cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whenever one turns around
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Whenever I turn around the boss is checking up on me.
glosses: Alternative form of every time one turns around.
pœnitent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pœnitent
form: most pœnitent
Senses: examples: text: But whether so great a degree of these be restored to the pœnitent, as is secured to the just man that needs no repentance, I have no ground from scripture to determine.
ref: 1833, T. B. Hone, “Lives of Eminent Christians”, in The British Critic, volume XV, article VIII, page #167:
glosses: Archaic spelling of penitent.
pœnitent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pœnitents
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of penitent.
œstrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From œstrogen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of estrogenic.
lavy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lavier
form: more lavy
form: laviest
form: most lavy
Etymology: From lave (“to pour out, lavish”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Lavish; liberal.
lavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavies
Etymology: From Irish lamhaidh, from Old Norse tangvé, langvé. Cognate with Icelandic langvía, lómvia, Faroese lomvigi, Norwegian langve, lomvi. Compare also French lare (“seagull”).
Senses: glosses: A guillemot.
Œnomaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This ſeemed totally impoſſible, and to render it more terrible, Œnomaus declared that death would be the conſequence of a defeat in the ſuitors.
ref: 1797 C.E., John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, third edition, MY, page #519
text: For every suitor, he presented the challenge of a chariot race across the Peloponnese to the Isthmus of Corinth. If the challenger won, he got to marry the girl. If he lost, the king would kill him. Oenomaüs was weighed down with his full armor— probably so as to be ready to murder the challenger who would lose[…]
ref: 2015 July 6, Richard A. Spencer, Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic, McFarland, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Oenomaus.
decomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒmpəzɪt/
Forms: form: more decomposite
form: most decomposite
Etymology: From de- + composite.
Senses: glosses: Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: decompound
decomposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒmpəzɪt/
Forms: form: decomposites
Etymology: From de- + composite.
Senses: examples: text: decomposites of three metals or more
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Anything decompounded.
press home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presses home
form: pressing home
form: pressed home
form: pressed home
Senses: examples: text: The opposition was able to capitalize on this and to press home the argument that only after proclaiming the republic's sovereignty would the Ukrainian authorities be in a position to deal with the miners' problems.
ref: 1999, Bohdan Nahaylo, The Ukrainian Resurgence, C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS, →ISBN, page 292:
text: It succeeded so well that they led 5—4. But Lycett got busy, and going for everything, as did his partner, the Lowes failed to press home their lead and were beaten 7-5.
ref: 2007, Mick Collins, All-Round Genius: The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman, Aurum Press, →ISBN:
text: Mancini's side remain in fourth place but an opportunity to press home an advantage over closest rivals Tottenham was squandered with a lamentable display.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To build upon (an advantage).
defervescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more defervescent
form: most defervescent
Senses: glosses: Causing reduction of fever.
defervescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: defervescents
Senses: glosses: Any remedy that reduces a fever.
degener
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: degeners
form: degenering
form: degenered
form: degenered
Senses: examples: text: degenering to hate
ref: 1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”).
feltworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feltwork
hesitation wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesitation wounds
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a series of shallow cuts made by a person considering a suicide attempt, or trying out the weapon to ascertain its effectiveness.
Synonyms: hesitation mark
tentative wound
tentative wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentative wounds
Senses: glosses: A hesitation wound.
tentative wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentative wound
hesitation wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesitation wound
ideæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Platonic philosophy
glosses: plural of idea
detrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detrude
Celestial Sphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: celestial Sphere
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of celestial sphere.
alternate universes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternate universe
œnanthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The œnanthic ether, if wanted in the brandy, can of course be added.
ref: 1888, Antonia Dal Piaz, “The Utilization of Wine Residues”, in Annual Report of the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, State Office, appendix C, chapter II, page 153:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of enanthic.
make conscience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes conscience
form: making conscience
form: made conscience
form: made conscience
form: make a conscience
Senses: examples: text: I make a conscience [translating faits conscience], standing neare some great person, if mine eyes chance, at unwares, to steale some knowledge of any letters of importance that he readeth.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I mention this story also as the best method I can advise any person to take in such a case, especially if he be one that makes conscience of his duty, and would be directed what to do in it[…].
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
text: The pursy man means by freedom the right to do as he pleases, and does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it.
ref: 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Cockayne
glosses: To make it a matter of conscience; to be scrupulous about.
God's gift to women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After one encounter she confided to Rose, "You know, Glen's grown to simply love himself so much, he just thinks he's God's gift to women. All the girls at that stupid uni seem to fall over each other to ride in his precious car […]
ref: 1964, Hesba Brinsmead, Pastures of the Blue Crane:
hypernyms: God's gift
coordinate_terms: God's gift to men
glosses: Someone irresistible to women: someone whom all women find attractive; (often) someone ironically described as such.
CWP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CWPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of coal worker's pneumoconiosis.
glosses: Initialism of construction work package.
reedman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedmen
Etymology: From reed + -man.
Senses: examples: text: In Chicago he'll hook up with reedman Douglas Ewart, bassist Yosef ben Israel, and drummer Hamid Drake, and you can bet it won't be boring.
ref: 1989 July 7, Neil Tesser, “Dennis Gonzalez Quartet”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Someone who plays a reed instrument.
redemand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: redemands
form: redemanding
form: redemanded
form: redemanded
Etymology: From re- + demand.
Senses: examples: text: You come, sir knight, as I understand, in the name of the marquis of Vicenza, to re-demand the lady Isabella his daughter, who has been contracted in the face of holy church to my son […].
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section III:
text: When the unfortunate Queen would have sacrificed her jewels to liquidate the claims which pressed the most heavily upon her, she found the measure impossible, lest the King should redemand them as the property of the Crown; and she consequently soon saw herself reduced to the undignified expedient of subsisting upon the generosity of the powers from whom she had sought protection.
ref: 1890, Julia Pardoe, The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3 (of 3):
glosses: To demand the return of (someone or something).
glosses: To demand again.
redemand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: redemands
Etymology: From re- + demand.
Senses: glosses: The repetition of a demand.
glosses: A demand for the return of a thing.
refractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refractile
form: most refractile
Senses: examples: text: As the colony increases, the granular character becomes more marked, until it seems to be made up of highly refractile granules, like a mass of particles of glass.
ref: 1884, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884:
text: Stained bacilli, when examined with the polarising microscope, often show a doubly refractile cell wall (e. g., B. tuberculosis and B. anthracis).
ref: 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:
text: The number of refractile, ovoid spores was determined by phase-contrast microscopy using a hemocytometer.
ref: 1997 July 11, Bin Wang, Adam Kuspa, “Dictyostelium Development in the Absence of cAMP”, in Science, volume 277, number 5323, →DOI, pages 251–254:
text: He watched daily through the microscope for characteristic signs of viral infection, and eventually saw what he later described as a “peculiar rounding of scattered cells with refractile bodies in the cytoplasm and nucleus.”
ref: 2008 August 27, H. Roger Segelken, “Thomas H. Weller, Whose Work on Tissue Led to Nobel Prize, Is Dead at 93”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to refract, refractive
refinedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more refinedly
form: most refinedly
Etymology: From refined + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The sciences treat of things too refinedly, after an artificial, very different from the common and natural, way.
ref: 1877, Charles Cotton, The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 15:
text: The highest art and the lowest are indeed here at one in demanding moral poise, if we may call it so, that however crudely in the low, and however artistically and refinedly in the high, vice should not only not be set forth as absolutely triumphing, nor virtue as being absolutely, outwardly, and inwardly defeated.
ref: 1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson:
text: It is evident that this unhappy marriage was decisive in determining De Sade's career; he at once threw himself recklessly into every form of dissipation, spending his health and his substance sometimes among refinedly debauched nobles and sometimes among coarsely debauched lackeys.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6):
glosses: in a refined manner
releasement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: releasements
Etymology: From release + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he conquering Don, seizing the fragments of the weapon of his vanquished enemy, went out in search of the lady for whose releasement he had fought […].
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, I.ii.3:
text: On his releasement from prison, he learned that the beloved cause of his persecution had been forced to marry a nobleman, whose name he could not discover, but who had carried her to his castle near Bristol.
ref: 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II:
text: St. Eulogius himself was obliged by the persecutors to live always, after his releasement, with the treacherous bishop Reccafred, that wolf in sheep's clothing.
ref: 1895, Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints:
text: Immediately upon getting this information I dispatch'd Mr. Hicks away in the Long boat with a strong party of men to rescue them but before he went Tootaha and the other Chiefs was made to understand that they must send some of their People with Mr. Hicks to shew him the place where our men were, and at the same time to send orders for their immediate releasement […].
ref: 1893, James Cook, Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World:
glosses: Release; the act of releasing or letting something go.
reinspire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reinspires
form: reinspiring
form: reinspired
form: reinspired
Etymology: From re- + inspire.
Senses: examples: text: It is scarcely necessary to remark that, to effect this object,--to reinspire a beaten army with hope, and to reassure it of victory,--we must not turn our backs on an enemy, without sometimes presenting to him our front also;--we must not confide our safety to mere flight, but adopt such measures as shall convince him that though wounded and overpowered, we are neither disabled nor dismayed; and that we still possess enough both of strength and spirit to punish his faults, should he commit any.
ref: 1862, Henry Wager Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science:
text: When he sat on old Jim's knee, however, he leaned in confidence against him, and sighed with a sweet little sound of contentment, as poignant to reinspire a certain ecstasy of sadness in the miner's breast as it was to excite an envy in the hearts of the others.
ref: 1904, Philip Verrill Mighels, Bruvver Jim's Baby:
text: Ditka has to work to reinspire his veteran players, something he's performed miracles at all season long.
ref: 1991 January 4, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Jordan has found ways, again and again, to reinspire himself on the basketball court, and while most of the media seemed to regard the Woods-Jordan meeting as the apprentice consulting the master, there was something in Jordan's demeanor, as he answered those Tiger Woods questions after the loss to the Knicks, that suggested it might be the other way around, that Jordan might use Woods as a new source of inspiration.
ref: 1997 April 25, Ted Cox, “Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: to inspire again.
Related terms: reinspiration
repairperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repairpersons
form: repairpeople
Etymology: From repair + -person on the model of repairman.
Senses: examples: text: A repairman and his truck. Guess I should say repairperson. Could have been a gal under that uniform and cap.
ref: 1987 (2006), William F. Smith, "An Almost Perfect Crime", The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries
text: Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.
ref: 1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader:
text: As part of the settlement of a discrimination complaint filed after a 70-year-old transgendered Verizon repairperson was repeatedly arrested for using women's bathrooms at Grand Central Station in New York City, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed in October to let people use the train station bathroom that's "consistent with their gender expression."
ref: 2006 December 8, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Synonym of repairer, a person who repairs things.
synonyms: word: repairer
extra: a person who repairs things
revolter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolters
Etymology: From revolt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He is like a revolter in an army; and as men of honour and commanders seldom prove such, but common soldiers, men of mean condition, frequently to mend their fortunes, so in religion clergymen who are commanders seldom prevail upon one another, and when they do, the proselyte is usually one who had no reputation among his own party before, and after a little trial finds as little among those to whom he revolts.
ref: 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
text: When I came to the word Renegado, after telling that it meant "one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter," I added, Sometimes we say a GOWER. Thus it went to the press; but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.'
ref: 1917, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:
glosses: Someone who revolts; a rebel or deserter
rhabdovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdoviruses
Senses: examples: text: VSV is a rhabdovirus closely related to rabies virus.
ref: 1997 June 27, M. F. Bachmann et al., “The Role of Antibody Concentration and Avidity in Antiviral Protection”, in Science, volume 276, number 5321, →DOI, pages 2024–2027:
glosses: Any of the rod-shaped viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae.
Derived terms: rhabdoviral
semantic shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantic shifts
Etymology: From semantic + bleaching.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: semantic drift
semantic change
semantic progression
glosses: A change in the meaning of a word over time.
Hyponyms: semantic bleaching
rhinocerotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Regarding us warily, the creature turned its rhinocerotic head in our direction.
text: These are followed in the Upper Eocene by the genus Amynodon, in which the skull assumes more distinctly the rhinocerotic type.
ref: 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinism (1889):
glosses: Of or pertaining to rhinoceros.
Synonyms: rhinocerine
rhinocerotine
ringtoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringtosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ring toss.
ring toss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring tosses
form: ring-toss
form: ringtoss
Senses: glosses: A game in which rings are thrown onto pegs or posts.
Related terms: quoits
rugalach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugalachs
form: rugalach
Senses: examples: text: I brought a cranberry bread!' as if fearing the small bread will get lost amid the immense trays of turkey roll ups and rugalach.
ref: 2001 August 3, S.L. Wisenberg, “In Performance: mourning becomes electric”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rugelach.
needle gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle guns
Senses: glosses: A firearm with a needlelike firing pin.
glosses: A needle-gun scaler: a scaler with a set of needles that strike with reciprocating action.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: needler
glosses: Any of various weapons that shoot needles or needlelike darts.
rushlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushlights
Etymology: From rush + light.
Senses: examples: text: The rushlight was her friend, and aided her to pass the long, long hours before midnight, for it was enclosed within its accustomed tin cage; […]
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 198–199:
text: After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:
text: As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.
ref: 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
text: The nights were almost at their longest now, and the cold was very great; but the watchers piled fresh logs upon the fire, and talked quietly to each other as they sat in the dancing glow--for the rushlight had long since gone out.
ref: 1901, Evelyn Everett-Green, In the Wars of the Roses:
glosses: A type of inexpensive candle formed by soaking the dried pith of the rush plant in fat or grease, which emits light for a relatively short period of time.
punt gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punt guns
Etymology: Named after punt (“shallow boat”) on which the shotgun was typically fixed.
Senses: glosses: A very large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations and private sport.
ruminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mature, nonlactating Holstein cows were surgically modified so that ruminal contents could be removed directly from the rumen (IACUC protocol 95-1-97).
ref: 1998 September 11, Francisco Diez-Gonzalez et al., “Grain Feeding and the Dissemination of Acid-Resistant Escherichia coli from Cattle”, in Science, volume 281, number 5383, →DOI, pages 1666–1668:
text: Homologs of nifH were also present in human oral and bovine ruminal treponemes.
ref: 2001 June 29, T. G. Lilburn et al., “Nitrogen Fixation by Symbiotic and Free-Living Spirochetes”, in Science, volume 292, number 5526, →DOI, pages 2495–2498:
glosses: Of, relating to, or situated inside the rumen.
examples: a ruminal animal
glosses: That chews the cud.
covent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covents
Etymology: From Middle English covent, from Old French covent (modern French couvent).
Senses: examples: text: And in this yere deyde Huberd erchebisshop of Caunterbury; and thanne the priour and the covent of Caunterbury chosen in there chapytre hous the noble clerk Stephen of Langeton, ayens the kynges will, whome the pope sacred at Viterke.
ref: c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:
text: BARABAS. Marry, the Turk [134] shall be one of my godfathers, But not a word to any of your covent.
ref: c. 1589-1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta:
glosses: Convent.
Derived terms: Covent Garden
sure up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sures up
form: suring up
form: sured up
form: sured up
Senses: examples: text: means of 'reasoned' argument) not only serves to sure up the sense of certainty which people attach to their moral judgments and to the world views from which their judgements ultimately derive, it serves to sure up their sense of
ref: 2002, Colin Wilks, Emotion, truth and meaning: in defense of Ayer and Stevenson, page 195:
text: I would verbally walk him through each course, and its preparation, as he roamed the aisles on the other end of the phone. Then, when he got back to his place, he would call again, just to sure up all the details.
ref: 2006, Fred Raynaud, Reflections from the Kitchen, page 88:
text: I would sure up my mannerisms, tighten up the looseness in my arms and wrists. I would replace my jolly gait with a manly, wide-legged swagger. I would keep myself safe by hiding
ref: 2007, Jim Tushinski, Jim Van Buskirk, Identity envy: wanting to be who we're not, page 73:
text: This particular summer, the roof needed to be re-tarred. The disagreeable roof consistently gave way to rain and the elements, and once again, it needed to be sured up.
ref: 2010, Nicholas Fernandez, The Man I Always Knew, page 116:
glosses: Eggcorn of shore up.
verbile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbiles
Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin verbum + -ile.
Senses: glosses: A person whose mental imagery consists of words.
verbile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verbile
form: most verbile
Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin verbum + -ile.
Senses: examples: text: It would be an interesting inquiry, how far the philosophers have left in their writings traces of their mental habits, as visile, motile, etc., or only verbile, mistaking the custom of language for insight.
ref: 1905, Carveth Read, The metaphysics of nature, A. and C. Black, page 50:
text: Presidents are audile types. They're ear-minded. They're not verbile—they're not readers. That's why telephones are far more important to Presidents than any publication.
ref: 1971, J. B. Lon Hefferlin, Ellis Laurimore Phillips, Information services for academic administration, Jossey-Bass, page 71:
glosses: Pertaining to words.
Coordinate terms: audile
motile
visile
verbiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbile
Italianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italianists
Etymology: From Italian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies the Italian language, literature, and culture.
visile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visiles
Senses: glosses: Someone whose mental imagery consists of pictures.
Related terms: audile
motile
verbile
vision
visiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visile
single combat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single combats
Senses: glosses: A fight between single combatants
glosses: A duel between single representatives of opposing armies, with the outcome accepted as the battle's outcome.
right brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right brains
Senses: examples: text: And the secret to seeing—really seeing—was quieting the bossy know-it-all left brain so the mellower right brain could do its magic.
ref: 2005, Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind, Riverhead Books, page 15:
glosses: The right cerebral hemisphere; the part of the brain popularly associated with creativity.
Coordinate terms: left brain
Derived terms: right-brained
right-brainer
quilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quilled
form: most quilled
Etymology: From quill + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
And fought so long till that his thighs with darts
Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines.
ref: 2010, T. Lloyd Winetsky, Maria Juana's Gift: A Novel, Sunstone Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 148:
text: A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.
ref: 2011, Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: Having quills or similar structures.
examples: text: In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […]
ref: 1889, William Robinson, The English Flower Garden: Style, Position, And Arrangement, John Murray, published 1899, page 291:
glosses: Having long, narrow petals or florets.
raw_tags: of a flower
glosses: Created through the process of quilling.
examples: text: Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]
ref: 1844, Louisa Stuart Costello, Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 1, R. Bentley, page 169:
text: He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady.
ref: 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, L.C. Page and Company:
glosses: Having small, rounded folds.
raw_tags: of fabric
glosses: Decorated with quillwork.
quilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From quill + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quill
boltropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boltrope
bolt-ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boltropes
Senses: glosses: plural of bolt-rope
teugh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teugh
form: most teugh
Senses: examples: text: Teugh, adj. (Pr. of the eu much as in Teuflt). Tough.
"With cordes enewe and ropys Teugh
The Jues felle my limmes out-droghe
For that I was not mete enoghe
Unto the bore"
ref: 1868, John Christopher Atkinson, A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical, A. and C. Black, page 526:
text: A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough.
"Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."
ref: 1897, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world, Volume 8, Century, page 6259:
glosses: tough, stubborn
Related terms: teuch
teughly
tough
that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Etymology: From German Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker, which has been variously translated, from Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols.
Senses: glosses: Hardship builds moral character.
wikipedia: Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
war dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war dances
form: wardance
Senses: examples: text: There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe.
Derived terms: weasel war dance
mistaken identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistaken identities
Senses: examples: text: The police arrested the wrong man; the media reported it as a case of mistaken identity.
glosses: A case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else.
topics: law
glosses: A defense in criminal law based on this situation, claiming that any eyewitnesses to a crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant.
addictive personality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addictive personalities
Senses: examples: text: People who have addictive personalities are advised to avoid caffeine, alcohol and other drugs.
glosses: A personality prone to addiction or obsession.
war dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war dance
born and bred
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: She is a born and bred New Yorker.
text: Oh, you're from America? —Born and bred.
text: That’s because Nikos Zouganelis, “born and bred” on the party island, has deliberately sought to do something new.
ref: 2022 September 4, Helena Smith, “Mykonos has had its fill of champagne-fuelled tourism”, in The Observer:
glosses: Showing characteristics of birth and upbringing, especially in relation to a particular location.
Synonyms: born and raised
reache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaches
Senses: examples: text: Extra iocum, I like your Dreames passingly well; and the rather, bicause they sauour of that singular extraordinarie veine and inuention whiche I euer fancied moste, and in a manner admired onelye in Lucian, Petrarche, Aretine, Pasquill, and all the most delicate and fine conceited Grecians and Italians, (for the Romanes to speake of are but verye ciphars in this kinde,) whose chiefest endeuour and drifte was to haue nothing vulgare, but, in some respecte or other, and especially in liuely hyperbolicall amplifications, rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and, as a man woulde saye, a degree or two, at the leaste, aboue the reache and compasse of a common scholars capacitie.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reach.
reache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaches
form: reaching
form: reached
form: reached
form: raughte
form: raughte
Senses: examples: text: I with my distaffe will reache hym one rappe, Tib. Talk.
ref: 1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of reach.
reefy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːfi
Forms: form: reefier
form: reefiest
Etymology: From reef + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I sit up to see myself safe through the narrow passage between Flat Island and Round Island, and fall asleep at last to the monotonous chant of so many "fathoms and no bottom," for we take soundings every five minutes or so in this reefy region.
ref: 1878, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.:
text: The land here is high, hilly, and reefy near the sandy beach; seeing that nothing profitable could be effected here, we returned to the yacht, which was lying-by under small sail; towards the evening we were at about 1 mile's distance from three islets, of which the southernmost was the largest; five miles by estimation farther to northward we saw a mountainous country, but the shallows rendered (or render) it impossible for us to get near it; in almost every direction in which soundings were taken, we found very shallow water, so that we sailed for a long time in 5, 4, 3, 21/2, 2, 11/2 fathom and even less, so that at last we were forced to drop anchor in 11/2 fathom, without knowing where to look for greater or less depths; after sunset we therefore sent out the pinnace to take soundings, which found deeper water a long way S.W. of the pinnace, viz. 2, 3, and 41/2 fathom; we were very glad to sail thither with the yacht, and cast anchor in 81/2 fathom, fervently thanking God Almighty for his inexpressible mercy and clemency, shown us in this emergency as in all others.
ref: 1899, J. E. Heeres, The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765:
text: Then the water clears and his sails swing to the wind, and he is off to the north, along that steel-gray shore of rampart rock, between the white-slab islands and the reefy coast.
ref: 1909, Agnes C. Laut, Canada= the Empire of the North:
glosses: containing reefs.
reely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It, Part 6.:
text: "'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved.
ref: 1897, W. W. Jacobs, More Cargoes:
text: "Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel.
ref: 1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord:
text: And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one.
ref: 1905, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete:
text: If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow.
ref: 1911, Caroline Lockhart, 'Me-Smith':
text: Both your son and your daughter-in-law, ma'am, are of that uncommon sort; they are, now, reely, ma'am."
ref: 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh:
text: Private Flannigan looked over his shoulder at him, "Mong capitaine," he said, "you ought, you reely ought, to ring up your telephone; turn the handle round an' say something." "
ref: 1916, Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), Action Front:
text: "She ain't seen him for more'n a month reely, but I reckon it does seem 'most a year to her."
ref: 1918, Francis Barton Fox, The Heart of Arethusa:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of really.
reluctancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reluctancies
Etymology: From reluctant + -cy. Compare reluctance.
Senses: glosses: Resistance, opposition.
glosses: Reluctance, disinclination.
richish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rich + -ish.
Senses: glosses: reasonably rich, quite rich.
poorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poor + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The bread-and-butter were good enough, but the ale poorish. Oh, for an Act of Parliament to force people to brew good ale!
ref: 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
text: She [Mrs. Rivers] went on to say something about still waters running deep and it was on the tip of my tongue to make a poorish pun about still Rivers running deep too […]
ref: 1957, H. E. Bates, Sugar for the Horse:
glosses: Somewhat poor.
largeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From large + -ish.
Senses: glosses: reasonably large, quite large.
rhomboidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more rhomboidal
form: most rhomboidal
Senses: examples: text: Bisect it by a line drawn diagonally from the angles, and after this bisecting bring together the outlines of the figure so that it may present a rhomboidal design, reducing it by one sixth of its length and one fourth of its breadth at the (obtuse) angles.
ref: 1914, Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., Ll.D., Ten Books on Architecture:
text: The coupled model is global in domain and consists of GCMs of the atmosphere (spectral model with rhomboidal 30 truncation, corresponding to an approximate resolution of 3.75° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 14 vertical levels) and ocean (1.875° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 18 vertical levels).
ref: 2001 April 13, Sydney Levitus et al., “Anthropogenic Warming of Earth's Climate System”, in Science, volume 292, number 5515, →DOI, pages 267–270:
glosses: rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape
rocketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocketers
Etymology: From rocket + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To see a real workman knocking down rocketer after rocketer at a height which would be considered impossible by half the men who go but shooting is to witness an exhibition of skill and correct timing which can only be attained by the most assiduous practice and the quickest of eyes.
ref: 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
raggamuffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raggamuffins
Senses: examples: text: "They called her a little blue raggamuffin, father," said Harry, who ran in, looking very angry; "but I have given it to them, they won't insult my sister again.[…]"
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “The Election”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 206:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ragamuffin.
examples: text: International reggae takes another spin with Kulcha Connection's Plus Haut (Subsonik, Canada), a rollicking raggamuffin release with clean, crisp backing tracks and alternating singer and dj segments delivered almost entirely in French.
ref: 2004, The Beat, volume 23, number 2, page 13:
text: Reggae music is as old as the history of Africans suffering in the Carribean. But, as a result of the Americanization of this music to form raggamuffin, drugs are openly idolized. The singer called Bob Marley promoted the use of marijuana and among the African fans of raggamuffin, the use of marijuana is now standard.
ref: 2005, Ndirangu Mwaura, Kenya Today: Breaking the Yoke of Colonialism in Africa, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of ragga.
synonyms: word: ragga
Derived terms: ragga
loverhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lover + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In the last chapter I tried to deal with the actual problem created in this country by the disproportion of the sexes--the fact that there are, roughly, one and three-quarters to two million more women than men in this country; and I was obliged to confine myself simply to stating the problem, which, to my mind, is very greatly intensified by the fact, generally ignored, that the sex needs of a woman are just as imperative, their suppression just as hard to bear, as a man's; that woman is fully as human as man, and that parenthood and loverhood and all that the satisfaction of the sex instinct means to him, it means also to her.
ref: 1918-1920, A. Maude Royden, Sex And Common-Sense:
glosses: the state or quality of being a lover
Nafaanra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nafaara
Senses: glosses: a Senufo language spoken in northwest Ghana by the Nafana, along the border with Côte d'Ivoire, east of Bondouko.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Nafaanra terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/nfr
word: nfr
word: nfr ⁠
doom and gloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doom-and-gloom
form: gloom and doom
Senses: examples: text: The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.
text: His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.
text: Doom and gloom abounded among copyright scholars, including many who shared Mr. Gates's basic premise—that software should be covered by property rights.
ref: 2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain:
text: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
antonyms: word: rainbows and unicorns
word: sunshine and rainbows
word: agony
glosses: Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.
Derived terms: doomy and gloomy
give a rat's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a rat's ass
form: giving a rat's ass
form: gave a rat's ass
form: given a rat's ass
Senses: examples: text: I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.
ref: 2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in Time:
text: Anderson also said he doesn't think "the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle," and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett.
ref: 2008 March 24, Jim Moore, “Save Our Sonics group is angry, articulate”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 11 May 2011:
text: "[W]e could completely secure the DNS or at least the parts of DNS whose operators gave a rat's ass about security," Vixie concluded.
ref: 2008 August 12, Gregg Keizer, “New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher”, in PC World, Australia, retrieved 11 May 2011:
glosses: US standard spelling of give a rat's arse.
have on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has on
head_nr: 1
form: having on
head_nr: 1
form: had on
head_nr: 1
form: had on
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: She has on a nice red shirt and skinny jeans.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To be wearing.
examples: text: I didn’t hear you because I had the radio on.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To have turned on (an electronic device).
examples: text: Near-synonym: have a laugh
text: Are you having me on?
text: Fifty quid for that piece of junk? He's having me on he is!
head_nr: 2
glosses: To trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on.
examples: text: So what do you have on this weekend? I have nothing on myself.
head_nr: 2
glosses: To have (something) scheduled.
examples: text: I had some pills on me when that cop picked me up.
head_nr: 2
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To possess at the point of arrest.
examples: text: They have two bodies on me.
head_nr: 2
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To possess evidence of wrongdoing regarding (someone); to press charges on (someone).
diminute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmɪnjuːt/
ipa: /ˈdɪmɪnuːt/
Forms: form: more diminute
form: most diminute
Etymology: From Middle English diminute, from Latin dīminūtus and Old French diminut.
Senses: examples: text: prices made diminute and lessened to such proportions and abatements as that fault should make
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
glosses: Small; diminutive.
diminute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪnjuːt/
ipa: /dɪˈmɪnuːt/
Forms: form: diminutes
form: diminuting
form: diminuted
form: diminuted
Etymology: From Middle English diminute, from Latin dīminūtus and Old French diminut.
Senses: glosses: To reduce, to lessen.
have a good one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a good one
form: having a good one
form: had a good one
form: had a good one
Senses: examples: text: You're turning nineteen tomorrow? I hope you have a good one!
glosses: To enjoy an event or occasion, especially a holiday or one's birthday.
have a good one
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: phrase used when parting.
Synonyms: sense: parting phrase
word: have a nice day
sense: parting phrase
word: goodbye
sense: parting phrase
word: have a blessed one
heart and soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The heart and soul of any democracy is its electorate.
synonyms: word: crux
word: gist
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The core of a thing; the most essential or important part.
examples: text: She put her heart and soul into the project.
text: “I’m not going anywhere,” Mr. Biden said. “I know yesterday’s news was surprising and hard for you to hear,” he went on, “but it was the right thing to do. I know it’s hard because you poured your heart and soul into me to help us win this thing.”
ref: 2024 July 22, Peter Baker, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Vows to Campaign Hard for Harris, Saying, ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Passion; true commitment.
heart and soul
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: With the utmost earnestness.