cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
felt-tip pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felt-tip pens
Senses: glosses: A pen that holds quick-drying ink conveyed to a writing surface by means of a felt nib.
Synonyms: word: felt-tip
word: felt
word: marker pen
word: marker
sense: genericized trademarks
word: magic marker
word: sharpie
word: texta
setting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set out
gigohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gigaohm.
resetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resettings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is reset.
resetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reset
resets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reset
misgives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgive
misgave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misgive
misgiven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misgive
overcomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcome
costing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cost
costing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costings
Senses: glosses: The estimation of the cost of a process or product.
Derived terms: absorption costing
microcosting
Related terms: cost estimate
booboisie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booboisies
Etymology: Blend of boob + bourgeoisie.
Senses: glosses: A social class made up of ignorant and uncultured people.
Related terms: boobocracy
boobocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From boob + -o- + -cracy; apparently coined in imitation of booboisie.
Senses: examples: text: The revelations about the Ku Klux Klan have told us nothing, except that what Mr. Mencken calls the "booboisie" is obviously a docile imitator of the boobocracy.
ref: 1921 October 19, “What's All the Shootin' For?”, in The Freeman, volume 4, number 84, →ISSN, page 125:
text: And, if a boobocracy, why not play on it for profit? What else is it for?
ref: 1947, Francis Hackett, On Judging Books: In General and in Particular, J. Day Co., →LCCN, →OL, page 11:
text: Henry L. Mencken could come up from Baltimore to spread terror among the boobocracy, and vanquish weekly the ministers, college professors, and chambers of commerce.
ref: 1978, Thomas Yoseloff, “The Tone of the Twenties”, in Alfred F. Rosa, editor, The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 73:
text: But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.
ref: 1984, Anthony West, H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, →OL, page 126:
glosses: Rule by the ignorant and uneducated.
retrogresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrogress
retrogressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrogress
retrogressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrogress
retroceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrocede
retrograding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrograde
retrograded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrograde
cerement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerements
Etymology: From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).
Senses: examples: text: Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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: Oh! when his sacred dust
The cerements of the tomb shall burst,
Might I be worthy at his feet to rise,
To yonder blissful skies,
Where angel-hosts resplendent shine,
Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.
ref: 1834, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Barzillai the Gileadite, page 26:
text: "Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 77
text: The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.
ref: 1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”, page xxvii
glosses: A burial shroud or garment.
glosses: Cerecloth.
Synonyms: winding clothes
winding sheet
pall
Derived terms: unceremented
dual audio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The option to listen to audio in two different languages, especially in the case of anime offering both dubbed English and the original Japanese.
Hultgren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hultgrens
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Hultgren, an ornamental surname composed of the elements hult (“forest”) and gren (“branch”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
socio-political
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sociopolitical
Etymology: From socio- + political.
Senses: examples: text: The socio-political environment in France...
glosses: Of or pertaining to a combination of social and political factors.
sociopolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The insane sociopolitical system
glosses: Alternative form of socio-political.
egresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of egress
egressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egress
egressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of egress
crowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crowners
Etymology: From Middle English crowner, crownere, equivalent to crown + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, thou mother of delights,
 Crowner of all happy nights,
 Star of dear content and pleasure,
 Of mutual loves the endless treasure!
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:
glosses: One who, or that which, crowns.
crowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crowners
Etymology: From Middle English crouner, variant of coroner.
Senses: examples: text: I tell thee ſhe is, and therefore make her Grave ſtraight, the Crowner hath ſate on her, and finds it Chriſtian buriall.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 276, column 2:
glosses: coroner
quillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Forms: form: quillets
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a shortening of earlier quillity, itself of uncertain origin, or from Latin quidlibet (“anything”).
Senses: examples: text: There’s another : why might not that bee the Scull of a Lawyer ? where be his Quiddits now ? his Quillets ? his Caſes ? his Tenures, and his Tricks ? why doe’s he ſuffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about the Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his Action of Battery ? hum.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 277, column 2:
text: Hence it comes that such a pack of vile buffoons [...] intrude with unwashed feet upon the sacred precinct of Theology, bringing with them nothing save brazen impudence, and some hackneyed quillets and scholastic trifles not good enough for a crowd at a street corner.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A quibble, an evasive distinction.
quillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Forms: form: quillets
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Anglo-Norman/Old French cueillette (“uncultivated strip of land for the gathering of herbs, berries, snails, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: The single and only [Royal Wilding apple] tree from which the apple was first propagated is very tall, fair, and stout ; I believe it stands about twenty feet high. It stands in a very little quillet (as we call it) of gardening, adjoining to the post-road that leads from Exeter to Oakhampton, in the parish of St. Thomas, but near the borders of another parish called Whitestone.
ref: 1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, “Hugh Stafford and the Royal Wilding”, in Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, London: John Lane, page 7:
glosses: A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.
Synonyms: croft
Derived terms: quilleted
pocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: more pocky
form: pockier
form: most pocky
form: pockiest
Etymology: From pock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Faith, if 'a be not rotten before 'a die (as we have many pocky corpses that will scarce hold the laying in) 'a will last you some eight year [...]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: ‘You Damn'd Confounded Pocky Whore, I am glad we are met, for now will I give you as many Stripes as I've taken Pills, Bolus's, and other Hellish Slip-slops on your Account.’
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section IV:
glosses: Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
Derived terms: pockily
pockiness
fordo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈduː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: fordoes
form: fordoing
form: fordid
form: fordone
form: foredo
Etymology: From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn (“to undo, bring to naught, ruin, destroy, abolish, kill, corrupt, seduce, defile”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradōn (“to ruin, destroy”), equivalent to for- + do. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdwo (“to waste, consume”), West Frisian ferdwaan (“to waste”), Dutch verdoen (“to kill, waste”), German Low German verdoon (“to waste, consume”), German vertun (“to waste, spend, consume”).
Senses: examples: text: […]This doth betoken / The coarse they follow did with desperate hand / Foredoe it’s own life.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To kill, destroy.
examples: text: And that penaūce god hath ordeyned yow for that dede / that he that ye shalle most truste to of ony man alyue / he shalle leue yow ther ye shalle be slayne / Me forthynketh said kynge Pellinore that this shalle me betyde but god may fordoo wel desteny
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book III:
glosses: To annul, abolish, cancel.
examples: text: And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
ref: 1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)
glosses: To do away with, undo; to ruin.
examples: text: worn faces (...) / they wander, wander, / Or sit foredone and desolately ponder / Through sleepless hours with heavy drooping head.
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: To overcome with fatigue; to exhaust.
strewments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A Shakespearean coinage: strew + -ment + -s.
Senses: examples: text: Her Maiden ſtrewments,
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: strewings; flowers strewn on a coffin
splenative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splenative
form: most splenative
Etymology: From Latin splēn (“spleen”) + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: For, though I am not splenative and rash
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: pertaining to the spleen
Synonyms: splenetic
splenitive
eisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈiːzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: eisell
Etymology: From Middle English aisel, aisille, aysel, from Old French aisil, from Vulgar Latin *acētillum, a diminutive of Latin acētum (“vinegar”).
Senses: examples: text: Woul't drink up eisel, eat a crocodile?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: vinegar, verjuice
forgives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forgive
extream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extream
form: most extream
Senses: examples: text: I slept very disturbedly, and had a quick high towring Pulse; had strange Flashes in my Blood, like Wild-fire, which I could perceive in my Face, Neck, Breast, and extream Parts.
ref: 1715, Francisco de Quevedo, The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo:
glosses: Archaic spelling of extreme.
Derived terms: extreamly
extream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extreams
Senses: examples: text: It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of extreme.
bestrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bestride
betakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betake
betaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betake
concernancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A Shakespearean coinage; see concern.
Senses: examples: text: Hamlet. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath?
Osric. Sir?
Horatio. [aside to Hamlet] Is’t not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do’t, sir, really.
Hamlet. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: But if he asks for the concernancy and relevancy of it all he is answered only by the sledge-hammer strokes of rhetoric with which each idea is emphasized as it happens to present itself.
ref: 1909 January, Paul Shorey, “Hippias Paidagogos”, in The School Review, volume 17, number 1, page 6:
text: At your age ‘death’ has no significance, at mine it is full of terror. One knows not how, or why, or with what concernancy, but suddenly one knows, and everything in life takes on another aspect.
ref: 1923, James Agate, “Looking and Leaping”, in Fantasies and Impromptus, London: W. Collins Sons & Co., page 234:
glosses: Relevance.
expatriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expatriate
drossy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drossier
form: more drossy
form: drossiest
form: most drossy
Etymology: From dross + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
yeasty collection, which carries them through and
through the most profane and winnowed opinions
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: They found the Mass, ’tis true, but in their Mould
They purg’d the drossy Oar to current Gold:
Mending their patttern, they escap’d the Curse,
Yet had they not writ better, they’d writ worse.
ref: 1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 23:
glosses: worthless
Derived terms: drossiness
undrossy
gaingiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaingivings
Etymology: From gain- + giving.
Senses: examples: text: It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: "I tell thee what it is, Dick," he growled, "I have a gaingiving come over me, as I think on yonder barn ; it well nigh makes me turn back, now we are within a stone's throw of it, and that's the truth.
ref: 1880, The Irish Monthly, volume 8:
text: His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!
ref: 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon:
text: “A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.”
ref: 2003, Pamela Dean, The whim of the dragon:
text: The hero of our play will be, not only a man who might have made a soldier, "had he been put on," and who has effectively been relieved of his vigil by the time we bid him farewell, but one also who, though he scorns to be troubled by "gaingiving", [...]
ref: 2011, Harold Skulsky, Spirits Finely Touched::
glosses: A misgiving; an internal feeling or prognostication of evil.
glosses: A giving against or away.
Related terms: gaingive
Afro-Argentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Afro- + Argentinian.
Senses: examples: text: 1989, A. Lynne Bolles, "Ellen Irene Diggs", in Ute Gacs, Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 62,
Following the end of World War II, […]. In Montevideo she continued archival research and became a participant observer in the Afro-Urugayan and Afro-Argentinian communities.
text: Includes an exhaustive study of the Afro-Argentinian population in Santa Fe, from the Colonial period to our days.
ref: 1993, Kathleen M. Balutansky, Lucy Wilson, Renée Larrier, Elba D. Birmingham-Pokorny, Rosângela M. Vieira, Studies in Caribbean and South American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, 1991-1992, in Callaloo 16(4), p1011
text: In 1996, Braschi launched the "Charismatic-Oxala-Nana Union," devoted to "Afro-Argentinian nature religion."
ref: 2002 July 19, John L. Allen, Jr., “Ordinations ignite debate over tactics”, in National Catholic Reporter, 38(34), p. 7:
text: ... not widely known that, by 1810, 30 percent of Argentina’s and Buenos Aires’s population was Afro-Argentinian, and that this was a vibrant community.
ref: 2005: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic, published in the journal African Affairs, volume 104, № 414, pages 35-68
text: page 183: [Material culture,] Afro-Argentinian, 127–129
page 184: Pipes, Afro-Argentinian, 128, 142
[Note: The above index entries may be in error. The body of the book uses the term Afro-Argentine.]
ref: 2000, Alex Lomonaco (tr.), Daniel Schávelzon (author), The Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires: A City at the End of the World, Springer, page 179: [Ceramics,] African/Afro-Argentinian, 51, 88, 127, 128, 129, 142 […]
text: 2004, Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, African Mexicans And The Discourse On Modern Nation, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 106,
Lewis, Marvin A. Afro-Argentinian Discourse: Another Dimension of the Black Diaspora. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996.
[Note: The above citation is in error. The correct title of the book is Afro-Argentine Discourse: Another Dimension of the Black Diaspora.]
glosses: Alternative form of Afro-Argentine.
Afro-Argentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Argentinians
Etymology: From Afro- + Argentinian.
Senses: examples: 2004, United Nations Committee On The Elimination Of Racial Discrimination, Report Of The Committee On The Elimination Of Racial Discrimination: 59th Session Supp No.18, United Nations Publications, →ISBN, page 46,
Furthermore, […] the Committee recommends that the State party include in its next periodic report information on the demographic composition of the population, including information on indigenous peoples and minorities, such as Afro-Argentinians and Roma.
1987, David Eltis, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 388,
App. A and C.; George Reid Andrews, The Afro-Argentinians of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900 (Madison, Wis., 1980), pp. 47–53, 178–208; Herbert S. Klein, “The Integration of Italian Immigrants into the United States and Argentina: A Comparative Analysis,” American Historical Review, 88 (1983): 308.
[Note: The above citation is in error. The correct title of the book is The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900.]
glosses: Alternative form of Afro-Argentine.
overcrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcrows
form: overcrowing
form: overcrowed
form: overcrowed
Etymology: From over- + crow.
Senses: examples: text: The potent poison quite overcrows my spirit
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To take over.
glosses: To crow over, as in triumph.
exuviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exuviations
Senses: glosses: The act of exuviating.
glosses: The exuviated coverings; exuviae.
exuvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin exuviae (“what is stripped”), from exuo (“shed, strip”).
Senses: examples: text: The floor of the cave was covered with the exuvial remains of unknown creatures.
glosses: Related to something sloughed off or stripped away.
pul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puls
form: pul
Etymology: From Persian پول (pul). Doublet of obole and obolus.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani.
Related terms: pul qua
platinocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinocyanides
Etymology: From platino- + cyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several salts containing the anion Pt(CN)₄²⁻
lenga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lengas
Etymology: From Mapudungun lenga, via Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A deciduous tree native to the southern Andes, taxonomic name Nothofagus pumilio.
lengas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenga
sugar water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English sewgyr water, sugour water, water of zuccare.
Senses: glosses: Water sweetened with sugar.
Derived terms: sugar-water haemolysis test
sugar-water hemolysis test
Lucea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈluːsi.ə/
Senses: glosses: A coastal town, the parish capital of the parish of Hanover, Jamaica.
hochwohlgeboren
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hochwohlgeboren
form: most hochwohlgeboren
Etymology: Borrowed from German hochwohlgeboren.
Senses: examples: text: But here we all were, being hochwohlgeboren in the passage.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 484:
glosses: High-born; aristocratic, of noble birth.
tilt barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilt barriers
Senses: glosses: A barrier, such as a fence or pole, used to separate the participants in a joust.
cume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cumes
form: cuming
form: cumed
form: cumed
Etymology: From cumulative; compare cumulate.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the exhibitor complications, Goodbye To Language has already surpassed Godard’s most recent previous project, Film Socialisme, which cumed about $33K in the U.S in its 2011 release.
ref: 2014, Brian Brooks, Deadline Hollywood, “Godard’s ‘Goodbye To Language’ Says Hello To Weekend’s Best Specialty Box Office”, November 2, 2014
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Earn cumulatively at the box office.
cume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumes
Etymology: From cumulative; compare cumulate.
Senses: examples: text: With a cume so far of more than $38,000, the film has already outgrossed Godard’s previous feature, “Film socialisme” (2010), despite having opened on far fewer screens.
ref: 2014 November 4, Justin Chang, “Why Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Demands a Wider 3D Release”, in Variety:
text: Taking into account the fact Wonder Woman opened lower than those other releases, these holds and its eventual $560-570+ million global cume after close of business Friday now all but assure Gal Gadot's Amazon princess will indeed finish its run north of $700 million.
ref: 2017, Mark Hughes, 'Wonder Woman' Has All-Time 4th-Best Third Weekend For Superhero Movie:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Cumulative box office receipts.
examples: text: Compare cume to the number of shoppers that go into a supermarket. Let's imagine that the station has no listeners and the supermarket has no shoppers.
ref: 2004, Steve Warren, Radio:
text: 2011, Gary Dahl, Advertising For Dummies
If a particular station has a cume of 250,000, but most listeners are women and only a very few are within your target demo, then this 250,000 figure doesn't help you.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: Cumulative audience.
examples: text: The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.
ref: 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:
topics: education
glosses: Cumulative grade point average.
cume
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cumulative; compare cumulate.
Senses: examples: text: 1988, Hugh Malcolm Beville, Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable
Cume ratings provide measures of net unduplicated audience for various combinations...
text: Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station.
ref: 2016, Alan B. Albarran, Management of Electronic and Digital Media:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Cumulative.
Related terms: box office
mullein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɪn/
rhymes: -ʌlɪn
Forms: form: mulleins
form: mullen
Etymology: From Middle English moleyne, from Anglo-Norman moleine, which is either a Celtic borrowing and derived from Proto-Celtic *melinos (“yellow”) from *meli (“honey”) – an adjective found in Breton melen (“yellow”) and Welsh melyn (“yellow”) – or from mol (“soft”), from Latin mollis (“soft”), referencing the plant's fluffy, downy leaves, also apparent in synonyms such as feltwort, flannel leaf, and velvet plant.
Senses: examples: text: There be foure ſortes of Mulleyne, as [Pedanius] Dioſcorides writeth: wherof yͤ two firſt are white Mulleyne, and of them one is Male, and the other female: The third is blacke Mulleyne: The fourth is wilde Mulleyne. […] The white male Mulleyn (or rather Wolleyn) hath […] the whole top with his pleaſant yellow floures ſheweth like to a waxe Candell or taper cunningly wrought.
ref: 1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Mulleyne⸝ or Hyg[h]taper”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Sundry Sortes of Herbes and Plantes), page 118:
text: As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:
synonyms: Aaron's rod
cow's lungwort
feltwort
flannel leaf
velvet plant
glosses: Any of a few hundred species of European and Asian plants, of the genus Verbascum, especially that majority that have yellow flowers.
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Verbascum thapsus
word: common mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum creticum
word: Cretan mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum nigrum
word: dark mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum thapsus
word: great mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum pulverulentum
word: hoary mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum blattaria
word: moth mullein
taxonomic: Dasistoma macrophylla
alt: syn. Seymeria macrophylla
word: mullein foxglove
taxonomic: Silene coronaria
alt: syn. Lychnis coronaria
word: mullein pink
taxonomic: Scopula marginepunctata
word: mullein wave
taxonomic: Verbascum chaixii
word: nettle-leaved mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum phlomoides
word: orange mullein
taxonomic: Primula veris
word: petty mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum phoeniceum
word: purple mullein
word: sage mullein
taxonomic: Phlomis spp.
word: sageleaf mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum speciosum
word: showy mullein
taxonomic: Croton setiger
alt: syn. Eremocarpus setiger
word: turkey mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum virgatum
word: twiggy mullein
word: wand mullein
word: wavyleaf mullein Verbascum sinuatum)
taxonomic: Verbascum lychnitis
word: white mullein
taxonomic: Verbascum thapsus
word: woolly mullein
parcellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parcellates
form: parcellating
form: parcellated
form: parcellated
Etymology: From parcel + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To divide something into sections or parcels.
Related terms: parcellation
subparcellate
osm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːsəm/
ipa: /ˈɔs.əm/
ipa: /ˈɑs.əm/
rhymes: -ɔːsəm
Forms: form: more osm
form: most osm
Senses: examples: text: This house is OSM.
text: "Will meet you at 11h15." "OSM!"
glosses: awesome; like OK, can be used to express enthusiastic approval.
Synonyms: sense: excellent
word: excellent
sense: excellent
word: super
sense: excellent
word: phenomenal
sense: excellent
word: fantastic
sense: excellent
word: terrific
sense: excellent
word: wicked
sense: excellent
word: bang-up
sense: excellent
word: cool
sense: excellent
word: sweet
sense: excellent
word: OK
sense: excellent
word: all right
processus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processus
Etymology: From Latin prōcessus.
Senses: glosses: A process, or projecting part.
Derived terms: processus mamillaris
processus mastoideus
tinhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinhorn
form: most tinhorn
form: tin-horn
Etymology: From tin + horn, from gambling.
Senses: glosses: Cheap, inferior; pretentious.
tinhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinhorns
form: tin-horn
Etymology: From tin + horn, from gambling.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: I'm to deliver this treaty, signed by Secretary General Tanduk Timah himself. Heh. 'Tanduk Timah' in Bahasa Malay means 'Tin Horn.' How apt.
ref: 2009 February 12, Sandy Sandfort, Scott Bieser, Lee Oaks, “Escape from Terra”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.
deafferentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈæfəɹənteɪʃən/
Forms: form: deafferentations
Etymology: From deafferent + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The state of having an incomplete afferent connection with the central nervous system.
Related terms: deafferent
deafferentated
reafferentation
pashalik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pashaliks
form: pashalic
form: pachalic
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پاشالق (paşalık).
Senses: glosses: The jurisdiction or the territory of a pasha.
figure eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪɡəɹˈeɪt/
Forms: form: figure eights
Senses: glosses: The shape consisting of two circles or ovals joined together at one point, resembling the numeral 8.
examples: text: The bikers pop wheelies and execute speedy figure eights along the busy street. Still, something more purposeful than joyriding would seem to be on their minds.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: A maneuver in which one rides, skates, or otherwise traces a path that forms a figure eight.
glosses: A variety of puffer fish (Tetraodontidae).
Synonyms: figure of eight
figure eight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪɡəɹˈeɪt/
Forms: form: figure eights
form: figure eighting
form: figure eighted
form: figure eighted
Senses: examples: text: The four and a half ounce rod doubled and dipped and figure eighted while the line literally smoked.
ref: 1916, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Albert Britt, Outing - Volume 68, page 492:
text: The giant drifter is stowed in the foc'sl in the rolled condition, being figure eighted against the side of the bow on hooks.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Omnibus Territorial Legislation--1980: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress:
text: An orthopedic wire is figure eighted around the Kirschner wire and pulled tight.
ref: 1983, Surgery Operative Practice Manual: VM COLL 620 1983-1984, page 90:
text: The six anterior teeth are "figure eighted" together as well and retraced "en masse."
ref: 1997, Craven Kurz, Contemporary Lingual Orthodontics, page 83:
glosses: Alternative form of figure-eight.
interchangeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interchangeabilities
Senses: examples: text: We were similar in many ways, Daniel and I. Almost interchangeable, I’d go so far as to say, and in a way the game seemed to depend on that interchangeability, on the possibility of proximity of experience.
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 311:
synonyms: interchangeableness
glosses: The quality of being interchangeable.
drunk and disorderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Of conduct, illegal because of public intoxication.
examples: text: The student celebrated his exam success by drinking heavily and finally was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
glosses: Of a person, drunk, and exhibiting disorderly conduct in a public place.
public intoxication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] they urged State governments to adopt new comprehensive legislation in which alcoholism would be viewed as an illness and public intoxication would no longer be handled as a criminal offense.
ref: 1973, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act, page 3:
topics: law
glosses: The criminal offence of being drunk in a public place.
criminal offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal offences
Senses: examples: text: Wearing a face covering also remains a requirement on all Transport for London services, where it has become a Condition of Carriage. This means that while non-compliance is no longer a criminal offence and punishable with a fine, passengers can still be asked to leave or prevented from boarding.
ref: 2022 February 9, “Network News: Regulations on face coverings risk leaving passengers confused”, in RAIL, number 950, page 6:
glosses: A crime.
Related terms: civil violation
criminal offences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminal offence
freelancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.lɑːn.sə/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/
rhymes: -iːlɑːnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: freelancers
Etymology: From freelance + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who freelances.
topics: government
law-enforcement
qualifier: fire service
glosses: One who performs duties outside of the chain of command and SOPs.
Derived terms: permalancer
religious pluralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The peaceful coexistence of multiple religions in a community
examples: text: We also confess Jesus Christ to be the only way to salvation according to His own words in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Therefore, as responsible Christians, we reject religious pluralism.
ref: 2019 October 31, Garrick Beckett, “Beckett: How BioWare Approaches Religion & Sexuality”, in The Lutheran Column, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2020, Blog:
glosses: Ecumenism
Related terms: ecumenism
phraseogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪzioʊɡɹæm/
Forms: form: phraseograms
Etymology: From phrase + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A symbol that represents a phrase.
interlocutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlocutor
phraseograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phraseogram
foraminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈæmɪnəs/
Forms: form: more foraminous
form: most foraminous
Senses: glosses: Covered with holes or foramina.
haemangioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemangioblasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemangioblast.
hemangioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemangioblasts
form: haemangioblast
Senses: glosses: A primitive mesodermal cell that is the precursor of endothelial cells, and of blood
Derived terms: hemangioblastic
mesodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesoderm + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mesoderm
Derived terms: mesodermally
neuromesodermal
nonmesodermal
panmesodermal
automath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑtəmæθ/
Forms: form: automaths
Etymology: From αὐτός (autós, “self”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Compare opsimath, philomath, polymath. By surface analysis, auto- + math. First appears c. 1759, in the publications of Edward Young.
Senses: synonyms: autodidact
coordinate_terms: monomath
opsimath
polymath
glosses: One who is self-taught.
wikipedia: Edward Young
Derived terms: automathic
Related terms: polymath
automaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automath
autodidacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autodidact
hyperlens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperlenses
Etymology: From hyper- + lens.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nanostructured metamaterial that produces magnified images of objects smaller than the wavelength of the light used
shittle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtl̩/
Forms: form: more shittle
form: most shittle
Senses: glosses: Unsettled; uneasy; disturbed.
shittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtl̩/
Forms: form: shittles
Senses: examples: text: a curious web, whose yarn she threw in with a golden shittle
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A shuttle (part of a loom).
SUMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of small ubiquitin-related modifier.
Derived terms: deSUMOylation
polySUMO
polySUMOylation
SUMO protein
SUMOylation
small ubiquitin-related modifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small ubiquitin-related modifiers
Senses: glosses: A SUMO protein
SUMO protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SUMO proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of small proteins that attach themselves to other proteins within cells and modify their function
Synonyms: small ubiquitin-related modifier
Related terms: SUMOylation
SUMOylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process whereby SUMO proteins attach themselves to other proteins within cells and modify their function.
culter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of coulter.
in color
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Using colour/color (or hue) as opposed to shades of grey/gray.
calcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcars
Etymology: From the Italian calcara (“lime-kiln”).
Senses: glosses: A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Related terms: calcarious
calcary
calcar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcars
form: calcaria
Etymology: From the Latin calcar (“spur”).
Senses: examples: text: ... a calcar, the apical spine of the inner series must in many of the species be also considered as such, since the appearance of both, and their position as regards the calcaria, are precisely similar. This apical spine of the inner[…]
ref: 1913, David Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, page 23:
text: ... The calcaria are frequently specified in the taxonomy of insects and are [...] a calcar is known as a strigilis. [...] A calcar and sometimes some of the adjacent setae are used for closing the[…]
ref: 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy: A Guide to the Study of Insect Anatomy and an Introduction to Systematic Entomology, page 245:
text: ... calcars. When the tail is long (equal to or longer than the length of the hind legs) and calcars are present [...] calcar is absent in all known specimens[…]
ref: 2023 November 21, Danilo Russo, Brock Fenton, A Natural History of Bat Foraging: Evolution, Physiology, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A spur-like projection.
Derived terms: calcarate
Related terms: calcariferous
calcariform
calcarine
population mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: population means
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.
Related terms: sample mean
mother goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother goddesses
Senses: glosses: A goddess, often portrayed as the Earth Mother, who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth.
sester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesters
Senses: glosses: A liquid measure for honey and wine, between 24 and 32 ounces.
glosses: A dry measure for grain, perhaps equal to 12 bushels.
librae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libra
angerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more angerly
form: most angerly
Etymology: From Middle English angerly; equivalent to anger + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [A]none an other woman kneled downe to the ſame pꝛeſt ⁊ began to ſay benedicite wherwith this pꝛeeſt ſodenly wakyd wenynge ſhe had ben the other woma[n] ⁊ ſayd al angerly ⸝ what art thou now at benedicite agayne tell me what dydeſt thou when thou hadyſt ſtolyn the pot.
ref: 1526 December 2 (Gregorian calendar), “By this ye may se that they that haue but small lernynge somtyme speke truely vnaduysyd”, in A .C. Mery Talys, London: Johannes Rastell, →OCLC, folio xxiii, recto:
glosses: Angrily.