cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
otosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otoscleroses
Etymology: From oto- + sclerosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Sclerosis of the tissues of the labyrinth and middle ear.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Loss of hearing due to injury of the auditory nerve by certain drugs and poisons, such as quinine and tobacco.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Loss of the ability to understand the spoken word, although the sound is heard.
Related terms: otosclerotic
otoscleroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otosclerosis
odynphagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odynophagia.
wordly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wordly
form: most wordly
Etymology: From word + -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.
Senses: examples: text: But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.
ref: 1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248:
text: "The reality of the wordly words as the word of God is not pneumatologically grounded by Calvin — neither is the church proclaimed word in virtue of its power of divine ordinance a word of God's Spirit imparted for all times, nor is it made more and more God's word through the Holy Spirit—[...]
ref: 1970, Benjamin Charles Milner, Calvin's Doctrine of the Church - Page 105:
text: For in speaking of "syntax," I have employed a concept that is used about the use of words. I have, in other words, "talked" about the nonverbal in a "wordly" way.
ref: 1993, William H. Poteat, James M. Nickell, James W. Stines, The Primacy of Persons and the Language of Culture: Essays:
text: We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.
ref: 2008, Manuel Dries, Nietzsche on Time and History - Page 157:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
wordship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From word + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "But it expressed his thought perfectly then to all English-speaking people, and does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is unknown to custom, but it has all the conditions of wordship, and is a much better English word than very many in "Webster's Dictionary."
ref: 1883, Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, Past and Present, page 200:
glosses: The state, condition, or status of a word.
deadheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deadheartedly
form: most deadheartedly
Etymology: From deadhearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Did he come so cheerfully to die for me, and do I go so deadheartedly to prayers and sacraments to enjoy fellowship with him?
ref: 1990, C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: In a deadhearted manner; listlessly.
dead-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dead-hearted
form: most dead-hearted
Etymology: From dead + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: An eighteenth-century planter in Virginia complained: "My people seem to be quite dead-hearted and either cannot or will not work."
ref: 1981, David G. Sweet, Gary B. Nash, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of deadhearted.
Derived terms: dead-heartedly
dead-heartedness
dead-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dead-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The essence of the spiritual warfare in which Christians are involved is battling to say "no" when the world, the flesh, and the devil urge you to say "yes," and to say "yes" when weariness, dead-heartedness, and unbelief prompt you to say "no."
ref: 2009, J. I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: Alternative form of deadheartedness.
dead-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dead-heartedly
form: most dead-heartedly
Etymology: From dead-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have prayed for strength for such a duty, and find it come off as weakly and dead-heartedly as before.
ref: 1862, William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour, page 22:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deadheartedly.
down-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And now the sight of the two bottom fields, their gently undulating topography now changed beyond all recognition, exacerbated his down-heartedness.
ref: 2013, Robin Pilcher, chapter 24, in Starting Over, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of downheartedness.
down-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more down-heartedly
form: most down-heartedly
Etymology: From down-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "That sounds pretty hopeless," Holly said down-heartedly.
ref: 2007, Hildegard Caringi, Once Upon a Sandcastle, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of downheartedly.
faint-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.
ref: 2014, Ute Frevert, Pascal Eitler, Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Daniel Brűckenhaus, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, Anja Laukőtter, Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Alternative form of faintheartedness.
faint-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faint-heartedly
form: most faint-heartedly
Senses: examples: text: Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again.
ref: 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric Dreamed a Dream”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: Alternative spelling of faintheartedly.
false-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From false-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mankind have not, in their estimate of Elizabeth's character, condemned so decidedly the substantial acts which she performed, as the duplicity, the false-heartedness, and the false pretensions which she manifested in performing them.
ref: 2009, Jacob Abbott, History of Elizabeth, Queen of England, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Alternative form of falseheartedness.
false-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more false-heartedly
form: most false-heartedly
Etymology: From false-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She "false-heartedly" fawned upon Mr. Gilson, and inquired: "Is there anything very exciting going on at the mills, Gene?"
ref: 1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air:
glosses: Alternative form of falseheartedly.
Shangri-la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shangri-las
Senses: examples: text: He couldn't believe it when he'd discovered there actually was a town called Bedford Falls. It seemed like fans of the film had all collected there to live out their lives in a self-created 1940s American Shangri-la.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor [i.e., Rob Grant and Doug Naylor], Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
text: Tiki Style was forged in the business of bars and restaurants and celebrated in backyard luaus and at theme parks like Disneyland and roadside attractions such as Tiki Gardens. As these ersatz Shangri-las competed to outdo each other with the latest tropical-inspired styles, the popularity of the neighborhood Tiki lounge soared.
ref: 2004, Otto von Stroheim, “Introduction”, in Tiki Art Now!: A Volcanic Eruption of Art, San Francisco, Calif.: Last Gasp of San Francisco; The Shooting Gallery, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Shangri-La.
delayed puberty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delayed puberties
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The absence of any signs of puberty by a specified age, such as 14 years or 2.5 standard deviations above the mean age at onset of puberty in a population.
Related terms: hypogonadism
late bloomer
milwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milwells
form: millwell
form: mulvil
form: melwell
form: mellwell
form: myllewell
form: myllwell
form: melwel
form: mulvel
form: milwel
form: mellewelle
form: mylwell
Etymology: From Middle English milwell (amid many other forms), from Anglo-Norman meluel (amid other forms) and Old French moluel, probably from moruel, from Old Breton mor (“sea”) (from Proto-Brythonic *mor) + Old French lus and luz (“pike, [as sea-luce] hake”) + -el (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
milwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milwell
mulvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulvels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
mulvels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulvel
milwel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milwels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
milwels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milwel
mellewelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellewelles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of milwell.
mellewelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellewelle
mellwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellwells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
mellwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellwell
myllewell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myllewells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myllwell.
myllewells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myllewell
myllwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myllwells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mylwell.
myllwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myllwell
mylwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mylwells
form: myllwell
form: myllewell
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
mylwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mylwell
JSTL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.
freestyle skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alpine skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, skidance, and slopestyle. It is included as part of the Winter Olympics, and the X-Games.
Hypernyms: skiing
Related terms: freeskiing
freestyle snowboarding
derived units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derived unit
freeheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freehearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike us, to him money meant nothing. He would work hard for thirty dollars a month, then spend it all with his characteristic freeheartedness in an hour of relaxation.
ref: 1986, Don Dedera, The cactus sandwich and other tall tales of the Southwest, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: The quality or state of being freehearted.
freeheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freeheartedly
form: most freeheartedly
Etymology: From freehearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Before dawn on Sunday ew had put Nagasaki behind us and were off on our 445 mile sail to Shanghai, regretful at leaving a country and a people who had entertained us so lavishly and free-heartedly for a week that always will be a luster of red letter days in the memory of all.
ref: 1909, Robert H. Murray, Around the World with Taft:
text: So now, I think, you know all about it, — and you see you may do what you can for me, freeheartedly — without fear of harm — and for Aracoeli sake.
ref: 1964, John Ruskin, William Francis Cowper-Temple Mount-Temple (1st baron), The Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: In a freehearted manner; lightly and without constraint or worry.
free-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-hearted
form: most free-hearted
Etymology: From free + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: I was not made of sugar, I was no mollycoddle to be afraid of an ill-aired bed or a sprinkle of snow; and I would knock upon the table with my fist and call for t'other bottle, like the noisy and free-hearted young gentleman I was.
ref: 1897, Nathaniel Hawthorne, St. Ives:
text: He was simply one of those many thousand England yearly turns out from her public schools of fine, dashing, free-hearted, careless boys, whose most marked feature in character is a wholesome horror of all that is mean or shabby.
ref: 2009, Charles Lever, One of Them, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of freehearted.
Derived terms: free-heartedly
free-heartedness
free-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “Well, indeed,” exclaimed Zenobia, recovering herself and laughing, “this is an adventure, and well worthy to be the first incident in our life of love and free-heartedness!
ref: 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance:
glosses: Alternative form of freeheartedness.
free-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more free-heartedly
form: most free-heartedly
Etymology: From free-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He is a happy-go-lucky bibbler, one who cares not for tomorrow, and for whom every day alike hath its joys—and he rides over them free-heartedly, open-handedly, and without the slightest trepidation for the furtive future.
ref: 2008, George J. Morris, Charleston's Greek Heritage, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of freeheartedly.
moo juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moo (“noise made by a cow”) + juice (“extracted liquid”).
Senses: examples: text: I swore off moo juice when I got out of diapers.
ref: 2006, Sheila Wood Foard, Harvey Girl, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Cow's milk.
audio description
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio descriptions
form: audiodescription
form: audio-description
Senses: synonyms: AD
video description
coordinate_terms: described video
glosses: An audio track on a video recording, timed to the footage of a film, that typically consists of a narrator describing what is happening in the film being shown.
glosses: The process of making such tracks.
Derived terms: AD
Related terms: described audio
ST
subtitle
subtitling
CC
closed caption
closed captioning
fondant icing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soft preparation made from icing sugar and water, used to decorate cakes.
USOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of United States Orbital Segment (“the part of the International Space Station that was contributed by the United States of America, or using NASA specification-based modules”).
Coordinate terms: ROS
melwel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melwels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melwell.
melwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melwells
form: melwel
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
melwels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melwel
melwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melwell
mulvil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulvils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
millwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millwells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milwell.
mulvils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulvil
millwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millwell
Atlantic cods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantic cod
fortuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortuity
adlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adlets
Etymology: From ad + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Many ambitious men have used these adlets to better their positions and incomes.
ref: 1916, Hide and Leather's Year Book and Directory for ...:
glosses: A small advertisement.
examples: text: 5 Merging of Adlets
Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...
ref: 1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IW-MMDBMS ...
text: In our example, an adlet is created to perform the airline reservation. Such an adlet is equipped with the capability to interact with the airline reservation system and issue transactions to obtain available flights, seats and prices.
ref: 1999, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Leszek Maciaszek, Proceedings, ... International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE, →ISBN:
text: The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents. Adlets autonomously travel from site to site on the Internet, advertising its contents and ...
ref: 2000, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.
adlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adlets
form: Adlet
Etymology: From Inuktitut.
Senses: examples: text: Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.
ref: 2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN:
text: An adlet is part-human and part-canine, […]. They can be cannibals, eating other dogs. When they first hunt prey they go for the victim's throat and drink the fresh blood.
ref: 2012, Lisa Regan, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Amber Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:
text: ... that one of their ancestors has been married to a dog and that they have canine blood in their veins. This does not mean, of course, that they can transform themselves into an Adlet or that they enjoy any special protection from its attentions.
ref: 2016, Dr. Bob Curran, Andy Paciorek, The Carnival Of Dark Dreams, →ISBN, page 56:
text: "We could mate with humans, but then we'd have to expose our existence, and there's no guarantee that the baby will be an adlet." She cleared her throat. "Of course, I'd love a human baby just as much as an adlet, but we need more halflings […]"
[…]
The dogs mated with other dogs and stayed in their canine form, but the halflings mated with both humans and dogs and so the adlets continued to spread across the land, always evolving. Some adlet families are more human than dog, ...
ref: 2019, Laura Greenwood, Skye MacKinnon, Under the Ice, Peryton Press:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
zoology
glosses: A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).
doppel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.p(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.p(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: doppels
Etymology: A clipping of doppelganger; however, the words are not synonyms.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An identical copy of a person (such as a clone, virtual reality representation, etc.).
kokle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokles
Senses: examples: text: When listening to the song of the kokle, its melancholy cadences, and abrupt termination, always impressed my mind with the idea, that the broken strains were snatches of some mournful story, too full of wo to be told at once.
ref: Footnote to Kishen Kower in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's The Zenana. Quoted from Emma Roberts, Oriental Scenes
glosses: A dove of southern Asia
kokle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokles
form: kokles
Etymology: From Latvian kokle.
Senses: glosses: A stringed instrument from the Baltic region, especially Latvia
Hypernyms: chordophone
arborol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborols
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of dendrimer.
synonyms: word: dendrimer
arborols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arborol
upgliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Having an upglide.
downgliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Having a downglide.
bird of ill omen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds of ill omen
Etymology: - presumably from Ancient Roman augury
Senses: synonyms: bearer of bad news
glosses: A person who brings bad news.
blicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blick
blicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blicked
form: most blicked
Senses: examples: text: It's just I was, ya know, gone last night, blicked.
ref: 1991, Jill Eisenstadt, Kiss Out, page 215:
text: “You keep tellin' me you don't need takin' care of, so how come every time you get blicked, you gotta carry this shit around?”
ref: 2008, Robert Knightly, Denis Hamill, Alan Gordon, Queens Noir:
text: She practically falls down trying to stand. “Getting up too quick is like tin foil,” she says, and she grabs the table with both hands to steady herself. Whoa, Timmy thinks, this girl is blicked.
ref: 2017, Jill Eisenstadt, From Rockaway:
glosses: Out of it; intoxicated or not thinking clearly.
Derived terms: blicked up
blicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blick
pukara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Quechua pukara (“fortress”).
Senses: examples: text: Some of the largest pukaras had substantial villages and hamlets around their base.
ref: 2003, Charles Stanish, Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A defensive hilltop site or fortification built by the prehispanic inhabitants (primarily Inca and Aymara) of the central Andean area.
gameplaywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gameplay + -wise.
Senses: glosses: in terms of gameplay
Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Witnesses
Senses: glosses: A Jehovah's Witness.
UATP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Universal Air Travel Plan: an airline-owned payment network.
skivvied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skivvy
skivvying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skivvy
playpark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playparks
form: play park
Etymology: From play + park.
Senses: examples: text: A playpark may embrace the whole range of children's recreational facilities or only a restricted number. The age group using these may range between five and 15 and the size from perhaps less than an acre to several acres.
ref: 1969, Gardeners' Chronicle, Horticultural Trade Journal:
text: The perils of my blanking out were brought home to me particularly harshly one night when we were at the playpark quite late, again.
ref: 2015, Amy Fusselman, Savage Park, page 67:
glosses: Synonym of playground.
synonyms: word: playground
playparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playpark
Bledsoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛdsoʊ/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cochran County, Texas, United States, named after Samuel T. Bledsoe.
Derived terms: Bledsoe County
futurologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more futurologically
form: most futurologically
Etymology: From futurological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a futurological manner or context.
fiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fiat
fiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fiat
unbypassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bypassed.
Senses: examples: text: An unbypassed capacitor.
glosses: not bypassed
faineant deity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faineant deities
Senses: glosses: A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshipped.
faineant deities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faineant deity
snides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snide
flannel flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannel flowers
Etymology: The texture of the downy hairs is supposed to resemble flannel.
Senses: glosses: Actinotus helianthi, an Australian flowering plant whose stem, branches and leaves are pale grey and covered in downy hair.
flannel flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flannel flower
fluviograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluviographs
Etymology: From fluvio- + graph.
Senses: examples: text: We represent in the annexed engravings, for which we are indebted to La Nature, two new registering devices, one termed the marograph, designed for tide measurements, the other the fluviograph, intended for similar examination of river and canal levels.
ref: 1875 October 9, Scientific American, page 227:
text: By fluviograph and rating table the volume was 19,636 cubic feet, the difference .being explained by the fact that the river was falling rapidly.
ref: 1903, Factory and Industrial Management, volume 24, page 345:
text: More records, however, are at hand for Gamboa than for Bohio, and the lowest reading at the Gamboa fluviograph occurred in the spring of 1901, when for a period of about two and one-half months the fluviograph at Gamboa indicated a stage of less than 14 meters almost continuously.
ref: 1904, John Grimes Walker, Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1899-1901:
glosses: An instrument for measuring and automatically recording the rise and fall of a river.
fluviographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluviograph
frit flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frit fly
four-cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-cycles
Senses: examples: text: […] well-known automobiles will be fitted with two-cycle engines, whereas they are now equipped with four-cycles.
ref: 1862, Gas Engine, volume 6, page 362:
glosses: Any four-stroke cycle, such as the Otto cycle, for an internal combustion engine.
four-cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four-cycle
fluviographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluvio- + -graphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the fluviograph or to fluviography
fly agarics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly agaric
deadly amanita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadly amanitas
Senses: glosses: The fly agaric mushroom.
fly amanita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly amanitas
Senses: glosses: fly agaric
fly fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly fungi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fly agaric.
synonyms: word: fly agaric
deadly amanitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadly amanita
fly amanitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly amanita
fly fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly fungus
fluviography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluvio- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: measurement with the fluviograph
homity pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homity pies
Senses: examples: text: The Slim Inn told us other main meals include torfu^([sic]) lasagne ($3.75), lentil rissoles ($3.20), peanut croquettes ($3.20) and olde English homity pie which contains potato, parsley, garlic and onions for $3.75.
ref: 1983 June 17, The Age, Melbourne, Australia, page 51:
text: […] homity pie with leeks, potato, spinach, parsley and cheese with a red pepper sauce […]
ref: 1997, Alisdair Aird, The Good Pub Guide 1998:
synonyms: Devon pie
glosses: A traditional British dish resembling quiche, with potatoes, onion, leek and cheese in a pastry case.
homity pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homity pie
flyaway grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æs
Etymology: So called from its light panicle, which is blown across great distances by the wind.
Senses: glosses: The hair grass Agrostis scabra.
ticklegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticklegrasses
Etymology: From tickle + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain grasses in the genus Agrostis.
ticklegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticklegrass
tamping irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamping iron
dipsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipsie
glosses: plural of dipsy
dipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipsies
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of dipsey.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dipsydoodle
dipsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipseys
form: dipsie
form: dipsy
Etymology: From deep sea.
Senses: examples: text: a dipsey line
text: "Soundin' is a trick, though," said Dan, "when your dipsey lead's all the eye you're like to hev for a week. What d'you make it, Dad?"
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Deep sea.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A deep-sea lead.
glosses: A sinker attached to a fishing line.
glosses: A line having several branches, each with such a sinker, used in deep-sea fishing.
dipseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipsey
rotten apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotten apple
there's a rotten apple in every barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: there are bad apples in every orchard
glosses: There is a bad person in any group.
fluents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluent
greatheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From greathearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius.
ref: 1854, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Famous Persons and Places, page 116:
text: That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.
ref: 1998, Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Jonathan Powell), The Republic and The Laws, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in.
ref: 2004, Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg, Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: The state or quality of being greathearted; courage or magnanimity.
Echu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old Irish, borne by several figures in Irish mythology and history.
greatheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more greatheartedly
form: most greatheartedly
Etymology: From greathearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I offered, greatheartedly and at once, to take them both out to the expensive French place in Dawn Street (I got a birthday bonus from work, too. £25. Happy birthday, Terry).
ref: 2010, Martin Amis, Success, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: In a greathearted manner; displaying greatheartedness.
great-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more great-hearted
form: most great-hearted
Etymology: From great + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: But it was surely true – on the basis of what they had done, where they had been and the time they had been away – that they were, as Bean put it, great-hearted men. What was the nation going to do for great-hearted men?
ref: 2010, Les Carlyon, The Great War, →ISBN, page 752:
text: And Bobbie Burns, that great-hearted man, stopped and put his hand on the head of little Walter and, speaking words of inspiration and cheer, said, "You can be a great writer someday, Walter, and you will be."
ref: 2000, Curtis Hutson, Great Preaching on Comfort, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of greathearted.
great-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Ah," cried Dick, "ye must find it in your great-heartedness to pardon me!
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
text: Great-heartedness leads us to undertake great and arduous works in every kind of Virtue without taking fright at their magnitude.
ref: 2012, Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Larger, and sometimes louder, than life, he dominated the stages on which he appeared with ebullience and great-heartedness.
ref: 2015, Stanley Wells, Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: Alternative form of greatheartedness.
half-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From half-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Often, half-heartedness signals when we feel duty-bound and believe we have little or no choice in what we do.
ref: 2011, Angeles Arrien, Living in Gratitude: A Journey That Will Change Your Life, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of halfheartedness.
fantigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantigue
fantique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantiques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fantigue.
fanteague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanteagues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fantigue.
fanteagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanteague
fantiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantique
fanteeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanteegs
Senses: examples: text: "Well, well; I've seen a number o' fanteegs round these parts in my time, but in all ninety year I never heard such a dovercourt as there were over that teetotal meetin'. […]
ref: 1909, Arthur Morrison, Green Ginger, page 273:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of fantigue.
fanteegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanteeg
hardheartednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we thought of the poor as what they really are, our suffering brothers and sisters, we should feel all our little hardheartednesses and carelessness about them a sin.
ref: 1869, Thomas Guthrie, The Sunday Magazine, page 244:
glosses: plural of hardheartedness
kugelblitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːɡl̩ˌblɪt͡s/
Forms: form: kugelblitzes
Etymology: German Kugelblitz (“ball lightning”).
Senses: examples: text: Specifically, what she’s talking about is called a kugelblitz—a kind of black hole formed not from the collapse of matter, but from an overwhelming intensity of heat or radiation...or light.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 303:
qualifier: theoretical physics
glosses: A concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped, forming a black hole.
kugelblitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kugelblitz
faxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faxer
ORS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of oral rehydration solution.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of olfactory reference syndrome.
hard-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard-heartednesses
Etymology: From hard-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times.
ref: 2008, Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, →ISBN, page 56:
text: For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love?
ref: 1998, John Milton, Roy Flannagan, The Riverside Milton, →ISBN, page 1187:
glosses: Alternative form of hardheartedness.
NOID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOIDs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of notification of infectious disease.
topics: government
glosses: Abbreviation of notice of intent to deny.
hard-heartednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He spoke last night of the great social whirl—of “the porcelains, chinas, hangings, laces, fine dinners, equipages, balls, shows, hypocrisies, hard-heartednesses that make it up,” arguing: “I hate it—hate it with my body and with the rest of me
ref: 1961, Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28 - July 14, 1888), page 142:
glosses: plural of hard-heartedness
HPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HPTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of health protection team.
hard-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hard-heartedly
form: most hard-heartedly
Etymology: From hard-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stephen protests to Bounderby that now he will be blacklisted, and Bounderby, with no regrets whatsoever, hard-heartedly agrees.
ref: 2006, Claudia Durst Johnson, Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of hardheartedly.
UAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UA
Tibetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tibetologists
Etymology: From Tibetology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Tibetology.
Tibetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tibetology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Tibetology.
Tibetologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tibetologist
Tibetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tibet + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of Tibet and its history and culture.
Related terms: Tibetological
Tibetologist
forecharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forecharges
form: forecharging
form: forecharged
form: forecharged
form: fore-charge
Etymology: From fore- + charge.
Senses: examples: text: Thus prophetic spake A voice of faith, forecharged with evolution's law.
ref: 1896, Ohio Educational Monthly, volume 45, numbers 1-36, page 98:
text: The rights are listed in article 35," and one or two of them merit some further comment: " person brought to administrative responsibility shall have the right to forecharge vprave znakomit'sia himself with the materials of the case..."
ref: 1982, Review of Socialist Law - Volume 8 - Page 57
text: We are charged with the instinct of the kind of unity-potential I have described, forecharged; and this is not subject to evolutionary development, is something that has been since the creation, and towards which the materiality of the universe has evolved, …
ref: 2004, Laura (Riding) Jackson, John Nolan, Alan James Clark, Under the Mind's Watch
glosses: To charge in advance.
forecharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecharges
form: fore-charge
Etymology: From fore- + charge.
Senses: examples: text: The city had a plan on paper which, as he had before stated, would cost 900,000l. and tho' comprehending a very extensive system of improvement, would be completed in 24 months, or three years at most, without any forecharge whatever.
ref: 1796, The Parliamentary Register
text: To such a party, a railway suddenly coming through the country to which he has retired to spend his leisure, must, indeed, be a God-send, if he chooses to hold himself out as an amenity witness, and if the forecharges are sustained.
ref: 1903, John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports:
glosses: A charge made beforehand or in advance.
examples: text: The fore-charges were individually packed in thin metal containers and loaded in the gun that way;
ref: 2014, Arthur J Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The shot in the forward part of a firearm cartridge.
forecharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecharge
heavy-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heavy-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: After a month or two of heavy-heartedness, I told myself, Time out, David. When your car breaks down, you see a mechanic, when you need money, you go to the bank; so when you can't figure out what's going on in your head, go find a shrink.
ref: 2003, David M. Delo, Beyond the Tears and Laughter: Insights from a Manic Depressive, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: sadness, depression, or melancholy.
foot candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot candle
foot-ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-tons
Senses: glosses: A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.
Related terms: foot-pound
foot-tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot-ton
heavy-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heavy-heartedly
form: most heavy-heartedly
Etymology: From heavy-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I watched them depart, heavy-heartedly. Would I ever see them again?
ref: 2014, Jacob J. Neufeld, Harvey L. Dyck, Sarah Dyck, Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule, →ISBN:
glosses: In a heavy-hearted manner; sadly, morosely.
heavyheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heavyhearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From the 1:45 p.m. roll call to 10 p.m. shift change, a bleak heavyheartedness hung in the air above everyone's heads. It didn't matter what side of the bars you were on, no one wanted to be there.
ref: 2014, Robert Reilly, Life in Prison: Eight Hours at a Time, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of heavy-heartedness.
heavyheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heavyheartedly
form: most heavyheartedly
Etymology: From heavyhearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He's like me brother, but twas too serious a matter to keep to meself,” John said, heavyheartedly.
ref: 2010, Nora Brabham, Tir Eoghain: The Life and Times of John Burnside, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of heavy-heartedly.
pussy pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy passes
Etymology: From pussy + pass, modelled after hall pass, etc.
Senses: examples: text: This is very strange. Her execution might have "stirred an unusual amount of attention because of her gender", but she got the death penalty and her two male accomplices didn't. Why didn't the pussy pass work here?
ref: 2010 September 24, Ted, “Re: Woman executed for double killing”, in soc.men (Usenet):
text: We notice the Sarah Palin-type Republican women that seem to be an embarrassment to everyone. They're beneficiaries of the pussy pass - that sort of ignorance and idiocy would never be tolerated in a man.
ref: 2010 October 19, Andrew Usher, “Women politicians!”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):
text: Affirmative action and the pussy pass in all matters costs men not only in terms of their rights, identity and dignity, but it costs women in terms of their psychological and emotional development.
ref: 2013, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy: Debunking Feminism and the Myth of Patriarchal Oppression, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
glosses: The tendency of women to receive lighter criminal sentences or be held to a lesser standard of personal accountability than men.
examples: text: "It won't buy you any wine," Paxton told him.
"I know that," the drunk replied in an insulted tone. "It's a pussy pass, ain't it?"
Paxton grinned wearily. "How would you know that? You'd rather have a snort than a screw any day."
ref: 1978, George G. Gilman, Edge: Red River, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Or when some gorgeous piece of ass in a Blades Jersey offers you a pussy pass good for one night only and you have to turn her down.
ref: 2007, Deirdre Martin, Chasing Stanley, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN:
text: Maybe it was the fact that women allowed their exes an all-access pussy pass, or men were too egotistical to believe their exes didn't want the dick anymore.
ref: 2013, Mary B. Morrison, Unconditionally Single, Dafina Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A notional ticket allowing a man to have sex with a woman.
Related terms: race card
high-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From high-hearted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was the high-heartedness of people which had won the war. It would be the high-heartedness of men and women which would bring sanity and serenity to a troubled world.
ref: 2006, Temple Bailey, The Trumpeter Swan, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Courage or nobility; heroism.
examples: text: In the four months following his review of The Homilies, we have a detailed record of Wesley's unremitting diligence, his intermittent anxieties and only occasional moments of joy and high-heartedness.
ref: 1980, John Wesley, A. C. Outler, John Wesley, →ISBN, page 16:
text: “I do not know, unless it is for your charms and high-heartedness, which draw people to you.
ref: 2013, Cynthia Voigt, Elske: A Novel of the Kingdom, →ISBN:
glosses: Liveliness, passion, or vivacity.
high-heartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more high-heartedly
form: most high-heartedly
Etymology: From high-hearted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "O, they wont shoot you," expostulated his friend, high-heartedly.
ref: 1982, William Dean Howells, Edwin H. Cady, Howells, 1875-1886, →ISBN, page 158:
text: So he continues high-heartedly at the search, and the years have in no way dimmed his ardor.
ref: 1995, W. K. McNeil, Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: Nobly or courageously.
examples: text: I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing!
ref: 1931, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (screenplay):
text: For the lady tired of them or, else, was smitten with convenient repentance: and these gay blades passed on high-heartedly to the embraces of yet other technically beautiful and accomplished and chaste playfellows.
ref: 2003, James Branch Cabell, Something about Eve, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Vivaciously, full of passion or energy.
highhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highhearted
form: most highhearted
Etymology: From high + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Highhearted youth comes not again Nor old heart's wisdom yet to know The signs that mock me as I go.
ref: 1918, James Joyce, Bahnhofstrasse:
text: The Queen of Navarre has, as I had heard full often, but now saw for myself, a highhearted courage.
ref: 2009, Caroline Atwater Mason, A Lily of France, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Some of them are highhearted signs of good cheer.
ref: 2010, Geoff Dyer, Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of high-hearted.
Derived terms: highheartedly
highheartedness