cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /boɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: boar
homophone: Bohr
homophone: boor (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: bores
Etymology: From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
Senses: examples: text: the bore of a cannon
text: the bores of wind-instruments
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
glosses: The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
glosses: A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
glosses: A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
glosses: A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
The place where such a well exists.
examples: text: My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
glosses: One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
examples: text: What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
text: It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
ref: 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks:
glosses: Something dull or uninteresting.
examples: text: Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: Calibre; importance.
Synonyms: word: bore
word: banality
word: snooze
word: snoozer
Hyponyms: word: Uninteresting person:
word: dryasdust
word: square
word: spoilsport
word: Uninteresting place:
word: dullsville
word: Uninteresting situation:
word: routine
word: rut
word: same old same old
word: same old story
word: same old thing
Derived terms: artesian bore
backbore
Boraga
bore draw
bore-draw
borefest
borefield
boregasm
borehole
boreism
bore lake
boreless
bore needle
boreout
borescope
boresight
bore sight
boresighting
boresome
bore water
borewell
chokebore
counterbore
crashing bore
cross bore
drawbore
full bore
full-bore
less is a bore
microbore
nanobore
overbore
sealbore
small-bore
smoothbore
throughbore
wellbore
windbore
Related terms: word: boring
word: tedium
bore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /boɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: boar
homophone: Bohr
homophone: boor (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: bores
Etymology: From Middle English *bore, bare, a borrowing from Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”), from Proto-Germanic *bērō (“that which bears or carries”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Icelandic bára (“billow, wave”), Faroese bára (“billow, wave”). Doublet of bier.
Senses: examples: text: In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 102:
glosses: A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
Synonyms: word: eagre
word: tidal bore
word: bore
word: banality
word: snooze
word: snoozer
Hyponyms: word: Uninteresting person:
word: dryasdust
word: square
word: spoilsport
word: Uninteresting place:
word: dullsville
word: Uninteresting situation:
word: routine
word: rut
word: same old same old
word: same old story
word: same old thing
Related terms: word: boring
word: tedium
bore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /boɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: boar
homophone: Bohr
homophone: boor (pour–poor merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear
examples: text: Q. When the Fireſhip appeared to be going down towards the Real, do you think that the Dorſetſhire could have bore down in Time, to have covered and aſſiſted her?
ref: 1746, Charles Fearne, Minutes of the proceedings of a court-martial, aſſembled […] , London, page 159:
text: […] by altering their course a very little, and easily have bore down abreast of our settlement, without incurring the smallest risk!
ref: 1834, Augustus Earle, A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 […] , pages 345–346:
text: The end of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium have bore witness to a remarkable revolution in the way parasite/host biological interactions can be conceptually designed and experimentally studied.
ref: 2006 February 10, Karl F. Hoffman, Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick, “The Application of DNA Microarrays in the Functional Study of Schisostome/Host Biology”, in W. Evan Secor, Daniel G. Colley, editors, Schistosomiasis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: past participle of bear
glosses: simple past of bare
born
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Borgne
homophone: borne
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic)
homophone: barn (card–cord merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /bɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɔːn/
Etymology: From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).
Senses: examples: text: Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
glosses: past participle of bear; given birth to.
examples: text: In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
ref: 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I:
text: If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: past participle of bear in other senses.
born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Borgne
homophone: borne
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic)
homophone: barn (card–cord merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /bɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɔːn/
Etymology: From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).
Senses: examples: text: In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
text: I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.
ref: 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], “Part II”, in The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], →OCLC, page 61:
text: I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.
ref: 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:
text: “Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”
"It . . . seemed the right way."
"That it most certainly is."
And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them."
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 118:
glosses: Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
Derived terms: aborn
aborning
afterborn
all one's born days
baseborn
base-born
be born last week
be born yesterday
born again
born-again
born-again virgin
born-alive
born and bred
born at night but not last night
born digital
born-free
born in a barn
born in a mill
born in the purple
born in the vestry
born killer
born leader
bornless
born loser
bornness
born on the 4th of July
born on the Fourth of July
born sleeping
born tired
born to the purple
born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
born yesterday
dead-born
deadborn
dragonborn
earthborn
firstborn
first-born
foreign-born
forest-born
freeborn
me born
full-born
hagborn
hedgeborn
hellborn
hell-born
high-born
highborn
homeborn
in all one's born days
in one's born days
I was born in ...
last-born
lastborn
liveborn
low-born
middleborn
misborn
naked as the day one was born
native-born
natural-born
new-born
newborn
nextborn
noble-born
no one is born a master
not know one is born
odalborn
one's father was born before one
onlyborn
outborn
preborn
quickborn
reborn
seaborn
secondborn
sky-born
slaveborn
stillborn
still-born
there's a sucker born every minute
there's one born every minute
thirdborn
to the manner born
to the manor born
true-born
trueborn
twice-born
twin-born
twinborn
unborn
virgin-born
wellborn
well-born
were you born in a tent
woman-born-woman
womyn-born-womyn
Related terms: borne
né
née
born
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Borgne
homophone: borne
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic)
homophone: barn (card–cord merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /bɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɔːn/
Forms: form: borns
Etymology: Dialectal variant of burn.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
born
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Borgne
homophone: borne
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic)
homophone: barn (card–cord merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /bɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɔːn/
Forms: form: borns
form: bornin
form: bornt
form: bornt
Etymology: Dialectal variant of burn.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
borne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
homophone: Borgne
homophone: born
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Etymology: From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
Senses: examples: text: Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: “Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.[…]”
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 21, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: past participle of bear
borne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
homophone: Borgne
homophone: born
homophone: bourn
homophone: bourne
homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: bawn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Etymology: From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
Senses: examples: text: In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
ref: 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
text: When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
ref: 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited”, in Poems, page 44:
text: Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
ref: c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, section II:
glosses: carried, supported.
Derived terms: airborne
bloodborne
carborne
cartborne
chairborne
fleaborne
food-borne
foodborne
heliborne
inborne
jet-borne
louseborne
mainsborne
milkborne
pipeborne
railborne
rocketborne
seaborne
seed-borne
seedborne
shipborne
skyborne
soilborne
spaceborne
springborne
tickborne
tick-borne
tick-borne encephalitis
trainborne
truck-borne
vector-borne
wainborne
waterborne
windborne
wabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæ.bɪt/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: more wabbit
form: most wabbit
Etymology: Scots wabbit, ultimate origin uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Exhausted; tired.
wabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæ.bɪt/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: wabbits
Etymology: Representing pronunciation of rabbit by children and some adults who have trouble saying the English r (the cartoon character Elmer Fudd is a caricature of the latter). Computing sense refers to the ability of rabbits to multiply quickly.
Senses: glosses: A rabbit.
examples: text: For example, a hacker might write a quine virus program that generates complete copies of itself as part of its output, a worm virus program that reproduces itself across a network, or a wabbit virus program designed to perpetually duplicate itself, at least until the system crashes. In contrast to the wabbit's slow growth, a fork bomb quickly generates multiple copies itself^([sic]).
ref: 2002, Philip E. N. Howard, “Hacktivism”, in Steve Jones, editor, Encyclopedia of New Media, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: fork bomb
glosses: A self-replicating computer process that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers.
acanthopteri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Via translingual Acanthopteri, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”) + πτερόν (pterón, “feather”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.
beaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtən/
ipa: [ˈbiːtn̩]
ipa: [ˈbiːʔn̩]
rhymes: -iːtən
Forms: form: more beaten
form: most beaten
Etymology: From beat + -en.
Senses: glosses: Defeated.
examples: text: a beaten path; beaten gold; the beaten victims of the attack
glosses: Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.
raw_tags: of a liquid
glosses: Trite; hackneyed.
Derived terms: beatenness
beaten rice
beaten track
beaten up
browbeaten
off the beaten path
off the beaten track
sunbeaten
unbeaten
weather-beaten
well-beaten
windbeaten
beaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːtən/
ipa: [ˈbiːtn̩]
ipa: [ˈbiːʔn̩]
rhymes: -iːtən
Etymology: From beat + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of beat
became
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Senses: glosses: simple past of become
examples: text: […]and had the outlawry been confirmed, he muſt not only have remained ſo, but all his eſtate and effects (if any there were) would have became forfeited to the crown.
ref: 1768, William Murray, A ſhort examination into the conduct of Lord M--f--d through the affair of Mr. Wilkes, Staples Steare, page 13:
text: […] In this very city, the jury box has became so corrupted that it is impossible to convict men of the gross outrages they inflicted on voters at the polls last election day.”
ref: 1896, William Temple Hornaday, The Man who Became a Savage: A Story of Our Own Times, Peter Paul Book Company, page 31:
text: Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.
ref: 2007 January 26, Ruth M. J. Byrne, The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: past participle of become
befall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfɔːl/
ipa: /bɪˈfɔl/
ipa: /bɪˈfɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: befalls
form: befalling
form: befell
form: befallen
Etymology: From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
Senses: examples: text: At dusk an unusual calm befalls the wetlands.
glosses: To fall upon; fall all over; overtake.
examples: text: It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon [...] that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.
ref: 1485 July 23, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter I, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte D’Arthur, volume 1:
glosses: To happen.
examples: text: Temptation befell me.
text: But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: As we’ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s.
ref: 2013 April 15, Walter Russell Mead, “The Wreck of the Euro”, in The American Interest, retrieved 16 Apr 2013:
text: This wasn't the last tragedy to befall Reading. There were fatal accidents involving trains in 1855 and 1914, while on a lesser scale T E Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his precious manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom when changing trains in 1919.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
glosses: To happen to.
examples: text: With a thought I tooke for Maudline
& a cruse of cockle pottage.
with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all:
I befell into this dotage.
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
glosses: To fall.
Synonyms: sense: to happen
word: come to pass
word: occur
word: transpire
Derived terms: befalling
misbefall
befall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfɔːl/
ipa: /bɪˈfɔl/
ipa: /bɪˈfɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: befalls
Etymology: From Middle English bifallen, from Old English befeallan, from Proto-West Germanic *bifallan, from Proto-Germanic *bifallaną; equivalent to be- + fall.
Senses: examples: text: Or he had tolde al his befall.
ref: 1495, William Caxton, Vitas Patrum:
text: This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
ref: 1990, India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates:
text: He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. …"
ref: 1994, Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49
text: [...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall" of "Infant Joy."
ref: 1996, Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism:
glosses: Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
befell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: simple past of befall
befallen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfɔlən/
Senses: glosses: past participle of befall
LRRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: LRRPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of long-range reconnaissance patrol.
began
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɡæn/
ipa: /bɪˈɡæn/
rhymes: -æn
Senses: glosses: simple past of begin
examples: text: He had no sooner been free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of Louisa’s accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, than he had began to feel himself, though alive, not at liberty.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 285:
glosses: past participle of begin
Derived terms: beganst
behold
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhəʊld/
ipa: /bɪˈhoʊld/
ipa: /biˈhoʊld/
rhymes: -əʊld
rhymes: -oʊld
Etymology: From Middle English biholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, possess, preserve, belong, keep, observe, look at, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
Senses: glosses: look, a call of attention to something
glosses: lo!
Synonyms: lo
beheld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behold
bent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnt
ipa: /bɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend
bent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnt
ipa: /bɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: benter
form: more bent
form: bentest
form: most bent
Etymology: From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
Senses: synonyms: crooked
qualifier: Of something that is usually straight
glosses: Folded, dented.
synonyms: crooked
glosses: Corrupt, dishonest.
examples: text: Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”
ref: 2019 January 22, Joe Sommerlad, “The reasons why Bohemian Rhapsody faced such a massive backlash”, in The Independent:
synonyms: word: queer
word: homophile
word: homosexual
word: like that
word: queer
word: similisexual
word: that way
glosses: Homosexual.
examples: text: He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
text: They were bent on mischief.
text: […]in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: hell-bent
glosses: Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
examples: text: Near-synonym: butthurt
text: She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.
glosses: Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
raw_tags: with about
qualifier: Of a person
glosses: leading a life of crime.
examples: text: That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Inaccurately aimed.
glosses: Suffering from the bends.
examples: text: Man, I am so bent right now!
glosses: High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Derived terms: bent as a nine-bob note
bent as a two bob
bentbill
bent car
bent copper
bent edge
bent fork
bent function
bent grass
Bentley
bentness
bent on
bent on a splice
bent-side
Bent Spear
bentwood
bowbent
downbent
get bent
get bent out of shape
hellbent
hyperbent
inbent
nick-bent
prebent
semibent
time-bent
Related terms: sense: determined
word: hell-bent
bent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnt
ipa: /bɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: bents
Etymology: From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
Senses: examples: text: He had a natural bent for painting.
text: the top of one's bent
text: They fool me to the top of my bent.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 384:
text: “The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock.
ref: 1985 September 22, John Crowley, “St. Paul Meets Nero”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An inclination or talent.
examples: text: His mind was of a technical bent.
glosses: A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
examples: text: the bent of a bow
text: the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
examples: text: Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
examples: text: bents and turns of the matter
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
examples: text: the full bent and stress of the soul
ref: 1707, John Norris, Practical Discourses Upon the Beatitudes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.:
glosses: Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
Synonyms: sense: an inclination or talent
word: disposition
word: predilection
word: proclivity
word: propensity
Derived terms: at the top of one's bent
to the top of one's bent
bent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnt
ipa: /bɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: bents
Etymology: From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.
ref: 1627, Michael Drayton, Nymphidia, published 1810, page 124:
text: Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 121:
text: Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
synonyms: bentgrass
glosses: Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
examples: c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase
Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
glosses: A grassy area, grassland.
glosses: The old dried stalks of grasses.
Derived terms: brown bent
colonial bent
common bent
creeping bent
rough bent
bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕt
ipa: /ˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: bets
Etymology: From 16th-century criminal slang, perhaps from Middle English bet (“something better, advantage, luck”), from Old English bet, bett (“better”, adverb); or, alternatively from abet, from Middle English abet, abette, from Old French abet (“incitement to evil”), from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *baitijan (“to bait, entice”), related to Old English bǣtan (“to bait”). More at abet.
Senses: examples: text: Dylan owes Fletcher $30 from an unsuccessful bet.
glosses: A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
glosses: A candidate (for elections and pageants) or competitor (in multinational sports).
examples: text: It’s a safe bet that it will rain tomorrow.
text: There's a decent bet that we'll be able to reach the top of that hill in an hour.
text: It’s an even bet that Jim will come top of the maths test tomorrow.
text: There's a good bet that Sally will arrive later.
glosses: Indicating a degree of certainty, or that something can be relied upon.
Derived terms: best bet
bet exchange
bet round
blocker bet
blocking bet
catch bet
continuation bet
donk bet
fair bet
forced bet
gentleman's bet
get-out bet
good bet
if-bet
multibet
overbet
prop bet
proposition bet
safe bet
side bet
slap bet
sportsman's bet
spread bet
string bet
sucker bet
sure bet
underbet
value bet
bet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕt
ipa: /ˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: bets
form: betting
form: bet
form: bet
form: betted
form: betted
Etymology: From 16th-century criminal slang, perhaps from Middle English bet (“something better, advantage, luck”), from Old English bet, bett (“better”, adverb); or, alternatively from abet, from Middle English abet, abette, from Old French abet (“incitement to evil”), from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *baitijan (“to bait, entice”), related to Old English bǣtan (“to bait”). More at abet.
Senses: examples: text: I('ll) bet I can run faster than you.
text: I bet you dinner at the Ritz that you can't run faster than me.
text: I bet(ted) her £5 it wouldn't rain all week.
text: John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay:
glosses: To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
examples: text: Fancy going for a drink after work? / You bet I do!
glosses: To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet a dime to a dollar
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet a dollar to a dime
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet a dollar to a donut
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet a dollar to a doughnut
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet dollars to donuts
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet dollars to doughnuts
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet one's ass
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet one's boots
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet one's bottom dollar
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet one's life
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet out
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bettable
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet the farm
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet the house
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet the ranch
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bettor
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: bet up
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: outbet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: overbet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: sports-bet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: unbet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: underbet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: wanna bet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: want to bet
sense: Terms derived from bet (verb)
word: you bet
bet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕt
ipa: /ˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: From 16th-century criminal slang, perhaps from Middle English bet (“something better, advantage, luck”), from Old English bet, bett (“better”, adverb); or, alternatively from abet, from Middle English abet, abette, from Old French abet (“incitement to evil”), from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *baitijan (“to bait, entice”), related to Old English bǣtan (“to bait”). More at abet.
Senses: examples: text: Let me bust a freestyle then (Alright, bet)
ref: 1988, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, “If It Ain't Ruff”, in Straight Outta Compton, performed by N.W.A., track 4:
text: He asked if KRS could come by and meet up with a few of us there on Monday night, as he wanted to show him the church and have me build with him. Aight, bet.
ref: 2008 November 5, S.O.U.LMag, number 13, page 66:
text: Then I rocked the Kansas show and after Jay said, ‘Look, if you want, you can go on tour with us and open and close the shows, but we can’t pay you, but we’ll make sure you get the exposure.’ So I said bet […]
ref: 2013 September 16, Insight News, volume 40, number 38, published 12 September 2013, page 6:
text: She texted Jimenez and told him it was a nice time, but she wasn’t feeling him and apologized. “Bet,” Jimenez replied, because she kind of pissed him off with that comment.
ref: 2017 November 6, The DePaulia, volume 102, number 8, DePaul University, published 4 November 2017, page 20:
glosses: Expression of general agreement or acceptance.
examples: text: What you may not have stopped to consider is that Big Clit Energy (here referred to as B.C.E.) has been around since... BCE! Eve? She looked sin in the eye and said, “Bet.”
ref: 2018 September 4, The Rice Thresher, volume 103, number 3, Rice University, page 9:
text: “(Drummer Brenden Accettura) texted me that and was like, ‘Should we name our band The Hot Mess Express?’ and I said, ‘Bet.’ So now that’s our name,” Abbie said, getting words out between laughs.
ref: 2019 April 30, Key Magazine, Bowling Green State University: BG Falcon Media, page 26:
glosses: Exclamation indicating acceptance of a challenge or an absurd proposal.
examples: text: I started making jokes about him feeling like tough sh*t after that presentation haha. Everyone at school geeked his head up [inflated his ego]. He probably got two fruit cups from the lunch lady that day and said, “Bet! I’m gonna keep doing this!”
ref: 2019 May 31, CopyWrite Magazine, number 14, page 43:
glosses: Exclamation of joy at good fortune.
bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕt
ipa: /ˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: bets
Etymology: From Hebrew בית (bēt).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beth (“Semitic letter”).
bet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕt
ipa: /ˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted
ref: 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: between
betted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛtəd/
rhymes: -ɛtəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bet
bid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: bids
form: bidding
form: bid
form: bade
form: bad
form: bid
form: bade
form: bad
form: bidden
Etymology: From Middle English bidden, from Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”), from Proto-West Germanic *biddjan, from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰedʰ-. Conflated with Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”) (see Etymology 2 below).
Compare West Frisian bidde, Low German bidden, Dutch bidden ("to pray"), German bitten, Danish bede, Norwegian Bokmål be.
Senses: examples: text: He bade me come in.
text: Shylock: [...] Why Jessica, I say!
Launcelot: Why, Jessica!
Shylock: Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
Launcelot: Your worship was wont to tell me that I could do nothing without bidding.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: To issue a command; to tell.
examples: text: She was bidden to the wedding.
text: Jessica: Call you? What is your will?
Shylock: I am bid forth to supper, Jessica: / [...] But wherefore should I go? / I am not bid for love; they flatter me;
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
text: In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster, / Bid me join the parade
ref: 1970, King Crimson, “Cirkus (including "Entry of the Chameleons")”, in Lizard:
glosses: To invite; to summon.
examples: text: Portia: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I / can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his / approach; […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.
ref: 1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691:
glosses: To utter a greeting or salutation.
examples: text: All night she spent in bidding of her bedes, / And all the day in doing good and godly deedes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
Derived terms: bid adieu
bid beads
bid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: bids
form: bidding
form: bid
form: bid
Etymology: From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
Senses: examples: text: Have you ever bid in an auction?
glosses: To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
examples: text: She bid £2000 for the Persian carpet.
glosses: To offer as a price; to tender.
examples: text: He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
glosses: To make an attempt.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
examples: text: I can’t believe he bid the Syracuse turn; that can be brutal in the winter!
qualifier: trucking
glosses: To take a particular route regularly.
glosses: simple past and past participle of bid
Derived terms: biddability
biddable
bid defiance to
bid down
bid fair
bid in
bid off
bid up
counterbid
forbid
misbid
outbid
overbid
prebid
rebid
underbid
upbid
bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: bids
Etymology: From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede.
Senses: examples: text: His bid was $35,000.
text: The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.
glosses: An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
examples: text: Nice bid!
qualifier: ultimate frisbee
glosses: A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
examples: text: Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
text: She put in her bid for the presidency.
text: He put in his bid for office.
text: Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: [Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade.
ref: 1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
examples: text: I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.
qualifier: trucking
glosses: A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
examples: text: So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid.
ref: 2007, Psych (TV series)
synonyms: bit
glosses: A prison sentence.
Derived terms: autobid
beadle
bid-ask spread
biddance
bid hook
bid price
bid rigging
bid shading
bid size
bid wanted
bid whist
bidworthy
commission bid
counterbid
cuebid
donkey bid
dummy bid
leadership bid
limit bid
megabid
overbid
prebid
rebid
sealed bid
straw bid
takeover bid
underbid
upbid
vendor bid
bind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪnd/
ipa: /baɪn/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: binds
Etymology: From Middle English binden, from Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną (compare West Frisian bine, Dutch binden, Low German binnen, binden, German binden, Danish binde), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéndʰ-e-ti, from *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare Welsh ben (“cart”), Latin offendīx (“knot, band”), Lithuanian beñdras (“partner”), Albanian bind (“to convince, to awe, to spell”), Ancient Greek πεῖσμα (peîsma, “cable, rope”), Persian بستن (bastan, “to bind”), Sanskrit बन्धति (bándhati). Doublet of bandana.
Senses: glosses: That which binds or ties.
synonyms: word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
glosses: Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
examples: text: the Maróczy Bind
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
glosses: The indurated clay of coal mines, or other overlying substances such as sandstone or shale.
Derived terms: bellbind
bindless
bind rune
bindweed
cornbind
double bind
green-bind
keybind
Maróczy bind
time bind
bound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈbuːnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: bownd
Etymology: From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ȝebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ġebunden respectively. See bind.
Senses: examples: text: I bound the splint to my leg.
text: I had bound the splint with duct tape.
text: The maidens have bound silver snoods about their hair, with gold spangles, and pendent flames (Flammen), that is, sparkling hair-drops : but of their mother's headgear who shall speak?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Miscellaneous-Historical”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 32:
text: “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bind