cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ouroboros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːˈrɒbəˌrɒs/
ipa: /uːˈrɒbərəs/
ipa: /ˌuːrəˈbɒrəs/
enpr: o͞o-rŏbʹə-rŏs
enpr: o͞o-rə-bŏrʹ-əs
ipa: /(j)ʊ(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈborəs/
Forms: form: ouroboroi
form: ouroboroses
form: uroboros
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))).
Senses: examples: text: The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
ref: 1968 [1951], R. F. C. Hull, transl., Aion […] (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung), 2nd edition, volume 9.2, Princeton University Press, translation of original by C. G. Jung, →ISBN, page 264:
text: Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41:
text: One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.
ref: 2004, Adrian Bejan et al., Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 121:
text: First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]
ref: 2013, Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson eds., Blake, Politics, and History, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
examples: text: Like an ouroboros, the story created and informed by the writer’s own experience suddenly flipped back on itself, Childress’s life now reflecting the story rather than the other way around.
ref: 2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic:
text: The result is a statistical ouroboros: a self-reinforcing discrimination machine that amplifies social inequalities under the guise of technical neutrality.
ref: 2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 4, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:
glosses: Anything of a circular or recursive nature.
Derived terms: ouroboric
Related terms: autocannibalism
obtainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: obtainers
Etymology: From obtain + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who obtains.
stupefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupefactions
Etymology: From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“I am stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: glosses: The state of extreme shock or astonishment.
examples: text: Suddenly roused from the state of stupefaction to which fear had reduced her, the female filled the air with shrieks. Disengaging herself from the officers, and rushing towards her husband, she clung with all her strength to his arm, imploring him, with frantic violence, not to let them kill her.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 145:
glosses: A state of insensibility; stupor.
Related terms: stupefication
stupefy
stupid
stupor
obtund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈtʌnd/
ipa: /ɒbˈtʌnd/
ipa: /əbˈtʌnd/
ipa: /ɑbˈtʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Forms: form: obtunds
form: obtunding
form: obtunded
form: obtunded
Etymology: Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), from ob- (see ob-) + tundere. More at obtuse.
Senses: examples: text: […] the use of alcoholic decoctions[…] which are given as medicines to allay pain, obtund nerve sensibility, to cure the little sufferer of his vital manifestations […]
ref: 1900, Martha M. Allen, Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, page 319:
text: Small doses of opioids are also useful in obtunding airway reflexes […]
ref: 2008, Jerrold H. Levy, Kenichi A. Tanaka, Eric J. Okun, “Cardial Surgical Pharmacology”, in Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
Synonyms: sense: dull or mitigate
word: blunt
sense: dull or mitigate
word: deaden
Derived terms: obtunder
obtundity
obtundent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtundents
Etymology: From Latin obtundens, present participle of obtundere.
Senses: glosses: A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; – nearly the same as demulcent.
glosses: Something which obtunds.
obtunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtunders
Etymology: From obtund + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
glosses: An obtundent.
occasionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: occasionates
form: occasionating
form: occasionated
form: occasionated
Etymology: From Middle English occasionaten, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnātus, perfect passive participle of occāsiō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, occasion + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To occasion.
occasion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪʒən/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: occasions
form: occasioning
form: occasioned
form: occasioned
Etymology: From Middle English occasioun, from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occāsiōnem, noun of action from perfect passive participle occāsus, from verb occidō, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cadō (“fall”).
Senses: examples: text: It is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity.
text: To the Author's private circle the appearance of this singular Work on Clothes must have occasioned little less surprise than it has to the rest of the world.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 9:
text: […] although overcrowding on the trains running via London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:
text: The new tunnel has been associated with, but not actually occasioned by, the electrification of the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath lines of the former L.N.E.R., initiated before the war.
ref: 1951 July, “New Pennine Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 432:
glosses: To cause; to produce; to induce
Derived terms: occasionable
occasioner
reoccasion
occident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪdənt/
Forms: form: occidents
Etymology: From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”).
Senses: synonyms: ponent
west
antonyms: orient
east
levant
glosses: The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
glosses: The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
Derived terms: occidental
occidentosis
occidental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more occidental
form: most occidental
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western.
glosses: Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality.
Synonyms: western
Derived terms: nonoccidental
occidentalism
occidentalist
occidentalize
occidentally
unoccidental
Related terms: Occident
occidental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.səˈdɛn.təl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: occidentals
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.
ref: 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan, Canton, page i:
glosses: A Western Christian of the Latin rite
Related terms: oriental
boreal
austral
occiduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more occiduous
form: most occiduous
Etymology: From Latin occiduus, from. occido (“to go down”).
Senses: glosses: Western; occidental.
occision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occisions
Senses: glosses: A killing; the act of killing.
octic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktɪk/
Etymology: From Latin octo (“eight”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octic polynomial becomes exceedingly complicated.
ref: 1999, William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All, Mathematical Association of America, published 1999, page 116:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of the eighth degree or order.
Synonyms: octavic
octic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktɪk/
Forms: form: octics
Etymology: From Latin octo (“eight”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A quantic of the eighth degree.
octuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/
ipa: /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Senses: glosses: eightfold
octuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/
ipa: /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: octuples
Senses: glosses: An eightfold amount or number
Derived terms: suboctuple
octuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtuː.pəl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.t(j)u.pəl/
ipa: /ɑkˈtʌp.əl/
ipa: /ˈɑk.tə.pəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: octuples
form: octupling
form: octupled
form: octupled
Senses: glosses: To increase eightfold.
glosses: To increase or multiply something by eight.
Derived terms: octuplet
Related terms: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
oddly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑdli/
ipa: /ˈɒdli/
rhymes: -ɒdli
Etymology: From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For December, it was oddly warm.
text: Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]
ref: 1740, Colley Cibber, chapter I, in An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, […], London: […] John Watts for the author, →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: queerly
curiously
glosses: In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
examples: text: The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.
ref: 1998, Kay Almere Read, Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, page 107:
glosses: In a manner measured by an odd number.
Trekker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛk.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Trekkers
Etymology: (1970) Trek + -er.
From Star Trek.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek.
wikipedia: en:Star Trek
Synonyms: Trekfan
Trekkie
ode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊd/
ipa: /əʊd/
ipa: /od/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: owed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: odes
Etymology: From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Senses: examples: text: write an ode to someone
text: [title]
ref: 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:
glosses: A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Derived terms: odal
odelet
odic
odist
Pindaric ode
ode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊd/
ipa: /əʊd/
ipa: /od/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: owed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: odes
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.
odelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odelets
Etymology: From ode + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little or short ode.
odist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odists
Etymology: From ode + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of an ode or odes.
odium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.di.əm/
rhymes: -əʊdiəm
homophone: Odiham
Forms: form: odiums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin odium.
Senses: examples: text: His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
text: And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
ref: 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser
text: ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207:
glosses: Hatred; dislike.
examples: text: She threw the odium of the fact on me.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82:
glosses: The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Related terms: odium generis humani
odium philologicum
odium theologicum
odometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈdɒmətə/
ipa: /əʊˈdɒmɪtə/
ipa: /oʊˈdɑːmətɚ/
Forms: form: odometers
form: hodometer
form: odometre
Etymology: From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.
ref: 2007 December 14, “"Price Is Right" winner claims new car a wreck”, in Reuters:
text: On Sunday, the robot rover advanced another 157 feet (48 meters) as it continued along the rim of a Martian crater, putting Opportunity's total odometer at 25.01 miles (40.25 km), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California.
ref: 2014 July 29, Steve Gorman, “NASA's Mars rover sets off-Earth, off-road distance record”, in Reuters:
text: Tesla (TSLA.O) faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk's company from having to pay for repairs.
ref: 2025 April 17, Jonathan Stempel, “Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, US lawsuit claims”, in Reuters:
glosses: An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production.
glosses: A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.
Synonyms: odograph
Derived terms: odometer fraud
trip odometer
Related terms: tripmeter
odometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodometry
Etymology: From odo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: Measurement of distances by the odometer.
odor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊdə/
ipa: /ˈoʊdəɹ/
homophone: oater (some dialects)
rhymes: -əʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: odors
form: odour
Etymology: From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
Cognates
* Swedish odör (“bad smell”)
Senses: examples: text: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: scent
word: perfume
word: flair
word: smell
word: odor
word: odour
glosses: Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
examples: text: In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 287:
glosses: A strong, pervasive quality.
synonyms: esteem
repute
glosses: Esteem.
examples: text: On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xxiiij:[1], folio cxvii, recto:
glosses: Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
Derived terms: body odor
body odour
fish odor syndrome
in bad odor
in bad odour
in good odor
in good odour
malodor
odored
odorful
odorimetry
odorise
odorization
odorize
odorless
odor of sanctity
odour of sanctity
odorome
odorous
odorously
odorousness
odorproof
odorscape
odorsome
odortaxis
odortype
Related terms: aroma
offense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛns/
ipa: /ˈɔf.ɛns/
ipa: /ˈɑf.ɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: offenses
form: offence
Etymology: From Middle English offence, from Old French offense, from Latin offensa (“a striking against; displeasure; injury”).
Senses: examples: text: The slave fully appreciates the saying, "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." When old master's gestures were violent, ending with a threatening shake of the head, and a sharp snap of his middle finger and thumb, I deemed it wise to keep at a respectable distance from him; for, at such times, trifling faults stood, in his eyes, as momentous offenses; and, having both the power and the disposition, the victim had only to be near him to catch the punishment, deserved or undeserved.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: The act of offending.
A crime or sin.
examples: text: Thus I have ventur'd to give my Opinion on this Subject againſt the Authority of tvvo great men, but I hope vvithout offence to either of their Memories, for I both lov'd them living, and reverence them now they are dead.
ref: 1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of offending.
An affront, injury, or insult.
glosses: The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
qualifier: team sports
glosses: A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
qualifier: team sports
glosses: The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
Synonyms: word: offense
word: affront
word: barb
word: burn
word: dis
word: diss
word: insult
word: insultation
word: pejorative
word: put-down
word: slam
word: slight
word: slur
Derived terms: capital offense
criminal offense
cyberoffense
hanging offense
hanging offence
hurry-up offense
indictable offense
indictable offence
lesser included offense
no offense
offence to be taken into consideration
offenseful
offenseless
offensensitivity
offensible
offensive and defensive alliance
primary offense
regulatory offense
regulatory offence
shotgun offense
status offense
summary offense
summary offence
take offense
the best defense is a good offense
West Coast offense
Related terms: offensive
offend
offender
crime
sin
olf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olfs
form: olf
Etymology: From Latin olfactus (“smelled”).
Senses: glosses: A unit measuring the strength of an olfactory pollution source as detected by an average adult in typical conditions.
olf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olfs
Senses: glosses: The European bullfinch.
olympiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olympiads
Senses: examples: text: The reckoning by olympiads, or any other fixed æra, was not yet in uſe among the Greeks. The Arundelian marbles were compoſed ſixty years after the death of Alexander the Great, and yet mention not the olympiads, nor any ſtanding æra, but reckon backward from the time then preſent. In the next olympiad, Timæus Siculus wrote a hiſtory down to his own times, according to the olympiads.
ref: 1788, Joseph Priestley, “Lecture VII”, in Lectures on History, and General Policy; […], Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: [N]ot Hellas can unroll / Through her olympiads two such names, though one / Of hers be mighty;—and is this the whole / Of such men's destiny beneath the sun?
ref: 1817, Lord Byron, “The Prophecy of Dante. Canto III.”, in Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. […], London: John Murray, […], published 1821, →OCLC, page 243, lines 157–160:
text: The olympiads, or quadrennial athletic meetings of ancient Greece, were held in such national renown, that they served as historical epochs for the chronological establishment of events. […] The victor in each race overcame the opponents who contested with him shoulder to shoulder; but there could be no means to determining whether the victor of a given event in one olympiad excelled the victor in other olympiads.
ref: 1908 November, Arthur E[dwin] Kennelly, “Deduction from the Records of Running in the Last Olympiad”, in J[ames] McKeen Cattell, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume LXXIII, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →OCLC, page 385:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Olympiad.
Olympic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪmpɪk/
ipa: /əˈlɪmpɪk/
ipa: /oʊ-/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
Senses: examples: text: Olympic torch
text: Olympic champion
text: Olympic medal
text: Olympic qualifiers
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.
synonyms: Olympian
glosses: Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia.
Derived terms: Deaflympic
Olympically
Olympic diving
olympicene
Olympic flame
Olympic Games
Olympic goal
Olympic Peninsula
Olympic Rings
Olympic torch
Olympic torchbearer
Olympic Valley
Olympic village
Olympism
Olyroos
Paralympian
Paralympic
Related terms: Olympionic
Olympic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪmpɪk/
ipa: /əˈlɪmpɪk/
ipa: /oʊ-/
rhymes: -ɪmpɪk
Forms: form: Olympics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Five consecutive ducks.
omelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of omelette.
Derived terms: omelet-y
omelety
omer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈoʊmɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈoʊməɹ/
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: omers
form: gomer
form: Omer
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”).
Senses: examples: text: ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
ref: 1769, Bible (KJV), Exodus XVI
topics: units-of-measure
synonyms: issaron
meronyms: ephah
epha
lethek
lethech
homer
chomer
cor
kor
glosses: A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
glosses: A vessel of one omer.
glosses: The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
omer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈoʊmɛɹ/
ipa: /ˈoʊməɹ/
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Etymology: Ellipsis of Sefirat Ha'Omer.
Senses: glosses: The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.
omniety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, God.
omphalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That omphalic cord will pull like rubber over eight thousand miles. I can never be the same again.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 400:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
Derived terms: mesomphalic
omy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Mellow, as land.
onanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊnəˌnɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈoʊnəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: onanisms
Etymology: From Onan + -ism. In the Book of Genesis, Onan, son of Judah, in fulfillment of the laws of levirate marriage was to impregnate his brother Er's widow, Tamar, in order to raise offspring from the union in his brother's name. In order to avoid raising descendants for his late brother, however, Onan "spilled his semen on the ground when he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother" (Genesis 38:9).
Senses: examples: text: Hypochondriasis, hysteria, chorea, epilepsy, apoplexy, and palsy, constitute part of the list of dire maladies induced or immediately excited, by onanism and immoderate or ill-timed coition. The memory and intellectual faculties, in general, are enfeebled, and there are instances of complete idiocy, brought on by early and continued onanism, and of insanity from similar excesses later in life.
ref: 1839 February, John Bell, M.D., editor, The Eclectic Journal of Medicine, volume 3, number 4, Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, page 147:
text: This photograph was far superior. A nude woman was sitting on the edge of a desk next to a globe of the world. The suggested onanism with the piece of chalk intrigued Ignatius.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 11, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: Masturbation.
glosses: Ejaculating outside the vagina during intercourse; (the performing of) coitus interruptus.
Derived terms: onanist
Related terms: onanist
oneirism
ornithon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρνιθών (ornithṓn), from ὄρνις (órnis).
Senses: glosses: An aviary; a poultry house.
Related terms: ornitho-
Origenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Origen + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The teachings of Origen of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), a Greek Church Father; in particular:
Apocatastasis, the doctrine that all creatures including Satan will be saved before the end of time, condemned as anathema at the Synod of Constantinople in 543 CE.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The teachings of Origen of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), a Greek Church Father; in particular:
The doctrine that all souls are created by God prior to conception, also condemned at the Synod of Constantinople.
Related terms: Origenist
orifice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹɪfɪs/
ipa: /ˈɔɹəfɪs/
Forms: form: orifices
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin ōrificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound; the vagina and other orifices
text: For example, cultures that scorn open orifices of all kinds despise uninfibulated female genitals too[…]
ref: 2004, Diana T. Meyers, Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life, page 86:
text: As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus.
ref: 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
examples: text: “Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”
ref: 2016, Niels Saunders, Mervyn Vs. Dennis:
glosses: A stupid or objectionable person.
Derived terms: external urethral orifice
orifical
orificed
orificial
ornithopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.nɪˌθɒp.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.nɪˌθɑp.tɚ/
Forms: form: ornithopters
form: orthopter
Etymology: From French ornithoptère, from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (órnith-) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), equivalent to ornitho- + -pter.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings.
Caaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kaaba.
cabesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The finest kind of silk received from India.
cabezon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabezons
form: cabezone
Senses: glosses: A California fish (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), allied to the sculpin.
cabman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabmen
Etymology: From cab + -man.
Senses: examples: text: At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 22, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: The driver of a hackney cab.
examples: text: A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: The driver of a taxi.
Synonyms: cabdriver
Derived terms: taxi-cabman
cabree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabrees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cabri (“pronghorn”).
cacaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cacao + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The essential principle of cacao, now called theobromine.
cachet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
rhymes: -æʃeɪ
Forms: form: cachets
form: cacheting
form: cacheted
form: cacheted
Etymology: Borrowed from French cachet, first appearing in Scottish English, from 1630.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
Etymology: Onomatopoeia; see cackle.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, so excitable a nature must find other than physical outlet for his irrepressible energy, and he accompanies his movements by more or less appropriate notes: scolding cacks, clinking, metallic rattles, musical trills, tree-toadlike krrrings – in fact, he possesses an almost endless vocabulary .
ref: 1897, Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, page 380:
text: […]for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical cacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
ref: 1916, Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, page 493:
text: When birds approach their cliffs in the spring, they often emit a series of rapidly repeated cacks, or notes of varying pitches. Sometimes the notes are very spirited; others are very soft. Male cacks tend to be higher pitched than those of females.
ref: 2014, Stanley H. Anderson, John R. Squires, The Prairie Falcon, page 4:
glosses: A squawk.
glosses: A discordant note.
examples: text: […] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley
ref: 1950, Field and Stream - Volume 55, page 42:
text: White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.
ref: 2012, Van Campen Heilner, A Book on Duck Shooting:
glosses: A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
form: cacking
form: cacked
form: cacked
Etymology: Onomatopoeia; see cackle.
Senses: examples: text: Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
ref: 1990, P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly, page 32:
text: 2000, Minnesota Ornithologists′ Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37,
While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
text: Peckle snitted them off and cacked at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and cacked them away.
ref: 2007, Turk Allcott, Time Leak, page 63:
glosses: To squawk.
raw_tags: of a bird
examples: text: The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
qualifier: brass instrument technique
glosses: To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
form: cacking
form: cacked
form: cacked
Etymology: From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation.
Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: Can't cack... won't cack, My bum hole has gone on strike, I've huffed and puffed, grunted and groaned, And squeezed as hard as I liked, I've leant myself backwards, leant to the front, Raised my knees and then put them back, I've gripped the seat and pushed like hell, But still...I can't have a cack.
ref: 2014, 'Rock Rampant', Mauve Flush, page 245:
glosses: To defecate.
examples: text: ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
ref: 2005, M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, page 322:
text: […] through the open door, now directly below his feet, and nearly cacked his breeks when the stretcher skidded slightly on the shiny metal floor.
ref: 2010, Tony Doyle, Flying at the Edge: 20 Years of Front-Line and Display Flying in the Cold War Era, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 356:
text: Another distinction she reported: my brother once cacked his pants and responded with the words, "It will never happen again" – and it didn't, […]
ref: 2010, Julian Barnes, Nothing to be Frightened Of, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Just to let me know, to keep me on the move, to make me cack my pants for now an most likely for ever.
ref: 2013, Nick Barlay, Hooky Gear:
text: Hans Bach gave him a look, and he cacked his pants and hurried off.
ref: 2018, B. de Paul, When Angels Rise, →ISBN:
glosses: To defecate (on); to shit.
examples: text: He smelled the ferrous oxide of blood and the farmyard stench of shit. He'd cacked it. He was empty and he'd cacked his load. The brushman came over, lisping slightly[…]
ref: 2016, Nicholas Blincoe, Jello Salad, Canelo, →ISBN:
glosses: To excrete (something) by defecation.
examples: text: He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.
text: Stay, by your leave I will put in a distinguo; your goose has cacked.
ref: 1923, Béroalde de Verville, Fantastic Tales; Or, The Way to Attain:
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted, she never cacked her pupils with unconscionable extortions, nor ever put their hard earnings, as she called them, under the contribution of poundage.
ref: 1893, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), page 282:
glosses: To cheat.
Synonyms: sense: to shit
word: defecate
sense: to kill
word: kill
Derived terms: becack
cack on
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
Etymology: From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation.
Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cacō (“defecate”) (see there for more); compare also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: Can't cack... won't cack, My bum hole has gone on strike, I've huffed and puffed, grunted and groaned, And squeezed as hard as I liked, I've leant myself backwards, leant to the front, Raised my knees and then put them back, I've gripped the seat and pushed like hell, But still...I can't have a cack.
ref: 2014, 'Rock Rampant', Mauve Flush, page 245:
glosses: An act of defecation.
examples: text: I dive back in along the cobbles, step over the cack, wall an fence closin me down, barbed wire left, razor wire right, follow by puttied-in broken glass, spike rails an stuck-on warnings about dogs.
ref: 2013, Nick Barlay, Hooky Gear:
text: " And have bird cack on their heads , " Jacques agreed cheerfully, to Ash's relief.
ref: 2016, Patricia Rice, Theory of Magic:
glosses: Excrement.
examples: text: 'See that' said the man, pointing with his fork at a trace of soemthing on the rim, 'that's not been washed properly. That's a bit of old cack on there.'
ref: 2009, Monica Ali, In The Kitchen, page 425:
text: At first, he genuinely didn't recognize her without all that high-gloss cack on her face.
ref: 2013, Gemma Files, “Nanny Grey”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, The Best Horror of the Year:
text: Not thinking, because he's got it in his hand, he wipes her mouth with the dirty dishcloth – leaves a little bit of cack on her lips, but she doesn't notice .
ref: 2017, Bob Mortimer & Andy Dawson, The World of Football According to Athletico Mince, page 1996:
text: “This building. Eesh! Still sends shivers through my bones.” “Last time we were here we were sentenced to death by the Vampiric Council.” “Had we not escaped from this cack house...” “I saved them.” “We saved them.” “Had we not escaped from this fluorescent mausoleum, we'd be fucking dead.”
ref: 2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (21:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
text: Or super fit cycle/running bods who won't let me lie like a bag of cack on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon.
ref: 2023, Helen Aitchison, The Life and Love (Attempts) of Kitty Cook:
glosses: Rubbish; anything worthless.
Synonyms: sense: excrement
word: caca
word: feces
Derived terms: word: cack-handed
word: cack-house
word: cacky
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
form: cacking
form: cacked
form: cacked
Etymology: Possibly derived from cackle (“to squawk”, verb), which has semantically shifted to “laughing uncontrollably”.
Senses: examples: text: I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
glosses: To laugh.
Related terms: cack up
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: From cock.
Senses: glosses: Penis.
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
Senses: examples: text: To one handling shoes, from cacks to footwear for the oldest men and women , and taking into consideration the trade as it is handled at large not simply in our city , the universally ac- knowledged metropolis of the world , I desire to say that to my mind there is more fakism used to sell shoes than to sell any other necessary article.
ref: 1903 December 23, John C. Thompson, “Deceiving Customers”, in Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly, volume 48, page 81:
text: Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.
ref: 1981, Paul Gustaf Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution, page 91:
text: In the cacks for infants I noticed a tasty little patent leather foxed with cloth top, an ox blood slipper with dainty bow, and then there are others with green cloth tops, Scotch plaids and vesting tops in a great variety of combinations.
ref: 1897 September 22, C.P. Woodruff, “Rochester, N.Y”, in Boot and Shoe Recorder, volume 31, page 107:
glosses: An inexpensive boot or shoe made in the 19th or early 20th century for a baby or young child.
examples: text: Ma is calling breakfast. The little cacks are up. Billy, who is only six –and you are eight! –Billy tried to wash himself and got some soap in his eyes. Funny that little cacks like that always get soap in their eyes!
ref: 1908, Hugh J. Hughes, “A Boy's Day”, in Harper's Weekly, volume 52, page 52:
text: Seniors bully cacks because they were bullied as cacks. Old boys who were miserable here send their sons here to make them miserable. It's called tradition.
ref: 2000, Anthony Akerman, Dark Outsider: Three Plays, page 123:
text: Even fresh Cacks with some prowess on the rugby or cricket field are likely to get it slightly easier than their quivering peers.
ref: 2009, Matthew Knight, Between the Lines: The Spirit of South African Rugby, page 106:
glosses: A young child.
cack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæk/
text: Audio (AU)
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: cacks
Senses: examples: text: Eye colours for dying blew, almost as good as Indico, made vp in round cacks or pieces, and packed one hundred cacks in a Fardell, worth the Fardell, fiftie to sixtie.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes: In Fiue Bookes, page 395:
text: the gouerners Expences from the Coart of election, 1651, till the end of October, 1651; to bear & cacks [ beer and cakes ] 6d.; bear and cacks to himself and som other gentlemen, 18. 2d.; bear and cacks with Mr. Downing, 1s. 6d.; bear & a cack, 6d. -3s. 8d. "
ref: 1888, Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of Essex County, Massachusetts, page 322:
text: The picture of Governor Endicott sitting at table in the "Anchor" eating "cacks" and drinking "beare" robs this picturesque character in Colonial history of some of its lustre.
ref: 1897, Edward Field, The Colonial Tavern, page 51:
glosses: obsolete spelling of cake (any sense)
catgut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætˌɡʌt/
Forms: form: catguts
Etymology: Possibly an abbreviation of the word cattlegut. Alternatively, it may derive by folk etymology from kitgut or kitstring — the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for a young cat.
Senses: examples: text: The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut & as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.
ref: 1953, Virginia Woolf, “Tuesday, April 8th”, in Leonard Woolf, editor, A Writer's Diary, page 71:
text: Eventually they carved small paddles to strike the ball and refined this implement with a mesh of catgut.
ref: 1971, Will Grimsley, Julius David Heldman, Tennis: Its History, People and Events, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 3:
text: The absorbable suture, catgut, is made of collagen derived from sheep intestinal submucosa. It is usually treated with a chromic salt to increase its strength and is crosslinked to retard resorption. Such treatment extends the life of catgut suture from 3–7 days up to 20–40 days.
ref: 2007 July 23, Joon Park, R. S. Lakes, Biomaterials: An Introduction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.
glosses: The material from which such cords are made.
glosses: A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
glosses: Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, devil's shoestring).
Derived terms: catgut scraper
sea-catgut
catso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catsos
form: catsoes
Etymology: From Italian cazzo (“prick”).
Senses: examples: text: I’ll try experiments; ’tis good not to be deceived.—So so, catso! / Who would fear that may destroy?
ref: 1877, John Webster, “The Malcontent”, in The Works of John Webster, page 358:
text: The remark stung Cattaraugus to the quick, and he called Catiline a catapult; this infuriated Catiline beyond endurance, and he threw down the gauntlet and called Cattaraugus a catso. No cat will stand that; so at it they went.
ref: 1992 [1880], Mark Twain, “A Cat-Tale”, in Louis Budd, editor, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays:
glosses: A dishonest person; a rogue; a cheat.
Derived terms: cotso