cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ulotrichi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὖλος (oûlos) and θρίξ (thríx).
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Human races that have "crisp" or "woolly" hair, according to a system by Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent of classifying different races of humans as separate species.
Derived terms: ulotrichan
Related terms: Leiotrichi
moss green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moss greens
Senses: glosses: A dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.
glosses: A pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.
moss green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.
glosses: Of a pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.
waist cincher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waist cinchers
Senses: glosses: A type of corset that is used to pull in the waist.
hax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăks
ipa: /hæks/
homophone: haxx
homophone: hacks
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of hacks.
Senses: examples: text: OMG, hax! That player just ran through a solid wall.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Hacks, hacking.
examples: text: The third critical hit in a row! You only win because of hax!
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Crucial luck-based events in battles.
Related terms: dox
vax
Navajo white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Navajo whites
Senses: glosses: An orangish white colour.
Navajo white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an orangish white colour.
street urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street urchins
Etymology: First use appears c. 1827 in a publication by Thomas Carlyle.
Senses: examples: text: She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:
text: On many occasions, groups of street urchins were seen climbing up large trees for squabs of Rose-ringed Parakeets[.]
ref: 2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 94:
synonyms: gamin
guttersnipe
street child
street kid
glosses: A child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets; sometimes a petty thief or pickpocket.
wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle
singulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French singulatif, from Latin singillatim (“singly", "one by one”), from singulus (“single", "separate”), from Proto-Italic *sem-g-lo-, a diminutive form derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”).
Senses: examples: text: English doesn't have a singulative number in general, but many uncountable nouns have usual singulative constructions.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun.
singulative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singulatives
Etymology: From French singulatif, from Latin singillatim (“singly", "one by one”), from singulus (“single", "separate”), from Proto-Italic *sem-g-lo-, a diminutive form derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”).
Senses: examples: text: The singulative of "cattle" is "a head of cattle".
text: The singulative of "scissors" is "a pair of scissors".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A singulative form or construction.
Related terms: singular
collective noun
dual
mass noun
paucal
plural
trial
dignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: dignifies
form: dignifying
form: dignified
form: dignified
Etymology: From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from dignus (“worthy”) + ficare (in comp.), facere (“to make”). See deign and fact.
Senses: examples: text: Your worth will dignify our feast.
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, Inviting A Friend To Supper:
glosses: To invest with dignity or honour.
examples: text: Or, when more deeply moved, he would exclaim--
"As noble thoughts the inward being grace,
So noble whiskers dignify the face."
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 10:
glosses: To give distinction to.
glosses: To exalt in rank.
examples: text: I will not dignify that comment with a response.
glosses: To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.
raw_tags: in the negative
Synonyms: adorn
advance
elevate
ennoble
exalt
honor
illustrate
prefer
Derived terms: dignifiable
undignify
Related terms: dignification
dignified
dignity
cat's whisker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat's whiskers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The wire that touches the crystal in a crystal radio.
crystal radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal radios
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crystal set.
synonyms: word: crystal set
venturi effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venturi effects
Etymology: Named after its inventor, the Italian physicist Giovanni Battista Venturi.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: fluid mechanics
glosses: The reduction in fluid pressure that results when a fluid flows through a constriction.
Derived terms: venturi injector
venturi tube
parsable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parsable
form: most parsable
form: parseable
Etymology: From parse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.
text: The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.
ref: 2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be parsed.
Derived terms: parsability
unparsable
unparsably
divorced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/
Senses: examples: text: divorced from reality
text: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
text: Romain Ioualalen, policy lead at Oil Change International, a pressure group, said: “The latest draft is an incoherent and dangerous list of weak measures completely divorced from what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.”
ref: 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Cut off, or separated.
examples: text: It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.
glosses: Legally dissolved.
raw_tags: of a marriage
examples: text: Mark's parents are divorced.
glosses: Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
raw_tags: of persons formerly married
Synonyms: split
Derived terms: divorced energy
divorced guy energy
divorced kid
I'm divorced
innocently divorced
nondivorced
undivorced
Related terms: divorce
divorcee
divorcing
divorced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divorce
DVM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVMs
form: D.V.M.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
glosses: Initialism of digital voltmeter.
glosses: Initialism of Dalvik Virtual Machine.
Related terms: veterinarian
VMD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VMDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of veterinary medical doctor.
Related terms: veterinarian
veterinary technician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veterinary technicians
Senses: glosses: A technical nurse in the veterinary field of medicine.
Synonyms: vet tech
pleurisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊəɹɪsi/
ipa: /ˈpljʊəɹɪsi/
Forms: form: pleurisies
Etymology: From Middle English pleuresi, pleresye, that borrowed from Old French pleuresie (French pleurésie), from Late Latin pleurisis, alteration of Latin pleuritis.
Senses: examples: text: 1829 September, Richard N. Allen, An Essay on Pneumonia Biliosa, Horatio Gates Jameson (editor), The Maryland Medical Recorder, Volume 1, Number 1, page 591,
The division of pleurisies now sanctioned by the general language of medical men, is that which arranges them as inflammatory,* bilious and typhoid.
text: And the dope often gave him a painful case of pleurisy if he smoked it for more than two straight days of heavy continuous smoking[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Pleurisy usually causes pain, which is made worse by deep breathing, since the two inflamed layers of the pleura rub against each other.
ref: 2005, David B. Jacoby, R. M. Youngson, Encyclopedia Of Family Health, 3rd edition, page 1618:
text: Pleurisy usually occurs as a secondary disease to other infections (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis), conditions (e.g., pulmonary embolism, tumors), or as a result of injury.
ref: 2009, Susan G. Salvo, Mosby′s Pathology for Massage Therapists, 2nd edition, page 286:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of lung pleura.
Synonyms: pleuritis
Derived terms: pleurisy root
dry pleurisy
wet pleurisy
pleuritic
it takes two to tango
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the song Takes Two to Tango, written and composed in 1952 by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning.
Senses: examples: text: I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.
text: He started it! Well, it takes two to tango.
glosses: Some things need the active cooperation of two parties; blame is to be laid on both parties in a conflict.
Derived terms: it takes two to tangle
Related terms: tango
rpm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rpm
form: rpms
form: rpm's
Senses: examples: text: Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of RPM.
rpm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of RPM.
exorcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚˌsɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: exorcisms
Etymology: From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).
Senses: glosses: The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
Derived terms: sexorcism
Related terms: word: exorcise
word: exorcist
word: exorcistical
word: exorcistic
word: adorcism
urls: https://archive.org/details/ensuringyourplaceinhell2/1.+An+Exorcism+in+Turkey.mp4
word: An exorcism footage
exorcise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔː.saɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsaɪz/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚˌsaɪz/
homophone: exercise (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: exorcises
form: exorcising
form: exorcised
form: exorcised
form: exorcize
Etymology: From Middle English exorcisen, exorzisen, from Medieval Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to banish an evil spirit; bind by oath”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos). Compare Old French exorciser.
Senses: examples: text: The priest attempted to exorcise the evil spirit from the house.
text: The ritual was performed to exorcise the demons from the village.
glosses: To drive out (an evil spirit) from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer.
examples: text: They hired a specialist to exorcise the haunted object.
glosses: To rid (a person, place or thing) of an evil spirit.
Derived terms: exorcisable
exorcisement
exorcism
exorcist
exorcist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔː.sɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɔɹˌsɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛk.sɚˌsɪst/
Forms: form: exorcists
Etymology: From Middle French exorciste, from Latin exorcista, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκιστής (exorkistḗs).
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.
Derived terms: exorcise
exorcistical
possessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈzɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of possess
possessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈzɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more possessed
form: most possessed
Senses: examples: text: He was exorcised because he was thought to be possessed by the Devil.
text: Three days remained till Beltane's E'en, and throughout this time it was noted that Heriotside behaved like one possessed. It may be that his conscience pricked him, or that he had a glimpse of his sin and its coming punishment.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: controlled by evil spirits.
examples: text: O what ridiculous Reſolutions Men take, when poſſeſs'd with Fear! It deprives them of the Uſe of thoſe Means which Reaſon offers for their Relief.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: Seized by powerful emotions.
examples: text: The president was possessed of great wealth.
text: It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Stephen Blackpool”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing), page 75:
glosses: Followed by of: having; owning.
Derived terms: forepossessed
like all possessed
like a man possessed
nonpossessed
possessedly
possessedness
self-possessed
unpossessed
off-white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-whites
form: off white
Etymology: From off- + white.
Senses: glosses: A very pale colour that is almost white.
off-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: off white
Etymology: From off- + white.
Senses: glosses: Of a very pale colour that is almost white.
sunlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
Forms: form: sunlights
Etymology: From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).
Senses: examples: text: Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
text: The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
text: Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.
ref: 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars:
glosses: All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
glosses: Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
glosses: Synonym of sunrise.
synonyms: word: sunrise
examples: text: sunlight zone
glosses: Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
synonyms: word: photic
extra: (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
Synonyms: sense: light from the sun
word: daylight
sense: light from the sun
word: sun
sense: light from the sun
word: sunshine
sense: brightness
word: hope
sense: brightness
word: optimism
sense: sunrise
word: break of day
word: first light
word: sunup
word: dawn
Hypernyms: light
Derived terms: Port Sunlight
synchro-sunlight
sunlight is the best disinfectant
Related terms: sunbeam
sunlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
Forms: form: sunlights
form: sunlighting
form: sunlighted
form: sunlighted
Etymology: From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).
Senses: glosses: To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.
submarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈmɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /sʌbˈmɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: submaria
form: submariums
Etymology: Blend of submarine + aquarium
Senses: glosses: An aquarium with many sea creatures.
chatroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatrooms
Etymology: From chat + room.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chat room.
feague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: feagues
form: feak
form: feak
Etymology: Possibly from Dutch feeks, probably from vegen (“to sweep, strike”): see etymology of feague (verb) above. Compare Middle English vecke (“old woman”).
Senses: examples: text: So Jack enters: / And trips up staires, as quick, as come penny, / Where we find, what's before good company! / Three female idle feaks, who long'd for pigs head.
ref: 1664, Henry Bold, Poems Lyrique, Macaronique, Heroique, &c., London: Printed for Henry Brome …, →OCLC:
text: Feague (also feak, q.v.) as a noun, was used of a slattern, a sluttish woman.
ref: [1955, Joseph T[wadell] Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, New York, N.Y.: Philosophical Library, →OCLC, page 261:
glosses: An unkempt, slatternly person.
phthalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthalic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric aromatic organic benzenedicarboxylic acids, C₆H₄(COOH)₂; especially the ortho- isomer manufactured from naphthalene, used in the synthesis of dyes, perfumes and other compounds.
Derived terms: isophthalic acid - meta- isomer
phthalate
phthalic anhydride
terephthalic acid - para- isomer
phthalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(f)θælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Etymology: Shortened form of naphthalic, from naphthalene + -ic, from naphtha + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from naphthalene or phthalic acid.
Derived terms: isophthalic
orthophthalic
phthalamide
phthalate
phthalein
phthalic acid
phthalic anhydride
phthalimide
phthalyl
Related terms: phenolphthalein
phenolphthalin
phthalic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid anhydride of phthalic acid; manufactured by the oxidation of xylene or naphthalene, widely used in the synthesis of dyes, insecticides, plasticizers and pharmaceuticals.
phthalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(f)θa.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈ(f)θæ.leɪt/
rhymes: -æleɪt
Forms: form: phthalates
Etymology: From phthal(ic) + -ate (“salt or ester”), short for obsolete naphthalic acid, from naphthalene.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers investigating levels of phthalates in the human body, which have been linked to asthma, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and fertility issues in the past few years, were found to be nearly 35% higher in participants who had eaten out the previous day compared with those who stayed at home.
ref: 2018 March 29, Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian:
text: Even as FDA works to develop that plan, consumers continue to be exposed to unsafe food chemicals including not just dyes but also the artificial sweetener aspartame, the white pigment titanium dioxide, the preservative propylparaben, and the phthalate food packaging chemicals, according to CSPI.
ref: 2025 January 15, “FDA moves to eliminate carcinogenic Red 3 from foods”, in Center for Science in the Public Interest:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a phthalic acid.
Derived terms: word: biphthalate
alt: DEHP
word: di-2-ethylhexylphlatate
word: dibutyl phthalate
word: dibutylphthalate
word: diethyl phthalate
alt: DIDP
word: di-isodecyl phthalate
word: diisononyl phthalate
alt: DINP
word: di-isononyl phthalate
alt: DNOP
word: di-n-octyl phthalate
word: dioctyl phthalate
word: glycerine phthalate
word: isophthalate
word: polyphthalate
word: tetraphthalate
dicarboxylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicarboxylic acids
Etymology: From di- + carboxylic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having two carboxylic acid functional groups.
Derived terms: azodicarboxylic acid
crank shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æft
Forms: form: crank shafts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crankshaft.
naphthalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæfθəliːn/
ipa: /ˈnæpθəliːn/
Forms: form: naphthalenes
Etymology: From naphtha + -ene.
Senses: glosses: A white crystalline hydrocarbon manufactured from coal tar; used in mothballs.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₈; an acene containing two fused benzene rings.
Hypernyms: acene
Coordinate terms: benzene (1-ring acene)
anthracene (3-ring acene)
Derived terms: adapalene
anilinonaphthalene
azonaphthalene
azoxynaphthalene
binaphthalene
bromonaphthalene
chlorodinitronaphthalene
cinacalcet
circumnaphthalene
decahydronaphthalene
diaminonaphthalene
diazanaphthalene
dinaphthalene
dinitronaphthalene
lithium naphthalene
menadione
methallenestril
methylnaphthalene
mitonafide
nadolol
nafarelin
nafcillin
nafoxadol
nalidixic acid
naphthaleneacetic
naphthaleneacetic acid
naphthalenediamine
naphthalene red
naphthalenesulfonate
naphthalene yellow
naphthalenic
naphthalic
naphthazarin
naphthoic
naphthoylindole
nitronaphthalene
paranaphthalene
polychlorinated naphthalene
terbinafine
tetrahydronaphthalene
triazanaphthalene
Kambujiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Persian 𐎣𐎲𐎢𐎪𐎡𐎹 (k-b-u-ji-i-y /⁠Kaᵐbūjiya⁠/). Supposed by some scholars to be related to Kamboja, although "there are also scholars who denounce a connection between Kamboja and Kambujiya … and who defend another etymology".
Senses: glosses: The name of several monarchs of Achaemenid line of ancient Persia.
Related terms: word: Cambodia
word: Kamboja
word: Kambuja
roman: Kambúsēs
word: Καμβύσης
word: 𐨐𐨨𐨂𐨁𐨀
mayhap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪhæp/
Etymology: From the phrase “it may hap”.
Senses: examples: text: I'm one that has spoken to a King, I am: mayhap you'll never see such another […]
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, chapter VI, in Through the Looking-Glass:
text: Then I heard the rush, the stamping and neighing, of some young mares, pasturing there, as they raced to and fro, bewildered or mayhap only in play.
ref: 1895, Fiona Macleod, “The Sin-Eater”, in The Sin-Eater, The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Moralities, New York: Duffield & Co., page 12:
text: "If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis a fetch."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 80:
text: Who would not adore Mom and admire old Ma Pettigrew? There is one of each on your street, the younger mayhap heading for the tribulations already unmurmuringly borne by the older.
ref: 1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 4, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 50:
glosses: Maybe; perhaps; possibly; perchance.
Derived terms: mayhaps
sweeten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːtən/
ipa: [ˈswiːtn̩]
ipa: [ˈswiːʔn̩]
rhymes: -iːtən
Forms: form: sweetens
form: sweetening
form: sweetened
form: sweetened
Etymology: From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).
Senses: examples: to sweeten tea
glosses: To make sweet to the taste.
examples: to sweeten life
to sweeten friendship
glosses: To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
examples: to sweeten the temper
glosses: To make mild or kind; to soften.
examples: text: to sweeten the cares of life
text: Our God to bless out home delights, / And sweeten every secret tear:— [...]
ref: 1827, [John Keble], “Last Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
examples: text: Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
ref: 1695, John Dryden, De Arte Graphica:
glosses: To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
examples: to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
to sweeten the air
glosses: To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
examples: to dry and sweeten soils
glosses: To make warm and fertile.
examples: text: [T]hey had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn[.]
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 128:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
examples: to sweeten water, butter, or meat
glosses: To restore to purity; to free from taint.
examples: to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
glosses: To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
glosses: To become sweet.
examples: text: In most popular music the bowed strings usually play long, sustained, sweeping parts, and are sometimes added to a vocal track later in a process known as sweetening.
ref: 2011, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 326:
text: Rather than employ strings to “sweeten” the songs, Motown's arrangements used strings as a timbral layer, in conjunction with syncopated horn lines, for a fuller sound; […]
ref: 2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music: An Introduction, page 259:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
Derived terms: artificially sweetened
back-sweeten
sweeten the pill
sweeten the pot
sweeten up
coal tar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal tars
Senses: examples: text: Phenol can be obtained from coal tars by two methods : (a) Directly by separation of the product contained in this type of feedstock, at the rate of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent weight.
ref: 1989, Alain Chauvel, Gilles Lefebvre, Petrochemical Processes: Major Oxygenated, Chlorinated And Nitrated Derivatives, page 123:
coordinate_terms: coal oil
glosses: A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicinal soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of many products.
town gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towns gas
Senses: glosses: Any of several flammable gases sold and distributed by a municipal gasworks for lighting and heating in a town, including coal gas and water gas.
Coordinate terms: sense: types of gas
word: coal gas
word: illuminating gas
word: natural gas
word: synthesis gas
word: water gas
Related terms: word: gaslight
word: gasworks
para-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: par-
Etymology: From French para-, from Italian para-, from para, imperative of parare (“to defend, shield, shroud”), from Latin parō (“I prepare”).
Senses: glosses: to guard against, to avert, to shield from; to provide protection against, defence from
Derived terms: english: jest
translation: jest
word: para-bore
word: protection against bore
word: paragrandine
word: paravane
Related terms: sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: parachute
sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: parados
sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: paragrele
sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: parapet
sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: parasol
sense: terms related to para-, but not formed in English
word: paravent
para-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: par-
Etymology: From parachute.
Senses: glosses: parachute
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parabrake
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paracord
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paradiver
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paradoctor
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paradrop
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parafoil
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parafrag bomb
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paraglider
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parajump
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parajute
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parakiting
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parapants
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paraplane
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: parasheet
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paraski
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paraspotter
sense: terms derived from para- (parachute)
word: paratrooper
para-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: par-
Etymology: From Paralympic.
Senses: glosses: disability sport
Derived terms: sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-archery
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-athlete
sense: Paralympic sport
word: parathlete
sense: Paralympic sport
word: paracanoe
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-canoe
sense: Paralympic sport
word: paracycling
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-cycling
sense: Paralympic sport
word: Paralympian
sense: Paralympic sport
word: Paralympiad
sense: Paralympic sport
word: Paralympics
sense: Paralympic sport
word: Paralympic Games
sense: Paralympic sport
word: paraskiing
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para nordic skiing
sense: Paralympic sport
word: parasport
sense: Paralympic sport
word: parasports
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-sport
sense: Paralympic sport
word: para-sports
sense: Paralympic sport
word: paratriathlon
parachutist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parachutists
Etymology: From parachute + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.
ref: 1996, Joe Tomlinson, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Carlton Books, →ISBN, page 12:
text: I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
ref: 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
text: Some hit the rocky outcrops
 Some fell into the sea
 Some even 'Roman Candled'
 (A parachutist I would never be)
ref: 2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War:
glosses: Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
Related terms: parachuting
parachute
skydiver
skydiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌdaɪvɚ/
Forms: form: skydivers
Etymology: From skydive + -er or sky + diver.
Senses: glosses: Someone who skydives.
deployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈplɔɪmənt/
Forms: form: deployments
Etymology: From French déploiement. Also de- + ployment.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement or classification of things.
glosses: An implementation, or putting into use, of something.
examples: text: The exception to this methodology is emergency updates, which have too short a deployment window to make staged deployment practical. When an update package is scheduled to be deployed in stages, the target groups must be identified as part of the deployment preparation.
ref: 2007, Bill Stackpole, Patrick Hanrion, Software Deployment, Updating, and Patching, Auerbach Publications, →ISBN, page 302:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of software deployment, the installation of software, in particular on servers.
examples: text: Deployments […] which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war.
ref: 1861, H. L. Scott, Military Dictionary: Comprising Technical Definitions:
text: The German chancellor has visited Lithuania to mark Berlin’s first permanent foreign troop deployment since the second world war, as he called on allies to dramatically expand their efforts to bolster European defences against a hostile Russia.
ref: 2025 May 22, Deborah Cole, “German troops start first permanent foreign deployment since second world war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, confirmed to the Guardian on Monday that the entire deployment of 700 active-duty US marines was being withdrawn from Los Angeles more than a month after Donald Trump sent them to the city against objections of local leaders.
ref: 2025 July 21, “Deployment of all 700 active-duty marines to Los Angeles withdrawn”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The distribution of military forces, especially prior to battle.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: The start of something.
Hyponyms: continuous deployment
software deployment
subdeployment
Derived terms: blue-green deployment
counterdeployment
deployment goggles
maldeployment
nondeployment
ployment
postdeployment
predeployment
redeployment
Related terms: research and development
tree frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiːfɹɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈtɹiːfɹɑɡ/
ipa: /ˈtɹiːfɹɔɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: tree frogs
Etymology: Compound of tree + frog.
Senses: glosses: A frog of the family Hylidae, of small size and more elegant in form than the true frogs (family Ranidae), often with a bright coloration.
Derived terms: word: derived terms at treefrog
word: African foam-nest tree frog
word: Arizona tree frog
word: big-eyed tree frog
word: bleating tree frog
word: Blue Mountains tree frog
word: blue-sided tree frog
word: Bongao tree frog
word: brown tree frog
word: buzzing tree frog
word: California tree frog
word: centralian tree frog
taxonomic: Hyla arborea
word: common tree frog
word: Cuban tree frog
word: desert tree frog
alt: Ranoidea caerulea
word: dumpy tree frog
word: eastern dwarf tree frog
taxonomic: Hyla arborea
word: European tree frog
word: Fiji tree frog
word: frilled tree frog
word: fringed tree frog
taxonomic: Nyctimystes infrafrenatus
word: giant tree frog
word: gray tree frog
alt: Dryophytes versicolor
word: gray treefrog
word: green and golden bell tree frog
word: green tree frog
word: Italian tree frog
word: Japanese tree frog
word: Jervis Bay tree frog
word: Leyte tree frog
word: Littlejohn's tree frog
word: long-toed tree frog
word: magnificent tree frog
word: Mindoro tree frog
word: Morelet's tree frog
word: mottled tree frog
word: mountain stream tree frog
word: New Zealand tree frog
word: northern dwarf tree frog
word: orange-thighed tree frog
taxonomic: Pseudacris regilla
word: Pacific tree frog
word: Pearson's tree frog
word: peppered tree frog
word: Peron's tree frog
word: Pine Barrens tree frog
word: red-eyed tree frog
word: Romer's tree frog
word: Roth's tree frog
word: Sardinian tree frog
word: Seychelle Islands tree frog
word: slender tree frog
word: Spencer's river tree frog
word: spiny tree frog
word: Suwon tree frog
word: Tasmanian tree frog
word: Tyler's tree frog
word: whistling tree frog
taxonomic: Nyctimystes infrafrenatus
word: white-lipped tree frog
alt: Ranoidea caerulea
word: White's tree frog
typography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈpɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /taɪˈpɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: typographies
Etymology: From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos, “certified copy”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
By surface analysis, type + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
glosses: The practice or process of printing with type.
glosses: The appearance and style of typeset matter.
Derived terms: kinetic typography
typographer
typographic
typographical
Related terms: typing
typographia
typology
typesetting
nitpicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nitpickier
form: nitpickiest
form: nit-picky
Etymology: From nitpick + -y.
Senses: glosses: Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
Derived terms: nitpickiness
Related terms: nitpick
nitpicker
nitpickish
tableaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tableaus
Senses: glosses: plural of tableau
Peking duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːkɪŋ ˈdʌk/
Forms: form: Peiping duck
form: Beijing duck
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck.
Senses: examples: text: During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.
ref: 1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:
text: As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck.[…]"Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.
ref: 2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 May 2022, China:
glosses: A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
employer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplɔɪə/
ipa: /ɛmˈplɔɪə/
enpr: ĭm-ploiʹər
enpr: ĕm-ploiʹər
ipa: /ɪmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ɛmˈplɔɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ɪmˈplɔɪə/
ipa: /emˈploɪə/
ipa: /emploɪˈə/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: employers
form: imployer
Etymology: From employ + -er, first attested in the late 16th century. Compare French employeur.
Senses: examples: text: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Today, at common law, the employer's duty to his employé is to use ordinary and reasonable care for the safety of his employé while he is performing his work.
ref: 1913, James Harrington Boyd, “Distinctions Between the Common Law, Employer's Liability Laws, Workmen's Industrial Insurance Laws, and Workmen's Compensation Laws as Remedies for Compensating Workmen Injured in the Due Course of their Employment”, in Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Insurance under Modern Conditions, volume I, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 1:
text: the ideal from the point of view of the employer is to have output without employees, and the ideal from the point of view of the employee is to have income without employment.
ref: 1973, E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful:
glosses: A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
Synonyms: word: employer
word: company
word: owner
word: proprietor
word: firm
word: business
word: establishment
word: organization
word: outfit
Derived terms: antiemployer
employerly
multiemployer
nonemployer
Related terms: word: employ
word: employee
word: employment
word: jobseeker
word: boss
chips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chip
chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of chip
chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Forms: form: chips
Senses: examples: text: But the Saturday-night bottles were not all. The carpenter and cooper, in sea parlance, Chips and Bungs, who were the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, in some way or other, managed to obtain an extra supply […]
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: I began a new branch of experience by going to sea as a 'chips.'
ref: 1929, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 144, page 462:
glosses: A carpenter.
Related terms: brother chip
moderation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŏd'ə-rāʹ-shən
ipa: /ˌmɑdəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmɒdəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: moderations
Etymology: From Middle French [Term?], from Old French moderacion, from Latin moderātiō. Morphologically moderate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: ...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...
ref: 1696, William Stephens, An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, page 17:
text: Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
ref: 1772, Robert Clive, http://books.google.com/books?id=twVuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA394
text: America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
ref: 1821 October 12, Lord Byron, http://books.google.com/books?id=5q4XBa5jsy8C&pg=PA7
glosses: The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
examples: text: With the quick moderation of the weather some buying has appeared that had been held up because of the extremely cold weather […].
ref: 1936 March, The Southern Lumberman, page 34:
glosses: An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
examples: text: The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work.
glosses: The process of moderating a discussion
glosses: Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
Derived terms: automoderation
e-moderation
immoderation
in moderation
metamoderation
post-moderation
pre-moderation
remoderation
retromoderation
wage moderation
Related terms: moderate
moderateness
moderating
Caca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: goddess of the hearth.
gyroball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroballs
Etymology: From gyro- + ball.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A spinning pitch thrown most commonly by Japanese baseball players.
Pisgah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pisgahs
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew פסגּה (Piṣgāh), a name for the peak of Mount Nebo, meaning literally “top of a mountain; summit”.
Senses: examples: text: Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career.
ref: 1992, Bryan Collier Short, Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development, page 153:
glosses: A glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
Pisgah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew פסגּה (Piṣgāh), a name for the peak of Mount Nebo, meaning literally “top of a mountain; summit”.
Senses: examples: text: —With swimming glance,
Like him who erst from Pisgah's cliff descried
The unenter'd land of promise,—he survey'd
That emerald shore where slept in hallow'd graves
His ancestors, where rose in beauteous strength
The city of his joy,—
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On reading the Life of Quincy, by his Son, page 135:
text: On Pisgah, Moses surveyed the whole land of Canaan, and although he was advantaged by the height of the place and the clearness of his eyes,[…] yet much of miracle must needs be admitted in so plain and far discovery.
ref: 1869 [1650], Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 70:
glosses: The name of a mountain in the Bible. Usually refers to biblical Mount Pisgah or Mount Nebo.
glosses: Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, Georgia.
glosses: A city in Harrison County, Iowa.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Woodford County, Kentucky.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Butler County, Ohio.
glosses: A ghost town in Navarro County, Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.
glosses: Willoughby State Forest in Vermont, United States.
skell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: skells
form: skel
Etymology: * Perhaps from skeleton, describing the often skeletal appearance of drug users.
* Alternatively, from skellum or skelder ("to beg in the streets"). Used by Ben Jonson, 1599.
* In the sense of a suspicious person, popularized by the American TV police drama NYPD Blue.
Senses: examples: text: Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
glosses: a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
topics: law-enforcement
police
glosses: A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.
skell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: skells
form: skelling
form: skelled
form: skelled
Senses: examples: text: She went skelling over on the ice.
glosses: To fall off or fall over.