cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besceptred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding the father lies becrowned and besceptred in the basilica of Saint-Denys in France, the son is but the dauphin and will not enter into his inheritance till the day when the oil of the inexhaustible ampulla shall flow over his forehead.
ref: 1909, Anatole France, “Jeanne’s Voices”, in Winifred Stephens, transl., The Life of Joan of Arc, volume I, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, pages 56–57:
text: His majesty is further declared by the fact of that in the dexiosis reliefs he alone is shown still enthroned, sceptre in his left hand, turning to give his right hand to the likewise besceptred mortal king.
ref: 1975, Mary Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism, page 331:
text: The finely muscled and besceptred Jupiter stands in strong contrast with the awe-struck emperor.
ref: 1977, Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, page 231:
text: When Mr. Madison told us in The Federalist No. 46 that we need have no fear of the new central government removing from our American populace "the advantage of being armed, which the American possess over the people of almost every other nation," since any encroachment on our liberties by the new federal government would provoke "plans of resistance" and an "appeal to a trial of force," that to any regular army of the central government "would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million citizens with arms in their hands," can there be any doubt he referred to private citizens, not answerable to any of the besceptred central authorities at whose thrones Mr. Mcafee grovels?
ref: 1996 August 6, Jason and Heather, “Of Vipers and Militias”, in az.politics (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of besceptered.
yelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jɛlt/
Forms: form: yelts
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yelte, from Old English ġilte, *ġielte, from Proto-West Germanic *galtijā, extension of Proto-Germanic *galtô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-.
Probably cognate to the equivelant English gilt, from Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld (“castrate”), Old Norse galtr, gǫltr (“castrated boar, hog”), Danish galt, Icelandic göltur, Norwegian Bokmål galt, Swedish galt (“boar, hog”); as well as English gelde, Old English gelde, Scots yelt, yell (“sterile”), ceasing to give milk, regional English yell (“dry (of cow)”), Old Norse geldr (“infertile, regarding cow”), Old Danish gold, Old Swedish infertile, fruitless.
Senses: glosses: A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
yelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yelt
divorce rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divorce rapes
Etymology: From divorce + rape (“utter defeat”).
Senses: hypernyms: divorce
glosses: The situation where one partner in a relationship, usually female, is awarded by a family court an exorbitant alimony or child support, and complete or almost complete custody of the children produced from the union, etc.
Related terms: gold digger
xgender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From x- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: I am a straight white male XGender Dresser seeking understanding Female of any race or age!
ref: 1995 March 7, Larry Hasha, “Male XDresser ISO Female!”, in alt.personals (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: I request your opinions about matching bi-sexual orientation and bi-genderable expression. One, from the subject being bi-bi (experiencies?) and from the bi-bi-friend (testimonies?).
Since x-gender is addmitedly independent of sexual orientation, I just wonder if us/they can find more openness into the bi-community.
ref: 1996 September 13, Rubén Om-line, “X-gender & bi's”, in soc.bi (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: I said X usually represents the unknown,key word usually- not always.example Malcom X. Also the most basic algebra-middle school level- starts representing unknown with x. In the case of xmitter, it is short for trans, that is another common use of X, replacing trans, cross or across. example RR Xing, Xatlantic flight, Xgender, I have seen all of these used and more.
ref: 2004 February 12, bob11, “CHRISTIANS: Vote Republican November 2, 2004!”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Starting F on M website and looking for asses to train. She loves watching her strap-on plunge into a tight hole. Seeking men, women, couples, xgender more than welcome.
ref: 2007 October 10, blackblow...@gmail.com, “317 / Indy / Strap-on Party”, in alt.personals.bondage.gay (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: Abbreviation of transgender or crossgender.
xwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xwalks
Etymology: From x- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: the term yer all looking for is a placebo. a good example, thos buttons that pedestrians hit at xwalks to make the light change.they do n othing but make ppl feel better waiting.
ref: 1998 November 6, moorehed, “Dont play pj backwards”, in alt.music.pearl-jam (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: i understand why they fuck with you/us if youre writing in their little "territory" i remember in 93 at this little graff convention in LA me and my friend decided to walk to the liquor store, so we were at the Xwalk and i decide to nonchalantly get a little bit of cheap fame on the pole, next thing you know i hear "this is big bad MS13, dont be writing in my neighborhood punk" i pretended like i didnt hear it and walked semi fast to the liquor store.....but im just glad all i got was a verbal warning..
ref: 1998 December 7, Rawb 98, “Crew Fights”, in alt.graffiti (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: This year in Toronto a cyclist ran a light/stop/xwalk (can't remember) and killed a little old lady.
ref: 1999 August 13, Purdy, “Yet ANOTHER Anti-cycling Editorial”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: And the problem with a traffic light at Ames and the x-walk is that too many people need to use it too frequently - you run into the situation at Mass Ave, where people are constantly dodging traffic, trying to run to class.
ref: 2003 September 8, Steve, “"Backwards" engineering”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: If it is referring to a "pelican" type Xwalk, good on you guys! ;}
ref: 2004 June 1, E.R., “Article on Mass Insurance Reform”, in ne.transportation (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: Abbreviation of crosswalk.
xwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xwalk
Mouguerre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
blow poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow pokes
Senses: examples: text: Jim Hardin (as himself): Let me show you what is marked as State’s Exhibit 72, and ask whether you can identify that for me, please. Candace Zamperini: This is my blow poke (she blows) - Blow through it.
ref: 2004 October 21, 00:56 from the start, in Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, director, The Staircase S1 E6: The Prosecution’s Revenge (Documentary TV Series), spoken by Candace Zamperini (Candace Zamperini):
text: When Jardine was again within our circle, Moody asked, “What’s this about some blow poke?”It isn’t here,” Jardine muttered. “What’s a blow poke?” Moody asked us. “A fireplace tool,” George answered.
ref: 2004, Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher, A Vote for Murder: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery: a Novel, page 154:
text: Another chief concern was he discovery of the so-called “missing” murder weapon, the blow poke fireplace tool the prosecutors claimed Peterson used to bludgeon his wife to death. Two days before ending his case, defense lawyer, David Rudolf, brought out the blow poke, which prosecutors contended had gone mysteriously missing after Kathleen Peterson’s death.
ref: 2005, H Thomas Milhorn, MD., Ph.D., Crime: Computer Viruses to Twin Towers, page 249:
text: In The Staircase there is a suggestion that continually retracing our steps doesn’t in itself yield much, and certainly doesn’t necessarily awaken new ways of seeing. The discovery of the blow-poke, the alleged murder weapon, is a case in point. A gift from Kathleen’s sister, he suspiciously missing blow-poke is an essential part of the prosecution’s case.
ref: 2021, Sarah Moore, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, page 129:
glosses: A hollow poker through which air can be blown to fuel a fire.
flourmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flourmongers
Senses: examples: text: […]; an’ folk say, it’s a’ owing tae a meeting they’ve had wi’ a flourmonger (which I hope ye’ll tell us a’ aboot) that kens o’ a hole in the ack o’ parliament aboot bread.
ref: 1853 July 12, Saunders Mucklemouth, “Dumfries Loaves”, in Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser, volume IX, number 442, published 13 July 1853:
text: An uncouth flourmonger had disclosed some interesting things about a visiting Frenchman.
ref: 1998, Margaret Miles, chapter 10, in A Wicked Way to Burn, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 99:
text: If Norwich’s quiet setting obscures the energy and industry of this community of bakers and flourmongers, a class will change that.
ref: 2001 November 14, Amy Graves, “Tough going, but finally, perfect scones”, in The Boston Globe, volume 260, number 137, page E2:
glosses: Alternative form of flour-monger.
flourmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flourmonger
blow pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow poke
Brusselkale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brusselkales
Etymology: Blend of Brussels sprouts + kale
Senses: glosses: A vegetable that is a hybrid of Brussels sprouts and kale.
Synonyms: kalette
Brusselkales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brusselkale
hits the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit the wall
hitting the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit the wall
Newtongrange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland, south of Dalkeith (OS grid ref NT3364).
letting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of let up
lets up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let up
Foothills County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in southern Alberta, Canada, renamed from M.D. of Foothills No. 31 in 2019.
downflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊn.flʌd/
Forms: form: downfloods
form: downflooding
form: downflooded
form: downflooded
Etymology: Blend of down + flood
Senses: examples: text: Once seawater flowed down (downflooded) to the fourth deck through the ventilation trunks and their unsecured (open) closures, the vessel would have sunk deeper because of the weight of the added water and rolled more easily as it lost its residual righting arm.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.4.2 Flooding”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 194:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To enter a boat, ship, or other vessel through openings that are normally above the waterline.
raw_tags: of water or other liquid
downfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downflood
downflooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downflood
downflooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnflʌdˌɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: The tops of the baffle plates installed to limit water from entering holds 3 and 2A through the fire dampers, which were about 25 to 26 feet above the accident voyage still waterline, were found after loss of propulsion to submerge at heeling angles of 26° to 29°, with only hold 3 flooded to 20 percent at 0.7 permeability. No damage control plan or emergency plan was found that might recommend securing the fire dampers in extremely high seas to prevent potential downflooding through ventilation openings into cargo holds.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 155:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The entry of water or other liquid into a boat, ship, or other vessel through openings that are normally above the waterline.
Derived terms: downflooding angle
downflooding point
downflooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnflʌdˌɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downflood
downflooding point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downflooding points
Senses: examples: text: The El Faro stability booklet did not identify the cargo hold ventilation trunk openings as potential downflooding points, nor did it indicate that they should be closed to prevent downflooding. None of the former officers or crew of El Faro remembered the dampers being closed at sea (even for expected heavy weather), except when they were periodically tested. When asked what a captain should have done if faced with the risk of fire or flooding, an ABS representative stated that the captain would have to "trade off one risk against another risk and maintain certain weathertight integrity while not compromising or not reintroducing some other risk."
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.4 Methods of Assessing Stability”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 138-139:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An opening above the waterline of a boat, ship, or other vessel through which water or other liquid can enter if the vessel rolls to an excessive angle or rides lower than normally.
downflooding points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downflooding point
downflooding angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downflooding angles
Senses: examples: text: Figure 60 shows the downflooding angles for the downflooding points described above, plus the angle at which the edge of the freeboard deck would have been immersed (about 15°). The downflooding angles are superimposed on two righting arm curves. The upper curve is the righting arm for El Faro in the intact condition on the morning of the sinking, before flooding began and with no wind. The lower curve is the righting arm for the vessel with hold 3 flooded to 20 percent and a sustained 80-knot beam wind.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 156:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The minimum bank angle which will submerge at least one non-watertight opening on a boat, ship, or other vessel, allowing for downflooding into the interior of the vessel.
downflooding angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downflooding angle
divorce rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divorce rape
righting arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: righting arms
Senses: examples: text: Figure 60 shows the downflooding angles for the downflooding points described above, plus the angle at which the edge of the freeboard deck would have been immersed (about 15°). The downflooding angles are superimposed on two righting arm curves. The upper curve is the righting arm for El Faro in the intact condition on the morning of the sinking, before flooding began and with no wind. The lower curve is the righting arm for the vessel with hold 3 flooded to 20 percent and a sustained 80-knot beam wind. The smaller area under the lower righting arm curve, compared with the area under the upper curve, illustrates the severely reduced energy the vessel had available to right itself after hold 3 flooded and the ship lost power, with hurricane winds on its beam (blowing at a 90° angle to its starboard side).
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 156:
topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: The horizontal distance between the center of mass of a tilted vessel and the vertical line connecting its center of buoyancy and its metacentre (conventionally taken as positive if the aforementioned line lies on the low side of the center of mass, and negative if the line lies on the high side of the center of mass), measuring the strength of the vessel's tendency (or lack thereof) to return to an upright orientation.
righting arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of righting arm
metacentric height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacentric heights
Senses: examples: text: The distance from a ship's center of gravity (G) to its metacenter is known as the metacentric height (GM). GM is a measure of the vessel's ability to right itself when experiencing an overturning moment. For the same vessel, a higher GM value indicates a greater initial static stability.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Stability Information - 1.12.1 Concepts”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 132:
topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: The vertical distance between the metacentre and center of mass (conventionally taken to be positive when the metacentre is above the center of mass, and negative when the center of mass is above the metacentre) of a vessel (such as a ship or a boat) when the vessel is upright with zero bank angle; measures the vessel's tendency to resist being rolled from the upright orientation; must be positive in order for the vessel to have positive static stability.
Synonyms: GM
Related terms: metacentric stability
metacentric heights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacentric height
W2C
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: fashion on the Internet
glosses: Abbreviation of where to cop.
W2C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: W2Cs
Senses: qualifier: fashion on the Internet
glosses: A contribution to a virtual meetup consisting in a question of the above frame.
W2Cs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W2C
flash in the pans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash in the pan
bammier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bammy: more bammy
bammiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bammy: most bammy
xdresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xdressers
form: x-dresser
form: Xdresser
form: X-dresser
Etymology: From xdress + -er.
Senses: examples: text: New Zealand actually ranks about 3rd in the world for xdressers per capita - after Britain and Scandinavia.
ref: 1998 March 12, Sama...@manawatu.gen.nz, “NZ Cross-Dressers.”, in nz.soc.queer (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: • xdsupport
Support group for women who have mates who like to crossdress..whether you are comfortable with this or not..we'd like for you to share your thoughts. I am dealing with this very topic...sometimes I'm okay with it...sometimes not. (xdressers are welcome to join and share their thoughts and feelings.)
ref: 2000 August 20, .,Bert..,,, “Happy Anniversary, TeamSatan!”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
text: Hi all, 29yo bi m xdresser from Antrim area, up for fun with str8/bi/married guys, or other cd's/tv's, sorry no gay guys!!
ref: 2003 May 31, Debaser, “N.Ireland bi xdresser!”, in uk.adverts.personals (Usenet), retrieved 18 May 2022:
glosses: Abbreviation of cross-dresser.
xdressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xdresser
shutter chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutter chances
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese シャッターチャンス (shattā chansu), from English shutter + chance.
Senses: examples: text: PURPOSE: To perform flash photography without missing a shutter chance by closing a power switch to a flash device and a timer circuit associatively with the movement of a moving member for switching to a photography ready position.
ref: 1985, Japan Patent Office, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications:
text: The why people prefer faster motor drives? There is a very good reason. Faster motor drive allows you to prepare for the next shutter chance. You never keep pushing release for seconds. You always look for the exact shutter chance. But you can be prepared very quickly to the next shutter chance as soon as you finich taking one picture when you have a fast motor drive.
ref: 1995 August 26, na...@ibm.net, “Motor drive vs. power winder”, in rec.photo.help (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022:
text: I feel the most important thing is to catch the facial expressions. So, shutter chance is very critical. This may be a situation when the continuous-shot shutter mode is of most usable. Wasting some frames seems inevitable even for experienced shooters/professionals-- they just waste less than me.
ref: 1996 April 29, Leslie, “攝影的互動關係?”, in tw.bbs.rec.photo (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022:
text: This fish was moving both eyes restlessly like a chameleon.
So, I held a position in front of the fish. I waited for an ideal shutter chance. And the moment both eyes of this fish saw me, I took a photo.
ref: 2015, YOGATA Michiaki, FROGFISH.JP:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: The best moment to take a picture of a moving subject.
declimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of declimb
declimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of declimb
start page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: start pages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: home page
stage business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: business
qualifier: term of art
glosses: Actions performed by an actor on stage done for dramatic effect; especially, action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene, with or without any dialogue.
Related terms: stage direction
stage manager
chewing the scenery
Three Wise Men
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Three Wise Men
Senses: glosses: The three biblical Magi
waggonload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggonloads
Etymology: From waggon (dated spelling of wagon) + load.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wagonload.
Westm.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Westminster.
whsle.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of wholesale.
wheelperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelpeople
Senses: glosses: A wheelman or wheelwoman
W. Glam.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of West Glamorgan.
wrnt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of warrant.
year out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: years out
Senses: glosses: gap year; sabbatical year
double-barreled question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-barreled questions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: an informal fallacy. It is committed when someone asks a question that touches upon more than one issue, yet allows only for one answer.
Related terms: informal fallacy
Wevill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wevills
Senses: glosses: A surname.
duckdive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckdives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duck dive.
conversational scoreboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversational scoreboards
Senses: qualifier: debate
glosses: in linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation. The scoreboard is updated by each speech act performed by one of the interlocutors.
Related terms: scoreboard
Elvey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elveys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Ælfwīġ, which is composed of the elements ælf (“elf”) and wīġ (“war, battle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
spanglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spanglets
Senses: glosses: A small spangle
breadmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadmonger
bread-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread-monger
Yeremyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yeremyans
form: Yeremian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Երեմյան (Eremyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Yeremian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yeremians
Etymology: Variant of Yeremyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Yeremians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yeremian
Yeremyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yeremyan
Hileses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hiles
Elveys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elvey
Loxtons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Loxton
Demeterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Demeter + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: We cannot tell whether the walls of Çatal Hüyük were raised in Demeterian rites, as the architecture of the womb, or whether they were raised in martial orders, as the architecture of defense.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting J.J. Bachoven, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right, 1967, p. 196, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 140:
glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek goddess Demeter.
wikipedia: Demeter
Krienke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krienkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Krienke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kivis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kivi
Krienkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krienke
Kearley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kearleys
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Curley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Poellnitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poellnitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pöllnitz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Pouchers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poucher
Kearleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kearley
Poellnitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poellnitz
conjunctionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conjunctionless
form: most conjunctionless
Etymology: From conjunction + -less.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without a conjunction.
Redcay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Redcays
Etymology: Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Radke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Recktenwald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Recktenwalds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Recktenwald.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Recktenwalds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Recktenwald
Redcays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Redcay
touch pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch pens
Senses: examples: text: If possible, a touch pen on the HP48sx screen is better than a 'MoUsE' ball under the HP48sx.
ref: 1992 April 14, $li...@brandonu.ca, “Wish list, touch screen and pen based HP48sx!!!!!”, in comp.sys.hp48 (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022:
text: Where is the touchpen? Does the lack of a touchpen indicate the gcpp doesn't have touchscreen capabilities? How does this affect ClassiCom game compatability?
ref: 1998 May 19, Steven L Cox, “Hello...”, in alt.games.video.tiger.game-com (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022:
text: As much as I love the game, I feel that the DS' touch pen is kinda big for that game. Any good suggestions to better touch pens?
ref: 2005 August 16, Amund Trovåg, “Better touch pen for Meteos?”, in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stylus.
touch pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch pen
Mossey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mosseys
Etymology: Perhaps an altered form of French Mossé.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Mussas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mussa
Mosseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mossey
Ordiway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ordiways
Etymology: Variant of Ordway.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ordiways
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ordiway
Montellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Montella
Oppel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oppels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Oppel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Oppel-Kundt illusion
Nestle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nestles
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Nestle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Nestles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nestle
Oppels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oppel
McMiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McMillers
Etymology: Scottish patronymic from the occupational surname Miller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Orris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orrises
Etymology: English surname from a vernacular form of the personal name Horace.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Derived terms: Orrison
Soms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Som
McMillers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McMiller
Orrises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Orris
windfall tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windfall taxes
Senses: examples: text: The windfall tax was the political glue in the 1980 deal to get Washington out of the business of setting oil prices. Producers were freed from cumbersome, costly controls, while the public was assured a portion of any gain from OPEC-led price gouging.
ref: 1988 April 23, “Time for the Windfall Tax to Fall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Companies at the centre of the global grain trade have enjoyed a record bonanza amid soaring food prices around the world, raising concerns of profiteering and speculation in global food markets that could put staples beyond the reach of the poorest, and prompting calls for a windfall tax.
ref: 2022 August 23, Fiona Harvey, “Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Ellipsis of windfall profits tax, a higher tax rate on profits from sudden gains (“profiteering”) in certain industries.
compressorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compressor + -less.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not having compressors.
windfall taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windfall tax
caremongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caremonger
caesuraless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caesura + -less.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Without caesurae.
McAleenan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAleenans
Etymology: Northern Irish variant of McLennan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Xuancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shüǎnʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Hsuanch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宣城 (Xuānchéng).
Senses: examples: text: On that very day half of a large Japanese force was trapped and completely destroyed near Hsuancheng in East China, 80 miles south of Nanking. It was a Chinese victory which not only helped along the celebration of Double-Ten Day, but added the right note to another important event of the moment, the formal inauguration of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Republic.
ref: [1943 October 18, “Double-Ten Day”, in Pathfinder, Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Company, →OCLC, page 13, column 2:
text: Trees and houses are submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.
ref: 2016 July 21, Angela Fritz, “This year’s monsoon floods are the second-costliest on record in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2016, Capital Weather Gang:
text: Take Zhou Hua, the owner of a factory in Xuancheng, China, that months ago made children’s clothing. In February, as the coronavirus swept across his country, he rushed to buy mask machines and spent roughly $500,000 transforming his plant.
ref: 2020 April 3, Jack Nicas, “It’s Bedlam in the Mask Market, as Profiteers Out-Hustle Good Samaritans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2020:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
micro-celebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-celebrities
Senses: examples: text: For example, it is a central theme in the analysis of micro-celebrity, beginning with Theresa Senft's study and feminist analysis of 'camgirls'.
ref: 2018, Robert van Krieken, Celebrity Society: The Struggle for Attention:
glosses: Alternative form of microcelebrity.
mongeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongeresses
form: mongress
Etymology: From monger + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The hysterical activities of the charity-mongeresses have incidentally been avoided, and their energies diverted to occupations less destructive to life.
ref: 1893 November 11, “Children of the State”, in The Medical News. A Weekly Medical Journal., volume LXIII, number 20, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., pages 551–552:
text: “Whom God has joined together”—i.e., what the marriage-mongeress has coupled, &c.
ref: 1908, A[leksander] Brückner, “The Drama”, in H. Havelock, transl., edited by Ellis H[ovell] Minns, A Literary History of Russia, London; Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, page 481:
text: A salty style surged on a tide of the robust and ribald: “thinkerless unspeakables,” “Improved Order of Red Baboons,” “the embullioned and behorred spectacularians,” “a splayfooted mongeress of raucous rhyme,” “the glorified cuspidorarii.”
ref: a. 1914, Ambrose Bierce, quotee, Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1951, page 157:
text: “Frogs,” says the lady fashion monitor, the manners-mongeress, “are not game, and therefore their legs can be eaten from the fingers, but the bones must not be put down beside the plate, but must be laid on it.”
ref: 1936, Paul King, Voyaging to China in 1855 and 1904: A Contrast in Travel, Heath Cranton Limited, pages 139–140:
text: I repeat that one book by this murder-mongeress / Will last you as long as the Library of Congress. / Her full name is Agatha Christie Mallowan, / On my desert isle she is second to no one.
ref: 1957, Ogden Nash, “The Trouble with Shakespeare, You Remember Him”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 104:
text: After his death in 1888, Njoya was still young to take over the throne, his mother therefore became regent queen. This displeased the other sons of Nsangou who observed the Queen Mother (Regent) as cruel and a power mongeress.
ref: 1979, La Province de L’Ouest, page 88:
text: Hate-mongeress DOROTHY RABI NOWITZ had this to say about the Allies in her kosher-conservative column last February 16 in the San Antonio Express-News: “[I]t took six years to defeat the Axis, every hour of which -- including the bombing of Dresden -- was their finest hour.”
ref: 1985 August, “Primate Watch”, in Instauration, volume 10, number 9, page 31:
text: During the 1960s thesis-mongers and mongeresses began to advance.
ref: 1988, Pierre Alechinsky, Dotremont et Cobra-forêt, Éditions Galilée, page 62:
glosses: Female equivalent of monger.
Related terms: cheesemongeress
costermongeress
fishmongeress
ironmongeress
mongeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongeress
micro-celebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-celebrity
anamorelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug used in the treatment of cachexia and anorexia
antiglucotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + glucotoxic.
Senses: glosses: That counters glucotoxicity
bioexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioexpressions
Etymology: From bio- + expression.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: biological expression of a gene
bispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + spherical.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Composed of two spheres.
glosses: Misspelling of biospherical.
she-elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-elephants
Etymology: From she- + elephant.
Senses: synonyms: female elephant
cow elephant
glosses: A female elephant.
Coordinate terms: he-elephant
male elephant
bull elephant
bradyphrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting bradyphrenia
macroscalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + scalar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to macroscale
methylational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to methylation
musculostromal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + stromal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to muscles and stromata
polymorphicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polymorphic
psychosyndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychosyndromes
Etymology: From psycho- + syndrome.
Senses: glosses: A psychological or psychiatric syndrome
senotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senotherapeutic
suballiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suballiances
Etymology: From sub- + alliance.
Senses: glosses: A subset of an alliance
suballiances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suballiance
transindigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + indigenous.
Senses: examples: text: Such 'interindigenous' and 'transindigenous' efforts have led to the establishment and the contemporary workings of the International Labour Organization's Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention (ILO 69), the United Nations Permament Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to mention just some of the major achievements.
ref: 2016, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, “Scales, Translations, and Siding Effects: Uses of indigena and religión in Talamanca and Beyond”, in Christopher Hartney, Daniel Tower, editors, Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, Brill, page 157:
text: This project posits the concept of transindigenous materialities as the shared though distinct ways that Mexicana and Chicana performances tactically use material items, which have indigenous markers, in ways that strengthen female agency.
ref: 2016, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Transindigenous Affinities: Gender, Indigeneity, and Objects in Mexicana and Chicana Performance, Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, page ii:
text: In Silko’s text, the Messiah’s Mother is granted a prominent role while the Ghost Dance, localized in the Southwest, is largely a feminine gathering. It is also transindigenous, drawing together different tribes in a shared practice.
ref: 2018, Lori Merish, “Mapping the Transnational in Contemporary Native American Fiction: Silko and Welch”, in Journal of Transnational American Studies, volume 9, number 1, →DOI, page 346:
glosses: Moving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.
ironmongress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironmongresses
Senses: examples: text: The younger Lady Suffolk only spread a small quantity made into ointment on a bank bill of 70,000 pound, and it has made her first love Lord Falkland marry her: Sir Th. Robinson who intended to outlive his Barbadoes ironmongress,¹³ is dying for love of the same Countess.[…]13. Sarah Booth, m. (1) Samuel Salmon; m. (2) (between 1742–7, when he was Gov. of Barbadoes) Sir Thomas Robinson, Bt, of Rokeby. ‘An ironmonger’s widow, who gave him 10,000l. to be a lady, but would not follow him to England’ (HW’s notes to Maty’s Memoirs . . . of . . . Chesterfield, at end of Philobiblon Society, Miscellanies 1867–8, xi. 71; gec, Baronetage; Emily J. Climenson, Elizabeth Montagu, 1906, ii. 276).
ref: 1752 July 30, Gregory Whitewash, edited by W. S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, Jr, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Corerspondence; volume nine), volume I, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, published 1941, pages 139–140:
text: Then the portrait of Francis’s mistress is called La belle Furoniere, instead of Ferronière (the beautiful Ironmongress).
ref: 1836 January 2, “A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by J. F. Rigaud. With a Life of the Author. By J. W. Brown, Esq. Nicholls & Son.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 427, London, page 10:
text: Our home was over an ironmonger’s shop, the ironmongress condescending to let us three rooms. She was a very grand lady was this ironmongress, very grand indeed; her flounces and her furbelows were wonderful to behold!
ref: 1859, “Marion”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVI, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., chapter IV, page 139:
text: I understand; ah, if it were only in pursuit of some little ironmongress in the Pont Neuf, or the pretty widow of the Rue Saint Augustine, it might be worth your while.
ref: [1878], Alexandre Dumas, “His Excellency the Duc d’Orleans”, in The Regent’s Daughter. An Historical Romance., London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 86:
text: The English Ironmongress / The war has done more to push English women to the front in the world’s great activities, than Mrs. Pankhurst and her associates in the suffrage campaign of “frightfulness” were able to do in all their years of hair-pulling and arson.
ref: 1916, Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, page 754:
text: I often have the same dream: you are an ironmonger, I am your wife, an ironmongress …
ref: 1970, René de Obaldia, Plays, volume 2, London: Calder and Boyars, →ISBN, page 112:
text: The narrator is sensitive to country smells as well as to scenery, and to drunkenness, batterings, and the domestic tensions of local peasant households – encountered through friendships with the local poacher, Batt Ryan, and with the [?] village ironmongress.
ref: 1985 March 8, Toby Fitton, “Local pride”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 4,275, page 266:
glosses: Alternative form of ironmongeress.
bonnet macaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonnet macaques
Senses: glosses: Macaca radiata, a macaque endemic to southern India.
Synonyms: sense: Macaca radiata
word: bonnet monkey
sense: Macaca radiata
word: munga
sense: Macaca radiata
word: zati
bonnet macaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonnet macaque
costermongress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costermongresses
Senses: examples: text: The educated Englishman and the educated Hindoo have a more glorious work before them than the interchange of “niggers” and “parallelograms,” like Daniel O’ Connell and the costermongress!
ref: 1861 February, “The Reconciliation”, in Mookerjee’s Magazine, volume I, number I, Calcutta, page 74:
text: They were only a penny a pint, and the coarse big hand of the costermongress tossed a pile headlong and tail-long into a paper bag.
ref: 1892 June 18, Frank Yeigh, “Bread and Butter”, in Toronto Saturday Night, volume 5, number 30 (whole 238), Toronto, Ont., page 7:
text: The dilapidated costermongress with the worried look on her face and the “Football Evening News” in her hand, walked up to the meat-stall, and began turning over the stray pieces of meat labelled, “All choice.” “Wodjer want nah, missus?” inquired the butcher. “Piece er beef,” responded the lady. “When you was ’agglin’ for the mutton ’arf an hour ago,” objected the man of meat, “yer told me as ’ow yer couldn’t eat beef!” “No more I carn’t!” snapped the costermongress. “But I reckon I shall want a bit all the same to put on a black eye. My ’usband went ’an blacked Chelsea this mornin’, an’ I see by the piper they lorst!”
ref: 1910 December 27, “Preparing for the Fray”, in The Evening Record, volume 21, number 230, Windsor, Ont., page 4:
text: Mr. Tuppy, who long has wanted to do something to live down his namesake’s inactivtion^([sic]), and he was put into an arm[-]chair, where he looked like a feather boa one minute and a costermongress’ discarded hat the next.
ref: 1926 January 3, “An Arlen Character”, in Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., two, page eight:
glosses: Alternative form of costermongeress.
Lomira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and village therein, in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.