cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Jana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Jana, ultimately from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role.
Doublet of Ivana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Czech.
Related terms: Jana Gana Mana
Amsterdam pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amsterdam pounds
Etymology: Calque of Dutch Amsterdams pond, from Amsterdam + pond (“pound (weight measure)”).
Senses: glosses: One of many locally defined weight measures called pound before the introduction of the metric system, important because of its use in the thriving Dutch maritime commerce; equivalent to 0.4941 kilograms.
weight measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weight measures
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A measure or unit to express an object's weight, which is directly proportional to its mass when the gravity is fixed (as commonly but imprecisely presumed on earth's surface.)
voluta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volutas
form: volutae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin volūta (“a spiral scroll”). See volute.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.
Jonna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Johnna; compare Jon.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
argumenta ad hominem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The only hope of meeting this objection is to show not only that valid argumenta ad hominem are possible as well as invalid ones, but also that a valid argumentum ad hominem can properly be used to attack a philosophical view as well as to discredit the testimony of those who advocate the view.
ref: 1959, Henry W. Johnstone, Philosophy and Argument, page 73:
text: The evidence is lacking to decide between alternative explanations and in any case these are argumenta ad hominem which should not be used in scientific discussion; the facts are the only things that matter, and on those grounds there is no doubt that the hereditarians were largely in the wrong in what they asserted.
ref: 1973: Hans J. Eysenck, The Inequality of Man (ISBN: 0–8511–7050–1), chapter 1 — Equality and Individuality, p26
text: ^({1})The respective statements are packaged differently, as direct accusations or insinuations, as topoi of threats (argumenta ad baculum or argumenta ad hominem) and occur in many contexts, especially in semi-public ones, i.e. in interviews or in TV discussions just as in the memorial vigil (see below).
^({2})Greed, dishonesty and vindictiveness constitute the content prejudices appearing in this context, not least in the linguistic form of fallacious argumenta ad hominem.
ref: 2003, Lynn Janet Thiesmeyer, Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the Language of Displacement, {1} & p194{2}, pages 193–194:
text: In reality, such argumenta ad hominem are designed to show that, therefore, the nature of the thing in question is so evident that its evident traits are also recognized by the opponent, at least when some clear instances of the disputed datum are brought up; and that therefore the recognition of the true nature of the thing in question by the opponent himself leads to an inconsistency with the false elements in his position.
ref: 2004, Josef Seifert, The Philosophical Diseases of Medicine and Their Cure: Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Vol. 1: Foundations, page 312:
glosses: plural of argumentum ad hominem
moonish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moonish
form: most moonish
Etymology: From Middle English monyssh; equivalent to moon + -ish. Piecewise doublet of meniscus.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling the moon.
glosses: Influenced by the moon.
glosses: Variable as the moon; fickle; flighty; capricious.
Derived terms: moonishly
Related terms: moonlike
moonly
moony
lunatic
Gabriele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gabriele.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Gabriel.
legatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Belonging to a legate.
glosses: Headed by a legate.
glosses: Enacted by a legate.
parve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pareve.
neoytterbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + ytterbia.
Senses: glosses: Ytterbia.
Related terms: neoytterbium
xenotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral that is a source of rare earth metals.
holmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rare earth holmium oxide
xenotime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenotimes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “vain”), τιμή (timḗ, “honour”), because the yttrium in the mineral was originally thought to be a new element.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow-brown mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO₄)
lipophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipophiles
Etymology: From lipo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lipophilic substance.
Related terms: hydrophile
hydrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophiles
Etymology: From hydro- + -phile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrophilic substance.
examples: text: Hydrophiles usually retain flight capability because they must recolonize unstable habitats.
ref: 1986, James Kenneth Liebherr, Cladistic Analysis of North American Platynini:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism that thrives in the presence of water.
Derived terms: hydrophilize
hydrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrophile
form: most hydrophile
Etymology: From hydro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: lt is difficult to produce an absolutely non-irritant vaseline. Lanolin (wool fat) is indeed clear and smooth but it is neither very hydrophile nor neutral, so that it cannot be mixed with basic substances such as zinc oxide without saponifying.
ref: 1926, Ars Medici:
text: Partial dehydration of MetHb (by forming films at high relative humidities from solutions) produces a haemichrome structure of this molecule. These structural changes are prevented by binding the molecules to a very hydrophile dialdehyde - Sephadex carrier (DAS).
ref: 1976, Studia biophysica:
text: They are very hydrophile, and hydration of the particles is a factor sufficient to make the colloidal system stable even in the absence of stabilizing electrolytes, i.e. when the particles have no electrical charge of their own.
ref: 1982, Y.P. Mel'nik, Precambrian Banded-Iron-Formations, →ISBN, page 130:
text: [...] reacts with water to a minimum extent, by contrast with minerals of the smectite group, which are regarded as very hydrophile due to their labile, “mobile” structure.
ref: 2000, Geological Quarterly:
glosses: Hydrophilic.
Related terms: lipophile
in point of fact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Actually.
Synonyms: as a matter of fact
in fact
actually
Related terms: in point of
ambonoclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambonoclasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn, “pulpit”) + -o- + -clast. In reference to the rood screen that separated the choir (where priests were) from the nave (where the congregation was) in a medieval church, and from which was sometimes also read.
Senses: examples: text: "The principal characteristics of modern ambonoclasts may be summed up as follows:"
ref: 1861, A. Welby Pugin, Recollections of A.N. Welby Pugin, and His Father, Augustus Pugin: With Notices of Their Works, page 153:
text: "ambonoclasts who destroyed so much screenwork during the last century ..."
ref: 1915, Edward Walford et al., The Antiquary, page 331:
text: "Wyatt's policy, too, was to remove screens and to open a building from end to end: he was an ambonoclast. "
ref: 1931, Basil Clarke, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Gothic Revival in England, Macmillan, page 66:
glosses: One who wishes to excessively modernize churches, particularly by removing traditional screens.
Derived terms: ambonoclastic
Weinberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weinbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weinberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Hardy-Weinberg model
wye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: y
homophone: Y
homophone: why (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wyes
form: why
form: wy
Etymology: Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Old French ui or gui.
Senses: examples: text: Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
ref: 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
text: It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
examples: text: A wye is used to split a single line [hose or cable] into two lines.
text: By going around the wye, a train can change direction.
glosses: A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
Derived terms: wye cable
wye level
wye switch
wye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: y
homophone: Y
homophone: why (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wyes
form: wying
form: wyeing
form: wyed
form: wyed
form: why
form: wy
Etymology: Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Old French ui or gui.
Senses: examples: text: When a hose line is divided into two or more lines, these lines are known as wyed lines.
glosses: To make something into a wye (letter Y) shape.
examples: text: Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.
text: Committee contend that when these trains are wyed at Springfield, the road passenger crews are performing yard work at that point to eliminate switching by yard crews.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
wye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: y
homophone: Y
homophone: why (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wyes
Etymology: From Old English wiga.
Senses: glosses: A warrior or fighter.
glosses: A hero; a man, person.
Related terms: wye aye
snow white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow whites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow-white.
paternalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paternalistically
form: most paternalistically
Etymology: From paternalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a paternalistic manner.
nigger rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nigger-rich
Senses: examples: text: The hos were young, nigger-rich and sassy. On a good night these girls age 16 to 23 could earn $80 minimum.
ref: 2004, Red Jordan Arobateau, The Rich/The Poor in Spirit, →ISBN, page 177:
text: People who spent money foolishly on ostentation were nigger rich.
ref: 2005, Robert B. Parker, Double Play, →ISBN, page 35:
text: "What is this ‘nigger rich’ you speak of?" Grandmother Nina asked, interrupting Walter's saga.
. . . "Well, ‘Nigger rich’ is an expression in America, especially the southeast, which loosely translated means: When a man who has an abundance of money, who has never had that much money, he usually goes out and spends it foolishly. It was attributed to blacks in America, because often, when they acquire a windfall of money, they seem to go out and purchase big cars, usually a Cadillac."
ref: 2007, Johnny Wright, The Lost Chagall, →ISBN, pages 186–187:
text: Bernie Mac: Yeah, but she think we're old country club rich—Shoot, we just nigger rich. — SCENE FROM THE THE BERNIE MAC SHOW
ref: 2009, Robert E. Pierre, Jon Jeter, A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High hopes and deferred dreams in Obama's "postracial" America, online edition:
glosses: Living ostentatiously; spending money recklessly, especially a limited supply of money.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: hood rich
ad loc.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ad loc
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad locum (“at the place”).
Senses: glosses: There, at the specified location
dodecarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecarchy
dacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪsaɪt/
Forms: form: dacites
Etymology: From German Dazit, from Latin Dācia (“greater Romania”). First used in 1863 by Austrian geologists Franz von Hauer and Guido Stache, in a description of the geology of Transylvania.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An igneous, volcanic rock with a high iron content.
Derived terms: dacitic
dacites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacite
parentheticals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenthetical
parenthesise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parenthesises
form: parenthesising
form: parenthesised
form: parenthesised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parenthesize.
parenthesises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parenthesise
parenthesising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parenthesise
parenthesised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parenthesise
God's honest truth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Truth, intensified by its redundant modification with honest, and further intensified by the specification that the “honest truth” comes from God (traditionally considered a most trustworthy authority).
Senses: glosses: Unquestionable, absolute truth.
collegially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more collegially
form: most collegially
Etymology: From collegial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a collegial manner.
glosses: Regarding colleagues.
envenomation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envenomations
Etymology: From envenom + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: No one knows how well ratels can count in the ratel-bee brinkmanship game, but they likely can sense when a dangerous level of envenomation is near.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: The injection of a venom by means of a sting, etc.
examples: text: Following a letter ballot of D-20. new definitions of plasticizer, reinforced plastics, filler, A-stage, B-stage, C-stage, and envenomation, will be sent to the standards committee.
ref: 1953, Rubber World, volume 130, page 220:
glosses: The deterioration in the surface quality of a plastic that is in contact with another material.
Hypernyms: poisoning
toxicity
Hyponyms: arachnidism
Derived terms: postenvenomation
self-envenomation
Related terms: envenom
envenomate
venomization
dry season
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry seasons
Senses: glosses: Any season in which little rain falls; used especially in the tropics where it alternates with the rainy season.
perceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perception + -al.
Senses: examples: text: What it would be really interesting, and I dare say admirably difficult, to go into would be the very history of this effect of experience; the history, in other words, of the growth of the immense array of terms, perceptional and expressional, that, after the fashion I have indicated, in sentence, passage and page, simply looked over the heads of the standing terms—or perhaps rather, like alert winged creatures, perched on those diminished summits and aspired to a clearer air.
ref: 1909, Henry James, "Preface", The Golden Bowl (Scribner, New York, 1909):
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or stimulated by perception
Derived terms: perceptionally
perfectionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈfɛk.ʃ(ə).nɪ.z(ə)m/
ipa: /pɚˈfɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zm̩/
rhymes: -ɛkʃənɪzəm
Forms: form: perfectionisms
Etymology: From perfection + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An unwillingness to settle for anything less than perfection.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A belief that spiritual perfection may be achieved during life, or that it should be striven for.
Related terms: perfectionist
perfectionistic
the dickens
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See dickens.
Senses: examples: text: Why the dickens did he do that?
text: It is cold as the dickens out here!
text: I cannot tell what (the dickens) his name is my husband had him of, what do you cal your Knights name ſirrah?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 49, column 1:
text: “[…] You’ll come in sight of the Martians I expect about half a mile along this road.” / “What the dickens are they like?” asked the lieutenant.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, published 1897, page 39, column 1:
text: "That's it," I exclaimed, "--that's just the taste exactly, though I haven't experienced it since boyhood; but how can water from a flowing stream, taste thus, and what the dickens makes it so warm? It must be at least 70 or 80 Fahrenheit, possibly higher."
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter IV, in The Land That Time Forgot:
text: “Who in the dickens are you?” the lanky man said. / “I am a genie,” the creature said. “I have been trapped in the bottle for ages. You have released me so you are my master.”
ref: 1992 November 4, Mike Royko, “Bush’s wish isn’t voters’ command”, in Chicago Tribune, 146th year, number 309, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 3, column 1:
synonyms: the devil
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
Derived terms: the dickens you say
the dickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See dickens.
Senses: examples: text: She can go to the dickens for what she said.
text: “Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”
ref: 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (8:49 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see the, dickens; (euphemistic) the devil.
Related terms: Dickensian
mischmetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischmetals
form: misch metal
Etymology: German mixed metal
Senses: glosses: An alloy of rare earth elements containing about 50% cerium and 50% lanthanum, neodymium, and similar elements used especially as a flint in cigarette lighters
get up on the wrong side of the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets up on the wrong side of the bed
form: getting up on the wrong side of the bed
form: got up on the wrong side of the bed
form: got up on the wrong side of the bed
form: gotten up on the wrong side of the bed
Senses: examples: text: I think my boss got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. He's been grumpy all day.
glosses: To feel irritable; to be in a bad mood; to have a bad day from the start, for no particular reason.
Synonyms: get out of bed on the wrong side
wake up on the wrong side of bed
wake up on the wrong side of the bed
Related terms: wrong side of the tracks
waste of space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastes of space
Senses: examples: text: Putting a third sofa in here would be a waste of space since we never have that many guests.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see waste, of, space.
examples: text: Get lost, you waste of space!
glosses: An utterly worthless person; one who, as it were, is unworthy of the space which they occupy.
Related terms: oxygen thief
wastes of space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waste of space
softkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft kill.
hardkill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard kill.
lasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laster
Linse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Linses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Linse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
capnomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæpnəˌmænsi/
Forms: form: kapnomancy
Etymology: Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”); capno- + -mancy
Senses: examples: text: 1610, Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
Diuination generally was done by diuers means...by smoake, Capnomancy.
text: To these is also added Capnomancy, so called from smoke, because it searcheth into the flame and smoke; and thin colors, sounds and motions when they are carried upright, or on one side, or round...
ref: 1897, Three Bks Occult Phil. lvii. (Agrippa)
qualifier: divination
glosses: Divination by interpreting smoke rising from a fire. A form of pyromancy.
Related terms: capnomancer
consiglieri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consigliere
ceromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carromancy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1660, Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv
By Ceromancy, where, by the means of Wax dissolved into Water, thou shalt see the Figure, Poutrait and lively Representation of thy future Wife, and of her Fredin Fredaliatory Belly-thumping Blades.
1983, Complete Bk Predictions.
In ceromancy, melted wax is allowed to drip into a shallow dish of cold water, and the resulting shapes are interpreted. Ceromancy was very popular in the eighteenth century, when correspondence was normally fastened with sealing wax.
glosses: divination by pouring melted wax into water and interpreting the bubbles formed.
Synonyms: ceroscopy
Belleek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Béal Leice.
Senses: examples: Alternative form: Balleek
glosses: A village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, famous for its pottery.
examples: Alternative form: Belleeks
glosses: A small village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Derived terms: Belleek ware
Belleek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belleeks
Etymology: From Irish Béal Leice.
Senses: examples: text: Belleek was invented about thirty-five years ago by a potter named William Henry Goss, of Stoke-upon-Trent, England, whose workmen were induced to go to the porcelain-works established in Belleek, and it was there that the ware was first produced in any considerable quantity.
ref: 1896 June, “House Furnishing Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 8, number 6, page 219:
text: Belleek was made for both utilitarian and decorative purposes, shaped often in the form of seashells or marine life, such as coral branches.
ref: 2000, Suzanne Von Drachenfels, The Art of the Table, page 55:
text: The value of a damaged Belleek can be bleak. Because the porcelain is so thin, even hairline cracks can radically affect the value.
ref: 2011, Deborah Shouse, Ron Zoglin, Antiquing For Dummies:
glosses: Synonym of Belleek ware.
synonyms: word: Belleek ware
overstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstress
overstressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstress
overstressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstress
noonday devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noonday devil
catoptromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1660, Urquhart tr. Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
Her Trippa going on in his Discourse, said by Catoptromancy, likewise held in such account by the Emperor Didius Julianus, That by means thereof, he ever and anon foresaw all that which at any time did happen or befal unto him: Thou shalt not need to put on thy Spectacles; for in a Mirror thou wilt see her as clearly and manifestly Nebrundiated, and Billibodring-it, as if I should shew it in the Fountain of the Temple of Minerva near Parras.
text: Catoptromancy was a species of divination performed by the aid of a mirror. This..was common among the Achaians.
ref: 1880, J. Grant, Mysteries of all Nations, section XLII:
coordinate_terms: crystallomancy
enoptromancy
scrying
glosses: Divination by use of mirrors, or other reflective surfaces.
nose pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose poke
nose pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nose poke
nose poking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nose poke
nose poked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nose poke
over-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-ripe
form: most over-ripe
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overripe.
causimomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causinomancy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καύσιμος (kaúsimos, “fit for burning”), from καῦσις (kaûsis, “burning”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: Causimomancy: Divination by fire. It is a happy presage when combustible objects cast into the fire do not burn.
ref: 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:
text: 1973 L. Watson Supernature ix.
Precoginition means "knowing in advance," and systems of knowing cover just about every possible source of variation. They include..causimomancy (the study of objects placed in the fire)... None of these need be taken seriously...
glosses: Divination by studying the behaviour of objects placed in a fire. Related to empyromancy and pyromancy.
cephalomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephaleonomancy
form: cephalonomancy
form: kephalomancy
form: kephalonomancy
Etymology: From cephalo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Cephalomancy was divination by a donkey's head […]
ref: 1931, Lock tr. de Givry, Picture Museum of Sorcery:
glosses: Divination by the study of the skull or head of a donkey or goat. Sometimes described as the roasting of an ass's head on hot coals.
Related terms: phrenology
ceraunoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerauno- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lampredi divides his ſubject into ſeveral heads, viz. Natural Theology, Coſmogony, Ceraunoscopy, i.e. the judgments to be formed from thunder and lightning, Phyſic, Botany, Mechanics, and Politics.
ref: 1758 September 24, The Monthly Review, London, page 301:
text: In this valuable work, treating of the Natural Theology, Cosmogony, and Ceraunoscopy of the Etruscans, the author refutes many of the opinions of Brucker.
ref: 1861, Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri, part 1, page 301:
text: Ceraunoscopy uses patterns of lightning during a thunderstorm as a form of divination.
ref: 2004, Quill Mastercraft, Out of his Time: The Spiritual Struggle and Magickal Writings of a Modern Mage, part 1, page 98:
text: Most important for the present survey and also the most convincing part of Weinstock’s analysis are the fundamental and pervasive connections he highlights between Etruscan ceraunoscopy, and Greek and Babylonian astrology/astronomy, especially planetary theory.
ref: 2016, Kyle Grothoff, Astrology in Augustan Rome: A Cultural History, page 64:
glosses: Divination by interpreting thunder and lightning.
Synonyms: brontomancy
ceraunomancy
Hypernyms: aeromancy
meteoromancy
chaomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chao- (in a Paracelsian sense "atmosphere") + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1650 French tr. Paracelsus Nine Books Of the Nature of Things (1674) ix.
Chaomancy shews its Signs by the Stars of the Air and Wind, by the discolouring, destroying of all tender and subtil things […] If the Stars of Chaomancy are moved, Spirits fall from the superiour Air, and Voices and Answers were often heard […] There are seen Hobgoblins, Household Gods, airy Spirits, and Woodmen, &c. also a heavenly Dew and Manna falls upon Trees and Herbs.
1908 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dict. i.
chaomancy...Fortune-telling by aerial apparitions.
glosses: Divination by aerial visions, a form of aeromancy.
Hypernyms: aeromancy
chartomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “leaf of paper”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.
Chartomancy, by writing in papers […]
text: CHARTOMANCY: Divination by writing or interpreting inscriptions, sometimes of mysterious origin. Predictions written in invisible ink, which appears when papers are heated, come in this general category. So do greeting cards.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: Divination by interpreting inscriptions on writing paper.
cledonomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κληδών (klēdṓn, “an omen”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: The consultant whispered his questions into the god's ear, then stopped his own ears, went out, and, when he got beyond the market-place, listened for chance words from passers-by. These were construed into an answer. This form of divination (cledonomancy) remained popular at all periods.
ref: 1911, Encyc. of Religion & Ethics:
text: Pausanias (2nd century AD) gives an example of cledonomancy. A man was not sure whether to marry a young woman of his own clan or a rich woman of more exalted rank. While thinking over the problem, he heard a child at play with his fellows shout, 'Take care of yourself' which he at once understood to mean that he should marry the rich one!
ref: 1970, B. I. Rakoczi, Man, Myth & Magic v.:
glosses: Divination through interpreting chance remarks or events.
Synonyms: cledomancy
cledonism
cleidomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clidomancy
form: chilomancy
form: kleidomancy
Etymology: From cleido- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Cleidomancy was performed with a key suspended from a thread from the nail of a young virgin's third finger, this verse from the Psalms being repeated meanwhile: "Exurge, Domine, adjuva nos, et redime nos propter nomen sanctum tuum." The key would revolve if the thing asked could be affirmed.
ref: 1931, J. Courtenay Locke, translator, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, author, Picture Museum of Sorcery, Magic & Alchemy
glosses: Divination by using a hanging key as a pendulum. A form of radiesthesia.
cleromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros), "a lot".
Senses: glosses: Divination by casting lots (sortilege).
glosses: Divination by throwing dice or any such marked objects, like beans, pebbles, or bones.
drooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droolers
Etymology: From drool + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Some babies are serious droolers, and some aren't. My son certainly was. Our little leaky faucet had to wear a drool bib at all times, and went through them at the rate of one per hour, even more when he was teething.
ref: 2012, Angela Wynne, The Baby Cheapskate Guide to Bargains, page 206:
glosses: A person or animal who drools.
examples: text: […] Internet droolers are not only proven wrong, but (virtually) expunged from the planet.
ref: 1997, Quill & Quire, volume 63, page 28:
glosses: An extremely stupid person; a moron.
Derived terms: drooler bib
drooler tube
coscinomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choschinomancy
form: choschinomancie
form: coskinomancy
form: koskinomancy
form: cosinomancy
form: coskiomancy
form: cosnomancy
form: coskniomancy
form: coseinomancy
Etymology: Ancient Greek koskinomantis, "a diviner using a sieve", from koskinon, "a sieve".
Senses: examples: 1603 Christopher Heydon A Defence of Ivdiciall Astrolgie
And as for Hydromancie, and Choschinomancie, they could vanish as superfluous, as were evident and ridiculous even to the ignorant.
1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
By Coscinomancy, most religiously observed of old, amidst the Ceremonies of the ancient Romans. Let us have a Sieve and Shiers, and thou shalt see Devils.
1913 Halliday Greek Div. x.
To the same species of divinatory rites [i.e. those involving a swinging pendulum] belong the koskinomancy of Theokritos, familiar in England as the consultation of the sieve and shears, and the minor rites of axinomancy and sphondylomancy.
glosses: Divination by the use of a suspended sieve sometimes from tongs or shears. The movement of the sieve when a person's name or word is spoken is interpreted.
Tocharian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təuˈkɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /təuˈkɑːɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɛɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɑɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Toch.
Etymology: From Latin Tochari + -ian, from Ancient Greek Τόχαροι (Tókharoi, “Kucheans”) (see Τόχαρος (Tókharos)), probably from an Indo-Iranian source (Old Persian [script needed] (tuxāri-), Khotanese [script needed] (ttahvāra)); compare Sanskrit तुखार (tukhāra).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, consisting of two languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, written in an abugida derived from Brahmi.
Hyponyms: Proto-Tocharian
Tocharian A
Tocharian B
Tocharian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təuˈkɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /təuˈkɑːɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɛɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɑɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Tocharians
form: Toch.
Etymology: From Latin Tochari + -ian, from Ancient Greek Τόχαροι (Tókharoi, “Kucheans”) (see Τόχαρος (Tókharos)), probably from an Indo-Iranian source (Old Persian [script needed] (tuxāri-), Khotanese [script needed] (ttahvāra)); compare Sanskrit तुखार (tukhāra).
Senses: glosses: Any member of a people who inhabited the Tarim Basin and spoke Tocharian.
Tocharian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təuˈkɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /təuˈkɑːɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɛɹi.ən/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /toʊˈkɑɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Toch.
Etymology: From Latin Tochari + -ian, from Ancient Greek Τόχαροι (Tókharoi, “Kucheans”) (see Τόχαρος (Tókharos)), probably from an Indo-Iranian source (Old Persian [script needed] (tuxāri-), Khotanese [script needed] (ttahvāra)); compare Sanskrit तुखार (tukhāra).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Tocharian or the Tocharians.
crithomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critomancy
form: krithomancy
Etymology: Ancient Greek κριθομαντεία (krithomanteía, “divination by barley”), from κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Senses: examples: 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.
Crithomancy, by grain, or corn...
glosses: Divination by interpreting food, usually bread and grain used in sacrifice.
cromniomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρόμμῠον (krómmŭon, “onion”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1660, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy in Brand Popular Antiquities (1844) iii.
Burton […] speaks of "cromnysmantia," a kind of divination with onions laid on the altar at Christmas Eve, practised by girls, to know when they shall be married, and how many husbands they shall have. This appears also to have been a German custom.
text: cromniomancy consisted of laying onions on which certain names had been written upon the altar on Christmas Day; when these were planted the one which sprouted first would give the required indication.
ref: 1931, Lock tr. de Givry, Picture Museum of Sorcery:
glosses: Divination by onions or onion sprouts.
Romance languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romance language
cyclomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1970 Zolar Encyc. of Ancient & Forbidden Knowledge
CYCLOMANCY: Pertains to divination from a turning wheel.
text: CYCLOMANCY: Divination depending upon a revolving device[…]the decision of the wheel is automatically fulfilled, so it is not surprising that many people believe that questions concerning their future can be answered by a similar contrivance. Spinning arrows may be used instead of revolving wheels for telling fortunes; and, on the lighter side, cyclomancy has survived in various parlor games, such as "spin the bottle."
ref: 1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: Divination by interpreting wheels or any other revolving objects.
demonomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daemonomancy
form: dæmonomancy
Etymology: From demono- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: Demonomancy: Divination by means of demons. This divination takes place by the oracles they make, or by the answers they give to those who evoke them.
ref: 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:
glosses: Divination using the aid of demons to reveal information.
dendromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛndɹəmænsi/
Etymology: From dendro- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1970 Zolar Encyc. of Ancient & Forbidden Knowledge
DENDROMANCY: This is associated with both the oak and the mistletoe.
glosses: Divination by leaves and branches of plants and trees. Especially oak and mistletoe.
rock cocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The off-white, crystal-like form of crack cocaine.
blamestorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blamestorms
Etymology: From blame + storm; or blend of blame + brainstorm.
Senses: examples: text: This was more of a brainstorming session, which is better than a blamestorm, and we were all invited to share and contribute.
ref: 2000, Nelson DeMille, The Lion's Game, page 354:
text: SO is this the end to the blamestorm which has swirled around black/white relations in Australia for more than 200 years?
ref: 2008 February 16, The Magpie, “Harsh realities”, in Townsville Bulletin:
text: Apathetic, yet curious, he solved the conundrum by facebooking his prey, then weathering the blamestorm. Victory was his.
ref: 2008 November 30, Gary Crooks, Spokane Spokesman-Review:
text: We should all be ashamed of ourselves for using Leila Parreira’s grave illness, and her husband’s departure to be with her, as a pretext for a ridiculously futile blamestorm.
ref: 2008 April 24, Carlos Amato, “Enough blamestorming!”, in The Times (Johannesburg):
glosses: A process for determining the cause(s), human and otherwise, of the failure of something
blamestorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blamestorms
form: blamestorming
form: blamestormed
form: blamestormed
Etymology: From blame + storm; or blend of blame + brainstorm.
Senses: examples: text: So before blamestorming wireless, make sure that the problem does not exist when you are using wired networking.
ref: 2002, Jonathan Feldman, Sams Teach Yourself Network Troubleshooting in 24 Hours, page 176:
text: Instead of brainstorming and problem-solving, professionals blamestormed, creating more problems and inaction.
ref: 2004 October 1, “Create a no-blame lab environment.”, in Medical Laboratory Observer:
text: I'm gald to see that there are people like you that appreciate the Eagles and aren't just looking to blamestorm and blow off steam.
ref: 2005 February 7, Rick Y, “Thanks Birds..”, in alt.sports.football.pro.phila-eagles (Usenet):
glosses: to have a blamestorm, i.e., a session where a group discusses the cause(s), human and otherwise, of the failure of something
toucan crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toucan crossings
Etymology: Punningly from pelican crossing and toucan (another bird), because "two can" cross at once (pedestrians and bicycles).
Senses: glosses: A pedestrian crossing equipped with traffic lights operated by the pedestrians, same as pelican crossing, but also allowing bicycles to cross.
basso profundo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basso profundos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of basso profondo.
nonjudgmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more nonjudgmental
form: most nonjudgmental
form: non-judgemental
Etymology: From non- + judgmental.
Senses: glosses: Without making judgments, especially those based upon personal ethics or opinions
orthopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopods
Etymology: Both orthopod and orthoped are of jocular origin in the informal jargon of medicine; the first is a play on -pod (as in gastropod) and the second is a play on -pede (as in centipede). Each trades on the humorous portrayal of colleagues in other specialties (as opposed to one's own specialty) as strange critters (as if odd ducks).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: orthoped
glosses: An orthopaedic surgeon.
preflight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + flight.
Senses: glosses: Taking place before the start of a flight.
examples: text: a CORS preflight request
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.
preflight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preflights
Etymology: From pre- + flight.
Senses: glosses: An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
examples: text: Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.
ref: 2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.
preflight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preflights
form: preflighting
form: preflighted
form: preflighted
Etymology: From pre- + flight.
Senses: glosses: To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
Related terms: foreflight
under-ripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more under-ripe
form: most under-ripe
Etymology: From under- + ripe.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of underripe.
underripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underripe
form: most underripe
form: underipe
form: under-ripe
Etymology: From under- + ripe.
Senses: examples: text: The underripe pears tasted fine, but were still a little crunchy.
glosses: Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating.
double indemnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A clause in an insurance policy in which the insurance company agrees to pay out double the normal coverage in certain specified circumstances, most often in case of accidental death.
Related terms: AD&D
Sumer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uːmə/
enpr: sōōmʹər
ipa: /ˈsuːmɚ/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒋗𒈨𒊒 (Šumeru), in Assyriology since the 1870s; compare French sumérien since 1872. Compare Shumer, Sumir. More at Sumer.
Senses: glosses: A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
wikipedia: Sumer
Derived terms: Sumeria
Sumerian
Sumerology
Related terms: Shinar
bell-ringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell-ringings
Senses: glosses: The ringing of bells, either as a pastime or for religious observance.
Related terms: campanology
dæmonomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dæmonomancy, by the suggestions of evill Dæmons or Devills…
ref: 1652, Gaule The Magastromancer XIX, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative spelling of demonomancy.
krithomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crithomancy.
critomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Critomancy: Divination by means of observing viands and cakes. The paste of cakes which are offered in sacrifice, is closely examined, and from the flour which is spread on them, omens are drawn.
ref: 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:
glosses: Misspelling of crithomancy.
crystal balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystal ball
polyaminopolycarboxylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaminopolycarboxylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of a polyaminopolycarboxylic acid
polyaminopolycarboxylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaminopolycarboxylic acids
Etymology: From poly- + amino + polycarboxylic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of polycarboxylic acids that have a backbone containing several amino groups; they form chelation complexes with metals; the most common example is ethylenediaminetetracetic acid
polyaminopolycarboxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or derived from a polyaminopolycarboxylic acid
allanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allanites
Etymology: From Thomas Allan + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of silicate minerals that are a source of rare earth metals.
wikipedia: Thomas Allan
Derived terms: allanitic
anemoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anemo- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by use of the wind including its direction and intensity.
Hypernyms: aeromancy
austromancy
nephomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nepho- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by use of the movement of clouds.
Hypernyms: aeromancy
austromancy
jam-packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jam-pack
jam-packs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jam-pack
jambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jamb