cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
micaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more micaceous
form: most micaceous
Etymology: From mica + -aceous. From Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”). Often erroneously associated with Latin micō (“to twinkle, glitter”) and hence with English micacious.
Senses: examples: text: Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.
ref: 1983, Warren C. Day, Richard M. Tosdal, E.L. Acosta, J.C. Aruspon, L. Carvajal, E. Cedeño, Glenda Lowry, L.F. Martinez, J.A. Noriega, Fernanco J. Niñez, J. Rojas, F. Prieto, “Geology of the Lo Indreíble Mining District and U-Pb Age of the Early Proterozoic Yuruari Formation of the Pastora Supergroup, Guayana Shield, Venezuela”, in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, numbers 2122-2127, page E-12:
text: Apart from the two or three bird masks, the only other zoomorphic mask was a wolf frontlet of cedar decorated in micaceous black paint with dentalium teeth, dentalium being an important form of wealth with some of the attributes of a currency.
ref: 1999, Jonathan C. H. King, First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, page 138:
text: In AD 1500, it would appear, the Apache and Pueblo micaceous pottery traditions were separate, if not independent, developments, and thus both Felipe Ortega and Sharon Dryflower Reyna may be correct.
ref: 1999, Duane Anderson, The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico, page 36:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, consisting of, containing or resembling mica.
examples: text: The book review was a micaceous example of perfection.
glosses: sparkling; brilliant
Derived terms: nonmicaceous
talcomicaceous
unmicaceous
rowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊdi/
ipa: [ˈɹaʊɾi]
ipa: /ˈɹæɔdi/
ipa: [ˈɹæɔɾi]
ipa: /ˈɹæʊdi/
ipa: [ˈɹæʊɾi]
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: rowdier
form: rowdiest
form: rowdie
Etymology: Possibly from row (“noisy argument”), originally used as a noun.
Senses: glosses: Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
Synonyms: unruly
disorderly
Derived terms: rowdily
rowdiness
rowdyism
rowdy-sheeter
rowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊdi/
ipa: [ˈɹaʊɾi]
ipa: /ˈɹæɔdi/
ipa: [ˈɹæɔɾi]
ipa: /ˈɹæʊdi/
ipa: [ˈɹæʊɾi]
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: rowdies
form: rowdie
Etymology: Possibly from row (“noisy argument”), originally used as a noun.
Senses: examples: text: Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all. They slept the day, drank well into the evening, and then set off for their pastime.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164:
glosses: A boisterous person; a brawler.
examples: text: I don’t know whether I quite approve of your throwing over Mr. P. for Mr. F., and don’t think Foker’s such a pretty name, and from your account of him he seems a muff, and not a beauty. But he has got the rowdy, which is the thing.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 76, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: "Where's your money?" Jack exclaimed, hoarsely, in a well-feigned voice.
"Ah! where's the rowdy?" iterated Clayton, in a tone it was impossible to conceal.
"I have no money — none — save a few guineas; there — there — in my pocket […]
ref: 1842, William Leman Rede, The Royal Rake: and the Adventures of Alfred Chesterton, page 25:
text: The blessing of the priest converts flesh into fish; the skil of the resataurateur changes pet pussies into favourite dishes; the learning of the consmetic-chemist metamorphoses age into youth; the wisdom of Solomen Isaacs transmogrifies old garments into now; the tact of the lawyer makes the worse appear the better cause; and the magic spell of the ready—otherwise know as money, cash, tin, stuff, rhino, root-of-all-evil, blunt, wherewithal, 'rowdy, funds, stumpy, pecuniary, dibs, hard, browns, heavy, mopusses, slugs, shiners, lucre, or 'the filthy,' dust, gelt, chips, lumps, chinkers, mint-drops, pewter, brass, horsenails, rocks, brads, spondulix, needful, dough, spoons, buttons, dimes, or the infallible— will convert every article and item in that old sole-leather into "duty free."
ref: 1855, Charles Godfrey Leland, chapter 22, in Meister Karl's Sketch-Book, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, page 166:
glosses: money; ready money.
Synonyms: brawler
ruffian
Natalie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætəli/
Forms: form: Nathalie
Etymology: From the French form of the Late Latin saint's name Natalia, from nātālis (diēs) (“birthday [of Christ], Christmas”). Doublet of Natalya.
Senses: examples: text: […] often I have listened to my dear brother, as he told me the pretty story of the sad gentleman whom he met, when I was but an infant, and how he spoke to me so tenderly, and sighed for his own Natalie. I had no other name then but Sea-flower, and I have been called by that name ever since; yet after that day, my Christian name was Natalie.
ref: 1860, Emma V. Hallett, Natalie: A Gem Among the Sea-weeds, W. F. Draper, published 1860, page 264:
text: I was ashamed of my very name, Natalie. Nobody else in town had the name Natalie. I wanted to have a name like Frances or Elizabeth, as two of the most popular little girls were named. When old ladies at church would say to me kindly enough,"What's your name, little girl?" I would answer "Natalie," and they would say, "Madaline, Mattie, what did you say?"
ref: 1964, Natalie Robinson Cole, The Arts in the Classroom, The John Day Company, page 129:
text: ELSTON. Natalie is a beautiful name.
NATALIE. Well, yes. It is. Thank you.
ELSTON. A real spy name. My wife Natasha has a spy name and I'm forever telling her […]
ref: 1998, Phyllis Nagy, Plays 1, Methuen Drama, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Natalia
natalitial
Natasha
Noel
Noelle
famadihana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: famadihanas
Senses: glosses: A Madagascan ceremony in which a corpse is exhumed, wrapped in fresh cloth, and reburied, to the accompaniment of dancing.
b-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: basketball
permeabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permeabilizations
Senses: glosses: the act, process or result of making something, such as a membrane or cell wall, permeable - often through the use of surfactants
Derived terms: electropermeabilization
nonpermeabilization
prepermeabilization
sonopermeabilization
Weymouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.məθ/
rhymes: -eɪməθ
Etymology: In England, from Wey + mouth, referring to that river's mouth. The village in Nova Scotia is named after the city in Massachusetts.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish (with a town council) in Dorset, England, previously in Weymouth and Portland district (OS grid ref SY6779).
glosses: A city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A village in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Weymouth and Portland
Related terms: Waymouth
Portsmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Portesmuða, from Old English Portesmuða.
Senses: examples: text: When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; […]
ref: 1892, Sir George Giffard, Reminiscences of a Naval Officer, page 45:
glosses: A city, unitary authority, and borough of Hampshire, in southern England.
glosses: A village in Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England, on the border with Lancashire (OS grid ref SD9026).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A town in Saint John parish, Dominica.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Shelby County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bay County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former town on Portsmouth Island, Carteret County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in northern Portland, Oregon.
examples: text: […] not exceeding six Persons for Newport foure Persons for each of the respective Townes of Providence Portsmouth and Warwicke and two Persons for each other Place Towne or Citty […]
ref: 1663, John Clarke, Charles II of England (signatory), Rhode Island Royal Charter, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2022, second of three blocks of text, lines 5–6:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Newport County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An independent city in south-east Virginia.
glosses: An English earldom
Synonyms: sense: city in southern England
word: Pompey
Derived terms: Portsmouth defence
Portsmouth yardstick
Exeter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛksɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɛɡzɪtə/
homophone: exiter
Etymology: From Middle English Excestre, from Old English Exanceaster: Ex (“the river Exe”) + ċeaster (“town”), 'the Roman city of Isca'.
Senses: glosses: A city and local government district, the county town of Devon, in south-west England.
glosses: A village in Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: A small town in Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A community in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Tulare County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in the town of Lebanon, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Scott County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Monroe County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Barry County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Otsego County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Green County, Wisconsin.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Exeter College, Oxford.
Derived terms: Exeter point
Exeter stew
Related terms: Exonian
Southampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊθˈæmptən/
ipa: /saʊθˈhæmptən/
Forms: form: Southhampton
Etymology: From Old English Sūþhāmtūn. The Domesday Book (1086) records the town as Hantone and Hantune.
Senses: examples: text: Standing in the dock at Southampton
Trying to get to Holland or France
ref: 1969, The Beatles, The Ballad of John and Yoko:
text: And it's not just freight that arrives here. I notice several massive passenger liners, looking more like floating blocks of flats rather than the elegant ships from the days when 'POSH' was coined. The arrival of just one of these behemoths can swamp Southampton station with passengers and luggage, but not today.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 50:
glosses: A city, unitary authority, and borough of Hampshire, in southern England.
qualifier: usually "The County of Southampton"
glosses: Hampshire.
glosses: A barony in the peerage of Great Britain.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A rural community and parish of York County, New Brunswick.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Bruce County, Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upper Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Four townships, in Bedford County, Cumberland County, Franklin County and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Houston, Texas.
glosses: A parish in Bermuda.
Derived terms: County of Southampton
Lower Southampton
Southampton County
Southampton elm
Southampton Island
Southamptonshire
Southampton Six
Southampton Water
Upper Southampton
Related terms: Northampton
Sotonian
Southsea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SZ6499).
glosses: A village in Broughton community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3051).
Dorchester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)ˌtʃɛstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʃɪstə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Ultimately from Celtic *Durno-wāriā (Latin Durnovāria) + Old English ċeaster (“fort, Roman town”).
The civil parish in New Brunswick and Ontario town are named in honour of colonial administrator Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724 - 1808).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Dorset, southern England, which is the county town (OS grid ref SY6990).
synonyms: Dorchester-on-Thames
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Dorchester-on-Thames Parish Council) in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames (OS grid ref SU5794).
glosses: A civil parish and shire town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town in Thames Centre municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Macoupin County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Waterloo Township, Allamakee County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Saline County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in what is now Dorchester County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Grayson County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village mostly in Clark County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Dorchester County
Dorchester on Thames
Swanage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈswɒnɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From Middle English Swanwiche, from Old English swan (“swan”) or swān (“herdsman, swain”) + wīċ (“village”).
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0378).
Yeovil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjoʊvɪl/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5516).
Related terms: english: civil parish
translation: civil parish
word: Yeovil Without
Poole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
homophone: pool
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: Pooles
Etymology: From pool.
Senses: glosses: A town in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.
glosses: A civil parish (served by Worleston and District Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6455).
glosses: A census-designated place in Webster County and Henderson County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A village in Tartu County, Estonia.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Chichester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪt͡ʃɪstə/
Etymology: Reputedly from Old English personal name Ċissa + ċeaster (“fort, manor, town”). Otherwise the first element could come from Old English *ċisse (“a gravelly place”).
Senses: synonyms: Chi
glosses: A cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8504).
glosses: A local government district in western West Sussex, with its headquarters in the city.
glosses: A small area of South Shields, Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3665).
glosses: A township municipality and village in Pontiac regional county municipality, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County, New York, United States.
glosses: A region in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States; see "Derived terms" below.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Lower Chichester
New Chichester
Upper Chichester
Bognor Regis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English. In a document of 680 AD, it is referred to as Bucgan ora, "Bucge's shore". The Regis (from Latin rex (“king”)) was added after King George V stayed there to convalesce.
Bucgan can be derived from 'Bucca' which means a 'male goat' hence the 'goat shore', as most Saxon village names describe what the place did or produced.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SZ9399).
wikipedia: King George V
Synonyms: Bognor
Newquay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːkiː/
Etymology: From new + quay, for a quay built here in the 15th century.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council, on the north coast of Cornwall, south west England (OS grid ref SW8161).
Wareham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛəɹəm/
Forms: form: Warehams
Etymology: From Old English Werhām, from Old English wer (“weir”) + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A market town in Wareham Town parish, Dorset, England, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9287).
glosses: A placename:
A community in the town of Centreville-Wareham-Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A community in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A ghost town in Pine County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Wareham St Martin
Wareham Town
Kosovo and Metohia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kosovo and Metohija
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Косово и Метохија (Kosovo i Metohija, “Kosovo and Metohija”), the official Serbian term for the self-declared independent republic of Kosovo, which the government of Serbia does not recognize, but regards as part of Serbia.
Senses: glosses: An autonomous province of Serbia; a term used of Kosovo by those who do not recognize the Republic of Kosovo.
Synonyms: Kosovo
grockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grockles
form: grockel
Etymology: The origin of the word is uncertain. A derivation has been suggested from the eponymous dragon-like creature in the obsolete The Dandy comic strip "Jimmy and his Grockle", based on an earlier strip, "Jimmy Johnson's Grockle", in The Rover comic in the 1920s, somehow leading to use in the present sense in the movie The System (1964). It is doubtful that the word's use in the West of England goes back farther than that.
Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English also refers to the film The System but suggests another derivation, that holiday visitors in Torbay were compared to little clowns, and Grock (1880–1959) was a famous clown at the time.
A more straightforward derivation is 'grackle' an old term for the jackdaw, from the Latin graculus. It is apposite when considering large numbers of visitors noisily flocking to their holiday destinations.
Senses: examples: text: The grockles were not well served on the Marina of late.
ref: 2009, Guy Adams, chapter 1, in Torchwood: The House that Jack Built:
qualifier: various parts of the West Country
glosses: A tourist from elsewhere in the country
Derived terms: grockle art
pictures for selling to grockles
grockle bait
cheap arcades
grockle box and grockle shell
caravan
grockle can
a tourist bus
grockle catcher
an easy to reach beach
beauty spot which acts to stop tourists finding other local spots
grockle fodder
fish and chips
grockle nest
a holiday home
second home
Related terms: emmet
overner
similar term used by residents of the Isle of Wight used more to refer to non-natives who have moved to the island to live
work. “I’ve lived here 20 years
but I’m still seen as an overner”
pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪktʃəz/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt͡ʃɚz/
rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of picture
pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪktʃəz/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt͡ʃɚz/
rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ)z
Senses: examples: text: We go to the pictures every Saturday night.
glosses: cinema, movie theatre
pictures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪktʃəz/
ipa: /ˈpɪkt͡ʃɚz/
rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of picture
feared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɹd/
ipa: /fɪəd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more feared
form: most feared
Etymology: From fear + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
glosses: Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
Derived terms: fearedness
unfeared
feared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɹd/
ipa: /fɪəd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English ferd, feerd, fered, equivalent to fear + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fear
attempted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛmptɪd/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Senses: examples: text: She is facing jail time for attempted robbery.
text: An attempted coup.
glosses: Tried, with the connotation of failure.
Derived terms: attempted murder
attempted rape
attempted suicide
unattempted
attempted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛmptɪd/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attempt
rested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛstəd/
Forms: form: more rested
form: most rested
Senses: glosses: recovered
raw_tags: with "well"
Derived terms: well-rested
rested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstɪd/
ipa: /ˈɹɛstəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rest
attacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtækt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attack
sounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Etymology: Doublet of sonata.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sound
suspected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səsˈpɛktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Bring in the suspected vandal.
glosses: believed to be a cause or at fault.
Derived terms: suspectedly
suspectedness
suspected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səsˈpɛktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suspect
restored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭstôrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstɔɹd/
enpr: rĭstôdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rĭstōrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈstoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more restored
form: most restored
Senses: examples: text: A fully restored Volkswagen Beetle will cost more.
text: Arley's ferry boat has been replaced by a single-span pedestrian bridge. This leads to the old Harbour Inn and the impeccably restored railway station, now part of the privately run steam-operated Severn Valley Railway.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 389, about Upper Arley:
glosses: Pertaining to something or someone renewed or rebuilt.
restored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭstôrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstɔɹd/
enpr: rĭstôdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈstɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rĭstōrdʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈstoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of restore
begins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɡɪnz/
ipa: /bəˈɡɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begin
humble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˈʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: humbles
Etymology: From Middle English humble, from Old French humble, umble, humle, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek χαμηλός (khamēlós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”). See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōd.
Senses: examples: text: You're on a corner in my district, it ain't gonna be about no humble, it ain't gonna be about no loitering charge, nothing like that. There gonna be some biblical shit happening to you on the way to that motherfucking jail wagon.
ref: 2004 October 17, Ed Burns, “Straight and True”, in The Wire, season 3, episode 5 (television production), spoken by Howard "Bunny" Colvin (Robert Wisdom), via HBO:
text: Years ago, guys on Baltimore's streets would have, by definition, called an arrest for loitering a "humble."
ref: 2005 April 23, Gregory Kane, “'Jive humble' arrests help fill Central Booking's cell”, in Baltimore Sun:
text: A humble is a cheap, inconsequential arrest that nonetheless gives the guy a night or two in jail before he sees a court commissioner. You can arrest people on “failure to obey,” it’s a humble. Loitering is a humble. These things were used by police officers going back to the ‘60s in Baltimore. It’s the ultimate recourse for a cop who doesn't like somebody who's looking at him the wrong way.
ref: 2015 April 29, “David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish”, in The Marshall Project:
qualifier: Baltimore
glosses: An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
humble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˈʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: humbles
form: humbling
form: humbled
form: humbled
Etymology: From Middle English humblen (“to humble”), from the adjective above.
Senses: examples: text: Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Humble yourselues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God, that hee may exalt you in due time,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 5:6:
text: But, after the death of the master, the servant proved himself capable of supplying with eminent ability the master's place, and was renowned throughout Europe as one of the great Triumvirate which humbled the pride of Lewis the Fourteenth.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 68–69:
glosses: To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
examples: text: And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
ref: 1979 September 27, Leonard Cohen, “Humbled in Love”, in Recent Songs:
text: The final, quiet moments of the book return to Sten; his experience of his sick son humbles him, just as his aging body humbles him, and Boyle seems to suggest this makes him a better man.
ref: 2015 April 8, Dana Spiotta, “T. C. Boyle’s ‘The Harder They Come’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
Synonyms: abase
lower
depress
humiliate
mortify
disgrace
degrade
Derived terms: word: humblehood
word: humbleness
word: humbler
word: humbly
humble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˈʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: humbles
form: humbling
form: humbled
form: humbled
Etymology: From Middle English *humblen, *humbelen (suggested by humblynge (“a humming, a faint rumbling”)), frequentative of Middle English hummen (“to hum”), equivalent to hum + -le.
Senses: examples: text: humbling and bumbling
glosses: To hum.
Related terms: humblebee
humble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˈʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: humbles
Senses: examples: text: humble cattle
glosses: Alternative form of hummel.
humble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbəl/
ipa: /ˈʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: humbles
form: humbling
form: humbled
form: humbled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hummel.
readers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹidɚz/
ipa: /ˈɹiːdəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of reader
glosses: Reading glasses
inches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of inch
inches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inch
accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of account
accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of account
reports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔɹts/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔːts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: plural of report
reports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔɹts/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔːts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of report
Jews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: jews
form: Jewes
form: Juice
form: 🧃
Senses: glosses: plural of Jew
Jews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: jews
form: Jewes
form: Juice
form: 🧃
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Jew
beings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of being
marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹks/
ipa: /mɑːks/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ks
homophone: Marks
homophone: marques
homophone: Marx
Senses: glosses: plural of mark
Derived terms: full marks
marks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹks/
ipa: /mɑːks/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ks
homophone: Marks
homophone: marques
homophone: Marx
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mark
Derived terms: X marks the spot
presents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛzənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of present
presents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛzənts/
Senses: examples: text: Know all men by these presents...
text: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July^([sic – meaning January]) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
ref: 1974 September 8, Gerald R. Ford, 00:24 from the start, in Proclamation 4311, archived from the original on 18 May 2017, page 2:
topics: law
glosses: The contents of the present document: the one in which the word presents appears.
presents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈzɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of present
additions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɪʃənz/
homophone: editions (weak vowel merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of addition
poems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.ɪmz/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.əmz/
ipa: /poʊmz/
rhymes: -əʊɪmz
rhymes: -oʊəmz
rhymes: -oʊmz
Forms: form: poëms
form: pœems
Senses: glosses: plural of poem
owns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊnz/
ipa: /oʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
rhymes: -oʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of own
advantages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːn.tɪ.dʒɪz/
ipa: /ədˈvæn.(t)ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of advantage
advantages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɑːn.tɪ.dʒɪz/
ipa: /ədˈvæn.(t)ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advantage
rest on one's laurels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rests on one's laurels
form: resting on one's laurels
form: rested on one's laurels
form: rested on one's laurels
Senses: examples: text: "Rail has a good basis for promoting green travel options, but we can't rest on our laurels. We need to keep on moving forwards because other modes are upping their games as well," says Brennan-Brown.
ref: 2020 December 16, Daniel Puddicombe, “Treated DMUs become cleaner and greener”, in Rail, page 47:
text: Manchester City won an incredible five trophies last year but the most successful sides rarely rest on their laurels and they will be determined to enjoy success again this year.
ref: 2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To rely on a past success instead of trying to improve oneself further.
attempts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛmpts/
Senses: glosses: plural of attempt
attempts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛmpts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attempt
perspicuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perspicuously
form: most perspicuously
Etymology: From perspicuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing:
glosses: With clarity and lucidity.
Related terms: perspective
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicacity
perspicuity
perspicuous
perspicuousness
perspicaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perspicaciously
form: most perspicaciously
Etymology: From perspicacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With the power of seeing or understanding clearly; quick-sightedly; with sharp of sight.
glosses: With acute discernment; keenly; with mental perception.
Related terms: conspicuous
perspective
perspicacious
perspicaciousness
perspicacity
perspicuity
perspicuous
perspicuously
perspicuousness
tako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蛸 (tako).
Senses: glosses: The flesh of octopus as used in sushi.
beta reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta readers
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: A person who informally proofreads another person's text before the latter makes it available to the general public.
Hypernyms: proofreader
compensator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compensators
Etymology: From compensate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
examples: text: Anything that reverses the direction of movement in a length of point rodding will act as a compensator over an equal length on each side of it; […].
ref: 1944 July and August, “The Why and the Wherefore: Point-Rod Compensators”, in Railway Magazine, page 256:
glosses: Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
examples: text: Compensators ensure less heat is provided to a room on a warmer day. They may be implemented mechanically, electronically or in software.
glosses: A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
Derived terms: muzzle compensator
Related terms: compensable
compensative
compensatory
compensational
Horus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [hɔːɹəs]
rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
Etymology: From Late Latin Hōrus, from Ancient Greek Ὧρος (Hôros), from Egyptian ḥr.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.
Derived terms: Horian
Horus name
Isis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′sĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.səs/
homophone: ISIS
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Īsis from Ancient Greek Ἶσις (Îsis), from Egyptian st-t:H8-B1 (ꜣst).
Senses: examples: text: Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart
ref: 2009, Behemoth, Defiling Morality ov Black God:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
examples: text: Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
ref: 1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light:
text: 'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
ref: 1995, Iain Banks, Whit:
glosses: A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 42 Isis
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊷
Related terms: Isiac
Isidian
Isidora
Isidore
Isis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′sĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.səs/
homophone: ISIS
Forms: form: the Isis
Etymology: Back-formation from Tamesis (“Latin name for Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis. The prison was named after the river.
Senses: examples: text: Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.
ref: 1906, Geraldine Mitton, chapter IV, in The Thames, London: A. & C. Black:
qualifier: especially Oxfordshire; otherwise dated; especially Oxfordshire; otherwise dated
glosses: The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
Isis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′sĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.səs/
homophone: ISIS
Etymology: Back-formation from Tamesis (“Latin name for Thames”), from the assumption that the word was derived from a compound of Thame (“A tributary of the Thames”) and Isis. The prison was named after the river.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
Isis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī′sĭs
ipa: /ˈaɪ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.səs/
homophone: ISIS
Senses: examples: text: The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.
sequencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequencers
Etymology: From sequence + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any device that activates or deactivates the components of a machine or system according to a preplanned sequence (as in a washing machine, or central heating system).
examples: a MIDI sequencer
glosses: A device or system that orders and/or modifies digitally stored music and sound for playback.
glosses: A device for determining the sequence of monomers in a polymer, especially amino acids in protein, or bases in DNA; A sequenator.
glosses: A control device to increase/decrease the capacity of plant that is enabled to act in a specific order or sequence.
Derived terms: english: enables/disables additional boilers in large buildings as the demand for heat increases due external temperature compensation
translation: enables/disables additional boilers in large buildings as the demand for heat increases due external temperature compensation
word: boiler sequencer
english: enables a pump while keeping a second pump as
translation: enables a pump while keeping a second pump as
word: pump rotation sequencer
word: but periodically changes the sequence to ensure even maintenance
word: state sequencer
faitour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪtə/
Forms: form: faitours
form: faitor
form: faytor
form: fayter
Etymology: From Middle English faitour, from Anglo-Norman faitour (cognate with Old French faitor (“doer, maker”), from Latin factor, factōrem, from facere (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: Allas sayd kynge Lot I am ashamed / for by my defaute ther is many a worshipful man slayne / for and we had ben to gyders there hadde ben none hooste vnder the heuen that had ben abel for to haue matched with vs / This fayter with his prophecye hath mocked me
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
english: Alas, said King Lot, I am ashamed, for through my absence many a distinguished man has been slain, for if we had been together there would have been no host under heaven that could have matched us; this faitour has mocked me with his prophecy.
translation: Alas, said King Lot, I am ashamed, for through my absence many a distinguished man has been slain, for if we had been together there would have been no host under heaven that could have matched us; this faitour has mocked me with his prophecy.
bold_translation_offsets: 203
210
text: Into new woes vnweeting I was cast, / By this false faytor[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Quick, now, little faitour. What do you want to know about Gondal?
ref: 1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother:
glosses: A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
falciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fălʹsĭfôrm
ipa: /ˈfæl.sɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈfɒl.sɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈfæl.sɪ.fɔɹm/
Forms: form: more falciform
form: most falciform
Etymology: From Latin falx (“sickle”, stem falc-) + -iform (“-shaped”).
Senses: examples: text: What announced the accomplishment of this rise in temperature?
A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, page 627:
text: David realized he’d been unconsciously pushing his nails into his palms, leaving little red falciform marks.
ref: 2009, Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake:
glosses: Sickle-shaped.
Derived terms: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: falciform cartilage
word: falciformity
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: falciform ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: falciform process
word: subfalciform
Related terms: english: horsemanship
translation: horsemanship
word: falcade
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: falcated
raw_tags: in botany and zoölogy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
botany
biology
natural-sciences
alt: and zoölogy
word: falcate
word: falcation
english: sword-play
translation: sword-play
word: case of falchions
english: sword-play
translation: sword-play
word: double falchion
english: sword-play
translation: sword-play
word: single falchion
word: falchion
word: falciferous
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: falciparum
word: Grand Falconer
word: Great Falconer
word: falconer
word: falconet
word: falcon-eyed
word: falcon-face
word: falcon-fisher
word: falcon-flight
word: falcon-guise
word: falconish
word: falcon-like
word: falcon-nest
word: falcon shot
word: falcon
word: falcon-gentle
alt: zoölogy
word: falconine
word: falconry
word: falculate
farraginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
ipa: /fəˈɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more farraginous
form: most farraginous
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC:
text: Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
fascinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæsɪnəm/
Forms: form: fascina
Etymology: From the Latin fascinum.
Senses: examples: text: Here are some brides of ten compelled to seat themselves on the fascinum, the virile ivory in the temples of classical scholarship.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
text: Today people use a four-leaf clover, the pompom from a European sailor’s hat, the fascinum (winged phallus, some of which were found in the ruins of Pompeii and seemed to have done little good there), and so on.
ref: 1988, Leonard R. N. Ashley, The Amazing World of Superstition, Prophecy, Luck, Magic & Witchcraft, Random House Value Publishing, →ISBN, page 107, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
occult
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.