cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
secesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seceshes
form: secesh
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: […] I think they buried more secesh than our folks.
Question. How did they bury them?
Answer. They buried the secesh over back of the fort, all except those on Fort Hill; them they buried up on top of the hill where the gunboats shelled them.
ref: 1888, Joseph Thomas Wilson, The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the War of 1775-1812, 1861-'65, page 332:
text: […] our minds to get 'em, and we charged, yelling like bloody hl, drove the seceshes back a deuced sight quicker than they come, and popped 'em down at every shot.
ref: 2010, Harold Holzer, Craig Symonds, New York Times Book of the Civil War 1861-1865: 650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles, Black Dog & Leventhal, →ISBN:
text: 'You don't see any grief?' Edward shouts, turning on me. 'I'd sure like to know what you're doing in an Army if you ain't keen on fighting! People are counting on us keeping those Seceshes from coming North, is what you mean.'
ref: 2014, Erin Lindsay McCabe, I Shall Be Near to You: A Novel, Broadway Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.
Teeside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: BLAST FURNACE AT THE TEESIDE IRON WORKS
ref: 1868, Ferdinand Kohn, Iron and steel manufacture:
ref: 2012, “Steelmaking returns to Teeside”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Misspelling of Teesside.
Deeside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dee (“River Dee (Wales)”) + -side.
Senses: glosses: A conurbation consisting of the towns and villages around the estuary of the Dee in Cheshire, England, and Flintshire, Wales.
Deeside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dee (“River Dee (Aberdeenshire)”) + -side.
Senses: examples: text: As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: The area around Braemar and Banchory on the banks of the Dee in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, home to Balmoral.
raw_tags: with Royal
Derived terms: Kincardine and Deeside
mauvelous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːvələs/
Forms: form: mauvelouses
Etymology: Blend of mauve + marvelous.
Senses: examples: text: At any rate, it's a mauve'''lous cover.
ref: 1949, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 43, number 4, page 148:
text: Around the courthouse, things are simply “mauvelous,” as in a purple, violet or lilac color.
ref: 1987, John F. Nichols, “Clark County Report”, in Washington State Bar News, volume 41, Washington State Bar Association, page 35:
text: She is wearing the chalky pink lipstick. I am wearing the Mauvelous, and the shame shivers up around me like a sudden, unexpected chill.
ref: 2006 October 3, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies, New York: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 63:
text: These days I am proud to say that the colors in the box of my life now include Crayola's burnt sienna, mauvelous and purple heart.
ref: 2010 September 1, Johanna S. Kandel, Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good, New York: Harlequin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 55:
text: Like a box of crayons, we are all born with an astounding range of color options, from Mauvelous to Tickle Me Pink.
ref: 2012 February 17, Chris Rodell, Use All the Crayons!: The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness, Bloomington: iUniverse, page xiv:
glosses: The color mauve, or a specific shade of mauve
raw_tags: in brand names
animal pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal poles
Etymology: From animal (adjective) + pole (“extremity of an axis”).
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: vegetal pole
glosses: The hemisphere of the blastula which eventually gives rise to the three germ layers and is composed of small cells that are in a state of rapid division.
mauvelouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mauvelous
schmozzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schmozzles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shemozzle.
opercules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opercule
coucal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coucals
Etymology: From French coucal, said to be a blend of coucou (“cuckoo”) + alouette (“lark”).
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the genus Centropus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae.
Derived terms: pheasant coucal
Philippine coucal
Sunda coucal
vegetal pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetal poles
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hemisphere of the blastula opposite to the animal pole comprising large yolk cells dividing at a slower rate that eventually differentiate into the extraembryonic membranes.
electrical polyspermy block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical polyspermy blocks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A polyspermy block where the electric potential of an egg rapidly rises from -70mV to +20mV upon contact with sperm due to the influx of sodium ions.
inner cell mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner cell masses
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A mass of cells within a primordial embryo that will eventually develop into the distinct form of a fetus in most eutherian mammals.
germ layer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germ layers
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A collection of cells assembled during embryogenesis that eventually develop into all tissues and organs via organogenesis in animals.
ib.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ibidem.
undecently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undecently
form: most undecently
Etymology: From undecent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Philosophie hath done me the pleasure to judge, that so honorable an action, had been undecently [translating indecemment] placed in any other life, than in Catoes[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Unsuitably; improperly.
glosses: Scandalously; indecently.
pattern formation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern formations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mechanism in developing tissue by which originally similar cells acquire diverse forms and functions by coordinated cell fate control.
patiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nsi/
Etymology: From Latin patientia.
Senses: examples: text: Constancie in dangers (if it may be termed constancie) contempt of death, patiencie in misfortunes, may happen, and are often seen in men, for want of Good judgement in such accidents, and that they are not apprehended for such as they are indeed.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Patience.
glosses: Passivity (as opposed to agency).
forthsend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthsends
form: forthsending
form: forthsent
form: forthsent
Etymology: From Middle English *forthsenden, from Old English forþsendan (“to send forth”), equivalent to forth- + send. Cognate with Dutch voortzenden (“to send forth”), German fortsenden (“to send forth, dispatch”).
Senses: examples: text: Forthsend my thoughts, to Venice on the sea; And dream of gondolas, and palace-pile, And shadowy figures sitting near to me; [...]
ref: 1885, Robert Burleigh Campbell (mrs.), Palm leaves from Ceylon, and other poems:
text: Many thanks now in foresight for the care wherewith you have to forthsend me this post parcell, that I am waiting for with hurry (I have me pickled the ear ass on this word : avec impatience ! ). Forgive me.
ref: 1904, The Book monthly
glosses: To send forth; dispatch; send off.
foresend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foresends
form: foresending
form: foresent
form: foresent
form: forsend
Etymology: From Middle English *foresenden (compare biforesenden), from Old English foresendan (“to send before”), equivalent to fore- + send.
Senses: examples: text: I presume to foresend my wife's maid with her linen, as the state of the city occasioneth me thereunto by increase of deaths, which many fear and flee.
ref: 1885, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Walter Rye, Report on the manuscripts of the family of Gawdy
glosses: To send before; send beforehand.
acidosteophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidosteophytes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sharp or needle-shaped osteophyte.
acidosteophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidosteophyte
aconine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous, bitter, non-poisonous alkaloid, derived from the decomposition of aconitine.
Fields
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States, named after Charles Fields.
Related terms: english: from Field
translation: from Field
word: Fields Landing
sightreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sightread
sightreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sightread
mollas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molla
raised points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raised point
radioactive datings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radioactive dating
mechanizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanizer
amylopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amylopsin
cabbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbins
Senses: examples: text: ----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he goes down into the cabbin, had to stoop a little, because the cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60 tons, although our religious sea-captain entered but 40 tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for light money, when there was not one light-house in all the ancient dominion.
ref: 1886, Henry M. Brooks, The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6= Literary Curiosities:
text: This Gabriel declared vnto me that they had saued both the ankers and our hauser, and after we had thus communed, I caused 4 or 5 of them to goe into my cabbin, where I gaue them figs and made them such cheere as I could.
ref: 1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II:
text: Accordingly, when this youth came on board, he called him into his cabbin, and immediately addressed him in the most impressive manner, to the following effect.
ref: 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2):
text: Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay upon the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid and slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling of me, and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and mighty merry.
ref: 1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665:
text: This was my plot, I knewe a peece of seruice of intelligence, which was presently to bee done, that required a man with all his fiue senses to effect it, and would ouefthrow anie foole that should vndertake it, to this seruice did I animate and egge my foresayd costes and charges, alias, senior veluet-cappe, whose head was not encombered with too much forecast, and comming to him in his cabbin about dinner time, where I found him verie deuoutly paring of his nailes for want of other repast, I entertained him with this solemne oration.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cabin.
caleche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caleches
Senses: examples: text: Here he was put in a caleche, and transported forthwith to the nearest frontier.
ref: 1836, J. Fenimore Cooper, A Residence in France:
text: One is struck with the comparative absence of wheeled vehicles in the streets of Rio. Now and then a clumsy caleche is driven past by a negro postillion, in blue livery and jackboots, riding a second horse yoked outside the shafts, and omnibuses drawn by four or six mules, are not infrequently met with, and seem to be much patronised.
ref: 1852, John MacGillivray, Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. To Which Is Added The Account Of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition For The Exploration Of The Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist To The Expedition. In Two Volumes. Volume 1.:
text: At that instant who should appear but our faithful Mata, driving the old caleche in which we were in the habit of making our little excursions in the neighborhood of the Port.
ref: 1873, Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie, Wau-bun:
text: At Brussels the Napoleonic coach was set aside for a more serviceable caleche.
ref: 1880, John Nichol, Byron:
text: To view this mountain I and my little family set off in a caleche on the third morning after our arrival at Bangor.
ref: 1907, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
text: Upon my arriving there, the Gypsies swarmed out from their tents, and from the little tradeer, or tavern, and surrounded me; standing on the seat of the caleche, I addressed them in a loud voice in the dialect of the English Gypsies, with which I have some slight acquaintance.
ref: 1912, Edward Thomas, George Borrow:
glosses: Alternative form of calèche.
Related terms: caliche
calimanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calimancos
form: calimancoes
Senses: examples: text: I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft.
ref: 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:
text: What should ail them, but a jacket and petticoat of good yard-wide stuff, or calimanco, might keep them decent and warm.
ref: 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:
glosses: Alternative form of calamanco.
camaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camarons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cammaron.
Related terms: camaron rebosado
camboose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambooses
Senses: examples: text: Along the mess-table of the galley--or the "camboose," as the yacht's cook insisted upon calling it--were ranged three gentlemen of color, each of whom treated his companions with the greatest deference, though at the same time believing himself to be just a little better posted in culinary matters than either of the others.
ref: 1902, Kirk Munroe, Raftmates:
text: Crouching under the lee of the camboose, the young skipper found Bessie, Mrs. Vincent, and the two children, while the crew were clinging to the rigging of the bowsprit to prevent being washed overboard.
ref: 1868, Oliver Optic, Freaks of Fortune:
text: The camboose-house went also, at the last of these terrific seas; and nothing saved the camboose itself, but its great weight, added to the strength of its fastenings.
ref: 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford:
text: The crew of Daggett's vessel carried their mattresses ashore, took possession of the bunks, lighted a fire in the stove, and made their preparations to get the camboose ashore next day, and do their cooking in the house, as had been practised previously to quitting the island.
ref: 1860, James Fenimore Cooper, The Sea Lions:
text: The pirates immediately took to their boats, except Francisco Ruiz who seizing a fire brand from the camboose went into the magazine and set some combustibles on fire with the laudable purpose of blowing up the assailants, and then paddled ashore in a canoe.
ref: 1837, Charles Ellms, The Pirates Own Book:
glosses: Alternative form of caboose.
campward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From camp + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes as many as four or six of our company, having leave of absence at the same time, would rendezvous to return together in the small hours of the night, through Rocketts, where "hold-ups" were not uncommon, and recount our various experiences as we proceeded campward.
ref: 1907, Edward A. Moore, The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson:
text: And as the cheery cry swelled farther and farther, the train drew out, everybody looking from the windows as the patient soldiery straggled back campward. "
ref: 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:
text: […] if I had foretold these things as they were to occur, I wonder if the "pause before the storm" would have been less awful, and our ride campward less sedate.
ref: 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:
glosses: Toward a camp, campwards
camstairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more camstairy
form: most camstairy
Etymology: From cam (“crooked”) and uncertain second component.
Senses: examples: text: "Ah!" he said again, with a reproving wag of the head, for he knew now what was coming,--"idols are perverse, camstairy things at best, you know, and a bit out of date too.
ref: 1908, John Oxenham, Pearl of Pearl Island:
text: My faither was on a strong mare, and I was on a bit powney; and amang the cattle there was a camstairy three-year-auld bull, that wad neither hup nor drive.
ref: 1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:
glosses: unruly; unmanageable
cancellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cancellated
form: most cancellated
Senses: examples: text: This chamber, he states, "is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of nails.["]
ref: 1661 April 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 10th, 1661”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, footnote 3, page 6:
text: 'Tis cancellated with little squares on the Margin; on the top of the back, sexangularly
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Marked with cross lines; crossbarred.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Open or spongy, like certain porous bones.
Derived terms: subcancellated
capsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place.
ref: 2001 May 11, Bruce R. Levin, Rustom Antia, “Why We Don't Get Sick: The Within-Host Population Dynamics of Bacterial Infections”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1112–1115:
text: Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.
ref: 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:
glosses: Enclosed in a capsule
Derived terms: microcapsulated
nanocapsulated
noncapsulated
uncapsulated
carcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcels
Etymology: Named after the inventor of the Carcel lamp.
Senses: examples: text: Desroziers in a series of experiments obtained as much as 250 carcel spherical luminous value per horse-power; this characteristic is one likely to be of great value in electric lighting by incandescence of high intensity.
ref: 1885, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885:
text: When experimenting in Paris with a No. 3 lamp in a vertical direction, it showed a consumption of 34.6 liters (1.2 cubic feet) per carcel obtained.
ref: 1888, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888:
text: In all systems of lighting, save electricity, the unit of light is the carcel.
ref: 1896, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896:
glosses: A former unit to measure the intensity of light, approximately 9.74 candelas.
Related terms: Carcel lamp
cambooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camboose
caried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a caried tooth
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a tooth: affected by caries; decayed.
caried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cary
caried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When he had ſaied no: what (ſaid Ariſtippus) is it ſhame to ſaile in a Shippe, that hath afoꝛetymes caried a great nomber mo: […]
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Aristippus”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book I, folio 43, verso, paragraph 42:
glosses: Obsolete form of carried.
cavendish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cavendish
Etymology: Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.
Senses: examples: text: "But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.
ref: 1919, Richard Harding Davis, The Exiles and Other Stories:
text: No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "
ref: 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
text: Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.
ref: 1896, anonymous author, The Ladies Book of Useful Information:
text: It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.
ref: 1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;:
text: Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."
ref: 1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City:
glosses: Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Derived terms: cut cavendish
cawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cawkers
Senses: examples: text: Hae, man, there's a cawker to keep your heart warm; and set down that bottle," quoth I, wiping the saw-dust affn't with my hand, "to get a toast; I'se warrant it for Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout."
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
glosses: Alternative form of calker.
cellarette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarettes
Etymology: From cellar + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The inset sketch of joint shows the housing of the top rail to receive the legs. Fig. 59 shows a deep drawer, generally known as a cellarette, and used in a sideboard to accommodate wine bottles.
ref: 1927, William Fairham, Woodwork Joints:
text: The source of drinks he indicated was a well-stocked cellarette at the other side of the room.
ref: 1916, Henry Kitchell Webster, The Real Adventure:
text: I feel the need of a bracer after all this excitement," Vantine remarked, as he opened the cellarette. "
ref: 1911, Burton Egbert Stevenson, The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet:
text: "Felix is ill, and I want to get at some cognac that is in the cellarette."
ref: 1909, Louis Tracy, A Son of the Immortals:
text: There was a cellarette in one corner, the Major noticed, and it was well stocked.
ref: 1906, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces:
text: The full page illustrations will give the reader a good idea of this arrangement, and it would seem that the modern sideboard is the combination of these separate articles into one piece of furniture--at different times and in different fashions--first the pedestals joined to the table produced our "pedestal sideboard," then the mirror was joined to the back, the cellarette made part of the interior fittings, and the banishment of knife cases and urns to the realms of the curiosity hunter, or for conversion into spirit cases and stationery holders.
ref: 1893, Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture:
glosses: A drinks cabinet
cembra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕmʹbrə
ipa: /ˈsɛmbɹə/
Forms: form: cembras
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cembra.
Senses: examples: text: Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.
ref: 1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running:
text: Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
ref: 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
text: It consists principally of pines: the cembra pine (Pinus Cembra, L.), valued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-formed Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, LEDEB.), the fir (Pinus obovata, TURCZ.), and scattered trees of the common pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.)
ref: 1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II:
glosses: The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.
Synonyms: sense: Pinus cembra
word: Swiss stone pine
sense: Pinus cembra
word: arolla pine
my certie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: my certy
Senses: examples: text: Weel, lassie, walk ye by the burn, And walk ye slow and sly; My certie! weel ye ken the gate That Geordie Young comes by!
ref: 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI:
text: Englishmen, for instance, will say that I am a bad speller, and that my language is kittle; and such of the Irishers as can read, will be threaping that I have abused their precious country; but, my certie, instead of blaming me for letting out what I could not deny, they must just learn to behave themselves better when they come to see us, or bide at home.
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
glosses: certes; verily
cetacea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of cetacea, or whale-like mammals, sixty-five; ruminantia, or cud-chewers, one hundred and seventy-seven; pachydermata, or thick-skinned mammals, such as the horse, hog, and elephant, forty-one; edentata, like the sloth and ant-eater, thirty-five; rodentia, or gnawers, such as the rat, squirrel, and beaver, six hundred and seventeen; carnivora, or flesh-eaters, four hundred and forty-six; cheiroptera, or bats, three hundred and twenty-eight; quadrumana, or monkeys, two hundred and twenty-one; and marsupialia, or pouched mammals, like the opossum and kangaroo, one hundred and thirty-seven.
ref: 1882, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science:
text: But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject.
ref: 1870, Various, Heads and Tales:
text: --Acalephae[1] are plentiful, so much so, indeed, that they occasionally tempt the larger cetacea into the Gulf of Manaar.
ref: 1861, J. Emerson Tennent, Sketches of Natural History of Ceylon:
text: PORPOISES AT MORETON BAY. Among the marine animals of Moreton Bay are two cetacea of great interest.
ref: 1852, John MacGillivray, Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. To Which Is Added The Account Of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition For The Exploration Of The Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist To The Expedition. In Two Volumes. Volume 1.:
glosses: Whale-like mammals.
champac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champacs
form: champak
form: champaka
Etymology: From Sanskrit चम्पक (campaka). Compare with Hindi चंपक (campak).
Senses: examples: text: And now, as to that blossomy peach-scent--even while some floes were yet around me--I was just like some fantastic mariner, who, having set out to search for Eden and the Blessed Islands, finds them, and balmy gales from their gardens come out, while he is yet afar, to meet him with their perfumes of almond and champac, cornel and jasmin and lotus.
ref: 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
text: The bamboo boughs that sway and swing / 'Neath bulbuls as the south wind blows, / The mango-tope, a close dark ring, / Home of the rooks and clamorous crows, / The champac, bok, and South-sea pine, / The nagessur with pendant flowers / Like ear-rings--and the forest vine / That clinging over all, embowers […]
ref: 1900, Epiphanius Wilson, Hindu Literature:
text: There were magnolias, shaddocks, hibiscus, the almost too fragrant yellow-flowered champac, sacred to Hindoo mythology; nutmeg and cinnamon trees, tea and coffee, and every other conceivable plant and tree, growing in the wildest luxuriance.
ref: 1881, Annie Allnut Brassey, A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam':
text: From the wood of the champac the images of Buddha are carved for the temples.
ref: 1860, James Emerson Tennent, Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and:
glosses: A type of Asian tree with fragrant blossoms, Magnolia champaca
chancellory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancellories
Etymology: Adapted to chancellor.
Senses: examples: text: The hall of the chancellory had been transformed into a cloakroom and there the crowd was thickest.
ref: 1918, Pierre Souvestre, A Royal Prisoner:
text: Bismarck's successor in the chancellory, Count Caprivi, set matters in their true light in a speech in the Reichstag shortly after the publication of Bismarck's Reminiscences.
ref: 1915, John Holland Rose, The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.):
text: Senor Polo had personally brought the document from the chancellory above." "
ref: 1899, Edward A. Johnson, History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chancellery.
woman child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woman children
form: women children
form: woman-child
Senses: synonyms: word: babe
word: bint
word: bird
word: cake
word: chick
word: colleen
word: cutty
word: damoiselle
word: damsel
word: elrig
word: frail
word: gal
word: gel
word: girl
word: girlie
word: girly
word: grill
word: hottie
word: lass
word: lassie
word: little girl
word: maggie
word: maid
word: maid child
word: maiden
word: minoress
word: miss
word: missy
word: moggy
word: poppet
word: pucelle
word: puss
word: quean
word: tart
word: wan
word: wench
word: woman child
antonyms: boychild
man child
glosses: A young female human; a girl.
examples: text: The first statute that gave the father a power of appointing, was the 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, c. 8, which provides, under severe penalties, such as fine and imprisonment for years, against taking any maid, or woman child unmarried, being within the age of sixteen years, out of or from the possession, custody, or governance, and against the will of the father of such maid, or woman child, or of such person or persons, to whom the father of such maid, or woman child, by his last will and testament, or by any other act in his life time, shall grant the education and governance of such child.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “Guardian by statute, or Testamentary Guardian”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume III (E … I), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 2:
qualifier: generally derogatory
glosses: An adult female who is childish or immature.
woman-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woman-children
form: women-children
Senses: examples: text: "I'm sure, lass, we like very well to have you. If there's one thing I've missed all my days, and coveted, which for that matter it's a sin and a breaking of the commandment, though there ain't no mention of a daughter in the wording of it, as there be of a wife, — if there be one thing I've coveted, it be a woman-child of my own; a girl's a wonderful comfort when the boats be out, let alone a sister for the lads."
ref: 1885, Mrs. Robert O'Reilly, “Joshua Long's Superstition”, in Kirke's Mill and Other Stories, Ballantyne Press, page 180:
glosses: Alternative spelling of woman child.
woman children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman child
women children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman child
woman-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman-child
maid child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid children
form: maid-child
form: maidchild
Etymology: From Middle English mayde child, maide child, maide-child, maide childe, maidechilde, mayde childe, mayde-chyld, maydechylde. Compare Middle English maidenchild, from Old English mæġdenċild.
Senses: examples: text: But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 12:5:
glosses: A young female human; a girl.
maid children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid child
maid-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maid-children
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Forbes's eyes were instantly fixed on her with mild astonishment, and something of a mother's tenderness awoke in her heart toward the little maid-child.
ref: 1865, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen, Bernard Tauchnitz, page 89:
glosses: Alternative spelling of maid child.
maid-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maid-child
maidchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidchildren
Senses: examples: text: 'Well, Mr. Frodo,' he said. 'I'm in a bit of a fix. Rose and me had settled to call him Frodo, with your leave; but it's not him, it's her. Though as pretty a maidchild as anyone could hope for, taking after Rose more than me, luckily. So we don't know what to do.'
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, HarperCollins, published 1999, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: Alternative spelling of maid child.
maidchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidchild
compensatory lengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɛnˈseɪtəɹi ˈlɛŋ(k)θ(ə)nɪŋ/
ipa: /kɒmˈpɛnsətəɹi-/
ipa: /kəmˈpɛnsəˌtɔɹi ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
Forms: form: compensatory lengthenings
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The lengthening of a vowel sound which occurs when a following consonant is lost, regarded as an extreme form of fusion; (countable) an instance of this.
Derived terms: compensatorily lengthen
compensatorily lengthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: compensatorily lengthens
form: compensatorily lengthening
form: compensatorily lengthened
form: compensatorily lengthened
Etymology: Back-formation from compensatory lengthening.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To lengthen (a vowel) upon dropping the consonant that had followed it; to cause to undergo compensatory lengthening.
cold-cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cold cuts.
sign function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The signum function.
sign functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign function
floor function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that maps a real number to the largest integer that is not greater than it.
floor functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floor function
ceiling function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceiling functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that maps a real number to the smallest integer that is no smaller than it.
Synonyms: ceil function
ceiling functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceiling function
ceil function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceil functions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ceiling function.
synonyms: word: ceiling function
ceil functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceil function
three-milk cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-milk cakes
form: three milk cake
Senses: glosses: A pastel de tres leches.
Synonyms: tres leches
Melayu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay Melayu.
Senses: glosses: The Malay ethnic group.
chaparejos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly.
ref: 1920, Jackson Gregory, Man to Man:
text: To protect our legs we wore over the trousers heavy leather chaparejos, sometimes of bear or buffalo hide.
ref: 1911, Thomas Carson, Ranching, Sport and Travel:
text: Lean, wiry, bronzed men, their legs cased in leather chaparejos, with small boots, high heels, and great spurs, they were, despite their loose, slouchy seat, the best rough-riders in the world.
ref: 1910, Edgar Beecher Bronson, The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier:
text: What he saw was a tall slim young man, in chaparejos and sombrero, the inevitable "repeater" at his hip, solitarily engaged in the process of breaking a bronco.
ref: 1905, Will Lillibridge, Ben Blair:
glosses: chaps (trousers)
Derived terms: english: partly from Spanish chaparreras
translation: partly from Spanish chaparreras
word: chaps
chapparal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapparals
Senses: examples: text: The road wound onward toward the middle Sierras, thickly wooded with oak and digger pine, and, of course, the chapparal, and towering to the clouds rose the mighty serrated peaks of the range, where magnificent forests of pine, fir, and cedar swept upwards to the limits of eternal snow.
ref: 1910, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, The Boy With the U. S. Foresters:
text: Nothing in the lucid page of Thucydides nor in the terse commentaries of Caesar, nothing in the vivid narrative of Napier or the glowing battle scenes of Allison, can surpass the story how, spurning the chapparal and the barbed wire, pressing their rifles to their throbbing hearts, toiling up the heights, and all the while the machine guns and the Mausers mowing the jungle as if with a mighty reaper, on and yet right on, they won the fiery crests, and Santiago fell.
ref: 1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:
text: In a minute and a half the fire seized upon a dense growth of dry manzanita chapparal six or eight feet high, and then the roaring and popping and crackling was something terrific.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Roughing It:
text: So spake that pensive man--this Thompson, the hero of Angels, Bitterly smiled to himself, as he strode through the chapparal musing.
ref: 1870, Bret Harte, Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte:
text: As our line advanced, it would suddenly come upon a line of gray-coated rebels, lying upon the ground, covered with dried leaves, and concealed by the chapparal, when the rebels would rise, deliver a murderous fire, and retire.
ref: 1866, George T. Stevens, Three Years in the Sixth Corps:
text: He talked about delishis froots, but then it wuz a wopper all, The holl on't 's mud an' prickly pears, with here an' there a chapparal; You see a feller peekin' out, an', fust you know, a lariat Is round your throat an' you a copse, 'fore you can say, "Wut air ye at?"
ref: 1861, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
glosses: Archaic spelling of chaparral.
charlatanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charlatanic
form: most charlatanic
Etymology: From charlatan + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just.
ref: 1835 December 12, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, “Dedicatory Epistle to John Auldjo, Esq., &c. at Naples”, in Devereux (Colburn’s Modern Novelists; XII), London: […] [F]or Henry Colburn, by R[ichard] Bentley; […], published 1836, page vi:
text: [I] Vast and overwhelming, however, as the ills which follow in the train of over producing power, in the world material and manufacturing, they sink into utter insignificance--for magnitude, they are as Highgate Hill to sky-enveloped Chimborazo of eternal snow--in comparison with that crowding crush, that prodigious overflow, of charlatanic genius, in the world physical and spiritual, which blocks up every highway and byway, swarms in every circle, roars in every market-place, or thunders in each senate of the realm.
ref: 1843 August, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number 334:
glosses: Charlatanical.
Derived terms: charlatanically
chawnce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chawnces
Senses: examples: text: "Very well, Sergeant," said Chippo meekly; "it'll give me a chawnce to make my complaint to the orficer."
ref: 1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920:
text: The onlookers thought that Mrs. Trudge was about to take her innocent offspring to the House of Commons, and those out of hat-pin range murmured, "Shime," "Give the kids a chawnce."
ref: 1914, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914:
text: Only they 'aven't got a fair chawnce even to agitate fur their rights.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Robins, The Convert:
text: It's the only chawnce they have had to cheer.
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of chance.
cheare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was one of the state maxims of this philosophic monarch, in his advice to his son, "To allure the common people to a common amitie among themselves; and that certain daies in the yeere should be appointed for delighting the people with public spectacles of all honest games and exercise of arms; making playes and lawful games in Maie, and good cheare at Christmas; as also for convening of neighbours, for entertaining friendship and heartliness, by honest feasting and merriness; so that the sabbothes be kept holie, and no unlawful pastime be used.
ref: 1850, Isaac Disraeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius:
text: With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth, 240 And yeelding soft, in that she nought gain-said, So forth they rode, he feining seemely merth, And she coy lookes: so dainty they say maketh derth.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cheer.
cheare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheares
form: chearing
form: cheared
form: cheared
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cheer.
contractional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contraction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Removal of SCLM can be accomplished by thermal erosion associated with a rising plume head, by extensional thinning of the lithosphere (and associated mantle upwelling), or by processes related to contractional tectonics [e.g., foundering of lithosphere during thickening, peeling of lithosphere, shearing away of lithosphere during shallow subduction, or erosion of lithosphere induced by flow in the mantle wedge above a subducting slab (1-5, 7 )].
ref: 2000 September 15, Cin-Ty Lee et al., “Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Mesozoic Removal of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Sierra Nevada, California”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, →DOI, pages 1912–1916:
text: Bars show principal horizontal stresses; black bars correspond to contractional stress and white bars to extensional stress.
ref: 1997 October 24, Philip England, Peter Molnar, “Active Deformation of Asia: From Kinematics to Dynamics”, in Science, volume 278, number 5338, →DOI, pages 647–650:
glosses: of or related to contraction
Jacky Howes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacky Howe
Jackie Howes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jackie Howe
Jackie Howe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jackie Howes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jacky Howe.
misbelievers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misbeliever
morrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morrions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morion (“helmet”).
childie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childies
Etymology: From child + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Now, don't cry about it, childie!" as a big tear splashed down Ingred's dress.
ref: 1921, Angela Brazil, A Popular Schoolgirl:
text: "And now, childie, about your praying.
ref: 1883, Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, Miss Prudence:
text: Oh, my childie," said Uncle Jo, "how wrong this has been in me!
ref: 1873, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories:
text: "Well now, childie," said Jocunda, "you can sit here and weave your garlands, while I go and look after the conserves of raisins and citrons that Sister Cattarina is making.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861:
glosses: an affectionate name for a child
choller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chollers
Senses: examples: text: In the meane season, I counsailed his wife to absent her selfe at some of her Neighbours houses, till the choller of her husband was pacified, lest he should be moved against her, as he was against the young man.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: Obsolete form of choler.