cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blasto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæstoʊ-/
ipa: /blæstə-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “a germ, bud, sprout, shoot”), from βλαστάνειν (blastánein, “to bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, but also of animals”).
Senses: glosses: bud; budding; germination
examples: blastophthoria
glosses: germ cell
Derived terms: Blastobacter
Blastobasidae
blastocarpus
Blastocladiales
blastocone
blastogranitic
Blastoidea
blastokinesis
blastomycete
blastomycin
blastopelitic
blastophitic
blastophoral
blastoporphyritic
blastopsammite
blastopsephitic
blastozooid
blasyomylonite
Olympic diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn’t count.
ref: 2000, Timothy Vick, How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett:
text: Ethical efforts are often best judged like Olympic diving. It is important to compare what people actually accomplish to the degree of difficulty they face.
ref: 2002, Joseph L Badaracco Jr. Leading Quietly http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=KOzUSxcXX20C&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&sig=ny59AMgy0CgdsP8JLzrJFWrMDwc
text: NASCAR on the radio is as stupid as Olympic diving on the radio: “Oooh, look at that splash—oh wait, you can’t. It’s on the radio.”
ref: 2003, Michael Graham, chapter XXCC, in Redneck Nation:
glosses: A specific competition in the Olympics, involving diving off a ten-meter platform from a three-meter springboard.
porciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin porcus + -form.
Senses: glosses: having the qualities of a pig
Dubya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌb.jə/
Etymology: Representing a southern United States pronunciation of W, the middle initial of George W. Bush.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for and abbreviation of George W. Bush.
wikipedia: en:George W. Bush
Synonyms: W.
GWB
GW
GBII
GB2
GB Jr
Shrub
43
Bush 43
Derived terms: Dubyaphobia
Dumbya
Jebya
Shrubya
plenipotentiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/
ipa: /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/
ipa: /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: plenipotentiaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).
Senses: examples: text: None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.
ref: 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown:
text: 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
text: Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.
Derived terms: sense: ambassador and
word: minister plenipotentiary
word: plenipotentiaryship
plenipotentiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃəɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌplɛn.ɪ.pəʊˈtɛn.ʃi.əɹ.i/
ipa: /plɛn.ɪ.poʊˈtɛn.ʃ(i)əɹ.i/
ipa: /plɛn.ɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃi.ɛɹ.i/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).
Senses: glosses: Invested with full power.
glosses: Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
Synonyms: plenipotent
pere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of père.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
form: racking
form: racked
form: racked
Etymology: From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”)
The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb.
Senses: glosses: To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
glosses: To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Etymology: From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”)
The noun is from Middle English rak, rakke, from Middle English rek (“drift; thing tossed ashore; jetsam”), from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, […] pass without noise.
ref: 1669, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum or A Natural History in ten Centuries, page 32:
text: And the night rack came rolling up.
ref: 1851, Charles Kingsley, Three Fishers:
text: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ... That which is now a horse ... The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:
glosses: Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
form: racking
form: racked
form: racked
Etymology: From Middle English rakken.
Senses: examples: text: It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The Darwin administrator, J.C. Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.
ref: 1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 108:
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
form: racking
form: racked
form: racked
Etymology: See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
Senses: examples: text: The other two (only racking, no thorough-paced protestants) watched their opportunity to run away
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
raw_tags: of a horse
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
Etymology: See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
Senses: glosses: A fast amble.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
Etymology: See wreck.
Senses: examples: text: All goes to rack.
ref: 1665 September 19 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 9th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
glosses: A wreck; destruction.
Derived terms: rack and ruin
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Forms: form: racks
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of rabbock, an alteration ( + -ock) of rabbit.
Senses: examples: text: Now, sir, you would say a skin is a skin, we say it is a ' whole,' or a 'half,' or a 'quarter,' or a 'rack,' or a 'sucker. Suckers are skins of infant rabbits, and of little value. Eight racks are equal to one whole.
ref: 1869 February 13, “Rabbit Skin”, in All the Year Round, page 247:
text: The skin of a sucker is white, of a quarter, black and white striped, of a rack all black, and of a best all white.
ref: 1879, Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, page 380:
text: Those would be of different shades of colour according to the time of year at which they were produced, those bred about May-day undergoing no change from their white colour, but from a white rack become a whole skin; […]
ref: 1882, Bees, rabbits, and pigeons; how to breed and how to rear them:
text: Rabbit skins are sorted into wholes, halves, quarters, racks, and suckers, or very small skins.
ref: 1892, Henry Poland, Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce, page 289:
glosses: A young rabbit, or its skin.
rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wrack
Senses: examples: text: If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm nowhere with sacks.
ref: 1907, George Manville Fenn, Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of arak.
Derived terms: fool rack
tabor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tabors
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small drum.
examples: text: Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small drum.
In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
Derived terms: taborist
taborer
tabor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tabors
form: taboring
form: tabored
form: tabored
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.
Senses: glosses: To make (a sound) with a tabor.
glosses: To strike lightly and frequently.
tabor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tabors
Etymology: From various Slavic languages, from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish طابور (tabur).
Senses: examples: text: A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269:
glosses: A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
city block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city blocks
Senses: examples: text: The store is huge, occupying an entire city block.
glosses: The smallest part of a town enclosed by streets.
examples: text: In Lawrence, a mile is generally 12 city blocks east-west or 8 blocks north-south.
text: Go along that road for about a city block, and you should see an old barn.
glosses: The distance from one urban street to the next, or an approximately comparable distance.
citronella oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citronella oils
Senses: glosses: An essential oil used in perfumery.
blast
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bläst
ipa: /blɑːst/
enpr: blăst
ipa: /blæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blēstijan, from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Possibly related to Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...
ref: 2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35:
qualifier: mildly blasphemous
glosses: Used to show anger or disappointment: damn
Derived terms: damn and blast
blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bläst
ipa: /blɑːst/
enpr: blăst
ipa: /blæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: blasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “germ or sprout”).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
Derived terms: blast cell
blastocyte
blastoma
blast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bläst
ipa: /blɑːst/
enpr: blăst
ipa: /blæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: blasts
form: blasting
form: blasted
form: blasted
form: BLAST
Etymology: From BLAST (an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
Senses: examples: text: Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.
ref: 2004, Andreas Bommarius, Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, page 425:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
bin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bins
form: binning
form: binned
form: binned
Etymology: From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh ben (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)). Cognate with West Frisian bin (“wicker basket”), Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben (“wicker basket”), German Benne (“wheelbarrow”).
Senses: examples: text: He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
ref: 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, →ISBN, page 28:
synonyms: word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: discard
word: dump
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
examples: text: This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
ref: 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59:
text: The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]
ref: 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 238:
text: NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
ref: 2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:
glosses: To throw away, reject, give up.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
examples: text: to bin wine
glosses: To place into a bin for storage.
bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).
Senses: glosses: son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
raw_tags: in Arabic names
bin
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Contraction of being.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of being.
bin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Contraction of been.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]
ref: 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:
glosses: Alternative form of been.
bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭn
ipa: /bɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: been stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bins
Etymology: Clipping of binary.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of binary.
gist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: gists
form: gisting
form: gisted
form: gisted
Etymology: The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down).
The verb is derived from the noun.
The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist, introduced 2008.
Senses: examples: text: There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, and the pupils of the day take these axioms or principles, and accept them as facts, and apply them to this, that or the other individual case.
ref: 1872 August 7, J. H. Hoose, “Professional Instruction in Normal Schools”, in The Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, Session of the Year 1872, at Boston, Massachusetts, Peoria, Ill.: N. C. Nason, […] [for the National Education Association], published 1873, →OCLC, page 201:
synonyms: condense
précis
glosses: To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize.
glosses: To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.
gist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: gists
form: gest
Etymology: From Middle English giste, geste (“resting or stopping place, hostel, lodgings; food, refreshment; (figurative) seat of the soul”), from Old French giste (“resting place”) (modern French gîte (“lodging, shelter; self-catering holiday home”)), a noun use of the past participle form of gesir (“to lie down”): see etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe Quailes have their ſet giſts, to vvit, ordinarie reſting and baiting places.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] Of Cranes, Storkes, Swans, Quailes, the Glotis, and Strange Birds of Other Countries.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 282:
text: But the Conſul after that he had intelligence that Perſeus had croſſed over to Samothracia, departed from Pella, and at the fourth giſt and journey that he made, came to Amphipolis.
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XLIV]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 958:
glosses: A stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest.
Synonyms: word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
Derived terms: english: roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress
translation: roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress
word: gists
père
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pâr
ipa: /pɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: pair
homophone: pare
homophone: pear
Forms: form: pères
form: pere
Etymology: Borrowed from French père (“father”), from Latin pater. Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and pater.
Senses: glosses: A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially a French one. Also used as a title preceding the name of such a priest.
glosses: Sr. - Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the father is being referred to rather than the son (junior, fils).
Related terms: fils
blasto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Blastomyces.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Blastomycosis.
have eyes bigger than one's belly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has eyes bigger than one's belly
form: having eyes bigger than one's belly
form: had eyes bigger than one's belly
form: had eyes bigger than one's belly
Senses: examples: text: His eyes are bigger than his belly.
text: Your eyes are bigger than your belly.
glosses: Synonym of have eyes bigger than one's stomach.
synonyms: word: have eyes bigger than one's stomach
one's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: ones
Forms: form: ones
Etymology: From Middle English ones, equivalent to one + -'s.
Senses: examples: text: One tries one's best.
glosses: Belonging to one.
one's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: ones
ipa: /wʌns/
ipa: /wʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌns
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: once
homophone: ones
ipa: /wʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: ones
Forms: form: ones
Etymology: Contraction of one is, equivalent to one + 's.
Senses: examples: text: This one's for you.
glosses: Contraction of one is.
blue whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue whales
Senses: examples: text: But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive half-fabulous whales, which as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally....the Iceberg whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale. But I omit them as altogether obsolete and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds full of leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 131:
glosses: A whale (Balaenoptera musculus), blue in color and the largest known living animal.
Synonyms: sulfur-bottom whale
sulphur bottom whale
Derived terms: pygmy blue whale
bluish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːɪʃ/
Forms: form: more bluish
form: most bluish
form: blueish
Etymology: From Middle English blewissh, blewisch (also Middle English bloysh), equivalent to blue + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Riding high on love's true bluish light
ref: 1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
glosses: Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
examples: text: To this day, I usually read my Bible a couple of times a day, and I still enjoy attempting to express my feelings through poetry, especially when I'm feeling bluish.
ref: 2009, John Wooden, Jay Carty, Coach Wooden One-On-One:
glosses: Somewhat depressed; sad.
Synonyms: word: bluey
word: bluish
word: caesious
word: cerulescent
Hypernyms: word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: livid
word: turquoisey
Derived terms: bluishly
bluishness
Related terms: word: bluing
word: cold
black and blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: black-and-blue
raw_tags: modifying a noun
Etymology: From Middle English blak and blo, blac and bla (“very dark, bruised”), equivalent to black + and + blow (dialectal term for blue). By surface analysis, black + and + blue.
Senses: examples: text: My arm is still black and blue from slipping on the ice yesterday.
text: The whole benighted, blooming crew,
The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too,
Are being beaten black and blue
With bottles on the pate.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167:
glosses: Having obvious bruises of the skin, typically from falling or being hit or punched.
raw_tags: of a person
black and blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black and blues
form: black and blueing
form: black and bluing
form: black and blued
form: black and blued
form: black-and-blue
raw_tags: modifying a noun
Etymology: From Middle English blak and blo, blac and bla (“very dark, bruised”), equivalent to black + and + blow (dialectal term for blue). By surface analysis, black + and + blue.
Senses: examples: text: ... he black-and-blued her eyes he cooked a big meal to make it up to her. He went out and stole a neighbor's hog or caught some rice birds ... This was a country of rice plantations, but Twig and Peggy lived upriver, where rice[…]
ref: 1991, John Vernon, Peter Doyle: A Novel, Random House (NY):
text: Come on through I black and blue your whole crew
Then I get Rudy with the Hong Kong Phoo'
ref: 1995, Ol' Dirty Bastard, “Protect Ya Neck II the Zoo”, in Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version:
glosses: to bruise, to strike (a person in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it).
aquarelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquarelles
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).
Senses: examples: text: He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.
ref: 1902, Henry James, chapter II, in Flickerbridge:
text: He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches.
ref: 1910, George Meredith, chapter VI, in Celt and Saxon:
glosses: A watercolour (painting)
glosses: A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
Derived terms: aquarellist
rocking horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocking horses
Senses: glosses: a child’s toy consisting of a (usually wooden) horse mounted on a rocker or swing
Derived terms: rocking horse effect
rocking horse phenomenon
rocking horse shit
Related terms: hobby horse
rocking chair
bruise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞oz
ipa: /bɹuːz/
ipa: /bɹɪu̯z/
homophone: brews
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: bruises
form: bruising
form: bruised
form: bruised
form: bruize
form: brise
Etymology: From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):
* Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
* Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.
Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Senses: examples: text: It is as I have spoken: the testing first, next the bruising, and in the last bout the breaking and killing.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 25–26:
glosses: To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
glosses: To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
examples: text: Bananas bruise easily.
glosses: Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
examples: text: I bruise easily.
glosses: To become bruised.
examples: text: Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fight with the fists; to box.
examples: text: Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego.
text: I was bruised by such wanton criticism.
glosses: To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.
glosses: To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
Derived terms: bruisability
bruisable
bruisedness
bruiser
bruise up
bruising
unbruised
bruise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞oz
ipa: /bɹuːz/
ipa: /bɹɪu̯z/
homophone: brews
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: bruises
form: bruize
form: brise
Etymology: From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):
* Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
* Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.
Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Senses: glosses: A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
glosses: A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
Synonyms: sense: medical
english: technical term
translation: technical term
word: contusion
sense: medical
english: differentiated in some terminologies
translation: differentiated in some terminologies
word: ecchymosis
Hypernyms: hematoma
Hyponyms: black eye
Derived terms: bruiseless
bruiselike
bruisewort
bruisy
tobruise
purplish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purplish
form: most purplish
Etymology: From purple + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat purple in colour/color.
Synonyms: word: purply
word: purpuric
word: purplish
Hypernyms: word: purple
word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: livid
word: mauvelous
word: violetish
Derived terms: purplishness
Related terms: purpleness
breakfast cereal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakfast cereals
Senses: glosses: A food made from processed grains, such as maize, oats, wheat or rice, usually eaten for breakfast with milk and sometimes sugar.
Synonyms: cereal
Related terms: cornflakes
muesli
oat flake
oatmeal
porridge
Rice Krispies
rolled oats
rye flake
nickname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkneɪm/
Forms: form: nicknames
Etymology: From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire.
Senses: examples: text: "The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City.
text: […] Plato, who was named Aristocles after his grandfather, but received from his gymnastic master the nickname Πλάτων (from πλάτυς, broad), which practically superseded his real name.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
text: He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329:
glosses: A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
examples: text: My name is Jonathan, but I go by my nickname, Johnny.
glosses: A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
Synonyms: sense: familiar invented given name
word: byname
sense: familiar invented given name
word: handle
sense: familiar invented given name
word: moniker
sense: familiar invented given name
word: nick
sense: familiar invented given name
word: sobriquet
sense: familiar invented given name
word: cognomen
sense: familiar invented given name
word: surname
sense: familiar invented given name
word: eponym
Hyponyms: sense: familiar invented given name
word: hypocoristic
sense: familiar invented given name
english: affectionate nicknames
translation: affectionate nicknames
word: pet name
sense: familiar invented given name
english: invented names used alongside the actual name
translation: invented names used alongside the actual name
word: epithet
Derived terms: nicknameable
nicknamee
nicknameless
nicknamer
nicknamey
nickname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪkneɪm/
Forms: form: nicknames
form: nicknaming
form: nicknamed
form: nicknamed
Etymology: From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire.
Senses: examples: text: Gerald, nicknamed "Jerry", was usually a very cheerful person.
glosses: To give a nickname to (a person or thing).
Sony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊni/
ipa: /ˈsoʊni/
ipa: /ˈsəʉni/
ipa: /ˈsɐʉni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Etymology: A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
ref: 1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
ref: 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
ref: 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.
ref: 2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.
ref: 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
Derived terms: Sony pony
Sony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊni/
ipa: /ˈsoʊni/
ipa: /ˈsəʉni/
ipa: /ˈsɐʉni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: Sonys
Etymology: A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.
ref: 1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16:
text: It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.
ref: 1990, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 255:
text: My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
ref: 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 297:
text: The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.
ref: 1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press,, →ISBN, page 113:
text: My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.
ref: 2001, Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson, Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 18:
text: He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.
ref: 2010, Bill Sharpsteen, Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A device produced by Sony.
ninja
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪnd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɪndʒə
Etymology: A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.
Senses: examples: text: The July 1966 issue had a cartoon concerning a Ninja dojo.
ref: 1966 October, Black Belt, page 5:
text: One of the most controversial characters in Japan's current ninja boom is a stout but surprisingly agile man in his mid-forties named Norihiro Iga-Hakuyusai.
ref: 1971 May, Black Belt, page 40:
text: […]Federal agents in body armor and black ninja uniforms[…]
ref: 1995 August 28, Time, page 36:
text: As they broke camp, the teenage son practised his Ninja moves with a tentpole.
ref: 2002 August 31, The Guardian, page 2:
glosses: Of or related to ninjas in their various senses.
ninja
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪnd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɪndʒə
Forms: form: ninjas
form: ninjaing
form: ninjaed
form: ninjaed
form: ninja'd
form: ninja'd
Etymology: A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.
Senses: examples: text: I leapt up, ninja'd over to Gav's bed and wheeched the duvet off.
ref: 1992, Iain Banks, Crow Road, page 160:
text: In our dark house we were ninja-ing around with water guns.
ref: 1996 April 23, Rocky Mountain News, page 5:
text: I ninja'd my way into Kung Fu Records to hang out with those merry pranksters the Vandals.
ref: 2002 August 29, Los Angeles Times, page 48:
glosses: To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
examples: text: When I hit post, I saw that Blue Emu had ninja'd me, so I just deleted my reply.
glosses: Synonym of preempt: to supersede and invalidate a response to a thread or message by posting immediately before it, typically shortly before the other party finishes writing or posting their reply.
synonyms: word: preempt
extra: to supersede and invalidate a response to a thread or message by posting immediately before it, typically shortly before the other party finishes writing or posting their reply
examples: text: That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.
birthday suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthday suits
form: birthday-suit
Etymology: From the lack of clothes worn when one is born.
Senses: examples: text: George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit.
text: Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become his own tailor, and thereby his own civilizer.
ref: 1842, H., “Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus”, in Thomas Hood, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 267:
text: At last I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit. Where do I put my hands? I need pockets.
ref: 1998, Paul Vaughn, “Confessions of a Naked Writer”, in Orange Coast, page 185:
text: The terms naturalistic and naturalism suffer from the fact that they have a range of meanings, covering a variety of things from the Romantic submission to nature or the collecting of butterflies to the practice of bathing on the beach clad only in one's birthday suit.
ref: 2000, Denis Charles Phillips, The Expanded Social Scientist's Bestiary: A Guide to Fabled Threats to, and Defenses of, Naturalistic Social Science, page 85:
text: A person suddenly caught naked by the collapse of a building wall is treated quite differently than a person who intentionally “streaks” a public gathering in his or her birthday suit.
ref: 2001, Tom Slattery, Immodest Proposals: Through the Pornographic Looking Glass, page 181:
glosses: Nakedness, unclothed skin; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see birthday, suit.
Derived terms: birthday-suited
birthday suiter
Related terms: naked as the day one was born
plot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒt/
ipa: /plɑt/
ipa: /plɑt̞/
note: Dublin
ipa: /pläʔ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /plä/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: plots
form: plotting
form: plotted
form: plotted
Etymology: From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), and possibly Gothic 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄 (plat, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of sense 5.
Sense 9 is a back-formation from for the plot.
Senses: examples: text: They had plotted a robbery.
text: They were plotting against the king.
glosses: To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
examples: text: They plotted the number of edits per day.
glosses: To trace out (a graph or diagram).
examples: text: Every five minutes they plotted their position.
text: This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
ref: 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall:
glosses: To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Synonyms: sense: contrive
word: becast
sense: conceive a crime, etc
word: connive
sense: an area of land
word: lot
Derived terms: replot
plot out
corn flakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn flake
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cornflakes.
cereal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪə.ɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/
ipa: [ˈsiːɹiəl]
homophone: serial
Forms: form: cereals
Etymology: Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).
Senses: glosses: A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
glosses: The grains of such a grass.
examples: text: Would you like some cereal?
text: Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
text: a bowl of cereal
glosses: Breakfast cereal.
Synonyms: sense: edible grains
word: foodgrain
Derived terms: cereal bar
cereal dust
cerealic
cerealin
cerealist
cereal killer
cereal leaf beetle
cerealogy
noncereal
pseudocereal
shit in someone's cereal
Related terms: crescent
sincere
cereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪə.ɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/
ipa: [ˈsiːɹiəl]
homophone: serial
Etymology: Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent).
Senses: examples: text: Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.
ref: 1818, H[enry] T[homas] Colebrooke, On Import of Colonial Corn, London: J[ohn] Murray, →OCLC, page 20; quoted in “Cereal (sīᵊ·riˌăl), a. and sb.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 230, column 1:
text: Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]
ref: 1837, Henry Duncan, “Eleventh Week—Wednesday. The Corn-Plants.—Rice, Maize, and Millet.”, in Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, [volume 1] (Spring), Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Son; […], →OCLC, page 333:
text: The river flows on, washing the base of the sandstone fossiliferous bank at Preston-bridge,—lightening up the rich valley of Preston-haugh,—lending beauty to the open demesnes of Broomhouse, and to the sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne; […]
ref: 1853, George Johnston, “The Natural History of the Eastern Borders”, in The Botany of the Eastern Borders, […], London: John Van Voorst, […], →OCLC, page 19:
text: The species printed in small capitals are Corn-producing or Cereal Grasses, called Cereals, from Ceres, the Roman goddess of Corn.
ref: 1864, Daniel Oliver, “Natural Order—Gramineæ. The Grass Family.”, in Lessons in Elementary Botany. […], London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, part II (Classification of Plants), class II (Monocotyledons), sub-class Glumiferæ, page 267:
glosses: Of or relating to cereal.