cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shankers
Etymology: From shank + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Littler said he didn't shank it; rather he called it a soft pop-up, but us old hard-core shankers weren't so generous .
ref: 1975, Blackie Sherrod, Scattershooting:
text: He said, "Our whole club is full of shankers." […] This club was infested with shankers, as if they all had a disease. […] The danger in hitting down on the ball with such intensity is that you are likely to shank it.
ref: 1993, Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake, And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:
text: And for the next twenty minutes, he shanked every shot. I did everything I could. […] And he still shanked every shot. […] “Sooooo, Butchie's got a shanker and can't get him squared up, huh?” he shouted so loud that ..."
ref: 2006, Butch Harmon, The Pro: Lessons from My Father About Golf and Life, Crown, →ISBN:
glosses: One who shanks (in any of various senses).
One who shanks a golf ball.
examples: text: A shank-cutter cuts with a die that part of the shank which is composed of leather or leather board. […] A shanker tacks the shank in place, cuts away the superfluous upper leather gathered under the toe, beats the edge of the upper out […]
ref: 1913, Leon Carroll Marshall, Chester Whitney Wright, James Alfred Field, Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics, page 202:
text: I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
ref: 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press
glosses: One who shanks (in any of various senses).
One who glues the shank into a shoe.
shanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shankers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chancre.
shankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shanker
harping iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harping irons
Etymology: From French harper (“to grasp strongly”). See harpoon.
Senses: examples: text: it [a whale] was killed with a harping iron , struck in the head
ref: 1658 June 13 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for June 3 1658]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: They row up gently to the Whale, and so he will scarcely shun them; and when the Harpineer, standing ready fitted, sees his opportunity, he strikes his Harping-Iron into the Whale about or before the Fins, rather than toward the Tail.
ref: December 9 1667, Richard Norwood, Philosophical Transactions/Volume 2/Number 30, an extract of a letter, page 166:
glosses: A harpoon.
harping irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harping iron
steely-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːliˌaɪd/
ipa: /ˈstiliˌaɪd/
Forms: form: more steely-eyed
form: most steely-eyed
Etymology: From steely + eyed.
Senses: synonyms: flint-eyed
glosses: Having a hard, strong, and determined look about oneself.
examples: text: Her steely-eyed control of emotion has become such a reliable source of strength and enjoyment in the last two seasons, it's genuinely moving to see her defenses fall in the face of long-lost friends and family.
ref: 2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020:
synonyms: diehard
hardcore
steely-nerved
steely-spined
tough as nails
glosses: Having a hard, strong, and determined mentality or mindset.
Derived terms: steely-eyed missile man
Related terms: bright-eyed
clear-eyed
sharp-eyed
anallagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: anallagmatic curves
text: anallagmatic geometry
text: anallagmatic surfaces
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not changed in form by inversion.
minicorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicorders
Etymology: Blend of mini- + recorder
Senses: examples: text: The three big networks alone had more than 1000 people on the job, along sith a vast assortment of tape recorders, bind mikes, minicorders, walkie-talkies, peepie-creepies and periscopes[…]
ref: 1952, Time, volume 60, numbers 1-13:
text: The most interesting artifact left in the wake of Michael Enslin's brief stay (it lasted about seventy minutes) in room 1408 was the eleven minutes of recorded tape in his minicorder, which was charred a bit but not even close to destroyed.
ref: 1999, Stephen King, 1408:
glosses: A portable tape recorder.
minicorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicorder
Cockneyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cockneyish
form: most Cockneyish
Etymology: From Cockney + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, or resembling, Cockneys, or Cockney ways.
extorsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extorsive
form: most extorsive
Etymology: See extort.
Senses: examples: text: the Words corrupte & extorsive being in the Indictment
ref: 1750, Joseph Shaw, Parish Law:
glosses: Serving or tending to extort.
Related terms: extorsively
productibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of productibility
productibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: productibilities
Senses: examples: 1860-1862, John Ruskin, "The Veins of Wealth" in Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy
A man's labor for a day is a better standard of value than a measure of any produce , because no produce ever maintains a consistent rate of productibility
glosses: The state of being productible; producibility.
Complutensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Complutensian
form: most Complutensian
Etymology: From Latin Complūtensis + -an.
Senses: examples: text: the Complutensian Bible
glosses: Of or relating to Complute or Complutum (now Alcalá de Henares), a city near Madrid in Spain.
multicache
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cache.
Senses: examples: Evaluation of High Performance Multicache Parallel Texture Mapping
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having or relating to more than one cache.
multicache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicaches
Etymology: From multi- + cache.
Senses: glosses: A geocache involving the sequential discovery of a number of different locations, each yielding the coordinates of the next.
multimemory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + memory.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having or relating to more than one memory.
megerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megergs
Etymology: From mega- + erg.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megalerg.
megergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megerg
syncopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncopists
Senses: examples: text: in order to outshine all the modern race of Syncopists, and thoroughly content my English readers, I intend shortly to publish a Spectator, that shall not have a single vowel in it .
ref: 1714 July 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 567; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who syncopates.
syncopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncopist
cornic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Cornus + -ic
Senses: glosses: Derived from the dogwood (Cornus florida).
ricinolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ricinoleic.
cumbrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cumbrously
form: most cumbrously
Etymology: From cumbrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cumbrous manner.
Brinjaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brinjarees
Etymology: Native name.
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of Indian dacoits.
Derived terms: Brinjaree dog
Related terms: Bringaree
Brinjarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brinjaree
archchancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːtʃˈtʃɑːnsələ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃˈt͡ʃænsəlɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹt͡ʃˈt͡ʃænslɚ/
Forms: form: archchancellors
Etymology: From arch- + chancellor. Compare German Erzkanzler, Medieval Latin archicancellārius.
Senses: glosses: chief chancellor
glosses: in Germany, an officer in the Holy Roman Empire who presided over the secretaries of the court
archchancellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archchancellor
liage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French liage (“a bond”). See liable.
Senses: glosses: Union by league; alliance.
ornithorhynchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈɹɪŋkəs/
Forms: form: ornithorhynchuses
Etymology: From translingual Ornithorhynchus (genus name).
Senses: glosses: A platypus (genus Ornithorhynchus).
ornithorhynchuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithorhynchus
linyphiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈnɪ.fi.ɪd/
Forms: form: linyphiids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Linyphiidae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any spider of the family Linyphiidae; a sheet weaver.
linyphiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linyphiid
rachitome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rachitomes
form: rachiotome
Etymology: From French rachitome, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “the spine”) + τομός (tomós, “to cut”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.
rachitomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rachitome
Otaheite apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Otaheite apple
corallinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corallinites
Etymology: From coralline + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil coralline.
corallinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corallinite
ambarellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambarella
rojak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rojaks
Etymology: From Dutch roedjak, from Javanese ꦫꦸꦗꦏ꧀ (rujak), from Old Javanese rujak.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
glosses: A person of mixed ethnic heritage.
Derived terms: Indian rojak
perspicil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perspicils
Etymology: From Latin perspicilla, from perspicere (“to look through”).
Senses: examples: text: Chronology
(Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can
Out-stare the broad-beam'd Day's meridian)
Will have a perspicil to find her out
ref: a. 1649, Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology:
glosses: An optical glass; a telescope.
perspicils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perspicil
transferrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferrences
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of transference
transferrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transferrence
sarcomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sarcomatous
form: most sarcomatous
Etymology: From sarcoma + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: sarcomatous overgrowth
text: sarcomatous
text: sarcomatous
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.
Derived terms: pseudosarcomatous
crevises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crevis
conchitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conchitic
form: most conchitic
Senses: examples: conchitic limestone
glosses: Composed of shells; containing many shells.
coleseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleseeds
Etymology: From cole + seed.
Senses: glosses: The common rape or cole, specifically Brassica campestris.
coleseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coleseed
neogaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + Ancient Greek γαῖα (gaîa, “earth”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The first list includes the generally accepted families of the neogaean—or new world—birds, embracing both those peculiar to America and those found in the old world […]
ref: 1866 June, A. American, “Arrangement of Families of Birds”, in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 8, number 210, published 1869, page 8:
text: We are quite satisfied that such a characteristic and deviating plant of the tribe of the Bromeae is placed in a distinct genus, which is at the same time quite in accordance with its curious neogaean distribution.
ref: 1941, Jan Theodoor Henrard, “Notes on the Nomenclature of Some Grasses, II”, in Blumea […], volume 4, number 3, page 500:
text: The study of many specimens belonging to both gerontogaean and neogaean species of the group has shown me […] the best characteristics to distinguish the different species […]
ref: 1975, R.E.G. Pichi Sermolli, “Taxonomic Notes on Some African Species of Elaphoglossum”, in Fern Gazette, volume 11, numbers 2–3, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023, page 95:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.
araceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin arum a genus of plants, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a family of plants, Araceae, of which the genus Arum is the type.
Related terms: Araceae
Arales
liturate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liturate
form: most liturate
Etymology: First attested in 1826; Latin litūrātus, perfect passive participle and participial adjective from litūrō (“to erase”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from litūra (“a blur”).
Senses: examples: text: liturate thorax
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having indistinct spots, paler at the margins.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Spotted, as if from abrasions of the surface.
perioplic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periople + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the periople.
transcolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For mere transcolation may by degrees take away that which the chemists call the fixed salt […]
ref: 1662, Edward Stillingfleet, Origines Sacrae:
glosses: Act of transcolating, or state of being transcolated.
Sarkese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sark + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Sercquiais language.
dissilition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsɪˈlɪʃən/
Senses: examples: text: the Dissilition of that Air was so great , that the small Viol seem'd to be full of Milk
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of bursting or springing apart.
Related terms: dissilient
unspirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unspirits
form: unspiriting
form: unspirited
form: unspirited
Etymology: From un- + spirit.
Senses: glosses: To lower the spirits (positive energy) of; to dispirit.
unspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspirit
unspirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspirit
unspiritedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unspirited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unspirited.
portsale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portsales
Etymology: From port + sale. See port (“gate”).
Senses: examples: text: Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XLI]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
glosses: public or open sale; auction
portsales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portsale
dreely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dreelier
form: more dreely
form: dreeliest
form: most dreely
form: dreighly
Etymology: From Middle English drely, dreȝly, dreghly, dryȝly, equivalent to dree + -ly. Cognate with Scots dreichly (“steadily, copiously”).
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Highly; largely; nobly; earnestly.
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Slowly; tediously.
smalltown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From small + town.
Senses: examples: text: we're smalltown people
ref: 1995, New York Magazine, Deaths in a Small Town - May 15, 1995, page 18:
text: 13 Parvenu United Local rivalries, smalltown boys and city slickers Alan Tomlinson The Football League
ref: 2004, David L. Andrews, Manchester United: a thematic study, page 189
text: Indeed, several of the most notorious anti-Jewish incidents of nineteenth-century America were played out in smalltown settings.
ref: 2005, Lee Shai Weissbach, Jewish life in small-town America: a history, page 231
text: The film updates the Romeo & Juliet formula, and narrates the story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl in a smalltown Uttar Pradesh setup.
ref: 2013 February 15, Priyanka Srivastava, “Is Bollywood trying to rid Muslim characters of stereotypes?”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2015:
glosses: Alternative form of small-town.
small town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small towns
form: small-town
form: smalltown
Senses: examples: text: I went to heaven,– / ’T was a small town, / Lit with a ruby, / Lathed with down.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I went to heaven”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 196:
text: There's only one good use for a small town / You hate it—and you know you'll have to leave
ref: 1990, Lou Reed, John Cale, “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:
glosses: A small (generally rural) town.
small towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small town
blows one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow one's load
shoots one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot one's load
dumps one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dump one's load
blew one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow one's load
shot one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of shoot one's load
dumped one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of dump one's load
sea coot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea coots
Senses: glosses: Any scoter (Melanitta spp.).
sea coots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea coot
suturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suturate
blown one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow one's load
cany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪni/
Forms: form: more cany
form: most cany
Etymology: From cane + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
examples: text: Sericana , where Chineses drive
With sails and wind their cany waggons light
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Abounding with canes.
teewit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teewits
Senses: glosses: The peewit.
teewits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teewit
Senones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Via Latin from Ancient Greek Σήνωνες (Sḗnōnes), originally the capital of the Gaulish people of the same name.
Senses: glosses: A Gaulish tribe in the Roman period.
rosepetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹoʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
Forms: form: rosepetals
Senses: examples: text: With much fuss and kindness they brought me coffee and candied rosepetal jam — delicious indeed.
ref: 1978, Alfred F. Rosa, The Old century and the new: essays in honor of Charles Angoff, page 122:
text: A gallery opening in Albuquerque's Nob Hill or Santa Fe's Canyon Road, leading to some rosepetal-dusted squab enchiladas for dinner, followed by dancing to Middle Eastern techno-fusion music, capped off by coffee and poetry […]
ref: 2003, in the Collector's Guide, volume 17, number 1, page 63
text: […] presses herself scrapbook rosepetal flat against the old bricks and mortar as far as the wall runs.
ref: 2007, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Threshold:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rose petal.
rosepetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹoʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
Senses: examples: text: […] lonely cock atop iron girders wears rosepetal smile […]
ref: sometime 1900-1963, William Carlos Williams, A Struggle, printed in The lost works of William Carlos Williams by Robert J. Cirasa, page 55
text: Today Greer says her first impression of Diane was of "a rosepetal-soft, delicate little girl. […]"
ref: 1995, Patricia Bosworth, Diane Arbus: a biography, page 314:
text: […] and a foot in a gold sandal steps down. Soft and arched and almost white. Rosepetal toes curling in disdain away from what lines the street, wadded paper, rotting peels, dog shit, shucked-off condoms thrown from the back windows of cars.
ref: 1998, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices:
text: Small hands flailed, the downy head turned from one side to another and suddenly the rosepetal mouth opened and Emily let out a wail.
ref: 2011, Catherine George, No More Secrets:
glosses: As soft, delicate or (red- or pink-) coloured as the petal of a rose.
rose petal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹoʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz pɛt(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹəʊz.pɛt(ə)l/
Forms: form: rose petals
form: rosepetal
form: rose-petal
Senses: glosses: The petal of a rose flower.
rose petals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose petal
rose-petal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose-petals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rose petal.
rose-petals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose-petal
dright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: drights
Etymology: From Middle English drihte, from Old English driht, dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), from Proto-West Germanic *druhti, from Proto-Germanic *druhtiz (“troop, following”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).
Cognate with Old Frisian dregte (“people, crowd, escort, retinue, host”), Middle Low German drucht (“band, war-team”), Middle High German truht (“multitude, offspring”), Icelandic drótt (“people, entourage, bodyguard”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 (gadrauhts, “soldier”). Related also to German Truchsess (“steward”), from Middle High German truhtsæze (“chairman of a multitude, steward”, literally “sitting one/presider next to/in front of a multitude". The meaning "multitude" survives in present day German in the sense of "representing a court”), from Old High German truhtsāzzo.
Senses: examples: text: […] and Finn's compatriots were of course his subjects; more particularly, his close associates, the members of his dright.
ref: 1943, ELH., volumes 10-12, page 262:
text: Ancient battle poems show that neither gold nor lofty cause could keep a dright's courage at the sticking point: The warriors needed to be harangued into perseverance, reminded of their obligations to the ring-giver and their ultimate rewards.
ref: 1969, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, page 45:
text: The king shared his goods with the dright and took them into his very household; the dright shielded him with their bodies on the field of battle, and if he fell they fought on, to victory or death, […]
ref: 2003, 1962, Albert C. Baugh, Kemp Malone, A Literary History of England:
glosses: A multitude; army; host.
Derived terms: drightfare
drightfolk
drightman
dright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: drights
form: drighten
form: drightin
Etymology: From Middle English dright, driȝt, earlier drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-West Germanic *druhtin, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).
Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drotten, drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic drottinn (“lord, master, ruler, God”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drighten.
examples: text: "Hey, you!" Christopher called out in the most lordly way he could. "You there! Take me to the Dright at once!"
ref: 2001, Diana Wynne Jones, The chronicles of Chrestomanci:
glosses: A lord; ruler; chief; leader.
glosses: The Lord; The Lord God; Christ.
Derived terms: drightness
drightful
drightlike
stonecold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stone + cold.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stone cold.
alternation of generations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hofmeister (1851) discovered alternation of generations and demonstrated the connection between the pteridophytes and the bryophytes, giving rise to the concept of the archegoniates.
ref: 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 130:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of metagenesis.
synonyms: word: metagenesis
rosepetals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosepetal
endophragma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + phragma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain crustaceans.
examples: text: This little-known Oriental species [Aphytis angustus] appears to be rather closely related to obscurus, but may be readily separated from the latter species by the relatively long endophragma, propodeum, ovipositor and syntergum
ref: 2012, David Rosen, P. DeBach, Species of Aphytis of the World:
glosses: The innermost wall of the septum on some insects.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A partition in the frond of some seaweeds.
Derived terms: endophragmal
papalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papalty
papalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papalties
Senses: examples: text: soothe him up in his dream of a fifth monarchy , and withal to uphold the decrepit papalty
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: The papacy.
floramour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floramours
Etymology: From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + amor (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: The great Floramour hath a thick and call creſted ſtalk, with many reddiſh, large green leaves, the ſtalk divided into many branches, bearing long spikes of round hairy tufts
ref: 1665, John Rea, De Florum Cultura:
glosses: The plant love-lies-bleeding.
floramours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floramour
catstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catsticks
form: cat-stick
Etymology: From cat + stick.
Senses: examples: text: You, ſirrha; Sheepes-head, / VVith a face cut on a cat-ſticke, Doe you heare?
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
topics: games
glosses: A stick or club used in the game of tipcat.
topics: games
glosses: The game of tipcat.
catsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catstick
flowerpetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerpetals
Senses: examples: text: […], drifting downward like flowerpetals from her hair and hands.
ref: 2002, Latifa Al-Zayyat, Marilyn Booth, The Open Door, page 60:
text: […] who gathers herself a bunch of colorful flowers that she uses to adorn her bodice; (2) In the Umwelt of an ant, which uses the regular design of the stem surface as the ideal path in order to reach its food-area in the flowerpetals; […]
ref: 2010, Dario Martinelli, A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics: People, Paths, Ideas:
text: These are her lipsticks and perfumes and flowerpetals and dresses. Does she really let them watch—?
ref: 2010, Alison Lanier, Fortunate Age, page 209:
text: In short we subconsciously experience certain signs as symbols. A good example are the white lilies in 'Incarnation'. The woman has gathered flowerpetals in a plastic bag.
ref: 2010, Spank Moons, In Questa Tomba Oscura the Skull Within:
glosses: Alternative spelling of flower petal.
flowerpetals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerpetal
flower petal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower petals
form: flowerpetal
form: flower-petal
Senses: glosses: A petal of a flower.
glosses: A modified leaf that surrounds the reproductive parts of flowers, often brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators.
Coordinate terms: sense: modified leaf
word: sepal
sense: modified leaf
word: tepal
sense: modified leaf
word: bract
outscout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outscouts
form: outscouting
form: outscouted
form: outscouted
Etymology: From out- + scout.
Senses: examples: text: In the Matabele campaign he had out[-]scouted the savage scouts and found his pleasure in tracking them among their native mountains, […]
ref: 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Siege of Mafeking”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 404:
text: A major league owner in Brooklyn, St. Louis or Chicago might not be able to outscout and outspend the Yankees. But he could find and sign gifted ballplayers in places the Yankees ignored.
ref: 2002, Scott Simon, chapter 2, in Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, page 29:
glosses: To surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance.
examples: text: Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signatures I4, recto – I4, verso:
glosses: To overpower by disdain; to outface.
outscout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outscouts
Etymology: From out- + scout.
Senses: examples: text: 1728, Daniel Defoe (attributed), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, pp. 211-212,
[…] tho’ the Enemy took the Train I had laid, and on sight of our small Body on the Hill, sent a Party from their greater Body to intercept them, before they could reach the Town; yet the Sequel prov’d, we had mistaken their Number, and it soon appeared to be much greater than we at first imagin’d. However our Out-scouts, as I may call ’em, got safe into the House […]
text: [They] lay covered by the underwood, and behind rocks and roots of trees, waiting in silent ambush for their pursuers, of whose approach they had always information from their out-scouts.
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 41:
glosses: An advance scout.
examples: text: As soon as they approached near the Town, the two Indians which were in the Canoa with our five Men for the Out-scout, jumped over-board, and we lost them.
ref: 1707, William Funnell, chapter 3, in A Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 42:
text: 1744, Peter Wraxall, entry dated 17 May, 1744, in Charles Howard McIlwain (ed.), An Abridgment of the Indian Affairs, Harvard University Press, 1915, p. 232,
[…] they think it absolutely necessary that an outscout of 40 Men should be sent at the charge of the Province to the Carrying Place […] to observe the Motions of the Enemy […]
text: 1754, Conrad Weiser, journal entry dated 3 September, 1754, in The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser, Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1876, p. 350,
[…] Tanacharisson […] complained very much of the behavior of Colonel Washington to him […] saying that he took upon him to command the Indians as his slaves, and would have them every day upon the outscout and attack the enemy by themselves, and that he would by no means take advice from the Indians […]
glosses: A group of advance scouts; an advance scouting party.
outscouted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outscout
outscouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outscout
outscouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outscout
flower-petal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower-petals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flower petal.
flower petals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower petal
flower-petals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower-petal
drighten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪ.tən/
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: drightens
form: dright
form: drightin
form: Drighten
Etymology: From Middle English drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-West Germanic *druhtin, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”), equivalent to dright (“army, host”) + -en. Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), and with Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Old High German truhtin, Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”) (dialectal German Trechtin, Trechtein (“lord, God”)), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree.
Senses: examples: text: Believe me, my drighten, there is not one of us that has ever slacked on watch before!
ref: 2010, Stephan Grundy, Beowulf:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
paganism
philosophy
religion
sciences
qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
glosses: A lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince.
glosses: The Lord; Lord God; Christ.
housedoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housedoors
Senses: examples: text: Some man that wayfaring was stood by housedoor at night's oncoming.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 368:
text: He stood sideways in the kitchen doorway, looking at Watt, and Watt saw the housedoor open behind him […]
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, chapter I, in Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC, page 63:
text: No identifiable remains of these housedoor guardians or their bases have been detected in situ on archaeological sites, but, as in the case of the niches in city gates, a shallow recess off the street in front of the housedoor (a common feature in the classical period) seems ideally suited for statuettes, […]
ref: 1992, Christopher A. Faraone, Talismans and Trojan horses: guardian statues in ancient Greek myth and ritual, page 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of house door.
housedoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housedoor
house door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house doors
form: housedoor
form: house-door
Etymology: From Middle English hous-dore, equivalent to house + door. Cognate Saterland Frisian Huusdoore (“housedoor”), West Frisian hûsdoar (“housedoor”), Dutch huisdeur (“housedoor”), German Low German Huusdöör (“housedoor”), German Haustür (“housedoor”), Swedish husdörr (“housedoor”), Icelandic húsdyr (“housedoor”). Compare also German Haustor (“house gate, house door”).
Senses: glosses: A door to a house; a house's door.
house-door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-doors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of house door.
house doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house door
house-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-door
drightin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drightins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of drighten.
cuneatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: cuneatic decipherment
ref: 1874, Rev. A. H. Sayce, “The Languages of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Elam and Media”, in Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volume 3:
glosses: cuneiform (writing system)
applot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: applots
form: applotting
form: applotted
form: applotted
Etymology: From ad- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: 1649, "Articles of peace, made, concluded, accorded, and agreed upon by and between his excellency James lord marquis of Ormond, lord lieutenant-general, and general of his majesty's kingdom of Ireland, for, and on the behalf of, his most excellent majesty, by virtue of the authority wherewith the said lord lieutenant is intrusted, on the one part: and the general assembly of Roman Catholics of the said kingdom, for and on the behalf of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects of the same, on the other part", quoted in John Milton, "Observations on the Articles of Peace Between James Earl of Ormond for King Charles the First on the one hand, and the Irish Rebels and Papists on the other hand".
[…] and that the ſaid Thomas Lord Viſcount Dillon of Coſtologh Lord Preſident of Connaght, Donnogh Lord Viſcount Muſkerry, Francis Lord Bacon of Athunry, &c. or even any ſeven or more of them, ſhall have power to applot, raiſe and levy Means with Indifferency and Equality, by way of Exciſe or otherwiſe, in the ſeveral Cities, Corporate Towns, Counties and part of Counties, now within the Quarters and only upon the Eſtates of the ſaid Confederate Roman Catholics, all ſuch Sum and Sums of Money as ſhall appear to the ſaid Thomas Lord Viſcount Dillon of Coſtologh Lord Preſident of Connaght, Donnogh Lord Viſcount Muſkerry, Francis Lord Bacon of Athunry, &c. or even any ſeven or more of them, to be really due, for and in the Diſcharge of the public Engagements of the ſaid Confederate Catholics, incurred and grown due before the Concluſion of theſe Articles; […]
glosses: To divide into plots or parts; to apportion.
Derived terms: applotment
applotter
applots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of applot
applotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of applot
applotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of applot
semibarbarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + barbarous.
Senses: glosses: Partially barbarous; not fully civilised.
Related terms: semibarbarian
oldman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldmen
Senses: examples: text: And therein ſat an old oldman, halfe blind,
And all decrepit in his feeble corſe, […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 322:
text: Our Lord an oldman with a white beard
Seated in glory on the cross […]
ref: 1891, Armenian popular songs, translated into English, page 64:
text: One of the oldmen started jabbering, US number one, VC number ten thou . . .
ref: 1986, A. R. Flowers, De mojo blues: de quest of HighJohn de conqueror, page 160:
text: The agony of an oldman for being neglected in the family and ill-treated by his daughter-in-law, abides.
ref: 2007, Bijay Kumar Das, Critical essays on post-colonial literature, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of old man.
oldmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldman
old-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oldman.
old-man
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Along the banks of the Georgina are alternate patches of old-man scrub and strips of plain country.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 209:
glosses: (applied to plants and animals) Of exceptional size or age.
examples: text: They Say: That the wild ducks have tipped an "old man flood."
ref: 1900 July 8, The Sunday Times, Sydney, page 1, column 1:
glosses: (applied to weather) Of exceptional intensity.
old-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old-man
self-kill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-kills
form: self-killing
form: self-killed
form: self-killed
form: selfkill
form: self kill
Etymology: From self- + kill. compare Old English selfcwalu (“suicide, self-slaughter”).
Senses: examples: text: As his self-killing would not have been murder, his acts done in order to self-kill are not an attempt to murder.
ref: 1904, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State law review:
text: It might be suggested that if it is possible to think of the acts of people such as John and the young clerk, who kill themselves to wreak revenge on others, as falling short of suicide though they intentionally self kill, […]
ref: 1995, Gavin Fairbairn, Contemplating suicide:
glosses: To kill oneself; commit suicide.
Derived terms: self-killer
self-killing
delinition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin delinere (“to smear”). See liniment.
Senses: examples: text: The Delinition alſo of the Infant's Ears and Noſtrils with the Spittle of the Prieſt may ſometimes ſtrike harſhly upon the ſpirits of the more delicate; but it makes much for the opinion of his Sanctity, vvhoſe ſpumeous excrement is of ſo ſacred a virtue, and vvill gain alſo the prayers of all the vvomen in the Tovvn, that he may ever be an hail and ſound man.
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter XVIII, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, pages 68–69:
glosses: A smearing.
spareless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spareless
form: most spareless
Etymology: From spare + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Too - soon expose thee not , to Sisters - spareless
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
text: When all the friends that blessed his prime, Were vanished like a morning dream; Plucked one by one by spareless Time, And scatteredin oblivion's stream;
ref: 1841, The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, page 100:
text: But Hubba, at his early death incensed, Swell'd into fury: with supernal strength Burst the closed gates: struck by his spareless sword, Alas! mid echoing screams and groans, o'er all Those hallow'd aisles, unnumber'd victims fell, Whom with a voice of thunder Hubba sent Cursing to Hela
ref: 1841, John Fitchett, Robert Roscoe, King Alfred: A Poem, page 455:
glosses: Unsparing.
examples: text: However, until the spareless car gains acceptance, spare tires will be provided on all the passenger cars.
ref: 1957, Product Engineering - Volume 28, page 210:
text: The purpose of your tire-patch package is to keep you on the road and keep you from being spareless after a puncture-flat.
ref: 1970 December, Richard Day, “How to Set Up and Run Your Own Wheel/Tire Upkeep Center”, in Popular Science:
text: Since I carried only one spare, I had many an anxious moment running spareless on bald rubber .
ref: 1973, John J. Byrne, Africa on Wheels: A Scrounger's Guide to Motoring in Africa, page 34:
text: A more reliable, spareless solution is the run-flat tire.
ref: 2003, Car and Driver - Volume 48, page 13:
glosses: Lacking a spare tire.
enaliosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnæliəˌsɔɹ/
enpr: ĭnălʹēəsôr'
ipa: /ɪˈnælɪəˌsɔː/
Forms: form: enaliosaurs
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of the Enaliosauria (now known as the ichthyosaurs or sauropterygians.
enaliosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enaliosaur
pillars of the community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillar of the community
-saurus
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːɹəs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
Forms: form: -sauruses
form: -sauri
form: -saur
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”), inspired by its use in taxonomic names for dinosaurs.
Senses: glosses: Forms names for real or imaginary dinosaurs.