cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Parnassus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parnassos
Etymology: From Latin Parnāsus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός (Parnassós).
Senses: examples: text: Go down beside thy native rill,
⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet,
⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet
About the ledges of the hill.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: Phocis separates the Aonian from the Actæan region; a fruitful land while it was a land; but at that time it had become a part of the sea, and a wide plain of sudden waters. There a lofty mountain rises towards the stars, with two tops, by name Parnassus, and advances beyond the clouds with its summit.
ref: 1851, Ovid, “Book 1”, in Henry T. Riley, transl., The Metamorphoses of Ovid, volumes 1—Books I–VII, London: George Bell & Sons […] , published 1893:
glosses: A mountain in central Greece, adjacent the site of the ancient city of Delphi, that in Greek mythology was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs and was the home of the Muses.
examples: text: His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books. He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XLIII, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC:
text: […] "He's arguably the best pitcher on the Mets," the preening sportswriter writes, aspiring to Parnassus, which Red Smith reached by never using words like "arguably."
ref: 2001, William Zinsser, On Writing Well, page 70:
glosses: The home of poetry, literature, and learning.
glosses: A small town in Hurunui district, north Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Mount Parnassus.
Derived terms: grass of Parnassus
Parnassian
Parnassianism
Perun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Most likely borrowed from Russian Перу́н (Perún). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Perunъ.
Senses: glosses: The highest god in the pantheon of Slavic mythology, the god of thunder and lightning.
generalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalisms
Etymology: From general + -ism; compare generalist.
Senses: examples: text: Factors that predispose pathogens to generalism include high levels of genetic diversity and abundant opportunities for cross-species transmission, and the taxonomic distributions of generalists and specialists appear to reflect these factors.
ref: 2001 May 11, Mark E. J. Woolhouse et al."Population Biology of Multihost Pathogens", in the journal Science V.292, Isuue 5519, pp.1109-1112
text: What the biologists call the hedgehog's generalism, its lack of slick speciality, the way it noses for beetles, caterpillars, earwigs and worms, sometimes eating frogs, baby mice, eggs and chicks, its happy existence at the bottom of hedges and in people's back gardens, its inability to cope with very large, chemically denuded arable fields - in other words its fondness for the private, the scruffy and the marginal - all make it a measure of the state of the landscape's health as a whole.
ref: 2006 January 17, Adam Nicolson, “Where have all our hedgehogs gone?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Generalization: lack of specialization.
generalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalism
Ciceronian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪsəˈɹəʊnɪən/
ipa: /sɪsəˈɹoʊnɪən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Ciceronian
form: most Ciceronian
Etymology: From the Latin Cicerōniānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Marcus Tullius Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises.
examples: text: 'But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?' / 'What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?' said the duchess; 'it is a word I never heard in all my life.' / 'Demosthenian eloquence,' said Don Quixote, 'means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world.'
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Of the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with Other Incidents, Grave and Droll”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume III, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, pages 354–355:
glosses: Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style.
glosses: With effusive use of antithesis and long sentences.
Derived terms: Ciceronianism
Ciceronianist
Ciceronianize
Related terms: ciceronage
cicerone
ciceroneship
Ciceronic
Ciceronical
Ciceronically
ciceronism
ciceronize
Ciceronian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪsəˈɹəʊnɪən/
ipa: /sɪsəˈɹoʊnɪən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Ciceronians
Etymology: From the Latin Cicerōniānus.
Senses: examples: text: One thing is observable in all the professed Ciceronians, namely, the using a multitude of words to express their meaning. This they learned from their master, since it cannot be denied that Cicero is rather verbose.
ref: 1758, The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, volume 6, page 275:
text: The fact that he scoffed at their so-called purity of style, declaring that any reputable Latin was standard and that matter was more important than form, brought him into conflict with the sect of Ciceronians.
ref: 1910, Izora Scott, Controversies Over the Imitation of Cicero in the Renaissance:
glosses: One who adopts or favours Cicero's literary style.
confirmation names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confirmation name
cabrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cabrito (“kid”).
Senses: examples: text: Mutton rivaled beef in prominence until this century, and cabrito, or kid, remains a major food in Nuevo León.
ref: 1995, Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison, The Border Cookbook: Authentic Home Cooking of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, page 223:
text: Mr. Dean O. Smith, who is the game warden in the Dripping Springs area, barbecues the cabrito for us, and what a treat that is! Cabrito is a very young Spanish goat between one and a half and two years old.
ref: 2001, Mary Faulk Koock, The Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet-- An Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way, page 65:
text: Consuela and Sullivan had been cooking all night so there was plenty of beef and cabrito.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 116:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Meat from a young goat; kid.
Synonyms: kid
Prus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pruses
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Prus.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
electron number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron numbers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The number of electrons in an atom or ion
video assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: video tap
glosses: A system that allows a video version of a take to be viewed immediately after it is filmed.
isonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same nucleus
millimagnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millimagnitudes
Etymology: From milli- + magnitude.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One thousandth of a magnitude
overspeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overspeed
overspeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: over-speeding
Senses: glosses: Travelling at an excessive speed.
overstability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + stability.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A condition in which oscillation increases due to excessive feedback
Related terms: overstable
overstable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overstable
form: most overstable
Etymology: From over- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing overstability.
antonyms: understable
glosses: Of a flying disc, having a flight path curving to the right of the expected flight path.
photodissociating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photodissociating
form: most photodissociating
Etymology: From photo- + dissociating.
Senses: glosses: Causing, or undergoing photodissociation
primordially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From primordial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a primordial manner.
glosses: With regard to a primordium.
quasiholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasihole
technifermions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technifermion
technifermion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technifermions
Etymology: From techni- + fermion.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technicolor fermion
ultrafaint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrafaint
form: most ultrafaint
Etymology: From ultra- + faint.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Very faint
wavemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavemakers
Etymology: From wave + maker.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An oscillating device that creates reproducible waves in a liquid.
Brit.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Britain.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of British English.
Derived terms: Gt. Brit.
Brit.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of British.
uneulogised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + eulogised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uneulogized.
Eulerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪˈlɪəɹi.ən/
ipa: /juːˈlɪəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɔɪˈlɪəɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiən
Forms: form: eulerian
Etymology: From Euler + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an Eulerian circuit.
Derived terms: Eulerian circuit
Eulerian coordinate
Eulerian correlation
Eulerian cycle
Eulerian graph
Eulerian path
Eulerian tour
essaylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more essaylike
form: most essaylike
Etymology: From essay + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He championed the essaylike novel mainly because Tanizaki appeared to overpraise the novel that had an interesting story to tell.
ref: 1976, Makoto Ueda, Modern Japanese writers and the nature of literature:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an essay.
Canad.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian.
noncanalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + canalize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not canalized.
Amer.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of America.
Amer.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of American.
dogooder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogooders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of do-gooder.
dogooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogooder
vihuela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vihuelas
Etymology: From Spanish vihuela.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar-like string instrument of 15th- and 16th-century Spain, usually with six courses or sets of strings (twelve strings in total).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guitar-like string instrument of 19th-century Mexico with five strings, typically played in mariachi bands.
Derived terms: vihuelist
vihuelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vihuela
wayfinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: way-finding
Etymology: From way + finding.
Senses: examples: text: And that difference in style is often cast as being part of the basis of gender differences in wayfinding. People say that women are more likely to navigate with landmarks and men are more likely to navigate using the cardinal directions.
ref: 2009 July 8, Kristi Oloffson, “Why We Get Lost”, in Time, retrieved 09 May 2014:
text: These built‐in features in the natural and man‐made environment are the passive tools of wayfinding. The best places and spaces are rich with these integrated attributes that foster orientation, understanding, and self‐guiding.
ref: 2015, Chris Calori, David Vanden-Eynden, Signage and Wayfinding Design:
text: New signage is being installed to enhance wayfinding and USB sockets are being added in the main concourse area and Platform 8's waiting area.
ref: 2021 October 6, “Network News: Upgrades start at Cardiff Central”, in RAIL, number 941, page 24:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of a person or animal to orientate oneself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting oneself and navigating.
Related terms: find one's way
selfhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfhood
selfenergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfenergy
gittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪtən/
ipa: /ˈɡɪtəɹn/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: gitterns
form: ghittern
Etymology: From Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.
Senses: examples: text: Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
ref: 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 58:
synonyms: quintern
glosses: A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
gittern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪtən/
ipa: /ˈɡɪtəɹn/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: gitterns
form: gitterning
form: gitterned
form: gitterned
Etymology: From Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.
Senses: examples: c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109.
… [E]ach evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.
glosses: To play on the gittern.
Related terms: cither
cittern
zittern
gitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gittern
do-badder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-badders
Etymology: From do bad + -er, after do-gooder.
Senses: examples: text: "Later, he was given artificial life by a do-badder called Diablo--and almost destroyed the Fantastic Four themselves..."
ref: 1967 June 10, Roy Thomas, Avengers, volume 1, number 41, page 8:
glosses: A person who does bad things.
do-badders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-badder
merdurinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more merdurinous
form: most merdurinous
Senses: examples: text: 163?, John Taylor, A Bawd
Theſe are the right paternes of an induſtrious Bawd, for ſhee pickes her living out of the layſtall or dunghil of our vices ; if ſhe thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections […]
text: 16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams
Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster,
Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load […]
text: […] Catholics put their god through a double process of Transubstantiation, according to Oldham, one as merdurinous as it was miraculous: 'Down goes the tiny saviour at a bit', he writes with satirical relish, 'To be digested, and at length beshit […]
ref: 2005, Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini, The poetics of transubstantiation: from theology to metaphor:
glosses: Consisting of excrement and urine.
Related terms: urinous
main man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main men
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to Aaron (my main man) Priest...
ref: 1989, David Ritz, Barbells and saxophones:
text: "Dungo," Henry would say, "you're my main man." He would pronounce these words in front of Jeanine, or even strangers.
ref: 1993, Matt Cohen, The bookseller:
text: As Moody says of his main man, "Diz influenced me from every standpoint. He was a friend, a father, a confidante, just everything to me.
ref: 2004 March, JazzTimes:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: One's closest male friend.
sitarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sitarlike
form: most sitarlike
Etymology: From sitar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: During the final section treble strings maintained a tingly sitarlike drone over a mellow countermelody and Mr. Sawyer’s tick-tock pulse, inducing a bucolic Krautrock-style hypnosis.
ref: 2009 August 10, Steve Smith, “Guitarists by the Hundreds, With a Funk Chaser, Power an Outdoor Concert”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sitar.
gothness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goth + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thirdly, they claim ordinariness by rationalising their general status as human being, and by, at the same time, 'radiating' their gothness.
ref: 2004, Matthijs van de Port, Authenticity:
text: Your gothness is then measured by your peers with a 'gothier-than-thou' approach, facing ridicule if you are falling short.
ref: 2005, Dan Vice, Little Book of Goths:
text: The weakest works persist in the shiny black gothness.
ref: 2007 May 25, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
text: These channels allow participants to authenticate their gothness through emotional performances, but they also police the boundaries of goth darkness.
ref: 2008, Amy C Wilkins, Wannabes, goths, and Christians: the boundaries of sex, style, and status:
glosses: Traits associated with the goth subculture, such as philosophical melancholy.
Synonyms: word: gothiness
cefadroxil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cephalosporanic acid + hydroxy(phen)yl.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
cuneonavicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cuneo- + navicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cuneiform bones and the navicular.
main men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main man
hand towel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæn(d)ˌtaʊ(ə)l/
Forms: form: hand towels
form: handtowel
Etymology: From Middle English hand towelle, equivalent to hand + towel.
Senses: glosses: A small towel used for drying the hands or face.
Related terms: dish towel
tea towel
diastomatomyelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diastematomyelia.
sagittally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sagittal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sagittal direction.
quidlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quidlets
Etymology: From quid (“pound”) + -let (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: examples: text: All we want to see is that our three hundred quidlets are sitting comfy in the bank.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts, They all do it!: and two other plays:
text: Say he had lost five thousand quidlets. And what about it? What were five thousand paper quidlets to him?
ref: 1939, The Strand magazine, volume 97:
text: Two-fifty quidlets, Mr. Duncan — you can't get a really posh stone for less. In any case it wouldn't be only an emerald or a sapphire you'd be buying […]
ref: 1972, Bruce Marshall, The black oxen:
glosses: Synonym of quid: one pound sterling.
synonyms: word: quid
extra: one pound sterling
quidlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quidlet
acycloguanosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + cyclo- + guanosine. From having less cyclic structure (acyclo-) than the basis molecule guanosine.
Senses: glosses: A guanosine analogue antiviral drug.
Synonyms: aciclovir
acyclovir
aciclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsʌɪ.klə(ʊ)ˌvɪə/
ipa: /eɪˈsaɪ.kloʊˌvɪɹ/
Forms: form: acyclovir
form: acycloguanosine
Etymology: From acyclo(guanosine) + -vir (“antiviral”).
Senses: examples: text: In cells infected with the herpes virus, acyclovir is converted to a metabolic blocking agent, thereby largely overcoming the old and plaguing problem of toxicity to the host.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 443:
text: From the description, Letha felt sure Jane had herpes zoster, or shingles, which often strikes cancer patients or others with depressed immune systems. Jane spent another week in the Bubble, treated with acyclovir.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A cyclic synthetic nucleoside C₈H₁₁N₅O₃ used as an antiviral drug (trademarks Avirax, Zovirax) chiefly in the treatment of chicken pox, shingles, the genital form of herpes simplex, and AIDS.
Derived terms: bicyclic heterocycle compound
-ciclovir
valaciclovir
uncamouflaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + camouflaged.
Senses: examples: text: The cinematic persona, like the tragedian's mask, is lowered long enough for a good long gaze into the uncamouflaged artist's self.
ref: 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
glosses: Not camouflaged.
cyberoperations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberoperation
handbagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handbag
handbagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbaggings
Senses: glosses: A verbal attack or criticism.
handbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handbag
clutch bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutch bags
Senses: synonyms: clutch
glosses: A small handbag without a shoulder strap, designed to be held in the hand.
scratch together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches together
form: scratching together
form: scratched together
form: scratched together
Senses: glosses: To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty; to scrape together.
Synonyms: scrape together
Strephon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Used as the name of a rustic lover in Sir Philip Sidney's pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (published 1593), from the active present participle στρέφων (stréphōn) of Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist, turn aside”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: To see her from her pillow rise, / All reeking in a cloudy steam, / Crack'd lips, foul teeth, and gummy eyes, / Poor Strephon! how would he blaspheme!
ref: 1719, Jonathan Swift, The progress of Beauty
text: As when two doves, or two wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary grove, to enjoy the delightful conversation of Love[…]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:
text: […] those palmy days of pastoral revelry;—when every lover was a Damon or a Strephon, and his beloved a Delia or a Celia.
ref: 1855, Frederick Lawrence, The life of Henry Fielding:
text: I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb.
ref: 1862, Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft:
text: All their tunes were gay and lively ones, and the younger men moved their feet to the music, while a Strephon at the lower end of the lists seized upon a blooming Chloe, and the two began to dance "as if," quoth the Colonel, "the musicians were so many tarantula doctors."
ref: 1901, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 87:
glosses: Masculine name traditionally used for the male lover in pastoral poetry.
Strephon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Strephons
Etymology: Used as the name of a rustic lover in Sir Philip Sidney's pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (published 1593), from the active present participle στρέφων (stréphōn) of Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist, turn aside”, verb).
Senses: glosses: A pastoral male lover.
cheatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheatable
form: most cheatable
Etymology: From cheat + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being cheated
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: Able to be potted at either edge rather than in the middle
raw_tags: of a pocket
Related terms: cheat the pocket
redd up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redds up
form: redding up
form: redd up
form: redd up
form: redded up
form: redded up
Senses: examples: text: There, sir, you are redd up and made decent.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
glosses: To clean up, especially a room.
cheliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːˈlɪfəɹəs/
ipa: /kəˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more cheliferous
form: most cheliferous
Etymology: From cheli- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Having chelae (cheliform claws)
cheliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːlɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more cheliform
form: most cheliform
Etymology: From cheli- + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a chela
Derived terms: subcheliform
yinz
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: yins
form: yuns
form: yunz
Etymology: Contraction of you ones or ye ones. Compare you-uns, yens.
Senses: glosses: You.
Synonyms: the list of other second-person pronouns in you
chemoreflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoreflexes
Etymology: From chemo- + reflex.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A reflex in response to a chemical stimulus
hæsitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hæsitates
form: hæsitating
form: hæsitated
form: hæsitated
Senses: examples: text: Next to Socrates comes his Scholar Plato, a famous Oratour indeed, that could be ſo daſht out of countenance by an illiterate rabble, as to demur, and hauk, and hæſitate, before he could get to the end of one ſhort ſentence.
ref: 1683, Desiderius Erasmus (author) and White Kennett (translator), Witt against Wisdom: Or, A panegyrick upon Folly (Oxford: Anthony Stephens), page 30
text: I anſwer, that this objection made me hæſitate a long time; and rather incline to fix his haveing the word of wiſdom communicated to him, when he became an apostle.
ref: 1756, George Benson, The history of the first planting of the christian religion: taken from the Acts of the apostles, and their epiſtles, together with the Remarkable facts of the jewiſh and roman hiſtory; which affected the christians, within this period, volume 1 of 3 (second edition; London, J. Waugh and W. Fenner), page 183
glosses: Archaic spelling of hesitate.
zibet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: zibets
Senses: examples: 1797, Unnamed translator, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, Volume 7, J. S. Barr, page 119,
Certain it is, that our zibet bears a ẛtronger reẛemblance to the muẛk animal than to the civet, and conẛequently they may be conẛidered as the ẛame ẛpecies.
1807, Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, A General History of Quadrupeds, 5th Edition, T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, page 273,
The perfume of the Zibet is peculiarly violent and piercing, beyond that of either the Civet or the Genet.
1863, Cassell's Popular Natural History, Volume 1, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, page 366,
The zibet is comparatively stout, the neck short and thick, and the breast full and distended. The head is regularly attenuated and wedge-shaped in the rasse; in the zibet it is swelled, rounded, and bulging before the ears, and then contracted very abruptly to a short muzzle.
glosses: The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha).
Related terms: alt: small Indian civet, Viverricula indica
word: rasse
zibets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zibet
forward slashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward slash
narrowbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narrowbody
cheeky monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheeky monkeys
Senses: glosses: An impudent person, usually a child.
nonbidding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bidding.
Senses: glosses: Not making a bid (in an auction, the game of bridge, etc).
monotoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monotone
monotoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monotone
nonexpired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + expired.
Senses: glosses: Not expired; still current or valid.
illinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.
Senses: glosses: A rejected name for promethium.
koulak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koulaks
form: koulaki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kulak.
nondiscriminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondiscriminators
Etymology: From non- + discriminator.
Senses: glosses: One who does not discriminate.
nondiscriminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondiscriminator
nonusing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + using.
Senses: glosses: Not using, especially recreational drugs.
Related terms: nonuser
nonangry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + angry.
Senses: examples: text: For nonangry subjects heat again increased aggression, but not for those subjects drinking lemonade.
ref: 1984, Gary W Evans, Environmental Stress:
glosses: Not angry.
nonscreened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + screened.
Senses: glosses: Not screened.
nonplanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-planned
Etymology: From non- + planned.
Senses: glosses: unplanned
cybertexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertext
cybernetician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberneticians
Etymology: From cybernetic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: cyberneticist
fishball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishballs
form: fish ball
form: fish-ball
Etymology: From fish + ball.
Senses: examples: text: In Singapore, the most popular surimi-based product is the fish ball, which is used in a local application, Yong Tau Foo.
ref: 2005, Jae W. Park, editor, Surimi and Surimi Seafood, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 388:
glosses: A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Related terms: fishcake
meatball
squidball
shrimpball
prawn ball
crabstick
kikiam
takoyaki
fishballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishball
cyberneticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybernetician
moblike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moblike
form: most moblike
Etymology: From mob + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mob.
Derived terms: unmoblike
crowdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crowdlike
form: most crowdlike
Etymology: From crowd + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crowd.
marriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marriable
form: most marriable
Etymology: From marry + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being married; marriageable.
Derived terms: unmarriable
strawberryish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strawberryish
form: most strawberryish
Etymology: From strawberry + -ish.
Senses: topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: strawberrylike
unmarriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + marriable.
Senses: glosses: Not marriable.
Tetris effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tetris + effect, since players of the video game may find themselves thinking about fitting shapes together in the real world. The earliest known use of the term is in Jeffrey Goldsmith's article "This is Your Brain on Tetris", published in Wired in May 1994.
Senses: glosses: The effect of seeing hallucinatory images of a repetitive activity done earlier.
cartoon physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The comically exaggerated physics seen in cartoons.
Portuñol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Portunhol
Etymology: From Spanish portuñol, blend of portugués (“Portuguese”) + español (“Spanish”).
Senses: glosses: A mix of Portuguese and Spanish.
Related terms: Spanglish
chyliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From chyle + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: That bears or transmits chyle.
chylific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈlɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more chylific
form: most chylific
Etymology: From chyle + -ific.
Senses: glosses: That produces chyle
chylification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: chylifications
Etymology: From chyle + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The production of chyle
Synonyms: chylopoiesis
chylopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chylo- (“digestive fluid”) + -poiesis (“production”).
Senses: glosses: The production of chyle
Related terms: chylopoietic
chylocaulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German chylocaul (from chyl- + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”)) + English -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fleshy / succulent stems
Related terms: chylocauly
chymiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪˈmɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more chymiferous
form: most chymiferous
Etymology: From chyme + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing or containing chyme
chymification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chymifications
Etymology: From chyme + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of food into chyme
cicadellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicadellids
Senses: glosses: Any leafhopper (of family Cicadellidae).
ciliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cilia + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing cilia.
ciliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ciliform
form: most ciliform
Etymology: From cilia + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of cilia
round brackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of round bracket
cinerarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌsɪnəˈɹɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: cinerariums
form: cineraria
Etymology: Latin cinerarium.
Senses: examples: text: They were called ossuaria, from their containing bones,—cineraria, in reference to their containing ashes,—or ollæ, pots; these had generally a narrow pointed bottom.
ref: 1842, Charles Wellbeloved, Eburacum, or York under the Romans, page 100:
text: On a great marble cinerarium (or vase for human ashes) is an inscription.
ref: 1881, John Henry Parker, The Via Sacra. Excavations in Rome from 1438 to 1882, page 156:
text: After cremation the Khasi take the ashes of their dead to the clan cinerarium.
ref: 1918, William James Perry, The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia, page 42:
text: Relevant material is also covered on the containers for remains in those and in the entries on cineraria, columbaria, and urns.
ref: 2016, Lewis H. Mates, Encyclopedia of Cremation:
glosses: A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people.
Related terms: word: cinerary
word: bone ash
word: columbarium
word: ossuary
word: ustrina
word: ustrina
word: ustrinum
empoverish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empoverishes
form: empoverishing
form: empoverished
form: empoverished
Senses: examples: text: A sudden chill would precipitate the grosser, and diffuse the lighter dregs throughout the fermenting fluid, which should be thrown off from the surface in cleansing; this would retard the fining, and empoverish the beer or ale; while the mode recommended will be found to promote transparency, and give strength and body, that is, fullness and spirituosity.
ref: 1815, Joseph Coppinger, The American Practical Brewer and Tanner:
text: But we cannot refuse our admiration to the fervent and generous order of public spirit existent at that time, when we find that it was a popular leader who proposed to, and carried through, a popular assembly the motion, that went to empoverish the men who supported his party and adjudged his proposition.
ref: 1837, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete:
text: The judges allowed twenty minutes to prepare the horses for the second trial of their speed--a trial which must enrich or empoverish many of the thousands present.
ref: 1856, Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of impoverish.
empoverishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empoverish
empoverishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empoverish
empoverished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empoverish
cinerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinerators
Senses: glosses: A furnace used to convert dead bodies to ashes
Related terms: incinerate
empyric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empyrics
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of empiric.
empyrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empyric
cinereal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinereal
form: most cinereal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cinerea
glosses: cinereous, ashen
enallage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈnæləd͡ʒiː/
rhymes: -ælədʒi
Forms: form: enallages
form: enallagy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐναλλαγή (enallagḗ, “interchange, variation”).
Senses: glosses: Transformation from one grammatically correct form to another.
examples: text: And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation.
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
glosses: The substitution of one grammatical form for another that violates a grammatical rule.
Hyponyms: alleotheta
allotheta
alleosis
Related terms: hypallage
enallages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enallage
encephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnsəˈfælɪk/
other: [ˌɛn.səˈfæ.lɪk̚]
ipa: /ˌɛnsəˈfælɪk/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɛfəlɪk/
other: [ˌɛn.səˈfæɫ.ɪk̚]
other: [ɪnˈsɛfəɫɪk̚]
Etymology: From encephalon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: From men wholly without philosophy, who never looked heavenward, the more brutal land animals are derived, losing the round form of the cranium by the slackening and stopping of the rotations of the encephalic soul.
ref: 1891, Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.:
text: The misfortune was that he could not find in himself any of the causes which resolve into insomnia; he had neither meningitis nor brain fever, nor anything that indicated a cerebral tumor; he was not anaemic; he ate well; he did not suffer with neuralgia, nor with any acute or chronic affection that generally accompanied the absence of sleep; he drank neither tea nor alcohol; and without this state of over-excitement of the encephalic centres, he might have said that he was in good health, a little thin, but that was all.
ref: 1905, Various, The Project Gutenberg Edition of "The French Immortals":
glosses: of or relating to the encephalon
Derived terms: centrencephalic
cranioencephalic
diencephalic
electroencephalic
epencephalic
hematoencephalic
macrencephalic
magnetoencephalic
megalencephalic
meningoencephalic
proencephalic
schizencephalic
thalamencephalic
circline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circlines
Etymology: Blend of circle + line
Senses: glosses: A fluorescent light in the form of a ring.
glosses: A generalized circle.
circumadjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumadjacent
form: most circumadjacent
Etymology: From circum- + adjacent.
Senses: examples: text: The pain and heat, by degrees derive a vast flux of blood and humors which distend all the circumadjacent vessels, in order to quench the incendium.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 15:
glosses: Lying immediately around
encephalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalizations
form: encephalisation
Etymology: From encephalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The answer to this will determine the encephalization quotients of the two types of early hominids, which is an important indicator of relative "braininess," an issue that is now up for grabs.
ref: 1998 June 12, Dean Falk, “PALEONTOLOGY: Hominid Brain Evolution: Looks Can Be Deceiving”, in Science, volume 280, number 5370, →DOI:
text: It is believed that the encephalization of early Homo was made possible by the consumption of energy- and nutrient-rich animal foods to "pay" for its metabolically expensive brain.
ref: 1999 January 15, Matt Sponheimer, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, “Isotopic Evidence for the Diet of an Early Hominid, Australopithecus africanus”, in Science, volume 283, number 5400, →DOI, pages 368–370:
text: The time spent in REM sleep is not correlated with learning ability across humans, nor is there a positive relation between REM sleep time or intensity and encephalization across species.
ref: 2001 November 2, Jerome M. Siegel, “The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis”, in Science, volume 294, number 5544, →DOI, pages 1058–1063:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total bodymass.
Derived terms: encephalization quotient
Related terms: encephalon
encephalonize
encephalonized
circumcinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: girdled about, encompassed
Related terms: circumcinction
circumcincture
encephalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalization
encline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enclines
form: enclining
form: enclined
form: enclined
Senses: examples: text: "Now sure, and by my hallidome," quoth he 545 "Yea great master are in your degree: Great thankes I yeeld you for your discipline, And doo not doubt but duly to encline My wits theretoo, as ye shall shortly heare."
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: My dities indited may counsell many one, But not you, your maners surmounteth my doctrine Wherefore, I regard you, and your maners all one, After whose living my processes, I combine: So other men instrusting, I must to you encline Conforming my process, as much as I am able, To your sad behaviour and maners commendable.
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland:
text: The peres and noble men seing their king reduced to such extremitie, moued with pitie and compassion, began secretly to pratise for him, some with threatninges, some with flatteries and persuasions: some went to the mother, declaring vnto her the eternall rest and quiet prepared for her and all her friendes, if she would persuade her daughter to encline to the kinge's mind, and contrariwyse the daunger iminent ouer her head.
ref: 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of incline.
circumcorneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + corneal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the cornea
circumflect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumflects
form: circumflecting
form: circumflected
form: circumflected
Senses: glosses: To mark with a circumflex; hence to accentuate or emphasize.
glosses: To bend around.
encumberment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encumberments
Etymology: From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement. By surface analysis, encumber + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The paths of art, so choked and so dangerous, are, despite encumberment and obstacles, day by day more crowded, and consequently Bohemians were never more numerous.
ref: 1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter:
text: Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.
ref: 1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass:
glosses: encumbrance
encumberments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encumberment
endemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders.
ref: 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
text: In his own grounds he never wore a hat: he used to say, that on his first visit to Paris he was ashamed of his effeminacy, when he saw every meagre little Frenchman whom he could have knocked down in a breath walking without a hat, which he could not do without a certainty of taking the disease which the Germans say is endemical in England, and which they call to catch cold.
ref: 1890, Grace & Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society:
glosses: endemic