cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heterozygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + zygotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heterozygosis.
henneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hennery
heptamerons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptameron
heterophemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterophemy
heteropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteropathy
holocephalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holocephalan
highstreets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highstreet
highspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highspot
hogsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogsucker
hetties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hetty
glosses: plural of hettie
holaspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holaspis
histodifferentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histodifferentiation
herborists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herborist
historiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historiology
hoboing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hobo
hoboed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hobo
hobelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobeler
heterodimerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterodimerization
heterolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterolysis
homolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homolysis
homolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homolyse
hicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hick
hicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hick
humanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanation
hurlbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurlbat
hotboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotbox
hotboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotbox
hyperlenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperlens
hyperdactylies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperdactyly
hydroxytestosterones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxytestosterone
hydrolyzations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrolyzation
hormeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hormesis
horizontalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horizontality
hypomethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypomethylation
hypopnoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypopnoea
hypersalivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersalivation
hypernymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypernymy
hypertrichoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypertrichosis
werewolf syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: severe hypertrichosis
hypermetamorphoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermetamorphosis
hyperexcitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperexcitation
homothecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homothecy
homopolymerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of homopolymerize
homopolymerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homopolymerize
homopolymerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of homopolymerize
homophor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: homophora
homophors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophor
illuminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuminist
immits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immit
immitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immit
immitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immit
ichnotaxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnotaxon
ihrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ihram
Illinoisians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Illinoisian
immobilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immobility
immunoabsorbents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoabsorbent
hypolimnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypolimnion
hyperactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperactivation
hyposensitivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyposensitivity
hypophysectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypophysectomy
homotheties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homothety
homoepitaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoepitaxy
greasing the wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grease the wheels
inadaptabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inadaptability
incarcerators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incarcerator
imposures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imposure
impenetrabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impenetrability
impleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impleach
imparities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imparity
immunostimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunostimulation
immunopurifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunopurification
immunolocalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunolocalization
indispensabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indispensability
indiscreetnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indiscreetness
indiscernibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indiscernibility
indistinctnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indistinctness
indescribabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indescribability
incredibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incredibility
insensibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insensibility
innovationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innovationist
innocencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innocency
instructrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructrix
interlayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlayment
inferognathals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferognathal
infertilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infertility
interrogatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrogatee
intermixtures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermixture
interlopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interloping
intercommunications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercommunication
insularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insularity
invidiousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invidiousness
Istrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Istrian
invigilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invigilation
isoscalars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoscalar
inveteratists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inveteratist
isoalloxazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoalloxazine
inductivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inductivity
infecundities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infecundity
infeasibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infeasibility
isopachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isopach
intransitivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intransitivity
jaggerbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaggerbush
jaseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jasey
Javans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑːvənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Javan
intrigueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intriguery
intolerabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intolerability
inspans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inspan
inspanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inspan
inexorabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inexorability
inmeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inmesh
inmeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inmesh
inmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inmesh
insudates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insudate
jeffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jeff
jeffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jeff
inquinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inquinate
inquinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inquinate
inquinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inquinate
karyologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyology
karasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karass
kaboodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaboodle
Judaeophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judaeophobe
jubilancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jubilancy
joineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joinery
johnsongrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnsongrass
jizyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jizyah
jitties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jitty
jimadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jimador
jetwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jetwash
jetwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jetwash
jetwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jetwash
jerrybuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jerrybuild
jerrybuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jerrybuild
webliographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webliography
whackoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whacko
weldabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weldability
West African Pidgin Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WAPP
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical Portuguese-based pidgin spoken across the western coast of Africa between the 14ᵗʰ and 18ᵗʰ centuries, believed by some to be the proto-language of most or all modern creoles.
Adam's flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to the Biblical Adam, who would have had to improvise clothing from plant materials.
Senses: synonyms: torchwort
hag-taper
common mullein
great mullein
Jacob's staff
Aaron's rod
Jupiter's staff
cow's lungwort
qualifier: Chester
glosses: The mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
jack truss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack trusses
Senses: glosses: In a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof does not have its full section.
blue jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: copper sulfate
stage micrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage micrometers
Senses: glosses: A graduated device applied to the stage of a microscope for measuring the size of an object.
English mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
Navahos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Navaho
Navahoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Navaho
milk pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Galactia of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.
salt of sorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because found in the sorrel plant.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acid potassium oxalate, or potassium quadroxalate, used as a solvent for ink stains.
Synonyms: salt of lemon
quadroxalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadroxalate
salt of Venus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Venus was the alchemical name for copper.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: copper sulphate
salt of hartshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sal ammoniac
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: baker's ammonia
hartshorn salt
sal volatile
glosses: ammonium carbonate
black frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black frosts
Senses: topics: biology
botany
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: killing frost
glosses: Cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and turn it black, without the formation of hoar frost.
examples: text: The question was raised because of the trawlers of the lost Hull trawlers Lorella and Roderigo, which, it has been suggested, were not adequately warned of the freak black frost conditions by shore-based radio stations.
ref: 1955, World Fishing, IPC Industrial Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:
text: ‘Black Frost is like a dense mist and when it lifts it leaves ice all over the ship the ropes round the masts are sometimes 1½ feet in diameter. When black frost hits a ship men are allowed to drink rum by the bottle to keep themselves warm.’
ref: 1962, Jeremy Tunstall, The Fishermen, MacGibbon & Kee, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:
text: The air temperature is most important and a sudden drop may well indicate imminent icing conditions. This drop is often made obvious by the formation of Arctic frost-smoke fog , or ‘black frost’ as it is known by fishermen. It occurs quite frequently in these waters when a sea-air temperature difference exceeds 10 degC and is regarded by fishermen with some apprehension, but there seems little justification for this unless the portent of icing conditions developing is the reason.
ref: 1970, The Marine Observer. Published by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee, Air Ministry, London. The Review of the Marine Division in Cooperation with Voluntary Marine Observers, page 29:
text: The dreaded black frost, that penetrated into every part of ones body and the ship, that enveloped everything, spread a thick coating of ice on rigging, stays and all it embraced, running up the masts, surmounting the superstructure and even the very clothes we wore.
ref: 2009 June 30, Ernest Cleveland, Trawlers and Trawler Folk, Pneuma Springs Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100:
text: The ship was iced up worse than Dai had ever known it and a heavy swell was running, so when the black frost began to rise from the water everyone had been too busy to notice it. You can't see black frost, but you can feel it; it is black frost which causes each breath you take to include tiny particles of ice, and ice in the lungs can kill a man.
ref: 2011 June 30, Katie Flynn, Liverpool Taffy: Family Saga, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A mist of very cold droplets that freeze upon impact and coat objects (such as parts of a ship) with ice, potentially causing a ship to capsize.
Coordinate terms: black ice
ground frost
hoarfrost
hoar frost
rime
white frost
frost lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frost lamps
Senses: glosses: A lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; used especially in lighthouses.
fire blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fireblast.
air fountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air fountains
Senses: glosses: A device for producing a jet of water by the force of compressed air.
take the air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the air
form: taking the air
form: took the air
form: taken the air
Senses: glosses: To go out walking or riding, so as to enjoy the fresh air.
take air
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes air
form: taking air
form: took air
form: taken air
Senses: examples: text: [T]his secret having taken air, the old Israelite had contrived a scheme to separate them for ever; and they being apprized of his intention, had found means to elope from his house […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The purchase proved fatal; the Jew's family soon died of the plague: the news took air, and the house was burnt, but the infection could not be restrained; it spread, and continued to rage with great violence […].
ref: 1780, The Annual Register:
glosses: To be divulged; to be made public.
bricklayer's itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: eczema of the hands accompanied by itching
washerwoman's itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: eczema of the hands and arms
mill tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill teeth
Senses: glosses: A grinder or molar tooth.
Mexican tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican tigers
Senses: glosses: jaguar
unsunken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sunken.
Senses: glosses: Not sunken.
unnagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nagged.
Senses: glosses: Not nagged.
tiger cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger cats
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of felids:
An oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus).
glosses: Any of several species of felids:
A margay (Leopardus wiedii).
glosses: Any of several species of felids:
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
glosses: Any of several species of felids:
A serval (Leptailurus serval).
examples: text: A capacious room […] slowly appeared around me, large enough to accommodate perhaps twenty people, though presently home only to two potaroos & one tiger cat which had scampered out after I entered.
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 392:
glosses: A tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus).
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).
cooling card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooling cards
Senses: glosses: Something that dashes hopes.
Related terms: calling card
stub mortise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stub mortises
Senses: glosses: A mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed.
solar oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A paraffin oil used as an illuminant and lubricant.
solar lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar lamps
Senses: glosses: Argand lamp
goiim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goi
whalebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalebirds
Etymology: From whale + bird, because they have been known to follow whaling vessels to feed on the blubber and floating oil.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels, especially Pachyptila turtur (the blue petrel) and Pachyptila desolata.
glosses: The sooty tern
whalebirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalebird
fence time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fence times
Senses: glosses: The breeding time of fish or game, when they should not be killed.
prairie itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grain itch.
grain itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: barley itch
mattress itch
prairie itch
straw itch
glosses: A cutaneous condition caused by several types of mite, and characterized by intense pruritus.
straw itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grain itch.
barley itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grain itch.
mattress itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Grain itch.
Belenus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: The Celtic sun god.
Belisama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Belisama.
Senses: qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: A goddess worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain.
Related terms: Minerva
Taranis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Celtic deity, from Proto-Celtic *toranos (“thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“thunder”), related to Proto-Germanic *þunraz.
Senses: qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: The Celtic god of thunder.
cut stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts stick
form: cutting stick
form: cut stick
form: cut stick
form: cut one's stick
Senses: glosses: To depart clandestinely or in a hurry.
wart snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wart snakes
Senses: examples: text: Acrochordus javanicus of Java (illustrated here) like the other wart snakes hunts fish and for this reason has modified its teeth into long fangs.
ref: 1987, Elena Marcon, Manuel Mongini, World Encyclopedia of Animals, page 158:
text: The acrochordids or wart snakes, have only one genus, with three species. All of these are found in Southeast Asia and Australasia.
ref: 1998, Lenny Flank, Snakes: Their Care and Keeping, page 51:
text: Wart snakes are adapted to aquatic systems and prey almost exclusively on fish.
ref: 2008, Mark Mitchell, Thomas N. Tully Jr., Manual of Exotic Pet Practice, page 142:
glosses: Any of various primitive aquatic snakes in the monotypic family Acrochordidae (the single genus Acrochordus).
Synonyms: sense: snake of family Acrochordidae
word: acrochordid
sense: snake of family Acrochordidae
word: file snake
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acrochordus javanicus
alt: =elephant trunk snake, Javan file snake
word: Javan wart snake
Related terms: file snake
wart snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wart snake
compass card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass cards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs.
point lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point laces
Senses: glosses: Lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from pillow lace.
point paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design.
proof charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proof charges
Senses: examples: text: Thus the proof-shot with proof-charge may in reality be proving the gun less faithfully than its first service-charge and service-shot,—a mode of proof-practice for heavy artillery very different from that imposed for safety on every fowling-piece.
ref: 1862, Edward Pellew Halsted, The Armstrong Gun. A Rejoinder to the Letter of Sir W. Armstrong, page 37:
text: The late Ordnance Select Committee therefore, after having obtained particulars of proof of guns in nearly all theother countries in Europe, came to the conclusion that the proof should be based on the highest charge which the gun will fire on service, and recommended the following proof which was approved in July 1864 and remains still in force, viz., two rounds of 1 1/4 the highest service (battering) charge, and service projectiles; but, in consequence of the results obtained in recent trials with Pebblepowder, experiments are being carried on to determine the future proof charge.
ref: 1872, Francis Sadleir Stoney, Charles Jones, A Text-book of the Construction and Manufacture of the Rifled Ordnance in the British Service, page 112:
text: Amd. the official "Extracts of Artillery Proceedings" tell us, 4:3:72, tha the Superintendent, Royal Gun Factories, "proposes tha the proof charge for the 12-inch gun of 35-tons shall be 115 lbs.
ref: 1873, W. Dawson, “Powder Pressures in the First 35-Ton Gun”, in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, volume 17, number 70, page 4:
text: In case barrels sent for proof for the use of nitro powders are intended by the senders to sheet charges of powder or shot greater than the ordinary service charges of the like respective bores set forth in Scale 6, in the said Schedule, then the quantities of powder and shot so intended to be used shall be declared in wwriting, and a proof charge proportionate thereto shall be used.
ref: 1897, Sporting Guns and Gunpowders:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A charge of powder and ball, greater than the service charge, fired in an arm, as a gun or cannon, to test its strength.
examples: text: This means that the proof charge will be repelled by the electric field.Moreover, since the proof charge should not interfere with the measurements and assuming that its starting point is infinity (¥), then VB = 0.
ref: 2021, J. Felipe de Almeida, Maxwell's Equations and the Principles of Electromagnetic Phenomena, pages 3-12:
qualifier: electrostatics
glosses: A small charge used to test or measure the electric field created by other charges.
shave hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shave hooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shavehook.
wine whey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.
wine vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine vaults
Senses: glosses: A vault where wine is stored.
examples: text: they went into a wine-vault, to get materials for assisting them in making a night; where they found a good many young ladies, and various old gentlemen, and a plentiful sprinkling of hackney-coachmen and cab-drivers, all drinking and talking together
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Making a night of it”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A place where wine is served at a bar, or at tables; a dramshop.
live box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪvˌbɒks/
Forms: form: live boxes
form: live-box
Senses: examples: text: A drop of water and sediment oozes out; and when the live-box cover is put on, this drop is flattened out, and the box is set upon the stage of the microscope to be searched with a low power.
ref: 1856, Philip Henry Gosse, Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday:
text: The 3 individuals which escaped joined others of their species which had been for some days living apparently unmolested against the flat bottom and sides of a large, floating live-box.
ref: 1908, Papers, volume 2, page 302:
glosses: A box or pen suspended in water to keep aquatic animals alive.
Mengerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mengerian
form: most Mengerian
Etymology: From Menger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Carl Menger (1840–1921), founder of the Austrian School of economics.
P2G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of power to gas, a method of storing generated power, usually by electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen, and carbonizing the hydrogen into methane.
adad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of ah God; compare adod, egad.
Senses: examples: text: “And adad,” said Andrew, “you had best not neglect these orders of that worthy knight […].”
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4:
text: ‘We'll have no ranting, Dick,’ said the old Knight to the young Franklin; ‘adad, man, we'll have none, for three reasons.’
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, Peveril:
glosses: Expressing emphasis or asseveration; indeed.
goal average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal averages
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The ratio of the numbers of goals scored for and against a team in a series of matches, sometimes used in deciding the team’s position in a table.
screw box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw boxes
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device, resembling a die, made of a type of spindle, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw.
race knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪs naɪf/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪs ˌnaɪf/
Forms: form: race knives
Etymology: From race (“to cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object”, verb) + knife.
Senses: examples: text: And be it enacted, That every surveyor of lumber who shall be required to survey any timber or lumber, shall, at the time of making the survey, mark with a race knife or scoring iron, on each and every stick of ton timber by him surveyed, the number of cubic feet such stick shall contain[…]
ref: 1849, “Cap. XIX. An Act to regulate the survey of timber and lumber”, in The Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, volume 1, Prince Edward Island: Royal Gazette Office, published 1862, section XX, page 625:
text: Trees intended for felling should be plainly and legibly numbered, in consecutive order, with white paint, the surface of the outer bark being smoothed with a race''' knife for this purpose.
ref: 1859, John Blenkarn, “Timber-Felling”, in British Timber Trees, London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, page 135:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: race-tool
race
glosses: A kind of knife hooked at the point, used for marking outlines on metal, wood, etc.
minimap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪ.ni.mæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: minimaps
Etymology: From mini- + map; (simple map of landmarks): introduced by Siegel and White (1975).
Senses: glosses: A simple map connecting a small number of nearby landmarks.
topics: video-games
glosses: A small on-screen map to aid players in orienting themselves within the game.
minimaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimap
pampas cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pampas cats
Senses: synonyms: colocolo
glosses: Leopardus pajeros, a small South American cat.
pampas cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pampas cat
piecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecards
form: pie card
Etymology: From pie + card, in reference to the cards formerly issued by unions that entitled workers to free meals or accommodation.
Senses: examples: text: "Piecards!" said Jackie. "They've become sell-out, fuckin' piecards. Corrupt bureaucrats."
ref: 1989, Milt Felsen, The Anti-Warrior: A Memoir, page 133:
text: Although crusty old piecards knew that Kirkland (whom A.H. Raskin apotheosized as 'a leader of supreme intelligence') was really an emperor without clothes, a discreet, bureaucratic silence froze the doubts and suspicions […]
ref: 1999, Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream, page 267:
glosses: A union official who is on the side of the boss rather than that of the workers.
piecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piecard
presidentess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidentesses
Etymology: From president + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Smith and Ogburn rode to Honiton, to see the annual procession of lace-makers; alighted at the Golden Lion, and was soon called over and invited to dine at a Mrs. Youat's, whose daughter is presidentess of this society, […]
ref: 1842, Samuel Curwen, George Atkinson Ward, Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen:
glosses: A female president.
Synonyms: presidentress
presidentesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidentess
in the straw
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Excuse the blots and scrawl of this letter. I am writing in an astonishing hurry and my secretary is so much engaged in copying public, that he has no time to devote to private letters—and my female secretary is at present in the straw with a young gentleman who sends his compliments to you.
ref: 1789, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to James Madison, 28 March, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, page 218
glosses: Confined to bed because of pregnancy.
bear off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears off
form: bearing off
form: bore off
form: borne off
Senses: glosses: To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
glosses: To restrain; to keep from approaching.
examples: text: to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
examples: text: The first player to bear off all checkers is the winner.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
qualifier: board games
glosses: To remove a piece from play.
merchant tailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant tailors
Senses: glosses: A tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.
nutmeg liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutmeg livers
Senses: glosses: A liver that looks speckled (like a grated nutmeg kernel) as a result of congestive hepatopathy.
bird spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird spiders
Senses: glosses: Goliath birdeater
Goliath birdeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goliath birdeaters
Senses: glosses: Theraphosa blondi, a kind of large tarantula.
olfactomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From olfacto- + motor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both olfactory and motor activity, as for example where thinking about an odor triggers sniffing.
yellow rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowrocket
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Barbarea, with yellow flowers.
Related terms: rocket
unhunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhunches
form: unhunching
form: unhunched
form: unhunched
Etymology: From un- + hunch.
Senses: examples: text: She unhunched her shoulders.
glosses: To release from a hunched position.
unhunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhunch
unhunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not hunched.
unhunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhunch
unhunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhunch
carp louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carp lice
Senses: glosses: A small crustacean of the family Argulidae, parasitic on fishes.
Synonyms: fish louse
biloquialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biloquial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: biloquism
biloquialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biloquialists
Etymology: From biloquial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: biloquist
biloquialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biloquialist
crow pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow pheasants
Senses: glosses: A bird, Centropus sinensis, the greater coucal.
crow pheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow pheasant
verbicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verbicidal
form: most verbicidal
Etymology: From verbicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Committing or relating to verbicide; destroying or eliminating words.
verbicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbicides
Etymology: From Latin verbum (“word”) + -icide.
Senses: glosses: The destruction or elimination of a word.
glosses: One who destroys or eliminates a word.
Related terms: verbicidal
verbicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbicide
show the white feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows the white feather
form: showing the white feather
form: showed the white feather
form: shown the white feather
form: showed the white feather
Etymology: A white feather in the tail of a cock was considered an indication that he was not of the true game breed.
Senses: glosses: To show cowardice.
cockscrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English cokkes crowe; equivalent to cock + -s- + crow.
Senses: examples: text: What a goodly noise they kept, what a flapping of their wings, and a jerking of their tails, as they stood right up and tried with a whistling in their throats to imitate a cockscrow!
ref: 1872, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
glosses: The crowing of a cock.
Related terms: cockcrow
cockcrowing
brontoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bronto- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: divination by thunder
Derived terms: brontoscopic
brontoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From brontoscopy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: the Etruscan brontoscopic calendar
glosses: Relating to brontoscopy.
bruize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bruise.
ovarian ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovarian ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fibrous ligament that connects the ovary to the lateral surface of the uterus.
shart
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːt/
ipa: /ʃɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Etymology: See 'sheart.
Senses: examples: text: Shart, if my haire stand not an end...
ref: c. 1596, Sir Thomas More, Act III, Scene ii, l. 276:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 'sheart.
shart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːt/
ipa: /ʃɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sharts
form: sharting
form: sharted
form: sharted
Etymology: Blend of shit + fart. Compare shiss.
Senses: examples: text: This same friend called me a few years ago to tell me that she had sharted—when you fart and a little fudge comes out—in a cab on her way home.
ref: 2010, Gillian Telling, Dirty Girls:
text: “[…] My hubris is about to shart itself at the craft store to the tune of 'Yakety Yak' while I am buying glitter paint.”
ref: 2013, Jen Lancaster, The Tao of Martha:
text: To make matters much worse, the shadow looked like the spider was flying, and this sent him right off. Daniel sharted.
ref: 2015, Michael Riddell, Same Dog, Different Shite:
glosses: To unintentionally defecate due to relaxing the anus to flatulate.
Hypernyms: flatulate and Thesaurus:defecate
Derived terms: sharting
shart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːt/
ipa: /ʃɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: sharts
Etymology: Blend of shit + fart. Compare shiss.
Senses: examples: text: The definition: Not a fart, not a ***, it is a wet fart, a shart.
ref: 2010, Carrie Peterman, A Logger's Nightmare: Accident Forever Changes Family:
text: The shart wasn't my finest moment, obviously. I didn't know you could shit and fart at the same time.
ref: 2022, Claudia Oshry, Girl With No Job, page 105:
glosses: An instance of sharting.
glosses: The resulting excrement from sharting.
Hypernyms: flatus and Thesaurus:defecation
pizza nigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza niggers
Etymology: From pizza (a popular Italian food) + nigger (an offensive slang term).
Senses: examples: text: I've seen the Godfather 27 times and every time some wasp gets wacked by one of those pizza niggers.
ref: 2001, Rush Limbush, “Re: Note To PI Comic”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet):
text: He brought the two mugs to the table. “Carmine says to lay off your two pizza niggers.”
ref: 2007, Vahan Gregory, Where the Sun Don't Shine, page 42:
text: happy birthday to the best Dago/Goombah/Wop/Pizza Nigger around[.]
ref: 2012, @ceruleanescape
glosses: A person of Italian descent.
Related terms: dago
wop
pizza niggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizza nigger
psychasthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychasthenias
Etymology: From psych- + asthenia.
Senses: glosses: A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.
psychasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychasthenic
form: most psychasthenic
Etymology: From psychasthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Affected with, or relating to, psychasthenia.
psychasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychasthenics
Etymology: From psychasthenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has psychasthenia.
psychasthenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychasthenic
plumptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumptious
form: most plumptious
Etymology: Blend of plump + scrumptious
Senses: examples: text: It was like seeing some dreamy fruit at the point of optimum, plumptious juiciness.
ref: 2013, A. A. Gill, To America with Love, page 109:
glosses: Plump and delicious.
retoxification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + toxification.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something toxic again.
redintegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redintegrate
redintegrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redintegrate
redintegrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redintegrate
redintegrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to redintegration.
ROMFFLMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rolling on the motherfucking floor laughing my ass off.
stream cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stream cables
Senses: glosses: A hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas.
skew bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skew bridges
Senses: examples: text: Just beyond Widmerpool the railway crosses the Roman Fosse Way on the skew. In The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress Frederick S. Williams wrote in 1877 that "in reverence to the past, the Midland acquiesced in the matter of a skew bridge, so that the lengthy straight course of the Fosse Way should not be disturbed".
ref: 1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 319–320:
glosses: A bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
Related terms: skew arch
on one's guard
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Be on your guard against pickpockets in the railway station.
text: One had to be on one's guard when thus confronted and, in the course of my numerous meetings with him, I had on occasion to exercise all my wits and be prepared at a moment's notice to parry a very awkward question, to which I would much rather have given a considered reply.
ref: 1944 March and April, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: VIII—Sir H. N. Gresley”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:
synonyms: on the alert
glosses: In a watchful state; alert; vigilant.
guard cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard cells
Senses: synonyms: guardian cell
glosses: A kind of specialized cell located in the lower leaf epidermis of plants. Pairs of guard cells surround tiny stomatal airway pores and regulate their opening and closing.
indigo brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brown resinous substance found in crude indigo.
eastern indigo snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern indigo snakes
Senses: glosses: Drymarchon couperi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake native to the eastern United States.
indigo white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A white crystalline powder obtained by reduction from indigo blue, and by oxidation easily changed back to it.
Synonyms: indigogen
indigo red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dyestuff, isomeric with indigo blue, obtained from crude indigo as a dark brown amorphous powder.
point net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A machine-made lace imitating Brussels ground.
carry one's point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries one's point
form: carrying one's point
form: carried one's point
form: carried one's point
Senses: glosses: To accomplish one's object, as in a controversy.
labializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of labialize
keyboardings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyboarding
ketoisovalerates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketoisovalerate
keratohyalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratohyalin
Keynesianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Keynesianism
kehillot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kehillah
keratinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratinisation
khus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khu