cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blackbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blackbags
form: blackbagging
form: blackbagged
form: blackbagged
Senses: examples: text: It stood to reason that it was in Fort Worth that Padden and Montroy had intended to blackbag Kenner.
ref: 1979, Joseph Rosenberger, Death Merchant: Cosmic Reality Kill, →ISBN, page 2:
text: I came in with a Director who was Director of the FBI before I was born, and I think he rather wondered who this new kid was, saying you can't wiretap here and you can't blackbag here.
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations, Investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr:
text: During his short life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked and inspire others to join together in working for racial, plitical and economic justice. Only after his death did we learn, through access to government information, of the massive campaign by the FBI to surveil, wiretap, bug, blackbag, infiltrate, and activelv disrupt his work and his life.
ref: 1987, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, FBI Domestic Security Guidelines, page 3:
text: We've already gone to Judge Sachs and had him issue you enough blank warrants to tap any suspect's phones, read his mail, blackbag his house, hold him without a writ of habeas corpus or whatever else you feel you need to do.
ref: 1995, Chris Davis, Death by Fire, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Back when terrorism actually meant something. -He'd be blackbagged and adios these days.
ref: 2014, Dustin Hellberg, Squirrel Haus, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of black-bag.
blackbags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackbag
blackbagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackbag
blackbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackbag
mermaid's toenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mermaid's toenail
great white hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great white hopes
form: white hope
Etymology: Coined in the early 20th century, first appearing in 1910; during a period when African-American heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson seemed unbeatable by a Caucasian boxer. A term that first gained prominence with James J. Jeffries' return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson in 1910. Following this, a wave of white fighters, many with no prior boxing experience, suddenly took up the sport in hopes of defeating him. In what became a racially charged search for a white boxer to reclaim the title. With many of them collectively referred to as "White Hopes."
The term was repopularized in the late-mid 1900s with the appearance of the play and film "The Great White Hope"; and its definition extended beyond boxing and Caucasians.
Senses: glosses: A highly skilled white/Caucasian challenger for leadership in a field whose top ranks are dominated by non-Caucasians; especially a field which was once dominated by white Caucasians, and is now dominated by those of black-African descent.
examples: text: The arrest of Christo — who three times has run unsuccessfully for selectperson in Provincetown and who has been a leading proponent of the proposal to establish a [gay] community radio station here — caused the biggest stir. Considered once by many to be Provincetown's "liberal great white hope," his political career is now in doubt.
ref: 1977 August 20, “7 Arrested in Undercover Raid on P'town Bar”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 1:
glosses: A person expected to succeed and bring prestige to their native group.
white hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white hopes
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of great white hope.
litmus papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litmus paper
exoperidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoperidia
Etymology: From exo- + peridium.
Senses: glosses: The outer layer of a two-layered peridium
Related terms: exoperidial
endoperidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoperidia
Etymology: From endo- + peridium.
Senses: glosses: The inner layer of a two-layered peridium.
Fani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has been disqualified from prosecuting Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in light of her relationship with her top deputy on the case, the Georgia state court of appeals ruled on Thursday.
ref: 2024 December 19, Hugo Lowell, “Fani Willis disqualified from prosecuting Trump in Georgia election case”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A female given name.
done one's ease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do one's ease
Maojian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mao-chien
form: maojian
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 毛尖 (máojiān).
Senses: glosses: A type of green tea.
Maojian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mao-chien
form: maojian
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 茅箭 (Máojiàn).
Senses: examples: text: Prior to his apprehension, the offender (Li Chaolin), was manager of the Marketing Department under Shiyan City's (Wuyan) motor car fittings plant and director of the (Maojian) District Office of Finance.
ref: 1987 April 16 [1987 April 14], “Hubei Executes Official for Corruption, Bribery”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 073, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hubei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page P 3:
text: Li Chaolin [2621 6389 2651], deputy director of the economic committee of Maojian District in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, who was once a household name in the press, on television and on radio, was imprisoned for misappropriating public monies and goods valued at a total of over 60,000 yuan and for receiving as bribes high-quality consumer goods valued at over 20,000 yuan.
ref: 1988 May 26 [1988 March 16], Mao Shuzheng, “'Guarding Against Others' and 'Guarding Against Oneself'”, in Red Flag, number 6, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing HONGQI [RED FLAG], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 41, column 2:
text: In 1996, Li Mingzhao and Chen Zhen's 4-year-old son, known as Pengpeng, disappeared while he was at work with his father in the Maojian district in Shiyan, reported state-run CCTV.
ref: 2018 May 10, Christina Zhao, “Couple Reunited With Son 22 Years After He Was Abducted by Father's Co-worker”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 10 May 2018:
glosses: A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
ciproxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ciprofloxacin.
synonyms: word: ciprofloxacin
clinicopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clinico- + pathogenic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to clinicopathogenesis
cocrystallographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + crystallographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cocrystallography
cocrystallography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + crystallography.
Senses: glosses: A form of crystallography in which the crystals of a biochemical macromolecule are obtained by cocrystallization
Related terms: cocrystallographic
coevolutionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From co- + evolutionarily.
Senses: glosses: In a coevolutionary manner
cofasciculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofasciculations
Etymology: From co- + fasciculation.
Senses: glosses: A cluster of different fascicules
cofasciculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofasciculation
condylarthran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condylarthrans
Senses: glosses: Any member of the disused order Condylarthra of extinct mammals.
condylarthrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condylarthran
cratoxylone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The xanthone 1,3,6-trihydroxy-2-(3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)-7-methoxy-8-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)xanthen-9-one present in the bark of a Cratoxylum
Haarlemmermeer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Haarlemmermeer.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.
glosses: A former lake in North Holland, the Netherlands, located between Amsterdam, Leiden and Haarlem, drained between 1849 and 1852.
ctenitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenitoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxic peptides present in spiders of the genus Ctenus.
ctenitoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenitoxin
cyclohexadecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alicyclic ketone having sixteen carbon atoms
pale-throated sloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale-throated sloths
Senses: glosses: Bradypus tridactylus, a sloth that lives in the forests of northern South America.
arrow-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrow-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of arrowhead.
arrow-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrow-head
cyclopentadecanolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The macrolide lactone oxacyclohexadecan-2-one
Phœby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of Phoeby.
cyclostationarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + stationarity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cyclostationary.
cyclotetradecanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + tetradeca- + -n- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The alicyclic ketone that has fourteen carbon atoms
cystoscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoscopists
Etymology: From cysto- + -scopist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of cystoscopy
Revolutionary Governing Junta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Revolutionary Government Junta.
synonyms: word: Revolutionary Government Junta
cystoscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystoscopist
dacryocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dacryocytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dacrocyte.
dacryocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacryocyte
Revolutionary Government Junta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
history
human-sciences
politics
sciences
synonyms: Revolutionary Governing Junta
glosses: A counterrevolutionary rulership in El Salvador.
dest.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of destination.
dehydron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehydrons
Etymology: From dehydro- + -on.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein motif composed of a defectively-packed backbone hydrogen bond that acts as an adhesive
Derived terms: dehydronic
dehydrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydron
dehydronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dehydron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to dehydrons
DEST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Domestic Emergency Support Team (“a rapidly deployable, interagency team of experts within the United States government”).
dewhisker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewhiskers
form: dewhiskering
form: dewhiskered
form: dewhiskered
Etymology: From de- + whisker.
Senses: glosses: To remove the whiskers from
dewhiskered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dewhisker
dewhiskered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: From which the whiskers have been removed
dewhiskering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dewhisker
dioscorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioscorins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The storage protein of yams (Dioscorea)
dioscorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioscorin
dryomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dryomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the taxon Dryomorpha
dryomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dryomorph
ductulogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ductule + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of ductules
Related terms: ductulogenic
ductulogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being ductulogenic
pseudosclerotium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudosclerotia
Etymology: From pseudo- + sclerotium.
Senses: glosses: A tight mass of fungal mycelia and soil that resembles a true sclerotium
Derived terms: pseudosclerotia
pseudosclerotial
Related terms: sclerotium
dysmodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysmodulations
Etymology: From dys- + modulation.
Senses: glosses: incorrect modulation (of the senses)
ernas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erna
eicosapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eicosapeptides
Etymology: From eicosa- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligopeptide composed of twenty amino acid monomers
eicosapeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eicosapeptide
electroculogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroculograms
Etymology: From electro- + oculo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electrooculogram.
electroculograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroculogram
nanoelectrophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + electrophoresis.
Senses: glosses: nanoscale electrophoresis
Related terms: nanoelectrophoretic
nanoelectrophoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + electrophoretic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nanoelectrophoresis
nanostructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nano- + structurally.
Senses: glosses: In a nanostructural manner
naphthotectone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoprenoid derivative of naphthoquinone
bottle jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle jaws
form: bottlejaw
Etymology: From bottle + jaw.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: sub-mandibular edema resulting from anemia usually caused by intestinal parasites.
neogeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogenerations
Etymology: From neo- + generation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neogenesis.
synonyms: word: neogenesis
stop-phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-phrases
Senses: examples: Suppose that “take it easy” were a stop-phrase. Then, if a user searches for “take it easy tonight”, the user will see the same results as if he/she typed merely “tonight” assuming the latter is not similarly on the stop list.
glosses: A phrase consisting of one or more words, usually in a series, that is ignored by a search engine.
celestial spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celestial sphere
freeswimming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the freeswimming Rotifers the foot has a very different shape but is often formed in accordance with its main function of steering organ.
ref: 1923, Carl Wesenberg-Lund, Contributions to the biology of the Rotifera, page 119:
text: It swims remarkably well, rotating during swimming, and is able to live in this freeswimming stage for about 36 hours.
ref: 1926, Skrifter, page 25:
text: Two days after hatching the majority were freeswimming and had become almost transparent in coloration.
ref: 1968, Tropical Fish Hobbyist - Volume 16, Issues 7-12, page 81:
text: Appendix Holotricha-Astomata: freeswimming, more or less completely and evenly ciliate throughout; no oral aperture.
ref: 2016, Bob Gibbons, Green Guide to Seashore Life Of Britain And Europe, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: Alternative form of free-swimming.
anti-Soviets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-Soviet
terrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terrasse
terrassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terrasse
exoperidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoperidium
endoperidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoperidium
freeballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeballers
Etymology: From freeball + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I mean, I'm a freeballer from way back. And I'm totally turned on by other lowhanging freeballers.
ref: 1997 June 15, GymDandy, “Underwearless/commando/freeball ???”, in alt.support.jock-strap (Usenet):
text: A fellow freeballer writes to the forum: “I got some big low hangers, too (they hang a little over five inches); I just use some talcum powder each morning and that keeps the boys happy and dry and bounding in my jeans or shorts all day.
ref: 2013, James L. Riedy, The Pleasures of Testicles, →ISBN:
text: The only thing that stuff's good for is making your urethra burn when you play hand sandwich with that freeballer in basketball shorts once you stalk him to the shower.
ref: 2016, Willam Belli, Suck Less: Where There's a Willam, There's a Way, →ISBN:
glosses: A man who freeballs.
freeballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeballer
ride the pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dance move in which the dancer imitates riding a horse while swinging a lasso.
dance move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance moves
Senses: glosses: A bodily movement or series of movements, either traditional or improvised, that forms part of a specific dance or that is performed when dancing.
Related terms: dance step
dance moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dance move
freeblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: free-blown
Etymology: From free + blown.
Senses: examples: text: His aim is to encourage the use of "freeblown glass" in contemporary craft work.
ref: 1974, Fusion - Volumes 21-22:
text: Freeblown vessels are made without the assistance of molds, and are often somewhat irregular in shape and exhibit a glossy surface.
ref: 1990, Louise M. DeCesare, Archeological collections management at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York, page 65:
text: Today, our team of skilled glassmakers use the same authentic tools and techniques to produce the distinctive and highly original freeblown lead crystal glass.
ref: 2001, Victoria Pybus, Hand Made in Britain - The Visitors Guide, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Shaped without a mold.
sarmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarmon
free-blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Free-blown tablewares and bottles were found in substantial numbers at ʿEin Boqeq, the village of ʿEin Gedi, Masada, Jericho, Machaerus, 'Ein ez-Zara, and even in the cell structures at 'Ein Gedi. It seems that free-blown glass was a common possession in the Dead Sea region, and the Qumranites possessed such wares like everyone else.
ref: 2010 -, Charlotte Hempel, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Multiple copies of identical glass vessels with surfaces quite distinct from those on contemporary free-blown or moulded glass were produced and the vessels became a significant, though minor, part of the glass tablewares in circulation for about a half a century thereafter.
ref: 2014, Rob Collins, Frances McIntosh, Life in the Limes, →ISBN:
text: Roman glass occurs in both mould-blown and free-blown forms, this providing an opportunity to consider particular production methods in relation to user experience.
ref: 2017, Ellen Swift, Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and Experience, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of freeblown.
freeburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeburns
Etymology: From free + burn.
Senses: examples: text: Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds.
ref: 1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55:
text: These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined.
ref: 1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium:
text: Envirogel was only tested against two scenarios due to agent distribution system problems. Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.
ref: 1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:
text: In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.
ref: 2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: An unconstrained fire.
freeburns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeburn
freechapel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freechapels
Etymology: From free + chapel.
Senses: examples: text: Radfield-Chapel, (Kent,) in the p. of Bapchild, had once a freechapel, the ruins of which are yet remaining; the lands of which were by K. Edw VI. given to John Bateman, whose successor gave it by will to John Bateman of Wormsell. The steeple of its Ch. is a sea-mark.
ref: 1751, Stephen Whatley, England's Gazetteer:
text: There is piece of land called chapel-yard, late parcel of the possessions of the priory of Hickling, where a freechapel stood formerly, of which I have no further account in any evidences that I have seen.
ref: 1806, Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk:
text: The incumbent is called in old records Dean of the King's freechapel of St.Burian.
ref: 1814, Daniel Lysons, Magna Britannia;: Cornwall, page 49:
glosses: A chapel founded by the king of England or built under a grant from the king, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the local bishop or other ruling member of the clergy.
freechapels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freechapel
bell button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell buttons
Senses: examples: text: She hated the row of key-and-mail boxes on the wall, with the bell buttons above each apartment number. She hated the jangling of the hall telephone, the scurrying to answer, the prodding of whichever bell button would summon the tenant asked for by the caller.
ref: 1921, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Sawtooth Ranch, London: Methuen:
text: He pressed the bell-button set in the frame of a door marked 611. The door was opened immediately by a diminutive girl […]
ref: 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in The Glass Key, New York: Knopf:
text: “[…] bring me some brandy.” “That’s the room-service, sir,” said the valet, giving the waiter’s bell-button a vicious push as he went out.
ref: 1951, Arthur Koestler, The Age of Longing, New York: Macmillan, Part 1, Chapter 9, pp. 156-157:
text: K. Altremont, he read, shielding his eyes from the rain while he studied the illuminated bell buttons.
ref: 1999, John le Carré, chapter 12, in Single & Single, New York: Scribner, page 221:
glosses: A small, round mechanical device which, when pressed, rings a bell to announce one's presence or call a servant, assistant, etc.
examples: text: 1775, James Adair, The History of the American Indians, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, Chapter , Argument 17, p. 171,
[…] the young warriors now frequently fasten bell-buttons, or pieces of tinkling brass to their maccaseenes, and to the outside of their boots, instead of the old turky-cock-spurs which they formerly used.
text: Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport. In bespeaking his sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his canvas trowsers.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 6”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: I haven’t the advantage of being a girl with a brother and a baker’s dozen of beaux in bell buttons and gray.
ref: 1891, Charles King, “From ‘The Point’ to the Plains”, in Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 119:
text: “I’m quite ready now,” she said calmly, and drew the Chinese slippers over her bare feet and passed a silken loop over the silver bell buttons on her right shoulder.
ref: 1920, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 6, in The Slayer of Souls, New York: Doran, page 6:
glosses: A button in the form of a jingle bell, used as a fastener or decoration on a piece of clothing.
Synonyms: sense: device
word: buzzer
sense: device
word: doorbell
bell buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell button
freecoaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freecoasters
Senses: examples: text: With a typical freecoaster hub, if you are coasting backwards on it and you pedal forwards, it will engage and cause you to pedal backwards.
ref: 2008 September 7, Fraggle, “Freecoasting hub thoughts”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet):
text: The V3 freecoaster has been upgraded to incorporate a thrust bearing which makes it a lot smoother when coasting and engaging.
ref: 2013 July 30, Mark Sutton, “New Federal BMX website now live”, in Bike Biz:
text: The invention of urethane wheels enabled skateboarding on variable terrain (concrete, wood, plastic, and metal) with increase traction and less friction; the reinvention (brought back from the eighteenth century) and popularization of non-unidirectional twin tip skis enabled skiing backward and forward with equal competence; and the invention of the freecoaster rear bicycle hub enabled rolling (and thus landing) backward as well as forward without the crank arms turning along with the wheels.
ref: 2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of hub that allows a bicycle to move backwards without the pedals moving backwards.
freecoasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freecoaster
freecooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-cooling
Senses: examples: text: Although also a cooling dominated climate, Houston fared poorly, with annual energy savings of only 4.9%, because the generally higher wet-bulb temperatures in this location limited the cooling tower freecooling effect.
ref: 1990, Proceedings: Commercial data, design, and technologies, page 151:
text: A single sensing control element to automatically control the temperature of both the freecooling coil and the refrigeration cycle shall be used to provide proper operation sequence.
ref: 2018, J. Paul Guyer, An Introduction to Cold Regions Design: Mechanical, page 36:
glosses: A system that chills water or air by using evaporative cooling.
free-cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A method of providing "free-cooling" to building systems where no mechanical cooling will be needed is to use the evaporativly coold cooling tower water to cool supply air or to cool chilled water
ref: 2013, Wayne C. Turner, Steve Doty, Energy Management Handbook: 8th Edition - Volume 1, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of freecooling.
get one's fingers burnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's fingers burnt
form: getting one's fingers burnt
form: got one's fingers burnt
form: got one's fingers burnt
form: gotten one's fingers burnt
Senses: examples: text: He got his fingers burnt in that stock market scam, but at least he didn't lose his house.
text: He developed a special interest in coconut cultivation after witnessing the success of some farmers who made huge money only to get his fingers burnt.
ref: 2015 August 25, “Anwar Raja, the farmer, got his fingers burnt”, in The Hindu, retrieved 20 Nov 2018:
text: Artur Fischer, for example, is the head of the Berlin stock-exchange who got his fingers burnt in China.
ref: 2011 February 8, Stephen Evans, “German firms fear China technology theft”, in BBC news, retrieved 20 Nov 2018:
glosses: To suffer relatively minor, adversive, and unexpected harm.
fussbutton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌsˌbʌtn̩/
Forms: form: fussbuttons
form: fuss-button
Senses: examples: text: Convention security! A gutter-mouthy fuss-button is harassing me and my booth-mates!
text: “[…] there’s old Buttercup in the big meadow, ride at her, Tom, and see her run,” proposed Dan, bent on mischief.
“No, you mustn't,” began Demi, who was learning to distrust Dan’s propositions.
“Why not, little fuss-button?” demanded Dan.
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Chapter 6”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Maybe I’m just an old fuss button. For undoubtedly thousands of Americans unquestioningly accept and down this insipid beverage and as far as I know there’s never been any petition presented at Washington in protest.
ref: 1941, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “In Quest of Tea”, in Soap Behind the Ears, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 149:
glosses: One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters.
Synonyms: fussbudget
fusspot
irenicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irenicisms
Etymology: From irenic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A striking feature of this volume is the pronounced irenicism of the Americans, Lindbeck of Yale and Quanbeck of the Luther Theological Seminary at St. Paul, in contrast to the unsparingly critical approach of the Europeans.
ref: 1965, New Catholic World, volume 202, page 117:
text: The elector Palatine, as self-appointed Calvinist leader, promoted his own, narrow form of irenicism to remain within the Peace by finding common ground with Lutherans.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 122:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: irenics
antonyms: polemicism
polemics
glosses: Behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions; irenical theology; conciliation.
Reichskammergericht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Reichskammergericht (“imperial chamber court”).
Senses: examples: text: The members of the Reichskammergericht were nominated both by the Estates and the emperor.
ref: 1995, Karel Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored, page 141:
text: Likewise, it took a while before the Imperial Court of Law, the Reichskammergericht, established its permanent headquarters in the German city of Wetzlar in 1693.
ref: 2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves, page 245:
text: The Peace of Augsburg charged the Reichskammergericht with resolving any disputes by entrusting cases to bipartisan panels composed equally of Lutheran and Catholic judges.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 123:
glosses: The imperial appellate court of the Holy Roman Empire, one of the two highest judicial authorities of the empire.
leafy spurge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafy spurges
Senses: synonyms: green spurge
glosses: Euphorbia esula, a spurge native to Eurasia.
neuro-oncology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurooncology
Etymology: From neuro- + oncology.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
oncology
sciences
glosses: The scientific study of brain neoplasms
endopyelotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endopyelotomies
Etymology: From endo- + pyelotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A procedure to widen the renal pelvis by inserting small instruments either up through the urinary tract or down through the skin and into the kidney
Related terms: endopyeloplasty
pyelotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyelotomies
Etymology: From pyelo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the renal pelvis of a kidney
Related terms: pyelostomy
pyelotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyelotomy
endopyelotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endopyelotomy
endosecretome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosecretomes
Etymology: From endo- + secretome.
Senses: glosses: The secretome of the endomembrane and endoderm
endosecretomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosecretome
epigenotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + genotoxic.
Senses: examples: text: BD is also an epigenotoxic agent. BD-induced genotoxic and epigenotoxic events have been shown to be due to interstrain differences (Koturbashet al.,2011).
ref: 2012, Saura C. Sahu, Toxicology and Epigenetics, →ISBN:
text: 1,3-Butadiene is a common carcinogenic environmental contaminant and is considered an epigenotoxic agent (i.e., it affects DNA and histone methylation).
ref: 2015, Trygve Tollefsbol, Personalized Epigenetics, →ISBN, page 256:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Capable of causing damage to the way by DNA sequences are activated or deactivated, leading to cancer.
epigenotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + genotoxicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being epigenotoxic
better-intentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of well-intentioned: more well-intentioned
best-intentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well-intentioned: most well-intentioned
epitheliotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of epitheliotropic.
excretability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being excretable
romerillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romerillos
Etymology: From Spanish romerillo.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Podocarpus spp. (plum pines, yellowwoods), including
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Podocarpus spp. (plum pines, yellowwoods), including
Podocarpus glomeratus, of equatorial montane rainforests of South America.
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Abies guatemalensis (Guatemalan fir)
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Asclepias linaria (pineneedle milkweed)
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Baccharis sarothroides (desert broom)
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Bidens alba (beggar's ticks)
glosses: Any of several plants found in Latin America, often with foliage resembling rosemary leaves.
Suaeda nigra (bush seepweed, Mojave sea-blite)
wojapi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “That there on the side is wojapi. Berry sauce, basically. Itʼs good on everything but especially the meat.”
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 181:
glosses: A traditional Native American berry sauce.
catches of the day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch of the day
exosialidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosialidases
Etymology: From exo- + sialidase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside hydrolases that removes a single terminal sialic acid residue from an oligosaccharide
exosialidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exosialidase
extrageniculostriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + geniculostriate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: extrageniculate and striate
extrastimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrastimulations
Etymology: From extra- + stimulation.
Senses: glosses: stimulation using an extrastimulus
extrastimulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrastimuli
Etymology: From extra- + stimulus.
Senses: glosses: A premature stimulus delivered during an extrasystole in order to terminate it
extrastimuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extrastimulus
faciometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From facio- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to faciometrics
faciometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From facio- + -metrics.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of facial features
Related terms: faciometric
fenpyroximate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The pyrazole acaricide tert-butyl 4-[[(E)-(1,3-dimethyl-5-phenoxypyrazol-4-yl)methylideneamino]oxymethyl]benzoate
fitoestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phytoestrogen.
crowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowler
inelidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Unable to be elided (omitted).
mind meld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Star Trek franchise, where the term was first used in 1966 for a telepathic ability possessed by the alien race of Vulcans to share thoughts and feelings with another individual.
Senses: examples: text: By this point, Axelrod's mind meld with Obama was so complete that the two men barely needed to speak.
ref: 2018, Didier Ndongala Mumbata, Barack Obama, The Political Phenomenon, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A state of deep compatibility in opinion or plans between two people.
wikipedia: Star Trek
Related terms: mindmeld
varietism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From variety + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1971 February, March, Jack Jardine, Sibly Whyte, "Promiscuity vs. Sexual Varietism", Explorations into Sexual Behavior
"Sexual varietism" is a more neutral term for those who relate sexually to several partners.
text: It is important not to confuse sexual variety, in the form of varied techniques and positions for intercourse and varietism in the form of different partners.
ref: 1973, Paul F. Kaplan, Doing Sociology, page 99:
glosses: The practice of nonmonogamy.
Related terms: varietist
loveaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loveaholics
form: love-aholic
Etymology: From love + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: An unrepentant Drew admitted as much when she stated that she was "a loveaholic now and of all the holics you can be, that's preferable."
ref: 2000, Leah Furman, Elina Furman, Happily Ever After: The Drew Barrymore Story, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Like most women, I'm not a crazed loveaholic.
ref: 2006, Hope Newman, Malibu Murders, →ISBN:
text: The loveaholic is a taker, even though they think they are a giver.
ref: 2015, Marie Chapian, How to Be Happy in an Unhappy World, →ISBN:
glosses: One who has an excessive need to be in a romantic relationship.
loveaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loveaholic
love-aholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-aholics
Senses: examples: text: If I'm a functioning love-aholic, then I can no longer be harassed for my hopeful romantic streak and my panache for getting into intense relationships without much thought for the possible outcome.
ref: 2013, Charity G. Finnestad, Hollywood in Heels: A Small-Town Girl's Adventures in Tinseltown, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of loveaholic.
love-aholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love-aholic
Faverolles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faverolles
Etymology: From the name of the French village where the breed was developed.
Senses: glosses: A chicken of a heavy breed with beard, muffs, feathered feet and five toes per foot.
trauma plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trauma plates
Senses: glosses: A plate forming part of a bulletproof vest, serving to absorb and disrupt the kinetic energy of impact and reduce blunt trauma to the wearer.
trauma plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trauma plate
bungarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋəɹə/
ipa: /ˈbʌŋˌæɹə/
Forms: form: bungarras
Etymology: From a Kartu language.
Senses: examples: text: Our jam-tree, too, as Villiers knows, / Adds zest to boiled bungarra; / But p'r'aps he doesn't also know, / Though jam-trees in profusion grow, / We're also "Canning-Jarrah"
ref: 1902, A Mingled Yarn, March 30, The Sun, p. 4
text: On nearing the spot they were surprised to see a 5ft., or more, bungarra with its head through the hand grip of the bag.
ref: 1923, A Thirsty Bungarra, April 5, The Mullewa Mail, p. 3
text: This one bungarra, an' he lookin' for berry bush. But he know that fella eagle watchin' him and he know that fella is cunnin' fella.
ref: 1986, Jack Davis, “No Sugar”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 61:
glosses: One of several species of large Australian monitor lizard, usually Varanus gouldii or Varanus panoptes.
Synonyms: Gould's goanna
sand goanna
bungarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungarra
pseudohypertelorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + hypertelorism.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any condition such as telecanthus that resembles, but is not in fact, hypertelorism.
sand goanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand goannas
Senses: synonyms: bungarra
Gould's monitor
racehorse goanna
sand monitor
glosses: A large monitor lizard native to Australia (Varanus gouldii).
racehorse goanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racehorse goannas
Etymology: From its rapid motion.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sand goanna.
synonyms: word: sand goanna
sand goannas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand goanna
racehorse goannas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racehorse goanna
vacuolarizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuolarization
lovebead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovebeads
Etymology: From love + bead.
Senses: examples: text: The vast Victorian lobby contained a pullulating mass of characters, mainly young, dressed in the assorted output of the Carnaby Streets, the sari sweatshops, the micro-mini makers and the lovebead stringers of the world.
ref: 1971, Social Research - Volume 38, page 704:
text: But even in my lovebead days I would have drawn the line at having sex in a public park.
ref: 2013, Catherine Todd, Secret Lives of Second Wives, →ISBN:
text: Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Crusie, Leah Wilson, Totally Charmed: Demons, Whitelighters And the Power of Three, →ISBN:
glosses: A bead made from a dyed seed pod, strung in a long beaded necklace and worn by men or women as part of countercultural fashion in the 1960s and 1970s.
viewlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewlets
Etymology: From view + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In certain content management systems, a region of a page where customizable content can be rendered.
viewlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viewlet
lovebeads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovebead
examples: text: Ginsberg, on the other hand, passionately embraced the sixties counterculture, growing long his hair and beard, donning lovebeads, and participating in love-ins, acid tests and anti-war demonstrations.
ref: 1999, Kenn Thomas, Cyberculture Counterconspiracy, →ISBN:
text: In the centre of all this was Bill with his mop of dirty gold curls wearing jeans and lovebeads, leafing through Vogue and listening to a recording of "The Carioca."
ref: 2013, Martin Hunter, Still Hunting: A Memoir, →ISBN:
text: If he'd put a floppy hat and some lovebeads on Lori it could have been Alice's Restaurant.
ref: 2016, Robert G. Barrett, And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A long necklace made of strung lovebeads.
love bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love beads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lovebead.
love beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love bead
examples: text: Yet for a significant portion of the country, long-haired men wearing love beads, authority-snubbing youth, mouthy women and increasingly public gay and lesbian alliances portended a future they wanted no part of.
ref: 2015, Eleanor J. Bader, Patricia Baird-Windle, Targets of Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism, →ISBN:
text: Junie looked like a throwback to the era of flower power and love beads, but she had a complicated history that had made her neither naive nor weak.
ref: 2015, Jonathan Maberry, Predator One: A Joe Ledger Novel, →ISBN, page 250:
text: They generally weren't wearing love beads and dropping acid like the crowds in San Francisco, but they had grown up going to shows dating back to the beatnik coffee shops and the jazz clubs.
ref: 2015, Marky Ramone, Richard Herschlag, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of lovebeads.
love-bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-beads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lovebead.
love-beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love-bead
examples: text: And what do you know, the one with the love-beads had Acey tattooed on one arm.
ref: 2014, Dell Shannon, With Intent to Kill, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of lovebeads.
Kimjongilist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kim Jong Il + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Kim Jong Il.
Kimjongilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kimjongilists
Etymology: From Kim Jong Il + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Kimjongilism.
lieutenantcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lieutenancy.
footpadding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of footpad