cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vitrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪt.ɹɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: vitrifies
form: vitrifying
form: vitrified
form: vitrified
Etymology: From Middle French vitrifier, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
Senses: glosses: To convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion.
examples: text: A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.
ref: 1976, Dorothy Menzel, Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru: Art as a Mirror of History in the Ica Valley, 1350–1570, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Her work was endless, she carried tubs and cauldrons and pails of heat-blasted sand, sand blasted into liquid glass, up the ladder that had vitrified where her bucket splashed, and tipped the liquid glass into the swimming pool, where, at the touch of the water, it turned into her huge, solid tears.
ref: 1982 [1977], Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To be converted into glass, especially through heat.
Synonyms: sense: convert into glassy substance
word: glassify
Related terms: vitrification
vitrifaction
vitrifacture
vitreous
vocable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊkəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈvoʊkəbl̩/
Forms: form: vocables
Etymology: From Middle English vocable, from Middle French vocable and its etymon, Latin vocābulum, from vocō (“I call”).
Senses: examples: text: Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
text: At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.
ref: 1925, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
examples: text: Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.
ref: a. 2010, Victoria Lindsay Levine, Native American Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
Related terms: vocabular
vocabulary
vocable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊkəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈvoʊkəbl̩/
Etymology: From Latin vocō + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a vocable marker
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Able to be uttered.
Synonyms: utterable
voiceable
Derived terms: vocability
voivode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊd/
ipa: /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊd/
Forms: form: voivodes
form: woiwode
form: wojewoda
form: woywode
form: vaivode
form: voevod
form: voevoda
form: voivod
form: vojvoda
form: vojvode
form: voyevoda
form: voyvoda
form: woywod
form: waywode
form: voivoda
form: waiwode
form: voyvode
form: voievod
form: vayvode
form: voevode
form: voievode
form: voyevode
form: vaivoda
form: waivode
form: wojewod
form: vojvod
form: voievoda
form: voyvod
form: wojwode
form: vaivod
form: vojevoda
form: woyewoda
form: vaiwode
form: vayvoda
form: waywod
form: wayvode
form: vaywode
form: waywoda
form: woywoda
form: wojwoda
form: woivode
form: woiwoda
form: wojwod
form: woiwoda
form: waivod
form: wayvoda
form: waiwod
form: woewoda
form: waiwoda
form: woiewoda
form: vojevode
form: woiewode
form: vojevod
form: wayvod
form: woyewode
form: woyvode
form: voywode
form: woewod
form: wayvod
form: woyewode
form: woyvode
form: voywode
form: woiewod
form: woewode
Etymology: Variously from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”).
Senses: examples: text: George Sechell[…], having been defeated in a battle by the Vayvoda of Transylvania, and taken Prisoner, was for three days together tied naked to a wooden horse, exposed to all manner of tortures, any man might devise against him[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—Continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter III, page 32:
glosses: A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
glosses: An administrative chief in modern Poland.
Derived terms: voivodeship
Related terms: Vojvodina
voivod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voivods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voivode.
vaivode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈveɪvəʊd/
Forms: form: vaivodes
Etymology: From Hungarian vajvoda (now vajda).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voivode.
waywode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪwəʊd/
Forms: form: waywodes
Etymology: Variant of voivode, representing an early Hungarian form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voivode.
fewmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fewmets
form: fumet
form: fumers
Etymology: Apparently from Anglo-Norman *fumets, from Latin fumāre (“it smokes, steams”). Attested since the fifteenth century. Compare fumet, apparently from French fumier (“dung”).
Senses: examples: text: for if the Hartes haue had any disturbaunce, or haue bene hurte, then they make theyr fewmet oftentimes drie, burned and sharpe at that one ende
ref: 1576, George Tuberville, The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hvnting, page 66; republished as Tuberville's Booke of Hunting, 1576, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908:
text: For by his slot, his entries, and his port,
His frayings, fewmets, he [the stag] doth promise sport
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
text: Sir Hunter, how is a man to know the Hart […] in what pasture he has been, whether in wheat, or in oats, or in beans, or in peas? I will tell you, if the fewmets are yellow, and in globular masses that is of wheat, or of oats. And if he has been in peas or in beans, if the Hart is fat, the fewmets will be black, and in globular masses, and the fewmet small.
ref: 1843 [1327], William Twici, The Art of Hunting, page 19; translation by Henry Dryden, Daventry: Thomas Barrett, 1843:
text: The halberd has fallen! The fewmets have hit the windmill!
ref: 1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 54:
text: “He’s going to where my dragons were! Come on, Meg, maybe he’s found fewmets!” ¶ She hurried after boy and dog. “How would you know a dragon dropping? Fewmets probably look like bigger and better cowpies.”
ref: 1973, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fumet.
profiteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: profiteers
Etymology: From profit + -eer.
Senses: glosses: One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
Hypernyms: profiter
Derived terms: war profiteer
Related terms: privateer
profiteering
profit monger
racketeer
profiteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: profiteers
form: profiteering
form: profiteered
form: profiteered
Etymology: From profit + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To make an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
volplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɒlpleɪn/
Forms: form: volplanes
Etymology: From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).
Senses: glosses: A steep, controlled dive, especially by an aircraft with the engine off.
volplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈvɒlpleɪn/
Forms: form: volplanes
form: volplaning
form: volplaned
form: volplaned
Etymology: From French vol plané (“gliding flight”).
Senses: examples: text: 1916, Wilfred Percy ("Billie") Nevill, letter, in 1991, Ruth Elwin Harris (editor), Billie: The Nevill Letters, 1914-1916, Julia Macrae, page 143,
[…] when well over the bosche lines & he volplaned home, just skimmed over our & the Bosche trenches, they all fired at him like sin, of course, and landed about 1000 yards back on a hill.
text: Curtains of vapor drift back to reveal the Americans, volplaning along well inside ten meters and only a little faster than the balloon.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: To perform a volplane.
glosses: To glide.
raw_tags: of a bird or gliding animal
fixed feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed feasts
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas (December 25)
Related terms: moveable feast
moveable feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moveable feasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of movable feast.
flagitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈdʒɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more flagitious
form: most flagitious
Etymology: From Old French flagitieux or Latin flāgitiōsus, both ultimately from flāgitium (“shameful crime”), related to flagrum (“whip”).
Senses: examples: text: This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […] .
ref: 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 227
text: The duke found his soldiery half disciplined, flagitious, disorderly and inefficient: he rendered them, in his own words, a "perfect organ."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 258:
text: As flagitious as he can be, Mr. Trump has been a legitimate news figure and, thus, what he had to say should be aired.
ref: 2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
examples: text: But if in Noble Minds ſome Dregs remain, / Not yet purg'd off, of Spleen and ſow'r Diſdain, / Diſcharge that Rage on more Provoking Crimes, / Nor fear a Dearth on theſe Flagitious Times.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: Less extensively mischievous, tyrannicide would be less flagitious than populicide; murder of one, though he were a Secretary of State; or—but imagination must stop here—than murder of a promiscuous multitude of unarmed men, women, and children.
ref: 1824 December 9 (date written), Jeremy Bentham, “[Letter 3153] To the Catholic Association”, in Luke O’Sullivan, Catherine Fuller, editors, The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, volume 12 (July 1824 to June 1828), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, footer 5, page 73:
text: As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious!"
ref: 1959, Rex Stout, “Assault on a Brownstone”, in Death Times Three, published 1985, page 186:
synonyms: infamous
scandalous
nefarious
iniquitous
glosses: Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
Derived terms: flagacious
flagitiously
flagitiousness
flavescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈvɛs.ənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more flavescent
form: most flavescent
Etymology: 19th century. From Latin flavescens.
Senses: glosses: yellowish in colour, or turning yellow
Related terms: english: becoming white
translation: becoming white
word: albescent
english: becoming red
translation: becoming red
word: erubescent
english: becoming black
translation: becoming black
word: nigrescent
english: becoming green
translation: becoming green
word: virescent
flour gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: fine gold dust and low-grain nuggets commonly recovered by prospectors.
full frontal nudity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-frontal nudity
Senses: examples: text: Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight.
ref: 1972 June 5, “Black, White and Blue”, in Time:
text: Until recently, female full-frontal nudity has been vastly more visible outside of pornographic representation, though one might claim male sexual embodiment to be more representable given that male genitalia are more prominently visible and the state of male arousal more easily legible.
ref: 2021, Maria San Filippo, Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Human nakedness, either directly observed or pictorially depicted, viewed from the front such that the complete torso and all external sex organs are visible.
Gaelophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaelophones
Etymology: From Gael + -o- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A speaker of Gaelic.
ghyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: gill
Forms: form: ghylls
form: gill
Etymology: From Middle English gille, gylle, from Old Norse gil, from Proto-Germanic *gilją.
Senses: glosses: A ravine.
gold mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊldˌmaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊldˌmaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: gold mines
form: goldmine
Senses: examples: text: South Africa has many goldmines.
hypernyms: mine#Noun
coordinate_terms: silver mine
;
coal mine
glosses: A mine for gold ore or metal.
examples: text: This oil deposit is a regular gold mine. We make more and more money every year!
text: The possessors of Salisbury & Yeovil Railway shares had ample compensation for the anxiety which the first few years of the company's existence had given them, for the concern proved a veritable gold mine.
ref: 1939 December, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: II. Salisbury and Exeter, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
text: [Hal Varian] went to work helping Page, Brin, and Schmidt develop more efficient auction algorithms and build the auction model that became such a gold mine for Google.
ref: 2019, Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A very profitable economic venture.
examples: text: The Smithsonian Institution is a goldmine of knowledge, but like most mines, you have to dig for the good stuff.
glosses: A plentiful stockpile of something sought-after.
Related terms: gold miner
trochees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochee
trew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trewe
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of true.
trews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic triubhas, from Middle Irish triubus.
Senses: glosses: Trousers, especially if close-fitting and tartan.
quibbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quibblers
Etymology: From quibble + -er.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who quibbles.
ruination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuː.ɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: ruinations
Etymology: From ruin + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: As our tour has shown, the state of ruination of castle sites was a key factor in their fate when the railways came through.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 56:
glosses: The state of being ruined, a state of devastation or destruction.
glosses: The act of ruining or wrecking.
glosses: The cause of being ruined, destroyed or lost.
examples: text: Yet also thanks largely to Trump, a parallel disaster is unfolding across the world: the ruination of America’s reputation as a safe, trustworthy, competent international leader and partner.
ref: 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A loss of reputation.
Synonyms: sense: act of ruining
word: destruction
sense: act of ruining
word: wrecking
Related terms: ruin
ruinate
ruining
rhinoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to rhinoplasty.
ruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: ructions
Etymology: 1825, of unknown origin, possibly from eruption or insurrection. Possibly related to the Irish insurrection of 1798.
Senses: examples: text: If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 131]
text: She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to.
ref: 1947, Christopher Sheridan, Bread and circuses, page 52:
text: Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans
ref: 2002, Ruth Bereson, The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House, page 148:
text: While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.
ref: 2013, Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, ..., page 381:
text: Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad's driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions.
ref: 2014, Murray C. Morison, Time Sphere:
glosses: A noisy quarrel or fight.
Synonyms: sense: noisy quarrel
word: brawl
sense: noisy quarrel
word: disturbance
sense: noisy quarrel
word: fracas
sense: noisy quarrel
word: row
sense: noisy quarrel
word: uproar
Related terms: ruckus
jeopard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛpə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: jeopards
form: jeoparding
form: jeoparded
form: jeoparded
Etymology: From Middle English juparte, from jupartie (“jeopardy”) and Old French jeu partir.
Senses: examples: text: So they com vnto Carlion · where of hys knyghtꝭ were paſſynge glad // And whan they herde of hys aduentures / they mervayled that he wolde Iouꝑde his ꝑſon ſo a lone / But all men of worſhip ſeyde hit was myrry to be vnđ ſuch a chyfftayne that wolde putte hys ꝑſon in adventure as oþ̃ poure knyghtis ded //
ref: 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678) (in Middle English), [England: s.n.], folio 21, verso:
text: It ſemed therfore to vs a goode thynge[…]to ſende choſyn men vnto you / with oure beloved Barnabas and Paul / men that have ieoperded theyr lives / for the name of oure lorde Ieſus Chriſt.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xv:[25–26], folio clxxvij, verso:
text: “And, by the Saint Christopher at my baldric,” said the good yeoman, “were there no other cause than the safety of that poor faithful knave, Wamba, I would jeopard a joint ere a hair of his head were hurt.”
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 4:
synonyms: imperil
hazard
glosses: To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury
Synonyms: jeopardize
Derived terms: jeoparder
unjeoparded
Related terms: jeopardy
waddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒdi/
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: waddies
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: This is how it was with the old waddies, aint it?
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:
text: If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
glosses: A cowboy.
waddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒdi/
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: waddies
form: waddie
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).
Senses: examples: text: I should have told you that many of the Amity Paint tribe, which is more numerous than the other two settlement tribes, were deficient of spears and shields, having nothing but waddies and boomerangs.
ref: 1839, William Mann, Six Years' Residence in the Australian Provinces, page 156:
text: 1840 May—August, Robert Montgomery Martin (editor), Van Diemen's Land, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, Volume 2, page 76,
In the mean while women, children, and remote stock-keepers fell under the unerring spears or death-dealing waddies of an enemy, the first indication of whose appearance was consectaneous with the stroke that reft his victim of life.
text: And in a free fight, the waddy, like an Irishman's shillaly, figures very prominently.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 71:
text: As I ran I glanced over my shoulder & saw the blackfellas beating Capois Death hard with their waddies, & they seemed to be trying to break the bones in each of his limbs.
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 365:
text: The kids would copy the men to make their own cricket stumps, but no-one was allowed to touch Grandfather's special wood for making waddies.
ref: 2008, Doreen Kartinyeri, Sue Anderson, Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling, page 20:
glosses: A war club used by Aboriginal Australians; a nulla nulla.
glosses: A piece of wood; a stick or peg; also, a walking stick.
Derived terms: waddywood
waddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒdi/
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: waddies
form: waddying
form: waddied
form: waddied
form: waddie
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wadi (“stick, weapon”).
Senses: glosses: To attack or beat with an Aboriginal war club.
wampumpeag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒmpəmpiːɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɑmpəmpiɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Massachusett wampompeage (“string of white beads used as money”), from wamp, wap, wompi (“white”) + *umpe (“string”) + -ag (plural suffix).
Compare peag (“string of white beads used as money”), also a clipping of wampumpeag.
Cognates
Penobscot wʌ̃pʌ̃pəyak (singular wʌ̃pʌ̃pi)
Senses: examples: text: [A] Sagamore with a Humberd in his eare for a pendant, a black havvke on his occiput for his plume, Movvhackees for his gold chaine, good ſtore of VVampompeage begirting his loynes, his bovv in his hand, his quiver at his back, vvith ſix naked Indian ſplatterlaſhes at his heeles for his guard, thinkes himſelfe little inferiour to the great Cham; hee vvill not ſtick to ſay, hee is all one vvith King Charles.
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of Their Apparell, Ornaments, Paintings, and Other Artificiall Deckings”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Of the Indians, […]), page 66:
qualifier: obsolete except historical
glosses: Synonym of wampum (“small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of eastern North America for various purposes including as jewellery and money, and for record-keeping”).
synonyms: word: wampum
extra: (“small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of eastern North America for various purposes including as jewellery and money, and for record-keeping”)
Derived terms: wampum
peag
wanhope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒnhəʊp/
ipa: /ˈwɑnhoʊp/
Forms: form: wanhopes
Etymology: From Middle English wanhope, equivalent to wan- + hope. Cognate with Scots wanhop, wanhope (“wanhope, despair”), West Frisian wanhope (“wanhope, despair”), Dutch wanhoop (“despair”).
Senses: examples: text: Wanhope: a fine English word, suggesting unhope of Langland's story of the cats and the mice, and described in Ipotis,[…]
ref: 1898, Georgiana Lea Morril, editor, Speculum Gy de Warewyke: An English Poem, page 57:
text: If[…]such good old English words as inwit and wanhope should be rehabilitated (and they have been pushing up their heads for thirty years), we should gain a great deal. (Collected essays, 1928, III.68)
ref: 1991, Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera, editors, Languages in Contact and Contrast, →ISBN, page 411:
text: Both despair and wanhope are generally defined as a complete loss or lack of hope and being overcome by sense of futility or defeat.
ref: 2007, Michael D. C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia: scholarship and critical assessment:
synonyms: word: despond
word: unhope
word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
glosses: Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
synonyms: pie in the sky
pipe dream
glosses: Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion.
wan-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /wɒn/
Etymology: From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan-, from Proto-West Germanic *wana-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to be lacking, be empty”).
Senses: glosses: Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense “bad”, “un-”.
legalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legalisms
Etymology: From legal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A belief that salvation is attained or maintained by adherence to the requirements of moral law; salvation by works rather than by faith alone.
glosses: A legal axiom, term or rule.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Legalism.
Related terms: legalist
legalistic
legalistically
nonlegalism
non-legalism
prolegalism
pro-legalism
aphorism
law
Law
literalism
Torah
statism
leftward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leftward
form: most leftward
Etymology: From left + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.
ref: 2012, Catherine M. Otto, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Yes, the Democratic Party's sharp leftward pivot might have nuked the Never Trump movement all on its own, because it is leaving no sane alternatives to [Donald] Trump.
ref: 2019 March 25, Tiana Lowe, “How the Russia #Resistance nuked the Never Trump movement”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, Clarity Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2019:
glosses: To or from the left.
Derived terms: leftwardly
leftwardness
leftward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more leftward
form: most leftward
Etymology: From left + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Rightward and leftward rise the rocks
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Sixth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: To or from the left.
festinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/
Forms: form: festinates
form: festinating
form: festinated
form: festinated
Etymology: First attested in 1556; Borrowed from Latin festīnātus, perfect passive participle of festīnō (“to hurry”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
glosses: To hurry, make haste.
glosses: To accelerate, quicken, hasten, hurry (something or someone).
festinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstɪnət/
Forms: form: more festinate
form: most festinate
Etymology: First attested in 1556; Borrowed from Latin festīnātus, perfect passive participle of festīnō (“to hurry”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: Hurried, hasty.
Derived terms: festinately
easting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastings
Etymology: From east + -ing.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: longitude
glosses: The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
examples: text: It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A distance traveled eastward.
examples: text: He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 47:
glosses: A turning towards the east.
Derived terms: false easting
Related terms: northing
methanogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methane + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The generation of methane by anaerobic bacteria.
Derived terms: electromethanogenesis
Related terms: methanogen
methanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methanogens
Etymology: From methane + -o- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: Any of various archaebacteria capable of methanogenesis.
archaebacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: archebacteria
Senses: glosses: plural of archaebacterium
Derived terms: archaebacterial
nonarchaellated
false easting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false eastings
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A value relating to distance east of a standard meridian but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM the value 500,000 is added to the easting from the center of each zone to return a false easting that is never negative (the smallest true easting is approximately -340,000 which is set to false easting of 160,000).
Related terms: false northing
UTM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Universal Transverse Mercator, a projection used in mapping.
glosses: Initialism of University of Toronto Mississauga.
UTM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UTMs
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of unified threat management.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Universal Turing machine.
glosses: Initialism of Urchin Tracking Module.
archaebacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: archaebacteria
form: archæbacterium
form: archebacterium
form: archeabacterium
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) and bacteria.
Senses: glosses: Any primitive bacteria-like organism in the kingdom Archaea.
northing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)ðɪŋ
-ɔː(ɹ)θɪn
Forms: form: northings
Etymology: From north + -ing.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The distance north of a standard reference latitude.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A distance traveled northward.
Derived terms: false northing
Related terms: easting
latitude
northing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)ðɪŋ
-ɔː(ɹ)θɪn
Etymology: From north + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of north
false northing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false northings
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A value relating to distance north of a standard latitude but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM, the Southern Hemisphere is assigned negative degrees of latitude, but to avoid negative numbers in northings, a constant value of 10,000,000 is added so that negative numbers for northings do not occur.
Related terms: false easting
preferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præferring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefer
glosses: present participle and gerund of preferre
preferring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferrings
form: præferring
Senses: examples: text: He gives our preferrings the bad name of the machinery of motives, but they are just what we feel in ourselves when we decide.
ref: 1984, Steven M. Cahn, Patricia Kitcher, George Sher, Reason at Work: Introductory Readings in Philosophy, page 497:
glosses: A preference; the choice of something preferred.
micelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈsɛl/
ipa: /məˈsɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: micelles
form: micell
form: micella
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin micella, from mica (“crumb”) + -ella.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration
Derived terms: bicelle
critical micelle concentration
hemimicelle
micellar
micellization
micellize
micromicelle
nanomicelle
proteomicelle
pseudomicelle
submicelle
critical micelle concentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical micelle concentrations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The well-defined concentration at which micelles start to form.
microbiota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbiotas
form: microbiota
Etymology: From micro- + biota.
Senses: examples: text: Caesarean babies eventually acquire the same mix of microbes as those born vaginally — by a year, their microbiota are usually indistinguishable.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 348:
glosses: The microbial community that inhabits a multi-cellular organism, whether the entire organism or a specific body surface.
Derived terms: ectomicrobiota
endomicrobiota
epimicrobiota
fecal microbiota transplant
fecal microbiota transplantation
microbiotal
rhizomicrobiota
xenomicrobiota
Related terms: microfauna
microflora
microbiome
microbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: [mʌɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl]
ipa: /mɑɪˈkɹəʉ.bi.əl/
ipa: /mɑɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/
Etymology: From microbe + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.
ref: 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:
text: Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
examples: text: As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 191:
glosses: Small; tiny; minuscule.
Derived terms: amicrobial
antimicrobial
electromicrobial
endomicrobial
geomicrobial
immunomicrobial
intermicrobial
microbial clock
microbial fuel cell
microbialite
microbially
monomicrobial
multimicrobial
nonmicrobial
paucimicrobial
perimicrobial
polymicrobial
promicrobial
pseudomicrobial
rhizomicrobial
sociomicrobial
microbial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɹəʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl/
ipa: [mʌɪˈkɹoʊ.bi.əl]
ipa: /mɑɪˈkɹəʉ.bi.əl/
ipa: /mɑɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɐʉ.bi.əl/
Forms: form: microbials
Etymology: From microbe + -ial.
Senses: glosses: A microbe or bacterium.
microflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: microflorae
Etymology: From micro- + flora.
Senses: glosses: Microscopic life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.
Derived terms: microfloral
Related terms: microbiome
microbiota
microfauna
macroflora
Mindy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪndi/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Senses: examples: text: Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.
ref: 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Melinda and of Miranda.
mikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈkɑːn/
ipa: /ˈmɪ.kæn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: mikans
Etymology: From Japanese 蜜柑 (ミカン, mikan), short for 温州蜜柑 (うんしゅうミカン, Unshū mikan, literally “honey citrus of Wēnzhōu”).
Senses: synonyms: satsuma
glosses: An orange seedless citrus fruit Citrus unshiu, originating from Japan, about the size of a tangerine.
habile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæbəl/
Forms: form: more habile
form: most habile
Etymology: From Middle English habil, from Old French habile, from Latin habilis (“suitable; apt”), from habeō (“I handle”).
Senses: glosses: Generally able or adroit; handy.
hack job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hack jobs
Senses: glosses: A task that was completed as quickly or cheaply as possible at the expense of quality and attention to detail.
Melinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪn.də/
ipa: /mɛˈlɪn.də/
rhymes: -ɪndə
Forms: form: Malinda
Etymology: Coined in the eighteenth century from names such as Melanie and Melissa + -inda.
Senses: examples: text: Her twin daughters were on the playground equipment. Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them.
ref: 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Related terms: Mindy
Lindy
Mendy
Melinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪn.də/
ipa: /mɛˈlɪn.də/
rhymes: -ɪndə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malindi (“town in Kenya”).
hammocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hammocking tries to establish a new program, or to recover the audience for a show slipping in popularity […]
ref: 1994, Sydney W Head, Christopher H Sterling, Lemuel B Schofield, Broadcasting in America: a survey of electronic media:
text: Indeed, the acceptance that hammocking and the mixed-schedule is in decline formed an important part of the BBC's argument for new digital channels.
ref: 2004, Damian Tambini, Jamie Cowling, From public service broadcasting to public service communications:
text: Hammocking is a frequently employed strategy. For example, it is often seen in children's cartoon blocks in which a newcomer is sandwiched between two established series.
ref: 2005, Philippe Perebinossoff, Brian Gross, Lynne S Gross, Programming for TV, radio, and the Internet:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The scheduling of a new or unpopular program between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.
Related terms: hammock
hammocked
hammocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hammock
aidant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dənt/
Forms: form: more aidant
form: most aidant
Etymology: From Middle English aydaunt, aydant, a borrowing from Old French aidant, from the verb aidier (“to aid, to help”).
Senses: examples: text: All you unpublished virtues of the earth, / Spring with my tears, be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: helpful, assisting
aidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.dənt/
Forms: form: aidants
Etymology: From Middle English aydaunt, aydant, a borrowing from Old French aidant, from the verb aidier (“to aid, to help”).
Senses: examples: text: He said, "The court is now called upon to be an aidant to the enforcement of a judgment in rem, given by the Portuguese court," and then he said […]
ref: 1883, Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts, page 540:
text: More hindrances appear evident than aidants, or perhaps more about hindrances and barriers is recognized.
ref: 1975, D. O. Wolfenbarger, Factors Affecting Dispersal Distances of Small Organisms, page 140:
glosses: One who or that which aids; a helper.
-inda
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Latinized form of Germanic name suffix -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, from Proto-Germanic *linþiz (“gentle, mild”) (English lithe). Found in names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind. See lind, Linda.
Senses: glosses: A component of some female given names.
Related terms: lind
Linda
linden
lithe
harch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From march.
Senses: examples: text: Forward harch!
glosses: A command to move forwards, issued by the drum major of a marching band.
micromanipulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mī'krō-mə-nĭpʹyə-lā'tər
Forms: form: micromanipulators
Etymology: From micro- + manipulator.
Senses: glosses: a device, used for micromanipulation, consisting of microscopic needles and instruments viewed through a microscope
Derived terms: piezomicromanipulator
micrometeorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrometeorites
Etymology: From micro- + meteorite (micro- + meteor + -ite).
Senses: glosses: an extraterrestrial particle, less than a millimeter in size, that has survived entry into the atmosphere without melting
Related terms: micrometeoroid
micrometeoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrometeoroids
Etymology: From micro- + meteoroid.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: an extraterrestrial particle less than a millimeter in size
Related terms: meteor
meteoritic
meteoritics
meteoroid
meteoroidal
micrometeorite
heliciculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus of snails Helix, from helix, from Latin helix, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “something twisted”).
Senses: glosses: snail farming
Derived terms: helicicultural
micropaleontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropalæontology
form: micropalaeontology
Etymology: From micro- + paleontology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of paleontology dealing with the fossilized microscopic organic remains (microfossils) of the geologic past; including their structure, biology, relationships and distribution.
Derived terms: micropaleontologic
micropaleontological
micropaleontologist
microfossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: microfossils
Etymology: From micro- + fossil.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic fossil.
Related terms: mesofossil
micropaleontology
microradiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From micro- + radiography.
Senses: glosses: the production of enlarged images of the interior of thin specimens by penetration of low-energy X-rays
Related terms: microradiograph
microradiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microradiographs
Etymology: From micro- + radiograph.
Senses: glosses: an enlarged microradiogram, used to study microscopic detail
microradiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microradiographs
form: microradiographing
form: microradiographed
form: microradiographed
Etymology: From micro- + radiograph.
Senses: glosses: to produce such an image
Related terms: microradiography
microtechnique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtechniques
Etymology: From micro- + technique.
Senses: glosses: The art of preparing objects for examination under a microscope.
examples: text: The prominence of domestic fiction suggests the degree to which such power did not in fact rely on overtly juridical or economic means so much as on cultural hegemony, that is, on the notion of the family, norms of sexual behavior, the polite use of language, the regulation of leisure time, and all those microtechniques that constitute the modern subject.
ref: 1987, Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction, page 201:
glosses: Any small-scale technique.
heterothallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + thallic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Producing male and female reproductive structures in different plants
raw_tags: of some algae and fungi
heterothallic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterothallics
Etymology: From hetero- + thallic.
Senses: glosses: Such an alga or fungus
homothallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + thallic.
Senses: glosses: Producing male and female reproductive structures in the same plant
raw_tags: of some algae and fungi
Derived terms: pseudohomothallic
Related terms: homothallism
homothallic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homothallics
Etymology: From homo- + thallic.
Senses: glosses: A homothallic fungus or alga
microwave spectroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the interaction of matter with electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region of the spectrum.
Synonyms: rotational spectroscopy
hip flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip flasks
form: hip-flask
form: hipflask
Etymology: From being a flask that was originally meant to be worn on the hip.
Senses: glosses: A container designed to hold small amounts of alcohol, especially spirits, for personal consumption on the go.
Synonyms: hip-pocket flask
pocket flask
Derived terms: hipster