cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
freewill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Either a bullocke, or a lambe that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free will offring
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 22:23:
glosses: Voluntary, done of one's own accord.
freewill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of free will.
illimitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illimitate
form: most illimitate
Senses: examples: text: As space in the total is illimitate and immense, so is time in its totality non-principiate and interminable.
ref: 1855, Edward Tagart, Locke's Writings and Philosophy Historically Considered, page 305:
glosses: limitless
Related terms: limitate
freezable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freezable
form: most freezable
Etymology: From freeze + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being frozen; especially capable of use after subsequent thawing.
Derived terms: nonfreezable
unfreezable
freezable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freezables
Etymology: From freeze + -able.
Senses: glosses: Any food item that can be frozen.
freeze-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freeze-dry
freeze-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: cryodesiccated
lyophilized
glosses: That has been subjected to the freeze-drying process.
freeze-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: freeze-dries
form: freeze-drying
form: freeze-dried
form: freeze-dried
Senses: synonyms: cryodesiccate
lyophilise
lyophilize
glosses: To remove volatile liquid from (a substance) by sublimation, normally under vacuum, from the frozen state.
Related terms: word: freeze-drying
word: lyophilization
frequenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequenters
Etymology: From frequent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a frequenter of nightclubs
text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
glosses: A person who frequents; a regular visitor.
frequenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: his visits became frequenter and frequenter
glosses: comparative form of frequent: more frequent
Synonyms: word: more frequent
immutate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immutate
form: most immutate
Etymology: First attested in 1788; borrowed from Latin immūtātus, from in- (“not”) + mūtātus (“changed”), perfect passive participle of mūtō (“to change”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ... still holds immutate the wine of "lang syne?" Ye gods, leave it unchanged, I pray you, till I quaff at least ...
ref: 1875, Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine:
text: ... the immutate or unepithetised class, ...
ref: 1891, Karl Brugmann, A Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages: A Concise Exposition of the History of Sanskrit, Old Iranian ... Old Armenian, Greek, Latin, Umbro-Samnitic, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Lithuanian and Old Church Slavonic, page 36:
text: ... Whose laws immutate are.
ref: 1913, The Agricultural Student, page 213:
glosses: unchanged
freshener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛ.ʃə.nər/
Forms: form: fresheners
Etymology: From freshen + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that freshens
examples: text: I sprayed freshener around the bathroom.
glosses: air freshener
impedite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpədaɪt/
Forms: form: more impedite
form: most impedite
Etymology: From Latin impeditus.
Senses: examples: text: our souls apt to diminution and impedite faculties
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
glosses: Hindered; obstructed.
impedite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpədaɪt/
Forms: form: impedites
form: impediting
form: impedited
form: impedited
Etymology: From Latin impeditus.
Senses: examples: September 10, 1663, John Wallis, letter to Robert Boyle
digestion in the stomach, and other faculties there, seemed not to be much impedited
glosses: To impede.
friedcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friedcakes
Etymology: From fried + cake.
Senses: glosses: A small deep-fried pastry
fritz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: Unknown. See on the fritz, which appeared in 1902. Possibly from German name Fritz, or onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: The state of being defective.
examples: text: Generally, cooked deli products include Devon, Strasbourg sausage, Polish sausage, fritz, cabanossi or cabana, mortadella, and well-cooked roast beef (brown/grey in colour).
ref: 2000, Peter Cerexhe, John Ashton, Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning, page 52:
glosses: A type of processed meat sausage; devon
fritz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: fritzes
form: fritzing
form: fritzed
form: fritzed
Etymology: Unknown. See on the fritz, which appeared in 1902. Possibly from German name Fritz, or onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: One clip, of Talking Heads playing “Born Under Punches” in Rome in 1980, is shot largely at groin level, amid sound equipment that is being manipulated for feedback squeals and other effects; it’s like being close to the crooked spine and fritzed nervous system of a body that’s simultaneously pushing its sex appeal.
ref: 2008 May 18, Virginia Heffernan, “Pixels at an Exhibition”, in New York Times:
text: My brain was fritzing like an elderly TV set about to die. I hit the side of my head with the heel of my hand. Percussive maintenance. It didn't work.
ref: 2009, Jaqueline Girdner, Murder, My Deer, page 15:
glosses: To go wrong or become defective.
Derived terms: fritz out
fritz up
Related terms: on the fritz
frizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: frizzlier
form: frizzliest
Etymology: From frizzle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having small, tight curls; frizzy.
frolicsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frŏl'iksəm
ipa: /ˈfrɒlɪksəm/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /ˈfrɑlɪksəm/
rhymes: -ɒlɪksəm
Forms: form: more frolicsome
form: most frolicsome
form: frolicksome
Etymology: From frolic + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A rollicksome frolicsome rare old cock / As ever did nothing was our dog Jock; / A gleesome fleasome affectionate beast, / As slow at a fight, as swift at a feast […]
ref: a. 1884, James Payn, On Our Dog Jock:
text: To some, the very word "playsuit", with its frolicsome associations, will induce the conviction that this is not an item of clothing to be seen alive in.
ref: 2007 May 10, “Pick of the week - playsuits”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Characterised or marked by frolicking; playful.
Synonyms: frisky
sportive
Derived terms: frolicsomely
frolicsomeness
unfrolicsome
driven away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of drive away
impresse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impresses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impress (“a heraldic device; an impresa”).
frontage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: frontages
Etymology: From front + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter III, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
text: Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
ref: 1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173:
text: BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.
ref: 1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5:
glosses: The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
glosses: The land between a property and the street.
glosses: The length of a property along a street.
examples: text: And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]
ref: 1939 June 12, Time:
text: It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.
ref: 2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald:
glosses: Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
examples: text: […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.
ref: 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1999:
text: War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: The front part generally.
examples: text: "Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?"
Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."
ref: 2007, Dave Freer, Eric Flint, Pyramid Power:
text: I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.
ref: 2008, Lynn Veach Sadler, Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy, page 134:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
examples: text: Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.
ref: 1963 [2006], Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 95:
glosses: a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.
Synonyms: breasts
Coordinate terms: facade
Derived terms: frontager
frontage road
waterfrontage
yfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Old English ġefēd, past participle of fēdan.
Senses: glosses: past participle of feed
drive away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives away
form: driving away
form: drove away
form: driven away
Senses: examples: text: This car's a real bargain, and you could drive it away this afternoon!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, away.
examples: text: I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.
text: Unsanitary conditions are driving away business.
text: Sébastien Bassong is being driven away by the "madness" at Newcastle United, a source close to the Frenchman has told the local Evening Chronicle newspaper.
ref: 2009 June 10, Football, The Guardian:
text: We would like to believe in the enchanting influence of Gandhigiri as the single absolute force that drove away the whites who probably went muttering, 'bloody Indians', an expression that was enthusiastically attributed to Englishmen by innumerable Hindi films.
ref: 2011, Manu Joseph, “Bullshit as a Cultural Space”, in Urban Voice 4: New Indian Writing, Leadstart Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: To force someone or something to leave
Related terms: driveway
frostbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of frostbite
froufrou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: froufrous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frou-frou.
froufrou
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more froufrou
form: most froufrou
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frou-frou.
fruited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fruit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fruit
fruited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruited
form: most fruited
Etymology: From fruit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
ref: 1895, Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (song):
text: Jim, importuned, had come with his axe and at her wish had felled it with the fruited but unripe mistletoe.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 213:
text: Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa
ref: 2004, Tricia Laning, New Cook Book, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Kikuchi (1946) classified Pyrus species into three groups, small fruited species with two carpels, large fruited species with five carpels, and their hybrids with 3-4 carpels.
ref: 2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits., →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
examples: text: […] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or[…]
ref: 1813, John Lyon, The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle: With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports, page 138:
text: […]; Or, an olive tree eradicated proper, by the name of Montolivet; Or, on a mound a pear tree fruited proper, by the name of Pyrton; Sable, an apple tree or, fruited gules, by the name of Verse, in Flanders.
ref: 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 139:
text: A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).
ref: 1870, Mrs. Bury Palliser, Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, page 270:
text: Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 317:
text: Gold a pear tree fruited gules
ref: 1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
Bearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.
Derived terms: leafy-fruited nightshade
unfruited
fuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: fuddles
form: fuddling
form: fuddled
form: fuddled
Etymology: Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).
Senses: examples: text: She's fuddled my fancy, she's muddled me good / I've taken to drinking, and given up food
ref: 1973, “A Rum Tale”, in Grand Hotel, performed by Procol Harum:
glosses: To confuse or befuddle.
examples: text: If an author fuddles himself, I don’t know why he should be let off a headache the next morning […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 33, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.
ref: 1863, Henry Walter Bates, chapter IV, in The Naturalist on the River Amazons, volume 1:
glosses: To intoxicate.
examples: text: Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!
ref: 1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book:
glosses: To become intoxicated; to get drunk.
Derived terms: sense: to confuse
word: fuddlement
sense: to confuse
english: confusing
translation: confusing
word: fuddlesome
sense: to confuse
word: fuddle-duddle
sense: to become intoxicated
word: fuddlecap
sense: to become intoxicated
english: drunkard
translation: drunkard
word: fuddler
sense: to become intoxicated
english: intoxication
translation: intoxication
word: fuddling
sense: to become intoxicated
word: fuddling cup
fuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌdəl/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: fuddles
Etymology: Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).
Senses: glosses: Intoxication.
glosses: Intoxicating drink; liquor.
glosses: Muddle, confusion.
examples: text: Yesterday we were invited to a fuddle. This is a new word & was a new experience for us. Very pleasant it was too.
ref: 2007 December 21, Dave Hatfield, “Fuddle?”, in eGullet Forums:
text: When I was I work I loved the time when we had a fuddle. Everybody decided what they were going to bring so we had an even balance of grub. We had sandwiches or cobs of ham, cheese and pate, crisps, sausage rolls, pickled onions cocktail sausages, vol au vonts, swiss roll, and mince pies. We weren’t allowed booze on the premises but we made do with alcohol free drink. We were as stuffed as pigs and had a job to work for the rest of the day.
ref: 2009, thornbird [username], “Do you have a Christmas fuddle at your workplace?”, in Toluna, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2021:
text: My husband has to take some food into his work for a Christmas fuddle.¶ I suggested he make Christmas pudding cupcakes, but he wasn't impressed.¶ What would you make and take?
ref: 2012 December 12, llamapup [username], “What to make for a Christmas fuddle?”, in BabyCentre Community:
ref: 2013 December 16, nedluddsmother [username], “My work insists on having a Christmas fuddle, but it sounds like a sexual offence to me.”, in Reddit, r/BritishProblems:
glosses: A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
incontaminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪŋkənˈtæmɪnət/
Forms: form: more incontaminate
form: most incontaminate
Etymology: From Latin incontaminatus, from in- (“not”), and contaminate.
Senses: examples: text: Ye that phanſy your ſelves the onely Zelots for truth and holineſs, the onely found and incontaminate part of our Nation, but the National Church ſick and crazy; if it vvere ſo indeed, vvhere is your Charity, and hovv little your Diſcretion, to run out of the houſe novv your Mother lies thus on her ſick-bed?
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, “[The Apology of Dr. Henry More, […].] Chapter X.”, in Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, page 563:
glosses: Not contaminated; pure.
fuhrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuhrers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Führer.
full-blooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fullblooded
Senses: examples: text: Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.
ref: 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:
glosses: Of purebred ancestry.
glosses: Having a florid or ruddy complexion.
examples: text: And when it was quickly returned to Jarvis, with United failing to mark properly, his clean cross was met with a full-blooded header by former Colchester defender Elokobi, who had to stretch his neck back to add power.
ref: 2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
glosses: Hearty or lusty.
Synonyms: pedigree
pedigreed
purebred
pure-breed
thoroughbred
Derived terms: full-bloodedness
full-grown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlˌɡɹoʊn/
Etymology: From Middle English *fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).
Senses: qualifier: especially animals
glosses: Fully developed; adult.
raw_tags: of living things
examples: text: […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
⁠A life that bears immortal fruit
⁠In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Fully developed in a broader sense; complete, at one’s height.
Synonyms: word: big
word: developed
word: grown up
word: adult
word: full-grown
word: grown
word: grown-ass
word: grownup
word: mature
Hypernyms: word: adultlike
Hyponyms: word: grownish
Derived terms: full-grownness
indigena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigenae
Senses: glosses: A native, local, indigenous inhabitant, aboriginal.
Related terms: indigenous
indigene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/
Forms: form: more indigene
form: most indigene
Etymology: From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.
Senses: glosses: Indigenous.
Derived terms: indigeneship
indigenocide
nonindigene
indigene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɪdʒiːn/
Forms: form: indigenes
Etymology: From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.
Senses: examples: text: The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.
ref: 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review:
glosses: An indigenous person; a native.
full-length
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From full + length.
Senses: examples: text: All tracks in both the running shed and repair shop are provided with full-length inspection pits.
ref: 1957 December 24, “Diesel Depot at Darlington”, in Railway Magazine, page 876:
glosses: Not shortened; complete and uncut.
glosses: Covering the full height of the body.
raw_tags: of clothing
topics: art
arts
coordinate_terms: half-length
qualifier: a sculpture or a photograph
glosses: Representing the full height of the body.
raw_tags: of a painting
examples: text: The goalkeeper made a full-length save to deny the United attacker.
glosses: At full stretch, requiring the whole body.
full-length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-lengths
Etymology: From full + length.
Senses: examples: text: Below was a full-length of James II., at whose feet was a sort of throne, on which the duchess was placed.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 212:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A full-length portrait.
indiscrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indiscrete
form: most indiscrete
Etymology: From Latin indiscretus (“unseparated”). See indiscreet.
Senses: glosses: Not discrete mathematically.
examples: text: an indiscrete mass of confused matter
ref: 1782, Thomas Pownall, A Treatise on the Study of Antiquities:
glosses: Not divided into discrete parts.
examples: May 18, 1670, Henry Stubbe, letter to Robert Boyle
and amidst these perplexities I did resolve to proceed , if that they would be so indiscrete , as not to disclaim those two books
glosses: Obsolete form of indiscreet.
Synonyms: nondiscrete
full-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fullsize
Senses: glosses: Being the normal or standard size for its type.
examples: text: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
ref: 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:
topics: art
arts
glosses: (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
glosses: (of an automobile) large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
glosses: the size of a full bed
fumy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːmi
Forms: form: fumier
form: fumiest
Etymology: From fume + -y.
Senses: glosses: Producing or filled with fumes.
Derived terms: fumily
fuminess
yborn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: y- + born
Senses: examples: text: A Little Child There is Yborn Before 1536.
Gloria Tibi, Domine, / Qui natus es de virgine! / A little child there is yborn, / Out of Jesse's stock ycorn [chosen], / To save all us that were forlorn.
ref: a. 1536, A Little Child There is Yborn, a carol quoted in 1915, Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols, 1400-1700, page 42
text: Yet did this Truſtie ſquire with proud diſdaine / For his friends ſake her offred fauours ſcorne, / And ſhe her ſelfe her ſyre, of whom ſhe was yborne.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 128:
glosses: past participle of bear
button up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buttons up
form: buttoning up
form: buttoned up
form: buttoned up
Senses: examples: text: Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone.
glosses: To fasten with a button or buttons.
examples: text: Button up well. It's freezing outside today.
glosses: To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
examples: text: It's time to button up the meeting.
glosses: To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
examples: text: He needs to button up.
glosses: Alternative form of button up one's lip.
examples: text: Once buttoned up, NORAD's operation center can survive for more than 30 days without aid from the outside world.
ref: 1996, Airman, volume 40, page 6:
text: We fired at the tanks and caused them to "button up" and then we started shooting the infantry.
ref: 1997, “Statement of S/Sgt. Alfred Sueflow, Company E, 253rd Infantry”, in Battle Between the Jagst and Kocher Rivers, 4-12 April 1945, page 136:
text: He turned a key. NORAD buttoned up. The outside lights, flashing for half an hour now in warning of a simulated attack, stopped. Whoever was inside would stay inside. Whoever was outside would not be able to get in […]
ref: 2000, Bonnie Ramthun, Ground Zero, page 6:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
inedita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1885–1890, New Latin, from Latin inēdita, neuter plural of inēditus, from in- (“not”) + ēditus (neuter plural ēdita), perfect form of ēdō (“publish, put forth”) (as in English edition), from ē (“out”) (from ēx) + dō (“give”), all from Proto-Indo-European roots.
Various Romance cognates such as French inédit and Italian inedito.
Senses: examples: text: Nos. 3110-3136 are from the area of Phygela Marathesion; in this section there are 10 inedita; one of them may well come from Melos (cf. our lemma no. 743); another is of unknown provenance (cf. our lemma no. 1580).
ref: 1981, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, J. C. Giebum, page 243:
topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unpublished literary works.
Related terms: english: doublet with different meaning
translation: doublet with different meaning
word: unedited
english: corresponding adjective
translation: corresponding adjective
word: unpublished
furbish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːbɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈfɝbɪʃ/
Forms: form: furbishes
form: furbishing
form: furbished
form: furbished
Etymology: Etymology tree
Frankish *furbēnbor.
Old French forbirbor.
Middle English furbisshen
English furbish
From Middle English furbisshen, from Old French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”).
Senses: glosses: To polish or burnish.
examples: text: I do not indeed suppose that anyone can at this time of day effect that which the sense of all good men failed to effect while he lived--I mean the final killing of those rumours; nor is a plain tale likely to persuade those, with whom idle reports, constantly furbished up, of letters seen in France, weigh more than a consistent life.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:
glosses: To renovate or recondition; to refurbish.
Synonyms: sense: to make smooth and shiny by rubbing
word: wax
sense: to make smooth and shiny by rubbing
word: shine
sense: to make smooth and shiny by rubbing
word: polish
sense: to make smooth and shiny by rubbing
word: buff
sense: to make smooth and shiny by rubbing
word: burnish
Derived terms: furbisher
furbish up
refurbish
yclad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈklæd/
Forms: form: ycladde
Etymology: From y- + clad.
Senses: examples: text: At th'upper end there ſate, yclad in red
 Downe to the ground, a comely perſonage […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 314:
glosses: past participle of clothe
ycladd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yclad.
furred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːd/
ipa: /fɜɹd/
ipa: /fʌɹd/
ipa: /føːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /feːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: faired
homophone: fared (both fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fur
furred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːd/
ipa: /fɜɹd/
ipa: /fʌɹd/
ipa: /føːd/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /feːd/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɛːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: faired
homophone: fared (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more furred
form: most furred
Senses: glosses: Having fur.
glosses: Made with fur.
examples: text: She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Having a covering of thin, soft, short hair.
glosses: Coated as if with fur
glosses: Coated as if with fur
especially, of a tongue having a coating consisting chiefly of mucus and dead epithelial cells.
Derived terms: brush-furred mouse
long-furred
unfurred
ybrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bring
Synonyms: brought
furring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fur
furring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furrings
Senses: glosses: Parts of clothing made from fur.
examples: a furring of the tongue
glosses: A coating that resembles fur.
glosses: A strip of material used to prepare a wall for plastering, or to provide an air space.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: Double planking of a ship's side.
yblent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Etymology: From y- + blent (“blended”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet all theſe Sounds yblent inclined all to Sleep.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 3:
glosses: past participle of blend
yblent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more yblent
form: most yblent
Etymology: From y- + blent (“blended”).
Senses: examples: text: And was thilk ſame ſong of Colins owne making? / Ah fooliſh boy, that is with loue yblent:
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 14, recto:
text: She bragly turned her ungentle face, / And all disdaining ey'd my shape askaunce: / But I did blush, with grief and shame yblent, / Like morning-rose with hoary dewe besprent.
ref: c. 1753, Thomas Warton, “A Pastoral in the manner of Spenser”, in Richard Mant, editor, The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Waton, B.D., volume 1, University Press, published 1802, page 113, lines 9–12:
glosses: Confused
fusee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːzi/
/fjuːˈziː/
Forms: form: fusees
Etymology: From French fusil. Doublet of fusil.
Senses: examples: text: He had not been many days at the chateau, when he perceived, with surprize and consternation, that his steps were continually watched by two servants armed with fusees.
ref: 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview, published 2002, page 123:
text: Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful fusee, which cost him forty guineas, a pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 75
text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: A light musket or firelock.
Synonyms: fusil
fusee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːzi/
/fjuːˈziː/
Forms: form: fusees
Etymology: From French fusée, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Senses: examples: text: To day when we attended the winding up of the watches the fusee of Mr Arnolds would not turn round and after several unsuccessfull tryals we were obliged to let it go down […] .
ref: 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 8 August
glosses: A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
examples: text: A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.
ref: 1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), page 322
glosses: A large friction match.
glosses: A fuse for an explosive.
glosses: A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
Related terms: word: fusiform
fusee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːzi/
/fjuːˈziː/
Forms: form: fusees
Etymology: From fuse + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: This is the fusion of two people who are neurally and biologically (and so, psychologically) identical. Setting aside issues about intensional content, when these differ, such a fusion would clearly produce someone who is exactly like what either of the fusees would have been like had the fusion not occurred.
ref: 2002, Philosophical Topics, volume 30, number 1, page 276:
glosses: One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
infima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infimum
infortunate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infortunate
form: most infortunate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.
Senses: examples: text: Henry, though he be infortunate
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ix]:
text: That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2:
text: a most infortunate chance
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Simon Digby, Esq.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Unfortunate, unlucky.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: (of a star, planet, etc.) Bringing bad luck, causing misfortune, malevolent.
glosses: Ominous, inauspicious.
infortunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infortunates
Etymology: The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.
Senses: glosses: An unfortunate.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An 'unfortunate' planet, star, etc.
infortunate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infortunates
form: infortunating
form: infortunated
form: infortunated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To subject a person to a, or cause a celestial body to be of malevolent influence; to render 'infortunate'.
Related terms: infortunately
fusilier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfjuːzɪˈlɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fusiliers
form: fusileer
Etymology: Borrowed from French fusilier, from fusil.
Senses: glosses: An infantryman armed with a form of flintlock musket.
glosses: A soldier in any of several regiments that once fought with such weapons.
glosses: A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers.
Derived terms: McAlpine's Fusiliers
yellowback fusilier
Related terms: fusil
futurology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futurologies
Etymology: From future + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
Synonyms: future studies
Derived terms: futurologist
futurologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futurologists
Etymology: From futurology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Although I do not pretend to be a futurologist, I would be embarrassed if my view of the trends and causes of social life in the United States had become invalid in such a short interval. (It is easy to be a success as a futurologist as long as your predictions are about what's going to happen fifty years ahead. No one can prove you wrong until fifty years go by. […])
ref: 2011, Marvin Harris, Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page vi:
synonyms: futurist
glosses: A person who practices futurology.
ypight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of pitch
futz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: futzes
Etymology: Probably from German Fotze (“cunt”).
Senses: examples: text: Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?
glosses: An objectionable woman.
futz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: futzes
form: futzing
form: futzed
form: futzed
Etymology: From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish אַרומפֿאַרצן (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.
Senses: glosses: To be frivolous and waste time.
glosses: To experiment by trial and error.
Synonyms: putz
Derived terms: futz with
Related terms: sense: experiment
word: frob
sense: experiment
word: fooster
insulse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insulse
form: most insulse
Etymology: From Latin īnsulsus; prefix in- not + salsus (“salted”), from salīre (“to salt”).
Senses: examples: text: […] will ever appeare among the judicious to be but an inſuls and frigid affectation.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 172:
glosses: insipid, dull, stupid or tasteless
integrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪn.təˌɡɹeɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹæɪ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: more integrative
form: most integrative
Etymology: From integrate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: an integrative approach
text: Objective 1: Conduct integrative taxonomic research on adult and immature moths that incorporate morphological and molecular data to describe species and inform their phylogeny and classification.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, SYSTEMATICS OF HYPER-DIVERSE MOTH SUPERFAMILIES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURAL PESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS, AND FOOD SECURITY:
topics: sciences
glosses: Tending toward or promoting integration.
Derived terms: cointegrative
integratively
integrative medicine
integrativeness
integrativism
integrativist
integrativity
nonintegrative
osseointegrative
postintegrative
Related terms: integral
intempestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv/
Forms: form: more intempestive
form: most intempestive
Etymology: From Latin intempestīvus, from in- + tempestīvus (“seasonable”).
Senses: examples: text: Luxus funerum [display at funerals], shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.
ref: , New York, 2001, p.106
glosses: untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment
Synonyms: ill-timed
inopportune
untimely
Derived terms: intempestively
put the clock back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the clock back
form: putting the clock back
form: put the clock back
form: put the clock back
form: put the clocks back
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour.
glosses: To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time, e.g. for the end of daylight saving time.
examples: text: He wants to turn the clock back to the 1950s.
synonyms: turn back the clock
turn the clocks back
glosses: To put something back to the state it was in a previous era.
Related terms: put the clock forward
put the clock forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the clock forward
form: putting the clock forward
form: put the clock forward
form: put the clock forward
form: put the clocks forward
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks forward an hour.
glosses: To change the time in a time zone to a later time.
Related terms: put the clock back
xanthocroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of xanthochroic.
veras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vera
intermedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + media; a concept employed in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins.
Senses: glosses: interdisciplinary activities between media, such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theatre
wikipedia: Dick Higgins
Fluxus
Related terms: pars intermedia
serve someone right
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves someone right
form: serving someone right
form: served someone right
form: served someone right
Senses: examples: text: What, now he wishes he hadn't voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party? Serves him right!
text: "And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I's got the change; and if I han't they half kills me."
"And serves you right," said Jane, the pert chambermaid, "if you will take their money to get drunk on."
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Chapter XVIII”, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: To happen to someone who is thought to deserve it.
raw_tags: of an unpleasant event
examples: text: If my memory serves me right, we had a similar discussion a few months ago.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see serve, right.
Related terms: arightly
damn right
righteously
rightfully
rightly
rightly so
ask for it
have it coming
have it your way
just deserts
intime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɪm/
Forms: form: more intime
form: most intime
Etymology: From Latin intimus (“innermost”) perhaps via French intime. Compare intimate (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and requires an intime application of the agents, water hath the principality and excess over earth.
ref: a. 1665, Sir Kenelm Digby, Of bodies and of mans soul to discover the immortality:
text: What is it about gay men that they're so often linked with musical revue in a cabaret milieu? Is it the intimate ambience — more intime, more revealing — than larger stage productions? Is there more room for specialized acts that need not draw a larger (read straighter) crowd?
ref: 1988 April 9, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Urban Gay Camp and Croon”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: inward; internal; intimate
Knecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knechts
Etymology: Derived from German surname, from Middle High German and Middle Low German knecht (“journeyman, knight's servant”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
iridate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridates
Etymology: From iridium + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion of iridium Ir₂O₇⁶⁻; any salt containing this anion.
finer than frog hair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Eun-hi was a business girl. One of the finest in Itaewon. Finer than frog hair, to be exact. A GI's dream...
ref: 1997, Martin Limón, Slicky Boys, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of fine as frog hair.
fine as frog hair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fine as frog's hair
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely fine.
Related terms: finer than frog hair
lattee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lattees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lathi (“stick or club”).
macchiati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian macchiati.
Senses: glosses: plural of macchiato