cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
RON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RONs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of research octane number.
Coordinate terms: english: motor octane number
translation: motor octane number
word: MON
english: anti-knock index
translation: anti-knock index
word: AKI
RON
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: scheduling
glosses: Abbreviation of remain overnight.
RSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
glosses: Initialism of rejection sensitive dysphoria.
RSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: On its website, RSD describes itself as the world’s largest dating coaching company, and promises to teach clients how to “attract the women you’ve always wanted.”
ref: 2014 November 20, Hilary Whiteman, “Britain bars controversial ‘pick up’ coach Julien Blanc”, in CNN:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of Real Social Dynamics.
examples: text: In separate statements, the Ridgefield Education Association (REA) and the RSD acknowledged that while progress was made in their talks, the parties ultimately couldn’t reach an agreement.
ref: 2022 September 9, Paradise Afshar, “Washington state school district goes on strike”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Ridgefield School District.
examples: text: Exclusives can only be found at independent retailers on Record Store Day – or after, if you’re lucky. RSD Firsts are releases that first appear at independent stores on Record Store Day and may later appear online and at larger, big-box retailers.
ref: 2019 October 8, Brian Ries, “Record Store Day announces exclusive vinyl to pick up on Black Friday”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Record Store Day.
SHP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SHPs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of shaft horsepower.
glosses: Initialism of special high performance.
TJS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Tommy John surgery.
organ grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɡən ˌɡɹaɪndə/
ipa: /ˈɔɹɡən ˌɡɹaɪndəɹ/
Forms: form: organ grinders
form: organ-grinder
Etymology: From the repetitive grinding involved in playing a barrel organ. In figurative senses, from the common 19th-century practice of training monkeys to dance to an organ grinder's music in order to perform on the street and solicit donations and spare change.
Senses: examples: text: There is one beautiful sight in the East End, and only one, and it is the children dancing in the street when the organ-grinder goes his round.
ref: 1903 October, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in The People of the Abyss, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: The organ-grinders were at work; but they were always precocious harbingers. It was near enough spring for them to go penny-hunting when the skating ball dropped at the park.
ref: 1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Easter of the Soul”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1908, →OCLC, page 141:
text: “You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.”
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Thus the vision of humanity appeared to be in some way connected with Bloomsbury, and faded distinctly by the time she crossed the main road; then a belated organ-grinder in Holborn set her thoughts dancing incongruously; […]
ref: 1919 October 20, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, London: Duckworth and Company […], →OCLC:
text: Those who cannot play any instrument wheel a gramophone through the streets on a barrow, but the largest number of these street musicians are organ grinders.
ref: 1929, George Orwell, “Beggars in London”, in An Inquiry into “Civic Progress” in England:
synonyms: barrel organist
glosses: The player of a barrel organ.
examples: text: I want to speak to the organ grinder, not the monkey.
synonyms: the organ grinder, not the monkey
glosses: The person who is in charge, rather than a lackey or representative; the person truly responsible for another's actions.
Derived terms: the organ grinder, not the monkey
organ grinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organ grinder
foale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foales
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of foal.
double checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double check
double checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double check
double checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double check
double checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double check
triple check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple checks
Senses: examples: text: Did you make a double check and a triple check of the entire minefield before proceeding?
hypernyms: recheck#Noun
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check#Noun
coordinate_terms: double check#Noun
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crosscheck#Noun
glosses: A third check, a verification made a third time, usually with additional caution or attention.
triple check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triple checks
form: triple checking
form: triple checked
form: triple checked
Senses: examples: text: Did you double check and triple check of the entire minefield before proceeding?
hypernyms: recheck#Verb
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check#Verb
coordinate_terms: double check#Verb
;
crosscheck#Verb
glosses: To check a third time; to check thrice, with extra caution or attention; to reverify or make sure yet again.
triple checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple check
triple checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of triple check
triple checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of triple check
triple checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of triple check
penny-farthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny-farthing
Tetrislike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tetrislike
form: most Tetrislike
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tetris-like.
bills of lading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bill of lading
tenurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tenure + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: All those who attended these courts did so in virtue of the tenurial obligations.
ref: 1913, Bede Jarrett, “Feudalism”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:
text: Rakam tenants were granted a number of tenurial facilities that were not available to cultivators on lands of other categories.
ref: 1976, Mahesh Chandra Regmi, Landownership in Nepal, page 164:
text: Community-based tenurial systems are rarely acknowledged by national governments or logging operators in any meaningful way.
ref: 2000, Andrew Graham Young, David Boshier, Timothy James Butler Boyle, Forest Conservation Genetics: Principles and Practice, volume 1, page 270:
glosses: Of or pertaining to tenure.
phallused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phallus + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I watched him work, saw huge-phallused Frey emerge from the weathered wood, and helped pour libations to the god.
ref: 2002, Christopher Harris, Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch, Dedalus, →ISBN, page 32:
text: And when Congo had been emptied of masks with cutout eyes and old wooden bowls and long-phallused fertility figures, he turned his thoughts to local stone sculpture.
ref: 2009, Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, Faber and Faber, Inc., →ISBN:
text: I was writing for High Times and Playboy's OUI magazine, where the Love Generation, at least the phallused half, had been fluffed, folded and if not embalmed, at least zombified.
ref: 2010, Mark Christensen, Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy, Schaffner Press, →ISBN, page 351:
glosses: Having a penis.
Synonyms: bedicked
bepenised
cocked
dicked
penised
Derived terms: bephallused
eligibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eligibility
phiala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The youth on the next couch holds a phiala over his head, tilting it to show that he has quaffed its contents.
ref: 1888, George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, page 315:
glosses: A bowl-shaped drinking-vessel used in Ancient Rome.
arrested decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: historic preservation
glosses: State of preservation where no attempt is made to improve a ruin, but rather to keep it from deteriorating any further.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see arrested, decay.
pollent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollent
form: most pollent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pollēns, pollentem (“able, being strong; mighty, powerful”), present active participle of polleō (“to be strong”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet, for many of the thinkers explored below, pollent superlation—rather than prudent suspicion—offers the promise of reconciling human experience with the enormities (in both senses of the term) of natural history.
ref: 2019, Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Powerful, strong.
Related terms: equipollent
pollency
prepollent
porosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poroses
Senses: examples: text: Flat vertebrae and wedging spine of an aged woman who died from starvation are found as in the other malacic poroses.
ref: 1971, Herbert Junghanns, Georg Schmorl, E. F. Besemann, The Human Spine in Health and Disease, page 119:
glosses: The formation of callus; the knitting together of broken bones.
Related terms: coralporosis
osteoporosis
genetic drifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genetic drift
hidden in plain sight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The postcard is “not a secret hidden document that nobody can find,” Mr. van der Veen said. “A lot of people have already seen it, and recognize the subject, the motif of tree roots. It was hidden in plain sight.”
ref: 2020 July 28, Nina Siegal, “A Clue to Van Gogh’s Final Days Is Found in His Last Painting”, in New York Times:
glosses: Seemingly hidden, but actually not hidden and easy to find.
belock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belocks
form: belocking
form: belocked
form: belocked
Etymology: From Middle English belouken, bilouken, from Old English belūcan (“to lock up, bring to an end”), from Proto-West Germanic *bilūkan (“to lock up”), equivalent to be- + lock. Cognate with Middle Low German belûken (“to close, secure”), Middle High German belūchen, belouchen (“to enclose, shut in”), obsolete German belochen (“lock up, lock in, include”).
Senses: examples: text: This is the hand, which, with a vow'd contract, was fast belocked in thine.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The brawny mariner belocks the line / Within his horny palm, and to the rude / Timeing of a tuneless lay, the frolic sail / Quickly upclews, and wraps it to the yard.
ref: 1814, H. Finn, “The Cathedral”, in The Lady's Monthly Museum:
text: After this manner he reached an eminence called the Allanowr in the vicinity of Strone, and here he observed two figures, reclining in listless langour on the moss; on advancing a little farther he recognised the features of his chieftain's son, his hands belocked in those of a female who was soothing him "as his drooped head sank gradually low!"
ref: 1843, James Grassie, Legends of the highlands of Scotland, page 50:
glosses: To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.
Synonyms: sense: hold tight
word: clasp
word: grasp
word: grip
belout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belouts
form: belouting
form: belouted
form: belouted
Etymology: From be- + lout.
Senses: glosses: To call (someone) a lout.
glosses: To address or speak of with contemptuous language.
periœci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How are the antœci, the periœci, and the antipodes of any place found upon the globe, and how upon maps? Where must those people live that have no antœci? What point upon the globe has no periœci?
ref: 1846, John Bruce, An Introduction to Geography and Astronomy, George Woodfall and Son, tenth edition, part II, § 2, page #219:
glosses: plural of periœcus
apex predators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apex predator
St James's Palace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. James's Palace
Senses: glosses: The office of the sovereign of the United Kingdom.
glosses: The St James's Palace Stakes.
belord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belords
form: belording
form: belorded
form: belorded
Etymology: From be- + lord.
Senses: glosses: To apply the title Lord to.
glosses: To address by the phrase "my lord".
glosses: To domineer over; lord over.
metœcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metœci
form: metoecus
Etymology: From Latin metoecus, from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos, “alien, outsider, foreigner”), combination of μετά (metá) and οἶκος (oîkos, “residency”). Cognate with French métèque.
Senses: glosses: denizen, sojourner, stranger, outlander.
rerapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rerape
reraping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rerape
reraped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rerape
nothing doing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "I'll fix his clock all right."
"Nothing doing. I won't have it."
ref: 1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Sheriff's Son:
text: "[P]erhaps you might sell them a submarine or some of your diving apparatus."
"Nothing doing, Ned. We've got other plans."
ref: 1920, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in Tom Swift And His Undersea Search:
text: [T]he employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18 1/2 cents an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing.
ref: 1946 November 4, “MANAGEMENT: Bundy Saves & Shares”, in Time:
text: [S]he'd consoled herself with a fresh plan: she'd refuse to go to her father when he came back. Nothing doing, she'd say.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: Absolutely not; definitely no.
examples: text: "You see, Walter," he said, "in truth this business is merely a habit with me . . . but there's nothing doing, nothing doing. . . . I hardly know where I am myself; much less where my customers are."
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—[…]
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 214:
text: I began to think that there was nothing doing, that he'd just come on the trip for his health.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in The Secret Adversary:
text: There was nothing doing in the kitchen.
ref: 2010, Lee Child, Persuader, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nothing, doing: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.
Synonyms: by no means
no dice
no way
no way Jose
Related terms: no can do
Kiwiland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kiwi + land.
Senses: glosses: New Zealand.
hard yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the hard yards
Etymology: A sporting analogy referring to the game of rugby football, where making progress on the field, in measurements of yards, may lead to accomplishment and victory.
Alternatively derived from sailing, when furling or unfurling the canvas from certain (perhaps higher) spars was both dangerous and difficult.
Senses: examples: text: do the hard yards
text: put in the hard yards
text: As with coupons and vouchers, there is seemingly no end to the opportunities that exist to improve a Web site's traffic flow by giving something away for nothing—as long as users are prepared to put in the hard yards, of course.
ref: 2007, Ian Cocoran, The Art of Digital Branding, Allworth Press, →ISBN, pages 128–129:
text: Those clever women at the frontier of fashion do all the hard yards for us, every month, by attending the shows in London, Paris and New York.
ref: 2010, Kelly Doust, A Life in Frocks, Sydney: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 129:
text: In tough conditions, with no room for complacency, the campaign will need to slog out the hard yards, give it 110% and leave it all on the field.
ref: 2017 August 22, Peter Lewis, “In a tough campaign the marriage equality team faces hard yards ahead”, in The Guardian:
text: The couple had already put in the hard yards: Fred started out in '60s freakbeat combos The Weeds and Lollipop Shoppe, with Toody joining him in early '80s punk trio The Rats.
ref: 2021 December, Jon Dale, “Dead Moon fever!”, in Uncut, →ISSN, page 8:
synonyms: heavy lifting
glosses: The key effort in completing a difficult task.
beliebers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belieber
BRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: transport
coordinate_terms: LRT
MRT
glosses: Initialism of bus rapid transit.
bus rapid transit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus rapid transits
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A form of rapid transit using buses, which have dedicated rights-of-way or laneways, purpose-built bus stations, and dedicated traffic signalling.
Synonyms: word: BRT
Coordinate terms: busway
exocœlomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The exocœlomic space is formed in its meshes in the same way, for instance, as the arachnoid spaces form around the central nervous system.
ref: 1927, Herbert Henry Woollard, Recent Advances in Anatomy, P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., page 64:
glosses: Archaic spelling of exocoelomic.
prehensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehensors
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, takes hold; a grasping limb etc.
on occasion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Only on rare occasion.
text: It is not in itself surprising that a genuine advance of knowledge should in this manner become on occasion a source of new error.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 425:
glosses: Occasionally, from time to time, now and then.
procedendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procedendo
soupcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupcons
Senses: examples: text: A guy I'd known as little more than a campus loser was running for Senate with a fair amount of aplomb, a soupcon of dignity and boatloads of cash from his personal fortune.
ref: 2003, “American Beat: Underneath The Turban”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Alternative spelling of soupçon.
soupcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soupcon
aposteme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostemes
Etymology: From Middle English aposteme (“a swelling, inflamation”), from Old French aposteme and Late Latin apostēma, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστημα (apóstēma, “abcesse”) (source of Modern Greek απόστημα (apóstima, “abscess”)), related to ἀποστέλλω (apostéllō, “to remove”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abscess; a pustulent swelling.
apostematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apostematous
form: most apostematous
Etymology: From apostemate + -ous.
Senses: examples: 1827, Thomas John Graham, Of Pulmonary Consumption: Of the Apostematous Consumption, chapter section in Modern Domestic Medicine, page 275-276,
But I suspect they are rarely applicable to any other than the apostematous phthisis. […] Patients labouring under severe apostematous consumption, have often derived signal advantage from living solely on milk.
glosses: Of or pertaining to an aposteme; having the nature of an aposteme; characterised by apostemes.
help wanted
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that a position of employment is open.
felonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felonries
Etymology: From felon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Felons as a group.
glosses: The convict population of a penal colony.
sews up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sew up
sewing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sew up
sewed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sewed-up
Senses: glosses: simple past of sew up
sewed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sewed up
form: most sewed up
form: sewed-up
Senses: examples: text: Why, zounds! the infernal rascal's dead-drunk in earnest; sewed up completely […]
ref: 1840, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, volume 2, page 198:
glosses: Drunk.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Secured, in the bag.
Related terms: sewn up
sewn up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sew up
sewn up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sewn up
form: most sewn up
Senses: glosses: Sealed by sewing.
glosses: Brought to a full conclusion.
glosses: Worn out; exhausted.
Related terms: sewed up
hysteretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hysteretically
form: most hysteretically
Etymology: From hysteretic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a system with hysteresis.
hysteretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hysteretic
prætense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prætenses
Senses: examples: text: […] all which I say only to you, at least that these propositions may aryse from them rather then be pressed by us, and that the Kinge may be cleerely informed from your Lordship what is offred and expected ther, before you conclude any thinge positively ; and you will finde the difficulty the greater, because (though you may sweare no rebellion that shall aryse ther, on what grounde or prætense soever, will finde lesse countenance from our master then from any Pr. in Europe) you will observe in many treaties, if not in all, some articles in favour of the Protestants ; and if any thinge should be soe expresse in the Articles, that might obliege the Kinge to do any thinge against them, it would make an ill noyse, to the Kings præjudice, without any other advantage to the Kinge of France then of that præjudice.
ref: 1661, Chancellor Hyde, chapter LXII, in Life and Administration of Edward, volume III, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 123:
text: The queen hears of it; takes occaſion to paſſe wher he is, on purpoſe, that, under prætense of reconſiling to him, or ſeeking to draw a kind retractation from him of the cenſure on the marriage; to which end ſhe ſends a courtier before, to ſound whether he might be perſuaded to mitigate his ſentence; which not finding, ſhe herſelf craftily aſſays; and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
ref: 1671 C.E., John Milton, “Samſon Agoniſtes, A Dramatick Poem” in The Poetical Works of John Milton, volume 4 (ed. Henry John Todd; pub. 1801), page 505
glosses: Archaic spelling of pretense.
prætenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: (I hope these hard words doe not fright your senses
I sweare tis not our meaninge, gratious vmpeere,
To ravish you with showe of bad prætenses)
ref: 17th Century, The Seuen Dayes Of The Weeke, in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana (T. Bensley and Son), volume I, page 41
glosses: plural of prætense
ichthyoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyoid
Ganymedeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ganymedean
La Pérouse Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, its discoverer.
Senses: glosses: A strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin in the north from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
wikipedia: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
thunderstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundersticks
form: thunder-stick
form: thunder stick
Etymology: From thunder + stick. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
Senses: examples: text: The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.
text: We sneaked into the soldiers' camp, and stole five thundersticks.
text: ...the Men, when they hunt us with their arrows or a thunder-stick which strikes with a loud noise...
ref: 1904, W.A. Fraser, “The Narrative of Buffalo and Bison”, in Metropolitan, volume 20, number 11, pages 195–196:
text: Two men with beards... carrying thundersticks... were in the village above...
ref: 1931 He Dog, interviewed by Mari Sandoz (John Colhoff, interpreter), in The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire (University of Nebraska Press, 1964)
text: We have heard that they have magic thunder sticks; that all they need do is point the stick at a man and thunder and lightning comes out of it and the man dies.
ref: 1938, Mark Raymond Harrington, The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon among the Lenapes:
text: (Two bears discussing a rifle found lying on the ground): Thunderstick? ...You actually said 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend, is a Winchester 30.06.
ref: 1985, Gary Larson, Bride of the Far Side:
text: ...the captain of the vessel ordered a crew member to fire the thunderstick, as ancestors called the gun.
Word of bearded White men and their thundersticks was carried inland to other Indians.
ref: 2010, Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past:
synonyms: fire-stick
glosses: A gun or cannon, especially a rifle, as seen from the imagined perspective of an uncivilized person or an animal.
examples: text: Called “James Tenney and Milton Babbitt : American Iconoclasts,” the mini-festival begins on Saturday with a work by Mr. Tenney, who died in 2006, on a program including pieces by Larry Polansky, Michael Byron and Henry Cowell (the 1925 “Ensemble” for string quartet and thundersticks). Mr. Babbitt is honored on Sunday with a program that includes, among other works, a premiere by Christopher Buchenholz.
ref: 2008 February 8, The New York Times, “Classical Music/Opera Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: A narrow plastic balloon that is used as a promotional noise maker by hitting one against another.
Dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dippers
Senses: examples: text: In the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major, there are two stars which form the side of the dipper farthest from the handle. The line of these two [...] will strike the Pole Star. [...] A convenient sort of celestial yardstick is the distance from the first pointer of the Dipper to the Pole Star, which is about 28°.
ref: 1912, Carroll Davidson Wright, The New Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference ..., page 599:
text: You can see the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper almost every night. You can see the Dippers every night if the clouds do not cover them. The Dippers seem to move. They are not always in the same place. You see the Dippers in one place […]
ref: 1959, Grade 2. Singer science all the year:
text: Use the Dipper as home base. Follow the two end stars of its bowl to point downward (in the spring) or upward (in the fall) to Polaris, the North Star.
ref: 2003, Bob Berman, Strange Universe: The Weird and Wild Science of Everyday Life – on Earth and Beyond, New York: Times Books, →ISBN, page 152:
text: It's always a challenge in the city, but sometimes I can spot the Dippers. On camping trips Drew used to show me constellations but I've forgotten most of them. She pointed out the North Star at the end of the Little Dipper's handle […]
ref: 2005, Cordelia Strube, Lemon, Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Either the Big Dipper or the Little Dipper (in the singular, chiefly the Big Dipper).
Dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A translation of the Mandarin Chinese 斗宿 (Dǒuxiù).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A Chinese constellation located near Sagittarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
Dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dippers
Etymology: From NDPer (NDP + -er).
Senses: examples: text: But the Dippers should hold their applause, since their party doesn't have the grassroots organization or the roster of good candidates it needs to capitalize on their leader's popularity.
ref: 2011 April 11, Lysiane Gagnon, “In Quebec, the NDP Is No. 2”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2011:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: NDPer
New Democrat
glosses: A member or supporter of the Canadian New Democratic Party.
examples: text: It's either that or watch Dipper hopes of big overall seat gains dashed May 2 in Ontario.
ref: 2011 April 27, David Olive, “Historic Shift to NDP Confirmed in New Poll”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2013:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Canadian New Democratic Party or supporters thereof.
Related terms: Bloquiste
Grit
Tory
Dippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dipper
apostemate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apostemates
form: apostemating
form: apostemated
form: apostemated
Etymology: From aposteme + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: […] and afterwards the Breaſt ſwelled, and ſeemed to apoſtemate.
ref: 1734, Richard Wiseman, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, volume 1, page 167:
glosses: To become an aposteme; to pustulate.
Related terms: apostematous
cœlomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cœlom + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the sperm‐ducts and oviducts appear to be formed as outgrowths of the cœlomic epithelium.
ref: 1919, Gilbert Charles Bourne, An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals, G. Bell & sons, page 42:
glosses: Archaic spelling of coelomic.
promissor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promissors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of promisor.
cœliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cœliac artery is covered by the lesser omentum. On the right side it is in relation with the right cœliac ganglion and the caudate process of the liver ; on the left side, with the left cœliac ganglion and the cardiac end of the stomach.
ref: 1913, Henry Gray, Robert Howden, Anatomy Descriptive and Applied, Lea & Febiger, page 688:
glosses: Dated spelling of coeliac.
promontoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promontorium
pronunciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronunciators
Etymology: Latin pronunciator, from prōnūnciō (“I pronounce”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who pronounces; a pronouncer.
kaniwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kañiwa
form: canihua
form: cañihua
form: cañahua
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cañihua, from Quechua qañiwa.
Senses: glosses: A goosefoot of species Chenopodium pallidicaule, native to the Andean region, and similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa.
protrudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That protrudes.
qualificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualificators
Senses: glosses: An officer who examines and prepares causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
suncare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + care.
Senses: glosses: The branch of skincare dealing with protection against the effects of sunlight.
smit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smitt.
smit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: smits
form: smitting
form: smitted
form: smitted
Etymology: See smittle.
Senses: glosses: To infect.
smit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: smits
Etymology: See smittle.
Senses: glosses: An infection.
glosses: A stain.
Related terms: smittle
smit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Senses: examples: text: Ne yeelded foote, ne once abacke did flit,
But, being doubly smitten, likewise doubly smit
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: smit with the beauty of so fair a scene
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
text: Gray not only saved his money, but being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession, and he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship, married besides, and the father of a family.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of smite
hymenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hymenium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The differentiation of several species mainly relies on differences in the shape of the hymenial algae.
ref: 2008, Holger Thüs, Matthias Schultz, Fungi, volume 1, page 126:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hymenium of a fungus.
Derived terms: hymenial cystidium
rectificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectificators
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that rectifies or refines
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: especially, a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
reflectent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reflectent
form: most reflectent
Etymology: From Latin reflectens, present participle of reflectere. See reflect.
Senses: examples: text: The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reflectant
stuffie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffies
Etymology: From stuff + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: From its perch overlooking Nanaquaket Pond, Evelyns serves fresh and fried seafood, stuffies (Rhode Island-speak for stuffed quahogs) and lobster chow mein to diners, either in the clamshell-crunchy parking lot or in the no-frills dining room.
ref: 2007 November 2, Caitlin ONeil, “New England Style, Little Known and Liking It”, in New York Times:
glosses: A stuffed clam, typically quahog.
glosses: Alternative form of stuffy (“stuffed toy”).
luticolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luticolous
form: most luticolous
Senses: examples: luticolous plants; a luticolous reptile
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Living on or in mud or muddy places.
Derived terms: luticole
luticole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luticoles
Senses: examples: text: Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A creature that lives, feeds, or breeds in muddy places, or even in mud itself.
Related terms: luticolous
troy grains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troy grain
in the meantime
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "In the meantime," said Norbourne, "we have arrived at the park-gate, and have not determined whither we shall ride."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 101:
text: But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: meanwhile
respits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respit
lanthorn-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanthorn-flies
Etymology: From lanthorn + fly.
Senses: examples: text: Glow-worms, lanthorn-flys may be call'd a living phosphorous
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 50:
glosses: A firefly
ampery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ampery
form: most ampery
Etymology: From amper + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered with pimples.
glosses: Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay.
Related terms: amper
epileptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epileptical
form: most epileptical
Senses: examples: text: Tulpius in his observations, L. IV. 2. tells a story, that the subtle aura of the gout in a patient, would sometimes fly up from the great toe to the brain, and cause an epileptical fitt.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, pages 51–52:
glosses: Alternative spelling of epileptic.
boomshanka
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: The phrase originated in an episode of the British television comedy series The Young Ones. The pilot episode, first aired in 1982 and entitled "Demolition", included a brief piece of dialogue by Neil, who was fantasizing about taking advantage of the impending demolition of their home to commit suicide:
* Neil: When they come, I'm going to hide in the wall cavity and pretend to be thermal insulation. And when they knock the wall down, boomshanka!
The phrase was also spoken by Neil in an episode entitled "Cash", which was first broadcast in 1984. The segment of dialogue, where Neil is composing a letter to his bank manager to request a loan, is as follows;
* Neil: I know, why not "Boomshanka"?
* Mike: It's hard to tell, Neil. What does it mean?
* Neil: It means, "May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman."
* Rick: A-ha! And what makes you think your bank manager is a man?
* Neil: Uhm... His beard.
* Mike: He'll never understand "Boomshanka". You'll have to write the whole thing out.
* Neil: Right, okay, here we go. "Darling Fascist Bullyboy: Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman, Neil."
Senses: glosses: A wish of happiness.
æstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æstimates
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of estimate.
æstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: æstimates
form: æstimating
form: æstimated
form: æstimated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of estimate.
vampirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirists
Etymology: From vampire + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person with a mental disorder causing a craving for blood and behavior similar to that expected of a vampire.
vampirists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampirist
æquation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquations
Senses: examples: text: Whereas in Arithmetick Questions are only resolv'd by proceeding from given Quantities to the Quantities sought, Algebra proceeds in a retrograde Order, from the Quantities sought as if they were given, to the Quantities given as if they were sought, to the End that we may some Way or other come to a Conclusion or "Æquation", from which one may bring out the Quantity sought. And after this Way the most difficult problems are resolv'd, the Resolutions whereof would be sought in vain from only common Arithmetick. Yet Arithmetick in all its Operations is so subservient to Algebra, as that they seem both but to make one perfect Science of Computing; and therefore I will explain them both together.
ref: 1707, Isaac Newton, translated by Joseph Raphson, Arithmetica Universalis [Universal Arithmetic]:
english: Universal Arithmetic
translation: Universal Arithmetic
text: The principal clocks in this city ſtrike the hours from one to twelve progreſſively from the riſing of the ſun, and begin again after ſun‐ſet, which at firſt puzzles ſtrangers; but by the table of the æquation of time, publiſhed here, this may be reduced to the common method of calculating time.
ref: 1757, Johann Georg Keyssler, Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain, Volume IV, second edition, Letter XCII, page 178:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of equation.
municipal engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A field of engineering concerned with municipal infrastructure, including streets, water supply, sewers, electricity distribution, solid waste management and public parks.
reluctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reluctors
Etymology: From reluctance + -or.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A toothed ring or wheel that rotates past a variable reluctance sensor.
island fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island foxes
Senses: glosses: A fox (Urocyon littoralis) endemic to the Channel Islands of California.
Synonyms: California Channel Island fox
Channel Island fox
Channel Island gray fox
coast fox
insular gray fox
island gray fox
short-tailed fox
California Channel Island fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California Channel Island foxes
Senses: glosses: Channel Island fox
coast fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coast foxes
Senses: glosses: Channel Island fox
insular gray fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insular gray foxes
Senses: glosses: Channel Island fox
island gray fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island gray foxes
Senses: glosses: Channel Island fox
short-tailed fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-tailed foxes
Senses: glosses: Channel Island fox
tamarillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtæməɹˈɪləʊ/
ipa: /ˌtæməˈɹɪloʊ/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: tamarillos
Etymology: A Spanish-language-sounding neologism chosen by the New Zealand Tree Tomato Promotions Council in New Zealand in 1967. Appears to be a blend of tamarind and Spanish tomatillo.
Senses: glosses: A small tree or shrub (Solanum betaceum, syn. Cyphomandra betacea) which bears edible fruits, of the tropics of Argentina and Bolivia.
glosses: A fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: tree tomato
stœchiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stœchiometric
form: most stœchiometric
Etymology: From stœchiometry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: When either factors or products are hydrates the water may be omitted from the formulas except when the equation is to be made the basis for stœchiometric computations.
ref: 1907, Oscar Oldberg, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Problems and Exercises, page 302:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of stoichiometric.
drink the Kool Aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks the Kool Aid
form: drinking the Kool Aid
form: drank the Kool Aid
form: drunk the Kool Aid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drink the Kool-Aid.
remorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remorates
form: remorating
form: remorated
form: remorated
Etymology: From Latin remoratus, past participle of remorari; prefix re- (“re-”) + morari (“to delay”).
Senses: examples: text: His remorating kindred did adjourne
ref: 1644, Henry Rider, All the Odes and Epodes of Horace. Translated Into English:
glosses: To hinder; to delay.
melolagnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sexual arousal caused by music
noncommital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noncommital
form: most noncommital
Senses: examples: text: Jane seems to think this a profitable bargain and, while noncommital about gains, intimates they are prospering.
ref: 1939, Anne Winn Stevens, All Our Folks was Farmers:
glosses: Alternative form of noncommittal.
non-commital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-commital
form: most non-commital
Senses: examples: text: Immediately the non-commital look returned to Mr. Trohm's face.
ref: 1898, Anna Katharine Green, Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth, 2010 Gutenberg Edition:
text: What will eventually replace the '313s'? While Southern is again non-commital, all bets are on Class 377s taking over.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern 313s: is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of noncommittal.
commital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commitals
Senses: examples: text: He pressed eagerly for Clarendon's commital, and on the refusal of the Lords accused them of mutiny and rebellion, and entered his dissent with "great fury."
ref: 1911, “Bristol, George Digby, 2nd Earl of”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
glosses: Alternative form of committal.
renunciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renunciators
Senses: glosses: One who renounces.
Aubin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aubins
Etymology: From French Aubin, from Latin Albinus.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Saint Aubin
repurges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repurge
reunient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing reunion; bringing back together; applied to the sacculocochlear duct (ductus reuniens) in anatomy.
revulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvʌls/
Forms: form: revulses
form: revulsing
form: revulsed
form: revulsed
Etymology: From Latin revulsus (“revulsed”), past participle of revello (“I revulse”).
Senses: examples: text: But piercing with his lance Alcmaon, son
Of Thestor, suddenly revulsed the beam ,
Which following , Alcmaon to the earth
Fell prone[…]
ref: 1791, Homer, translated by W[illiam] Cowper, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pull back with force.
Alodia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from Old Nubian ⲁⲗⲗ (all, “to bind”), hence federation.
Senses: glosses: A medieval kingdom in what is now central and southern Sudan
linkway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkways
Etymology: From link + way.
Senses: glosses: A walkway that connects two parts of a passenger terminus
plexuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plexus
moving walkways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving walkway
Janets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Janet
linkways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linkway
blonde moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blonde moment