cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kars
Senses: examples: text: In the fifties the need for a Klown vehicle was evident and a King Midget Frame was acquired and a Klown Kar was added.
ref: 1989, International Shrine Clowns Association, page 26:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of car.
raw_tags: in product names
Related terms: kar seva
stretch marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As I write this, I am reminded of the scene from Shirley Valentine, when, to Shirley's amazement, her Greek lover kissed her stretch marks, referring to them as symbols of beauty.
ref: 1998 Judith C. Daniluk - Women's Sexuality Across the Life Span: Challenging Myths, Creating Meanings - Page 353
glosses: plural of stretch mark
X-linked gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-linked genes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any gene located on the sex chromosomes. Typically, these genes are found on the X chromosome and not on the Y chromosome.
Related terms: sex-linked trait
X-linked trait
X-linked genes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-linked gene
Related terms: sex-linked trait
X-linked trait
sor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sors
Etymology: Clipping of sorority, like frat from fraternity.
Senses: examples: text: “The Greeks have tons of influence on campus,” says one student. “Frats and sors allow for smaller groups of friends, making it easier to have a social identity.”
ref: 2004, The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005, page 327:
text: If you are not a part of a Frat/Sor, then it seems at though they are non-existent.
ref: 2011, Brian Washburn, University of Utah 2012:
glosses: A sorority (student organization).
nomisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nə(ʊ)ˈmɪzmə/
Forms: form: nomismata
form: nomismas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma).
Per Oxford Dictionary, the Online Etymology Dictionary, and Merriam Webster, money or currency, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”), itself from νόμος (nómos), usage or custom, omitting -ίζειν) and adding -ισμα.
Related to French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, as noted, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma).
Senses: glosses: Money or currency (modern).
glosses: Coinage, especially with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).
glosses: Current coin of a state (ancient).
glosses: Coinage, a monetary system.
examples: text: The silver miliarensia from that era were minted exclusively for propaganda purposes, and in smaller amounts than the gold coins (nomismas) and the copper alloy coins (folles). They were practically not used in circulation, although in theory twelve miliarensia were equal in value to a gold nomisma.
ref: 2022, Vladimir Penchev, “What the coins from the Preslav treasure can tell us about the social status of its owner”, in Contributions to Bulgarian Archaeology, volume XII, →DOI, →ISSN, page 70:
glosses: A byzant.
glosses: A stamp, an image on a coin.
Related terms: pecunia
headland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdlənd/
Forms: form: headlands
Etymology: From Middle English hedelond, hedelonde, from Old English hēafodland, hafudland (“boundary, headland”), equivalent to head + land. Eclipsed non-native Middle English chevicir (“headland”), borrowed from Old French chevecier (“head piece”).
Senses: synonyms: cape
peninsula
promontory
glosses: Coastal land that juts into the sea.
synonyms: word: furlong
english: obsolete except Britain, dialectal
translation: obsolete except Britain, dialectal
coordinate_terms: furlong
land
glosses: The unplowed boundary of a field.
Derived terms: headlanded
Related terms: abuttal
portolan
SOCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Serious Organised Crime Agency.
soca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socas
Etymology: Blend of soul + calypso
Senses: examples: text: He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:
text: —Carnival? With soca music?
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
Derived terms: chutney-soca
inclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incloses
form: inclosing
form: inclosed
form: inclosed
Senses: examples: text: Vesalius (saith he) and others, make it a Peculiarity to Man, that the Pericardium, or Bag that incloses the Heart, should be fastned to the Diaphragm.
ref: 1727, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation, page 225:
text: From the stock, as well as from the branches, rises a jonquil flower, the pistil of which contains the husk which incloses the fruit.
ref: 1776, Abbé Resnal, translated by J. Justamond, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, translation of original in French:
text: The spores of the covered smut are often retained till harvest by a thin membrane inclosing the smutted kernel and chaff, while the naked smut is usually all blown away long before harvest.
ref: 1898, Walter Tennyson Swingle, The grain smuts: how they are caused and how to prevent them:
text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
glosses: Alternative form of enclose.
Derived terms: inclosable
incloser
soft dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rebate or commission paid with goods or services, rather than cash.
spintrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪntɹɪən/
Forms: form: more spintrian
form: most spintrian
Etymology: From Latin spintria (“male prostitute”), from Ancient Greek σφιγκτήρ (sphinktḗr, “something which binds”), referring to the anal sphincter.
Senses: examples: text: There is a Pompeiian fresco with a spintrian grouping of three, composed of a heterosexual couple similar to that in scenes 7-15 (see n.48, above) with the addition of a male-male joining; see Maulucci Vivolo, Pompei i graffiti, 118.
ref: 2001, Bette Talvacchia, Taking positions: on the erotic in Renaissance culture, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sex or fornication (especially homosexual) between three or more people.
enwreath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And there were lots of mountain flowers, a garland to enwreath us.
ref: 1888, Charles G. Halpine, “The Hill of Killenarden”, in Henry Halliday Sparling, editor, Irish Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Irish Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads, Walter Scott, page 407:
glosses: Misspelling of enwreathe.
spiracle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹəkəl/
Forms: form: spiracles
Etymology: From Latin spiraculum, from spirare (“to breathe”).
Senses: glosses: A pore or opening used (especially by arthropods and some fish) for respiration.
glosses: The blowhole of a whale, dolphin or other similar species.
glosses: Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.
seclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: seclusions
Etymology: From Medieval Latin, from Latin seclusio, from secludere.
Senses: examples: text: Seclusion may be used only as a therapeutic measure to prevent a recipient from causing physical harm to himself or physical abuse to others.
ref: 1809, Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the ... General Assembly at the Extra Session .... (1992). United States: Illinois State Journal Company, State Printers.:
glosses: The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
examples: text: Madame de Mercœur was at first unwilling that Francesca should share her seclusion; but her young companion was too much in earnest to be refused. Francesca was still depressed by her recent parting with Guido, and clung to Henriette as her only friend,—she would have felt so utterly alone with Marie; besides, she too wished to pray for the absent and the dear.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 183:
synonyms: word: aloneness
word: isolation
word: aloneness
word: isolation
word: loneliness
word: loneness
word: onehead
word: oneship
word: onlyhood
word: onliness
word: seclusion
word: solitariness
word: solitude
glosses: The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
glosses: A secluded, isolated or private place.
examples: text: warm seclusion
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
Derived terms: seclusion lodge
Related terms: seclude
secluse
secluseness
seclusionist
seclusive
stook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: stooks
Etymology: From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of grain”), from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, bump, compress”), from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”).
Cognate with West Frisian stûkje (“to pile up, stop”), Dutch stuiken (“to bundle, stamp”), German stauchen (“to compress”), Swedish stuka (“to rick, wrench, upset”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to whack, chop”).
Senses: glosses: A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
examples: text: And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:
text: The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
ref: 1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell:
glosses: A group of six or eight sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).
examples: text: Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.
ref: 1866, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507:
glosses: A handkerchief.
Synonyms: shock
stook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: stooks
form: stooking
form: stooked
form: stooked
Etymology: From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of grain”), from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, bump, compress”), from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”).
Cognate with West Frisian stûkje (“to pile up, stop”), Dutch stuiken (“to bundle, stamp”), German stauchen (“to compress”), Swedish stuka (“to rick, wrench, upset”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to whack, chop”).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To make stooks.
Derived terms: stooker
seclude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkluːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: secludes
form: secluding
form: secluded
form: secluded
Etymology: From Latin secludo.
Senses: examples: text: If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; — there are business matters to be talked of; there are projects which children or servants should not hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves.
ref: 1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses:
glosses: To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.
glosses: To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.
Derived terms: secluded
secludedly
Related terms: seclusion
seclusive
storiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɔːɹɪˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: storiations
Etymology: From story + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A decoration with scenes telling a story, usually from history or mythology.
storiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːɹɪeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more storiated
form: most storiated
Etymology: Back-formation from storiation.
Senses: examples: text: When he found signs of habitation & saw Kupaka’s old canoe (each is storiated with unique carvings) he knew he had found treasure of interest to his Maori neighbours.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Decorated with storiation.
stoup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: stoop
Forms: form: stoups
form: stoop
form: stowp
Etymology: From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.
Senses: glosses: A bucket.
examples: text: Fetch me a stoup of liquor.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: …we ran up stairs together without speaking, and were instantly in the apartment I had left, where a stoup of wine still stood untasted.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 57:
glosses: A mug or other drinking vessel.
examples: text: He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 26:
text: But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
text: She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 810:
synonyms: font
glosses: A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.
stoup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: stoop
Forms: form: stoups
form: stouping
form: stouped
form: stouped
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of stoop.
streel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: streels
Etymology: From Irish straoill (“untidy person”).
Senses: examples: text: Cissy came up along the strand with the two twins and their ball with her hat anyhow on her to one side after her run and she did look a streel tugging the two kids along with the flimsy blouse she bought only a fortnight before like a rag on her back and bit of her petticoat hanging like a caricature.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: A disreputable woman, a slut.
streel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: streels
form: streeling
form: streeled
form: streeled
Etymology: Compare stroll and streal.
Senses: examples: text: a yellow satin train that streeled after her like the tail of a comet
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
insistently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insistently
form: most insistently
Etymology: From insistent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insistent manner; pressingly.
insistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪstənt/
Forms: form: more insistent
form: most insistent
Etymology: From Latin insistens, participle of insisto.
Senses: glosses: Standing or resting on something.
glosses: Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
examples: text: Hadadas roost in numbers among the trees in the leafier parts of Nairobi and their eponymous call is one of the more insistent elements of the dawn chorus in that part of the world, though they may be heard at any time of the day.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 24:
glosses: Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
Derived terms: insistently
overinsistent
uninsistent
Related terms: insist
insistence
insistency
indulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more indulgent
form: most indulgent
Etymology: From Latin indulgēns, indulgentem, present participle of indulgēre.
Senses: examples: text: an indulgent parent
text: to be indulgent to servants
text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
text: Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing;
Synonyms: forbearing
gentle
lenient
tolerant
Derived terms: indulgential
indulgently
nonindulgent
overindulgent
self-indulgent
superindulgent
ultraindulgent
unindulgent
Related terms: indulge
indulgement
indulgence
indulgency
indulger
indulgiate
styptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪptɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: more styptic
form: most styptic
form: styptick
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).
Senses: examples: text: Boyles turns to look over his shoulder, squinting into the styptic sun, and then flags a hand over his head.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 328:
glosses: Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.
examples: text: The growth on top was a scrubby plant, unknown anywhere else on Malta, which was believed to have styptic qualities – it could staunch bleeding when packed on top of a wound […].
ref: 1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta:
text: But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.
ref: 1959, Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: hemostatic
glosses: That stops bleeding; especially, in a minor way, topically.
Derived terms: hemostyptic
styptic pencil
styptic tree
styptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪptɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: styptics
form: styptick
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).
Senses: examples: text: The powdered gum with resin is used as a styptic; and the mucilage has been recommended as an application to burns.
ref: 1876, Henry Beasley, The Book of Prescriptions:
text: Externally, it is applied as a styptic, and in solution, of various strengths, as an astringent.
ref: 1889, John Barclay Biddle, Materia Medica and Therapeutics: For Physicians and Students:
text: Knowledge of puffball's use as a styptic and for hemorrhoids reached Bass through the popular tradition.
ref: 1990, A. L. Tommie Bass et al., Herbal Medicine Past and Present:
coordinate_terms: coagulant
glosses: A substance used for styptic results.
quaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quaff
quaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaffings
Senses: examples: text: After sundry refreshments and bountiful quaffings of cold spring water, the various parties found themselves ensconced in the fine, airy room of the School house[…]
ref: 1856, Proceedings of the Essex Institute, volumes 1-2, page 223:
glosses: The act by which something is quaffed; a drinking.
Derived terms: quaffing wine
forbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbearings
Etymology: From Middle English forbering, forberyng, vorberinge, equivalent to forbear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "As God's forbearing to create more worlds than he has, is no impeachment of his omnipotence: so his forbearing to save as many as he might, is no impeachment of his infinite mercy."
ref: 1833, John Fletcher, The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, volume 2, page 443:
glosses: forbearance; restraint
forbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forbearing
form: most forbearing
Etymology: From forbear + -ing.
Senses: examples: a forbearing temper
glosses: Characterized by patience and indulgence; long-suffering
Derived terms: forbearingness
unforbearing
Related terms: forbear
forbearance
forbearant
forbearantly
forbearingly
forbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forbear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forbear
styptic pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styptic pencils
Senses: examples: text: I said, never clip a dog's nails without a styptic pencil handy.
synonyms: styptic stick
glosses: A short medicated stick, typically containing alum, used to stop bleeding from small wounds (as in shaving).
Related terms: hemostyptic
derisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪ.sɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈɹɪ.sɪv/
rhymes: -aɪsɪv
Forms: form: more derisive
form: most derisive
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin dērīdeō (“I deride”).
Senses: examples: text: The critic's review of the film was derisive.
glosses: Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
examples: text: The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
glosses: Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
Synonyms: sense: expressing or characterized by derision
word: mocking
sense: expressing or characterized by derision
word: ridiculing
sense: expressing or characterized by derision
word: scornful
sense: expressing or characterized by derision
word: disdainful
sense: deserving or provoking derision
word: ridiculous
Derived terms: derisively
derisiveness
underisive
Related terms: deride
derider
derisible
derision
derisionary
derisory
derisive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹaɪ.sɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈɹɪ.sɪv/
rhymes: -aɪsɪv
Forms: form: derisives
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin dērīdeō (“I deride”).
Senses: examples: text: The three lambs stood at bay, huddled close together, and helplessly bleated feeble derisives at the wolf who has headed them off from safety; but their polite and Englishy tone was a source of Homeric laughter to this Thersites of the Pleasance.
ref: 1894, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men, page 173:
text: He leaped over the embankment at the river's edge in such a manner that it appeared he had been fatally hit and was down for good; the Yankees shouting such derisives as "Another damn Rebel for hell," "Goodbye, you Rebel bastard," etc., didn't go right away to rob the corpse.
ref: 1962, Homer Floyd Fansler, History of Tucker County, West Virginia, page 192:
text: Indeed, the power inherent in the labels attributed to them has repeatedly transformed these terms from allegedly scientific ones into colloquial derisives.
ref: 2017, Bogdadn Lesnik, Countering Discrimination in Social Work:
glosses: A derisive remark.
butyrophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbjuː.tə.ɹoʊ.fəˈnoʊn/
ipa: /ˌbjuː.tə.ɹoʊˈfiːˌnoʊn/
Etymology: From butyro- + phenone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of antipsychotic drugs (such as haloperidol) used especially in the treatment of schizophrenia.
Derived terms: -perone
Related terms: benperidol
droperidol
haloperidol
melperone
triperidol
corticosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticosterones
Etymology: From cortico- + -sterone.
Senses: examples: text: “The brain doesn’t get the rest it needs, resulting in a drop in executive function and accompanied by an increase in corticosterone levels.”
ref: 2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 206:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.
Derived terms: dehydrocorticosterone
deoxycorticosterone
desoxycorticosterone
unspeakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspeakable
form: most unspeakable
Etymology: From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.
Senses: examples: 1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,
The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.
synonyms: unutterable
ineffable
inexpressible
glosses: Incapable of being spoken or uttered
examples: text: It is true that during the first week hardly a day passed that Erskine did not address himself to Watt, on the subject of Watt's duties. But in the first week Watt's words had not yet begun to fail him, or Watt's world to become unspeakable.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Impossible to speak about.
examples: text: The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
examples: text: an unspeakable fool
text: an unspeakable play
text: Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.
ref: 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider:
text: Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.
ref: 2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: Extremely bad or objectionable.
examples: text: an instance of an unspeakable type
text: unspeakable field names
ref: 2008, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2008, page 509:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.
Derived terms: unspeakably
unspeakableness
unspeakable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unspeakables
Etymology: From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- + speakable.
Senses: examples: text: The longer we don't speak about the unspeakables, the more harm they do to the relationship.
ref: 2009, Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, Kate Sweetman, The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead by, page 62:
glosses: Something that cannot or must not be spoken about.
cortisone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.tɪ.zəʊn/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.tɪˌsoʊn/
Forms: form: cortisones
Etymology: Shortening of corticosterone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C₂₁H₂₈O₅.
Derived terms: cortisol
hydrocortisone
prednisone
urocortisone
coumarone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coumarones
Etymology: From French coumarine + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bicyclic heterocycle benzofuran.
Derived terms: amiodarone
benzofuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzofurans
Etymology: From benzo- + furan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of bicyclic heterocycles consisting of a benzene ring fused with one of furan.
Synonyms: cumaron
coumarone
Hyponyms: amiodarone
benzbromarone
benziodarone
cloridarol
isobenzofuran
oxetorone
Derived terms: arylbenzofuran
benzofuranyl
dibenzofuran
isobenzofuran
substituted benzofuran
Related terms: psoralen
fused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuse
fused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: glosses: Joined together by fusing
examples: text: To-day, sodium is made by thousands of tons, and by a process which in principle is identical with that by which it was first made by Davy, i.e., by the electrolysis of fused caustic soda.
ref: 1908, Thomas Edward Thorpe, “The Centenary of Davy's Discovery of the Metals of the Alkalis”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, volume 97, number 2527, pages 210–211:
glosses: Melted
glosses: Furnished with a fuse
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings
Derived terms: fused deposition modelling
fused grid
fused head
fused kidney
fused multiply-add
fused quartz
fused sentence
hyperfused
nonfused
perifused
polyfused
semifused
spirofused
unfused
smother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmʌðɚ/
ipa: /ˈsmʌðə/
ipa: /ˈsmʊðə/
ipa: /ˈsmʊðəɹ/
ipa: /ˈsmʌðəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smothers
form: smoother
Etymology: From Middle English smother, smorther (“a suffocating vapour, dense smoke”), from Old English smorþor (“smoke”, literally “that which suffocates”), from smorian (“to suffocate, choke”) + -þor (instrumental suffix).
Senses: glosses: That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
Smoldering; slow combustion.
examples: text: Thus must I from the smoke into the smother […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 404:
glosses: That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
Cookware used in such cooking.
examples: text: not to keep their suspicions in smother
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Suspicion”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
The state of being stifled; suppression.
examples: text: Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, / From tyrant duke unto tyrant brother.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 239-40:
text: Then we passed the Grand Opéra, at which our fine taste revolted; the Rue de la Paix, all in a smother with the dust caused by its improvement, at which our eyes naturally distilled water; […]
ref: 1868, Judy, volumes 3-4, page 20:
glosses: That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
glosses: That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
The act of smothering a kick (see verb section).
qualifier: Australian rules football
sull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sulls
form: sulling
form: sulled
form: sulled
Etymology: Back-formation from sullen.
Senses: examples: text: The mesteño had stopped and sulled in the road with its forefeet spread and he sat looking after her.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
glosses: Of an animal: to stop; to refuse to go on.
sull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sulls
Etymology: From Old English sulh (“plough”). Compare sullow and Old High German suohili (“little plough”).
Senses: glosses: A plough.
Derived terms: sull-paddle
sull-breaking
replaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpleɪsəbəl/
Forms: form: more replaceable
form: most replaceable
Etymology: From replace + -able.
Senses: examples: text: replaceable parts
text: replaceable battery
text: He knew he was not easily replaceable at work.
glosses: Capable of being replaced.#
glosses: Capable of being replaced.#:
The machine uses a replaceable filter.
The machine uses a replaceable filter.
Synonyms: substitutable
Derived terms: replaceability
replaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpleɪsəbəl/
Forms: form: replaceables
Etymology: From replace + -able.
Senses: glosses: Anything that can be replaced.
fused sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fused sentences
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A run-on sentence.
run-on sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-on sentences
Etymology: So called because the sentence runs on beyond the point where it should end.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: fused sentence
hyponyms: comma splice
glosses: A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences or as clauses joined more appropriately (such as by a semicolon or by a comma and coordinating conjunction).
glosses: Any very long, often also in other ways badly formed or even chaotic sentence.
independent clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independent clauses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of main clause.
synonyms: word: main clause
hisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hissers
Etymology: From hiss + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hisses.
glosses: One who hisses.
A Madagascar hissing cockroach.
cyproterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈpɹoʊ.təˌɹoʊn/
Forms: form: cyproterones
Etymology: From cy(clo)- + pro(ges)terone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic steroid C₂₂H₂₇ClO₃ that inhibits the action and secretion of testosterone by blocking the activity of androgen receptors.
Derived terms: word: cypro
word: cyproterone acetate
english: antiandrogen
translation: antiandrogen
word: -terone
antiandrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.tiˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˌæn.tiˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒɪn/
ipa: [ˌæ.ni-]
Forms: form: antiandrogens
Etymology: From anti- + androgen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any substance that inhibits the release or the biological effects of an androgen.
narration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [nəˈɹeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌnæɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [nɛɹˈeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /nəˈɹæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [nəˈɹæɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: narrations
Etymology: From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narrātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The film used voice-over narration to explain the story.
text: His calm narration made the documentary easy to follow.
text: The novel contains a first-person narration.
glosses: The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
glosses: That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
glosses: That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
Synonyms: relation
Derived terms: metanarration
misnarration
narrational
oblique narration
renarration
Related terms: narrate
narrative
narrator
storytelling
deoxycorticosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɒk.sɪˌkɔː.tɪk.əʊˈstɛ.ɹəʊn/
ipa: /diˌɑk.sɪˌkɔɹ.tɪˈkɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
Forms: form: deoxycorticosterones
form: DOC
form: 11-deoxycorticosterone
form: desoxycorticosterone
form: desoxycortone
form: deoxycortone
Etymology: From deoxy- + corticosterone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A steroid hormone, produced in the adrenal cortex; sometimes manufactured synthetically for use in cases of adrenal insufficiency.
sussultatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sʌsəlˈteɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more sussultatory
form: most sussultatory
Etymology: From Italian sussultare (“jump up”).
Senses: examples: text: The healthy young Danes with loving slowness kissed, licked, caressed, tickled, kneaded, sucked, nuzzled, bit tenderly, salivated, secreted, hugged, trembled, moaned, gasped, coupled more vespertiliorum, and finally, with acrobatic aplomb, occupied forty-six times a minute 77.715 cubic inches of the same space, elastic and sussultatory.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Characterised by up-and-down oscillations of large amplitude, usually with reference to earthquakes.
synthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From synthetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using synthetic methods.
diphenylketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphenylketones
Etymology: From diphenyl + ketone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic ketone diphenylmethanone.
sutler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌtlə/
ipa: /ˈsʌtləɹ/
rhymes: -ʌtlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sutlers
Etymology: From Dutch soeteler (modern zoetelaar).
Senses: hypernyms: victualler
victualer
provisioner
camp follower
provisioner
coordinate_terms: chandler
glosses: A person who follows an army, selling provisions.
glosses: A modern business that provides period uniforms and supplies to reenactors.
Derived terms: sutlership
Related terms: sutle
sutling
estrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛˌstɹoʊn/
Forms: form: estrones
form: oestrone
form: E1
Etymology: From estr- + -one.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A natural estrogenic hormone that is a ketone C₁₈H₂₂O₂ found in the body chiefly as a metabolite of and less potent than estradiol, that is also secreted especially by the ovaries, and that is used to treat various conditions (such as ovarian failure and menopausal symptoms) relating to estrogen deficiency.
Synonyms: theelin
theelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The Greek word θῆλυς + suffix (“in”).
Senses: examples: text: The isolation of the crystalline hormone seems to justify the selection of a new name which should be reserved for the crystalline material and which in reality becomes the name of a new and probably hitherto unknown chemical substance. Accordingly, we suggest the term “theelin.“ This word is derived from the Greek word “theelus” used both adjectively and nominally to signify “female.”
ref: 1930 June, CD Veler, “The preparation of the crystalline follicular ovarian hormone: Theelin”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 357:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: The steroid hormone estrone.
Related terms: theelol
Galicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gə-'lĭs-ē-ə
enpr: gə-lĭsh'ə
ipa: /ɡəˈlɪ.si.ə/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɪ.ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: Galiza
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a Celtic tribe in the region”).
Senses: examples: text: There is sometimes a further subdivision of the Old Portuguese period into a Galician-Portuguese period (origins to 1350), during which the linguistic and cultural unity of Galicia and Portugal remained strong, and the Old Portuguese period proper (1350–1540).
ref: 2000, Glanville Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe, reimpression, illustrated edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 367:
glosses: A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
glosses: Several barangays of Mendez, Cavite, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Rapu-Rapu, Albay, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Madalag, Aklan, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Ilog, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Derived terms: Galician
Galicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gə-'lĭs-ē-ə
enpr: gə-lĭsh'ə
ipa: /ɡəˈlɪ.si.ə/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɪ.ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: Galiza
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Gallicia or Gallitia, from Old East Slavic Галичь (Galičĭ, “Halych, a city in present-day Ukraine”), ultimate origin uncertain. Halych comes from Halka (Галка) kind of bird or from Old Ukrainian/Rus - Hal' (Галь) that means "black" (чорний).
Senses: examples: text: The czar had declared the "liberation" of the Ukrainian minorities inhabiting the eastern portion of the Austrian imperial province of Galicia, the Austrian portion of partitioned Poland, to be one of Russia's objectives.
ref: 1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, chapter 9, in Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 175:
glosses: former kingdom and geographical area in Central Europe, now divided between Poland and Ukraine.
Synonyms: Halychia
Derived terms: Eastern Galicia
East Galicia
Galicia and Lodomeria
Galician
Galicia-Volhynia
Western Galicia
West Galicia
estrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oestrogenic
Senses: examples: text: Assuming, for the moment, that one is of some definite genetic sex, at birth […] Suppose, in addition, I am born with a vagina and an estrogenic capability toward femininity.
ref: 1978 April 15, Sally Anne Douglas, “Who Am I?”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or acting like estrogen.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing estrus.
Derived terms: estrogenically
estrogenicity
hyperestrogenic
hypoestrogenic
nonestrogenic
phyto-estrogenic
xenoestrogenic
estrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estruses
Senses: examples: text: Bovine cervical mucus is more suitable for precise chemical and physical studies because much larger quantities can be obtained—as much as 150 ml may often be harvested from a single cow during estrus.
ref: 1963, A. J. Sobrero, “Sperm Migration in the Female Genital Tract”, in Carl G. Hartman, editor, Mechanisms Concerned with Conception: Proceedings of a Symposium Prepared under the Auspices of the Population Council and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 174:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oestrus.
Derived terms: anestrus
estro-
estrogen
estromania
interestrus
metestrus
postestrus
proestrus
pseudoestrus
swink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: swinks
Etymology: From Middle English swink, from Old English swinc (“toil, work, effort; hardship; the produce of labour”).
Senses: examples: text: Dead on this homecoming cue Jack came home, his hands sheerfree of salesman’s swink, ready for Enderby.
ref: 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby:
glosses: toil, work, drudgery
swink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: swinks
form: swinking
form: swank
form: swonk
form: swinkt
form: swinked
form: swunk
form: swunken
form: swonken
form: swinkt
form: swinked
Etymology: From Middle English swynken, from Old English swincan (“to labour, work”), from Proto-Germanic *swinkaną (“to swing, bend”). Cognate with Old Norse svinka (“to work”).
Senses: examples: text: Honour, estate, and all this worldes good, / For which men swinck and sweat incessantly
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 8:
text: And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To labour, to work hard
examples: text: And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: There was no internal graphite coating; instead a metal shield was used to collect the beam current the swinked electrons which in their prime had caused the screen to fluoresce.
ref: 1985, Rodney Dale, The Sinclair Story, page 65:
glosses: To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
Derived terms: beswink
forswink
swinker