cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ideograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideographs
Etymology: From ideo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ideogram.
synonyms: word: ideogram
Derived terms: ideographic
ideographically
ideography
t test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t tests
form: t-test
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Ellipsis of Student's t test.
Related terms: t distribution
t-test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: t-tests
form: t test
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Ellipsis of Student's t-test.
Related terms: t-distribution
ideographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.
Derived terms: ideographically
ideographic comma
ideographic description sequence
ideographic full stop
ideographic space
unideographic
Related terms: idiographic
birthplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝθˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: birthplaces
form: place of birth
Etymology: From birth + place.
Senses: examples: text: Portsmouth was Charles Dickens’ birthplace.
text: At Scotswood, the main line crosses to the south bank of the Tyne, but an alternative route, on the north side of the river, used by a few trains, rejoins the Carlisle line beyond North Wylam, the birthplace of George Stephenson.
ref: 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:
glosses: The location where a person was born.
examples: text: Coney Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.
text: Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
ref: 2024 July 4, Lilit Marcus, “This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?”, in CNN:
glosses: The location where something was created or devised.
Synonyms: birthstead
Student's t test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Student's t tests
form: Student's t-test
Etymology: From Student, the pen-name of William Sealy Gosset, Irish statistician, who documented this test in a paper in Biometrika. Through the popularization of this test in the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as a test for value "t" to check for Student's distribution.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic has a Student's t-distribution if the null hypothesis is true.
wikipedia: en:Biometrika
en:Ronald Fisher
en:William Sealy Gosset
Synonyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: Student's t
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: t test
Related terms: Student's t distribution
fruitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹuːtfəl/
Forms: form: more fruitful
form: most fruitful
form: fruitfull
Etymology: From Middle English fruitefull, equivalent to fruit + -ful. Compare Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll, Swedish fruktfull.
Senses: examples: text: And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:22:
synonyms: fructive
fructuous
antonyms: barren
infertile
unfruitful
hypernyms: fertile
glosses: Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
examples: text: The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted
synonyms: word: productive
word: prolific
word: pregnant
word: batful
word: fertile
word: fruitful
word: thriving
word: yielding
word: yieldly
word: voluminous
antonyms: unfruitful
glosses: Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
Synonyms: word: fruitious
Derived terms: fruitfully
fruitfulness
interfruitful
overfruitful
ischaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more ischaemic
form: most ischaemic
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: British English spelling of ischemic.
Derived terms: antiischaemic
ischaemically
nonischaemic
postischaemic
preischaemic
transient ischaemic attack
Student's t distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Student's t distributions
form: Student's t-distribution
Etymology: From the pen-name of Irish statistician William Sealy Gosset, which he used for a 1908 paper in Biometrika, under the pseudonym Student. The distribution was popularised through the work of Ronald Fisher, who referred to it as Student's distribution and used the letter t to represent the test value.
Senses: examples: text: A complete description of the Student's t distribution is beyond the aims of this book.
ref: 2009, Francesco Sardanelli, Giovanni Di Leo, “Biostatistics for Radiologists: Planning, Performing, and Writing a Radiologic Study”, in [2008, Biostatistica in Radiologia], Springer, page 59:
text: In contrast, the 0.95 confidence interval for μ is (577.1,623.4), assuming T does indeed have a Student's t distribution.
ref: 2011, Rand Wilcox, Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 155:
text: Markowitz contends that the weight of the evidence supports a conclusion that the Student's t-distribution is a better model of stock returns than either the normal distribution or the stable Paretian.
ref: 2012, Paul D. Kaplan, Frontiers of Modern Asset Allocation, Wiley, page 358:
text: To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first empirical implementation of the skewed t-copula to generate meta-skewed Student's t-distributions.
ref: 2013, Manuel Ammann, Stephan Süss, “Asymmetric dependence patterns in financial time series”, in Alexandra Dias, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock, editors, Copulae and Multivariate Probability Distributions in Finance, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 95:
text: The graph of the probability density function of the Student's t distribution is a symmetric and bell-shaped curve, differing for different sample sizes.
ref: 2014, Mohammad Ahsanullah, B.M. Golam Kibria, Mohammad Shakil, Normal and Student's t Distributions and Their Applications, Springer, page 51:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A distribution that arises when the population standard deviation is unknown and has to be estimated from the data.
wikipedia: Biometrika
William Sealy Gosset
en:Ronald Fisher
Synonyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: Student's t
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: t distribution
Coordinate terms: bell curve
Poisson distribution
Related terms: Student's t test
TV land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The television industry
glosses: The world as depicted on television.
Hypernyms: sense: structural
word: land
tvorog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtvɔːɹəɡ/
ipa: /tvəˈɹəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian творо́г (tvoróg) / тво́рог (tvórog), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ, possibly from *tvorъ (“form”) (Proto-Indo-European *twerH) + *-ogъ.
Doublet of quark.
Senses: examples: text: Anna took her camera to the market and photographed old peasant women in curdstained aprons standing with their big knuckles resting on the counter on either side of ruined white castles of tvorog, their eyes deep and sceptical behind red cheekbones.
ref: 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 84:
glosses: A soft Russian curd cheese.
tch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Hellen Gravely: 'Tch! How could my staff be so incompetent?! There's no way Luigi should have gotten this far!'
ref: 2019 October 31, Next Level Games, Luigi's Mansion 3, v1.4.0, Nintendo, level/area: Lounge (15F: Master Suite):
glosses: a representation of the dental click used to show disapproval or disgust; tut, tsk
Tchaikovskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tchaikovskian
form: most Tchaikovskian
form: Tchaikowskian
form: Tchaikovskyan
Etymology: From Tchaikovsky + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, or characteristic of his style.
Tchaikovskian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tchaikovskians
form: Tchaikowskian
form: Tchaikovskyan
Etymology: From Tchaikovsky + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone who composes in his style.
Tchambuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people who inhabit the Sepik river region of Papua New Guinea.
Tchambuli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
tchetvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tchetverts
form: chetvert
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian че́тверть (čétvertʹ, “quarter”). Doublet of cwierc.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete Russian unit of volume.
chetvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chetverts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tchetvert.
tchick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ǁ/
text: (UK)
text: (UK)
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The driver mounted his box, put his long whip into a hole in the box, and, buttoning his coat, called, " Tchick, tchick, tchick." Away the horses set off, and went so willingly and briskly, till he saw a passenger waiting to get into the coach.
ref: 1855, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Harriet L. Brown, Anne Wales Abbot, Child's Friend and Family Magazine, page 140:
text: "Weel! weel!" ejaculated the carter, "that comes o' your education ; G — d be thank'd, I never could write ; get on Bess, tchick, tchick," and giving the horse a lusty thwack, he made off as fast as possible.
ref: 1861, John Heiton, The castes of Edinburgh, page 337:
text: Do come back! Come along, old fellow! — tchick, tchick, tchick, tchicky."
ref: 1877, Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff, Stories of Whitminster, page 41:
text: I called him — "tchick-tchick-tchick" — and started making noises toward him, holding up the acorn.
ref: 1984, Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj, Georg Feuerstein, The transmission of doubt:
glosses: A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.
used to urge on a horse or other animal.
examples: text: Tchick! Tchick! Now I call that an awful pity Katie.
ref: 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son, page 241:
text: Mr. Blantox. And she asked permission of the court for your boy to make a will and disinherit you? Mrs. Berg. Tchick-tchick-tchick.
ref: 1926, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Charges of Impeachment Against Frederick A. Fenning:
text: A LOOK IN THE MIRROR, CHESTER SEES CHARLES CROMWELL PEERING OVER HIS SHOULDER, LEERING AT HIM WITH A SMUG SMILE FROM EAR-TO-EAR: “TCHICK, TCHICK, TCHICK, TCHICK, TCHICK, TCHICK, TCHICK,”
ref: 2013, David Edward Collier, The World of Horrotica: Dormant, page 451:
glosses: A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.
used to express disapproval or disappointment
examples: text: The clumsy Herr was trying in vain to strike a light with a flint. Tchick! Tchick! but no spark appeared.
ref: 1869, Helen Fitch Parker, Constance Aylmer., page 89:
text: Their shrill tchick, tchick, tchick, had done the damage, warning of our approach.
ref: 1964, Frank Cummings Hibben, Hunting in Africa, page 65:
text: They also fly with head sunk in 'shoulders', tail slightly raised and wings quivering, calling 'tchick tchick'.
ref: 1974, Winwood Reade, Eric Hosking, Nesting Birds, Eggs and Fledglings, page 217:
text: The doctor cut here, then he cut here, and pulled the skin back like this—piitchhuu—then folded it— tchick—like this, and tucked it under—tchick—like that, and pulled this piece over—tchick—like this, and sewed it across here—tchick, tchick, tchick.
ref: 1997, Seung Sahn, The Compass of Zen, page 52:
text: From the day that I've been lying here and can no longer move around in a wheelchair, I've been hearing the door of the sideboard open. Tchick, open, tchick, closed.
ref: 2008, Marlene Van Niekerk, The Way of the Women, page 282:
glosses: Used to represent similar animal or other natural sounds
Synonyms: tlk
tsk
tchick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ǁ/
text: (UK)
text: (UK)
Forms: form: tchicks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: So saying, and summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as may quicken a dull horse with , Petit-André drew oil" to the other side of the path, and left the youth to digest the taunts he had treated him with, as his proud Scotch stomach best might.
ref: 1823, Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward:
text: The sound is created by sucking on the molars in the back of the mouth to create a sound (tchick) somewhat like that used in English to […]
ref: 2011, Stanley J. Kays, Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon:
text: The almost inaudible tchick of the panic button, the beep of the toxin test kit accompanied by green light indicating that he was not poisoned and click, screech and the clicktic of the front entrance.
ref: 2014, Parag Tipnis, Talking Silence:
glosses: A clicking sound, such as a palatal or dental click.
tchick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ǁ/
text: (UK)
text: (UK)
Forms: form: tchicks
form: tchicking
form: tchicked
form: tchicked
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'tchick!' to tell them I'm drinking!
ref: 1857, Thomas Buchanan Read, The Female Poets of America:
text: But Aunt Janey was tchicking rebukefully, with her hand out. "Nay, for shame," she said.
ref: 1935, Ursula Wyllie Roberts, Blind Men Crossing a Bridge, page 307:
text: The sandpipers took off, 'tchick-tchicking' away in flight, and the chameleon changed colour.
ref: 1980, Richard Rayner, The Valley of Tantalika, page 161:
glosses: to make a tchick sound.
sea level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea levels
Senses: examples: The summit of Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.
An altimeter is used for measuring height above sea level.
glosses: The nominal height of the surface of the oceans above which heights of geographical features and aircraft flight levels are measured.
Synonyms: mean sea level
MSL
Derived terms: fasl
masl
ē
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the FLEECE vowel
tactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tactically
form: most tactically
Etymology: From tactical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Tactically smart, Leeds' work-rate was also admirable, their players often doubling up on Everton's main threats like Marouane Fellaini, while Victor Anichibe found he had unwelcome, unstinting company throughout.
ref: 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton:
glosses: in a tactical manner; in a manner calculated to achieve some end.
glosses: using tactics
examples: text: Jesse Helms is my "enemy" because of what he says and does. If he stops, he ceases to be my enemy. Tactically, I'm not about to spend much time trying to change him. I'd rather make it impossible for him to act in ways that oppress me. But the distinction between the person, who can potentially be won over, and the behavior, which is repulsive, is an important one.
ref: 1988 December 11, John D'Emilio, “Enemies, Anger, and Militance”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 5:
glosses: in terms of tactics
Related terms: strategically
technologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more technologically
form: most technologically
Etymology: From technological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: what humans have accomplished technologically
glosses: In a technological manner.
examples: text: For now, it is technologically impossible to have a manned flight to Mercury.
text: A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […]
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
text: Sighted on Habitat 7, this unknown species has proven to be extremely dangerous. Their armor and equipment suggest a technologically advanced species capable of spaceflight, while their battle tactics indicate attritional warfare with a centralized command.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Unknown Species Codex entry:
synonyms: technically
glosses: Concerning or using technology.
Derived terms: microtechnologically
temperamentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more temperamentally
form: most temperamentally
Etymology: From temperamental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.
glosses: In a temperamental manner.
examples: text: The first [phase] calls for leaders impatient with the past, and temperamentally disposed to an irreverent break with tradition. They must be agitators who can fan the flames of discontent and gather forces with the strength to tear down the old.
ref: 1996, Seymour R. Kesten, Utopian Episodes:
glosses: By one's temperament.
terminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more terminally
form: most terminally
Etymology: From terminal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a terminal manner.
examples: text: terminally ill
ref: 2009, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman:
glosses: Leading to death; lasting until death.
examples: text: terminally guided
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To the target.
raw_tags: of missile guidance
examples: text: […] some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally; […]
ref: 1919, Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America, Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276:
text: In its simplest form this approach uses a lattice with a single chain terminally attached to the interface.
ref: 2005, Terence Cosgrove, Colloid Science: Principles, methods and applications, page 119:
glosses: Located at the end.
Derived terms: terminally ill
terminally online
territorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more territorially
form: most territorially
Etymology: From territorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of territory.
glosses: In a territorial manner; so as to defend one's territory.
through train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through trains
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: a train that travels a long distance without any stops
tjaele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪlə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish tjäle, which is descended from Old Swedish *þiæli, from Old Norse þeli (“frozen ground”), which is related to þel (“nap on wool; underwool”), and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þelą.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: frozen ground
Hyponyms: permafrost
tjalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tjalks
Etymology: From Dutch.
Senses: glosses: An old Dutch sailing barge with a round bow, leeboards and a gaff-rigged mast.
abstracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract
abstracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abstract
abstracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstract
microchunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microchunks
Etymology: From micro- + chunk.
Senses: glosses: A very small piece.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Part of a product or service made available separately from its traditional package.
microchunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microchunks
form: microchunking
form: microchunked
form: microchunked
Etymology: From micro- + chunk.
Senses: examples: text: If I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go wherever it wants to go.
ref: 2005, November 5, Fred Wilson, "The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)", AVC (blog)
topics: business
marketing
glosses: To split up a product or service sold traditionally as a package.
concert grand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert grands
form: concert-grand
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large grand piano, especially one used for concert performances.
chingadera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chingaderas
Etymology: Mexican Spanish chingadera.
Senses: examples: text: 1946, My Darling Clementine, dir. John Ford, written by Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller
“There goes that chingadera again.”
text: “The chingadera was heavy. […]”
ref: 2003, Richard Yañez, El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, University of Nevada Press, page 27:
text: “What is this chingadera, Son?”
ref: 2008, Margo Candela, More Than This: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 187:
text: “Back in the old days they used any kind of chingadera to make a whatever. […]”
ref: 2009, B. C. Legans, Cerro, iUniverse, page 237:
synonyms: word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A miscellaneous object for which one does not know, or has forgotten, its proper name; a doohickey, contraption, thingamabob, or widget.
abutting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌt.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Etymology: From abut + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Facing each other, front to front.
Derived terms: abuttingly
nonabutting
abutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌt.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Etymology: From abut + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abut
abutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌt.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Forms: form: abuttings
Etymology: From abut + -ing.
Senses: examples: the abuttings of roads
glosses: abutment
accedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accede
acceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accede
accelerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accelerate
accents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.sɛnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of accent
accents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.sɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accent
accenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accent
accented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accent
accented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accented
form: most accented
Senses: glosses: Having an accent.
Derived terms: accentedly
accentedness
nonaccented
unaccented
manchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒ̃ˈʃɛt/
ipa: /mɑnˈʃɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: manchettes
Etymology: From French manchette.
Senses: glosses: An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
Derived terms: intramanchette
sabreur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabreurs
Etymology: From French.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A fencer who fights with a sabre.
Derived terms: beau sabreur
accentuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accentuate
accepts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛpts/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛpts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accept
accepts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛpts/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛpts/
Senses: glosses: plural of accept
fencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛnsə/
ipa: /ˈfɛnsəɹ/
ipa: [ˈfɛnsɚ]
rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fencers
Etymology: From fence + -er.
Senses: glosses: A participant in the sport of fencing.
glosses: A person who makes, installs, repairs, or maintains fences.
synonyms: fence
glosses: A person who purchases stolen goods or property from another thief.
Derived terms: chive-fencer
accepting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌəkˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌɪkˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
homophone: excepting stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accept
accepting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌəkˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌɪkˈsɛp.tɪŋ/
homophone: excepting stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more accepting
form: most accepting
Senses: examples: text: open and accepting
text: genuinely accepting
text: She had an accepting attitude toward different cultures.
text: His family was warm and accepting.
glosses: Characterized by acceptance.
Derived terms: acceptingly
acceptingness
nonaccepting
phosphoaccepting
unaccepting
accesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈækˌsɛsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of access
accesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɛsɪz/
ipa: /əkˈsɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈækˌsɛsɪz/
ipa: /əkˈsɛsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of access
lamé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːmeɪ
Forms: form: lamés
Etymology: Borrowed from French lamé.
Senses: examples: text: Their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), an epicene seven-footer with a shaved head and what looks like a gold-lamé thong, lounges on cushions in his court, surrounded by aroused lesbians intertwined and writhing like snakes in a basket.
ref: 2007 April 2, “Men Gone Wild”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A fabric made from gold or silver threads and silk, wool or cotton.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The electrically conductive jacket worn by foil and sabre fencers.
acclaims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of acclaim
acclaims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acclaim
acclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: more acclaiming
form: most acclaiming
Etymology: From acclaim + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Attended by a glad acclaiming Train, / Of thoſe he reſcu'd had from gaping Hell, / Then turn'd the Knight; […]
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXVI, page 79:
glosses: That acclaims; applauding, welcoming enthusiastically.
acclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Etymology: From acclaim + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acclaim
black card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cards
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A penalty card issued by an official in several sports for infractions.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A penalty card issued by an official in several sports for infractions.
The most severe of penalties, which results in the fencer being expelled from the match.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: An expensive and exclusive credit card that allows its users access to various luxuries.
Related terms: red card
yellow card
acclimatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acclimatises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acclimatize
acclimatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acclimatize
acclimatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acclimatised
form: climatized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acclimatize
acclimatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: acclimatised
form: climatized
Senses: glosses: Subjected to acclimatization
Derived terms: acclimatizational
deacclimatization
destreza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish destreza.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish type of fencing (duelling sport).
accommodates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accommodate
tlachtli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tlachtlis
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tlachtli.
Senses: examples: 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ceremonial ball game once played by the Aztecs; evolved into the ulama game.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The high-walled court in which this game was played.
Tlapanec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Indian people from Mexico.
Tlapanec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
attack au fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attacks au fer
Etymology: From French attaque au fer.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An attack on the opponent's blade, e.g. beat, expulsion, pressure
Tlingit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/
ipa: /ˈ(t)lɪŋɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪt
rhymes: -ɪŋɡɪt
Forms: form: Tlingits
form: Tlingit
Etymology: Borrowed from Tlingit Lingít.
Senses: glosses: A member of an Indian people from the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia.
Tlingit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/
ipa: /ˈ(t)lɪŋɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪt
rhymes: -ɪŋɡɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Tlingit Lingít.
Senses: glosses: the language of these people
Tlingit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɪt/
ipa: /ˈ(t)lɪŋɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪt
rhymes: -ɪŋɡɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Tlingit Lingít.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to these people or their language
accomplishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accomplish
accomplishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accomplish
tobacconist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobacconists
Etymology: From tobacco + -n- + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, snuff and sundry items.
examples: text: This historic and fragrant tobacconist of old still today is decorated with team pictures and other Harvardiana […]
ref: 2000, Raymond Rhinehart, Princeton University: The Campus Guide, page 131:
glosses: A tobacconist's shop.
glosses: A person who is addicted to smoking tobacco.
accords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accord
accords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accord
accorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɹdɪd/
ipa: /əˈkɔːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accord
accosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accost
accosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accost
accounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of account
accoutres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accoutre
accoutring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accoutre
monoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: monocultures
Etymology: From mono- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: Monocultures are bad for the environment; as we forced golden, waving wheat to take over the planet, other species faltered and failed, rather than rising on their merits.
ref: 2023 September 30, Martha Gill, “When Taylor Swift reaps country-sized riches, other artists are squeezed out”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: As we Irish discovered in the great famine of 1845-49, monocultures are generally not a good idea and we abandon biodiversity at our peril. Farrell and Berjon make the same point about our online world: the internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.
ref: 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
antonyms: polyculture
glosses: The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
examples: text: It also isn’t going to be broadcast on TV networks that yearn to re-create the previous century’s monoculture. Our attention spans and tastes keep fracturing, and the ratings for late-night comedy keep declining.
ref: 2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic:
text: We must end the collusive relationship between government, Big Tech, Big Finance and corporate media that creates an ideological monoculture eager to punish people for their beliefs.
ref: 2025 January, Kristen Waggoner, quotee, “A New Direction for Religious Freedom”, in Decision: The Evangelical Voice for Today, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A culture or society that lacks diversity; a society marked by monoculturalism.
Derived terms: monocultural
monoculturalism
monoculturist
Related terms: biculture
oligoculture
monoculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnəˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈmɒnoʊˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: monocultures
form: monoculturing
form: monocultured
form: monocultured
Etymology: From mono- + culture.
Senses: glosses: To cultivate such a crop
accrediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɛdɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accredit
accredits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɛdɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accredit
chugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of chug
chugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chug
accrued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accrue
accrued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: Having increased through accrual; having risen over time or due to financial transactions.
Derived terms: nonaccrued
unaccrued
accruing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹuːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accrue
accruing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹuːɪŋ/
Forms: form: accruings
Senses: examples: accruings of interest
glosses: An amount that is accrued.
accrues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accrue
accrues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of accrue
exonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exonym
accuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accuse
accusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accuse
accusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: more accusing
form: most accusing
Senses: examples: text: Both figures looked upstage at the model of a white statue which pointed down at them with the accusing finger of an Italian traffic policeman or wartime recruiting poster.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 2:
glosses: Accusatory.
Derived terms: accusingly
unaccusing
accusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: accusings
Senses: examples: text: What are these accusings and self-approbations, but a fearful looking-for of judgment, and a prophesying that verily there is a reward for the righteous — natural indications, in short, of a future state?
ref: 1840, Johnson Grant, Sketches in divinity, page 77:
glosses: Accusation.
accustoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accustom
accustoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accustom
accustoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accustom
colonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colony
pheromone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheromones
Etymology: From φέρω (phérō, “I bring, bear, carry”) and hormone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
Derived terms: allomone
antipheromone
kairomone
mandibular pheromone
Nasonov pheromone
parapheromone
pheromonal
pheromonic
pheromonostasis
pheromonostatic
pheromonotropic
pheromotropic
propheromone
queen mandibular pheromone
queen retinue pheromone
meatball surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatball surgeries
Etymology: Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968).
Senses: topics: government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
surgery
war
glosses: Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meatball, surgery.
Hypernyms: surgery
livery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɪv.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɪv(ə)ɹɪ
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Forms: form: liveries
form: liverying
form: liveried
form: liveried
form: liveray
form: liverie
Etymology: From Middle English livery, liveree, from Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.
Senses: examples: text: He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.
glosses: To clothe.
livery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɪv.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɪv(ə)ɹɪ
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Forms: form: more livery
form: most livery
Etymology: From Middle English *livery, from Old English lifriġ (“relating to the liver, livery”), equivalent to liver + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.
ref: 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.
ref: 2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.
ref: 2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Like liver.
examples: text: He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 204:
text: The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.
ref: 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House, →ISBN, page 58:
text: He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run
ref: 2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black, →ISBN:
text: To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.
ref: 2014, Emily Hahn, China to Me: A Partial Autobiography, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Queasy, liverish.
echinoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkaɪnə(ʊ)ˌdɜːm/
ipa: /ɪˈkɪ-/
ipa: /ɪˈkaɪnəˌdɝm/
ipa: /ɪˈkaɪnoʊˌdɝm/
ipa: /ɪˈkɪ-/
Forms: form: echinoderms
Etymology: From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- + -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.
Senses: examples: text: Comparatively few additions were therefore made to the previously known Echinoderm-fauna of Brazil, only a single species, a Leptasterias, being with certainty new to science.
ref: 1879, Richard Rathbun, A List of the Brazilian Echinoderms: With Notes on Their Distribution, Etc:
text: Many echinoderms are still bilateral as larvae, and swim freely in the ocean like baby fish.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 47:
glosses: An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars.
Derived terms: echinodermal
universality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.nɪ.vɜːˈsæl.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌju.nɪ.vɝˈsæl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌju.nɪ.vɝˈsæl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌjʉː.nɪ.vɜːˈsæl.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌjʉː.nɪ.vɜːˈsæl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: universalities
Etymology: From Middle English universalite, from Middle French universalité, from Old French, from Late Latin universalitas. By surface analysis, universal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the property of being universal, common to all members of a class
canvassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canvass
canvassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canvassings
Senses: examples: text: The thoroughness required by your explicit instructions, together with the strong desire that these repeated canvassings should be executed in so careful a manner as to establish reliable data, has no doubt tended materially to produce the gratifying result.
ref: 1853, Documents of the City of Boston:
glosses: The act of one who canvasses or solicits.
Derived terms: noncanvassing
telecanvassing
da capo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈkæpəʊ/
Etymology: From Italian da capo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: From the beginning.
glosses: from scratch
Related terms: da capo al fine
take it from the top
bril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brils
Senses: examples: text: In the experiments, the brightness in brils was measured as a function of luminance for various adaptation levels of the eye.
ref: 1993, Course notes - Volume 22, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, →OCLC, page 7-7:
text: Here, Q is brightness (or perceived luminance), measured in brils.
ref: 2005, Erik Reinhard, Greg Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, High Dynamic Range Imaging, →ISBN:
text: Tumblin's model aims to match a perceived quality known as brightness, measured in brils, so that the real world brightness and display brightness can be equated.
ref: 2012, Julie Dorsey, Philipp Slusallek, Rendering Techniques ’97, →ISBN:
text: many of the old units-such as the nox, phot, glim, skot, and scot (identical), as well as the bril and brill (different)—are so antiquated as to be of interest only to the historian.
ref: 2014, William Ross McCluney, Introduction to Radiometry and Photometry, Second Edition, page 360:
glosses: A unit of luminance equal to tfrac 1 10⁷π candela per square metre.
Related terms: brill
gracht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grachts
Etymology: From Dutch gracht.
Senses: examples: text: Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred smaller grachts, or canal-streets.
ref: 1848, James Silk Buckingham, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour:
glosses: A canal in a city, with houses on each side.