination.
text: Truths, half truths and outright lies.
text: With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.
text: He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.
glosses: Total or complete.
examples: text: I made an outright purchase of the house.
text: They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.
glosses: Having no outstanding conditions.
outright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: out-rītʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
enpr: outʹrīt
ipa: /ˈaʊtɹaɪt/
Forms: form: outrights
form: outrighting
form: outrighted
form: outrighted
Etymology: From Middle English outright, equivalent to out + right.
Senses: examples: text: Sandy Alomar Jr. cleared waivers and was outrighted to Class AA Binghamton in preparation for his promotion when rosters expand Saturday.
ref: 2007 August 30, Ben Shpigel, “Martínez to Audition for Mets’ Brain Trust”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To release a player outright, without conditions.
Derived terms: outrightly
outrightness
outset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtsɛt/
Forms: form: outsets
Etymology: From out- + set, replacing earlier outsetting.
Senses: examples: text: He agreed and understood from the outset, so don't bother explaining again.
text: At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: It was opened on July 1, 1903, and worked by the former Highland Railway from the outset.
ref: 1954 January, “Notes and News: An Abandoned Railway from the Air”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
text: Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
ref: 2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An onset; the beginning or initial stage of something.
outset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtsɛt/
Forms: form: outsets
form: outsetting
form: outset
form: outset
Etymology: From out- + set.
Senses: topics: CSS
glosses: To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.
outsize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsizes
Etymology: From out- + size.
Senses: glosses: an unusually large garment size
Synonyms: word: OS
outsize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From out- + size.
Senses: examples: 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11.
...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle.
glosses: of an unusually large size
examples: text: Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.
text: [Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.
ref: 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
Synonyms: outsized
outsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsizes
form: outsizing
form: outsized
form: outsized
Etymology: From out- + size.
Senses: examples: text: Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.
ref: 2005, Los Angeles Times, headline, September 25, 2005:
glosses: to exceed in size
outskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtskɝt/
ipa: /ˈaʊtskɜːt/
Forms: form: outskirts
Etymology: From out- + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: Many people commute into the business district from the outskirts of town.
text: I told her of my plan to take John into an urban outskirt area for the purpose of retrieving some vital technical manuals.
ref: 2010, J. L. Bourne, Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon, page 37:
text: The outskirt communities were originally established as labor camps for railroad workers, farm and ranch hands.
ref: 1983, Our Barrios: Past, Present, and Future, page 20:
text: Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
ref: 1917, Michigan Film Review, page 347:
glosses: A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
outskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtskɝt/
ipa: /ˈaʊtskɜːt/
Forms: form: outskirts
form: outskirting
form: outskirted
form: outskirted
Etymology: From out- + skirt.
Senses: glosses: To surround as an outskirt.
outstretched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈstɹɛt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛtʃt
Forms: form: more outstretched
form: most outstretched
Senses: examples: text: They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled.
text: After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Extended or stretched out.
Derived terms: outstretchedness
outstretched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈstɹɛt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstretch
outward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: out'wərd
ipa: /ˈaʊt.wɚd/
enpr: out'wəd
ipa: /ˈaʊt.wəd/
Forms: form: more outward
form: most outward
Etymology: From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Outer; located towards the outside.
examples: text: By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
text: Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: Visible, noticeable.
examples: text: The fire will force its outward way.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismond and Guiscardo”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to the exterior or outside.
examples: text: an outward war
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: Foreign; not civil or intestine.
Derived terms: outwardmost