cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-oid
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-ɔɪd/
ipa: /-oɪd/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin -oīdēs, from Ancient Greek -ο-ειδής (-o-eidḗs) (the ο being the last vowel of the stem to which the suffix is attached); from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, likeness”).
Senses: examples: text: human + -oid → humanoid
text: sterol + -oid → steroid
glosses: Resembling; having the likeness of (usually including the concept of not being the same despite the likeness, but counterexamples exist).
examples: text: lympho- + -oid → lymphoid
text: myelo- + -oid → myeloid
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or related to.
examples: text: waste + -oid → wastoid
text: west + -oid → westoid
text: left + -oid → leftoid
text: right + -oid → rightoid
glosses: Added to nouns to create derogatory terms, typically referring to a particular ideology or group of people.
examples: text: group + -oid → groupoid
text: ring + -oid → ringoid
text: Lie algebra + -oid → Lie algebroid
text: monoid + -oid → monoidoid
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Added typically to the name of an algebraic structure, to denote the horizontal categorification of that structure.
Synonyms: sense: resembling
word: quasi-
sense: resembling
word: para-
sense: resembling
word: -form
sense: resembling
word: -iform
sense: resembling
word: -esque
sense: resembling
word: -ish
sense: resembling
word: -ly
sense: resembling
word: -some
sense: resembling
word: -y
sense: resembling; restricted to casual registers
word: -ass
sense: resembling; forms adjectives from nouns only
word: -like
Coordinate terms: -al
-an
-ar
-ate
-ese
-ian
-ic
-id
-ish
-ory
-ous
quasi-
-y
-id
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪd/
Forms: form: -ide
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French -ide m, from Latin -idēs m (patronymic suffix; plural: -idae), from Ancient Greek -ίδης m (-ídēs, patronymic suffix; plural: -ίδαι (-ídai)).
Senses: examples: text: Perseus + -id → Perseid (dynast)
text: Solomon + -id → Solomonid
text: Umayya + -(i)d → Umayyad
text: Genghis + -id → Genghisid
text: Osman + -id → Osmanid
text: [Ismail] Safavi + -(i)d → Safavid
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Forming the names of dynasts, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning “descendant of”.
examples: text: A felid is a member of Felidae.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Forming the common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.
examples: text: protocone (“cusp of upper molars”) + -id → protoconid (“equivalent for lower molars”)
topics: biology
dentistry
history
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Forming the names of cusps of lower (mandibular) teeth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources.
-id
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪd/
Forms: form: -ide
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French -ide f, from Latin -is f (genitive: -idis; plural: -ides), from Ancient Greek -ῐς f (-ĭs) (genitive: -ῐδος (-ĭdos); plural: -ῐδες (-ĭdes)).
Senses: examples: text: Titan + -id → Titanid, literally “female Titan”
text: Nereus + -id → Nereid, literally “sprung of Nereus”
text: Oceanus + -id → Oceanid, literally “sprung of Oceanus”
text: Perseus + -id → Perseid, literally “sprung of Perseus” (an epithet of Alcmene, grand-daughter of Perseus)
text: Danaus + -id → Danaid, literally “sprung of Danaus”
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Forming names of feminine equivalents or of feminine descendants from a masculine name.
examples: text: Aeneas + -id → Aeneid
text: Achilles + -id → Achilleid
text: Perseus + -id → Perseid (epic poem)
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Forming the names of epic poems.
examples: text: Perseus + -id → Perseid (meteor)
text: Gemini + -id → Geminid
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Forming common names of meteors from their apparent constellation of origin.
-id
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪd/
Forms: form: -ide
Etymology: Variant of -oid.
Senses: examples: text: arachno- + -id → arachnid
text: falcon + -id → falconid
synonyms: -al
-an
-ite
-ar
-ese
-ic
-ish
-like
-oid
-ory
-ous
-y
qualifier: not productive outside zoology
glosses: of or pertaining to; appended to various foreign words to make an English adjective or noun form. Often added to words of Greek, sometimes Latin, origin.
acinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæsɪnəs/
Forms: form: acini
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: vesicle
glosses: One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A grape-stone.
examples: text: Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]
ref: 1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
Derived terms: acinal
acinar
acinic
acinitis
pseudoacinus
aciurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “point”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Senses: glosses: Operative surgery.
acknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈnəʊ/
ipa: /əkˈnoʊ/
ipa: /ækˈnoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: acknows
form: acknowing
form: acknew
form: acknown
Etymology: From Middle English aknowen, from Old English ācnāwan, oncnāwan (“to know, recognize”), equivalent to a- + know.
Senses: examples: text: You will not be acknown, sir; why, 'tis wise.
Thus do all gamesters, at all games, dissemble:
No man will seem to win.
ref: 1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone, act 5, scene 4:
glosses: To recognize.
examples: text: We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not be acknown of his fault.
ref: 1532, Sir Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer:
text: Three years in his employment a secret agent in the Post Office Department, who obtained for him the first knowledge of the star route frauds, and placed it at his disposal before it Acknown to be suspected by either the public or the Government.
ref: 1883 June 4, “Imprudent Mr. Hendricks”, in New York Times (Features), New York:
glosses: To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
Derived terms: acknowledge
acknowledgedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acknowledged + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have a chance next year to meet some more people who are acknowledgely gay, and that will be good […]
ref: 1974, Michael Austin [pseudonym], “Young and Gay and Alone”, in Alternative Lifestyles: Youth Ministry Notebook, volume VIII, New York: Seabury Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Confessedly, admittedly.
Related terms: self-acknowledgedly
acknowledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acknowledgers
Etymology: From acknowledge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who acknowledges.
demob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈmɒb/
ipa: /diˈmɑb/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒb
rhymes: (General American) -ɑb
Forms: form: demobs
form: demobbing
form: demobbed
form: demobbed
Etymology: Clipping of demobilize.
Senses: examples: text: When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said— / I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, / Hurry up please its time / Now Albert’s coming back, make yourself a bit smart. […] think of poor Albert, / Hes been in the army four years, […]
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: To demobilize; to release someone from military service.
demob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈmɒb/
ipa: /diˈmɑb/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒb
rhymes: (General American) -ɑb
Forms: form: demobs
Etymology: Clipping of demobilize.
Senses: examples: text: […] word was, some men were getting their demob quicker than others.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 37, in Small Island, London: Review, page 365:
glosses: Demobilization; release from military service.
Derived terms: demob-happy
demob suit
acknowledgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈnɒl.ɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
ipa: /əɡˈnɒl.ɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
ipa: /əkˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
ipa: /əɡˈnɑ.lɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Forms: form: acknowledgments
form: acknowledgement
Etymology: From acknowledge + -ment.
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: admission
glosses: The act of acknowledging
synonyms: nod
glosses: The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
glosses: A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
examples: text: the acknowledgment of a favor
glosses: An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
examples: text: the acknowledgment of a wedding invitation
glosses: A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
examples: text: acknowledgment of a deed
text: This is conveniently done by means of a written instrument, called a bill of exchange, which is, in fact, a transferable order by a creditor upon his debtor, and when accepted by the debtor, that is, authenticated by his signature, becomes an acknowledgment of debt.
ref: 1871, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, p. 41:
glosses: A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
topics: law
glosses: The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
topics: law
glosses: A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
Synonyms: sense: act of acknowledging
word: confession
sense: act of acknowledging
word: concession
sense: act of acknowledging
word: recognition
sense: act of acknowledging
word: admission
sense: act of acknowledging
word: avowal
sense: act of acknowledging
word: recognizance
sense: act of acknowledging
word: ACK
Derived terms: land acknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
aclinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more aclinic
form: most aclinic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκλινής (aklinḗs, “unswerving”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κλίνω (klínō, “bend”).
Senses: examples: text: The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Without inclination or dipping.
acne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækni/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈakne/
rhymes: -ækni
Forms: form: acnes
form: acnae
Etymology: From New Latin acnē, probably a corruption of Ancient Greek ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point, top”).
Senses: examples: text: He struggled with severe acne during his teenage years.
text: The dermatologist prescribed a cream to treat her acne.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
glosses: A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
Derived terms: acne conglobata
acne cosmetica
acned
acneform
acnegenic
acne inversa
acne mechanica
acne neonatorum
acne rosacea
acne varioliformis
acne vulgaris
antiacne
bacne
chloracne
mask acne
maskne
shadow acne
acnodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acnode + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to acnodes
acnode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acnodes
Etymology: From Latin acus + nodus.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.
Derived terms: acnodal
Related terms: crunode
tacnode
acock
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: more acock
form: most acock
Etymology: From a- + cock.
Senses: glosses: In a cocked or turned-up fashion.
glosses: defiantly
Derived terms: acockbill
acockbill
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acock (“In a cocked or turned-up fashion”, adverb) + bill (“the point of or beyond the fluke”, noun).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.
acold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English acoled (past participle of acolen (“to grow cold or cool”)), from Old English ācōlod (past participle of ācōlian (“to grow cold”)), equivalent to a- + cold.
Senses: examples: text: c 1603–1606: Shakespeare, King Lear, IV-i
Poor Tom's acold.
text: When, for all his feathers, he’s acold, the bird plunges from his perch head foremost into the snow.
ref: 1897 January, Paul Van Dyke, “After Caribou on Snow-Shoes”, in Outing, volume 29, number 4, page 363:
text: To debate with Tao-an would be for me like drink to one who is athirst, like fire to one who is acold.
ref: 1960, “The Story of Hui-yüan”, in Arthur Waley, transl., Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang: An Anthology, page 120:
glosses: Feeling cold.
deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: deeds
Etymology: From Middle English dede, from Old English dēd, dǣd (“deed, act”), from Proto-West Germanic *dādi, from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz (“deed”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (“deed, action”). Analyzable through Proto-Germanic as do + -th. Doublet of thesis.
The real estate sense derives from the fact that property deeds are traditionally used to demonstrate proof of ownership of a legal title in common law jurisdictions, such as England & Wales and most of the United States.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian died, Dutch daad (“deed, act”), German Low German Daad, German Tat (“deed, action”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dåd (“act, action”). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “setting, arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: One small deed can have one stour effect or more.
text: And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 44:15:
glosses: An action or act; something that is done.
examples: text: They should accomplish both a knightly deed,
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
text: whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
examples: text: I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed.
glosses: Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
topics: law
glosses: A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.
examples: text: I inherited the deed to the house.
topics: business
law
real-estate
glosses: A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before a witness; sometimes required for certain legal activities, such as the transfer of certain kinds of property.
The legal title to real estate; ownership.
qualifier: Euphemism
glosses: To have sex.
raw_tags: with the
Synonyms: sense: action
word: act
word: action
Derived terms: a good deed is its own reward
almsdeed
bond for deed
counterdeed
deeder
deedful
deedholder
deedholding
deedless
deedly
deed of appointment
deed of assumption
deed of retirement
deed of trust
deed poll
deedwork
deedworthy
deedy
do the deed
estoppel by deed
fordede
indeed
in very deed
misdeed
mortgage deed
no good deed ever goes unpunished
no good deed goes unpunished
overdede
propaganda by the deed
propaganda of the deed
quit claim deed
quitclaim deed
redeed
special warranty deed
time the deed to the need
title deed
trust deed
deed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: deeds
form: deeding
form: deeded
form: deeded
Etymology: From Middle English dede, from Old English dēd, dǣd (“deed, act”), from Proto-West Germanic *dādi, from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz (“deed”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis (“deed, action”). Analyzable through Proto-Germanic as do + -th. Doublet of thesis.
The real estate sense derives from the fact that property deeds are traditionally used to demonstrate proof of ownership of a legal title in common law jurisdictions, such as England & Wales and most of the United States.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian died, Dutch daad (“deed, act”), German Low German Daad, German Tat (“deed, action”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dåd (“act, action”). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “setting, arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: To transfer real property by deed.
Derived terms: deedable
undeeded
ginormous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒaɪˈnɔːməs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məs
Forms: form: more ginormous
form: most ginormous
Etymology: Blend of gi(gantic) + (e)normous. Originally 1940s military slang.
Senses: examples: text: This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.
ref: 1986, Ron Friedman, The Transformers: The Movie, spoken by Jazz:
text: Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.
ref: 1999, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Adventure at Walt Disney World: A Disney Girls Super Special, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 20:
text: “Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating. These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei.”
ref: 2019, Green Bank Observatory, Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist:
synonyms: word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Very large.
Derived terms: ginormously
ginormousness
superginormous
Related terms: hunormous
Moksha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Moksha мокша (mokša, “a Moksha person”).
Senses: glosses: A language of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.
Moksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mokshas
Etymology: From Moksha мокша (mokša, “a Moksha person”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the people who speak this language.
editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/
ipa: [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.tɚ]
note: lax
ipa: [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɚ]
Forms: form: editors
form: ed.
form: edit.
form: Ed.
form: editour
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).
Senses: examples: text: Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)
ref: 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024:
glosses: A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
glosses: A copy editor.
examples: text: John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
glosses: A person who edited a specific document.
examples: text: John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
glosses: A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
glosses: A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
examples: text: The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Derived terms: chief editor
City editor
coeditor
commissioning editor
copy editor
deaditor
edit
editor-at-large
editorial
editorializing
editor in chief
editorless
editorlike
editorship
editress
Emacs
exchange editor
faned
flatbed editor
hex-editor
hex editor
idiotor
input method editor
intereditor
letter to the editor
linkage editor
link editor
logo editor
makeup editor
managing editor
noneditor
nonlinear editor
photo editor
posteditor
preditor
Redditor
script editor
stone editor
story editor
subeditor
subeeditor
yed
kvetch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kvɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: kvetches
form: kvetching
form: kvetched
form: kvetched
form: kvitch
Etymology: From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”).
Senses: examples: text: Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth?
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:
text: Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense.
ref: 2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil:
text: Celebrities often kvetch about the lack of privacy and being bothered by paparazzi, but these are not life-threatening problems and they get enormous advantage as they go through life.
ref: 2016 May 11, Catherine Shoard, quoting Woody Allen, “Woody Allen at Cannes: artistic competition 'against common sense'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “Long Story Short,” a new animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg with art by Lisa Hanawalt, trades the talking animals for kvetching humans.
ref: 2025 August 21, Robert Ito, “The Makers of ‘BoJack Horseman’ Take Family Matters by the Reins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
Derived terms: word: kvetcher
word: kvetchy
Related terms: carping
cavil
nitpick
split hairs
kvetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kvɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: kvetches
form: kvitch
Etymology: From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”).
Senses: synonyms: kvetcher
whiner
glosses: A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
glosses: An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.
neo-Nazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnioʊˈnɑːtsi/
Forms: form: neo-Nazis
Etymology: Originally from postwar French néonazi which first appears in 1952, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, and used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage. However, its first use appears c. 1941 in the now-defunct Piqua Daily Call.
Senses: examples: text: Andrew Anglin, head of the now defunct alt-right publication Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi, and friend of Richard Spencer claimed on his site that “the only thing in our movement that really matters [is] anti-Semitism […] Last but not least, President Trump himself was key in mainstreaming alt-right politics, referring to white supremacists and Neo-Nazis as “very fine people”, […]
ref: 2020 December 24, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021, pages 12, 37:
text: Among his first moves, he dismantled Twitter's trust and safety infrastructure, laying off the vast majority of the staff responsible for things like taking down violent threats and hate speech. In their place, he welcomed neo-Nazis.
ref: 2024 November 10, Clayton Wiemers, “Welcome to the Muskification of Media”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: neo-Nazist
glosses: An adherent of neo-Nazism, any of various (far right, authoritarian, or bigoted) post-World War II Nazi ideologies.
neo-Nazi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnioʊˈnɑːtsi/
Forms: form: more neo-Nazi
form: most neo-Nazi
Etymology: Originally from postwar French néonazi which first appears in 1952, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, and used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage. However, its first use appears c. 1941 in the now-defunct Piqua Daily Call.
Senses: examples: text: On the whole the Galicians have been at the more pitiful end of the spectrum, trading infantile political insults on the web, each trying desperately to appear more neo-Nazi than the other.
ref: 2001, Phil Ball, Morbo, The Story of Spanish Football, page 174:
text: Wilson has tweeted the phrase “Ausländer Raus” at least four times, including the slogan, “Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.” The phrase, which means, “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,” is explicitly considered to be an extremist slogan in Germany with neo-Nazi roots; in fact, a 1992 paper about its use among German skinheads is available on a Department of Justice website.
ref: 2025 March 5, Anna Merlan, “This Pentagon Press Secretary Has a Long History of Bigoted and Xenophobic Posts”, in Mother Jones:
synonyms: neo-Nazist
glosses: Of or pertaining to neo-Nazism or neo-Nazis.
teh
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕ
ipa: /tɛ/
rhymes: -ɛ
Etymology: Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.
Senses: examples: text: This is teh game for your new box!
text: You are teh haxor!
text: This Beowulf is based on a new animated movie of the same name... so yes, this counts as yet another game based on a movie, which basically relegates it to teh suck status in the minds of most.
ref: 2007 October, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, page 14:
text: Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.
ref: 2010, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Awl teh booze got drink, an Happy Cat's momz was liek, “Dey gotz no booze. Dis parti iz teh suck!”
ref: 2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect.
second cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second cousins
Senses: glosses: A grandchild of a grandparent's sibling.
glosses: A relative who has with the other person only two great-grandparents in common, but where the parents and grandparents are different.
Coordinate terms: great-grandparent
great-grandchild
grandnephew
grandniece
granduncle
grandaunt
first cousin once removed
cousin
first cousin
once removed
twice removed
thrice removed
rangeomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rangeomorphs
Etymology: From translingual Rangea + -o- + -morph.
Senses: examples: text: Previous comparisons of rangeomorphs with cnidarians or ctenophores now seem unlikely. The fact that both sides of the rangeomorph structure are essentially identical, is not consistent with the rangeomorph frondlet "representing the bases of an array of open tubes that housed polyps or other filter feeding organisms."
ref: 2007, G. M. Narbonne, J. G. Gehling, P. Vickers-Rich, “Chapter 3: The Misty Coasts of Newsoundland”, in Mikhail A. Fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, Patricia Vickers-Rich, editors, The Rise of Animals, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 59:
text: Although the possibility that they were passive “mattresses” holding symbiotic algae is plausible for the shallow-marine specimens of Australia, the oldest Ediacarans are the branching, frond-shaped rangeomorphs from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, which lived without light in deep water (Narbonne, 1998).
ref: 2013, Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, Columbia University Press, page 260:
text: Rangeomorphs became extinct at the end of the Ediacaran, at or before 541 Ma,[…].
ref: 2020, Michael J. Benton, editor, Cowen's History of Life, 6th edition, Wiley Blackwell, page 53:
glosses: Any organism of the clade Rangeomorpha, Precambrian (Ediacaran) sessile organisms resembling ferns, possibly descended from sponges and among the oldest known complex lifeforms.
Related terms: english: type genus of Rangeomorpha
translation: type genus of Rangeomorpha
word: †Rangea
word: †Rangeomorpha
removed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmuːvd/
rhymes: -uːvd
Forms: form: more removed
form: most removed
Senses: examples: text: Now that we are here one week removed...
glosses: Separated in time, space, or degree.
examples: text: Steve is my second cousin once removed.
glosses: Of a different generation, older or younger
Derived terms: far removed
once removed
thrice removed
twice removed
removed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmuːvd/
rhymes: -uːvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remove
Related terms: cousin
woolen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlən/
rhymes: -ʊlən
Forms: form: woollen
Etymology: From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
Senses: examples: text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
glosses: Made of wool.
examples: text: woolen manufactures
text: a woolen mill
text: a woolen draper
text: Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:
glosses: Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
Derived terms: wool
Related terms: word: wooly
word: woolly
woolen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlən/
rhymes: -ʊlən
Forms: form: woolens
form: woollen
Etymology: From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
Senses: examples: text: Put all the woolens in this basket.
text: American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.
ref: 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: An item of clothing made from wool.
braize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: braizes
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps akin to English barse (“bass, perch”) and English bream.
Senses: glosses: A European marine fish, Pagrus pagrus, allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
Synonyms: braise
brazier
braize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: braizes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of braise (“meat cooked by braising”).
examples: text: The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216:
glosses: Alternative spelling of braze (small charcoal for melting ore)
braize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: braise
Forms: form: braizes
form: braizing
form: braized
form: braized
Senses: examples: braizing meat
glosses: Dated form of braise.
cockerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒkɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑkəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑkɹəl/
Forms: form: cockerels
Etymology: From Middle English kokerel. By surface analysis, cock + -rel.
Senses: examples: text: “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”
ref: 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:
text: He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: A young male chicken.
Related terms: cock
chicken
hen
rooster
coppice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪs/
Forms: form: coppices
form: coppis
Etymology: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).
Senses: examples: text: […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216:
text: At the time of the Norman Conquest, any village with woodland had one or more coppices of about 80 acres. […] Coppice trees are periodically cut to a level just above the ground. […] Hazel forms most English coppices, but there are also coppices of alder, oak, wych elm and willow.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:
glosses: A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
Synonyms: copse
Derived terms: coppice mining bee
copse
coppice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpɪs/
Forms: form: coppices
form: coppicing
form: coppiced
form: coppiced
form: coppis
Etymology: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).
Senses: examples: text: Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.
glosses: To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.
examples: text: Few conifer species can coppice.
glosses: To sprout from the stump.
Derived terms: coppicer
recoppice
standel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæn.dəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: standels
Senses: examples: text: It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 221:
glosses: a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut.
storer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: storers
Etymology: From store + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.
ref: 2005, Code of Federal Regulations, page 699:
glosses: One who lays up or forms a store.
storer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: storers
Senses: examples: text: It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 221:
glosses: A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut; a standel.
collier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/
enpr: kälʹē-ər
ipa: /ˈkɑliɚ/
Forms: form: colliers
Etymology: From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner
glosses: A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
examples: text: For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:
glosses: A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
synonyms: charcoal burner
examples: text: By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: coaler
coordinate_terms: oiler
oil tanker
glosses: A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor on such a vessel.
glosses: A non-traveller.
raw_tags: used by the traveller community
Related terms: word: Collier Street
word: Colliers Wood
word: colliery
word: mineral coal
word: seacoal
english: possibly related
translation: possibly related
word: collie
second cousin once removed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second cousins once removed
Senses: glosses: A child of a second cousin.
glosses: A second cousin of a parent.
Related terms: cousin
first cousin once removed
once removed
second cousin
first cousin once removed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first cousins once removed
Etymology: From first cousin + once removed.
Senses: glosses: A first cousin's child.
glosses: A parent's first cousin.
Coordinate terms: first cousin
first cousin twice removed
first cousin thrice removed
second cousin once removed
tuyere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːˈ(j)ɛə/
ipa: /tuːˈjɛə/
ipa: /ˈtwɪə/
ipa: /ˈtwaɪə/
ipa: /twiˈjɛɹ/
ipa: /tuˈjɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈtwɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tuyeres
form: tuyère
form: twyer
form: twyere
form: twier
form: tweer
form: twire
Etymology: From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere (“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel (“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 21:
glosses: A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge
Synonyms: tue-iron
twire-pipe
bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːm/
homophone: Bloom
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: blooms
Etymology: From Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Cognate with West Frisian blom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Icelandic blóm, Danish blomme, Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma). Related to blow, blade, blead; also related to flower, foil, and belladonna.
Senses: examples: text: These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 26:
glosses: The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Related terms: bloomery
blooming
gad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæd/
rhymes: -æd
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of God.
Senses: examples: text: That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth:
glosses: An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
Derived terms: egads
egad
gad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: gads
form: gadding
form: gadded
form: gadded
Etymology: From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”).
Senses: examples: text: This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
ref: 1852, Alice Cary, Clovernook ....:
text: So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
ref: 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
text: But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to the gadding world, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
text: If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one has gadded off to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
synonyms: gallivant
glosses: To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
glosses: To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
raw_tags: of cattle
Derived terms: gadabout
gadder
gaddishness
gad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: gads
Etymology: From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”).
Senses: glosses: One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
gad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: gads
form: ged
form: gade
Etymology: From Middle English gade (“a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English *gada (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô (“companion, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling.
Senses: examples: text: Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ
text: Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.
ref: 1913, George Gordon, The Auld Clay Biggin:
glosses: A greedy and/or stupid person.
finery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnəɹi/
Forms: form: fineries
Senses: glosses: Fineness; beauty.
examples: text: The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings.
ref: 1980, John A. Crow, The Epic of Latin America:
glosses: Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
examples: text: the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries
ref: 2020, Lieven D’hulst, Kaisa Koskinen, Translating in Town:
glosses: fine point; minute characteristic
examples: text: In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 160:
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
ironworking
lifestyle
glosses: A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Derived terms: superfinery
Related terms: word: fine
sense: charcoal hearth
word: refinery