cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lausanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈzæn/
ipa: /loʊˈzæn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: From French Lausanne.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and city, the capital of Vaud canton, in western Switzerland, in which French is the main language.
hereof
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪəˈɹɒv/
ipa: /hɪɹˈʌv/
rhymes: -ɒv
rhymes: -ʌv
Etymology: From Middle English hereof, herof, heroffe, her-of, her of, from Old English hērof. Compare Swedish härav. By surface analysis, here + of.
Senses: examples: text: And whether they were a bedde or at other maner of disportes me lyst not herof make no mencyon for loue that tyme was not as is now adayes.
"And whether they were abed or at other manner of disports, me list not hereof make no mention, for love that time was not as is now-a-days."
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iii, leaf 400v:
glosses: Of this; concerning this.
glosses: From or as a result of this.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
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whereat
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wherebeyond
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wherever
wherefor
wherefore
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wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
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whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
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whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
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whyever
whyfor
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whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
hootin' tootin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hootin', tootin'
Senses: examples: text: He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.
ref: 1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58:
text: We’d knowed her since she was a yearlin’ as a swell spot for a nervous wreck to rest up in, but now she’s turned into a hootin’, tootin’ seaport, all disguised in wavin’ flags an’ banners.
ref: 1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59:
text: Think everyone would like to see what a hootin’, tootin’, fightin’ gang like yours looks like.
ref: 1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47:
text: [P]aper on which someday I would write the story of how to make paper from wood, the romance of the forest camps, the river drive in spring, the roarin', hootin’, tootin’ life of the old-time lumberjack, the story of his favorite hobby, birling logs in competition in the booms, the prize usually a keg of whisky in those days.
ref: 1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14:
text: Again, it is a lurid sex crime. Again, the crime revolves around a gang of small town hootin’, tootin’, harebrained hoodlums.
ref: 1969, The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, page 37:
text: He showed that you could be a rah-rah, hootin’, tootin’ flag-waver without crossing the line into boorish behaviour.
ref: 2000, Mark James, Into the Bear Pit, page 211:
text: For one week over Easter the quiet streets of Oudtshoorn are transformed by 100,000 hootin’, tootin’ revellers unashamedly celebrating Afrikaans culture.
ref: 2001, Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa, page 19:
text: Purty nigh all my life I been a hootin’, tootin’ disturber o’ the peace, committin’ depperdations as makes me blush to think of; but right here is where I do somethin’ fer civilization and progress, which’ll go a good ways to’rds makin’ up fer the past.
ref: 2020, Stanley R. Matthews, Motor Matt’s ‘Century’ Run, or, The Governor’s Courier:
synonyms: rootin' tootin'
glosses: Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.
examples: text: And an old-fashioned hootin’ tootin’ calliope from Sioux Falls.
ref: 1961, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Arrow of Love, page 170:
glosses: That makes hooting and tooting sounds.
penitential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Forms: form: more penitential
form: most penitential
form: pœnitential
Etymology: From Medieval Latin paenitentiālis, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance”). Attested since the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to penance or penitence.
Derived terms: nonpenitential
penitentiality
penitentially
Related terms: impenitent
penitent
penitentiary
repent
repentant
unrepentant
penitential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Forms: form: penitentials
form: pœnitential
Etymology: From Medieval Latin paenitentiālis, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance”). Attested since the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: A book or set of rules pertaining to the Christian sacrament of penance.
fouet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fouets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fouat (“houseleek”).
tenderer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tender + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tender: more tender
tenderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderers
Etymology: From tender + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).
Related terms: tenderizer
Clem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛm
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Clement.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Clementine.
firmest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of firm: most firm
serve time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves time
form: serving time
form: served time
form: served time
Senses: glosses: To be confined in prison or a similar institution, typically for wrongdoing that violates the law.
take one's time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's time
form: taking one's time
form: took one's time
form: taken one's time
Senses: examples: text: Take your time — there's no need to rush.
text: Working with pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow, he took his time over the job, for it was not until May 17, 1816, that it was opened for traffic.
ref: 1951 July, “Notes and News: Recalling 160 Years”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:
text: "I love rock 'n roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock 'n roll
So come and take your time and dance with me"
ref: 1975 July, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”, in I Love Rock 'n Roll, performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, published January 1982:
glosses: To go about something slowly and carefully or at one's own pace.
examples: text: You sure took your time getting here!
glosses: To take more time to do something than is considered acceptable.
Synonyms: sense: take more time to do something than is considered acceptable
word: dawdle
sense: take more time to do something than is considered acceptable
word: take too long
sense: take more time to do something than is considered acceptable
word: tarry
Related terms: all in good time
give someone time
in one's own time
take one's sweet time
take time
tenderizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛndəˈɹaɪzə(ɹ)/
enpr: tĕn'də-rīʹzər
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tenderizers
Etymology: From tenderize + -er.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.
glosses: Any tool used to tenderize meat before cooking.
A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.
glosses: Any tool used to tenderize meat before cooking.
A tool similar to a potato masher used for tenderizing
glosses: Any tool used to tenderize meat before cooking.
A tool with nails or blades, that can be pressed on (not unlike a stapler) to puncture the meat.
hosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoser
Alasdair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælɪsdə/
ipa: /ˈælɪsdɚ/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
usuress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːʒəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /ˌjuːzjəˈɹɛs/
Forms: form: usuresses
Etymology: From usure + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!
glosses: A female usurer.
Synonyms: loan shark
Related terms: usurer
usurial
usurious
usury
bat-fowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We would so, and then go a-bat-fowling.
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 II, scene i]:
glosses: The catching of small birds at night by lighting a fire near their roost, then scaring them awake whereupon they fly towards the flames and can be caught in nets on poles.
Related terms: bat-fowler
bat-fowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat-fowlers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of batfowler.
waqf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑkf/
rhymes: -ɑkf
Forms: form: awqaf
form: waqfs
form: vacouf
form: vakouf
form: wakf
form: wakaf
Etymology: From Arabic وَقْف (waqf).
Senses: examples: text: The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers.
ref: 1958–1994, Hamilton Gibb, CF Beckingham, editors, The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society, published 2012, page 25:
text: A small house at the centre of the bazaar dispensed coffee free of charge to the poor at the expense of the waqf, an Ottoman charitable foundation.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 368:
text: You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example:
Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck
As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest.
ref: 2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University, page 2:
text: Palestine is described as an “Islamic Waqf”—an endowment predicated on Muslim religious, education, or charitable principles and therefore inviolate to any other peoples or religions.
ref: 2023 October 10, Bruce Hoffman, “Understanding Hamas’s Genocidal Ideology”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2023:
glosses: An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given for religious or charitable purposes.
waqf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑkf/
rhymes: -ɑkf
Forms: form: waqfs
form: waqfing
form: waqfed
form: waqfed
form: vacouf
form: vakouf
form: wakf
form: wakaf
Etymology: From Arabic وَقْف (waqf).
Senses: glosses: To give as a waqf.
horse's doovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Fanciful corruption of hors d'oeuvres. Apparently British/Australian prison or POW slang.
Senses: examples: text: None of us is likely to stray so far from the correct pronunciation as the legendary new-rich oil millionaire who demanded “horses′ doovers”...
ref: 1962, William Morris, Mary Morris, Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins:
text: On a couple of our little occasional tables - we′ve got three - they′ve got horse′s doovers set out. Things on cracker biscuits.
ref: 1973, John O'Grady, Survival in the Doghouse, page 86:
text: 1982, George MacDonald Fraser, 1993, HarperCollins, page 290,
“How! We eat now, together. Horse′s doovers and large snow puddings that make the tongue dead. Joll-ee good!”
text: ...everyone throws their hats in the air and shouts “hoorah!” and then it′s all over bar the drinks and horses′ doovers and findin′ your own hat.
ref: 2000, Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum:
text: As we were all sampling the horse′s doovers, one of the guests, evidently thirsting for a deep philosophical discussion, asked me for my views on the meaning of life.
ref: 2004, Gene McDougall, My Letters to David Letterman, Texas: Virtualbookworm.com, page 38:
text: 2009, Glenn Ickler, A Deadly Vineyard, StirlingHouse Publisher, Pennsylvania, page 109,
“ […] He wants us there by 6:30 for cocktails and, as he said it, horse′s doovers.”
glosses: hors d'oeuvres
agnostically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more agnostically
form: most agnostically
Etymology: From agnostic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “Well,” said the poet tartly, “do people still think me too romantic? Are there, I wonder, any brigands left in the mountains?”
“There may be,” said Father Brown agnostically.
ref: 1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The Paradise of Thieves”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown,, London: Cassell, page 45:
text: […] he writes agnostically of the biographical information regarding Shakespeare.
ref: 1922, Sidney Lee, chapter 6, in The Year’s Work in English Studies, volume 2, Oxford University Press, page 77:
text: An unambiguous finding from […] the study was the very significant difference between younger and older children in their […] beliefs about Santa Claus and birthday wishes coming true. Younger children, on the whole believed, and older children emphatically disbelieved (with third graders agnostically in between).
ref: 1997, Máire Messenger Davies, chapter 5, in Fake, Fact and Fantasy: Children’s Interpretations of Television Reality, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 61:
synonyms: doubtfully
tentatively
uncertainly
glosses: In an agnostic manner; not having or expressing a firm opinion on something.
examples: text: She is agnostically inclined, despite her strict religious upbringing.
text: What you call “God” they refer to agnostically as “the universe.”
text: […] we are asked, on philosophical and critical grounds, to treat these not as sure and most vital truths, but agnostically, that is to say, to let them alone and not attempt to settle them.
ref: 1878, A. Macleod Symington, “Agnosticism and Dogmatism, from a Puritan Point of view”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume 27, page 39:
text: […] the number of people who either dogmatically don’t believe in, or else agnostically or uncaringly, simply don’t bother about immortality is now considerable.
ref: 1931, Aldous Huxley, “Squeak and Gibber”, in Music at Night and Other Essays, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: ‘[…] all those who believe in God raise your hands. […]’ […] Taliesin is pleased to see his friend’s hand hover agnostically for a time and then commit.
ref: 2002, Rhidian Brook, chapter 3, in The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, New York: Penguin, page 23:
coordinate_terms: atheistically
religiously
glosses: Toward, or from the perspective of, agnosticism.
els
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: glosses: plural of el
els
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
ipa: /ˈɛls/
rhymes: -ɛls
ipa: /ˈɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: examples: text: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
ref: c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:
text: We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
ref: c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
glosses: Obsolete form of else.
ceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceders
Etymology: From cede + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cedes something.
ceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceders
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cedar.
lork
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Lork, Mrs Richards!” cried Miss Nipper, taking up her words with a jerk. “Don’t. See her dear Papa indeed! I should like to see her do it!”
“Won’t she then?” asked Polly.
“Lork, Mrs Richards, no, her Pa’s a deal too wrapped up in somebody else, and before there was a somebody else to be wrapped up in she never was a favourite, girls are thrown away in this house, Mrs Richards, I assure you.”
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of lawks.
curricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪk.jə.lə/
ipa: /kɜːɹˈɪk.juː.lə/
ipa: /kəˈɹɪkjəlɚ/
ipa: /kɚˈɪkjəlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From curriculum + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or following a curriculum.
Derived terms: cocurricular
cross-curricular
curricularize
extracurricular
intercurricular
intracurricular
multicurricular
noncurricular
precurricular
supercurricular
sick and tired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sick and tired
form: most sick and tired
Senses: examples: text: The boy was sick and tired of doing his lengthy homework assignment.
glosses: Bored to the point of weariness.
examples: text: She was sick and tired of her daughter pestering her to help her with her homework.
synonyms: fed up
glosses: Annoyed or frustrated with something or someone, to the point of losing one's temper or patience.
examples: text: I'm feeling both sick and tired right now.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sick, tired.
epigonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigonations
Senses: glosses: A stiff, lozenge-shaped cloth hanging at the right thigh worn as a vestment by bishops and some priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Eastern Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastern Orthodox Churches
Senses: glosses: One of the major branches of Christianity; it comprises the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and other patriarchates.
glosses: Any other Church that self-designates as Eastern and Orthodox.
Related terms: filioque
Lowell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.əl/
ipa: /ˈləʊl/
rhymes: -əʊəl
rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology: A Middle English diminutive of Old French lou + -el (diminutive suffix), meaning "little wolf". Akin to Wolfie.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Anglo-Norman, a variant of Lovell.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts; named for American businessman Francis Cabot Lowell.
glosses: A town in Lake County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A city in Michigan.
glosses: A city in North Carolina; named for the city in Massachusetts.
glosses: A town and village Wisconsin.
glosses: A city in Oregon; named for the town in Maine.
glosses: A town in Vermont.
glosses: A village in Washington County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
glosses: A town in Maine; named for Lowell Hayden, the first white child born in the area.
glosses: An unincorporated community in California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Florida; named for the city in Massachusetts.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Idaho; named for postmaster Henry Lowell.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bartholomew County, Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for businessmen A. C. and Erastus Preston Lowe.
Lovell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lowell
form: Lovel
Etymology: Originally a nickname, from Anglo-Norman lou (“wolf”) + -el (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Anglo-Norman.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
A town in Oxford County, Maine.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wyandot County, Ohio.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
A census-designated place in Logan County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
A town in Big Horn County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Minster Lovell
gulgul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A cement from India made from seashells pulverized and mixed with oil, spread over a ship's hull to prevent worms from boring into it.
unrestricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrestricted
form: most unrestricted
Etymology: From un- + restricted.
Senses: examples: text: The extreme depth of these channels, and the insistence of the Board of Trade on a headway of 150 ft. for the unrestricted passage of large ships, necessitated a high bridge with two main spans, and a central pier on Inchgarvie.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 147:
text: The new fast lines are laid out for unrestricted speed through the station, as after electrification certain expresses may run non-stop between Euston and Birmingham.
ref: 1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 407:
glosses: Not restricted or confined.
glosses: Having no security classification.
Derived terms: unrestricted carry
unanimously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unanimously
form: most unanimously
Etymology: From unanimous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The jury decided unanimously to convict the defendant.
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
text: The U.S. Congress on Monday presented the Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act of 2019 to President Donald Trump for signing into law, after it was passed unanimously by both chambers of Congress earlier this month.
ref: 2020 March 17, Stacy Hsu, Ko Lin, Emerson Lim, Frances Huang, “U.S. Congress sends TAIPEI Act to Trump for signing into law”, in Focus Taiwan:
glosses: In a unanimous manner; without objection.
externally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more externally
form: most externally
Etymology: From external + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
ref: 1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:
glosses: on the surface or the outside
Arapaho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪpəhoʊ/
Forms: form: Arapahos
form: Arapaho
Etymology: From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma.
Derived terms: Arapahoe County
arapahite
Arapaho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪpəhoʊ/
Etymology: From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).
Senses: glosses: The Algonquian language of this people.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Custer County, Oklahoma, United States.
Related terms: roman: Arapaho for
english: Arapaho
translation: Arapaho
word: Hinóno'eitíít
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Arapaho terms
word: arp ⁠
country music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A shortening of country and western. This version has been predominant since the 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: He's a handsome country singer who plays the guitar with his beautiful girlfriend who plays the drums!
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of popular music that originated in the folk music of the rural population of the southern and western United States and characterized by string-band instruments and simple melodies.
Synonyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: country
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: country-western music
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: country and western
Coordinate terms: english: considered either coordinate or hyponymous
translation: considered either coordinate or hyponymous
word: old-time country
word: bluegrass
word: blues
word: gospel music
word: rock 'n' roll
Derived terms: alt-country
alternative country
countrylike
countrypolitan
country and western
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country & western
form: country-western
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A diverse field of American popular music that grew out of hillbilly music and features elements from rural peoples across the Southern and Western United States.
Derived terms: scrumpy and western
Central Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Middle AsiaСре́дняя А́зия (Srédnjaja Ázija)>
glosses: A landlocked geographic area of continental central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
glosses: A larger area of Asia including the above countries and also Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tibet, western China, Afghanistan and parts of Siberia, Iran and Pakistan.
Coordinate terms: East Asia
North Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
West Asia
Meronyms: sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Afghanistan
sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Kazakhstan
sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Kyrgyzstan
sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Tadjikistan
sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Turkmenistan
sense: countries of Central Asia
word: Uzbekistan
Derived terms: Central Asian
Aegean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ējē'ən
ipa: /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Aegæan
form: Ægaean
form: Ægæan
form: Ægean
form: Aegaean
form: Egean
Etymology: Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Aegean Sea or the regions bordering it.
glosses: Of or relating to the Bronze Age civilization in that region.
Derived terms: Aegean Islands
Aegean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ējē'ən
ipa: /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Aegeans
form: Aegæan
form: Ægaean
form: Ægæan
form: Ægean
form: Aegaean
form: Egean
Etymology: Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).
Senses: glosses: A shorthaired domestic cat originating from the Cyclades; an Aegean cat.
Aegean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ējē'ən
ipa: /iˈd͡ʒi.ən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: the Aegean
form: Aegæan
form: Ægaean
form: Ægæan
form: Ægean
form: Aegaean
form: Egean
Etymology: Derived from Latin aegaeus (from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “Aegean”)) + English -an. The name might be connected to αἶγες (aîges, “waves”).
Senses: glosses: A sea between Greece and Anatolia north of Crete; a lobe of the Mediterranean; in full, Aegean Sea.
DVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Initialism of dynamic vapour sorption (a technique used to determine amorphous content of a material).
squiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squizzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squizz.
squiz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squizzes
form: squizzing
form: squizzed
form: squizzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squizz.
GVS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Great Vowel Shift.
GVS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Initialism of gravimetric vapour sorption: a technique used to determine amorphous content of materials.
Novo Mesto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in southeastern Slovenia.
-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -metre
form: -o-meter
form: -ometer
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of measuring devices.
Derived terms: barometer
ceilometer
colorimeter
densimeter
densitometer
dilatometer
dynamometer
erythrocytometer
esthesiometer
extensometer
hemacytometer
hemocytometer
manometer
microdensitometer
odometer
osmometer
pedometer
penetrometer
pluviometer
potentiometer
pulsometer
pyrheliometer
reflectometer
respirometer
rheogoniometer
saccharimeter
salimeter
salinometer
salometer
sclerometer
sensitometer
solarimeter
spectrophotometer
speedometer
spherometer
sphygmomanometer
strainometer
tachometer
taximeter
tellurometer
tensimeter
tensiometer
transmissometer
turbidimeter
ultramicrometer
urinometer
variometer
velocimeter
vinometer
viscosimeter
voltammeter
volumeter
zymometer
phraseology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /fɹeɪzˈɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /fɹeɪziˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: phraseologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “speech”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”).
Senses: glosses: Study of set or fixed expressions.
examples: text: I was riding through the forest, when suddenly (pray correct my phraseology if too worldly—you know I am not well read in these epics of the heart) I saw a knight and his lady traversing one of the glades; the golden sunshine fell athwart the green leaves, and showed their white steeds and whiter plumes, while the air around grew musical with their gentle words and laughter.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
examples: text: Fortunately, two servants she had brought with her, were devotedly attached to their mistress; and the others only entering her apartments at rare intervals, did not understand her mystic allusions; and she now, more than ever, affected to veil her meaning under the mysterious phraseology so much adopted by the Jacobites.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 209:
text: Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
ref: 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
glosses: A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
glosses: A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.
Derived terms: phraseological
phraseologism
phraseologist
Related terms: terminology
São Vicente
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the ten islands of Cape Verde
sulphur dibromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur dibromide.
sulfur dibromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a gaseous binary compound, SBr₂, of sulfur and bromine
sulphur ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur ether.
sulphur fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur fungi
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur fungus.
sulphur hexafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur hexafluoride.
sulphur impression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur impression.
sulphur match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur match.
Tofinu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Togo and Benin who live in houses on piles in lakes.
sulphur monoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur monoxide.
sulphur of ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By alteration of vivum (“live”)
Senses: glosses: sulphur vivum
sulphur ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur ore.
sulphur oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur oxide.
sulphur parakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur parakeet.
sulphur pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur pearls
Senses: glosses: a very large, but harmless, bacterium, Thiomargarita namibiensis, that grows as a string of white beads large enough to be visible to the naked eye in the coastal sediments of Namibia
sulphur print
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur print.
sulphur pyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur pyrites.
sulphur rain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur rain.
sulphur salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur salt.
sulphur shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur showers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur shower.
sulphur soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur soap.
sulphur spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur springs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur spring.
sulphur tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur tufts
form: sulfur tuft
Senses: examples: text: Several of the key identifying characteristics listed above are expressly designed to rule out the poisonous Sulphur Tuft (N.fasaculare; see p. 159). It occasionally has been mistaken for the Smoky-gilled Naematoloma, but the toxic species has a greenish yellow to bright orangish yellow cap and, usually, bitter-tasting flesh. The gills of young Sulphur Tufts are greenish yellow to sulphur yellow, darkening to purplish brown in age.
ref: 1992, David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide, page 81:
text: The similar but less common Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare, is a yellow mushroom yielding a purple-brown spore print; it grows on logs and stumps. The Sulphur Tuft is very bitter. Poisonous, it causes nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
ref: 2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, page 25:
text: There were good fungi and bad ones, he said; you had to learn the difference. You had to be sure, for instance, that you didn't pick sulphur tufts instead of branching oysters.
ref: 2012, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, page 209:
glosses: A yellow poisonous mushroom, Hypholoma fasciculare (= Naematoloma fasciculare).
sulphur weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur weed.
sulphur works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur works.
sulphur yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur yellow.
sulfur ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur ethers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a thioether
sulfur fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur fungi
Senses: glosses: A yellow bracket fungus, Laetiporus sulphureus, which causes a type of brown rot in trees. The fruiting bodies form on the sides of the trees and can reach several metres in width, but are edible when small.
sulfur impression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur impressions
Senses: glosses: a sulfur cast
sulfur hexafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a gaseous binary compound, SF₆, of sulfur and fluorine, used in the electricity industry as a dielectric
sulfur match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur matches
Senses: glosses: a match whose head consists of a mixture containing sulfur; a small amount of phosphorus is included either on the match, or on a striking surface in the case of a safety match
sulfuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sulfur
sulfuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: treatment with sulfur or sulfur compounds
sulfur monoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An unstable binary compound, SO, of sulfur and oxygen.
sulfur oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of sulfur and oxygen; either sulfur monoxide, sulfur dioxide or sulfur trioxide.
Hagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪɡɑː/
ipa: /ˈheɪɡɑːɹ/
Forms: form: Hagars
Etymology: From Hebrew הָגָר (Hagar, “stranger”). Compare Arabic هَاجَر (hājar), Tiberian Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
slurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slur
slurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slurrings
Senses: examples: text: There are, for instance, those puzzling slurrings and staccato markings that are scattered through the primary sources of the organ music.
ref: 1985, Peter Williams, Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Tercentenary Essays:
glosses: A slur mark in music.
glosses: An instance of slurring in speech, heartbeat, etc.
old-time country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: folk music
coordinate_terms: bluegrass#Etymology_2
country music
hillbilly music
glosses: A form of American folk music popular in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States prior to the early 1930s, emphasizing jug and mountain string bands; influential in early country music.
singing cowboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singing cowboys
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of country music honoring the cowboy life and the West.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see singing, cowboy.
Western swing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A 1930s to 1940s style of U.S. Southwestern country music with a jazz influence, meshing string bands with other instrumentation - especially drums, trumpet, piano, electric guitar and the steel guitar.
close harmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A style of music where the chords are arranged within a narrow range, and the vocal styles of two or more singers either complement or are similar to each other.
countrypolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of country (music) + cosmopolitan
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of country music, a development of the Nashville sound, produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, containing elements of popular music, including string sections and background vocals.
countrypolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more countrypolitan
form: most countrypolitan
Etymology: Blend of country (music) + cosmopolitan
Senses: glosses: Of or sounding like countrypolitan music, or country music produced during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
neotraditional country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of country music popularized starting in the early- to mid-1980s, emphasizing traditional country sounds rather than popular music sounds. Produced in direct response to the growing influence of country pop music.
alternative country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of indie country music meshing traditional forms of country music with diverse musical styles like folk, pop, punk and heavy metal.
Derived terms: alt-country
fifteen minutes of fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 15 minutes of fame.
3-on-the-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-on-the-tree.
examples: text: Mother and Father learned to drive in a car with a 3-on-the-tree.
glosses: On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the late - 1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted on the steering column.
three-on-the-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-on-the-trees
form: 3-on-the-tree
Senses: examples: text: In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmissions.
text: His old car was a three-on-the-tree. Now he drives a four-on-the-floor.
coordinate_terms: four-on-the-floor
glosses: On an automobile (especially those produced from 1939 through the mid-1970s), a three-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is a column shifter (mounted on the steering column) (R-N-1-2-3); (metonymic) a vehicle with such a transmission.
sulfurwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfurworts
Etymology: From sulfur + wort.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulphurwort.
sulphurwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sulphur + wort.
Senses: glosses: Hog fennel (Peucedanum officinale)
hog fennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any meadow and woodland plant with smell, taste, or appearance of fennel, especially of
Any plant of species Lomatium utriculatum
synonyms: common lomatium
spring gold
glosses: Any meadow and woodland plant with smell, taste, or appearance of fennel, especially of
Any plant of species Peucedanum officinale
synonyms: sulphurweed
sulphurwort
Derived terms: taxonomic: Peucedanum japonicum
word: coastal hog fennel
taxonomic: Peucedanum verticillare
word: giant hog fennel
taxonomic: Lomatium marginatum
word: tall hog fennel
rough up the bullpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughs up the bullpen
form: roughing up the bullpen
form: roughed up the bullpen
form: roughed up the bullpen
Senses: examples: text: The strong baseball team really roughed up the bullpen in their 34-0 rout against their foes; the coach used nine relievers and they still couldn't get anybody out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To manage easily to hit pitching by the starting and relief pitchers of the opposing team, despite the types of pitches thrown or the skill of the pitchers.
raw_tags: of the offensive team
stricter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of strict: more strict
memorial service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorial services
Senses: examples: text: They had a very moving, emotional memorial service for the two popular teen-aged girls who died in a car accident over the weekend.
glosses: A ceremony to honor a deceased person; a funeral.
examples: text: When Grandpa died, instead of a traditional funeral, he wanted a memorial service where people were free to share their memories and socialize.
glosses: An informal service honoring a deceased person, especially one that does not adhere to the traditional customs of a funeral.
Synonyms: funeral
Related terms: celebration of life
acid of air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Carbon dioxide, carbonic acid.
acid of amber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound succinic acid.
acid of ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: formic acid
Related terms: antacid
acid of apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: malic acid
acid of lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: citric acid
acid of milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Lactic acid.
acid of salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrochloric acid
acid of sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you distil the nitrous acid on silk, wool, hairs, or skin, you obtain a certain quantity of animal oil, different from that which forms fat, and a portion of acid similar to the acid of sugar […]
ref: 1784 July 24, “History of the Royal Academy of Sciences, for the year 1780”, in A New Review, volume 6, page 57:
text: This is not all: who would suspect under the specious guise of “acid of sugar,” an envenomed drug?
ref: 1828, John Murray, A Manual of Experiments illustrative of Chemical Science, page 4:
text: It exists plentifully in several well-known plants, as the beautiful Wood-sorrel; but, obtainable from saccharine matter by a chemical process, it has acquired the vulgar name of Acid of Sugar.
ref: 1829, Shirley Palmer, Popular illustrations of medicine, page 101:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: oxalic acid