cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paragon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəɡən/
ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌɡɔn/
ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌɡɑn/
ipa: /ˈpæɹəɡən/
Forms: form: paragons
form: paragoning
form: paragoned
form: paragoned
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman paragone, peragone, Middle French paragon, from Italian paragone (“comparison”) or Spanish parangón, from Byzantine Greek παρακόνη (parakónē, “whetstone”), from Ancient Greek παρακονάω (parakonáō, “I sharpen, whet”), from παρά (pará) + ἀκόνη (akónē, “whetstone”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)).
Senses: examples: text: for want of a bigger , to paragon the little one with Artesia's length
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
examples: text: Few or none could for Feature paragon with her, and much less excel her.
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
text: In arms anon to paragon the morn, / The morn new-riſing, whoſe vermillion hand / Draws from the bright'ning front of heav'n ſerene / The humid curtains of tempeſtuous night, / Mardonius mounts his courſer.
ref: a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Twenty-seventh”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 192, lines 539–543:
glosses: To compare with; to equal; to rival.
examples: text: He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To serve as a model for; to surpass.
glosses: To be equal; to hold comparison.
parthenogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: parthenogenetic forms
text: "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis.
Synonyms: parthenogenic
Derived terms: nonparthenogenetic
parthenogenetically
tychoparthenogenetic
Related terms: parthenogen
parthenogenesis
patchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Forms: form: patchier
form: patchiest
Etymology: From patch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
examples: text: patchy clouds
text: a patchy performance
text: Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
glosses: Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven.
Synonyms: sense: not constant or continuous
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
word: discontinuous
Derived terms: patchily
patchiness
patrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: patricians
form: patritian
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”).
Senses: examples: text: Noble Patricians, Patrons of my right, / Defend the iuſtice of my Cauſe with Armes.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 31, column 1:
glosses: A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
glosses: A person of high birth; a nobleman.
glosses: One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
Derived terms: patrician blue
patricianhood
patricianism
patricianly
patricianness
patricianship
unpatrician
Related terms: father
patriarch
Patricia
patron
pattern
patrician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: more patrician
form: most patrician
form: patritian
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”).
Senses: examples: text: […] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: The cognomen was first used in patrician families, who were distinguished from the plebeians by their three names.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians.
examples: text: born in the patrician file of society
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
examples: text: Hanks' taste in projects and directors is undoubtedly patrician and with a few exceptions like 1993's Philadelphia, the first mainstream film about the Aids crisis, rarely provocative
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy.
examples: text: It will speed the shrivelling of the patrician “one nation” Tories, who tried to curb the extremes of Thatcherism and ended by providing its veils.
ref: 1995, New Statesman Society:
text: Saint-Simon was certainly a radical, and hostile to inherited privilege, but his bourgeois 'socialism' was of a patrician kind. Science, being a firm and certain kind of knowledge, a 'religion of Newton' or 'cult of Reason' essentially plays the key role in his grand scheme for social engineering.
ref: 2013 July 18, Doctor Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy, The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:
text: Where Ruskin's patrician socialism sought to create better conditions and 'higher' aspirations for the 'Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain', Sickert painted his working- and lower-middle-class subjects as if history, in the advance of mass culture and popular democracy, were on their side.
ref: 2022 September 8, Michael Bird, This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:
glosses: Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.
Related terms: matrician
patriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt.ɹiˈɒ.tɪk/
ipa: /peɪ.tɹiˈɒ.tɪk/
ipa: /peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/
Forms: form: more patriotic
form: most patriotic
form: patriotick
Etymology: From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a patriotic statesman
text: a patriotic song
text: But if patriotic sentiment is wanted,
I've patriotic ballads cut and dried;
For where'er our country's banner may be planted,
All other local banners are defied!
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Inspired by or showing patriotism; done out of love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country
Derived terms: antipatriotic
hyperpatriotic
impatriotic
overpatriotic
patriotical
patriotically
patriotic correctness
patrioticness
pseudopatriotic
semi-patriotic
semipatriotic
superpatriotic
ultrapatriotic
Related terms: patriot
patriotism
patriotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt.ɹiˈɒ.tɪk/
ipa: /peɪ.tɹiˈɒ.tɪk/
ipa: /peɪ.tɹiˈɑ.tɪk/
Forms: form: patriotics
form: patriotick
Etymology: From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Most patriotics in copper or brass are common. They are rare in off-metals.
ref: 1971, Grover C. Criswell, The Official Guide to Confederate Money & Civil War Tokens, Tradesmen & Patriotic, page 121:
glosses: A postage stamp, Civil War token, etc. bearing a patriotic design.
partisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/
ipa: /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
ipa: /-sən/
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tɪ.zæn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tə.zɛn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
Forms: form: partisans
form: partizan
Etymology: From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source.
The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690.
The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: "Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block […]"
ref: 1992, Thomas R. Pegram, Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Policy in Illinois:
synonyms: partyman
glosses: An adherent to a party or faction.
glosses: A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
glosses: A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
glosses: The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Related terms: copartisan
part
partisanism
partisanry
partisanship
party
partisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/
ipa: /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
ipa: /-sən/
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tɪ.zæn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tə.zɛn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
Forms: form: more partisan
form: most partisan
form: partizan
Etymology: From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source.
The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690.
The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: partisan officer, partisan corps
glosses: Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
examples: text: They were blinded by partisan zeal.
text: Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
examples: text: partisan politics
text: England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
text: He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
ref: 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:
glosses: Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
Derived terms: affective partisan polarization
antipartisan
bipartisan
hyperpartisan
monopartisan
multipartisan
nonpartisan
partisanize
partisanly
postpartisan
transpartisan
tripartisan
unipartisan
unpartisan
partisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/
ipa: /ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.tə.zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
ipa: /-sən/
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tɪ.zæn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾɪ]
ipa: /ˈpɐː.tə.zɛn/
ipa: /-zən/
ipa: [-ɾə]
Forms: form: partisans
form: partizan
Etymology: From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).
Senses: examples: text: I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended.
ref: 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman:
glosses: A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
glosses: A soldier armed with such a weapon.
Related terms: halberd
pastime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.taɪm/
ipa: /ˈpɑːs.taɪm/
Forms: form: pastimes
form: passtime
form: pass-time
Etymology: From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.
Senses: examples: text: Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
text: Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
text: […]lax court morals and the absurd chivalry business were in full feather, and the joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell...
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: And your pastimes, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
"Crying Lightning"
ref: 2009, Alex Turner, “Crying Lightning”, in Humbug (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys:
text: Nor would there be an opportunity for the media's favorite pastime of exposing conflict among his advisors.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 398:
synonyms: word: kill-time
word: amusement
word: avocation
word: diversion
word: divertisement
word: fancy
word: hobby
word: kill-time
word: pastime
word: pursuit
word: sport
glosses: Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
pastime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.taɪm/
ipa: /ˈpɑːs.taɪm/
Forms: form: pastimes
form: pastiming
form: pastimed
form: pastimed
form: passtime
form: pass-time
Etymology: From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.
Senses: glosses: To sport; to amuse oneself.
Derived terms: pastimer
pastiming
Related terms: timepass
pathway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːθˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈpæθˌweɪ/
Forms: form: pathways
Etymology: From Middle English pathwei, equivalent to path + way. Cognate with German Pfadweg, Afrikaans padweg.
Senses: examples: text: follow the pathway
text: go down the pathway
text: on the pathway
text: YOU WILL REMEMBER there was no road—not even a pathway—between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Winged Monkeys”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: A footpath or other path or track.
examples: text: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
ref: 2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
examples: text: the pathway to success
text: Similarly, although both clinical pathway and case management programmes seek to improve system efficiency, critical pathways concentrate on high-volume conditions with high costs in which care is generally patternable […]
ref: 2000, Amitabh Prakash, Acute Stroke Treatment, page 102:
glosses: A course of action.
Derived terms: biopathway
eigenpathway
endopathway
geniculostriate pathway
hedgehog signalling pathway
immunopathway
intrapathway
mesolimbic pathway
metabolic pathway
multipathway
neuropathway
pathwayed
pentose phosphate pathway
signalling pathway
subpathway
superpathway
patrimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpat.ɹɪ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈpæt.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/
Forms: form: patrimonies
Etymology: First attested in 1513. From earlier patrimoyne, from patremoyne, from Middle French patrimoine/patremoine, semi-learned borrowing from Latin patrimōnium, from pater (“father”) + -mōnium (“state, condition”). By surface analysis, patri- + -mony. Compare matrimony.
Senses: synonyms: heirloom
glosses: A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
glosses: Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Derived terms: cultural patrimony
patrimonial
Related terms: Derived terms of pater
Derived terms of -mony
pave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pāv
ipa: /peɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: paves
form: paving
form: paved
form: paved
Etymology: From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”).
Senses: glosses: To cover something with paving slabs.
examples: text: They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
ref: 1970, Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”, in Ladies of the Canyon:
glosses: To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
examples: text: After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.
ref: 2011, Rice Baker-Yeboah, The Animal Pathways 1-2, page 110:
glosses: To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
Derived terms: depave
impave
nuke and pave
pavement
paven
paver
paveside
pave the cowpath
pave the road to hell
pave the way
paving stone
repave
unpave
paver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪvɚ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pavers
Etymology: From pave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: red brick pavers
synonyms: paver block
paving block
paving stone
flagstone
glosses: A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
glosses: One who paves; one who lays pavement.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
road
transport
synonyms: paver finisher
asphalt finisher
glosses: A road paving machine, a machine to lay asphalt on roads.
payer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: payers
form: payor
Etymology: From pay + -er (“subject of action”).
Senses: examples: text: The company is the largest tax payer in the region.
text: Health insurance depends on both the payer and the provider.
glosses: One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
Derived terms: billpayer
copayer
farepayer
feepayer
multipayer
nonpayer
prepayer
ratepayer
single-payer
taxpayer
tithepayer
tithe-payer
peak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: peek
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
Forms: form: peaks
form: peaking
form: peaked
form: peaked
Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”).
Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
examples: text: "Dr. Reynders?" Udo prodded.
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
examples: text: Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
glosses: To reach a highest degree or maximum.
examples: text: There peaketh up a mightie high mounte.
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
examples: text: I came to this via sport but the thing that really peaked me was this.
ref: 2019 August 4, Alison Weir (@WeirAlison), Twitter:
text: My friend peaked me last year, at the GRA [Gender Recognition Act] consultation.
ref: 2019 August 31, MrsMiggins (@MrsMiggins13), Twitter:
text: Solidarity from Spain, @jk_rowling. Thank you for peaking so many people all over the world.
ref: 2021 November 22, DefendingMySisters (@DefendingMy), Twitter:
qualifier: gender-critical slang
glosses: Ellipsis of peak trans.
Synonyms: culminate
peak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: peek
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
Forms: form: more peak
form: most peak
Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”).
Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.
Senses: examples: text: peak oil, Peak TV
glosses: At the greatest extent; maximum.
examples: text: Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
glosses: Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
examples: text: When they're tryna get the girl to the crib and she leaves, it's peak / Tryna keep it discreet and she tweets, it's peak / See me rolling with 20 man deep, it's peak / Yo rudeboy, pull up, repeat, it's peak
ref: 2015, “Its Peak”, performed by Tinie Tempah (featuring Stormzy and Bugzy Malone):
text: Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know?
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Dom (David Jonsson):
synonyms: word: abysmal
word: awful
word: chronic
word: coarse
word: crap
word: crummy
word: dire
word: disagreeable
word: dismal
word: dreadful
word: foul
word: hideous
word: hopeless
word: horrendous
word: horrid
word: horrible
word: inadequate
word: incompetent
word: inelegant
word: intolerable
word: inferior
word: loathsome
word: lousy
word: miserable
word: naff
word: negative
word: odious
word: pathetic
word: peak
word: rotten
word: rubbish
word: shitawful
word: sloppy
word: terrible
word: unfavorable
glosses: Bad.
examples: text: You didn't get a spot? That's peak.
synonyms: word: down on one's luck
word: fortuneless
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicious
word: infelicitous
word: infortunate
word: hapless
word: luckless
word: misadventurous
word: mischanceful
word: misfortuned
word: peak
word: snakebit
word: thwart
word: unchancy
word: unfavourable
word: unfortunate
word: unhappy
word: unpropitious
word: unlucky
word: wanchancy
glosses: Unlucky; unfortunate.
examples: text: That movie last night was so peak.
glosses: Very good or high-quality.
peak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: peek
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
Forms: form: peaks
form: peaking
form: peaked
form: peaked
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to Etymology 1 above in the sense of "becoming pointed" through emaciation.
Senses: glosses: To become sick or wan.
examples: text: Dwindle, peak, and pine.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
glosses: To pry; to peep slyly.
Derived terms: peaked
peaky
peak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: peek
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
peak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: peek
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
Forms: form: peaks
form: peaking
form: peaked
form: peaked
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pique.
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: pecks
form: pecking
form: pecked
form: pecked
Etymology: From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.
Senses: examples: text: The birds pecked at their food.
text: The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, "Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
examples: text: to peck a hole in a tree
glosses: To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
glosses: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
examples: text: This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: 1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
I HAVE laid a wager, with a friend of mine, about the pigeons that used to peck up the corn which belonged to the ants.
glosses: To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
examples: text: He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
glosses: To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
glosses: To type by searching for each key individually.
glosses: To type in general.
examples: text: At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.
ref: 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], chapter 1, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To kiss briefly.
Derived terms: henpeck
henpecked
hunt and peck
peck at
peckingly
pecking order
peckish
peckproof
unpecked
woodpeck
woodpecker
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: pecks
Etymology: From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.
Senses: glosses: An act of striking with a beak.
glosses: A small kiss.
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: pecks
Etymology: Probably from Anglo-Norman pek, pekke, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
text: 22,110 bushels of French beans, at 6d. per peck, or 2s. per bushel
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gross Value of the Fruit and Vegetables Sold Annually in the London Streets”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
text: I took his advice, and went to Billingsgate for the first time in my life, and bought a peck of oysters for 2s. 6d.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Experience of a Fried Fish-seller, and of the Class of Customers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
glosses: One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.
glosses: Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou.
examples: text: She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.
text: a peck of uncertainties and doubts
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Derived terms: peckful
peckproof
woodpeck
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: pecks
form: pecking
form: pecked
form: pecked
Etymology: Variant of pick (“to throw”).
Senses: synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw.
examples: text: Anyhow, one of them fell, another one pecked badly, and Jerry disengaged himself from the group to scuttle up the short strip of meadow to win by a length.
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 97:
glosses: To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Senses: examples: an occurrence of peck in rice
glosses: Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
Derived terms: pecky
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Senses: examples: text: Gemmen, have you ordered the peck and booze for the evening?
ref: 1821, W. T. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry:
glosses: Food.
peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pec.
peculiarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˌkjuliˈɛɹɪti/
ipa: /pɪˌkjuːliˈæɹɪti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: peculiarities
Etymology: From peculiar + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on.
text: “'There is always a moment when the familiar becomes the strange,'” Cora recited, as she stood looking around at the bustling open docking area of Tamayo Point. “'Look at your own hand and you will eventually notice the variation of textures, the growth of nails and the fade of scars, the peculiarity of having five fingers instead of three.'”
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
examples: text: I had often heard of Miss Marchmont, and of her peculiarities (she had the character of being very eccentric), but till now had never seen her.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 4, in Villette:
text: I thought Alice and H. J. P. would have fainted at the full spectacle; but we are fast getting used to the little peculiarities of foreigners and I trust they will forgive us many sins in return.
ref: 1870, Louisa May Alcott, quoted in 2011, Daniel Shealy, Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters' Letters from Europe, 1870-1871
text: The peculiarity of this invention consists in a means for varying the angle at which the plaiting-blade is held in the plaiter without varying the position of the entire instrument upon the sewing-machine.
ref: 1873, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office:
glosses: That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
glosses: Exclusive possession or right.
Derived terms: unpeculiarity
pecuniary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
ipa: /pəˈkjuniˌɛɹi/
Etymology: From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
glosses: Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
Derived terms: nonpecuniary
pecuniarily
pecuniary unit
Related terms: pecunious
pedantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛd.ən.tɹi/
Forms: form: pedantries
form: pædantry
Etymology: From Italian pedanteria, equivalent to pedant + -ry. Compare also French pédanterie.
Senses: examples: text: Another point on which Smart insists is the distinction between serf and surf […] A distinction can of course be made, and without much difficulty, by those who think of it, and is made by those who have formed a habit of doing so; but the distinction is so rarely made as to amount almost to pedantry […]
ref: 1869, Alexander John Ellis, “III. On the Pronunciation of English in the Sixteenth Century, and its Gradual Change during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer […] , volume I, London: Published for the Philological Society by Asher & Co., page 202:
glosses: An excessive attention to detail or rules.
examples: text: I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
text: [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: An excessive attention to detail or rules.
An instance of such behaviour.
glosses: An overly ambitious display of learning.
Synonyms: pedanticalness
pedanticness
Related terms: pedant
pedantic
pedantocracy
peek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
homophone: peak
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: peeks
form: peeking
form: peeked
form: peeked
form: peak
form: peke
form: peak
form: peke
Etymology: From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek.
Senses: glosses: To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
examples: text: A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
ref: 2012, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, →ISBN:
text: Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
ref: 2012, Michelle Monkou, If I Had You, →ISBN:
glosses: To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
examples: text: We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
ref: 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming, page 279:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: poke
glosses: To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
Derived terms: peekable
peekaboo
peeker
peekhole
screen peek
peek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
homophone: peak
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: peeks
form: peak
form: peke
form: peak
form: peke
Etymology: From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek.
Senses: glosses: A quick glance or look.
Derived terms: peek wallet
sneak peek
peek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēk
ipa: /piːk/
homophone: peak
homophone: peke
homophone: pique
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: peak
form: peke
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pique.
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
form: peeling
form: peeled
form: peeled
Etymology: From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.
Senses: examples: text: I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
text: The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To remove the skin or outer covering of.
examples: text: I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
text: We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
glosses: To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
examples: text: I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
glosses: To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
examples: text: The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
glosses: To remove one's clothing.
examples: text: The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
glosses: To move, separate (off or away).
Synonyms: sense: remove outer covering
word: skin
sense: remove outer covering
word: strip
sense: remove clothing
word: disrobe
sense: remove clothing
word: strip
Derived terms: word: keep one's eyeballs peeled
english: i.e., with eyelids open
translation: i.e., with eyelids open
word: keep one's eyes peeled
word: overpeel
word: peelability
word: peelable
word: peel-and-seal
word: peel away
word: peel back the onion
word: peeler
word: peelie
word: peeling skin syndrome
word: peel me a grape
word: peel off
word: peelout
word: peel out
word: peel rubber
word: peel the onion
word: peely
word: repeel
word: there's more than one way to peel an orange
word: unpeel
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
Etymology: From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.
Senses: glosses: The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: The action of peeling away from a formation.
glosses: A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
Synonyms: sense: skin of a fruit
word: rind
sense: skin of a fruit
word: zest
Derived terms: banana peel
chemical peel
have one foot on a banana peel
orange peel
orange-peel fungus
peelless
peel strength
peel tab
pizza peel
salmon peel
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
Etymology: From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin pālus (“stake”). Doublet of pole and pale.
Senses: glosses: A stake.
glosses: A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
glosses: A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Derived terms: peel-house
peelhouse
peel-tower
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
Etymology: From Middle English pele, from Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin pāla, from the base of plangō (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pizza paddle
glosses: A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
glosses: A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
glosses: The blade of an oar.
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An equal or match; a draw.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
form: peeling
form: peeled
form: peeled
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play a peel shot.
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
form: peeling
form: peeled
form: peeled
Etymology: Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.
Senses: qualifier: croquet
glosses: To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
form: peeling
form: peeled
form: peeled
Etymology: From Old French piller (“pillage”).
Senses: examples: text: But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:
text: O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]
ref: 1645, James Howell, “England’s Tears, for the Present Wars, which for the Nature of the Quarrel, the Quality of the Strength, the Diversity of Battels, Skirmishes, Encounters, and Sieges, (Happened in so Short a Compasse of Time) Cannot be Parallel’d in Any Precedent Age”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]: Dodona’s Grove, or The Vocall Forrest. The Third Edition More Exact and Perfect than the Former; with the Addition of Two Other Tracts: viz. Englands Tears for the Present Wars. And The Pre-eminence of Parlements, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: To plunder; to pillage, rob.
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Forms: form: peels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”).
peel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːl/
ipa: [pʰiːɫ]
ipa: [pʰiəɫ]
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: peal
Senses: examples: text: 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,
Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;
text: 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,
The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.
text: As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .
ref: 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, pages 230–231:
glosses: Misspelling of peal (“to sound loudly”).