cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊəɹi/
/ˈmɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more moory
form: most moory
Etymology: From moor + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In Eſſex moory Land is thought to be the moſt proper, tho several other ſorts of Soil are eſteemed very good
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: As when thick mists arise from moory vales.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy.
Synonyms: hoggy
moorish
quaggy
marshy
moory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊəɹi/
/ˈmɔːɹi/
Forms: form: moories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooree (“kind of cotton cloth”).
dry land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Land; as opposed to watery areas of the Earth's surface such as the sea.
Hypernyms: land
Related terms: terra firma
pelagian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin pelagius
Senses: glosses: pelagic; of or pertaining to the sea.
dry as a bone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Wrong! When we got there, it was not only cloudy and cold, but dry as a bone!
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
synonyms: bone-dry
qualifier: simile
glosses: completely dry; totally dry
humect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humects
form: humecting
form: humected
form: humected
Etymology: See humectate.
Senses: glosses: to wet; to moisten.
gaseity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaseities
Senses: glosses: The state of being a gas.
spring back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs back
form: springing back
form: sprang back
form: sprung back
Senses: examples: The bough sprang back and hit us square in the face.
glosses: To recoil; to bounce back; to recover to an improved position.
phænology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we want to grasp the principle of migration it soon becomes evident that this phenomenon appertains to phænology, and is therefore in organic connection with meteorology.
ref: 1907, Otto Herman, Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, Dulau & Company, § II, page #44:
glosses: Archaic spelling of phenology.
Derived terms: phænologic
phænomenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phænomenal
form: most phænomenal
Senses: examples: text: It cannot be impugned, that the Mosaic Narrative thus interpreted gives a just and faithful exposition of the birth and parentage and successive movements of phænomenal Sin (Peccatum phænomenon: Crimen primarium et commune), that is, of Sin as it reveals itself in time, and is an immediate Object of Consciousness.
ref: 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Aphorisms on That Which Is Indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 253:
text: They both agree that only the phænomenal can be known, but they differ as to what is to be taken as the sum or composition of the phænomenal.
ref: 1867, David Mather Masson, Recent British Philosophy, Macmillan and Company, Second Edition, Chapter IV, page #212:
glosses: Archaic spelling of phenomenal.
willow in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willows in the wind
Senses: examples: text: [T]he CAB has rightfully seen Congress as a willow in the wind, bending to the wishes of whatever special interest groups and businesses speak loudest.
ref: 1984 March 22, “Editorial: Smoking ban still up in the air”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 21 Jun 2011, page 4:
text: Justice is not a willow in the wind; justice stands immutable against unjust forces.
ref: 1989, Gerry Spence, With Justice for None, →ISBN, page 5:
text: If he has to vote against taxes, he will—and his vote won't change from day to day: “I'm not gonna be a willow in the wind.”
ref: 1992 June 25, “Local: Florida Senate”, in Miami Herald, retrieved 21 Jun 2011, page 5B:
text: Ethics begin to feel situational, a balancing of concerns. When this happens, we no longer have any firm ethic to stand on. We become an ethical willow in the wind.
ref: 2008, Ronald Arthur Howard, Clinton D. Korver, Ethics for the Real World, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: One whose views are easily and regularly changed by the persuasion or influence of others.
Synonyms: pushover
vacillator
waffler
cuniculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cuniculus (“rabbit”) + culture.
Senses: glosses: The agricultural raising of rabbits.
dwarf rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf rabbits
Senses: glosses: A small-sized variety of the domestic rabbit.
décollement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: décollements
Etymology: Borrowed from French décollement.
Senses: examples: text: The décollements occur in near-continuously exposed Upper Devonian to Lower Cretaceous strata in the southern Chandler Lake quadrangle.
ref: 1987, Donald J. Orth, Metal Biogeochemistry in Surface-water Systems:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gliding plane between two rock masses; a basal detachment fault.
CTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTFs
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Initialism of capture the flag.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of chlorine trifluoride.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of cock transformation.
glosses: Initialism of counter-terrorism financing or counter-terrorist financing.
glosses: Initialism of Colorado tick fever.
glosses: Initialism of child trust fund.
& seqq.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of et seqq..
Related terms: & seq.
rock & roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rock and roll.
nom-de-plume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noms-de-plume
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nom de plume.
byspeech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byspeeches
form: by-speech
Etymology: From by- + speech.
Senses: examples: text: That notwithstanding, I would of course suggest that the whole damn corpus is a "byspeech", and morality and ethical conduct come from much more reliable sources - our experience and application of our social relationships that do not require the alleged authority of a text or an imaginary supreme lawgiver.
ref: 2008, Heliopolitan, My Archbishop is a 'false teacher' says priest, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/07/my_archbishop_is_a_false_teach.html
glosses: An incidental or casual speech not directly relating to the point.
spiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirations
Senses: glosses: The act of breathing.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The procession of the Holy Ghost.
Related terms: inspiration
respiration
spirant
stonerific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstoʊ.nəˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more stonerific
form: most stonerific
Etymology: Blend of stoner + terrific
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of stoners, or recreational drug users.
archaistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more archaistic
form: most archaistic
Etymology: From archaist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The emperor Augustus introduced an archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it remained so until the Renaissance.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.27:
glosses: Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.
Derived terms: archaistically
archaistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/
Etymology: From archaist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: As in the case of Renaissance Italy, it is precisely the presence of the archaistic in the modern that is so fascinating to the cultural historian.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 138:
glosses: Archaistic themes, motifs, items, etc.
phocines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phocine
phocas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoca
spare room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare rooms
Senses: examples: text: His entire adult life he had lived in the two-bed flat above the shop, sharing the space with his parents. Frank was in the spare room at the back. His parents had the master bedroom, with a big sash window that overlooked the high street.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: guest room
Derived terms: spare room subsidy
nowhere to be found
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And despite Platt’s impressive vocals, the magic he brought to his stage performance (and to so much of his previous screen work) is nowhere to be found here.
ref: 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
glosses: not present; missing or lost.
Synonyms: nowhere to be seen
nowhere in sight
grill room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grill rooms
Senses: glosses: A restaurant that specializes in grilled food, where often the food can be seen being prepared by the chefs.
sachel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sachels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of satchel.
punch bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punch bowls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of punchbowl.
billiard room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billiard rooms
form: billiard-room
form: billiards room
Senses: glosses: A room, usually in a house or hotel, in which there is a billiard table.
file down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files down
form: filing down
form: filed down
form: filed down
Senses: glosses: To reduce the size of something by filing (using the abrasive effects of a file).
within reach
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: At a distance close enough to touch by reaching.
examples: text: We were within reach of the finish line.
glosses: Near (to); close (to); at a close distance (to).
Related terms: out of reach
leuconychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukonychia
Etymology: Fromm leuco- + Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: White discoloration of the nails.
raise up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises up
form: raising up
form: raised up
form: raised up
Senses: glosses: To raise (put at a higher level)
topple over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: topples over
form: toppling over
form: toppled over
form: toppled over
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, some innocently untattooed people in the yoga class – who would otherwise be totally ace at balancing – find the light of self-satisfaction that radiates off their classmates' tattoos is so blinding they topple over.
ref: 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: prostrate
glosses: To fall over (to fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position).
squamiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more squamiferous
form: most squamiferous
Senses: glosses: Scaly; covered in scales.
Synonyms: squamose
scaly
breechesmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breechesmakers
Etymology: From breeches + maker.
Senses: glosses: A tailor who makes and sells breeches.
mid-nightmare
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: midnightmare
Etymology: Fron mid- + nightmare.
Senses: examples: text: His eyes were wide and scared, as if he'd woken mid-nightmare.
ref: 2006, Marion Lennox, Princess of Convenience, page 82:
topics: temporal-location
time
glosses: During a nightmare.
mid-nightmare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Fron mid- + nightmare.
Senses: examples: text: […] carries us into the region of mid-nightmare, […].
ref: 1904, The Spectator, volume 92, page 537:
text: Many times, I have seen your name in the paper— the detective who solves the mysteries in this sleepy little city that sometimes awakens in mid-nightmare.
ref: 2008, Rosalyn Wraight, Secrets and Sins, page 84:
text: Beth awoke Monday morning in mid-nightmare.
ref: 2009, Derek Ciccone, Painless, page 241:
glosses: The middle part of a nightmare, by implication the scariest part, with no end in prospect; the state of being in a nightmare.
terminers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminer
Catalanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Catalanizes
form: Catalanizing
form: Catalanized
form: Catalanized
Etymology: From Catalan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render someone or something more typical to Catalan pronunciation, spelling, culture, style, etc.
Catalanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catalanisms
Etymology: From Catalan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Patriotic feeling of being Catalan.
glosses: A word or phrase typically used in Catalan-speaking areas.
Catalanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catalanizations
Etymology: From Catalan + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or effect of Catalanizing something or someone.
inobservance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inobservances
Etymology: From in- + observance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of observance.
baryte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barite.
Derived terms: staurobaryte
moulage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moulages
Etymology: Borrowed from French moulage.
Senses: glosses: The art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.
glosses: Casting, molding.
moulage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moulages
form: moulaging
form: moulaged
form: moulaged
Etymology: Borrowed from French moulage.
Senses: examples: text: She really wants to get the point across that impalement is serious. I think she's going to moulage a few actors and have them stumble in to really scare the class.
text: 'You can describe wound symptoms, like bruising or bleeding, or you can moulage a "victim" and let the students actually see the injury.'
ref: 1987, Gregory M. Fedorev, Marines, volume 16, number 12, page 28:
glosses: To apply mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.
Palma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and port, the capital of the Balearic Islands, Spain, on the island of Mallorca; in full, Palma de Mallorca.
glosses: A town in Palma district, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
Synonyms: sense: Palma, Mallorca, Spain
word: Palma de Mallorca
Related terms: La Palma
Las Palmas
Palmas
bysitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bysitters
form: by-sitter
Etymology: From by- + sitter.
Senses: glosses: One sitting near or nearby.
coöperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coöperative
form: most coöperative
Senses: examples: text: Men often work in unison to accomplish political or religious reforms. This is coöperative effort of one kind.
ref: 1891, Herbert Myrick, chapter 1, in How to Coöperate, New York: Orange Judd, page 9:
glosses: Dated spelling of cooperative.
Derived terms: coöperatively
Related terms: coöperate
steel guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel guitars
Senses: examples: text: Steel guitar — in which the player used a metal or glass slide to note the strings — became popular when Hawaiian musicians, such as master steel guitarist Sal Hoopi, toured and recorded in the 1910a and 1920s.
ref: 2005, W. K. McNeil, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, page 167:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A method of playing slide guitar using a steel (a kind of slide).
examples: text: While the acoustic guitar is stereotypically tied to country music, the pedal steel guitar, perhaps even more so than the acoustic guitar, represents country music by virtue of its visual appearance and more importantly its sound. […] During the 1950s and the era of the Nashville Sound, artists like Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Eddy Arnold, and Ray Price eschewed the hard country sounds of the steel guitar and fiddle and replaced them with softer back-up singers and string sections as they strove for a homogeneity that would appeal to a wider audience.
ref: 2003, Victor Coelho, The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar, pages 138–139:
text: The sound of the steel guitar had become popular in country music in the 1940s and was especially noticeable in the fusion of country and big band jazz called western swing.
ref: 2004, A. J. Millard, The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, page 53:
text: The ukulele, slack key guitar, and steel guitar all came from this mixing of Hawai'ian and haole culture.
ref: 2005, Ben Marcus, Jeff Divine, Surfing USA!: An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time, page 85:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several types of guitar designed to be played using this method.
Hypernyms: guitar
Hyponyms: console steel guitar
lap steel guitar
pedal steel guitar
table steel guitar
Derived terms: steel guitarist
eratapokriseis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotapokriseis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐρωταποκρίσεις (erōtapokríseis), from ἐρωτάω (erōtáō, “ask”) + ἀπόκρισις (apókrisis, “answer”).
Senses: examples: text: This material, thus offers a possible background to the unexpected appearance of the question of the Temple, in a remarkable work of Justinian's time, the Eratapokriseis, (or Questions and Answers) notionally attributed to Kaisarios, the brother of Gregory of Nazianzus […]
ref: 2008, F. Millar, Rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple: Pagan, Jewish and Christian Conceptions, Russia, page 19:
glosses: questions and answers (as a form of catechism etc.)
scientifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scientifical
form: most scientifical
Etymology: From scientific + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In ſcientifical propoſitions concerning natural bodies a definition is made, as of gold from its properties, ſuppoſe its colour, and ſpecific gravity, and another property or power joined to them, as a conſtant or common aſſociate.
(Rewritten in modern spelling: In scientifical propositions concerning natural bodies a definition is made, as of gold from its properties, suppose its colour, and specific gravity, and another property or power joined to them, as a constant or common associate.)
ref: 1850, David Hartley, Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations, fourth edition, Chapter III, § II, page #329
glosses: Of or pertaining to the scientific method.
Derived terms: scientificality
Related terms: science
scientific
scientificality
scientificity
scientificness
scientism
scientist
scientistic
scientistical
scientistically
swing of things
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's hard to get back into the swing of things after a long holiday.
text: "I know how it would knock me out to have to stop now, just when I've got into the swing of things, so I know just how you feel."
ref: 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 11, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation:
text: "I've been out of the swing of things for a whole year. I'm still trying to get back into the flow of it."
ref: 1987 February 21, Dave Perkins, “Tom Filer faces double jeopardy”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 22 Jun 2011, page C1:
text: [I]f you're going back into the job market — say your job was just eliminated, and you need to get back into the swing of things — you're not going to do well with gray hair.
ref: 2008 January 3, Andrea Sachs, “How Not to Look Old”, in Time:
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: The normal flow and rhythm of daily life or of activities in a specific field.
Related terms: in full swing
jesa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jesas
form: jesa
Etymology: From Korean 제사 (jesa).
Senses: glosses: A Korean memorial ceremony for the ancestors of the participants.
pics or it didn't happen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: pictures or it didn't happen
Etymology: Suggesting the denial of the veracity of a report of the event by demanding pictures thereof as proof.
Senses: examples: text: Pug Nose: “Oh, he will.”
“Pics or it didn't happen.”
ref: 2013, Jade C. Jamison, Quickies: Sexy Short Stories and Other Stuff, page 89:
text: “I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”
ref: 2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Don’t think, just post it. “Pics or it didn’t happen” – that is the populist mantra of the social networking age. Show us what you did, so that we may believe and validate it.
ref: 2015 February 26, Jacob Silverman, “‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era”, in The Guardian:
text: This normative expectation is perhaps best captured in the popular colloquial phrase: “Pics or it didn't happen.”
ref: 2016, Jan E. Stets, Richard T. Serpe, New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, page 147:
text: “Nah. It can be so fake. People just post things that make them look good. You never get the whole story.” I look at my phone in my hand. Pics or it didn’t happen! Ruby likes to say.
ref: 2016, Aimee Friedman, Two Summers, Point, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Used to request a picture of a reported event, especially on an Internet forum.
glosses: Used to demand verifiable evidence for a statement.
gratulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gratulant
form: most gratulant
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: examples: text: The Hawfinch, excited by gales of the spring, / His gratulant notes was heard also to sing.
ref: 1829, James Jennings, Ornithologia, London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, page 176:
glosses: Expressing pleasure or joy.
hæretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hæretical
form: most hæretical
Etymology: From hæretic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of heretical.
præoccupate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præoccupates
form: præoccupating
form: præoccupated
form: præoccupated
Senses: examples: text: And hereupon he sent a part of his army presently forth to beset the ways with ambushment, and to præoccupate all places of strength, and prepared withal to encounter with the rest of his army.
ref: 1812, Thomas Hobbes and Thucydides, The History of the Grecian War, book III, page 200
glosses: Obsolete spelling of preoccupate.
brodos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brodo
præpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præposes
form: præposing
form: præposed
form: præposed
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, making (as they say) a vertue of necessitie, I did deeme it most convenient to præpose mine epistle, onely to beseech you to account of them as of toyes and amorous devises, and ere long I will impart unto the world another poeme, which shall be more fruitfull and ponderous.
ref: 1815, W. Percy, quoted by Egerton Brydges in Censura Literaria; second edition, Volume II, Article LXXIX, page 61
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prepose.
decos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deco
aviados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aviado
digestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digestates
Etymology: From digest + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The sample was digested with sulphuric acid, neutralized, distilled, and Nesslerized. At the same time, tests were run [...] to obtain concordant results by direct Nesslerization of the ammonia formed by the distillation of the digestate.
ref: 1917 December 1, F.M. Veatch, H.P. Evans, L.E. Jackson, “Sewage Disposal in Kansas”, in Bulletin of the University of Kansas, volume 18, page 68:
text: Digestates were quantitatively transferred and diluted to a final volume of 50 ml with 1% HOT. Diluted digestates of bluegill samples were stored in preleached (Karin et al. 1975) conventional polyethylene bottles (Moody and Lindstrom 1977) prior to analysis.
ref: 1984, James Wiener, Comparative Analyses of Fish Populations in Naturally Acidic and Circumneutral Lakes in Northern Wisconsin, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page 44:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Material that has been digested, usually using acid or biomethanation.
bewrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: bewrites
form: bewriting
form: bewrote
form: bewritten
Etymology: From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).
Senses: examples: text: I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
ref: 1838, The Yale literary magazine, volume 3:
text: I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite: [...]
ref: 1878, Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century:
text: "I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]"
ref: 1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories:
text: This harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.
ref: 2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach
glosses: To write about; describe.
examples: text: After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.
ref: 1905, Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1:
glosses: To write to.
examples: text: And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]
ref: 1850, Donald Grant Mitchell, The battle summer::
glosses: To write; write from; copy.
Derived terms: bewriting
bewritten
Gmailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gmailers
Etymology: From Gmail + -er.
Senses: examples: ref: 2004, Sam Tigger, “Hotmail bounces invites from Gmailers”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser (Usenet):
text: If you don't personally know a Gmailer who'll invite you onboard, fire up Google itself and search for Gmail invitations, which should generate results with plenty of sites that dispense spare Gmail accounts...
ref: 2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual:
text: If you do that, the photo appears when another Gmailer hovers the cursor over your name in his inbox or Contacts list.
ref: 2008, Nancy Conner, Google Apps: the missing manual, page 285:
glosses: Someone who uses Gmail.
moleculæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molecule
Tianjin preserved vegetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 天津冬菜 (Tiānjīn dōngcài).
Senses: glosses: A brown, pickled and shredded Chinese cabbage usually packaged in a foil packet or in a vacuum jar.
tracheæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachea
tretis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tretises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of treatise.
encyclopædical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopædical
form: most encyclopædical
Etymology: From encyclopædic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: How to combine the ready availableness of a dictionary with an encyclopædical completeness is the problem to be considered by the undertaker of a work like this.
ref: 1901, Montogomery Schuyler, The International Quarterly, volume IV, page 832:
glosses: Dated spelling of encyclopaedical.
encyclopaedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopaedical
form: most encyclopaedical
form: encyclopædical
form: encyclopedical
Etymology: From encyclopaedic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to encyclopaediae.
Synonyms: encyclopedic
encyclopædic
encyclopaedic
tegos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tego
encyclopedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopedical
form: most encyclopedical
Etymology: From encyclopedic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of encyclopaedical.
antigonorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gonorrhœic.
Senses: examples: text: The author has had good results with injections of thallinum sulphate, which seems to have, in his judgment, a distinct specific antigonorrhœic effect.
ref: 1900, Medical Record, William Wood and Company, Volume 57, №. 25, page 1091:
glosses: Archaic spelling of antigonorrhoeic.
antigonorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigonorrhœics
Etymology: From anti- + gonorrhœic.
Senses: examples: text: Uranoblen is a new antigonorrhœic composed of silver and uranium.
ref: 1913, Year Book of the American Pharmaceutical Association, volume II, American Pharmaceutical Association, page 140:
glosses: Archaic spelling of antigonorrhoeic.
antigonorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antigonorrhœic
form: antigonorrheic
Etymology: From anti- + gonorrhoeic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That acts against, or prevents, gonorrhoea.
antigonorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigonorrhoeics
form: antigonorrhœic
form: antigonorrheic
Etymology: From anti- + gonorrhoeic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug or agent that prevents or counters gonorrhoea.
cremasteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cremaster + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The aponeurosis of the external oblique is now divided and its edges retracted; this exposes the cord and hernia sac lying on top, the whole surrounded by the cremasteric fascia through which run bundles of the cremasteric muscle.
ref: 1918, Carroll Woolsey Allen, Local and Regional Anesthesia, W. B. Saunders Company, second edition, Chapter XVIII, page #367:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to cremasters.
herniæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hernia
xyrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xyro- (“razor”) + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Many people suffering from hair loss are also xyrophobic, or have a fear of razors and other sharp cutting instruments.
ref: 2004, Douglas Walker, Graham Walker, The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Abnormally fearful of razors and other sharp cutting instruments.
xyrospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xyro- (“razor”) + spasm.
Senses: examples: text: I have seen in two cases a barbers’ cramp (keirospasm or xyrospasm) — i.e., a spastic contraction of the muscles of the hand and fingers, which came on in a barber at every attempt to use a razor.
ref: 1904, Hermann Oppenheim, Diseases of the Nervous System, J.B. Lippincott Co., page 859:
glosses: A spasm experienced whilst attempting to use a shaving razor.
xyr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ξυρόν (xurón, “razor”).
Senses: glosses: Razor; razorlike.
œsophagospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Diseases of the œsophagus which can be demonstrated by means of the Röntgen rays are œsophagospasm, or cardiospasm, which usually causes temporary, complete obstruction and perhaps considerable dilatation, but in which the outlines are smooth.
ref: 1914, George E. Pfahler, International Clinics, volume II, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 70:
glosses: Obsolete typography of oesophagospasm.
productionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more productionable
form: most productionable
Etymology: From production + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: ready to be placed into a production environment
media-historical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the first part of this article, I will reflect on the media-historical situation.
ref: 2009, Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney, Mediation, remediation, and the dynamics of cultural memory, page 174:
glosses: Of or pertaining to media history.
rotary phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotary phones
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A telephone with a rotary dial.
rotary phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotary phone
bewrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewrite
bewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewritten
form: most bewritten
Etymology: From be- + written.
Senses: examples: text: If I live a thousand years, I do not believe I shall ever do a more virtuous deed than I did long ago in staying at home for the sake of a quarter of a dollar when the rest of the school went to see Tom Thumb, the late bewritten bridegroom.
ref: 1863, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Philip Gengembre Hubert, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 12
text: He was wholly different from the much-writing and much-bewritten " Field Naturalist" of the type with which we have lately become painfully familiar, the man who is all eyes and tongue but has no brains, thinking everything he sees is seen for the first time, [...]
ref: 1893, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature: Volume 48:
text: In the course of his career he has visited India, and now presents us with his recent but somewhat hasty notes on the people, plague, hunting, pagodas, mills, morals, and canals of that much bewritten land.
ref: 1899, The Nation, volume 69:
text: Therewith he went to his desk, opened it, and reached far behind to a drawer at the back; this also he unlocked with a secret key and drew something out, richly besene, highly valuable, made of yvorie, framed in gold and splinters of precious stones, and closely bewritten.
ref: 1992, Thomas Mann, The holy sinner:
glosses: Written about; depicted; portrayed; described.
Derived terms: unbewritten
bewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From be- + written.
Senses: glosses: past participle of bewrite.
bewrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bewrite
bewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A description.
bewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewrite
by-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-ends
Etymology: From by- + end.
Senses: glosses: A private end or ambition; a secret purpose or design; hidden agenda.
glosses: An incidental or subsidiary aim or objective.
Velasco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Velascos
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Button
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.
glosses: A township in Ford County, Illinois, United States.
Derived terms: Benjamin Button
Button
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”).
IDGAS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I don't give a shit.
Related terms: IDGAF
lines of sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line of sight
air-pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-pumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air pump.
air-pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-pump
Jody chant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jody chants
Senses: examples: text: And then, up ahead, I heard a few isolated voices counting cadence in a Jody chant, then a few more, ...
ref: 2003, Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico, My American Journey:
glosses: A Jody call.
jody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jodies
Etymology: From Jody, a generic name for males romancing soldiers' girlfriends while they are away from home.
Senses: examples: text: I watched the formation move away and listened to the PT leader begin to call out a "jody," an Army song to help units run in step in formation
ref: 1995, James E. Kennedy, About face: a gay officer's account of how he stopped prosecuting ...:
text: I walked back to the dorm as my team ran by in formation singing a jody about their last day.
ref: 2011, Mark Lauren with Joshua Clark, You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises, page 5:
glosses: A Jody call.
Synonyms: Jody chant
Jody cadence
Jody call
jody call
jody call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jody calls
Senses: examples: text: To march, to be in formation with one's fellows, moving together with such precision that every footstep hits the ground at precisely the same time, and listening to the sing-song of a jody call or the steady cadence of a marching band is indeed pleasurable.
ref: 2008, Mickey Weems, The fierce tribe: masculine identity and performance in the Circuit:
text: Perhaps you would like to help us pick up the pace with a jody call?
ref: 2011, Sandra Hill, Wet & Wild:
glosses: Alternative form of Jody call.
Synonyms: jody cadence
Jody chant
jody
jody cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jody cadences
Senses: examples: text: One of our platoon sergeants wrote a "jody" cadence to it and we sang "We'll be there" on our daily runs.
ref: 1990, United States Army Infantry School. Editorial and Pictorial Office, Infantry, volumes 80-81:
glosses: Alternative form of Jody cadence.
Jody cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jody cadences
form: jody cadence
Senses: examples: text: Colonel Allen sat transfixed in his jeep, reminiscing as Charlie Company's Jody cadence gradually receded; echoing and re-echoing through honeysuckled foothills he had once traversed as a young officer candidate.
ref: 2003, William Howard Graley, Of Silent Parades, page 209:
glosses: A Jody call.
logick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of logic.
bownds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bownd
bownd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bownds
Senses: examples: text: This Court haveing been moved to state the bownds of the New Village that is settled upon the playne as you goe to New Haven, doe grant that their bownds shall com from the Brook at the south end of the great playne, to the northward tenn miles, and from the said [Brook] sowthward to Brandford bownds, and on each side the river five miles, that is five miles on the east side and five miles on the west side the River, provided that the sayd village by carryed on and made a  plantation wᵗʰout any relation or subordination to any other towne, and provided the bownds hereby granted to the sayd village doe not prejudice any bownds formerly granted to any planation or perticuler person, or doe not extend to the north any further than wh[ere] the old road to New Haven goeth over Pilgrimes Harbour.
ref: 1670, court of Hartford, quoted by Charles Henry Stanley Davis in History of Wallingford; Chapter III, page #72
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bound.
phrenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phrenetic
form: most phrenetic
Senses: examples: text: It dispelled the muddle into which Bilbo’s phrenetic ravings had crowded my thoughts.
ref: 1941, Moses Koenigsberg, chapter VII, in King News, page 188:
glosses: Dated spelling of frenetic.
phrenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrenetics
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of frenetic.
aschematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aschematic
form: most aschematic
Etymology: First attested in 1933; formed as a- + schematic; equivalent to a supposed Ancient Greek etymon of the form *ἀσχηματικός (askhēmatikós).
Senses: examples: text: Markus inferred that the aschematic women were just as likely to think of themselves as being independent as dependent.
ref: 1933, Steven Penrod, Social Psychology, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 133, →ISBN:
glosses: Devoid of a schema or of schemata.
Synonyms: sense: having no schema
word: schemaless
phrenetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phrenetick
form: most phrenetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of frenetic.
Ikalanga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kalanga.
tarok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taroks
Senses: glosses: Dated form of tarot.
-odontia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ədŏnʹtĭə
enpr: ōdŏnʹtĭə
ipa: /əˈdɒntɪə/
ipa: /əʊˈdɒntɪə/
enpr: ədŏnʹshə
enpr: ədŏnʹchə
enpr: ədŏnʹshiə
enpr: ədŏnʹchiə
ipa: /əˈdɑnʃə/
ipa: /əˈdɑnt͡ʃə/
ipa: /əˈdɑnʃi.ə/
ipa: /əˈdɑnt͡ʃi.ə/
Etymology: Formed from the suffixation of ὀδόντ- (odónt-), the stem of the Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”), with the English suffix -ia; compare the Latin -odontia and the French -odontie.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: branch of dentistry
raw_tags: forms nouns
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: condition of the teeth
raw_tags: forms nouns
horrifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrifical
form: most horrifical
Etymology: From horrific + -al.
Senses: examples: text: If the pine woods be characterized by cathedral solemnity, and the cedars and tamaracks by certain horrifical gloom, and the popples by a silvery sunshine, and the berry-clearings by grateful heat and the homely manner of familiar birds, then the great hardwood must be known as the dwelling-place of transparent shadows, of cool green lucence, and the repository of immemorial cheerful forest tradition which the traveler can hear of, but which he is never permitted actually to know.
ref: 1903, Stewart Edward White, chapter XIII, in The Forest, The Outlook Company, page 181:
glosses: Of or pertaining to horror.
four F's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A set of four basic biological instincts: feeding, fighting, fleeing, and fucking.
Zappaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zappaesque
form: most Zappaesque
Etymology: From Zappa + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the style of Frank Zappa (1940–1993), American composer, performer, and film director.
bakkal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakkals
Senses: glosses: A shopkeeper or dealer.
hypnopædia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia.
ref: 1954, The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics, page 394:
glosses: Rare spelling of hypnopaedia.
hypnopædic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Yes, and civilization is sterilization,” Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopædic lesson in elementary hygiene.
ref: 1933, Aldous Huxley, Retrospect, page 96:
glosses: Rare spelling of hypnopaedic.
hypnopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hypnopædic
form: hypnopedic
Etymology: From hypnopaedia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: 'One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments,' said the Assistant Predestinator, citing a piece of homely hypnopædic wisdom.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hypnopaedia.
swim fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim fins
form: swimfin
Senses: examples: text: The dirty old Wedge, where $6,000 worth of swim fins were lost last year - and their owners.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: A flipper; an items of footwear used while swimming for more speed.
swimfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimfin; alternative form of swim fins.
Sosa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊsə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Sosa, from Portuguese Sousa.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Romero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Romero.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Torres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romance Torres (Portuguese Torres and Spanish Torres); from torres ("towers"; Portuguese torres and Spanish torres); indicating someone who lived in or near a tower. From Latin turris.
Senses: examples: text: Ryan Kohnke attended the parade with his two daughters to see his 11-year-old niece Jessalyn Torres dance. But Kohnke compared what he saw to his days of combat service in Iraq, calling it “a war zone.”
ref: 2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, in CNN:
glosses: A topographic surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Towers of Spanish and Portuguese origin.
Related terms: Porto Torres
Castro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæstɹoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Castro. The neighborhood is named after Californio politician José Castro (1808–1860).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, known for its LGBT community.
Derived terms: Castrism
Castrist
Castro clone
Castroist
Castroite
Castrophile
Navarro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈvɑɹoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Navarro, from navarro, demonym of Navarra, from Basque Nafarroa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
examples: Former name: Wendling
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States.
glosses: A small town in Navarro County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Derived terms: Navarro County
Ramos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramoses
Etymology: From the Spanish and Portuguese surname, from ramo (“branch”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Cogon Ramos
Ramos-Arroyo syndrome
Ramos gin fizz
Ramos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramo
Vargas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vargases
form: Vargus
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Vargas. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico and Colombia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Varguism
Vargas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vargus
Senses: glosses: plural of Varga
Mendoza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mɛnˈdoʊzə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Mendoza, from Basque Mendoza.
Senses: glosses: A province in western Argentina.
glosses: A city, the capital of the province of Mendoza, Argentina.
glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Acuña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Tapaz, Capiz, Philippines.
Muñoz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.