cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Martini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹˈtini/
ipa: /mɑːˈtiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: martini
Etymology: Martini is an Italian name, and in the sense of vermouth is used by the Italian company Martini & Rossi.
In the sense “cocktail with vermouth and either gin or vodka”, coined in America in the 19th or 20th century, for which various theories exist – perhaps named for the Italian brand of vermouth, perhaps after Martinez, California, perhaps after an Italian bartender of that name.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Derived terms: Martinize
Martinized
Cinzano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cinzanos
Senses: glosses: a brand of Italian vermouth available in several versions
pasta e fagioli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpastə ɛ faˈdʒəʊlɪ/
ipa: /ˌpastə faˈdʒəʊlɪ/
rhymes: -əʊli
Forms: form: pasta fagioli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pasta e fagioli (literally “pasta and beans”). Doublet of pasta fazool, a borrowing from Neapolitan.
Senses: synonyms: word: pasta fazool
glosses: An Italian soup made with pasta and cannellini beans.
cannellini bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannellini beans
Etymology: From Italian cannellini.
Senses: glosses: A white kidney bean.
cannellini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannellinis
Etymology: From Italian cannellini, diminutive of cannella (“cinnamon”), so named because of its resemblance to an Italian cinnamon candy
Senses: examples: text: They are cannellini beans, not cannelloni beans.
ref: 2007 January 24, “Correction: An Italian Spot, Larded With Drive”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of white kidney bean used in Italian cooking.
Derived terms: cannellini bean
scalable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪ.lə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˈskeɪ̯.lə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈskæɪ.lə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˈskæɪ̯.lə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: more scalable
form: most scalable
Etymology: From scale + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unscalable
glosses: Capable of being climbed.
examples: text: To use one of the ugliest words in the contemporary lexicon, Glasman and his colleagues believe that micro-democracy is scalable: get it right at the local level, and the rest will follow.
ref: 2011, David Runciman, “Socialism in One Country”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:
antonyms: unscalable
glosses: Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
examples: text: Most systems have a small host table, but it cannot be used for all applications because it is not scalable and does not have a standard method for automatic distribution.
ref: 2002, Craig Hunt, TCP/IP Network Administration 3rd ed, page 82:
topics: business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: ungrowable
unscalable
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
raw_tags: of an engineering drawing or its features
Related terms: word: scalability
word: scale down
word: scale up
word: expandable
word: shrinkable
relo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeləʉ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: relos
form: rello
Etymology: From relative + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Anyway, sorry I′m late,’ said Ian. ‘Wanted to hang with the relos for a bit.’
ref: 2001, John Larkin, Nostradamus and Instant Noodles, published 2012, unnumbered page:
text: 2006, Tony Davis, Step On It!: A Wild Ride Through the Motor Age, Random House Australia, page 17,
It was a journey not completed until after dark (there were no headlights) and Bertha was too tired to visit her relos in Pforzheim by the time she arrived.
text: 2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad For Dummies, Australian & New Zealand Edition, unnumbered page,
Just ask the relos how often they may want to do it, because you don′t want babysitting to become too much of a chore for them.
glosses: A relative.
examples: text: Like, baby I don't really fuck with your man. 9 mil bullets leave him tanned. I'm a playboy fucking up your relo with your heart in my hand.
ref: 2022 June 3, “DRAMAS” (track 2), in SAINT'S PRAYERS, performed by Saint BaLenci:
text: I wanna go back to when I was single. Happy in life and loved a mingle. Being in a relo ruined me. But I know that's just how it be.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Love Kills”performed by JayTee the Aussie:
text: Hello, I was in a relo. Suffering just a lil bit man you know.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Flavors”performed by UC Brigante and Dence:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A relationship.
spuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spuggies
form: spuggie
Etymology: From spug + -y.
Senses: glosses: A sparrow.
spuggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spuggy
glosses: plural of spuggie
interrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəɹɪˈleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹɪˈleɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˌɪntəɹɪˈleɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹɪˈlæɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˌɪntəɹɪˈlæɪɾɪd]
ipa: /ˌəntəɹəˈlæɪtəd/
ipa: [ˌəntəɹəˈlæɪɾəd]
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more interrelated
form: most interrelated
Etymology: From inter- + related.
Senses: examples: text: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
ref: 2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, page 4:
glosses: Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.
Derived terms: interrelatedly
interrelatedness
Related terms: interconnected
interrelate
interrelation
fettuccine Alfredo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian fettuccine Alfredo.
Senses: glosses: Fettuccine pasta served with a sauce containing cream, parmigiano, nutmeg and pepper.
lau
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laus
form: lauing
form: laued
form: laued
Senses: glosses: To place upon; to put down onto.
arrabbiata
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɹəˈbjɑːtə/
ipa: /ˌɑɹəbiˈɑːtə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Etymology: From Italian, feminine of arrabbiato (“angry”) referring to its spiciness; see rabbia (“anger”) for more.
Senses: examples: text: Chicken arrabbiata was served on steaming fettuccine.
glosses: Cooked in a hot, fiery style with garlic, tomatoes, and chili.
arrabbiata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɹəˈbjɑːtə/
ipa: /ˌɑɹəbiˈɑːtə/
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Etymology: From Italian, feminine of arrabbiato (“angry”) referring to its spiciness; see rabbia (“anger”) for more.
Senses: examples: text: We were just trying to keep our heads above water, maybe catch some of the tomatoes they were throwing so we could make some arrabbiata.
ref: 2005, Jason Anderson, Showbiz, page 116:
glosses: A dish cooked in this style.
parallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəlɛlɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: parallelisms
Etymology: From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
examples: text: Plutarch (c. AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:
glosses: The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
glosses: A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.
topics: law
glosses: In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
Derived terms: conscious parallelism
massive parallelism
nonparallelism
pseudoparallelism
psychophysical parallelism
teleparallelism
Related terms: parallelist
parallelistic
guanciale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian guanciale, from guancia (“cheek”).
Senses: glosses: An Italian dish of fatty bacon prepared from pig cheeks.
amatriciana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian amatriciana.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Italian pasta sauce based on guanciale, pecorino, and tomato.
razor shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: razor shells
Senses: glosses: Synonym of razor clam.
synonyms: word: razor clam
Derived terms: Gould's razor shell
Kampala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmˈpɑːlə/
ipa: /kɑːmˈpɑːlə/
Senses: glosses: The capital of, and largest city in, Uganda.
garce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garces
form: gars
form: garse
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume or weight for rice, etc.
bougie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːʒi/
enpr: bo͞oʹzhē
rhymes: -uːʒi
Forms: form: bougies
Etymology: Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Doublet of bugia.
Senses: examples: text: "There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.
ref: 1866, “Don Leon”, in Don Leon ; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron, Author of Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destoyed by Thos. Moore. To which is added Leon to Annabella; An epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron. (Poetry), →OCLC, pages 44, 51–52:
text: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
glosses: A wax candle.
bougie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːʒi/
enpr: bo͞oʹzhē
rhymes: -uːʒi
Forms: form: bougier
form: bougiest
form: bourgie
form: boojie
form: boujee
Etymology: From bourgeoisie.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.
ref: 1991 September 23, “Will Gets a Job”, in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, season 2, episode 3:
text: Called “bougie” when she was growing up, even though she’d never considered herself close to that, Ewing has turned the word around, using it as the title of a fictitious magazine she has dreamed up.
ref: 2007 October 12, L. Kent Wolgamott, “Satire pervades the series of fictional magazine covers”, in The Lincoln Journal Star:
text: I'll be on the movie screens / Magazines and bougie scenes
ref: 2007, “Glamorous”, performed by Fergie:
text: Shangela is kind of bougie, but she's also your homegirl.
ref: 2010 February 1, “Gone With the Window”, in RuPaul's Drag Race, season 2, episode 1:
text: I don't need you or your brand new Benz / Or your bougie friends
ref: 2010, “Sleazy”, performed by Ke$ha:
text: Bougie attitude, I'm from the West End / I want the finer things in life
ref: 2023, “Outside”, performed by Br3nya:
text: Sure, you can go to a bougie bakery and purchase an artisanal sourdough without any additives that will cost much more and taste better than a supermarket loaf. But ultimately, bread is made from flour, salt, water and yeast.
ref: 2024 March 6, Giles Yeo, “Why the double standards on ultra-processed foods? Because some have better PR than others”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?
ref: 2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
text: “The prices. I can’t comprehend how low the prices are for the quality, organic foods that they sell,” Mrs. Ortiz said. “It feels like I’m at a bougie store, but I’m not paying bougie prices.”
ref: 2025 August 6, Julie Creswell, “Aldi’s Passionate, Cultlike Following Fuels Its Rapid Expansion Plans”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: chichi
classy
high and mighty
ritzy
saditty
snobby
snooty
posh
glosses: Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
glosses: Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
Derived terms: boughetto
bougieness
Related terms: bourgie
bougie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːʒi/
enpr: bo͞oʹzhē
rhymes: -uːʒi
Forms: form: bougies
Etymology: From bourgeoisie.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's^([sic – meaning 1960s]) following the first appearance of this book, The Black Anglo-Saxons, street militants and conscious members of the Black middle class popularly called them "bougies."
ref: 1991 [1965], Nathan Hare, “Introduction”, in The Black Anglo-Saxons, page iii:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
bougie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːʒi/
enpr: bo͞oʹzhē
rhymes: -uːʒi
Forms: form: bougies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).
stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪps/
rhymes: -aɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of stripe
stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪps/
rhymes: -aɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stripe
subsection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsections
Etymology: From sub- + section.
Senses: examples: text: To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]
ref: 2005, Leanne Newson, Jules Aldous, The Legal Maze: VCE Units 1 and 2, page 445:
text: There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .
ref: 2006, Marcus Lira Brandão, Frederico Guilherme Graeff, Neurobiology of Mental Disorders, page 36:
glosses: A defined part of a section.
examples: text: A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
ref: 1994, Congress of the United States, United States Statutes at Large, volume 108, part 4:
text: In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.
ref: 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: subparagraph
glosses: A subpart of a legal document such as law.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic rank below section and above species.
Derived terms: subsubsection
subsection
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subsections
form: subsectioning
form: subsectioned
form: subsectioned
Etymology: From sub- + section.
Senses: glosses: To insert subsections (into some text, etc.).
dryad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪəd/
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪˌæd/
rhymes: -aɪəd
rhymes: -aɪæd
Forms: form: dryads
Etymology: From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Senses: examples: text: There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.
ref: 1914, Hans Christian Andersen, “The Dryad”, in William Alexander Craigie, transl., Fairy tales and other stories:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Meliai
glosses: A female tree spirit.
glosses: mountain avens, dryas
Derived terms: dryadic
yellow dryad
mercurial phosphorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a glow produced by friction when mercury is shaken in an evacuated glass vessel; the luminous barometer
glosses: a compound of mercury and phosphorus used to treat syphilis
northbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθbaʊnd/
Etymology: From north + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: She will leave on the northbound bus.
text: There are roadworks on the northbound carriageway.
text: Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
ref: 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
glosses: Heading or moving in a northerly direction; or of infrastructure, intended for travelling northwards.
northbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔɹθbaʊnd/
Etymology: From north + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: He was travelling northbound on the Golden Gate Bridge.
glosses: Towards the north.
phosphorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phosphorates
form: phosphorating
form: phosphorated
form: phosphorated
Etymology: From phosphor + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To combine or treat with phosphorus; to phosphorize.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: phosphorylate
phosphorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phosphorizes
form: phosphorizing
form: phosphorized
form: phosphorized
Etymology: From phosphor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To combine or treat with phosphorus; to phosphorate.
Derived terms: dephosphorize
rephosphorize
eastbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From east + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: The eastbound train is late again!
text: [...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
glosses: Moving or heading towards the east.
eastbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From east + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: He drove eastbound on the George Washington Bridge.
glosses: Toward the east.
phosphorent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: phosphorescent
phosphoreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phosphoreous
form: most phosphoreous
Senses: glosses: phosphorescent
phosphoresce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɒs.fəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /ˌfɑs.fəˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: phosphoresces
form: phosphorescing
form: phosphoresced
form: phosphoresced
Etymology: From phosphor + -esce, first coined c. 1794.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit phosphorescence
phosphoriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more phosphoriferous
form: most phosphoriferous
Etymology: From phosphor + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: containing, or yielding phosphorus
rumpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rump + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The claimed ability to foretell the future by reading the characteristics of a person's buttocks.
Synonyms: word: butt reading
Related terms: physiognomy
adjuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjusters
form: adjustor
Etymology: From adjust + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who adjusts something, especially the amount of compensation due in an insurance claim.
examples: text: a bar adjuster in kiteboarding
glosses: A component used to adjust something.
Derived terms: adjustress
attitude-adjuster
barrel adjuster
claim adjuster
claims adjuster
loss adjuster
adjustor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustors
Etymology: From adjust + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adjuster.
adjudicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
Related terms: adjudicate
adjudicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒuː.dɪ.keɪ.tə/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒu.dɪˌkeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [əˈd͡ʒu.dɪˌkeɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʉː.dɪ.kæɪ.tə/
ipa: [əˈd͡ʒʉː.dɪ.kæɪ.ɾə]
Forms: form: adjudicators
Etymology: From adjudicate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
text: The State Department has hired hundreds of new passport adjudicators, put employees to work around the clock and opened a new processing facility in Arkansas but has still been unable to meet the demand [for the issuance of new passports].
ref: 2007 June 8, Houston Chronicle:
glosses: One who adjudicates.
Related terms: adjudication
adjudicatrix
phosphorolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorolyses
Etymology: From phosphor + -o- + lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction, akin to hydrolysis, in which a bond is broken by the action of phosphoric acid or phosphate.
adjudicatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
phosphorus bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorus bottles
Senses: glosses: An early form of friction match involving a splint tipped with sulfur dipped into a bottle of phosphorous and then ignited by friction.
phosphorus cachexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a wasting disease caused by exposure to phosphorus
adjure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈdʒʊə/
ipa: /ədˈdʒɔː/
ipa: /ædˈd͡ʒʊɹ/
ipa: /ədˈd͡ʒʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: adjures
form: adjuring
form: adjured
form: adjured
Etymology: From Middle English adjuren, from Latin adiūrō (“beg earnestly”), from ad- (“near, at; towards, to”)' + iūrō (“swear by oath”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To issue a formal command.
examples: text: Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
text: `Then tell to me, and this great company, the tale whereof I have heard.' Thus adjured, I, in as few words as I could, related the history of the cannibal feast, and of the attempted torture of our poor servant.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:
glosses: To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
adjuratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
admonitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /ædˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /ədˈmɒnɪtəɹi/
ipa: /ədˈmɒnɪtɹi/
Forms: form: more admonitory
form: most admonitory
Etymology: From Latin admonitōrium (“admonition, reminder”).
Senses: examples: text: The schoolboy left an admonitory message on the bathroom wall.
text: He wagged an admonitory finger at the culprit.
text: Wherefore the naturall measure wherby to iudge our doings, is the sentence of reason, determining and setting downe what is good to be done. Which sentence is either mandatory, shewing what must be done; or else permissiue, declaring onely what may be done; or thirdly admonitorie, opening what is the most conuenient for vs to doe.
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, book II, page 64:
text: Mere descriptions of virtue or vice do not strike us, so strongly, as the visible representations of them. Richard the Third’s dream, Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in her sleep, the Dagger Scene in the same Play, Cardinal Beaufort’s last moments, with many other passages in our Author, of the same admonitory kind, avail us more than whole volumes of Tully’s Offices, or Seneca’s Morals.
ref: 1775, Elizabeth Griffith, The Morality of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated, London: T. Cadell, A General Postscript, pp. 526-527:
text: […] Mr. Dick […] was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: From it [the pew], Mrs. Venables was able […] to keep an admonitory eye on the school children who occupied the north aisle, and to frown at those who turned round to stare or make faces.
ref: 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, “II. A Full Peal of Grandsire Tripes”, in The Nine Tailors, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1975, The Second Part:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.
Derived terms: admonitorily
coccolithophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccolithophores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + φόρος (phóros, “carry”); this compound references how the phytoplanktonic organism's life cycle results in the depositing of its microscopic seed-like calcic exoskeleton, forming calcite.
Senses: examples: text: Chalk formations such as the white cliffs of Dover are largely composed of the bodies of countless billions of coccolithophores that bloomed, died and then sank to the seabed each season for millions of years.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 290:
text: It was filled with a kind of golden-brown planktonic algae known as coccolithophores, whose skeletons would form the chalks that underlie parts of Britain, Belgium and France today.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 27:
glosses: Any of many minute mostly marine planktonic biflagellated organisms with brown chromatophores and complex calcareous, less commonly siliceous, shells.
Derived terms: coccolith
heterococcolithophore
holococcolithophore
Related terms: coccolithophorid
afforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afforestations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Much might be said of the condition of the timber in the reserves, as typified in this locality, of possible means for its conservation and regulated use, and of the problems of afforestation, and of sylviculture generally, which are involved in the proper management of the reserves.
ref: 1899, John H. Barber, “Camping in a government reservation”, in Overland Monthly, volume 33, page 454:
text: While, however, the military critic from Britain might concur in this, he might tell us that the afforestation of such a wilderness as is Natal, for instance, is too large an undertaking for practical consideration.
ref: 1901 May 10, G. H. Davies, “Forest in War”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 142:
text: At first the Japanese, too, were careless in this respect, for the supply of camphor trees seemed practically limitless, but the great increase in the demand for the product in late years has made scientific afforestation necessary.
ref: 1920 March, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 265:
text: There are very few native trees in Iceland, primarily downy birch and rowan, but afforestation efforts are underway.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Andri Gunnar Hauksson, “Iceland vs. Greenland - What's the Difference Between the Countries?”, in Guide to Iceland:
glosses: The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
Derived terms: reafforestation
Related terms: afforest
deforest
deforestation
disafforestation
reforest
reforestation
afforest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɒɹɪst/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹɪst/
ipa: /əˈfɒɹɪst/
Forms: form: afforests
form: afforesting
form: afforested
form: afforested
Etymology: First attested in the 16th century. From Medieval Latin afforēstō, from Latin ad (“towards”) + forēsta (“forest”).
Senses: examples: text: After we leave the quarry, we intend to afforest the land and turn it into a nature reserve.
text: It is probably impossible to afforest quickly any real desert.
ref: 1901 June 7, G. H. Davies, “Rain-making”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 7, page 195:
glosses: To make into forest
Synonyms: sense: to make into forest
word: forest
Derived terms: afforestable
afforester
afforestment
coafforest
reafforest
Related terms: afforestation
deafforest
disafforest
afforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of afforest
afforested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Created by afforestation.
Derived terms: unafforested
flagella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of flagellum
croweater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croweaters
form: crow eater
form: crow-eater
Etymology: From crow + eater. Early settlers in South Australia were alleged to have eaten the breast meat of crows, parrots and cockatoos when there was a shortage of red meat. The term entered the lexicon in the late 1800s. (Alternatively, "crow" is a butcher's term for mesentery, an otherwise little-eaten tripe.)
Senses: examples: text: In those days we would play the Croweaters on a Tuesday night over in Adelaide.
ref: 2008, Robert Harvey, Harves: Strength Through Loyalty, page 137:
text: In the event, Carlton′s ‘worm’, Alex Jesaulenko, was comprehensively upstaged by his croweater rival, Barrie Robran, who in the end probably proved the decisive difference between the two sides.
ref: 2009, John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, page 328:
text: 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt edition, page 109,
The moderates, led by Joe Hockey and Chris Pyne (who refers to his fellow croweater in terms that are unprintable even in the most enlightened media), were delighted.
glosses: A person from South Australia.
reforest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reforests
form: reforesting
form: reforested
form: reforested
Etymology: From re- + forest.
Senses: glosses: To replant a forest, especially after clearcutting.
glosses: To afforest.
reforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reforestations
Etymology: From reforest + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: afforestation
antonyms: deforestation
glosses: The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.
ctenophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tēʹnə-fôrˈ
enpr: těnʹə-fôrˈ
ipa: /ˈtiː.nəˌfɔː/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.əˌfɔː/
ipa: /ˈtiː.nəˌfɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.əˌfɔɹ/
Forms: form: ctenophores
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ctenophora; equivalent to cteno- + -phore.
Senses: examples: text: Ctenophores are abundant in the oceans, but long-neglected by scientists.
ref: 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”, in Aeon:
glosses: Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
Synonyms: sense: marine animal of phylum Ctenophora
word: comb jelly
Derived terms: ctenophoran
ctenophoric
ctenophorous
deforest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɒɹɪst/
Forms: form: deforests
form: deforesting
form: deforested
form: deforested
Etymology: From de- + forest.
Senses: glosses: To clear (an area) of forest.
topics: law
glosses: To disafforest (remove legal status as forest).
Derived terms: deforestation
deforester
Related terms: deafforest
deforested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɒɹɪstəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deforest
deforested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɒɹɪstəd/
Forms: form: more deforested
form: most deforested
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to deforestation.
rhomboid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhomboids
form: rhomboides
Senses: glosses: A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle
glosses: Any of several muscles that control the shoulders
glosses: A solid shape which has rhombic faces
rhomboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rhomboides
Senses: glosses: resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
Derived terms: pseudorhomboid
rhomboidal
rhomboid fossa
rhomboid major muscle
rhomboid minor muscle
rhomboid-ovate
rhomboid protease
rhomboid ripple mark
afterbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.tɚ.bɚθ/
Forms: form: afterbirths
Etymology: From after- + birth (in the sense of delivery). Cognate with Danish efterbyrd (“afterbirth”), Swedish efterbörd (“afterbirth”). Compare also afterburden, afterburthen.
Senses: synonyms: clean
glean
glosses: The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.
Esperantist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of Esperanto esperantisto. Equivalent to Esperanto + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Underlying every Esperanto enthusiast is the Esperantist ideal that the world would be a better place if everyone could understand each other better.
synonyms: Esperantic
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Esperanto.
Esperantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Esperantists
Etymology: Calque of Esperanto esperantisto. Equivalent to Esperanto + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A growing number of Esperantists all over the world are using the services of the U. E. A.
ref: 1914, Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen, Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Project Gutenberg transcription
text: It is said that many of the early Catholic Esperantists, in particular, were frightened by this prospect—and it is, indeed, true that the Catholic element in early Idism is striking.
ref: 1969, Eco-logos, volumes 15-16, page 124:
synonyms: word: Esperantophone
english: a speaker of Esperanto
translation: a speaker of Esperanto
glosses: A specialist or speaker of Esperanto, the international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
Coordinate terms: Idist
Klingonist
Lojbanist
Tokiponist
Volapükist
agoraphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bɪk/
Forms: form: agoraphobics
Etymology: From agora + -phobic, see agoraphobia.
Senses: synonyms: agoraphobe
glosses: One who suffers from agoraphobia.
agoraphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bɪk/
Forms: form: more agoraphobic
form: most agoraphobic
Etymology: From agora + -phobic, see agoraphobia.
Senses: examples: text: […] spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations.
ref: 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Random House, Part 1, p. 49:
text: [My mother] and I had been distant for decades not because she was agoraphobic but because I'd been remote and unsparing.
ref: 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, page 130:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or suffering from agoraphobia.
agriculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agriculturists
Etymology: From agriculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices agriculture, a farmer, a gardener.
glosses: An expert in agriculture who advises farmers.
Synonyms: agriculturalist
mint condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally, the phrase comes from the way collectors described the condition of coins coming straight from the mint (coin factory). First use appears c. 1897.
Senses: examples: text: The obvious advantages of this method of new motor vehicle delivery over long distances,, which the L.M.R. says dealers and ultimate customers are beginning to appreciate, are all-weather reliability, arrival in mint condition and with only a very small mileage "on the clock", and the assurance that the car has not been mishandled during its running-in period; [...].
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: L.M.R. car-carrying success”, in Modern Railways, page 224:
glosses: The condition of newness or perfection, as if just freshly minted.
agronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agronomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to agronomy.
Derived terms: agronomically
morphoagronomic
agriculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agriculturally
form: most agriculturally
Etymology: From agricultural + -ly.
Senses: examples: Farm-state politicians are agriculturally minded.
glosses: In a manner pertaining to agriculture.
Related terms: agriculture
air-condition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə kənˌdɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ kənˌdɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: air-conditions
form: air-conditioning
form: air-conditioned
form: air-conditioned
Senses: examples: text: In hot, muggy climates, some people air-condition their garage.
glosses: To mechanically cool a space or an entire structure.
airlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From airless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being poorly ventilated; lacking good air circulation, having stale air.
glosses: The state or quality of a (relative) vacuum.
flagellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈd͡ʒɛləm/
rhymes: -ɛləm
Forms: form: flagella
form: flagellums
form: flagellae
Etymology: From Latin flagellum (“whip”), diminutive of flagrum, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag- (“to strike”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
glosses: A whip.
Synonyms: sense: organelle of protists
word: cilium
sense: whip
word: whip
Derived terms: basiflagellum
distiflagellum
endoflagellum
flagelliferous
flagellin
adulescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adulescents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adultescent.
alderwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alderwomen
Senses: glosses: A female alderman.
reticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtɪkjʊlə/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪkjələ/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪkjəlɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪkjulɚ/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more reticular
form: most reticular
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin rēticulāris, from Latin rēticulum (“little net”).
Senses: glosses: Having the structure of a net or a network; netlike.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
Synonyms: reticulate
Coordinate terms: reticuloid
Derived terms: reticular formation
sundress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌdɹɛs/
Forms: form: sundresses
Etymology: From sun + dress.
Senses: examples: text: I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed
ref: 2011, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker, “Video Games”:
text: The brand, in its collaboration with Target, provoked ire—proving that, in the right circumstances, even sundresses can be part of the culture wars.
ref: 2015 April 22, Megan Garber, “Why Do People Hate Lilly Pulitzer?”, in The Atlantic:
hypernyms: dress
<
garment
clothing
glosses: A typically sleeveless dress, usually a minidress, made of light, loose-fitting material for spring and summer wear.
Related terms: sunglasses
sunhat
sunscreen
sun umbrella
anatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈtɒm.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.əˈtɑ.mɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɐ.nɐ.tɔ.mɪk/
Etymology: From French anatomique or its etymon Latin anatomicus, from Ancient Greek ἀνατομικός (anatomikós, “skilled in anatomy”). By surface analysis, anatomy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the effects of notchplasty on the clinical outcome after anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction were evaluated in a cohort study.
ref: 2016, Mitsuo Ochi, Konsei Shino, Kazunori Yasuda, ACL Injury and Its Treatment, page 273:
glosses: Of or pertaining to anatomy and dissection, or to individual structures of the anatomy.
Synonyms: anatomical
Derived terms: anatomical
anatomic dead space
anatomicity
angioanatomic
electroanatomic
histoanatomic
macroanatomic
microanatomic
morphoanatomic
neuroanatomic
nonanatomic
pathoanatomic
physiologico-anatomic
anatomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæt.ə.mɪst/
Forms: form: anatomists
Etymology: From anatomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
text: A plant anatomist receiving such samples can remove pickled wood and bark for anatomical study, then dry the remaining portions for inclusion in a xylarium.
ref: 1996, Tod F. Stuessy, S. H. Sohmer, Sampling the Green World: Innovative Concepts of Collection, Preservation, and Storage of Plant Diversity:
text: Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.
ref: 2018 September 24, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex, volume 106, pages 26–35:
glosses: One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
Derived terms: histoanatomist
microanatomist
neuroanatomist
pathoanatomist
anthracite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: anthracites
Etymology: Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: hard coal
glosses: A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
examples: text: In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!
ref: 2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:
glosses: A dark grey color.
Coordinate terms: word: semianthracite
word: bituminous coal
word: sub-bituminous coal
english: lignite
translation: lignite
word: brown coal
Derived terms: anthraciferous
anthracitic
anthracitism
meta-anthracite
armorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: armoriall
form: armourial
Etymology: From armory + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Mute Memento of that union
In a Saxon Church survives,
Where a cross-legged Knight lies sculptured
As between two wedded Wives—
Figures with armorial signs of race and birth,
And the vain rank the Pilgrims bore while yet on earth.
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, The Armenian Lady's Love, Stanza 26, lines 151-156:
text: The Metropolitan District Railway did not at any time employ an armorial device on its rolling stock, though one was frequently displayed on its maps and timetables.
ref: 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 381:
text: Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of, or relating to heraldry, or to heraldic arms.
Derived terms: armorial bearing
armorial hall
armorially
armorial ware
unarmoria