cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jabber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jabbers
form: jabbering
form: jabbered
form: jabbered
Etymology: From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184,
Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
text: “What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 125:
glosses: To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
examples: text: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.
ref: 1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book One, Chapter 1, Section 2:
glosses: To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
Derived terms: jabberer
jabberfest
jabberingly
jabbery
jibber-jabber
jabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi,
And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
text: Two tongues from the depths,
Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike,
Fling their staccato tantalizations
Into a wildcat jabber
Over a gossamer web of unanswerables.
ref: 1918, Carl Sandburg, “Jabberers”, in Cornhuskers, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 68:
text: Mark Pauline has a good line of gab, in his elliptical, left-handed fashion. He's at relative rhetorical ease with classy theoretical jabber such as emergent behavior, cyborganics, chaos theory, transparent interfaces, artificial life, and the machinic phylum.
ref: 1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
Derived terms: jabberment
jabbersome
jibber-jabber
jabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jabbers
Etymology: From jab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.
ref: 1939, Edwin L. Haislet, Boxing in Education, page 160:
glosses: One who or that which jabs.
examples: text: Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.
ref: 2025 May 11, Imogen West-Knights, “‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who administers a hypodermic injection.
examples: text: The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).
ref: 1999, Nicholas P. Hardeman, Across the Bloody Chasm:
glosses: A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
Coordinate terms: jabbee
Derived terms: anti-jabber
jobbie jabber
jobby jabber
projabber
pro-jabber
jape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: japes
Etymology: From Middle English japen (“to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps combining Old French japer (“to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip”) with gaber (“to mock, deride”).
See also gab, Old Occitan japar, jaupar (“to bark, yelp, yap”), related to Old Saxon galpōn (“to cry loudly, make a noise, brag”) (Low German galpen (“to bark, howl, scream”)), Middle High German gelpfen (“to scream, bark, boast, proclaim”), Old Norse gjálpa (“to yelp”) (dialectal Swedish galpa (“to cry, screech”)). More at yelp, yawp, yap.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again.
"Oho, a jape—a jape indeed!" he roared.
ref: 1920, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn, Fytte 9
text: “Now I come to think of it, I suppose schooling isn't such a bad idea as long as he can have some japes and tomfoolery with his young cohorts.” “My love, it will be very good for him and very good for us.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (5:57 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
synonyms: word: joke
glosses: A joke or quip.
examples: text: In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.”
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Art of Yesterday's Crash”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
glosses: A prank or trick.
Derived terms: bejapen
japery
japester
japish
jubilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: jubilations
Etymology: From Old French jubilacion, from Latin iūbilātiō (“a shouting for joy”). Cognate with Spanish jubilación (“retirement”).
Senses: examples: text: The final whistle triggered scenes of wild jubilation at Eden Park as a nation celebrated a repeat of the outcome from the very first World Cup final in 1987.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation.
Related terms: jubilant
jubilance
jubilancy
jubilate
jubilee
Judaization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judaizations
form: Judaisation
Senses: synonyms: Jewification
antonyms: dejudaization
glosses: The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or culture.
Related terms: word: Judah
word: Judahite
word: Judaic
word: Judaism
word: Judaize
word: Judaizer
word: Judaizing
kedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: kedges
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of cadge.
Senses: examples: text: ...and throw them into the boat, which, as there are no wharves, we usually kept anchored by a small kedge, or keelek, just outside of the surf.
ref: 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast:
text: The chaps who had gone off in the cutter had been equally spry with their job, bending on a stout hemp hawser through the ring of the kedge anchor, which they dropped some half a cable's length from the brig, bringing back the other end aboard, where it was put round the capstan on the forecastle.
ref: 1896, J.C. Hutcheson, Young Tom Bowling:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: kedge anchor
kedger
killock
glosses: A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
glosses: A glutton.
kedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: kedges
form: kedging
form: kedged
form: kedged
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of cadge.
Senses: glosses: To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
examples: text: […] there was a stretch of twelve miles of channel running in a north-easterly direction which the ship could not possibly negotiate under sail unless a change of wind should occur — of which there seemed to be absolutely no prospect. The only alternative, therefore, would be to kedge those twelve miles; truly a most formidable undertaking for four persons — one of them being a girl — to attempt.
ref: 1911, Harry Collingwood, Overdue:
text: By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.
raw_tags: of a vessel
playtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪtaɪm/
rhymes: -eɪtaɪm
Forms: form: playtimes
Etymology: From play + time.
Senses: glosses: Time for play or diversion.
examples: text: The school bell rings to mark the end of playtime.
synonyms: word: recess
word: breaktime
word: break
coordinate_terms: hometime
in time
glosses: A time when children can play outside during the school day.
examples: text: I thought I could go easy on you and win, but I suppose playtime is over.
glosses: A duration of time when one is not as serious or committed as one could be, especially in a conflict of sorts.
examples: text: The longest track on the album has a playtime of eight minutes.
glosses: The duration of a recording.
ketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: catch stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ketches
Etymology: From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
Senses: examples: text: […] to finish her new Habit or Appearance, and make her Change compleat, he ordered her Sails to be alter’d; and as she sailed before with a Half-Sprit, like a Yacht, she sailed now with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch; so that, in a Word, she was a perfect Cheat […]
ref: 1720, Daniel Defoe, Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton et al, page 313:
glosses: A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
Derived terms: bomb ketch
Related terms: yawl
ketch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: catch stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ketches
form: ketching
form: ketched
form: ketched
Etymology: See catch.
Senses: examples: text: I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff.
ref: 1815, D. HUMPHREYS, Yankey in England, I. 21:
text: Wot is it, lambs, as they ketches in seas, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the fourth (A Turning), page 287:
text: […] I got to go to church and sweat and sweat—I hate them ornery sermons! I can’t ketch a fly in there, I can’t chaw, I got to wear shoes all Sunday.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 270:
text: You'll ketch your death. The fire's out long ago.
ref: 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter II, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 60:
text: You'll never ketch me hollerin' at no Republican gatherin'.
ref: 1916, W. O. BRADLEY, Stories & Speeches, section 18:
text: If so you gonna ketch hell.
ref: 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
text: You heard about that joke a dollar down and a dollar when you ketch me?
ref: 1967 Apr, Atlantic Monthly, 103/1:
text: Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.
ref: 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of catch.
ketch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: catch stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ketches
form: ketching
form: ketched
form: ketched
Etymology: From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: 'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
ref: 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
text: Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
ref: n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18
text: Ignorant of many of the secrets of ketchcraft.
ref: 1840, Fraser's Mag., number XXI, page 210:
text: 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.
synonyms: word: Guy Fawkes
word: stretch
word: string up
word: forhang
word: Guy Fawkes
word: hang
word: ketch
word: send to the scaffold
word: scrag
word: stretch
word: string up
word: truss
word: tuck up
glosses: To hang.
ketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: catch stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ketches
Etymology: From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: A hangman.
ketch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
homophone: catch stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: ketches
Etymology: From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”).
Senses: glosses: A pie or turnover.
knack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: knacks
Etymology: Use as "special skill" from 1580. Possibly from 14th century Middle English krak (“a sharp blow”), knakke, knakken, from Middle Low German, by onomatopoeia. Latter cognate to German knacken (“to crack”). See also crack.
Senses: examples: text: These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 254a:
text: And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.
ref: 2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1–5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: skill
facility
dexterity
glosses: A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
synonyms: plaything
knickknack
toy
glosses: A petty contrivance; a toy.
synonyms: trick
device
glosses: Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.
Derived terms: knackish
knackless
knacky
knack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: knacks
form: knacking
form: knacked
form: knacked
Etymology: Use as "special skill" from 1580. Possibly from 14th century Middle English krak (“a sharp blow”), knakke, knakken, from Middle Low German, by onomatopoeia. Latter cognate to German knacken (“to crack”). See also crack.
Senses: examples: text: If they hear the Beads knack upon each other, that's enough.
ref: 1674, Joseph Hall, Bishop Hall's sayings concerning travellers to prevent popish and debauch'd principles, William Miller:
glosses: To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
glosses: To speak affectedly.
Related terms: knacked
knack-kneed
knick-knack
knacker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: năkə
ipa: /ˈnakə/
enpr: năkər
ipa: /ˈnækɚ/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knackers
form: knackering
form: knackered
form: knackered
Etymology: From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)).
Senses: examples: text: Carrying that giant statue up those stairs completely knackered me.
text: That table that I was going to put the statue on may not suffice, as it's completely knackered.
glosses: To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged.
glosses: To reprimand.
knapsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpsæk/
Forms: form: knapsacks
Etymology: From Low German knapzak or Dutch knapzak (older form cnapsack), from Middle Dutch cnappen (“to bite with teeth”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin, + sack. German Knappsack is from Dutch.
Senses: examples: text: The two elder reluctantly left him and walked on, taking their brother's knapsack to relieve him in following, and the youngest entered the field.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 23:
glosses: (In UK, dated or archaic). A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back. 1936, Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, ch 3. « All but Nancy carried knapsacks, with sandwiches and thermos flasks of tea. Peggy’s knapsack held Nancy’s provisions as well as her own, for on Nancy’s shoulders, instead of a knapsack, was a pigeon-basket... »
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
Synonyms: backpack
rucksack
knapsack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpsæk/
Forms: form: knapsacks
form: knapsacking
form: knapsacked
form: knapsacked
Etymology: From Low German knapzak or Dutch knapzak (older form cnapsack), from Middle Dutch cnappen (“to bite with teeth”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin, + sack. German Knappsack is from Dutch.
Senses: examples: text: My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.
glosses: To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight or for longer.
Synonyms: backpack
Related terms: backpacking
camping
hiking
knead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nēd
ipa: /niːd/
ipa: /knɛːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: kneed
homophone: need
Forms: form: kneads
form: kneading
form: kneaded
form: knead
form: kneaded
form: knead
form: kneaden
form: knodden
Etymology: From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).
Senses: examples: text: Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...
ref: 2001, Özcan Ozan, Carl Tremblay, The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook:
glosses: To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
examples: text: I will knead him: I'll make him supple.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
examples: text: Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.
ref: 1991, Grace McHattie, That's cats!: a compendium of feline facts:
text: One of the most characteristic things that cats do is ”knead,” pushing their paws alternately against any invitingly soft area of their human friends' bodies like a baker kneading dough.
ref: 2001, John C. Wright, Judi Wright Lashnits, Ain't Misbehavin', Rodale, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Why do cats knead? When kittens are nursing, they knead against their mothers' bellies to draw out milk. A relaxed adult cat kneads your leg or a couch cushion to show that he's happy and content, as he was when he was a nursing baby.
ref: 2012, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Cat Lover's Companion, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
glosses: To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
Synonyms: sense: mix
word: amalgamate
sense: of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion
word: make biscuits
sense: of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion
word: make muffins
Derived terms: kneadability
kneadable
kneader
kneadingly
reknead
unkneaded
knead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nēd
ipa: /niːd/
ipa: /knɛːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: kneed
homophone: need
Forms: form: kneads
Etymology: From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).
Senses: examples: text: Do not expect the dough to be very manageable even after a good knead.
ref: 2011, Andrew Whitley, Bread Matters:
glosses: The act of kneading something.
Related terms: baking board
dough
lack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacks
form: lacking
form: lacked
form: lacked
Etymology: From Middle English lacken, lakken, laken, from Old English læccian, *lacian (“to blame, criticise, lack”), from Proto-West Germanic *lak(k)ōn (“to blame, be lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *lak(k)ōną (“to reproach, blame, be lacking”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh₂-. Cognate with Old Frisian lakia, lekia (“to contest, blame”), Middle Low German lacken, laken (“to reproach, blame, criticise”), Middle Dutch laken (“to disapprove, blame, lack”), Dutch laken (“to blame, reproach”).
Senses: examples: text: My life lacks excitement.
text: More flak was aimed at the Treasury's apparent lack of marketing skills, when it was argued that its idea of how to sell tickets was along the lines of "you can get two tickets for the price of two", and it lacks the sales and promotional skills of the train operating companies which are needed to boost revenue.
ref: 2022 January 12, Tom Allett, “Network News: MPs concerned at Treasury's influence on rail industry”, in RAIL, number 948, page 13:
glosses: To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
examples: text: He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
text: Hamlet. What hour now?
Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.
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 I, scene iv]:
glosses: To be short (of or for something).
examples: text: The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 34:10:
glosses: To be in want.
examples: text: That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.
ref: c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus II]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
glosses: To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
examples: text: His opps caught him lacking.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be off one's guard.
Derived terms: alack
lack-all
lackbrain
lack-grace
lackland
lack-latin
lack-laughter
lack-learning
lack-life
lack-linen
lack-looks
lack-love
lacklustre
lack-mind
lack-pity
lackstock
lackwit
Related terms: lackluster
lack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
homophone: lakh (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacks
Senses: examples: a lack of rupees
glosses: Archaic form of lakh.
Synonyms: word: dearth
word: deficiency
word: deficit
word: dejection
word: inadequacy
word: infrequency
word: insufficiency
word: meagerness
word: nonsufficiency
word: lack
word: paucity
word: penury
word: rareness
word: rarity
word: scantiness
word: scarcity
word: shortage
word: shortcoming
word: unsufficiency
word: want
Hyponyms: word: apathy
word: cowardice
word: poverty
Related terms: word: good lack
word: abundant
Lamarckism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lamarck + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
Related terms: Lamarckian
Darwinism
lame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: lames
form: laming
form: lamed
form: lamed
Etymology: From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).
Senses: examples: text: And if you don't want to lame your horse, you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Job Horse and his Drivers”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 134–135:
text: Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 6, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
synonyms: cripple
disable
glosses: To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
lame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: lames
Etymology: From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).
Senses: examples: text: You lames tryna clone my style and run wit it.
ref: 2011, Lil' Kim, “Black Friday”:
glosses: A stupid or undesirable person.
lame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: lames
Etymology: From Middle French lame, from Latin lāmina. Doublet of lamina.
Senses: examples: text: This rim involved a raised rolled edge on the rerebrace that was inserted into a raised lip on the lower lame of the pauldron. This lip allows the arm to rotate without the need for leather straps and can be clearly seen carved on to the effigy […]
ref: 2013, Paul F Walker, History of Armour 1100-1700, Crowood, →ISBN:
text: These pauldrons are generally asymmetrical with the left pauldron wider than the right, which is cut away for the passage of the lance. It would be attached to the shoulder by points through a restored leather tab on the top lame at the apex […]
ref: 2015, Anne Curry, Malcolm Mercer, The Battle of Agincourt, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 120:
synonyms: lamella
lamina
glosses: A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
glosses: A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
glosses: A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
Related terms: word: lamé
word: lamellar
word: lamellate
word: lamellation
word: lamination
landscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/
ipa: /ˈlæn(d)skɪp/
Forms: form: landscapes
form: landscaping
form: landscaped
form: landscaped
form: landskip
Etymology: From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.
Senses: glosses: To create or maintain a landscape.
Related terms: dreamscape
moonscape
seascape
skyscape
lanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋk.i/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: lankier
form: lankiest
Etymology: From lank + -y.
Senses: examples: text: tall and lanky
text: awkwardly lanky
text: long, lanky frame
text: The lanky teenager towered over his classmates.
text: A lanky cat slinked across the alley.
glosses: Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
Synonyms: gangly
Derived terms: lankily
lankiness
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
Etymology: From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).
Senses: glosses: The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
glosses: An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
glosses: The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
coordinate_terms: knee
glosses: A place of rearing and fostering.
examples: text: The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
glosses: The upper legs of a seated person.
glosses: The female pudenda.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Derived terms: earlap
fall into one's lap
fall into someone's lap
headlap
in the lap of the gods
land in someone's lap
lap band
lap belt
lapboard
lap cat
lap-chart
lap dance
lapdance
lap-dance
lap dancer
lap desk
lap dog
lapdog
lap dulcimer
lapel
lapful
lapheld
lapless
laplike
lapling
lapmark
lap of luxury
lappet
lap pillow
laprobe
lap robe
lap sash seatbelt
lap steel
lap steel guitar
lapstone
lapstrake
laptop
lapward
lapware
lapwise
lapwork
with one's jaw in one's lap
Related terms: burlap
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
form: lapping
form: lapped
form: lapped
Etymology: From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).
Senses: examples: text: Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
examples: text: to lap his head on lady's breast
ref: a. 1839, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Gog:
glosses: To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
form: lapping
form: lapped
form: lapped
form: lapt
form: lapt
Etymology: From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop.
The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.
Senses: examples: text: to lap a piece of cloth
glosses: To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
examples: text: to lap a bandage around a finger
text: About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
examples: text: lapped in luxury
glosses: to envelop, enfold
glosses: to wind around
examples: text: One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
glosses: To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
hypernyms: cut
coordinate_terms: grind
glosses: To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
examples: text: The cloth laps back.
text: The boats lap; the edges lap.
text: The upper wings are opacous[…]; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
antonyms: unlap
glosses: To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
glosses: To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
Derived terms: belap
lapper
lap up
overlap
umbelap
underlap
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
Etymology: From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop.
The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of lapping.
examples: text: the lap of a board
glosses: That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
examples: text: The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
glosses: The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
glosses: The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
examples: text: to run twenty laps
text: to drive the fastest lap in qualifying
text: to win by three laps
text: Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps.
ref: 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One circuit around a race track.
examples: text: to swim two laps
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
glosses: In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
glosses: A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
glosses: A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
Derived terms: end lap
flying lap
formation lap
gun lap
hot lap
in lap
joker lap
lap dissolve
lap joint
lap of honor
lap of honour
lap pool
lap record
long lap penalty
multilap
onlap
out lap
pace lap
parade lap
Polish victory lap
prelap
shiplap
victory lap
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
form: lapping
form: lapped
form: lapped
form: lapt
form: lapt
Etymology: From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”); akin to Old High German laffen (“to lick”), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (“spoon”). Cognate with Latin lambere (“lick”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Compare Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.
text: They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily […]as they run along the shore.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
examples: text: I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.
ref: 1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Passing of Arthur”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
raw_tags: of water
Derived terms: catlap
lapper
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
Etymology: From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”); akin to Old High German laffen (“to lick”), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (“spoon”). Cognate with Latin lambere (“lick”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Compare Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.
Senses: examples: text: With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]
ref: 1955, Ann Haven Morgan, Kinships of Animals and Man: A Textbook of Animal Biology, page 176:
glosses: The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
glosses: Liquor; alcoholic drink.
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: laps
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of laparoscopy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of laparotomy
Derived terms: ex-lap
lap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /læp/
rhymes: -æp
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of laparoscopic.
Derived terms: lap appy
lap chole
lap choly
Related terms: lap cheong
lard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑːd/
ipa: /lɑɹd/
ipa: /lɐːd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: lards
Etymology: From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).
Senses: examples: text: Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 135:
glosses: Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
glosses: Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
examples: text: My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.
ref: 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy:
glosses: Excess fat on a person or animal.
Derived terms: Amerilard
bald as a bladder of lard
enlard
interlard
lardaceous
lardarse
lard-arse
lardass
lard-ass
lardassed
lard-assed
lardball
lardboy
lardbucket
lard-bucket
lardbutt
lard down
lardhead
lardless
lardlike
lardon
lardoon
lard up
lardy
lardy cake
leaf lard
tub of lard
unlarded
latch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lăch
ipa: /læt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: latches
form: latching
form: latched
form: latched
form: laught
form: laught
Etymology: From Middle English lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”, verb), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, *lakwijaną, *lakkijaną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂g-, *(s)leh₂gʷ- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lakken (“to grasp, catch”).
Senses: glosses: To close or lock as if with a latch.
examples: text: Where hearing should not latch them.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To catch; lay hold of.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
glosses: To connect to the breast.
raw_tags: of a breastfeeding baby
Derived terms: latchable
latcher
latch on
latch on to
latch onto
relatch
unlatch
latch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăch
ipa: /læt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: latches
form: lech
form: letch
Etymology: From Middle English latche, lacche (“a latch; a trap”), from lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.
Senses: examples: text: The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 4, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
glosses: A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
glosses: A latching.
glosses: A crossbow.
examples: text: Love will none other birde catch,
Though he set either nette or latch
ref: c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
glosses: That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
glosses: A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
Derived terms: deadlatch
doorlatch
drawlatch
latchbolt
latchet
Latchford
latchkey
latchless
latchstring
latch-up
on the latch
spring latch
throatlatch
throat latch
latch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lăch
ipa: /læt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: latches
form: latching
form: latched
form: latched
Etymology: Compare French lécher (“to lick”).
Senses: examples: text: But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
With the love-juice , as I did bid thee do?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To smear; to anoint.
laudable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːdəbl/
Forms: form: more laudable
form: most laudable
Etymology: From Middle English laudable, from Old French laudable or directly from Latin laudabilis; equivalent to laud + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: admirable
text: laudable motives
text: laudable actions
text: laudable ambition
text: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
ref: 1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:
synonyms: praiseworthy
commendable
glosses: Worthy of being lauded.
examples: text: laudable juices of the body
text: laudable pus
synonyms: salubrious
salutary
healthy
antonyms: unhealthful
noxious
deleterious
unhealthy
glosses: Healthful; having a disposition to promote healing.
Derived terms: laudableness
laudably
unlaudable
lawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːn/
ipa: /lɔn/
ipa: /lɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: lawns
Etymology: Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Senses: examples: text: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
glosses: An open space between woods.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
Derived terms: Chapel Lawn
Fair Lawn
fold like a lawn chair
gazelle on the lawn
get-off-my-lawn
get off my lawn
lawn billiards
lawn bowl
lawn-bowl
lawn bowling
lawn bowls
lawn bubble
lawncare
lawn chair
lawn-chair
lawn daisy
Lawndale
lawn dart
lawn dart effect
lawned
lawner
lawn food
lawnful
lawn gnome
lawngrass
lawn jart
lawn job
lawn jockey
lawnless
lawnlet
lawnlike
lawn mixture
lawn-mower
lawnmower
lawnmowing
lawn party
lawn prawn
lawn rake
lawnscape
lawn shrimp
lawn sleeves
lawn-sleeves
lawn tennis
lawny
moss lawn
Oak Lawn
relawn
Stalin's lawn
tree lawn
widow's lawn