cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
duodecimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dyo͞o'ōdĕʹsĭmət
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪmət/
enpr: dyo͞o'ōdĕʹsĭmāt
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪmeɪt/
enpr: dyo͞o'ōdĕʹsĭmət
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪmət/
Forms: form: duodecimated
Etymology: Either from the Latin duodecimō (“I take one twelfth”) or an alteration of the Latin duodecimus (“twelfth”) by analogy with decimate.
Senses: examples: text: The French squadron…opened fire at a distance far beyond the range of our rifles, and the carnage in our ranks was fearful. We were being gradually duodecimated.
ref: 1868, Sydney Punch, VIII, page 93:
text: The barbarians were duodecimated — i.e., one out of every twelve was beheaded.
ref: 1974, Jean d’Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire, page 298:
text: If they had duodecimated a legion…rather than…decimate them…, two [fewer] guys per unit would have had to be killed.
ref: 2009, Tom McMorrow, Having Fun With Words of Wit and Wisdom, page 75:
qualifier: attested in the past participle only
glosses: To kill one twelfth of a group of people, especially by lot.
examples: text: He has duodecimated his difficulties by choosing twelve boy “heroes.”
ref: 1899, Current Literature, XXV, page 116:
text: Already [Sir James Frazer] has epitomized, and so to speak, duodecimated, the Golden Bough, while Lady Frazer has culled a florilegium from his works.
ref: 1928, Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James, The London Mercury, XVIII, page 446:
qualifier: attested in the past participle only
glosses: To divide into twelfths; to divide duodecimally.
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅓
word: tertiate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅕
word: quintate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅙
word: sextate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅐
word: septimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₀₀
word: centesimate
DRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He decided to use DRS to review the LBW and successfully won.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: UDRS
glosses: Initialism of Decision Review System.
DRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He used DRS at the perfect time to gain a position by overtaking his opponent.
text: A DRS train is when cars become locked in a row behind a lead driver. This is because the group of drivers within the one-second DRS range of the driver ahead of them are unable to make any progression on the cars ahead of them due to the car in front also having DRS, resulting in a train of cars.
ref: 2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of drag reduction system.
UDRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Umpire Decision Review System.
Synonyms: DRS
aforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aforestations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of afforestation.
duodecimvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dyo͞o'ōdĕsĭmʹvĭrət
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊdɛˈsɪmvɪɹət/
Forms: form: duodecemvirate
Etymology: From Latin duodecimvirātus, from duodecimvir + -ātus. Equivalent to duodecimvir + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the group of people involved with it).
Senses: examples: text: Strabo ſeems to ſay, there were fronting theſe halls, (which Diodorus likewiſe ſeems to diſtinguiſh from the labyrinth, ſtyling it the work of the Duodecimvirate) 27 other halls.
ref: 1789, William Williams, Primitive History, from the Creation to Cadmus, page 482:
text: It is essential to [Stalin] and to his duodecimvirate that open war shall be avoided or postponed for as long as possible.
ref: 1948, The Contemporary Review, CLXXIV, page 184:
text: The Tricameron…comprised…a “Senate”…and a “Praetorate,” a sort of quadruple troika or duodecimvirate: twelve men and women who implemented the Senate’s decrees, declared war or peace, and…spent most of the time squabbling amongst themselves for power.
ref: 1984, Diane Duane, My Enemy, My Ally, page 22:
text: It would appear that the duodecimvirate was held after the praetorship, but before the consulate.
ref: 1996, Michael Peachin, Iudex vice Caesaris, page 135:
text: The logs of each member of the covert duodecimvirate displayed identical readouts.
ref: 2008, Michael Somers, Galactic Exodus, page 73:
glosses: A group of twelve people, especially (politics) a council of twelve men sharing office or rule, particularly such groups of magistrates in ancient Rome.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: duodecimvir
enduers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enduer
secuers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of secuer
recentres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recentre
literatuers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹətjʊə(ɹ)z/
Senses: glosses: plural of literatuer
massacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massacers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of massacre.
massacer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: massacers
form: massacering
form: massacered
form: massacered
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of massacre.
Bombay duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bombay ducks
Etymology: Uncertain. The first component may be a modification of Marathi बोंबील (bombīl), the local Marathi name for the fish. The second has been dubiously associated by folk etymology with dak (“Indian postal system”).
Senses: glosses: An edible lizardfish, Harpadon nehereus, found in the waters around Mumbai
examples: text: For her sake he recounted his Indian experiences — told of his arrival in India; […] of the Bombay Ducks, that celebrated European regiment, of whom every man could drink a quart of rum a day, and fight a pitched battle if need were.
ref: 1872, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Three to One, page 42:
glosses: A member of the Bombay regiments of the East India Company's army.
Synonyms: sense: Harpadon nehereus
word: bamaloh
sense: Harpadon nehereus
word: bombil
sense: Harpadon nehereus
word: bumla
sense: Harpadon nehereus
word: bommelow
Trent Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cricket ground in a suburb of Nottingham, England
entery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enteries
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of entry.
examples: text: The ſayd Monſieur d’lvoy, brother to Monſieur de Janlis, aunſwered, that the towne and all which were within it were redye and willing to geve the Kinge their ſoverayne, all his bretherne, the Queene his mother, the Kinge of Navarre, the princes of the Kinge’s bloud, except thoſe which were conſederate with the adverſaries to the crowne, noting and naming the Duke of Monpenſier, fre entery at their pleaſures within the ſayd towne ;[…]
ref: 1562, Nicholas Throkmorton, A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, volume II, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete form of entry.
entretainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] which I thought my duty with as much speed as possibly I could to giue you notice of, that you might accordingly resolue for their entretainment which I hope will be very much to their (as I am sure it wilbe to my Lords) content, and the honour of our Vniuersity with which and my many thanks for your most loving entretainment of mee, […]
ref: 1615, William Boswell quoted in The Eagle, Volume XIX, page #538
glosses: Archaic form of entertainment.
Norichika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese のりちか (Norichika).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
FRCOG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Jane Doe, FRCOG
glosses: Acronym of Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Damp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Damp.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from English.
Brosch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brosches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Brosch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
pneumoniæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumonia
pneumoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pneumoniac
form: most pneumoniac
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pneumonia.
pneumoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumoniacs
Senses: glosses: A person who has pneumonia.
æquisonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Strictly speaking, only unisons are æquisonant; but the same property is often allowed to octaves, because, to the common ear, octaves seem but a doubling of the same sound.
ref: 1840, J. A. Hamilton, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Three Thousand Musical Terms, page 4:
glosses: Obsolete form of equisonant.
evil eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil eye
forset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forsets
form: forsetting
form: forset
form: forset
form: forsett
form: fooarset
form: foorset
form: fwoorset
Etymology: From Middle English forsetten, from Old English forsettan (“to hedge in, obstruct, oppress”), equivalent to for- + set. Cognate with Dutch verzetten (“to move”), German versetzen (“to put, move, transfer, transpose”), Swedish försätta (“to go on, remove, set”).
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
synonyms: word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
word: behedge
word: blunt
word: delay
word: difficult
word: diminish
word: forestay
word: interfere
word: intervene
word: forslow
word: frustrate
word: get in the way
word: hamper
word: handicap
word: hinder
word: hold up
word: hurt
word: impair
word: impede
word: incommode
word: lessen
word: let
word: mar
word: obstruct
word: overslaugh
word: preclude
word: prevene
word: prevent
word: prohibit
word: reduce
word: restrict
word: retard
word: slow down
word: stay
word: stymie
word: thwart
word: thwarten
word: umbeset
word: undermine
word: weaken
word: worsen
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: To upset; hinder.
examples: backset and forset
synonyms: bebay
beleaguer
encircle
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
glosses: To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
glosses: To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
forset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forsets
form: forsett
form: fooarset
form: foorset
form: fwoorset
Etymology: From Middle English forsetten, from Old English forsettan (“to hedge in, obstruct, oppress”), equivalent to for- + set. Cognate with Dutch verzetten (“to move”), German versetzen (“to put, move, transfer, transpose”), Swedish försätta (“to go on, remove, set”).
Senses: glosses: A stratagem.
Zenaida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
forsta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forstas
form: forstaing
form: forstaed
form: forstaed
form: forstaa
form: forstaw
Etymology: Probably from Dutch verstaan (“to understand”); or from Norwegian forstå (“to understand”), itself from Middle Low German vorstân (“to understand”), from Old Saxon farstandan (“to understand”), equivalent to for- + stand. More at forstand.
Senses: examples: text: A cripple I'm not, ye forsta me, Tho' lame of a hand that I be; [...]
ref: 1714, Joseph Ritson, Scotish song:
glosses: To comprehend; understand.
protoscripture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoscriptures
Etymology: From proto- + scripture.
Senses: examples: text: If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...
ref: 1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press, page 65:
glosses: Something which is not yet scripture, but which is becoming or will become scripture
tholeiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθoʊ.li.aɪt/
ipa: /ˈθəʊ.lɪ.ʌɪt/
Forms: form: tholeiites
Etymology: From German Tholeiit, from Tholei (“a village in western Germany”).
Senses: examples: text: Correctly speaking, Hawaiian basalt is not just basalt, but is a special variety enriched in silica known as tholeiite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 51n:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An igneous basaltic rock, formed from magma rich in magnesium and iron.
Derived terms: tholeiitic
dicty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dictier
form: dictiest
form: dickty
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: stylish and respectable; high-class
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
examples: text: We had already decided that he'd have to move in with Isabel and her folks. I knew this wasn't the ideal arrangement because Isabel's folks are inclined to be dicty and they hadn't especially wanted Isabel to marry me. But I didn't know what else to do.
ref: 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: snobbish and uptight
dicty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicties
form: dickty
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: An upper-class black.
Synonyms: sense: high-class
word: chic
sense: high-class
word: classy
sense: high-class
word: ritzy
sense: pretentious
word: flashy
sense: pretentious
word: showy
sense: snobbish
word: haughty
sense: snobbish
word: hoity-toity
sense: snobbish
word: snobby
sense: snobbish
word: snooty
sense: snobbish
word: stuck-up
makeready
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makereadies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of make-ready.
whole steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole step
sixteenth note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteenth notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note that has 1/16 the value of a whole note.
Synonyms: semiquaver
sixteenth notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixteenth note
eighth rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighth rests
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rest that has the same length as an eighth note.
Related terms: 𝄾
sixteenth rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteenth rests
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rest with the same length as a sixteenth note.
Synonyms: semiquaver rest
make friends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes friends
form: making friends
form: made friends
form: made friends
Etymology: From Middle English maken frendes, equivalent to make + friends.
Senses: examples: text: He hasn't made friends easily at his new school.
glosses: To form friendships with others.
examples: text: He made friends with his new neighbour.
text: I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.
text: Sara and I made friends right away.
glosses: To befriend.
raw_tags: construed with with
Synonyms: sense: chum up
word: befriend
adhæsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adhæsive
form: most adhæsive
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of adhesive.
corollæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corolla
fornigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fornigh
form: most fornigh
Etymology: From Middle English forneh, forneah, from Old English fornēah (“very nearly, almost, about”), equivalent to for- + nigh. Compare similarly formed German beinah, Dutch bijna, both meaning “almost”.
Senses: glosses: Very near
examples: text: It'll be fornigh ten 'ear sin then'
glosses: Very nearly; almost.
raw_tags: of time
Related terms: wellnigh
forleet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forleets
form: forleeting
form: forleet
form: forleet
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forlet.
forleet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forlat
wife up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wifes up
form: wifing up
form: wifed up
form: wifed up
Senses: examples: 2008 “Chris Brown Wifing Up Rihanna?”
glosses: (of a man) to marry a woman (generally an existing girlfriend); to make a woman one’s wife
examples: text: Brother’s wifed up – can’t go shoot pool or nothing.
glosses: (of a man) to spend extensive or excessive time with one’s wife or girlfriend; to be under a woman’s thumb; to be whipped
Related terms: shack up
forhow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forhows
form: forhowing
form: forhowed
form: forhowed
form: forhoo
form: forhooie
form: forhooy
form: forhui
form: furhow
Etymology: From Middle English forhowien, from Old English forhogian (“to neglect, disregard, despise”), equivalent to for- + how. Cognate with Old Saxon farhuggjan, Old High German farhuggan.
Senses: glosses: To despise; scorn.
examples: text: It was believed that handling any bird's eggs in the nest made the bird forhooie them, [...]
ref: 1881, Gregor, Elk-Lore:
glosses: To forsake; quit; abandon; desert.
examples: text: Mind what this lass has undergane for you, Since ye did her so treach'rously forhow, [...]
ref: 1768, Ross, Hclenort:
glosses: To cast off; scorn.
homeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From home + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a home; homeliness, domesticity.
Related terms: at-homeness
not-at-homeness
penton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentons
Etymology: From pent- + -on.
Senses: glosses: A pentagonal capsomere of an adenovirus capsid.
fye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular, Southern US
ipa: [ˈfaː(ə)]
note: African-American Vernacular, Southern US
ipa: [ˈfäː(ə)]
Forms: form: more fye
form: most fye
Etymology: Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English
Senses: examples: Dude dat man just hit dem folks, and it was so fye m8.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fire, representing Southern US English.
fye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular, Southern US
ipa: [ˈfaː(ə)]
note: African-American Vernacular, Southern US
ipa: [ˈfäː(ə)]
Forms: form: fye!
Etymology: Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fie.
Leucippus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: an Ancient Greek philosopher from Miletus, the founder of atomism and the first thinker in western history to consider determinism as a possibility, disciple of Zeno of Elea
glosses: a son of Hercules
shepherd's pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd's pipes
form: shepherds' pipes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musette; a small bagpipe.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The pipes of Pan; a pan flute.
Ceyx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːɪks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κήϋξ (Kḗüx).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A king who was transformed into a kingfisher, together with his wife Alcyone.
Capito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæpɪtoʊ/
Forms: form: Capitos
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito.
* Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Corydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”).
Senses: examples: text: They give voice to Corydon′s passion; they confront in their own culture the constraints that hedge his passion in.
ref: 1994, Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics, page 92:
text: Byron shocked regency England by citing it^([Virgil's second eclogue]) in the opening canto of Don Juan, and Andre Gide gave the title Corydon to the controversial defense of homosexuality he published in 1924.
Virgil depicts Corydon’s passion with psychological realism and a touch of wry irony.
ref: 2006, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 92:
text: The harlequinade ceases for the moment, and a two-character tragedy begins with the shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, whose names derive from ancient pastoral poetry.
ref: 2008, Bernard F. Dick, Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty, page 18:
glosses: A male given name from Greek, notably used as a stock name for a shepherd in pastorals, in particular a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in Virgil's Eclogues.
glosses: A place name used for several towns in the United States.
A town, the county seat of Harrison County, Indiana, also located in Harrison Township.
glosses: A place name used for several towns in the United States.
A small city, the county seat of Wayne County, Iowa.
glosses: A place name used for several towns in the United States.
A town in Henderson County, Kentucky.
Related terms: Corydon Township
Pitta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pittas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pitta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Related terms: Pitta-Pitta
foveolæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foveola
Taraba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the North East geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Jalingo.
fossæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fossa (etymology 1)
habenulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ganglion of the habenulæ located in the trigonum habenulæ just in front of the superior colliculus contains a mesial nucleus with small cells and a lateral nucleus with larger cells.
ref: 1918, Henry Gray, Warren H. Lewis, Anatomy of the Human Body, Lea & Febiger, twentieth edition, page #868:
glosses: plural of habenula
back-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English bak-, bac-, apheretic form of abak, aback (“aback”, adverb). See also aback.
Senses: glosses: Back in its adverbial senses.
glosses: Situated, located, or toward the rear; backward or in reverse; in return; again.
examples: backfriend
glosses: False; pseudo-.
sixteenth rests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixteenth rest
noid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of catenoid.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
coordinate_terms: droid
bot
glosses: Clipping of humanoid.
examples: text: MDMB-4en-PINACA is my favorite noid.
glosses: Clipping of cannabinoid.
glosses: Clipping of cannabinoid.
Clipping of alternative cannabinoid.
Related terms: nit-noid
Hirohisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
eighth rests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eighth rest
thirty-second note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirty-second notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note that has 1/32 the length of a whole note.
Synonyms: demisemiquaver
32nd note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 32nd notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a note with 1/32 the length of a whole note
Synonyms: word: demisemiquaver
Hiromitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひろみつ (Hiromitsu).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
64th notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 64th note
scleræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclera
dæmonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dæmonize
dæmonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dæmonize
œcumenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We do not purpose to enter into them, but would merely remark that if Catholicity of doctrine be a claim to œcumenicity for the Council that defines it, it remains to be explained how several national and international Councils in every way as important as that of Constantinople, have not been enrolled among the General Councils.
ref: 1874, J. J., The Month and Catholic Review, volume XXI, page 109:
glosses: Obsolete form of ecumenicity.
attilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attila
politicoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politico
becards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of becard
fæculæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Were the heavenly spaces perfectly transparent, we should no more see them than the purest water through which we see other objects; and we see them as we see water tinged with milk or other fæculæ.
ref: 1822, James Watt, John Robison, A System of Mechanical Philosophy, volume III, page 546:
glosses: plural of fæcula
hæsitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hæsitate
hæsitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hæsitate
secuerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secuerities
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of security.
bewilderedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bewilderedly
form: most bewilderedly
Etymology: From bewildered + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about.
ref: 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütte”, in Between Whiles:
text: He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next.
ref: 1917, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Starr, of the Desert:
text: But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"
ref: 1944 December 25, “America: Pattern of Revolution”, in Time:
text: Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly. “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured.
ref: 2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, “Where God and the Devil Once Lived”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Jul 2011:
glosses: In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.
Synonyms: confusedly
Related terms: bewilder
bewilderment
Solovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Solovian
form: most Solovian
form: Solowian
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the economist Robert Solow.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: In particular, of or pertaining to the Solow growth model.
Lanius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laniuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lanius (“butcher”), a Latinized form of Dutch vleeshouwer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Latin.
verisimility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verisimilities
Senses: examples: text: I will not allow your Genius the slightest approach to inspiration, and I can admit no verisimility in a reverie which is fixed on a foundation you now allow to be so weak.
ref: 1830, Humphrey Davy, Consolations in Travel:
text: Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons:—"The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility."
ref: 1882, Sir Walter Scott, The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, volume 1:
glosses: Verisimilitude.
forlat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forlats
form: forlatting
form: forleet
form: forlut
form: forlatten
form: forlutten
Etymology: From for- + lat (“to let”).
Senses: glosses: To deal a blow; hit out.
forgitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forgitty
form: most forgitty
Etymology: From forgit (“to forget”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Forgetful.
thirty-second notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirty-second note
inhæsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inhesion.
bird-of-paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birds-of-paradise
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bird of paradise.
birds-of-paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird-of-paradise
pentons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penton
chætognath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chætognaths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chaetognath.
chætognaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chætognath
chætophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chætophorous
form: most chætophorous
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, in the development of a mesoblast which undergoes division into segments, the Leeches exhibit the fundamental character of all such segmented Invertebrates as the chætophorous Annelida and the Arthropoda.
ref: 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter V, in A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, J. & A. Churchill, page 218:
glosses: Obsolete form of chaetophorous.
pipes of Pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In Greek mythology, Pan is often represented playing panpipes, whence the instrument derives its name.
Senses: glosses: A pan flute.
Synonyms: sense: see
word: panpipes
adæquately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adæquately
form: most adæquately
Etymology: From adæquate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of adequately.
Hebræan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebræan
form: most Hebræan
Senses: examples: text: His diction is, therefore, more firm and nervous, and, though not absolutely Hebræan, makes a nearer approach to the unadorned energy of Jewry.
ref: 1837, Robert Chambers, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, volume III, Blackie & Son, page 268:
glosses: Archaic form of Hebrean.
Hebræan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebræans
Senses: examples: text: He was easy and placid, with Dr. Adams, Mrs. and Miss Adams, and Mrs. Kennicot, widow of the learned Hebræan, who was here on a visit.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Roger Ingpen, chapter XXI, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, Hutchinson & Co., page 421:
glosses: Archaic form of Hebrean.
Hebrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebrean
form: most Hebrean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebraean.
Hebrean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hebreans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebraean.
Hebrean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hebraean.
Hebræans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebræan
break one's lance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks one's lance
form: breaking one's lance
form: broke one's lance
form: broken one's lance
Etymology: From the sport of jousting.
Senses: examples: text: Then you have Sweden, too, burning with desire to break a lance with Russia on the question of Polish independence.
ref: 1848 Feb. 8th, 23rd, March 1st, 17th, House of Commons, The Debates on motion for papers, with a view to the impeachment of the right hon. Henry J. Temple Viscount Palmerston, page 14:
text: Inasmuch as our correspondent has such a poor opinion of the capacity of men to write understandingly and impartially upon feminine topics, we say to her and everybody else, "The lists are open, ladies—hissez alia!" We will be but as the heralds at the tourney, to sound the trumpets and preserve order. There is a fair field for our correspondent, whether she desires to break a lance with those detractors of her sex whom she so indignantly castigates, or only desires to set the world of fashion right as to the style of a bonnet.
ref: 1870, The editors, The Statesman, volume 1:
text: That is that you haven't broken your lance in any really major cause, that you haven't been actually out front and center on the really controversial issues. What is your comment on that criticism?"
ref: 1971, Theo Lippman with Donald C. Hansen, Muskie:
text: There is no record of More's paying any special attention to heresy until Henry VIII took it upon himself to break a lance with Martin Luther, and summoned More to join him in the lists.
ref: 2011, George M. Logan, The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, page 110:
glosses: To engage in an honorable fight.
heat intolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat intolerances
Senses: glosses: Inability to tolerate or to be comfortable in warm or hot environments.
Related terms: cold intolerance
æternally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Which I speak of charitie, loue, & compassion of my deare contriemen : being assured, that if they perish in bodie, (as it is to be feared, they shal do in that seruice,) they shal lose their soules also everlastingly : and shal æternally curse those, that ledde them out of their countrie to so certayne perdition.
ref: 1587, William Allen quoted in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume XXV, page 29
glosses: Obsolete form of eternally.
cōtempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of contempt.
cõtempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of contempt.
costalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From costo- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles
Synonyms: pleuralgia
pleurodynia
backgain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backgains
form: backgaun
form: back-gang
form: back-gannin
form: backgane
Etymology: Alteration of back-ganging (noun).
Senses: glosses: A relapse.
glosses: A decline; consumption.
glosses: A relapse in illness.
backgain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backgain
form: most backgain
form: back-ga'en
form: back-gaen
Etymology: Alteration of back-ganging (adjective), equivalent to back + ganging.
Senses: glosses: Receding; going back.
examples: a backgain family
glosses: Not thriving in health or in worldly concerns.
raw_tags: of persons
Related terms: back-ganging
back-ganging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌɡæŋɪŋ/
Forms: form: more back-ganging
form: most back-ganging
form: back-gangin
form: back-gannin
Etymology: From back- + ganging (“going”), from gang (“to go, proceed; to walk”).
Senses: examples: text: Here he opened the fatal volume [a rental book]; I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday book—I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants.
ref: 1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter XI. The Same to the Same [Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford].”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears.
synonyms: backgain
glosses: Not in a good financial state; unprosperous.
synonyms: backgain
glosses: Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy.
Related terms: backgain
back-ganging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌɡæŋɪŋ/
Etymology: From back- + ganging (“going”), from gang (“to go, proceed; to walk”).
Senses: glosses: A going back; a returning; also, the way back.
synonyms: backgain
glosses: A deterioration, especially in circumstances or health; a relapse, a retrograde.
Romaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Romaean
form: most Romaean
form: Romæan
Senses: qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: Of or pertaining to the eastern Roman Empire, that is, to the Byzantine Empire.
Romaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romaeans
form: Romæan
Senses: qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: A native, inhabitant or citizen of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire.
Romæans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] and it is not saying too much to affirm, that, of all the Romæans or modern Greeks, none were so depraved as the natives of the Ionian Isles, especially the Corfiotes, Cephalleniotes, and Zantiotes.
ref: 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopædia Metropolitana, volume XXI, page 84:
glosses: plural of Romæan
macocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macock
bully-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bully-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bully boy.
interiour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of interior.
interiour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interiours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interior.
bullyboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullyboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bully boy.
bell boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bellboy.
manic-depression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manic depression.
insuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insucks
form: insucking
form: insucked
form: insucked
Etymology: From Middle English insouken, equivalent to in- + suck. Cognate with Saterland Frisian iensuge (“to suck in, absorb”), West Frisian ynsûge (“to suck in”), Dutch inzuigen (“to suck in”), German Low German insugen (“to suck in, soak up”), German einsaugen (“suck in, absorb, soak up”), Swedish insuga (“to inhale, suck in, pick up”), Icelandic innsjúga (“to suck in”).
Senses: examples: text: The first course was soup, and as the younger used his spoon, his lips reached forth to meet it, at the same time he insucked his breath, which made a particular noise.
ref: 1905, William Baucke, Where the white man treads:
text: [...] a wavering or trembling of the haypiles as if the hay itself took breath: insucks & outflows, faint wave motions rippling across low flat haystack is the giveaway [...]
ref: 1999, The Atlantic monthly, volume 284:
text: The terrible wound of mouth peeled and slithered, insucked and garbled a single word: [...]
ref: 2001, Ray Bradbury, A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: To suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.
insuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insucks
Etymology: From Middle English insouken, equivalent to in- + suck. Cognate with Saterland Frisian iensuge (“to suck in, absorb”), West Frisian ynsûge (“to suck in”), Dutch inzuigen (“to suck in”), German Low German insugen (“to suck in, soak up”), German einsaugen (“suck in, absorb, soak up”), Swedish insuga (“to inhale, suck in, pick up”), Icelandic innsjúga (“to suck in”).
Senses: examples: text: The refill, the tamping down with finger, the match lit, the quick insucks, the very flushed face very serious now, sound of sucking in air, bubbling of pipe, waving of match to extinguish, puffing out clouds of smoke, rolling over on [...]
ref: 2004, Aidan Higgins, A bestiary:
text: The timing of the insuck of semen in relation to sperm capacitation (the process that renders sperm capable of fertilizing an egg) has been discussed critically by Levin (2002).
ref: 2006, Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer, Beverly Whipple, The science of orgasm:
glosses: The act or process of sucking in; absorption.
outsight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsights
Etymology: From out- + sight. Cognate with Dutch uitzicht (“view, prospect, outlook”), German Aussicht (“view, prospect, chance, outlook, perspective”), Swedish utsikt (“view, outlook, prospect”).
Senses: examples: text: When we live by outsight, we become submissive to fate.
ref: 1897, Ursula Newell Gestefeld, How we master our Fate:
text: It can key her into broad areas of emotional import, and therefore of personal significance, which if made relevant to the subject matter would provide some children with opportunities for linking insights to outsights, [...]
ref: 1968, Richard Matthew Jones, Fantasy and feeling in education:
text: This means honing their “outsight” —the capacity to perceive external things—and helping their constituents develop that ability as well.
ref: 2007, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, The leadership challenge:
glosses: Sight for that which is on the outside; the ability or capacity to perceive or anticipate external things; view; outlook; perspective; power of observation.
examples: text: Yet we sail toward it grasping The outsight which we know is there.
ref: 2009, E. Milton Scott, Hinges of Time:
glosses: Expectation; prospect.
glosses: Movable goods kept out of doors, such as animals, ploughs, carts, and other implements of husbandry.
Synonyms: observation
Related terms: insight
outsights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outsight
miniprep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minipreps
form: Miniprep
Etymology: From mini- + prep.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A rapid, small-scale isolation of plasmid DNA from bacteria.
Synonyms: minipreparation
miniprep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minipreps
form: miniprepping
form: miniprepped
form: miniprepped
form: Miniprep
Etymology: From mini- + prep.
Senses: glosses: To perform a miniprep procedure.
Iduna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Iduna terms
Kakamega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large town, the capital of Kakamega County, Kenya.
oreography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From oreo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orography.
orographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orographers
Etymology: From orography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in orography.
orographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orographer
genometastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genometastases
Etymology: From gene + -o- + metastasis.
Senses: glosses: metastasis via the hypothetical transfer of DNA, via the blood, from infected cells to remote cells
Mino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
untender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untender
form: most untender
Etymology: From un- + tender.
Senses: glosses: Not soft; harsh.
examples: text: c.1603-1606, The Tragedy of King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1,
Cordelia: Good my lord, / You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I / Return those duties back as are right fit, / Obey you, love you, and most honour you. / Why have my sisters husbands if they say / They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, / That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry / Half my love with him, half my care and duty: / Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Lear: But goes thy heart with this?
Cordelia: Ay, good my lord.
Lear: So young, and so untender?
Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.
text: I had not been ungenerous on the whole, / Nor yet untender;
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, Fourth Book:
text: He was the first-born of his mother, but in nowise like her—she being the ugliest, stupidest, and most untender of feline animals. Her very kittens she would carry into damp corners, and under grates, and there forsake them, to be trampled to death or shovelled unwittingly on the back of the fire : […].
ref: 1858 May 29, “Our Lost Pet”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 337:
text: a. 1874, Henry James, Master Eustace, in 1999, Complete Stories,1864-1874, page 656,
Her parents had frowned on him and forced her into a marriage with poor dissolute Mr. Garnyer — a course the more untender as he had already spent half his own property and was likely to make sad havoc with his wife's.
text: She would let me know in a most untender manner if Brother Fielding told her I wasn't proficient.
ref: 2006, James E. McNabney, Born in Brotherhood, page 22:
glosses: Lacking sympathy, heartless, not empathetic.
Wilsonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.
Dives
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin dives (“rich man”).
Senses: glosses: The rich man in the biblical parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
Dives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dives
Etymology: From Latin dives (“rich man”).
Senses: glosses: A rich person who lives in luxury.
hili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hilus
strip the willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip the willows
Senses: glosses: A particular country dance, in which a pair of dancers go down a set of dancers, alternately swinging each other and other dancers on the sides.
strip the willow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strips the willow
form: stripping the willow
form: stripped the willow
form: stripped the willow
Senses: glosses: To dance the strip the willow.
dosado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosados
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dos a dos.
dosado
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dosados
form: dosadoing
form: dosadoed
form: dosadoed
Senses: glosses: To dance this step; to walk around (someone) using this dance step.
Masao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese まさお (Masao).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭn
ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: Chin
form: Chin
form: Kin
Etymology: From Korean 진(晉) (jin).
Senses: glosses: A Korean surname.