cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinder
tinders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tinder
no complys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no comply
no complies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no comply
ultima Thule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultima Thules
form: ultima thule
form: Ultima Thule
Etymology: From Latin ultima Thūlē, nominative feminine singular of ultimus (“furthest”) + Thule, from mediaeval geography; originally from the Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē), a (possibly mythical) island to the north of Britain.
Senses: examples: text: Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle! / Here in thy harbors for a while / We lower our sails; a while we rest / From the unending, endless quest.
ref: 1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule:
text: It is impossible to define a reason for the Gulf Settlements attaining this unenviable notoriety, unless it is owing to the remoteness of their locality, and the kind of Ultima Thule that part of Australia seems to be.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 306:
glosses: A place beyond the borders of the known world.
glosses: Highest achievement.
metroperitoneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metro- + peritoneal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the uterus and peritoneum.
microanatomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microanatomists
Etymology: From micro- + anatomist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies microanatomy.
microanatomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microanatomist
molybdoflavoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molybdoflavoprotein
molybdoenzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molybdoenzyme
mopidamol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phosphodiesterase inhibitor with antitumor activity, derived from dipyridamole.
metallurgical coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallurgical coals
Senses: glosses: The type of coal used for the making of steel.
Synonyms: coking coal
Coordinate terms: thermal coal
steaming coal
thermal coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the type of coal used in coal-fired electrical power plants
Synonyms: steaming coal
steam coal
Coordinate terms: metallurgical coal
membranocartilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membrano- + cartilaginous.
Senses: glosses: Composed of, or relating to, membrane and cartilage.
mannosylphosphoryltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannosylphosphoryltransferase
maltokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltokinases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyses the chemical reaction ATP + maltose ⇌ ADP + alpha-maltose 1-phosphate.
maltokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltokinase
scramblases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scramblase
methenyltetrahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction 5,10-methenyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydromethanopterin + H₂O ⇌ 5-formyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydromethanopterin.
methoxydimethyltryptamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methoxydimethyltryptamine
methyltyrosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methyltyrosine
monophosphokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monophosphokinase
streamworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamworks
Etymology: From stream + works.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.
streamworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamwork
strophanolloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
play into someone's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays into someone's hands
form: playing into someone's hands
form: played into someone's hands
form: played into someone's hands
form: play into someone's hand
Senses: examples: text: It had been suggested Napoli's fans struggle to form an attachment with the Italy team and their silence throughout the first half and reaction at half time suggested they could hardly wait to get back to throwing their passion and fire behind their own team as they run away with Serie A and chase the Champions League.
The subdued mood played into England's hands, Gareth Southgate's side only making life difficult for themselves with their own indifferent showing that almost allowed Italy back in.
ref: 2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To act, or to manage matters, to someone's advantage or benefit.
velvet cork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.
spring a butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs a butt
form: springing a butt
form: sprang a butt
form: sprung a butt
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.
spring the luff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs the luff
form: springing the luff
form: sprang the luff
form: sprung the luff
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; said of a vessel.
check hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check hooks
Senses: glosses: A hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped.
poison nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison nuts
Senses: glosses: nux vomica (tree)
glosses: nux vomica (fruit)
last cast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last casts
Senses: glosses: The last throw of the dice or last effort, on which everything is gambled; the last chance.
gauge glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauge glasses
form: gage glass
Senses: glosses: A glass tube for a water gauge.
yellow bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: calisaya (Cinchona spp.)
yellow wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water; a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.
traverse board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traverse boards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small board hung near the helmsman, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It was used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole.
diamond python
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond pythons
Senses: glosses: Morelia spilota spilota, a species of python, of Australia.
of counsel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Used as the title of an attorney who has a relationship with a law firm or other organization, but is not an associate or a partner.
weather cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather cloths
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A long piece of canvas or tarpaulin used to protect the hammocks from weather damage when stowed in the nettings.
antisympathetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisympathetic
weather house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather houses
Senses: examples: text: Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought / Devised the weather house, that useful toy!
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
synonyms: weather box
glosses: A mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
unfondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfond + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of not being fond of someone or something.
wasteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From waste + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being wasted.
unwasteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wasteable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being wasted.
blow with the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows with the wind
form: blowing with the wind
form: blew with the wind
form: blown with the wind
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go with the flow.
synonyms: word: go with the flow
float with the stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floats with the stream
form: floating with the stream
form: floated with the stream
form: floated with the stream
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go with the flow.
synonyms: word: go with the flow
break sheer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks sheer
form: breaking sheer
form: broke sheer
form: broken sheer
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.
fox bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox bolts
Senses: glosses: A bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge.
cherry pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry pits
Senses: synonyms: cherrystone
hypernyms: word: pit
word: stone
word: seed pit
word: ;
word: pip
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: ;
word: pyrena
word: pyrene
coordinate_terms: peach pit
glosses: The stone of a cherry.
examples: text: What, man! 'tis not for / gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang / him, foul collier!
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4:
topics: games
glosses: A children's game in which players attempt to knock marbles into a hole without losing their taw in the same hole.
stream the buoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streams the buoy
form: streaming the buoy
form: streamed the buoy
form: streamed the buoy
Senses: examples: text: I was aft attending to the sails and bringing the brig to her berth, Boyd and some others standing by the anchor. On streaming the buoy it of course went adrift, but was not missed till after the anchor was let go. When I went forward to attend to the cable and looked for the buoy I saw it floating away astern, and was told the buoy-rope must have been cut by the rocks.
ref: 1892, James Choyce, The Log of a Jack Tar:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To drop the anchor buoy overboard, before letting go of the anchor. This is done to avoid the buoy getting obstructed by the anchor chain.
corn parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Petroselinum segetum, species of parsley endemic to western and southern Europe, and northern Africa.
glosses: Ridolfia segetum, an annual weed of the Mediterranean region.
corn-flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn-flags
Senses: glosses: sword lily
canary creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canary creepers
Senses: glosses: Tropaeolum peregrinum, a climbing plant native to western South America.
Spanish elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish elms
Senses: glosses: Any member of species Cordia alliodora, a flowering tree in the borage family, native to the American tropics.
feretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rich reddish-brown pigment obtained by calcining copper and sulfur together in closed crucibles.
Pharaoh's serpent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pharaoh's serpents
Senses: glosses: A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction, originally involving toxic mercury (II) thiocyanate.
intumescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intumescent
leatherboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leather + board.
Senses: glosses: An imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.
nonintumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intumescent.
Senses: glosses: Not intumescent.
intumesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intumesce
intumescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intumesce
black snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black snakes
Senses: glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Any species of Pseudechis, a genus of Australian snakes.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Crotalus oreganus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Agkistrodon piscivorus, a venomous North American pit viper species of snake.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Coluber constrictor, a non-venomous North and Central American species of snake.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Pantherophis alleghaniensis, a North American colubrid species of snake.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Pantherophis obsoletus, a North American colubrid species of snake.
glosses: Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:
Pantherophis spiloides, a North American colubrid species of snake.
synonyms: snake
glosses: A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction.
examples: text: All at once I saw a strange man coming across the diamond with a black snake whip in his hand.
ref: 1907, Elbert Hubbard, Harry Persons Taber, The Philistine, page 46:
text: His punishment was fixed at thirty-nine lashes with a black snake whip […]
ref: 1914, John F. Merry, History of Delaware County, Iowa, and Its People, page 203:
glosses: Alternative form of blacksnake (“whip”).
Related terms: Pharaoh's serpent
mutton snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutton snappers
Senses: glosses: Lutjanus analis, a snapper native to the Atlantic coastal waters of the Americas from Massachusetts to southern Brazil.
glosses: Rhomboplites aurorubens (vermillion snapper)
tahari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tehari
form: tehri
Senses: glosses: A vegetarian version of biryani.
magicube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magicubes
Etymology: Blend of magic + cube, originally a trademark.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A form of flashcube not requiring electrical power.
magicubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magicube
flipflash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipflashes
Etymology: From flip + flash, originally a trademark.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.
flipflashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flipflash
flashbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashbars
Etymology: From flash + bar.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.
flashbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashbar
ship's days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As a general rule, i.e., in the absence of a custom of the Port, or a stipulation to the contrary, "lay-days" mean "running days," and include Sundays and fixed holidays; one exception being where the ship has reported too late for the Merchant to begin discharging in fair time on Saturday, in which case the Merchant would be entitled to begin to count his "lay-days" from the following Monday, or first working day, which the late reporting of the ship on Saturday gives him the advantage of; the ship's days would then run on as running days—the succeeding Sundays and holidays counting as "days" against the Merchant.
ref: 1871, Alfred Henry Alston, Robert Hastings Harris, Seamanship, page 533:
text: The bye-law in the harbour (at Boulogne) stipulates that a ship's days do not count until 24 hours after she gets a quay berth.
ref: 1881, William Mitchell, Maritime Notes and Queries: A Record of Shipping Law and Usage, page 32:
text: Both completely discharged of locomotives and cargoes in 13 days with saving of 15 ship's days in unloading the 33 locomotives erected as compared with same number of locomotives not erected and further saving of 14 days of erecting forces.
ref: 1901, The World War and Historic Deeds of Valor, page 155:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The days allowed for a vessel to load or unload.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ship, day.
ship letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship letters
Senses: glosses: A letter conveyed by a ship other than a packet ship.
ship railway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship railways
Senses: glosses: An inclined railway with a cradle-like car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of the water for repairs etc.
glosses: A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two watercourses or harbours.
girlfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlf
mock orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock oranges
Senses: synonyms: philadelphus
glosses: Any shrub of the genus Philadelphus, particularly Philadelphus coronarius (sweet mock orange).
glosses: Bursaria spinosa (Australian blackthorn), a small tree from Australia.
glosses: Choisya ternata (Mexican orange), an aromatic shrub native to North America.
glosses: Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), a small tree from North America.
glosses: Murraya paniculata (orange jessamine), a small tree ranging from East Asia to Australasia.
glosses: Pittosporum undulatum (sweet pittosporum), a small tree native to Australia.
pittosporums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pittosporum
mock nightingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock nightingales
Senses: glosses: A bird, the Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).
nose key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose keys
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A fox wedge.
Ruda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹʊdˈɑː/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Руда́ (Rudá).
Senses: glosses: The name of numerous villages in the Ukraine, including:
A village in Zhvanets rural hromada, Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1422.
glosses: The name of numerous villages in the Ukraine, including:
A village in Mykolaivka settlement hromada, Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
Related terms: Midna Ruda
Ruda-Bridska
Ruda Różaniecka
floating screed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating screeds
Senses: glosses: A strip of plastering laid on first, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
fetch a compass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fetches a compass
form: fetching a compass
form: fetched a compass
form: fetched a compass
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To make a circuit; to take a circuitous route to a place.
chloroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorosis
pulse glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse glasses
Etymology: So called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when it is warmed.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument consisting of a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil.
evening grosbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evening grosbeaks
Senses: glosses: Coccothraustes vespertinus, a large finch.
bullsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullsnakes
Etymology: From bull + snake.
Senses: glosses: Pituophis catenifer sayi, a large non-venomous colubrid snake endemic to the central United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern Canada.
bullsnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullsnake
sugar squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar squirrels
Senses: glosses: sugar glider
tree of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹi ʌv laɪf/
Forms: form: trees of life
Senses: glosses: A kind of tree, the arborvitae; an individual thereof.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A metaphor used to describe the phylogenetic relationships between organisms, both living and extinct; a diagram that shows those relationships, with a treelike appearance.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: tree of knowledge
glosses: A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.
glosses: The central mystical symbol used in the Kabbalah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the ten sephiroth.
Related terms: creationist orchard
LUCA
tree onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree onions
Senses: glosses: Allium × proliferum, a kind of hybrid onion with a cluster of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers.
good nature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊdˈneɪtʃə/
Forms: form: good natures
form: goodnature
Etymology: From Middle English good nature, equivalent to good + nature, after Middle French bonne nature.
Senses: examples: text: I am disposed to think that Mrs. Butler Cornbury did Mrs. Tappitt an injury when she with so much ready goodnature accepted the invitation for the party […].
ref: 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
text: the goodnature and generosity which belonged to his character
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Habitual kindness or mildness of temper or disposition; amiability.
Related terms: good-natured
hand tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand trees
Senses: glosses: Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, a tree with distinctive red flowers that resemble open human hands.
at all hands
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: Dec. 24, 1858, Carl Schurz, letter to Hon. J. F. Potter
I would have stopped it, for the reason that my name cannot be used in connection with a nomination unless the thing is understood at all hands
glosses: From all angles; from every direction; generally.
Synonyms: on all hands
on every hand
Dostoyevskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dostoyevskian
form: most Dostoyevskian
form: Dostoevskan
form: Dostoevskean
form: Dostoevskeian
form: Dostoevskeyan
form: Dostoevskian
form: Dostoevskiian
form: Dostoevskijan
form: Dostoevskyan
form: Dostoevskyian
form: Dostoievskan
form: Dostoievskean
form: Dostoievskeian
form: Dostoievskian
form: Dostoievskyan
form: Dostoievskyian
form: Dostojevskian
form: Dostoyevskan
form: Dostoyevskean
form: Dostoyevskeian
form: Dostoyevskeyan
form: Dostoyevskiyan
form: Dostoyevskyan
form: Dostoyevskyian
Etymology: From Dostoyevsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский (Fjódor Mixájlovič Dostojévskij); 1821–1881), Russian novelist and philosopher.
Dostoevskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dostoevskian
form: most Dostoevskian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dostoyevskian.
Dostoevskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dostoevskyan
form: most Dostoevskyan
Etymology: From Dostoevsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dostoyevskian.
Dostoyevskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dostoyevskyan
form: most Dostoyevskyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dostoyevskian.
Karamazovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Karamazovian
form: most Karamazovian
Etymology: From Karamazov + -ian, after characters in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov.
Senses: glosses: sensual; lustful; passionate
wikipedia: The Brothers Karamazov
praporshchik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praporshchiks
Etymology: Russian пра́порщик (práporščik)
Senses: glosses: A junior officer in Imperial Russia.
glosses: A senior non-commissioned officer, originally in the Russian military, and still in certain other uniformed services of the Russian government.
praporshchiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praporshchik
French fake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French fakes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A way of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.
French fakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French fake
snotrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snotrags
Etymology: From snot + rag.
Senses: examples: text: […] he had this great big old man's snotrag out and his head was down and he was wiping his eyes with it.
ref: 1983, Stephen King, Christine:
glosses: A handkerchief.
glosses: Term of abuse.
snotrags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snotrag
monk's rhubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Either of two docks (not true rhubarbs), Rumex alpinus (alpine dock) or Rumex patientia (patience dock).
down the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Birds fly swiftly down the wind.
glosses: In the direction of, and moving with, the wind.
Related terms: downwind
spar torpedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spar torpedoes
form: spar torpedos
Senses: glosses: A weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, attached to a boat, and used by ramming the end of the spar into an enemy ship before detonating the bomb.
daywalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daywalkers
Etymology: From day + walker.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
daywalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daywalker
green salt of Magnus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Heinrich Gustav Magnus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Magnus' green salt
glosses: A dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.
wikipedia: Heinrich Gustav Magnus
bill of mortality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of mortality
Senses: examples: text: […] the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality […]
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: An official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time.
examples: text: (a place) within the bills of mortality of London
glosses: A district required to be covered by such a statement.
turkey berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey berries
Etymology: "From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."
Senses: glosses: A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum), a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.
what cheer
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: how are you? ; wotcher
teuthis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τευθίς (teuthís).
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.”
ref: 1862, Aristotle, translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, History of Animals:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A small squid.
untherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untherapeutic
form: most untherapeutic
Etymology: From un- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Not therapeutic.
therapization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or process of therapizing.
compass dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass dials
Senses: glosses: A small pocket compass fitted with a sundial to tell the hour of the day.
compass plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass planes
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A plane, convex in the direction of its length on the underside, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork.
sandball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandballs
Etymology: From sand + ball.
Senses: examples: text: […] we could hear their deafening hilarious cries as they swam and threw sandballs into the air.
ref: 2003, Margaret J. Daymond, Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region, page 367:
glosses: A mass of wet sand formed into a ball.
glosses: A ball of soap mixed with fine sand, used for washing one's body.
Related terms: snowball
sandballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandball
horseboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseboats
Etymology: From horse + boat.
Senses: glosses: A horse-drawn boat.
glosses: A boat for transporting horses and cattle.
Derived terms: horseboating
horseboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseboat
horse gentian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse gentians
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Triosteum of flowering plants, especially Triosteum perfoliatum
Synonyms: feverwort
strawberry bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry bushes
Senses: glosses: Euonymus americanus, a flowering plant in the family Celastraceae.
gnat-strainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnat-strainers
Etymology: From gnat + strainer, referring to a Bible verse, Matthew xxiii. 24.
Senses: glosses: A fusspot.
Related terms: gnat-strain
gnat-straining
jack-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack-backs
Etymology: See back (“a vat or cistern”).
Senses: glosses: In brewing and malt vinegar manufacture, a cistern which receives the wort.
Prince Albert coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prince Albert coats
Etymology: Named after Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert.
Senses: glosses: A double-breasted frock coat.
set eyes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets eyes on
form: setting eyes on
form: set eyes on
form: set eyes on
Senses: synonyms: get eyes on
glosses: To see; to observe.
fiddle beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddle beetles
Etymology: So called from its shape.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese carabid beetle (Carabus blaptoides).
glosses: Any of certain species of genus Mormolyce.
loudmouthedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loudmouthed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being loudmouthed
skunkbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skunkbushes
Etymology: From skunk + bush, in reference to the strong smell of the crushed leaves.
Senses: glosses: A low shrubby type of sumac, Rhus trilobata.
glosses: Rhus aromatica.
Synonyms: sourberry
sourberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourberries
Etymology: From sour + berry.
Senses: glosses: Skunkbush.
skunkbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skunkbush
sourberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sourberry
treck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trecks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trek.
treck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trecks
form: trecking
form: trecked
form: trecked
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trek.
leisure suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leisure suit
races against time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race against time
good leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good legs
Senses: examples: text: In a minute or two the Swash was under what Mrs. Budd might have called her "attacking" canvas, and was close by the wind, looking on a good leg well up the harbour.
ref: 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack Tier:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.
leg bail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Escape from custody by running away.
lavender water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavender waters
Senses: examples: text: 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Letter 59, p. 30,
When I had recovered my reason, I had the happiness of finding my brother and Delia sitting by me, and my champion kneeling before me, and pouring lavender water on my hands and face, with a look of such tender solicitude, as if his life depended upon mine.
text: […] as they perceived some more signs of life than were at first apparent, a young Englishman poured down his throat the greatest part of a bottle of lavender-water, which he happened to have in his pocket. The effects of such a stimulus, applied to a stomach accustomed to nothing stronger than water, were instantaneous and powerful.
ref: 1808 April, Sydney Smith, “Indian Missions”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 12, number 23, page 175:
text: The first thing I met was a regiment of the vilest odors that ever assaulted the human nose, and took it by storm. Cologne, with its seven and seventy evil savors, was a posy-bed to it; and the worst of this affliction was, every one had assured me that it was a chronic weakness of all hospitals, and I must bear it. I did, armed with lavender water, with which I so besprinkled myself and premises, that, like my friend, Sairy, I was soon known among my patients as "the nurse with the bottle."
ref: 1863 May 22 – 1863 June 26, L[ouisa] M[ay] Alcott, “A Day”, in Hospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.: James Redpath, […], published August 1863, →OCLC, page 33:
text: The tide of her curiosity was running strongly when, at long last, she entered the blue room. It was a huge, handsome apartment, furnished with a massive mahogany suite, made sombre by reason of the prevailing dark blue colour of the walls, carpet and curtains. A dull red fire glowed in the steel grate. Although its closeness was mitigated with lavender-water, the atmosphere smelt faintly of rotten apples.
ref: 1933, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Some Must Watch:
glosses: A perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
unskimpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unskimpy
form: most unskimpy
Etymology: From un- + skimpy.
Senses: glosses: Not skimpy.
lay in lavender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays in lavender
form: laying in lavender
form: laid in lavender
form: laid in lavender
form: lay up in lavender
Senses: glosses: To store (clothing, etc.) with sprigs of lavender, i.e. to keep fresh.
glosses: To pawn.
staff angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staff angles
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.
spring a leak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs a leak
form: springing a leak
form: sprang a leak
form: sprung a leak
Senses: glosses: To begin to leak.
jack timber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack timbers
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any timber, such as a rafter, rib, or studding, which, being intercepted, is shorter than the others.
jack-sinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack-sinkers
Senses: qualifier: knitting machines
glosses: A thin iron plate operated by the jack to depress the loop of thread between two needles.
worm tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worm teas
Senses: glosses: An anthelmintic tea or tisane.
worm teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm tea
shooger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sugar.
langth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋ(k)θ/
rhymes: -æŋθ
rhymes: -æŋkθ
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of length.
strangth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnicea(k)θ/
rhymes: -æŋθ
rhymes: -æŋkθ
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of strength.
cock egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock eggs
Etymology: Since such an egg cannot hatch, they were traditionally believed to be laid by roosters, giving rise to the myth of the cockatrice.
Senses: glosses: A yolkless egg.
plackard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plackards
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of placard.
plackard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plackards
form: plackarding
form: plackarded
form: plackarded
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of placard.
wind egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind eggs
form: wind-egg
Senses: glosses: An egg that is somehow lacking (e.g. lacking the yolk or the shell).
glosses: Anything that is deficient in some way.
Hyponyms: cock egg
shuttle race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttle races
Senses: glosses: A sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine.
befinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befind
befinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befind
befound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befind
ornge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔɹnd͡ʒ
Forms: form: ornges
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of orange.
holocost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑləkɔst/
ipa: /ˈhɑləkɑst/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of holocaust.
pritty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of pretty.
carbunkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbunkles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of carbuncle.
skiddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪdɪʃ/
Forms: form: more skiddish
form: most skiddish
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of skittish.
shuttlebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuttleboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shuttle box.
shuttleboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shuttlebox
Spanish fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish foxes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish burton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish burtons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A purchase composed of two single blocks, or (double Spanish burton) one double and two single blocks.
uzarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uzara + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: xysmalobin
glosses: A particular cardenolide glycoside.
xysmalorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Xysmalobium and -in.
Senses: glosses: A particular cardenolide glycoside.
rhodexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Haworth projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haworth projections
Etymology: Named after the English chemist Sir Norman Haworth.
Senses: glosses: A kind of three-dimensional projection used to represent the cyclic structure of monosaccharides.
glucodigigulomethyloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
glucodigifucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Derived terms: neoglucodigifucoside
glucogitoroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neoglucodigifucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + glucodigifucoside.
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
obebioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
evatromonoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
canaropyranoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
canariboivinoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
canaridigitoxoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
trilocularin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
deglucocoroloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
cannodixoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
adynerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Related terms: adynerigenin
urginin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
glucoscilliroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
wallichoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside found in Pteris wallichiana.
digistroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
madagascoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
evomonoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
nodososide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Derived terms: isonodososide
helianthoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
isonodososide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + nodososide.
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
ecdysteroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
helojaposide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
astasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
dendrosteroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
daucosterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
furostane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside
Derived terms: furostanol
polyfuroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
sarsparilloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
purpureagitoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
lanatigoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
lanagitoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
furcreafurostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
beshornoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
multifidoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
camassioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
xiebaisaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
Judeo-Italian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Judeo- + Italian.
Senses: glosses: A near-extinct Jewish Romance language or family of languages based on Italian and its dialects.
Synonyms: Italkian
Italkian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אִיטַלְקִי (italkí, “Italian”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Judeo-Italian.
synonyms: word: Judeo-Italian
set a sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets a sponge
form: setting a sponge
form: set a sponge
form: set a sponge
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity.
polypodasaponin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
santiagoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
laevigatoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
maculatoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
protoreasteroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
brasiliensoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
psilasteroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
argyroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
thromidioside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
afromontoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
placentoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
protoneogracillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
protogracillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
deltoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
balanitoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
ruscoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
tokoronin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neotokoronin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + tokoronin.
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
divostroside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
hongkelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honghelin.
neriifoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neridiginoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
neriaside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
kwangoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
sarmentocymarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
malayoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
helveticoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
gofruside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.
vanderoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular steroid glycoside.