cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pachycephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pachycephalic
form: most pachycephalic
Etymology: From pachy- + -cephalic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, synostosis of the sagittal suture, with growth on the anterior and posterior margins of the parietal, produces a long or dolico-cephalic head; synotosis of the coronal gives rise to the platycephalic variety of the brachyeephalic head ; of the lambdoidal to the pachycephalic variety, and so on.
ref: 1862, A Year-book of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences:
text: I possess the skull of a woman of middle age, dolichocephalic, with a cephalic index of 77, and pachycephalic, which has no synostosis of any suture; and I have seen the cranium of a leptocephalic old woman, which not only has no synostosis of any suture, but in which, after maceration, the sutures were no longer sufficient to hold the bones of the vault toether, there being diastases, as in the crania of little children.
ref: 1873, J. Barnard Davis, “Upon a Scaphoid Skull: A Letter from Prof. Luigi Calori to Dr. Barnard Davis”, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 147:
text: Virchow stated that premature fusion of this suture results in pachycephalic deformity.
ref: 1956, Ann paediatr fenn - Volume 2, page 70:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characteristic of or characterized by pachycephaly.
examples: text: The fact that the Adams patent should ever have received recognition in the temple of justice proves that a judge may be learned in the law, but woefully pachycephalic in matters scientific.
ref: 1880 July, “Progress In Science and the Arts”, in Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 30, page 8:
text: Some of the Westerners are so pachycephalic and vulgar that they fail utterly to appreciate such dainty delicacies.
ref: 1883, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 24, page 472:
text: Under such torrefaction the doctor suffered an ebullition of his anger and he replied : “You are rather pachycephalic not to understand what I have said.
ref: 1905, American Medicine - Volume 10, page 936:
text: This should dawn on even the pachycephalic if it is pointed out that a society can exist without rich men, but no rich man can function without a society to exploit.
ref: 1967, Peter Zollinger, The Political Creature: An Evolutionary Reorientation, page 121:
glosses: Thick-skulled; stupid and imperceptive.
St Leonards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Leonard's
form: St Leonard's
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: An eastern suburb of the city of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A coastal township near the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A village in Chiltern district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP9107).
glosses: A village in St Leonards and St Ives parish, east Dorset, England (OS grid ref SU1103).
glosses: Ellipsis of St Leonards-on-Sea: a coastal resort town in Hastings borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7909).
glosses: A suburb of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
glosses: A suburb on Otago Harbour, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A suburb of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6554).
Derived terms: St Leonards and St Ives
St Leonards-on-Sea
Hither Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3974).
St Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after St German's Priory.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3657).
wikipedia: St German's Priory
grindability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grindabilities
Etymology: From grind + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Similarity of the curves shows that changing moisture-free weight of the standard samples is not a controlling factor in determining the trend of grindability with moisture content.
ref: 1955, Robert C. Ellman, John W. Belter, Grindability Testing of Lignites, page 24:
text: The breakage rate and breakage distribution functions were used to simulate the Bond batch grinds using the approach of Lewis et al [31], however, the simulated grindabilities deviated considerably from the measured results.
ref: 2006, Ashok Gupta, Denis S. Yan, Mineral Processing Design and Operation: An Introduction, page 86:
text: Pelletization is a proven technology for improving biomass properties, whereas torrefaction is considered a plausible alternative for decreasing the moisture content, increasing the energy density and greatly facilitating the handleability and grindability properties of the torrefied material.
ref: 2011, Luis Puigjaner, Syngas from Waste: Emerging Technologies, page 11:
glosses: The degree of ease with which something may be ground.
grindabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grindability
pachydermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pachy- + derm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If, as the inflammation recurs, the pachydermy spread beyond the point originally attacked, all the different grades of the disease are often exhibited simultaneously in the same extremity.
ref: 1883, Felix von Niemeyer, A Text-book of Practical Medicine:
text: Here in Edinburgh, whether on account of the pachydermy of its people or because the secretion is less virulent than it is elsewhere, cases of dermatitis caused by the plant are few.
ref: 1917, Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Transactions - Botanical Society of Edinburgh - Volume 26, page 302:
text: From the clinical point of view, there was striking, symmetrically expressed pachydermy of extremities, forehead, crown of the head and sometimes even the face with the symptom of cutis certicis gyrata.
ref: 1976, Excerpta medica. Section 31: Arthritis and rheumatism:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the skin thickens and becomes hardened or verrucous.
examples: text: The haughty foreign secretary, to whom for the next fifty years all stories of aristocratic pachydermy were attached, was still to come.
ref: 1972, Wayland Kennet, Preservation, page 35:
text: Their blood, sweat, toil and tears go unheeded, their personhood neglected, and their developmental contribution atrophied, in the ballyhoo of politics and the pachydermy of the bureaucracy.
ref: 1982, V. R. Krishna Iyer, Law, Justice, and the Disabled, page 10:
text: Now, may we hope a shift of paradigm and a shake-up of operational pachydermy will take place ?
ref: 1994, Civil & Military Law Journal - Volume 29, page 24:
glosses: Insensitivity.
Halwill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4299).
Derived terms: Halwill Junction
Goodrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Torbay borough, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8958).
Baschurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4221).
pacificity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pacific + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One of the quintessential values of the indigenous Ewe society is pacificity.
ref: 1976, Conflict and harmony in education in tropical Africa, page 85:
text: In addition, in FPHWP, I proposed “the multifaceted theory of war and peace” to understand war and peace, in a small sense—or aggression and pacificity, in a broad sense.
ref: 2012 -, Peter Baofu, The Future of Post-Human Waste, page 44:
text: In the Alto Xingu, there is strong moral emphasis on respect for others, on self-control, and on pacificity.
ref: 2013, Penelope Harvey, Peter Gow -, Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience, page 90:
text: Hume's pacificity and neutrality contrast with Gibbon's combative attitude and his interest in subjective, personalized experience.
ref: 2014, Charlotte Roberts, Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, page 170:
glosses: The quality of being pacific; peacefulness.
Cosford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and RAF station, mostly in Donington parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7905).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4979).
meechingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meechingly
form: most meechingly
Senses: examples: text: Their “diplomatic little resolution—so tactfully, so politely, so meechingly worded,” as Hicks wrote, provoked a near riot when it was presented […]
ref: 2010, Barry Werth, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal, page 40:
text: At the opening of the session I meechingly advance to the bulletin where the lists of pedagogic authorities are posted, and read with watering eyes the names glittering with D.D.'s, LL.D.'s, X.Y.Z.'s, E.T.C.'s.
ref: 1922 February 23, Celina H. Lewis, “Hunting a Degree”, in A.E. Winship, editor, Journal of Education, volume 95, number 8, Boston University, School of Education, page 210:
text: […] he carried her into the house while the hounds followed meechingly behind.
ref: 1921, Dane Coolidge, chapter XI, in The Man-killers, page 95:
glosses: In a meeching manner.
packet boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packet boat
colpohysterectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colpohysterectomy
packet-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packet-boats
Senses: examples: text: She proved to be a barco de aviso, or packet-boat, that was going with letters form Panama to Lima.
ref: 1810, Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, The History of the Bucaniers of America, page 365:
text: The chief consul complains that, during , a certain period, every packet-boat that passed from Dover to Calais, brought over a cargo of libels.
ref: 1820, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the year 1803:
text: From this port the ten destined for Monterey sailed on the packet-boat "San Antonio," on the 2d of January of the year 1771, and after fifty-two days of rather trying voyage, on account of many bad storms, they arrived without incident at the port of San Diego on the 12th of March.
ref: 2009, Francisco Palou, Francisco Palou's Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junipero Serra:
glosses: Alternative form of packet boat.
Government-commissioned mail ship.
examples: text: The declaration contains ten counts, and in substance, they all and each of them charge, that Bromley, the defendant, was the captain of the packet-boat Empire, which regularly performed trips, at stated periods, between two places, from on to the other of which places the United States mail was regularly converyed, under the authority of the Post-Office Department, to wit, between Albion and Rochester;
ref: 1852, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States:
text: Propelling the packet-boat up the stream was the most laborious and dangerous employment which can be imagined. The Indians were unceasing in their efforts to destory small parties of whites, as they were passing up or down the river Ohio. There were then but few places between Cincinnati and Wheeling, for the packet-boat to rest at night safely.
ref: 2009, John McDonald, Biographical Sketches of General Nathaniel Massie, page 85:
glosses: Alternative form of packet boat.
River or canal boat that carries mail.
examples: text: A canal packet-boat leaves here daily at 9 o'clock for Whitehall, and runs through in about 22 hours.
ref: 1839, Robert J. Vandewater, The Tourist, Or Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson, page 80:
text: The packet-boat came in sight, white and slow as a deliberate swan, drew reflectively down the shining reach of water, and sidled to the landing.
ref: 1994, Mary Johnston, Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Hagar, page 8:
text: Her essay then refers to one of the best-known captains of any Middlesex Canal packet-boat — Silas Tyler.
ref: 2009, Alan Seaburg, Life on the Middlesex Canal, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of packet boat.
Passenger boat.
packet-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packet-boat
packetboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packetboats
Senses: examples: text: And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any stage coach, railroad car, steamboat, packetboat, or other vehicle or vessel, nor any of the owners, managers, servants, or crews of either, which regularly perform trips at stated periods on a post route, or between two or more cities, towns, or other places, from one to the other of which the United States mail is regularly converyed under the authority of the Post-Office Department, to transport or convery, otherwise than in the mail, any letter or letters, packet or packages ofletters, or other mailable matter whatsoever, except such as may have relation to some part othe cargo of such steamboat, packetboat, or other vessel...
ref: 1855, James Holbrook, Ten Years Among the Mail Bags, page 426:
text: He had the misfortune to encounter at the mouth of the river of Philadelphia a Frigate of the King of England, named the Liverpool, which detained his packetboat, searched it, and took the money that it carried.
ref: 1964, United States. Naval History Division, Naval Documents of the American Revolution, page 1339:
text: That this might be carried out with greater speed, and with more comfort and help to the crew he resolved to also proceed in the packetboat as far inside as he could.
ref: 2015, Richard W. Blumenthal, The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters:
glosses: Alternative form of packet boat.
packetboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packetboat
rainbow family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow families
Senses: glosses: A family in which both the parents are LGBT+.
glosses: The LGBT+ community as a whole.
glosses: The community of people that participate in Rainbow Gatherings.
rainbow families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow family
wethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetheads
Etymology: From wet + head.
Senses: glosses: A person who showers in work, and doesnt know what a hair dryer is.
glosses: A stupid person who is annoying.
smartsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smartsizes
form: smartsizing
form: smartsized
form: smartsized
Etymology: From smart + size.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To downsize.
smartsizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smartsize
smartsized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smartsize
Cele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ts'e-le
form: Ts'e-lo
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 策勒 (Cèlè).
Senses: examples: text: Five IBPP research stations-four in the Tianshan region (Muosuowan, Fukang, Bayinbuluke, and Turpan) and one (the Cele Desert Research Station) near Hetian on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin-support field work on a wide range of topics (Map 1-5).
ref: 1992, Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China, National Academy Press, →ISBN, page 175:
text: Salamet Memetimin, the communist party secretary for Chaka township’s Bekchan village, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Chira (Cele) county, was among 97 officials recently charged with disciplinary violations, according to an April 10 report by the state-run Hotan Daily newspaper.
ref: 2017, Qiao Long, “'No Sign' of Kazakh Imam Scheduled For Release From Prison in July”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia:
text: Some local governments are struggling to maintain this pace of spending. In neighbouring Cele county, where authorities expected to have almost 12,000 detainees in vocational camps and detention centres, a budget for 2018 says: “There are still many projects not included in the budget due to a lack of funds. The financial situation in 2018 is very severe.”
ref: 2019, Lily Kuo, “'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of Qira: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Qira
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
wetheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wethead
pedobiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedobiomes
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + biome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A biome of soil.
Related terms: pedoclimate
pedology
pedobiomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedobiome
pentamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + -morphic.
Senses: glosses: having five distinct forms
periclot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + clot.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a clot
periclot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + clot.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peridot.
perihemorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + hemorrhagic.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a hemorrhage
perimeningeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From peri- + meningeal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the meninges
perimetrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perimetrists
Senses: glosses: An ophthalmologist whose speciality is perimetry
peritelomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritelomeres
Etymology: From peri- + telomere.
Senses: glosses: The area surrounding a telomere
Related terms: peritelomeric
peritelomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritelomere
peritherapeutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From peri- + therapeutically.
Senses: glosses: In a peritherapeutic manner
peroxidisulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peroxydisulfate.
petrotympanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrotympanic
pharmacoepigenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacoepigenomes
Etymology: From pharmaco- + epigenomic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pharmacoepigenetic genome
pharmacoepigenomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacoepigenome
pharyngognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of fish of the order Pharyngognathi.
Related terms: pharyngognath
phenalenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenalenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic aromatic ketone having a carbonyl group in the cyclohexene ring of phenalene
phenomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a phenomic manner
phenoseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenoseasons
Senses: examples: text: The year was divided into phenoseasons, each of which represents a period when the solar elevation and phenological state (the state of organism properties that change seasonally, e.g., leaf formation, bud formation, and flowering) of the forest canopy create a unique set of influences of the radiation regime within the forest.
ref: 1999, Michael G. Barbour, Terrestrial Plant Ecology, page 395:
glosses: A phenological season.
Derived terms: phenoseasonal
phenoseasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenoseason
phenoseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenoseason + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a phenoseason
phospholipolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a phospholipolytic manner
photoendosymbiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoendosymbionts
Etymology: From photo- + endosymbiont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A photosynthetic endosymbiont
photoendosymbionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoendosymbiont
photoglottography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + glottography.
Senses: glosses: photographic glottography
Related terms: photoelectroglottography
shoemaker, stick to your last
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cobbler, keep to your last.
Damagou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 達瑪溝／达玛沟 (Dámǎgōu).
Senses: examples: text: The temple, dating back more than 1,500 years, was located about seven kilometres from the Damagou Township of Cele County. The Tuopulukedun Temple is 2.25 meters long and two meters wide, with walls about 1.3 meters high.
ref: 2005, “World's smallest temple discovered in China”, in Times of India:
glosses: Damiku
Damiku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur دامىكۇ (damiku).
Senses: glosses: A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
chantment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːntmənt/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæntmənt/
Forms: form: chantments
Etymology: From Middle English chauntement, a clipping of enchauntement (modern English enchantment).
Senses: examples: text: My lytle chyldren they ſhall beare
theſe preſentes to the Bryde,
That fyrſte wyth ſlybber ſlabbar ſoſſe
of chauntmentes ſhalbe tryed.
ref: 1556, Seneca, translated by Iohn Studley, THE ſeuenth Tragedie of Seneca, Entituled MEDEA […] , Thomas Colwell, act 3, page 28a:
text: Truly then, Sancho, thou muſt have travelled by Chantment. I don't know whether I travelled by Chantment ; but this I know, that about Five Miles off I met my Lady Dulcinea. How ! ſays he, and gave ſuch a Spring, I thought he would have leapt over the Wall.
ref: 1734, Henry Fielding, Don Quixote in England […] , George Falkner, page 51:
text: The Old Language dropped like rain, chantment blurring down her arm, and when the changeling set itself more firmly, its small hands creeping up to grasp her arm, and drew again on the wound, she winced.
ref: 2016, Lilith Saintcrow, Roadside Magic, Hatchette UK, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: enchantment
chantments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chantment
Tattenhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Tattenhall and District parish, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4858).
Shanghai French Concession
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The bodies of seven murdered members of Kuo's family were discovered buried in a garden in the Shanghai French Concession in November 1931; the bodies of four others of his relatives were found by the police later.
ref: 1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “The Chinese Communist Party”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
text: After several years of operations, The Wheel was closed in 1918 amid public displeasure. In the Shanghai French Concession, there were also several popular gambling houses including the Great World (大世界) and Xi Jia Du Chang (席家赌场).
ref: 2009, Desmond Lam, The World of Chinese Gambling, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
text: The Chinese Communist Party turns 100 this week. A century after it was founded in Shanghai’s French concession, the institution has never been so popular at home or resented abroad.
ref: [2021 June 29, Pete Sweeney, “China’s Communist Party runs low on creativity”, in Peter Thal Larsen, Katrina Hamlin, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021, Breakingviews:
glosses: A foreign concession in Shanghai, China, governed by France.
Witham Friary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7440).
Westcentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more Westcentric
form: most Westcentric
Etymology: From West + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Focused on the Western world or the people and culture of the Western world.
Related terms: Westcentrism
Sinai Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in Egypt, and the Western Asian part of the country.
schmeckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmeckles
form: schmeckel
Etymology: From Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), a diminutive of Yiddish שמאָק (shmok), from which schmuck is borrowed.
Senses: examples: text: "There's no hot water," Marty said. "Now you know why no one takes a shower. Those showers will give you pneumonia. You'll have icicles hanging from your schmeckle."
ref: 1994, Tom Boswell, Glenn Stout, editors, The Best American Sports Writing, page 65:
text: "A secret Litvak with his nose in the air," is how my zaydee put it, "and his schmeckle in that shiksa queen when he's not with his whoors."
ref: 2001, Philip Levine, The Bread of Time, page 97:
text: Listen to him, more nostalgia! My poor schmeckle, talk about nostalgia! It comes up once a year, like Ground Hog Day. The last time I made love was July tenth, Nineteen Seventy-One.
ref: 2015, Stephen Fife, editor, Duo!: The Best Scenes for Mature Actors:
text: Kiss would continue forever if it weren’t for the inconvenient path of time’s arrow – although, as Simmons puts it, “As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal.”
ref: 2023 September 14, Elmo Keep, quoting Gene Simmons, “Gene Simmons on Kiss, sex and calling it quits: ‘As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: chiefly Ashkenazi Jewish
glosses: penis
Batley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbætli/
Forms: form: Batleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Bata + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2424).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Batley Carr
Upper Batley
Ossett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒsɪt/
Etymology: From Old English Osleset (“the fold of a man named Osla”).
Senses: glosses: A market town with some local industry in West Yorkshire, England, mostly within the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield (OS grid ref SE2720).
Saltley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0987).
yicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Rare form of yucky.
Saltney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales, known as Saltney Town (OS grid ref SJ3864).
glosses: A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England, which adjoins the town in Wales and is known as Higher or Top Saltney.
Washwood Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of the Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1088).
Whitland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and community with a town council in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2016).
Holbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2932).
glosses: A hamlet in Greetham with Somersby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3172).
glosses: A village and former civil parish in Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5473).
Hellifield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD8556).
literary executor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literary executors
Senses: examples: text: Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."
ref: 1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: A person acting on behalf of beneficiaries (e.g. family members, a designated charity, a research library or archive) under the author's will.
Roydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL4010).
glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7023).
glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM0980).
Lower Darwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).
tabbyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tabby + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: You know, an old she-cat with a mess of kittens growing up to Tom and Tabbyhood will, at some certain period of their career, bring in a mouse and let her offspring play with the poor creature until they acquire the taste for mice.
ref: 1913, Piano Trade Magazine, page 264:
text: When Sterling came round and picked us up in his car to run us out to Cellini's for tea, I was purring like an old tabby myself with a hot stove and saucer of cream guaranteed for the rest of her tabbyhood.
ref: 1920, The Ladies' Home Journal, page 37:
glosses: The state of being an adult female cat (a tabby).
examples: text: ...to have gained both bachelor's prizes and have beat Professor Sandford, in competition for a Fellowship at Oriel; then to have become college tutor—embued the rising generation for six years with classical literature and philosophy —married a wife verging on her tabbyhood, and retired, without any reasonable prospect of a family, to read Jeremy Taylor in a snug living of ₤1000 a-year.
ref: 1824 January, “The Yourth of Reginald Dalton”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 15, page 115:
text: Isabella herself, being unmarried, had led a life of tabbyhood—one of their mother's quainter terms.
ref: 2013 spring, Bobbie Ann Mason, “The Horsehair Ball Gown”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 89, number 2, page 93:
text: I know if I venture to add a word in defence of Tabbyhood, I shall be engaged in a war with yourself and all our young acquaintance; yet in this age, which so liberally “softens, and blends, and weakens, and dilutes” away all distinctions, I own I am not without some partiality for strong lines of demarcation, and, perhaps, when fifty retrogrades into fifteen, it makes a worse confusion in society than the toe of the peasant treading on the heel of the courtier.
ref: 2019, Charlotte Biggs, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, page 105:
glosses: The state of being a spinster.
Normanton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
An inner suburb and ward of Derby, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3433).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Bottesford civil parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK8140).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish (served by Carlton Scroop and Normanton on Cliffe Parish Council) in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SK9446).
synonyms: Normanton-on-Cliffe
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Rutland (OS grid ref SK9306).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3822).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wilsford cum Lake parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1340).
glosses: A small cattle town and coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Normanton-on-Cliffe
South Normanton
Sowerby Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0523).
South Tottenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area in the southern part of Tottenham, borough of Haringey, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3388).
table diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table diamonds
form: table-diamond
Etymology: From Middle English table dyamond.
Senses: examples: text: And I do humbly beseech my said most dearest lord and husband to accept of my bequest and to keep for a memory of me one jewel, being a table diamond which the emperor's majesty, his and my most honourable father, sent unto me
ref: 1558, Mary Tudor, Will of Queen Mary I of England:
text: This was also new made against the Coronation of King Charles II. and was worn by the King in his return to Westminster-hall : it is exceedingly rich, being embellished with divers large rose, or faucet, and table diamonds, and other precious stones, besides a great quantity of pearls; but it is most remarkable for a wonderful large ruby, set in the middle of one of the four crosses, esteemed worth ten thousand pounds; as also for the mound is one entire stone, of a seawater green colour, known by the name of an aquamarine.
ref: 1820, Edward Holt, The Public and Domestic Life of His Late, Most Gracious Majesty:
text: ... as for thee, my sweet Gossip, I send thee a fair table diamond, which I would once have given thee before, if though would have taken it, for wearing in they hat, or where thou pleases; and if my Baby will spare thee the two long diamonds in form of an anchor, with the pedant diamond, it were fit for an admiral to wear, and he hath enough better jewels for his mistress, though he's of thing own thy good old jewel, thy three Pindars diamond, the picture-case I gave Kate, and the great diamond chain I gave her, who would have sent thee the least pin she had, if I had not staid her.
ref: 1834, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Catherine Manners Villiers duchess of Buckingham, Letters of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, page 28:
text: To Bothwell a table diamond set in black enamel, evidently intended for a mourning ring, also another mourning jewel called an ensetgne, set with eleven diamonds and one ruby — trifling tokens of esteem such as any female sovereign might bequeath to a member of her cabinet.
ref: 2011, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, page 202:
glosses: A relatively flat diamond cut with a large rectangular face and four shallow slightly sloping sides.
table diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table diamond
table-diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table-diamonds
Senses: examples: text: Tent (Mis.) a term among lapidaries for what they put under table-diamonds when they set them.
ref: 1823, George Crabb, Universal Technological Dictionary:
text: If you would save the Countess and your own hopes, follow me in the name of her who sent you a table-diamond, with three leopards engraved on it!”
ref: 1823, Walter Scott, Quentin Durward: A Romance - Volume 2, page 43:
text: Lord Dartmouth, who was not inclined to extenuate any of the misdeeds of the duchess of Marlborough to the queen, declares "that she tried to sell this inestimable present of royalty, for he saw an advertisement that such a table-diamond was in the hands of a Jew to be disposed of, some years subsequent to the death of the queen."
ref: 2010, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, page 235:
text: The custom of burying corpses with a ring on the finger continued for ages, as I have remarked in several chapters of this work. Annexed is an illustration, from the Archaeologia (vol. ii, p. 32, 1773), of a ring with seventy-five table-diamonds,set in gold, found in 1748 in a grave at Carne, seven miles west of Mullinghar, inthecounty of Westmeath, Ireland.
ref: 2013, William Tudor Jones, Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal:
glosses: Alternative form of table diamond.
table-diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of table-diamond
Bostan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur بوستان (bostan).
Senses: examples: text: It was not immediately clear why Tursun, who the officer said lives in Toksun’s Bostan township, was assigned to work in Kömüsh.
ref: 2021 March 15, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Detain Head of Township Education Committee”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2021:
glosses: A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
examples: text: Figure a is the typical interconnection of power system of township branches taking Noor power satiation as example.
Figure b is the typical interconnection of power system of village terminals taking Bostan township village as example.
ref: 2014, Zulati Litifu, “An Application of Developing Renewable Energy in an Extreme Arid and Energy-Scarce Area in Tarim Desert”, in Energy Procedia, volume 61, →DOI, page 2710:
glosses: A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Bositan
bemoccasined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + moccasined.
Senses: examples: text: One has a very brotherly feeling toward all the bemoccasined and pack-laden individuals he sees getting on at Boston and next morning by the time breakfast is over, he has conversed with half the people in the car.
ref: 1926, In the Maine Woods, page 17:
text: The picturesque, bemoccasined woodrangers, usually spoiling for a fight, were now strangely apathetic.
ref: 1948, DeCost Smith, Martyrs of the Oblong and Little Nine, Caxton Printers, Ltd., page 194:
text: and Solomon's new world was a small child's-eye-view of wagon wheels, plodding oxen, bemoccasined Indian traders and a Territory in transition.
ref: 1960, New Mexico Historical Review, volumes 35-35, page 50:
glosses: wearing a moccasin
Witton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6627).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Postwick with Witton parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG3109).
glosses: A place in England:
A civil parish and locality in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, which includes Witton Bridge (OS grid ref TG3431).
glosses: A place in England:
An industrial area of Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0791).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Droitwich Spa, Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8962).
Derived terms: Postwick with Witton
West Witton
Witton Bridge
Witton-le-Wear
Witton Park
tackle-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle-houses
Senses: examples: text: On the 25th of April, 1659, there happened a dreadful fire at Southwold, which, in the space of four hours, consumed the town-hall and market house, prison, granaries, warehouses, and 238 dwelling-houses, besides the fish-houses, tackle-houses, and other out-houses ; and the greatest part of the moveable goods, nets, and tackle of the inhabitants, with all their corp, fish, coals, and other commodities; the loss of which amounted to upwards of 40,000 £.
ref: 1802, George Alexander Cooke, The modern British traveller, page 38:
text: An act of common council of the 15th of August 1579, which recited that certain parties had been appointed to give “ their opynions touchinge the establishinge of a certeyn order for the nomber of tackle-houses for porters, and chieflye shoulde consider whether it be necessarye that the companyes latelye erected shoulde so continue or not."
ref: 1913, The English Reports - Volume 134, page 282:
text: In the Act of common council of 26 march 1607, the distinction betwen porter packers and street porters is still preserved, and it is provided that no one shall be admitted in any of the tackle-houses of the city, as a master or fellow porter, unless he be a freeman, and be admitted thereunto by the master, wardens and assistants of the company to which the tackle-house belongs;
ref: 1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of tacklehouse.
tackle-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tackle-house
tacklehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacklehouses
form: tackle-house
form: tackle house
Etymology: From tackle + house where "tackle" refers to a device for grasping and moving objects, which was used by the porters belonging to the tacklehouse.
Senses: examples: text: The under beadle, Philip Huffa, was to be accommodated with lodgings above the tacklehouse, and the Company's cellars were built in beneath it.
ref: 1977, Anne Crawford, A history of the Vintners' Company, page 167:
text: In 1648, the officers commissioned the company's carpenter and bricklayer to design and build a new tacklehouse by the river to assist merchants in unloading ships, a project that cost more than £20.
ref: 1997, Joseph P. Ward, Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modern London, page 50:
text: On the other side of the Atlantic 'tacklehouse' and 'ticket' porters unloaded the ships.
ref: 2003, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, page 167:
glosses: A building located at a port, and the corresponding business operated by one of the major shipping companies, that employs porters to load and unload goods from ships.
tacklehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tacklehouse
tackle house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle houses
Senses: examples: text: A catalogue of one of our principal tackle houses contains a list of more than 300 varieties, all of them elegantly and artistically made.
ref: 1889, A. M. Spangler, Near By Fresh and Salt Water Fishing, page 8:
text: The Mayflies in Aldam's book, with their straight eyes, were tied by James Ogden of the well known Cheltenham tackle house who himself published a little book on fly-tying in 1879, and who must have been using the dry- fly forty years before that.
ref: 1926, The Salmon and Trout Magazine - Issues 42-45, page 209:
text: The ones that the tackle houses now merchandise are okay, but the genuine article is better and can be obtained in a multitude of shapes and weights, including some very small ones.
ref: 1976, Harmon Henkin, Fly tackle: a guide to the tools of the trade, page 191:
glosses: A business that sells fishing equipment for angling such as rods, reels, lines, lures, etc.
examples: text: That no Person or Persons shall be admitted or allowed in any of the Tackle Houses in the said City as a Master or Fellow Porter, unless he be a Freeman of the said City, and admitted and allowed by the Master Wardens, and Court of Assistants of such Worshipful Company as shall have a Tackle House, or hath had usual Porters appertaining to a Tackle House.
ref: 1796, House of Commons, Report from the committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficient Accommodation for the increased trade and Shipping of the Port of London.:
text: Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lords of the Council, enclosing a Petition from the Porters of the Tackle Houses of the City, praying assistance for the prevention of the inconvenience like to grow upon them through the erection of a new office, to be established for the lading and unlading within the Port of all merchants' goods not free of the twelve Companies of the City.
ref: 1878, City of London (England). Corporation, Analytical Index, to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia (A.D. 1579-1664), page 499:
text: In early 1796, Registers and Rulers of the Society of Tacklehouse and Ticket Porters on behalf of the latter, Masters of the Tackle Houses of the twelve superior Companies of the City of London and the Company of Vintners on behalf of their Wine Tackle Porters separately petitioned the House of Commons against the London Docks bill.
ref: 1960, Walter M. Stern, The Porters of London, page 138:
glosses: Alternative form of tacklehouse.
tackle houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tackle house
tackle-porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle-porters
form: tackle porter
Senses: examples: text: And it was likewise enacted "that all and every the tackle-house and ticket-porter and porters should execute a bond with two good and sufficient sureties to the said governor for the time being, in the penalty of 100l., conditioned for paying, making good, and reimbursing to any merchant or merchants or other person or persons who should employ him or them, all and every loss and damage which such merchant or merchants should or might sustain by the negligence, carelessness, or improper conduct of such porter, and also for the further [faithful?] performance of the duties of his office, and for his general good behaviour as a porter, except in the case where the tackle-porter hath already given bond to the respective company to which he belongs ; and in such case the production of a certificate to the governor of the said society of tackle-house and ticket-porters for the time being, from the clerk of the company to which such porter belongs, of such bond having been duly entered into by such porter, should be deemed and taken to be fully sufficient."
ref: 1843, John Scott, Scott's New Reports in the Court of Common Pleas, page 47:
text: ...he, the plaintiff was on the said wharf with divers, to wit, three servants, then being ticket-porters of the said city duly and regularly admitted, and then was ready and willing and offered to unship, land, and carry the said casks of olive oil, and no other tackle-porter belonging to the said city then was present to unship, land, or carry the said casks of olive oil;
ref: 1884, Report of cases argued and determined in the English courts:
glosses: A porter employed by a tacklehouse who loads and unloads ships.
Related terms: ticket-porter
tackle-porters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tackle-porter
tackle porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle porters
Senses: examples: text: When a Ship from America arrives at one of the Keys, to be unladen, and the King's Weighers and Landwaiters are ready, a Tackle Porter and some Ticket Porters, set inmediately to work upon her, and land seven Draughts (Hogsheads, &c.) and none are permitted to partake of the Profits of unlading that Ship, but such as come before the seven Draughts are landed and weighed; this finish'd, the Tackle Porters present, chuse the Book, who takes an Account of the Quantities and Marks of each Person's Goods, and sees them put into Ware-houses or sent Home.
ref: 1747, The Universal Library of Trade and Commerce:
text: Before any person can become a Tackle Porter he must give bond with four sufficient house-keepers as sureties, for 500l. to make restitution for any loss or damage that may be sustained through his neglect or connivance.
ref: 1814, Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales, page 443:
text: To this day, therefore, the procession leaves Vintners' Hall on Installation Day and proceeds to the Church of St James Garlickhythe - the Master, Wardens and Court of Assistants carrying their nosegays while a tackle porter sweeps the road ...
ref: 1975, Margaret Brentnall, The old customs and ceremonies of London, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of tackle-porter.
tackle porters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tackle porter