cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whipstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whipstitches
form: whipstitching
form: whipstitched
form: whipstitched
Etymology: From whip + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To sew using such a stitch.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To half-plough or rafter.
kickstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickstools
Etymology: From kick + stool.
Senses: glosses: A circular stool with small wheels used in libraries etc to reach high shelves; the wheels are made inoperative when a person stands on it
rigg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪɡ/
Forms: form: riggs
Etymology: From Middle English ryg, ryge (“storm”), from or related to Old Norse hregg (“storm and rain”).
Senses: examples: text: ... vpon springe tydes, or after great riggs of the sea, at which tyme the sea will cast the same in more aboundance together into great heapes.
ref: 1892 [1603?], George Owen, The Description of Penbrokshire, page 74:
text: to take no better company with you than Michaelmas Riggs? If you do not make haste, I profess I cannot tell what to say to your journey. You may find more danger in a ship to Ireland, than over the Thames in a skuller.
ref: 1857 [1739?], William Laud, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D. D. ..., page 302:
text: […] that uncertain season, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well composed, and when the inclement storms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the seas, and was as busy in building it's halcyon nest as if the angry ocean had been soothed by the[…]
ref: 1802, Edmund Burke, The Works: Hints for a Memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M. M. 1791. [and other political writings and letters]. 4, page 547:
text: ... returne before the Michaelmas Rigg, as they call it, those seas beinge very daingerous about Michaelmas, neuer faile of stormes.
ref: 1845, John Bramston, The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston of Skreens, , in the Hundred of Chelmsford: Now First Printed from the Original Ms. in the Possession of His Lineal Descendant Thomas William Bramston, ESQ., One of The Knights of The Shire for South Essex, page 37:
text: This will keep us till the middle of September, and as Michealmass "riggs" (or winds) have an ill name, we think it best to defer our journey to October, which generally gives us[…]
ref: 1861, Mrs. Delany (Mary), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, page 374:
text: ... Michael the Arch Angells Feast, the aforesaid Blow, or last Blow, there about till when those hurtfull winds restrained, Michaelmas riggs so called. As aforeshewed forbidden to hurt the Wine and the Oyle: all speaking as it were[…]
ref: 1995 December 21, Lady Eleanor Davies, Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A strong, stormy wind (now chiefly in the phrase "Michaelmas riggs").
Related terms: ree
pectiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pectiniform
form: most pectiniform
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a comb; pectinate.
benevolent assimilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benevolent assimilations
Etymology: Coined in 1898 by President William McKinley justifying the invasion of the Philippines.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of Benevolent Assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
ref: 1898, William McKinley, December 21
glosses: The assimilation of a group of foreigners by absorbing them into a new culture, with the primary stated reason being that it is an act of benevolence.
Related terms: manifest destiny
American Dream
American way
upward mobility
jingoism
bundook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnduːk/
Forms: form: bundooks
Etymology: From Hindi बन्दूक़ (bandūq, “gun”), from Arabic بُنْدُقِيَّة (bunduqiyya, “gun”), from بُنْدُق (bunduq, “hazelnut, pebble, bullet”) + ية (ya, “-y”), from Middle Persian 𐭐𐭍𐭃𐭊 (pondik, “hazelnut”), from Ancient Greek Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon, “Pontic nut”). Doublet of bonduc.
Senses: glosses: A service-issue rifle.
barding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bard
barding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardings
Senses: glosses: Armour for a warhorse.
nunnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nunnation
conditional agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional agreements
Etymology: conditional + agreement
Senses: glosses: An agreement which takes effect when a certain event happens.
framis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: speech that uses a mixture of real and nonsense words.
Synonyms: bafflegab
doublespeak
double-talk
gibberish
nonsense
gish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gishes
Etymology: The term originates in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game, where it originally referred to a Githyanki fighter/wizard combination. Gish is not an official term used in D&D referring to this, but is also used to refer to any character who has a martial/spellcasting combination of abilities.
Senses: examples: text: Most gishes use their magical abilities to increase their own personal combat abilities (known as "buffing").
qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
glosses: A character that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of magic.
glosses: An outsider.
Parnika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Sanskrit word which means "with leaves".
Senses: glosses: A female given name from India, of Indian usage.
trite law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trite laws
Senses: examples: 1928. Lord Sumner, Levene v. Inland Revenue A.C. 217,227.
It is trite law that His Majesty's subjects are free if they can make their own arrangements so that their cases may fall outside the scope of the taxing Acts.
2006. Gordon Jackson (Glasgow Govan), Subordinate Legislation Committee Official Report #31, October 2006.
Trite law is law that, if you do not know it, you should. It is like saying that two and two is four. For example, there is a presumption of innocence in Scotland. That is trite law—something that everybody knows."
glosses: Laws that are obvious or common knowledge.
twitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Forms: form: twittens
form: twitchel
form: twister
Etymology: Corruption of betwixt and between.
Alternatively: derived from Low German "twiete" (alley)
Senses: examples: text: 1892: "A Peep Into the Past": Brighton in the Olden Time, with Glances at the Present by John George Bishop
Separated from the Brewery by the narrow twitten running into Ship-street was "THE CRICKETERS"
text: On her rounds, she preferred to walk around Lewes via the twittens, the steep high-walled alleyways that ran betwixt and between the old buildings of the town.
ref: 2015, Matthew De Abaitua, If Then:
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: a narrow path between two walls or hedges, especially on hills. For example, small alleyways leading between two buildings to courtyards, streets, or open areas behind.
Synonyms: alley
backtracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtrackings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
examples: text: backtracking algorithm
text: Backtracking is used to solve problems in which a sequence of objects is chosen from a specific set so that the sequence satisfies some criterion. The classic example of the use of backtracking is the n-Queens problem.
ref: 2004, Richard E. Neapolitan, Kumarss Naimipour, Foundations of Algorithms Using C++ Pseudocode, 3rd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 188:
text: This grammar only uses tokens and rules, so there is no backtracking involved, and the grammar is a predictive parser. This is fairly typical. Many grammars work fine without backtracking, or with backtracking in just a few places.
ref: 2017, Moritz Lenz, Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars, Apress, →ISBN, page 112:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
Derived terms: catastrophic backtracking
nonbacktracking
runaway backtracking
backtracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backtrack
trax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: tracks
Senses: glosses: plural of track
bumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bumblingly
form: most bumblingly
Etymology: From bumbling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bumbling manner
SEQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Only 17 per cent of Southeast Queensland is held in state forests and national parks, compared to 43 per cent of Greater Sydney. One obvious result is that the catchment areas for dams in SEQ are not a patch on the Sydney catchment areas.
ref: 2008, Paul Spearritt, “Chapter 2: The water crisis in Southeast Queensland: How desalination turned the area into carbon emission heaven”, in Patrick Troy, editor, Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia′s Cities, page 22:
text: 2011, John Abbott, Chapter 8: Regions of cities: Metropolitan governance and planning in Australia, Jiang Xu, Anthony G. O. Yeh (editors), Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective, page 186,
The first statutory metropolitan plan for SEQ, called the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005–2026 (the 2005 SEQ Plan) was released in 2005 (OUM 2005a).
text: As a result of this planning process and in light of the drought conditions being experienced in other Australian capital cities, recommendations to government in 2004 included dam-building and other contingency methods to plan for the possibility of a potentially prolonged period of low rainfall in SEQ (Queensland Government 2004, 2005).
ref: 2012, Tabatha Wallington, Cathy Robinson, Brian Head, “Crisis, change and water institutions in south-east Queensland: strategies for an integrated approach”, in Thomas Measham, Stewart Lockie, editors, Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management, page 190:
glosses: Initialism of South East Queensland.
Related terms: FNQ
CQ
expediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expediates
form: expediating
form: expediated
form: expediated
Etymology: From Latin (ex-, pes, pedis (“foot”)); compare excoriate.
Senses: examples: text: EXPEDIATE—is a term tranſmitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at preſent little uſed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ſuch claws as ſhall totally prevent his purſuit of game. In earlier times, when the forest laws were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not expediated, living within the diſtrict, was liable to a fine for non-obedience.
ref: 1803, William Taplin, The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vernor and Hood, page 236:
text: Among other liberties, they were permitted to assart their lands in Woodford and many other places, and enclose them with a ditch and low hedge, that they might take of their woods at pleasure; to have the forfeiture of their own men; to hunt the fox, hare, and cat, in the forest; that their dogs should not be expediated†.
[…]
† Expediating dogs, according to the forest laws, signifies to cut out the ball of dogs' fore-feet; the mastiff is to have only the three claws of the fore-foot, on the right side, cut off next the skin, for the preservation of the king's game. Every one that keeps any great dog, not expediated, forfeits 3s. 4d. to the king.
ref: 1814, Elizabeth Ogborne, The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, page 73:
text: The statute, which prohibited all but a few privileged individuals from keeping Greyhounds or Spaniels, provided that farmers and substantial freeholders dwelling within the forests might keep Mastiffs for the defence of their houses within the same, provided such Mastiffs be expediated according to the laws of the forest. This “expediating,” “hambling,” or “lawing,” as it was indifferently termed, was intended to maim the dog as to reduce to a minimum the chances of his chasing and seizing the deer, and the law enforced its being done after the following manner: “Three claws of the fore foot shall be cut off by the skin, by setting one of his fore feet upon a piece of wood 8 inches thick and 1 foot square, and with a mallet, setting a chisel of 2 inches broad upon the three claws of his fore feet, and at one blow cutting them clean off.”
ref: 1903, William D. Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation, C. Scribner's sons, page 16:
glosses: To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
Related terms: lawe
expediate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expediate
form: most expediate
Etymology: See expedite and expeditious.
Senses: glosses: Expeditious.
expediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See expedite and expeditious.
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of expedite.
energizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energizers
form: energiser
Etymology: From energize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or a thing which, energizes.
Derived terms: triple energizer
enfeeblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfeeblements
Etymology: From enfeeble + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization
enfranchisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfranchisements
Etymology: From enfranchise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enfranchising
glosses: A release from slavery
glosses: The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
examples: enfranchisement of copyhold
qualifier: land legal
glosses: the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
engraver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: engravers
Etymology: From engrave + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who engraves
glosses: a tool used in this process
Derived terms: photoengraver
engrossment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsmənt/
Forms: form: engrossments
form: ingrossment
Etymology: From engross + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: The state of being engrossed; concentration or preoccupation.
topics: law
glosses: The fact or instance of preparing the final draft legal document for execution or completion.
topics: law
glosses: Such document that has not yet been executed or completed.
engulfment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engulfments
form: ingulfment
Etymology: From engulf + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The cultural engulfment that Jews experience at Christmas
ref: 1985 December 28, Alia Ever, Bonnie Wolf, “Being Jewish at Christmas”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 5:
glosses: The act of engulfing
Derived terms: grain engulfment
CQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Central Queensland.
CQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chloroquine.
Related terms: HCQ
HCQS
CQ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Initialism of close quarters.
Related terms: sense: close quarters
word: CQA
sense: close quarters
word: CQB
sense: close quarters
word: CQC
CQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French CQ.
Senses: glosses: Knight of the National Order of Quebec
Related terms: word: FNQ
word: SEQ
urls: https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/CQ
word: The Free Dictionary: Acronyms: CQ
read out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːd ˈaʊt/
homophone: redoubt stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˌɹɛd ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: reads out
form: reading out
form: read out
form: read out
Senses: examples: text: The teacher read out the names of the students who had passed the exam.
text: He read the names out to the class.
coordinate_terms: read off#Verb
glosses: To read something and say the words to inform other people; to call.
examples: text: The movement detector is reading out the data now.
coordinate_terms: read off#Verb
glosses: (of a device) To read some data and inform the person using the device; (of the user) to read some data from the device to inform oneself.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: count out#Verb
glosses: To interpret a part of a law so that it is not struck down but is rendered of no effect or applicability.
Derived terms: word: read-out
word: readout
rice-queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice-queens
Senses: examples: text: Charles frequented the Sapphire, a rice-queen bar, where he thought it more likely that he would meet someone looking for Asian men. “I wasn’t eighteen years old any more,” he remarks.
ref: 1997, Arthur D. Kahn, chapter 5, in The Many Faces of Gay: Activists Who Are Changing The Nation, Praeger Publishing, page 84:
topics: LGBT
glosses: Alternative spelling of rice queen.
nuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuncles
Etymology: From rebracketing of phrases an uncle, mine uncle, thine uncle, etc. Compare neam and naunt.
For the verb, OED suggests an evolution in sense "to claim to be one's uncle" > "to cheat". It compares this derivation with cozen, which it derives from cousin.
For the technical anthropological sense, compare nibling.
Senses: examples: text: Fool: Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman?
ref: 1605, Shakespeare, King Lear:
glosses: Uncle.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Aunt or uncle; sibling of a parent (regardless of gender).
raw_tags: in the study of kinship terminology
Derived terms: nunky
nuncle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nuncles
form: nuncling
form: nuncled
form: nuncled
Etymology: From rebracketing of phrases an uncle, mine uncle, thine uncle, etc. Compare neam and naunt.
For the verb, OED suggests an evolution in sense "to claim to be one's uncle" > "to cheat". It compares this derivation with cozen, which it derives from cousin.
For the technical anthropological sense, compare nibling.
Senses: synonyms: belirt
glosses: To cheat, deceive.
readout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːdaʊt/
rhymes: -iːdaʊt
Forms: form: readouts
form: read-out
Etymology: Deverbal from read out.
Senses: examples: text: Her company retrofitted its manual machine tools with digital readouts.
glosses: A display, particularly one that presents numerical data.
examples: text: The density is measured by the readout from a hydrometer.
glosses: The information, usually a measurement, shown on such a display.
examples: text: The computer readout was inaccurate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The information output from a computer in a readable form.
examples: text: Most of us first found out when we heard the readout from the summit meeting.
text: Once the call is over, both sides typically publish a readout of what was discussed. However, readouts have been known to differ between governments.
ref: 2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN:
text: In a readout of the conversation posted on Truth Social, Trump said, “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects.”
ref: 2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’”, in CNN:
glosses: An account of the topics discussed in a meeting, especially in diplomatic or political contexts.
hyote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyotes
Etymology: Blend of hyena + coyote
Senses: glosses: A cryptid sighted in Baltimore County, Maryland, that turned out to be a mangy fox.
dereferer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dereferers
Etymology: From de- + refer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A service used for removing the URL of the referring page that referred the user to a given page, to maintain privacy.
hypoiodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + iodous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to hypoiodous acid or its derivatives
iodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iodo- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing iodine
glosses: Of or pertaining to iodous acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: hypoiodous
iodous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hypothetical acid HIO₂ analogous to chlorous acid
Related terms: iodite
iodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodites
Etymology: iodine + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hypothetical salt or ester of iodous acid
Derived terms: hypoiodite
read-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: read-outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of readout.
as of late
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: In the idiomatic sense, a relatively recent and uncommon blend of as of and of late. See also as of yet.
Senses: examples: text: You seem to be quite busy as of late.
glosses: Lately; recently.
Synonyms: freshly
late
recently
Related terms: as of
of late
GmbH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GMBH
Etymology: Borrowed from German GmbH.
Senses: examples: text: Should the system perform adequately, GoalControl GmbH will be the official GLT provider when the World Cup heads to Brazil for the second time next year.
ref: 2013 April 2, “Latecomer wins FIFA goal-line tech deal”, in CNN:
glosses: A German limited liability company.
broadhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadheads
Etymology: From broad + head.
Senses: glosses: A flat arrowhead with razor-sharp sides, intended to kill prey by causing severe bleeding.
Bayer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bayer. The surname is converged from both Bavaria and Middle High German beieren (“to ring a bell”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
Derived terms: Bayer filter
irreversibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreversibilities
Etymology: From irreversible + -ity or ir- + reversibility.
Senses: examples: 1806, Samuel Barnard, The Essence, Spirituality, and Glorious Issue, of the Religion of Christ Jesus, to All God's Chosen, W. Nicholson, page 279,
Now if the irreversibility of God's gifts to his people, be considered, what joy for those who feel within a wicked heart.
1911, Power, Hill Pub. Co., page 171,
But because of irreversibilities in the engine, all of this theoretical conversion is not realized and some internal energy remains in the steam exhausting from the engine.
2007, Mark Currie, About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 103,
Paul Horwich, for example, in Asymmetries in Time, includes the laws of thermodynamics in a list of ten temporally asymmetric phenomena which operate in our conceptual system. Seen in this way, where the irreversibility of time is inseparable from rationality itself, the argument against backwards time tends to be expressed in terms of consequences, or the fear that time reversal is paramount to irrationality.
glosses: The quality of being irreversible; the lack of an ability to be reversed.
.coms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of .com
mathom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathoms
form: madme
form: mathum
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English māþum (“treasure, object of value, jewel, ornament, gift”), from Proto-Germanic *maiþmaz (“present, gift”); introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings with the conceit that it was a translation of his invented language Adûni's kast, a word used by Hobbits as a generic name for items which they were unwilling to throw away, but for which they had no use.
Senses: examples: text: When the door of the mathom shop is closed and the Inhabitant leaves the print of his footsteps for a moment on the wooden stair, things pause. There is no movement, not even of time. The mathoms listen until, downstairs, carpets and rugs swallow the noises of living, [...]
ref: 1989, Lewis Turco, The shifting web:
text: When packing, start with treasures such as vases and art objects (of course, these are now going into the mathom box, [...]) ... Now, when special occasions arise at which a gift would be appropriate, I search in our closet for a suitable mathom. I've also let my friends know that they are free to pass on (or possibly fob off) these "treasures" to someone else whenever appropriate.
ref: 1994, Elaine St. James, Simplify Your Life:
text: The first person to put a marker on a piece of land or ancestral mathom and say 'this is mine' was the first owner of capital, the first thief, the first magician.
ref: 1999, Stephen R. L. Clark, The Political Animal:
text: Inhabited by large families, smials are cluttered, full of 'mathoms' (gifts and artefacts that can never be thrown out, for sentimental, practical or thrifty reasons), throw-backs to the ancient English hall-house, built of sticks rather than bricks.
ref: 2000, Karen Sayer, Country cottages: a cultural history:
text: They store seemingly useless articles for future use, calling their collected stuff mathom. Far from being "junk" that we would discard, these leftovers are precious matter to the hobbits, for the word mathom means "treasure" in Anglo-Saxon.
ref: 2003, Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien:
text: A mathom is an object you don't want but can't stand to give away or throw away. Do you have a mathom? Most of us do.
ref: 2006, Gail Carson Levine, Writing magic:
text: They turned out to be the same sort of detritus as everything else. Junk and mathoms and useless geegaws.
ref: 2007, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick, The Pain of Unbelonging:
glosses: A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting.
Synonyms: trinket
federalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹəlˌɪst/
ipa: /ˈfɛdɹəlˌɪst/
Forms: form: federalists
form: fœderalist
Etymology: From federal + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Advocate of federalism.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Supporter of the view that the province of Québec should remain within the Canadian federal system; an opponent of Québec‐based separatism or sovereigns.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A covenantalist.
Derived terms: anti-federalist
pro-federalist
quasi-federalist
federalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹəlˌɪst/
ipa: /ˈfɛdɹəlˌɪst/
Forms: form: fœderalist
Etymology: From federal + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or relating to federalism, or its advocates.
Derived terms: antifederalist
Eurofederalist
federast
ultrafederalist
intemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intemperate
form: most intemperate
Etymology: From in- + temperate.
Senses: examples: text: intemperate language
text: intemperate zeal
text: Constantine engaged himself, by a solemn promise, to deliver Italy from the Goths; advanced as far as the banks of the Po; and after alarming, rather than assisting, his pusillanimous ally, hastily returned to the palace of Arles, to celebrate, with intemperate luxury, his vain and ostentatious triumph.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: immoderate
word: unrestrained
word: excessive
word: extravagant
word: unmeasured
word: unreasonable
word: extreme
word: immoderate
word: intemperate
word: lavish
word: nimious
word: obscene
word: overmuch
word: overweening
word: over the top
word: prodigal
word: undue
word: unrestrained
word: wanton
glosses: Lacking moderation, temper or control.
synonyms: word: self-indulgent
word: voluptuary
word: Babylonian
word: decadent
word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicureous
word: epicurish
word: hedonic
word: hedonistic
word: intemperate
word: lotus-eating
word: luxurious
word: self-indulgent
word: sensualistic
word: sinful
word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.
Derived terms: intemperateness
Related terms: intemperance
intemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intemperates
form: intemperating
form: intemperated
form: intemperated
Etymology: From in- + temperate.
Senses: glosses: To put into disorder.
moderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: moderation
Native Californian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Native Californians
Senses: examples: text: Our soil and climate are peculiarly adapted to the culture of what has contributed so much to the comfort and welfare of the Native Californian.
ref: 1894, Cephas Little Bard, "A Contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California," (speech delivered August 8, 1894)
text: The effete finger-twisting techniques of modern survival books and classes are tedious and slow and assume that we are all too citified to learn what every Native Californian knew well: the hand rolling of cordage on the thigh.
ref: 2005, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, publ. Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: An indigenous person of California; a member of one of the indigenous tribes historically associated with California.
Native Californian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Native Californian
form: most Native Californian
Senses: examples: text: I have devoted so much space to emphasizing religious and social behavior because Native Californian civilization must be viewed as a 15000-year effort to perfect the inter-human and human-creation relationships.
ref: 1931, Lawrence E. Metcalf, Values Education, National Council for the Social Studies, pg. 215
text: It is not clear whether Native Californian women who established joint residences with Native Alaskan, Creole, or Russian men were drafted into mandatory service for the Company.
ref: 2006, Kent G. Lightfoot, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Of or relating to the Native Californians.
Related terms: Aboriginal American
Native American
retributionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retributionists
Etymology: From retribution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The retributionist says — I quote from Sir James F. Stephen — ‘The criminal law proceeds upon the principle that it is morally right to hate criminals, and it confirms and justifies that sentiment by inflicting upon criminals punishments which express it.’
ref: 1893 October, “New Ways With Old Offenders”, in The Nineteenth Century, volume 34, page 625:
text: A lex talionis retributionist would likely maintain that neither the passage of time nor a radical change in the character of the defendant alleviates society's duty to punish the properly convicted. Immanuel Kant captured this notion when he argued that before a civil society could disband, it had to execute the last murderer in its prisons.
ref: 2011, Evan J. Mandery, Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination, page 475:
glosses: One who holds that there must be retribution (vengeance, punishment) for transgressions.
Related terms: retribution
retributive
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
form: most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
form: bright eyed and bushy tailed
Senses: examples: text: "They're eager to learn, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," coach Jon Gruden said.
ref: 2008 May 3, Chris Harry, “QB Johnson turns heads at minicamp”, in OrlandoSentinal.com, retrieved 03 May 2008:
glosses: Eager, alert, enthusiastic, and lively.
Synonyms: bouncy
chipper
dashing
high-spirited
lively
pert
spirited
peppy
tip one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips one's hat
form: tipping one's hat
form: tipped one's hat
form: tipped one's hat
Senses: glosses: To briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect.
examples: text: I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.
glosses: To acknowledge or show respect; to honor.
Related terms: take one's hat off to
house organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house organs
Senses: glosses: A privately published magazine or newspaper, generally for the employees of a company and visitors.
VPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VPCs
Senses: qualifier: cloud computing
glosses: Initialism of virtual private cloud.
mail order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of commerce in which one orders goods from a remote store which are then shipped by mail.
Related terms: mailorder
mail-order
holo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: hol-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”).
Senses: glosses: whole
glosses: hologram
galliard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galliards
form: gaillard
Senses: examples: text: […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The triple-time music for this dance.
examples: text: Thus every Gibelline hath got his Guelf ;
But Selden he's a Galliard by himself ;
And well may be ; there's more Divines in him ,
Than in all this their Jewish Sanhedrim ;
ref: 1647, John Cleveland, “The Mixt Assembly”, in The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems, page 36 1647, keyboarded 1687, scanned:
text: I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest.
ref: 1828, Sir Walter Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth:
text: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A brisk, merry person.
qualifier: Continental printing
glosses: An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).
galliard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galliard
form: most galliard
form: gaillard
Senses: glosses: Gay; brisk; active.
Derived terms: galliardly
galliardness
Related terms: topics: dance
dancing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: tordion
battle bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle buses
Senses: examples: text: [Photo shows Steel sitting on a coach emblazoned with "DAVID STEEL'S LIBERAL BATTLE BUS". Photo caption reads:] STEEL'S ON WHEELS: Setting off from the National Liberal Club in his battle bus.
ref: 1979 April 10, Ian Aitken, “PM smites the Tories with his crusading zeal”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media Limited, retrieved 13 May 2017, page 1:
text: Painted blue, the Battle Bus bore the slogan 'Moving Forward with Maggie'.
ref: 1995, Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street years:
text: Word comes from Edinburgh that our colleagues are rebelling against the LibDems' charge of £1300 for a seat on their battle bus which today, we hear, had only one passenger.
ref: 2000, Murray Ritchie, Scotland Reclaimed: The inside story of Scotland's first democratic parliamentary election:
text: I remember in 1997 the BBC gave the Green Party five minutes to say whatever it wanted (within reason) and it chose to fill its slot with images of its activists on a battle bus, whizzing into a petrol station, leaping out and hurling abuse at people for filling their tanks.
ref: 2006 October, ThirdWay, volume 29, number 8:
glosses: A bus that is used as a mobile office and publicity centre by a politician or party during the run-up to an election
rub of the green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubs of the green
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any accidental deflection of the ball by an outside agency (spectator, caddie etc); the ball is played without penalty from where it comes to rest
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an outside agent that affects the movement of the ball.
enlargeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enlargeable
form: most enlargeable
Etymology: From enlarge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being enlarged
enlistee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enlistees
Etymology: From enlist + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The old saying "every marine is a rifleman" still holds true in the Alliance. Every marine enlistee, from clerk to sniper, goes through a period of infantry training. As a result, the 103rd Marine Division is Earth's largest collection of Special Forces soldiers.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: War Assets: 103rd Marine Division:
synonyms: enlister
glosses: A person who enlists (or is enlisted), especially into the armed forces
enlivenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enlivenments
Etymology: From enliven + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enlivening; animation
crista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsˈtə
ipa: /ˈkɹɪstə/
rhymes: -ɪstə
Forms: form: cristae
form: cristæ
Etymology: From Latin crista. Doublet of crest.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dental crest.
examples: text: […] a crista of fine hairs, between the two reddish, rounded knobs or stigmas […]
ref: 1805, Charles Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (joint ed.), Annals of Botany (volume 1, page 292)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A crest or terminal shaft.
Derived terms: preparacrista
Related terms: crista cutis
coin dispenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coin dispensers
Senses: glosses: A small container, used by gamblers etc, to dispense a fixed number of coins on demand
glosses: Any of many manual or automatic devices used to dispense coins as change etc
procto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: proct-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus”).
Senses: glosses: Dealing with the rectum and anus; anorectal; sometimes also the distal colon.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Hyponyms: ano-
recto-
Coordinate terms: colo-
mephitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈfaɪ.tɪs/
Forms: form: mephitises
Etymology: From Latin mefītis, mephītis, from the name of a Samnite goddess who personified the poisonous gases emitted from swamps and volcanoes.
Senses: examples: text: The Abbe had, in the district of Latera, observed that in a mephitis of hydrogenous sulphurated or hepatic gas, a slow combustion of phosphorus took place, with the same resplendence as in the atmospheric air.
ref: 1822, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Cabinet of curiosities: natural, artificial, and historical, page 140:
text: He attempted several times to fire inflammable gas, with electric sparks, in the mephitic vapor, by means of the conductor of the electrophus; but, notwithstanding his utmost endeavors to animate the electricity, he could never obtain a single spark, the non-conductor becoming a conductor the moment it entered into the mephitis, on account of the humidity which adhered to its surface.
ref: 1868, John Loraine Abbott, The Home-book of Wonders, in Nature, Science and Art, page 135:
text: and not seldom did the fire which the torch of his prophecy had kindled upon her altar, kindle again that torch, when some bitter wind of evil words, or mephitis of human perversity, or thunder rain of foiled charity, […]
ref: 1883, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon:
text: […] conveyancing of property to a background of ships loading or discharging and the clanging of wharf cranes, but in August, when the tide was low, the River Lyle's gum-like, perspiring mud banks released a mephitis […]
ref: 2008, Peter Cunningham, The Sea and the Silence, page 1:
glosses: A poisonous or foul-smelling gas, especially as emitted from the earth; an unpleasant smell.
examples: text: Mephitis, in water, did not at first relieve the cough, so that I was compelled to prescribe another remedy; but after taking this for a short time, the father averred that he thought the first remedy, Mephitis, had a better effect than the last.
ref: 1854, C. Neidhard, “Mephitis Putorius and Other Remedies in Hooping Cough”, in The British Journal of Homoeopathy, page 436:
text: I do not see why Dr. Hensley should object to the internal administration of Variolinum any more than to that of lachesis, mephitis, etc.
ref: 1907, American Institute of Homeopathy, Transactions of the Sixty-third Sessions, page 501:
text: Mephitis, a highly prized remedy of the Homeopaths, is prepared by taking one part. in weight, of the characteristic fluid expelled by the pole-cat and dissolving it in ninety parts of alcohol.
ref: 1906, Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 74, page 60:
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dilution of fluids derived from skunks or polecats.
Synonyms: sense: unpleasant smell
word: malodour
sense: unpleasant smell
word: stench
sense: unpleasant smell
word: reek
sense: unpleasant smell
word: mephitism
Related terms: mephitic
discloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disclose
mephitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mephitis
chief of state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiefs of state
Senses: glosses: The titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
commander-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commanders-in-chief
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of commander in chief.
evangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəl/
Forms: form: evangels
Etymology: From Middle English evaungel, evangile, from Old French evangile, from Late Latin evangelium, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὐ- (eu-, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”) (English angel). The word gospel is from the same Ancient Greek origin, also meaning “good news”, but translated into Latin, then calqued into Old English.
Senses: examples: text: The Evangiles and Acts, teach us vvhat to beleeve, but the Epiſtles of the Apoſtles vvhat to do.
ref: a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “To Sr. G. M.”, in John Donne [the Younger], editor, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: […], London: […] J. Fletcher for Richard Marriot, […], published 1651, →OCLC, page 106:
text: If, at any time, a philosophy of Laissez-faire, Competition and Supply-and-demand, start up as the exponent of human relations, expect that it will soon end. […] Such philosophies will arise; be preached as Mammon-Gospels, the ultimate Evangel of the World […]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Plugson of Undershot”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
glosses: The Christian gospel.
glosses: A salutary principle relating to morals, politics, etc.
glosses: An evangelist.
Derived terms: evangelship
Related terms: angel
evangelism
evangelist
evangelization
evangelize
strond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stronds
Senses: examples: text: A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought
A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet:
To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.
ref: 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:
text: Yea this mans brow, like to a title leafe,
Foretells the nature of a tragicke volume,
So lookes the ſtrond, whereon the imperious floud,
Hath left a witneſt vſurpation.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Baſſ[anio]. […] and her ſunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
Which makes her ſeat of Belmont Cholchos ſtrond,
And many Iaſons come in queſt of her.
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 I, scene i], page 164:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of strand.
billy clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billy club
billygoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billygoat
billy goats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billy goat
C4
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Channel 4 (“the British television channel”).
Vänern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Sweden's largest lake, located in southwestern Sweden
malanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malangas
Senses: glosses: Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia.
glosses: Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
glosses: The edible tuber of these plants, some of which have medicinal value.
glosses: Chinese taro (Alocasia cucullata, syn. Caladium colocasia).
Derived terms: malanga blanca
malanga coco
malanga lila
Related terms: cocoyam
new cocoyam
Central American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Central America
Derived terms: Central American bushmaster
Central American whiptail
Central American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Central Americans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Central America