cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
extructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extructors
Etymology: Originally a Brand Name
Senses: examples: text: The frozen fish were first reduced to about 1-inch pieces by one pass through a Rietz extructor (prebreaker).
ref: 1964, Fishery Leaflet - Issues 571-607, page 19:
text: To develoop a quick, economical method for thawing of frozen menhaden for future operations at the Experiment and Demonstration Plant (EDP) by using an active-surface heat exchanger, several combinations of disintegrator, extructor and thermascrew were used.
ref: 1973, United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, Fish Protein Concentrate Information Packing, page 19:
text: The tempered blocks are broken by an extructor, pass through a grinder, and are delivered in stainless steel bins by lift trucks to the preliminary blending system.
ref: 1974, Food Engineering - Volume 46, page 4:
text: Out of the deep freeze and onto the production line: The Balfour extructor. A Balfour Extructor should be your first choice in prebreaking equipment when it comes to the size reduction of whole frozen food blocks.
ref: 1980, Food Processing Industry - Volume 49, page 58:
qualifier: food processing
glosses: A prebreaker.
examples: text: Another machine from the same source is the Extructor, in which blades arranged in a spiral pattern act in conjunction with stationary anvils to give a continuous kneading, mulling and mixing action on the materials passing through.
ref: 1969, Chemical Processing - Volume 15, Issues 7-11, page S-45:
text: Extructor: Continuously mixes and blends solids and liquids where paste and plastic masses are handled that are too viscous for the Scott - Rietz Disintegrator .
ref: 1970, British Chemical Engineering: BCE. - Volume 15, page 117:
text: Powders are introduced through the rear entrance chute and are massed with liquid which enters the extructor from feed ports along the chamber.
ref: 1976, Leon Lachman, Herbert A. Lieberman, Joseph L. Kanig, The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy, page 633:
glosses: An industrial machine for mixing, chopping, and kneading substances.
extructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extructor
hogringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogringers
Etymology: From hog + ringer.
Senses: examples: text: The office of hogringer was a yearly one and the appointment was made at the Court Leet. The hogringer had to go to the commons and see that all the swine had rings in their noses to prevent them rooting up the turf.
ref: 2014, Eleanor Trotter, Seventeenth Century Life in the Country Parish, page 5:
glosses: One who puts rings into the snouts of pigs.
hogringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogringer
sliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slyness.
revivement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revivements
Etymology: From revive + -ment.
Senses: glosses: revival
revivements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revivement
devanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devan
devanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devan
fire-new
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: There are men that roll through life like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket ground on a sunshiny day […]
ref: 1853, Charles Reade, Peg Woffington:
glosses: Fresh from the forge; brand-new.
antisplenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + splenetic.
Senses: glosses: Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
examples: text: His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.
ref: 1975, Susan G. Auty, The comic spirit of eighteenth-century novels, page 32:
text: So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.
ref: 2002, Rick Harsch, The sleep of Aborigines, page 45:
text: As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume.
ref: 2011, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Hey Presto!: Swift and the Quacks, page 154:
glosses: Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.
Related terms: spleen
black bile
melancholy
heliometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + -metry.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The measurement of the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. by means of a heliometer
Related terms: heliometer
heliometric
inviscerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɪsəɹət/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɪsəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more inviscerate
form: most inviscerate
Etymology: Latin invisceratus, past participle.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen man ſigheth, (as the Apoſtle ſaith) as burthened vvith inviſcerate intereſts, longing to put on this pure ſpirituall veſture of Filiall love, this kind of heavineſſe of ſpirit, may be ſaid to make his love vveight in heaven; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. III. Filiall Love Described, and Some Strong Incentives Presented to Kindle It in Us.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 190:
glosses: Deep-seated; internal.
inviscerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɪsəɹət/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɪsəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: inviscerates
form: inviscerating
form: inviscerated
form: inviscerated
Etymology: Latin invisceratus, past participle.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur Savior ſeemeth to have affected ſo much, the inviſcerating this diſpoſition in our hearts, as he claimeth the firſt introduction of this precept, to recommend it to us, as a ſpecial property of his miſſion, that the kindneſs to his perſon might ſvveeten the aſperity of the command, […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fifteenth Treatise. The Duties of a Christian towards Enemies. §. I. The Precept of Loving Enemies, Sweetned by Many Reasons Drawn from Christs Injoyning It, and His Acting It.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: To breed (something); also, to nourish (something).
double-dyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely coloured.
examples: text: a double-dyed villain
text: "People who have extensive grounds themselves are always pleased with any thing in the same style" Emma doubted the truth of this sentiment. She had a great idea that people who had extensive grounds themselves cared very little for the extensive grounds of any body else; but it was not worth while to attack an error so double-dyed […]
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 14:
glosses: Firmly fixed in opinions or habits; confirmed; inveterate.
impictured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impicture
chilly bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilly bin
omophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; see omophagia; equivalent to omo- + -phagic.
Senses: examples: omophagic feasts or rites
glosses: Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
receptaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptary
receptary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] that famous Philosopher of Naples, Baptista Porta; in whose works, although there be contained many excellent things, and verified upon his own experience, yet are there many also receptary, and such as will not endure the test.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, p. 25:
glosses: Generally or popularly admitted or received.
receptary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receptaries
Senses: examples: text: […] nor can they which behold the present state of things, and controversie of points so long received in Divinity, condemn our sober enquiries in the doubtfull appertinancies of Arts, and Receptaries of Philosophy.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650:
glosses: That which is received.
examples: text: 1898, Marcellin Berthelot, “Ancient and Mediæval Chemistry” in Men of Achievement: Inventors and Scientists, Library of Inspiration and Achievement, edited by Edward Everett Hale, New York: The University Society, 1902, p. 306,
It is known that the recipes of therapeutics and materia medica have been preserved in a parallel way by practice, which has never ceased, in the Receptaries and other Latin treatises; these treatises, translated from the Greek during the period of the Roman Empire, and compiled in the first and second centuries, passed from hand to hand, and were copied frequently during the earlier portions of the Middle Ages.
text: Although one of the rules of the genre of the receptary, like that of the traditional cookery book, was that editorial comment be severely restricted, many recipes begin or end with a simple statement of their marvellous power […]
ref: 1999, Richard Gordon, “Imagining Greek and Roman Magic”, in Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, London: Athlone, p:
text: Incantations were passed on from receptary to receptary, with little difference between the learned and the popular.
ref: 2010, Esther Cohen, The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture, University of Chicago Press, Part I, Chapter 3, p. 95:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A book of pharmacological recipes, incantations or charms.
snift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: snifts
Senses: examples: text: An' if thou'll make a shift effort
To tak thi time a bit, owd lass,
Thou's have him in a snift!
ref: a. 1890, Edwin Waugh, Dinner Time:
text: An ' if thou'll make a shift To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!”
ref: 1982, Brian Hollingworth, Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry, page 71:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A moment; a while.
examples: text: Good Lorjus, Meary ! theawrt so hasty; so I clum th' steeigh in o snift, shoavt th' awts eawt, an smackt me riddle oth' hoyle.
ref: 1746, Samuel Bamford, Tim Bobbin's Tummus, page 15:
text: He frowned, and sent snifts of snow and symptoms of rain that dampened the ardor of the golf contingent and made things murky and dreary outside.
ref: 1914, “Progress in the Mvement to Promote the Brick Industry”, in The Clay-worker, volume 61, page 652:
text: Mingled labdanum w'fine snift of myrrh, to enhaunt her nautical J-chamois
ref: 2012, Henry Gould, Lanthanum, page 22:
glosses: A light dusting, as of snow.
snift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: snifts
form: snifting
form: snifted
form: snifted
Etymology: Imitative. Compare Middle English snifteren (“to sniffle”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]he, also, entered, and coming pretty close to my Father, snifted at her Flowers with a sort of extatic eagerness, and then let them fall.
ref: 1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 349:
text: SNUFF. […] Reſentment expreſſed by ſnifting; […]
ref: 1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “SNUFF”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: It now appears that they were still snifting narration of your lordship is for the greater part and hankering after their old
ref: 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sniff; to snort or snuff.
glosses: To snivel.
examples: text: A cap and pipe should be put over the snifting clack, with an inch and a half cock upon it, by the partial opening of which the snifting can be regulated; but which will not be wanted , unless the valve should snift more than enough when it is left quite open , as it will be apt to do when all the preceding articles are put in execution.
ref: 1827, John Farey, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, page 253:
text: Hold it for a second or two to test the bottle, then snift, and fill the bottle up to the neck.
ref: 1907, M. L. Blumenthal, The Bottler's Helper, page 66:
text: Air impurity was reduced to 0.01 percent by freezing a large cylinder of liquid with dry ice and snifting the vapor liberally.
ref: 1961, John Ransom Roebuck, Notebooks, Ca.1901-61, pages 34–35:
text: the pipeline, by which air or vapour is snifted from the pipeline as the liquid level falls by the approach of an air pocket, through a float-operated valve to a catch tank fitted with a flame trap vent.
ref: 1965, Gas Journal - Volumes 323-324, page 354:
glosses: To cause a snift; to release pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine or bottling equipment.
snift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: snifts
Etymology: Imitative. Compare Middle English snifteren (“to sniffle”).
Senses: examples: text: The proper use of the air cock is, that after the engine is got steadily to work, and the snift emits no more than it should do, that the air cock should be opened as much as it can be to let the engine come fairly in, that is, for the piston to come fully down, and if it goes out in preference to that of coming in, the better.
ref: 1827, John Farey, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, page 253:
text: The whole of the ‘snift’ (which is the waste in bottling aerated waters) is saved by this machine.
ref: 1890 August 7, The Times:
text: the face and edge respectively of this cam actuate the snift and filling valves c and d.
ref: 1896, Great Britain. Patent Office, Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications, page 97:
text: If we consider a bottle with a gas headspace of 5% of the bottle volume, on the first snift the gas loss would be 5% of the bottle volume. On the second snift we would lose a further 5%.
ref: 2016, Philip R. Ashurst, Chemistry and Technology of Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices, page 155:
glosses: A deliberate release of pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine, or bottling equipment.
snifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snift
peptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛptɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of peptic
peptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛptɪks/
Senses: glosses: The science of digestion.
mistradition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistraditions
Etymology: From mis- + tradition.
Senses: examples: text: monsters of mistradition
ref: 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A wrong or false tradition.
mistraditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistradition
plenariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plenary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality or state of being plenary.
sexualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexualist
metaphorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphorists
Etymology: From metaphor + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes, or uses metaphors.
Derived terms: metaphorism
metaphorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphorist
overweener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overweeners
Etymology: From overween + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who overweens.
overweeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overweener
bridelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridelaik
Etymology: From Middle English brudlak, brudlac (“nuptuals”), from Old English brȳdlāc (“bridal, wedded condition, marriage ceremony”). By surface analysis, bride + -lock.
Senses: glosses: Marriage; marriage ceremony; nuptials.
Related terms: wedlock
brokeass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brokeasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of broke-ass.
brokeass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brokeass
form: most brokeass
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of broke-ass.
brokeasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brokeass
non-op
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˈɒp/
Forms: form: nonop
Etymology: From non- + op (“operation; operator; operational; operative; operating”).
Senses: examples: text: Why he had taken refuge in the chapel, he didn't know. His mind had been non-op for a long time now and he just let the impulses flow.
ref: 1980, Mike McQuay, Lifekeeper, Bantam Books, published 1985, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: Nonoperational; not functioning.
examples: text: Richt says the surgery should help speed Samuel's recovery.
"It was debatable on whether it could have been non-op or not, but this will absolutely stabilize it immediately and allow him to get stronger quicker," Richt said.
ref: 2011 November 1, Charles Odum, “Georgia suspends Crowell, 2 other backs for 1 game”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Nonoperative; not using or requiring surgical treatment.
examples: text: "Just so you know, Vincent, I was a pre-op transsexual. But after my breasts grew and my hips got wider, I was happy with what I had and decided to go non-op."
ref: 2010, Steven A. Buckhalter, Murder in Protective Custody: Transgenders in Peril Behind Bars, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 145:
synonyms: no-op
glosses: Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
raw_tags: of a transgender or transsexual person
examples: text: About 200000 "non-op" workers - clerks, telegraphers, machinists, and others not actually involved in operation of the roads - are not union members.
ref: 1951 December 12, “Nonoperating Rail Unions Ask Wage-Contract Support”, in Christian Science Monitor:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Nonoperating; not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
non-op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˈɒp/
Forms: form: non-ops
form: nonop
Etymology: From non- + op (“operation; operator; operational; operative; operating”).
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting that Galatea makes reference to some encouragement from "post-op" transsexuals, though other "non-ops" advise surgical candidates to reconsider their decision.
ref: 1998, Claudine Griggs, S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes, Berg, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 84–85:
synonyms: no-op
glosses: A transsexual or transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
examples: text: For example, in the fall of 1973, when we had a rail strike, the government brought in legislation putting the non-ops back to work at an increase of only 30 cents an hour […]
ref: 1980, Jack Horner, My Own Brand, Hurtig Publishers, →ISBN:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A nonoperator; a rail worker not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
non-ops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-op
play bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play bows
Senses: glosses: A posture used by dogs to invite play behavior. The front part of the chest is brought low to the ground and the forelegs are extended.
nonparturitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parturitive.
Senses: examples: text: This transformation might even include the capacities of insemination, for lactation and for gestation so that, for instance, one woman could inseminate another, so that men and nonparturitive women could lactate and so that fertilized ova could be transplanted into women's or even men's bodies.
ref: 1983, Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: Having never given birth.
raw_tags: of a female
Synonyms: nonparous
nonparturient
nulliparous
moo-cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːkaʊ/
Forms: form: moo-cows
form: moo cow
form: moocow
Etymology: Compare German Muhkuh and Italian mucca.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.
ref: 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised:
text: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo[…]
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
glosses: A cow.
Kubrickology
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kubrick + -ology, from the surname of American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).
Senses: examples: text: Room 237, which got a boost in funding from Kickstarter and its name from the iconic mysterious room in Kubrick’s film, brings together five separate theorists to form an impressive body of work of Kubrickology […]
ref: 2012 January 30, Angela Watercutter, “Room 237 explores hidden meanings in The Shining”, in Wired, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2014:
text: Next week, Channel 4 starts a season of classic Kubrick films. It opens, on June 20, with Paul Joyce's fascinating documentary, Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man, which includes rare footage of Kubrick directing – from his daughter Vivian's The Making of The Shining – and imports a new irreverence, not to say hostility, into Kubrickology.
ref: 1996, Quentin Curtis, “Enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an anorak ...”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2015:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The study of the works of Stanley Kubrick.
wikipedia: Stanley Kubrick
Related terms: Kubrickologist
Kubrickologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kubrickologists
Etymology: From Kubrick + -ologist, from the surname of American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999).
Senses: examples: text: Though I do not wish to get bogged down in minutiae of interest only to fanatical Kubrickologists […]
ref: 2000, Stephanie Schwam, The Making of 2001, A Space Odyssey, page 42:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: One who studies the works of Stanley Kubrick; one who studies Kubrickology.
wikipedia: Stanley Kubrick
Kubrickologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kubrickologist
game manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game managers
Senses: examples: He was a "game manager" who threw five interceptions on the season, a steady, if unspectacular, player surrounded by a solid team.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A quarterback who makes a minimum number of mistakes on a team that relies on its defense and rushing offense to win games.
game managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game manager
bridely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪdli/
rhymes: -aɪdli
Forms: form: more bridely
form: most bridely
Etymology: From Middle English *bridely, from Old English brȳdlīċ, brȳdelīċ (“bridal”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdilīk, equivalent to bride + -ly. Cognate with Dutch bruidelijk, German bräutlich (“bridely”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a bride; nuptial.
freelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freelages
form: freeledge
form: freelege
form: freelidge
form: frelidge
Etymology: From earlier frelage, probably from Middle English *freolache, *freleche, deverbal of Middle English *freolachen, *frelechen (“to be liberal, be generous”) (compare Middle English freolac, freolaic, vreoleic, freolec (“liberality, generosity”)), from Old English *frēolǣċan (“to give freely, offer generously”); equivalent to free + Middle English -leche, related to English -lock. Related to Old English frēolāc (“free-will offering, oblation”). Compare knowledge.
Senses: glosses: Privilege; immunity; franchise; the freedom or privilege of a burgess in a corporation.
glosses: A heritable property (as distinguished from a farm).
freelage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freelage
form: most freelage
form: freeledge
form: freelege
form: freelidge
form: frelidge
Etymology: From earlier frelage, probably from Middle English *freolache, *freleche, deverbal of Middle English *freolachen, *frelechen (“to be liberal, be generous”) (compare Middle English freolac, freolaic, vreoleic, freolec (“liberality, generosity”)), from Old English *frēolǣċan (“to give freely, offer generously”); equivalent to free + Middle English -leche, related to English -lock. Related to Old English frēolāc (“free-will offering, oblation”). Compare knowledge.
Senses: glosses: Heritable.
freeledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeledges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freelage.
freeledge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freeledge
form: most freeledge
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freelage.
shirt waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirt waists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shirtwaist.
shirt-waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirt-waists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shirtwaist.
shirt-waists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirt-waist
shirt waists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirt waist
lobbyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobbyisms
Etymology: From lobby + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Lobbying, as for example in politics.
Florida flambe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Florida flambes
form: Florida flambé
Senses: examples: text: Medina was killed, then cooked, becoming the second inmate in seven years to suffer the Florida flambe.
ref: 1997 April 5, Leonard Pitts, “Fiery execution shows lie of ‘humane’ death penalty”, in The Free Lance-Star, page A15:
text: There's a nice new death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., just waiting for ya. No Florida flambe there. A slight boo-boo occurred not long ago when Florida fired up "Old Sparky" to execute a criminal. The guy's face mask flared up. Most grisly. A Florida district attorney glibly said the moral of the mishap was not to commit crime in Florida if you don't want the same treatment.
ref: 1997 June 6, Elizabeth Jarnagin, “Pro-life consistency means opposing death penalty”, in Amarillo Globe-News:
text: This is why harris should go down in Florida Flambe.
ref: 2005 August 19, Cha, “Ms. Harris's "felon purge"”, in democraticunderground.com:
glosses: Burning (catching fire) during execution by electric chair.
atheophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheophobic
form: most atheophobic
Etymology: From atheo- (“from a- + theo-”) + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: He was atheophobic.
ref: 1987, Robert L. Rafford, “Atheophobia: An Introduction”, in Religious Humanism, volume 21, Fellowship of Religious Humanists, page 34:
text: These students, along with some faculty, are the non-believers who fit the atheophobic stereotypes that I mentioned earlier.
ref: 2003 Spring, Robert J. Nash, “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, in Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, New York, →DOI, →ISSN:
text: Is it possible to believe in a god-creator of moral principles and nevertheless not be atheophobic, i.e., not consider non-believers morally inferior?
ref: 2009 October/November, David Rand, “Theism As Hate Propaganda”, in Free Inquiry, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN:
glosses: Having fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
Related terms: atheophobe
atheophobia
nutukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutukas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish nutukas.
Senses: synonyms: word: finnesko
glosses: Traditional beak-nosed fur boot of the Sami people made from the skin from a reindeer's legs or sometimes head.
atheophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheophobes
Etymology: From a- + theo- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, why would I read something by an atheophobe with no understanding of what atheism is?
ref: 2000 June 5, Ed. Stoebenau, “Re: Why are Christians surprised that Atheists are normal???”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <odfojs07c572caog2ep058248er7lumqc1@4ax.com>:
text: And it must be done among believers by shaming the atheophobes, pointing out to them the destructive, irrational, and especially immoral nature of their prejudice and challenging them to jettison it.
ref: 2009 October/November, David Rand, “Theism As Hate Propaganda”, in Free Inquiry, volume 29, number 6, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who hates or fears atheism or atheists.
Related terms: atheophobia
atheophobic
atheophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atheophobe
p.r.n.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: For example, apart from being given three to four times a day on a time-contingent basis, ibuprofen or naproxen or most other NSAIDs may be taken p.r.n. (as occasion rises) when pain is troublesome and omitted at other times.
ref: 1999, Harold Merskey, Dwight Moulin, “Pharmacological Treatment in Chronic Pain”, in Andrew R. Block, Ephrem Fernandez, Edwin Kremer, editors, Handbook of Pain Syndromes: Biopsychosocial Perspectives, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 152:
topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: prn
word: PRN
glosses: Abbreviation of pro re nata.
pro re nata
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊˌreɪˈnɑ.tɑ/
Forms: form: PRN
Etymology: From the Latin phrase pro (“for”) rē (“thing, matter”) nātā (“born, arisen”): "for what arises".
Senses: glosses: Dealing with something that arises unexpectedly or out of due course; for special business.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Used on medical charts by doctors to indicate that actions may be taken at the discretion of nursing staff depending on the patient's condition.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used on prescriptions to indicate that the medicines may be taken if and when the patients feel the need.
unencrypt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unencrypts
form: unencrypting
form: unencrypted
form: unencrypted
Etymology: From un- + encrypt, from en- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).
Senses: glosses: to decrypt
nonimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonimages
Etymology: From non- + image.
Senses: examples: text: Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]
ref: 2009, Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000, page 325:
glosses: That which is not an image.
loathable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loathable
form: most loathable
Etymology: From loathe + -able.
Senses: glosses: Deserving loathing; loathsome; detestable.
nonimages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonimage
doudou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doudous
form: tou-tou
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 兜兜 (dōudōu, “diminutive form of dudou”).
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of dudou.
synonyms: word: dudou
monoacidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + acidic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That is capable of neutralizing one mole of a monobasic acid
raw_tags: of a base
Related terms: monobasic
monacidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monoacidic.
monoacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsɪd
Forms: form: monoacids
Etymology: From mono- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acid that has only one replaceable hydrogen ion.
Related terms: monoacidic
fertigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fertigations
Etymology: Blend of fertilize + irrigation or similar.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
solitudinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more solitudinously
form: most solitudinously
Etymology: From solitudinous + -ly.
Senses: examples: May 3, 1874, Henry James, letter to William Dean Howells
If you know how dismally and solitudinously I sit here just now before my window, ignorant of a friendly voice […]
glosses: In a solitary or solitudinous manner
Related terms: solitude
solitudinous
netop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netops
form: neetup
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett netoup, netop (“my friend, companion”). Compare Abenaki nidôba (“my friend”).
Senses: glosses: Friend.
strenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strenths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strength.
in all its branches
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Including all types or aspects thereof.
cinnamon sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinnamon stick
kayko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pacific salmon used to make chum; dog salmon.
birdcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bird + care.
Senses: glosses: The care and welfare of birds, both wild and caged
birdtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdtables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bird table.
birdtables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdtable
brushcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushcutters
Etymology: From brush + cutter.
Senses: synonyms: clearing saw
glosses: A motorized saw on a stick for clearing bushes and underbrush.
cirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cirls
Senses: glosses: The cirl bunting
cronking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cronk
divebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: divebombs
form: divebombing
form: divebombed
form: divebombed
form: dive-bomb
form: dive bomb
Etymology: From dive + bomb.
Senses: glosses: To bomb whilst in a steep dive.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
glosses: To attack (especially the head of) a person or animal that strays into their territory.
raw_tags: of a bird
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: To attempt an overtake by braking very late on corner entry.
examples: text: Dive-bombing is perfectly legal as long as you do not cross any double solid white lines.
ref: 2015 April 21, Robert Thompson, “Drivers protest those who seek the inside track on highways”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 07 Oct 2022:
glosses: To overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route, such as a pair of freeway exit and entrance ramps.
raw_tags: of a motorist
Synonyms: sense: to overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route
word: rat run
Related terms: dive bomber
gannetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gannetries
Etymology: From gannet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: A colony of gannets (especially one established on an isolated marine rock, during the breeding season)
oysterplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oysterplants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oyster plant.
oyster plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster plants
Senses: glosses: Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean
glosses: Mertensia maritima (oysterleaf, sea lungwort, sea bluebell), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters
glosses: Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (syn. Scorzonera hispanica, black salsify, black oyster plant), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root
glosses: Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify, vegetable oyster, purple salsify, Jerusalem star), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root
glosses: Tradescantia spathacea (formerly Tradescantia discolor) (oyster herb, boatlily, Moses in a basket, cradle lily, Moses in his cradle, Moses on a raft, Moses in the bulrushes, men in a boat, Moses-in-cradle, salsify)
radiotagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio-tagged.
radiotag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiotags
form: radiotagging
form: radiotagged
form: radiotagged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio-tag.
radiotag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio tag.
radiotags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radiotag
radiotags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiotag
seacliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seacliff
seacliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seacliffs
form: sea-cliff
form: sea cliff
Etymology: From Middle English sæclif (also in plural see clyues), from Old English sǣclif (“cliff by the sea, seacliff”), equivalent to sea + cliff.
Senses: glosses: A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion.
trichomonosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichomonoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trichomoniasis.
unsubscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsubscriptions
Etymology: From un- + subscription.
Senses: glosses: The act of unsubscribing.
waxworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waxworm
waxworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waxworms
Etymology: From wax + worm.
Senses: glosses: A larva of a wax moth.
glosses: A larva of the Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella).
wax moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax moths
Senses: glosses: Pyralid moths whose larvae (waxworms) feed on the honeycombs of beehives
Achroia spp., possibly only Achroia grisella
glosses: Pyralid moths whose larvae (waxworms) feed on the honeycombs of beehives
A brown moth, Galleria mellonella, sole species in genus Galleria
Synonyms: sense: certain pyralid moths
word: bee moth
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aphomia sociella
word: bumblebee wax moth
taxonomic: Galleria mellonella
word: greater wax moth
taxonomic: Achroia grisella
word: lesser wax moth
pyralid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˈɹalɪd/
ipa: /pʌɪˈɹeɪlɪd/
Forms: form: pyralids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Pyralidae.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A moth of the family Pyralidae.
Hyponyms: orthagan
pyralid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˈɹalɪd/
ipa: /pʌɪˈɹeɪlɪd/
Forms: form: more pyralid
form: most pyralid
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Pyralidae.
Senses: examples: text: They are often tiny, frequently brown and always challenging to identify but an average of one new species of pyralid moth each year is turning up in Britain, according to experts.
ref: 2018 June 14, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Pyralidae family of moths.
Derived terms: pyralid moth
slimebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slimebags
Etymology: From slime + bag.
Senses: glosses: A person who is unpleasant or underhanded; a slimeball.
slimebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slimebag
nonparturition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + parturition.
Senses: glosses: That which is not parturition; conditions, factors, or circumstances that do not involve or were not caused by childbirth.
klewang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klewang
form: klewangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch klewang, from Malay kelewang.
Senses: glosses: A short, machete-like cutlass from Malaysia and Indonesia.
TNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Thane railway station in India.
TNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: threose nucleic acid or threonucleic acid
Related terms: english: deoxyribonucleic acid
translation: deoxyribonucleic acid
word: DNA
english: ribonucleic acid
translation: ribonucleic acid
word: RNA
english: peptide nucleic acid
translation: peptide nucleic acid
word: PNA
english: glycol nucleic acid
translation: glycol nucleic acid
word: GNA
threose nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threose nucleic acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An analog of RNA in which the sugar component is threose—considered to be a primordial precursor to RNA
Synonyms: threonucleic acid
Derived terms: word: TNA
Related terms: word: nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
alt: PNA
word: peptide nucleic acid
alt: GNA
word: glycol nucleic acid
way off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: remote; far; distant (in space)
glosses: remote; far in the future
examples: text: A friend of mine broke the holy Sabbath day, Nov. 28th last and caught a Salmo mykiss, or a Salmo purpuratus, a cut-throat trout which weighed 10½ lbs., and I have begged a picture of it and hand it along to you herewith. Those who say these trout are at all “in it,” either as a game trout, or for the palate, with the Salvelinus fontinalis are “way off.”
ref: 1898, J. H. B., The American Angler - Volume 28, page 21:
text: My comments, of course, are partly taken care of by saying your data is old. It is inaccurate, to be quite frank, it is very inaccurate, it is not even close. Your game surveys are way off, your actual use is way off.
ref: 1980, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Mountain Valley grazing management, The Bureau, page 55:
text: If you are accusing them, either consciously or subconsciously, of committing an evil act (a sin) that they didn't commit, then you are way off.
ref: 2008, Justin Lookadoo, The Dirt on Breaking Up (The Dirt), Baker Books, →ISBN, page 36:
text: 'Have you been preyed on?'
-'I hope your brand-new doctorate wasn't in psychology because if it was, you didn't deserve it. You are way off.'
ref: 2009, Mackenzie Ford, The Clouds Beneath The Sun, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 101:
text: There are people who correct me, and I know that they are way off.
ref: 2011, Daniel Powers, The Perfect Devotional for People Who Aren't, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 259:
text: Clearly, our first guess for a, b, c, and d will probably produce results that are way off, with the predicted wine qualities differing greatly from the actual ones. But the nice thing is that we can easily measure how far off we are.
ref: 2013, Gautam Shroff, The Intelligent Web: Search, smart algorithms, and big data, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: very wrong, not even close
have it both ways
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it both ways
form: having it both ways
form: had it both ways
form: had it both ways
Senses: glosses: Synonym of have one's cake and eat it too.
synonyms: word: have one's cake and eat it too
either way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Just buy it or don't buy it. Either way, we have to get going.
text: I'm not sure if I can make it to the party. Either way, I'll let you know beforehand.
synonyms: regardless
glosses: Regardless of what happens (out of two possible situations).
Derived terms: either-way offence
atheous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheous
form: most atheous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “without God/gods”). See atheist.
Senses: examples: text: It is an ignorant conceit, that enquiry into nature should make men atheous: no man is so apt to see the star of Christ, as a diligent disciple of philosophy.
ref: 1612, Joseph Hall, “The Sages and the Star”, in Contemplations upon the principal passages of the holie storie:
text: Thy Father, who is holy, wiſe and pure,
Suffers the Hypocrite or Atheous Prieſt
To tread his Sacred Courts...
ref: 1671, John Milton, Paradise regain'd, a poem in IV books: to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, →OL, The First Book, page 487:
text: In atheous men conscience becomes a scourge.
ref: 1792, David Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem. in Nine Books, volume 3, C. Dilly, page 46:
glosses: Atheistic.
examples: text: I should say science was atheous, and therefore could not be atheistic.
ref: 1880, Harvey Goodwin, “God and Nature”, in Popular Science:
glosses: Without God, neither accepting nor denying him.
brachiologia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “study”). Compare brachylogy.
Senses: examples: text: I have modified Irwin's presentation (with each speech on a separate line), following rather the way that Dodds presents the Greek, to give a better sense of the rapidity of brachyologia.
ref: 2009, Daniel Boyarin, Socrates & the fat rabbis, page 105:
glosses: Brevity in speech.
Synonyms: sense: brevity in speech
word: brachyology
sense: brevity in speech
word: terseness
sense: brevity in speech
word: laconicism
nabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪb/
rhymes: -eɪb
Forms: form: nabes
Etymology: Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.
Senses: examples: text: Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker.
Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.
ref: 1922, Denver Post 2 Dec. 10/8 (head & text)
text: “Biggest flopperoo of year, so far,” wrote Green “was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown’s band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport.” …
Glossary of Swing Words in this Chapter. … Nabe dancery: Neighborhood ballroom.
ref: 1938, Tommy Dorsey and George D. Lottman, “Love in Swingtime“ (syndicated serial) The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 9 Aug. 12/2 and 12/3
glosses: Neighborhood.
examples: text: They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes.
ref: 1970, New Yorker
qualifier: frequently in the plural
glosses: Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.
nabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪb/
rhymes: -eɪb
ipa: /ˈnɑbeɪ/
ipa: /neɪb/
rhymes: -eɪb
Etymology: Clipping of nabemono, from Japanese 鍋物.
Senses: synonyms: nabemono
glosses: A Japanese hot pot dish.
zero station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The point, during childbirth, at which the baby's head is level with the ischial spines in the maternal pelvis.
deinterlacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deinterlacers
Etymology: From deinterlace + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device, algorithm, etc. that deinterlaces.
deinterlacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deinterlacer