cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
humbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humbled
form: most humbled
Senses: examples: text: JJ: Are you humbled by such positive reactions from such a wide spectrum of people, from George A Romero to Harry Knowles?
SP: Absolutely. Yeah, it's wonderful. ... We're very humbled and very pleased.
ref: 2014 September 24, "Web Access... Simon Pegg / Edgar Wright" BBC Online
text: We are humbled by the responsibility the American people have placed with us, but this is not a time for celebration.
ref: 2014 November 4, John Boehner, Statement by Speaker Boehner On Outlook For The 114th Congress:
text: I cannot adequately express my sincere thanks to the Section leaders who saw fit to take a chance on me and ask me to get involved in leadership in the Section. Thank you for being excellent role models. I am honored and humbled to serve.
ref: 2015 May, C. Joyce Hall, “Humbled and Honored”, in ABA Health eSource, volume 11, number 9:
text: "Anytime I win an award of any kind I am honored and humbled," Espinoza said.
ref: 2015 September 12, 'HONORED AND HUMBLED' ESPINOZA TO RECEIVE LAFFIT PINCAY, JR. AWARD Paulick Report
glosses: (usually qualifying a first-person pronoun) Grateful for the support of others, touched; honored, flattered.
examples: text: They would continue to suffer greatly but they have a strength that is remarkable. I am humbled by them and privileged to be with them.
ref: 2010 February 1, Tom Hagan 'I am humbled by these people' National Catholic Reporter
text: The written word, he often argued, could only ever be a low-fidelity reproduction of the fullness of being; any text was ultimately humbled by the reality that it sought to represent.
ref: 2019 November 12, Gal Koplewitz, “Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Overcome with humility; in awe of the strength of another or one's own weakness
Derived terms: unhumbled
humbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humble
mayest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maist
form: may'st
form: maiest
form: mayst
Etymology: may + -est
Senses: examples: text: Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
ref: , Acts 24:8
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of may
mayst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: maist
form: may'st
form: maiest
form: mayest
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of may
beauteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːtɪəs/
ipa: /ˈbjuːtʃəs/
rhymes: -uːtiəs
Forms: form: more beauteous
form: most beauteous
Etymology: From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous.
Senses: examples: text: VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day,
 And make me trauaile forth without my cloake,
 To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way,
 Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17, column 2:
text: Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.
ref: 1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 246:
glosses: beautiful.
Derived terms: beauteously
beauteousness
unbeauteous
cruse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːs/
ipa: /kɹuːz/
rhymes: -uːs
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: cruise
Forms: form: cruses
form: cruise
form: cruze
Etymology: From Middle English crouse, from Old English crūse (“jar, cruse”), from Proto-West Germanic *krūsā, from Proto-Germanic *krūsǭ, *krūsaz (“jar, pot, collar, jug”). Cognate with German Krause (“pot with a lid”), Icelandic krús (“jar, jug”). Merged with Middle English croo (“pot, pitcher”), from Old English crōg (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). More at crock.
Senses: examples: text: With a thought I tooke for Maudline
& a cruse of cockle pottage.
with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all:
I befell into this dotage.
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
religion
glosses: A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
glosses: An oil lamp; a crusy.
Derived terms: widow's cruse
radgie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ædʒi
Forms: form: radgier
form: radgiest
Etymology: Dialectal variant of ragey. By surface analysis, radge + -ie.
Senses: related: word: radge
glosses: Violent or crazy.
radgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ædʒi
Forms: form: radgies
Etymology: Dialectal variant of ragey. By surface analysis, radge + -ie.
Senses: related: word: radge
glosses: An angry or violent person.
Derived terms: radgie gadgie
Related terms: radgepacket
Esau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːsɔː/
ipa: /ˈisɑ/
rhymes: -iːsɔː
Forms: form: Esav
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἡσαῦ (Hēsaû), from Biblical Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿēśāw).
Senses: examples: text: And the boyes grew; and Eſau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27, column 2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The son of Isaac and Rebekah and the older twin brother of Jacob.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Edom
daylighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daylight
daylighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daylighted
form: most daylighted
Senses: glosses: provided with daylight
wingding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingdings
form: whingding
form: whing ding
form: wing ding
form: wing-ding
Etymology: Reduplication of wing (“arm”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 243:
glosses: A fit or spasm.
examples: text: Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground
ref: 1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:
glosses: A party.
wingding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingdings
Etymology: After the Wingdings font developed by Microsoft in 1990. Its name was presumably derived from dingbat and earlier senses of wingding.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of going through the menu selections needed to insert a special symbol like a Wingding, you can rely on AutoCorrect to substitute the symbol for the text you type […]
ref: 2004, Mary Millhollon, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out, page 202:
text: Don't know a wingding from a ring-a-ding-ding? Check out one of the For Dummies books on Microsoft Office.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Gilad, Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies, page 179:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.
desireth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: desire + -eth
Senses: examples: text: No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 5:39:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desire
despiseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:16:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despise
heareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:16:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hear
wingdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingding
eateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From eat + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Let not him that eateth, deſpiſe him that eateth not: and let not him which eateth not, iudge him that eateth. For God hath receiued him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 14:3, column 1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat
feareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 112:1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fear
nitrogeniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From nitrogen + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing, or yielding nitrogen
findeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:14:
text: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of find
footmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footman
nitrogen monoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nitric oxide.
hateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:16:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hate
leadeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He maketh me to lie downe in greene paſtures: he leadeth mee beſide the ſtill waters.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 23:2, column 1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lead
nitrogen oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrogen oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide of nitrogen.
Related terms: NOx
nitric oxide
nitrous oxide
nitrogen dioxide
dinitrogen monoxide
dinitrogen trioxide
dinitrogen tetroxide
dinitrogen pentoxide
lieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəθ
Senses: examples: text: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 22:19:
text: The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge.
ref: 1592, Francis Bacon, In Praise of Knowledge:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lie
offereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From offer + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: And all the meate offering that is baken in the ouen, and all that is dressed in the frying panne, and in the panne, shall be the Priests that offereth it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 7:9:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offer
passeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 2:17:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass
Derived terms: peace that passeth understanding
pleaseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 8:3:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of please
Wingdings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A dingbat font in which each character is represented by an unrelated symbol.
Wingdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.
Senses: glosses: plural of Wingding
nitric oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In fact, nitric oxide (not to be confused with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas) is one of our primary signalling molecules.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 156–157:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the binary compound of nitrogen and oxygen NO; an unstable compound which rapidly oxidizes in the presence of air.
receiveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 21:11:
text: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of receive
seeketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 24:9:
text: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:10:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seek
seemeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From seem + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 10:15:
text: That unknown, approaching thing, seemeth ever ill, my brother, which must have unfrank heralds to go before.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seem
sheweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: showeth
Etymology: shew + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix
Senses: examples: text: The wicked borroweth, and payeth not againe: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giueth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:21:
text: The heauens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handy worke.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 19:1:
text: […]and Mr Shepherd’s clerks were set to work, without there having been a single preliminary difference to modify of all that “This indenture sheweth.”
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shew
sinneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sin + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 18:4:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sin
standeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 10:12:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stand
toucheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 19:11:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of touch
walketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 73:9:
text: When we have wrangled ourselves as long as our wits and strengths will serve us, the honest, downright sober English Protestant will be found in the end the man that walketh in the safest way, and by the surest line.
ref: 1649 April 10, Robert Sanderson, letter to N. N.:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk
declensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declension
incorrectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛk(t).li/
Forms: form: more incorrectly
form: most incorrectly
Etymology: From incorrect + -ly or in- + correctly.
Senses: examples: text: I lost a few marks in the test for spelling words incorrectly.
text: In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:
text: A RIF notice received by one FDA employee on Tuesday included performance ratings that were incorrectly low, meaning the severance pay offered was lower than it would be for the ratings they previously received, the employee told CNN.
ref: 2025 April 1, Nick Valencia, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby and Sean Lyngaas, “‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies”, in CNN:
glosses: In an incorrect manner.
worketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 101:7:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work
broader
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdə/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdɚ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: [ˈbɹɔɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɹɑɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈbɹoːdə/
ipa: [ˈbɹoːɾə]
Senses: glosses: comparative form of broad: more broad
tissues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tissue
tissues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tissue
four square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport played by four players where players have to hit a ball into other people's squares, and attempt to make a return hit.
topics: education
glosses: A method used to teach children to write about a topic, based on a diagram with four squares, each containing a type of sentence about the topic.
radgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radgie
incontinently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incontinently
form: most incontinently
Etymology: From incontinent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint.
examples: text: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
ref: a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth:
text: On such eyes as maidens cherish
Let thy fond adorers gaze,
Or incontinently perish
In their all-consuming rays!
ref: 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act II:
text: The image which she had called up was too much for her nerves, and she fled incontinently.
ref: 1891, Bram Stoker, The Judge's House:
glosses: Immediately; at once; forthwith.
tharra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink of North India and Pakistan, made from yeast fermentation of sugar cane or wheat husk, and often brewed illegally.
incontinency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incontinencies
Etymology: From Latin incontinentia.
Senses: examples: text: That Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 7:5:
glosses: incontinence
incontinence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɒntɪnəns/
Forms: form: incontinences
Etymology: From Middle English incontinence, from Old French incontinence, from Latin incontinentia.
Senses: examples: text: verbal incontinence
text: Allworthy was sufficiently offended by this transgression of Jones; for notwithstanding the assertions of Mr Western, it is certain this worthy man had never indulged himself in any loose pleasures with women, and greatly condemned the vice of incontinence in others.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.
ref: 2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Lack of self-restraint, an inability to control oneself; unchastity.
examples: text: The objective is to make life easier for male colleagues and customers with urinary incontinence.
ref: 2024 July 10, “Network News: 'Boys Need Bins' backed by GTR”, in RAIL, number 1013, page 23:
topics: medicine
sciences
urology
glosses: The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).
Synonyms: sense: lack of self-restraint
word: akrasia
sense: lack of self-restraint
word: incontinency
Derived terms: emotional incontinence
incontinence briefs
incontinence pad
incontinence pants
incontinence slip
stress incontinence
overstretch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: overstretches
form: overstretching
form: overstretched
form: overstretched
Etymology: From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).
Senses: examples: text: The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes
And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston,
Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake,
The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: 1640, Charles I of England, Speech given to the Lords and Commons, at the Benquetting-House in White-Hall, 25 January, 1640, in The Works of King Charles the Martyr, London: Ric[hard] Chiswell, p. 169,
If some of [the Bishops] have overstretched their power, and incroached too much upon the Temporalty, if it be so, I shall not be unwilling these things should be redressed and reformed […]
text: […] outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory, London: Peter Cole, page 50:
text: 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 1, Lecture 16, p. 380,
How far a Hyperbole, supposing it properly introduced, may be safely carried without overstretching it; what is the proper measure and boundary of this figure, cannot, as far as I know, be ascertained by any precise rule.
glosses: To stretch too far.
glosses: To stretch over something.
Derived terms: word: overstretched
overstretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: overstretches
Etymology: From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).
Senses: glosses: The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.
peer pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peer pressures
Etymology: From peer + pressure. First use appears c. 1957 in the publications of Ruth Strang.
Senses: examples: text: She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution.
text: A successful response uses social forces such as peer pressure and altruism to help people adapt to changing circumstances. It delivers messages and support that promote self-reliance rather than encourage people to fall back on stressed state support.
ref: 2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9:
glosses: Inducement or influence by one's peers.
peer pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peer pressures
form: peer pressuring
form: peer pressured
form: peer pressured
Etymology: From peer + pressure. First use appears c. 1957 in the publications of Ruth Strang.
Senses: examples: text: He was peer-pressured into taking drugs.
glosses: To induce or influence one's peers.
watchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchman
becometh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: become + -eth
Senses: examples: text: But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:3:
text: "Nay, when once thou art even as I am, we will go hence - fear not but that I shall find a path - and then shall we journey to this England of thine, and live as it becometh us to live."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of become
beholdeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: behold + -eth
Senses: examples: text: The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 33:13:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of behold
belongeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: belong + -eth
Senses: examples: text: O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 94:1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belong
al niente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian al niente.
Senses: examples: text: I would, anyhow, put my money on Nunc Dimittis with its atmospheric mood and beautifully original ending where, after the impact of a robust Gloria a solo soprano quietly reiterates the opening phrase senza misura with the rest of the choir singing Amens al niente on open fifths.
ref: 1970, English Church Music, page 45:
text: There is a strong feeling of renunciation, but this is softened somewhat by her enigmatic smile which implies a certain contentment and satisfaction, and the music dies away al niente.
ref: 2005, Michael Halliwell, Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James:
text: The Prelude ends ambiguously, in that the two crotchet rests in bar 26 act as a fermata of indeterminate length as the resonance sustained by the open pedal fades al niente.
ref: 2016, Mine Doğantan-Dack, Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Indicating in music notation that the dynamics fade to nothing.
bondmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondman
breaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: break + -eth
Senses: examples: text: And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:26:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of break
casteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cast + -eth
Senses: examples: text: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:13:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cast
commandeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: command + -eth
Senses: examples: text: For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Amos 6:11:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of command
in rilievo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in rilievo (“in relief”), from in + rilievo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical notation that indicates that a particular instrument to play slightly louder than the others so as to stand out over the ensemble; in relief.
exceptio quod metus causa
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin exceptio (“exception”) quod (“based on”) metus (“duress”) causa (“a cause (of action)”).
Senses: examples: text: It appears that in that Court, the defence stressed by appellant's counsel was the exceptio quod metus causa and it was to that defence that the learned Judge-President mainly directed himself.
ref: 1974, SHEPSTONE v SHEPSTONE 1974 (2) SA 462 (N):
text: Reverting to the defence raised by first defendant, it is clear that a contract may be vitiated by duress (metus), the raison d'etre of the rule apparently being that intimidation or improper pressure renders the consent of the party subjected to duress no true consent at all. ]
ref: [ 1974, AREND AND ANOTHER v ASTRA FURNISHERS (PTY) LTD 1974 (1) SA 298 (C)
topics: law
glosses: The exceptio metus; an exception based on the fact that the underlying cause of action was based on duress or intimidation by the plaintiff of the defendant.
Related terms: For a list of common exceptions
exceptio
committeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: commit + -eth
Senses: examples: text: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 6:18:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commit
considereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: consider + -eth
Senses: examples: text: Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 18:28:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consider
exceptio metus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceptio quod metus causa
Etymology: From a shortening of exceptio quod metus causa.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An exception based on the fact that the underlying cause of action was based on duress or intimidation by the plaintiff of the defendant.
continueth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: continue + -eth
Senses: examples: text: He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:2:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of continue
marcato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian marcato, past participle of marcare (“to stress”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: stressed; pronounced.
heptasulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptasulphides
form: heptasulfide
Etymology: From hepta- + sulphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sulphide containing two sulphur atoms in each molecule.
Derived terms: rhenium heptasulfide
rhenium heptasulphide
night watchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night watchmen
form: nightwatchman
Senses: glosses: Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers.
examples: text: We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight / Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
ref: 1966, Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”, in Blonde on Blonde:
glosses: A person who guards (usually at a building) at night.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lower order batter to play the last overs in low light to save better batters for the next day's play.
Derived terms: night watchman state
tetralemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmə
Forms: form: tetralemmas
form: tetralemmata
Etymology: From tetra- + lemma.
Senses: glosses: A figure in Ancient Greek and Eastern logic with four possibilities.
Related terms: dilemma
trilemma
pentalemma
coin slot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coin slots
form: coinslot
form: coin-slot
Senses: glosses: A small opening on a vending machine, arcade game machine, parking meter, etc. to accept the payment that operates the mechanism.
examples: text: Sometimes when she is on the floor with her legs spread open the men sitting at the edge of the stage try to roll quarters into her "coin slot."
ref: 2003, David A. Scott, Behind the G-String:
glosses: Vagina.
Synonyms: sense: vagina
word: vagina
Related terms: slot machine
between Scylla and Charybdis
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtwiːn ˈsɪlə ænd kəˈɹɪbdɪs/
note: with intrusive r
ipa: /bəˈtwiːn ˈsɪləɹ ænd kəˈɹɪbdɪs/
Senses: synonyms: word: between a rock and a hard place
word: between the hammer and the anvil
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between a rock and a hard place
word: between Scylla and Charybdis
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between the hammer and the anvil
word: between two fires
word: damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
word: doomed if you do
word: doomed if you don't
word: in a cleft stick
word: in bad bread
word: on the horns of a dilemma
glosses: Between two dangers.
Related terms: Scylla
Charybdis
genericized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genericize
genericized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genericized
form: most genericized
Senses: examples: text: Kleenex was in danger of being the most genericized brand name.
glosses: That has become generic.
Derived terms: genericized trademark
saddle bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle bows
form: saddle-bow
form: saddlebow
Etymology: From Middle English sadel-bowe, sadel-boȝe, from Old English sadulboga, sadolboga, equivalent to saddle + bow. Displaced non-native arson (“saddle bow”), from Middle English arsoun.
Senses: examples: text: the Prince […] stroke the Pagan with his steely brand / So sore, that to his saddle-bow thereby / He bowed low, and so a while did lie […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The Government mobilized the full force of 18,000 mounted gendarmes and sent them picking their way over the sand about as heavily armored as any policeman could be: a long lance in one hand, a sabre at the saddle bow, a rifle across the back, a pistol on the hip.
ref: 1931 October 12, “Sand in the Streets”, in Time:
glosses: The front part of a saddle that is arched up like an archer's bow.
serge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /sɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: serges
Etymology: From Middle English sarge, from Old French sarge, serge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica (“silken, silk things”), from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”). Doublet of silk and seric.
Senses: examples: text: Lucy, who had only seen her in either the large loose wrapping dress of serge, or in the quaint simplicity of the Puritanic garb, then so general in England, could not restrain an exclamation of admiration as she returned to their chamber.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 110:
text: What I noticed most strongly was his smell, of hair oil and serge and cigarette smoke, and something else, something intimate and sour and wholly, shockingly other.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A type of worsted cloth.
glosses: A garment made of this fabric.
Related terms: silk serge
denim
serge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /sɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: serges
form: serging
form: serged
form: serged
Etymology: From Middle English sarge, from Old French sarge, serge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica (“silken, silk things”), from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”). Doublet of silk and seric.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To overlock.
serge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /sɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: serges
Etymology: From Middle English cerge, from Old French ci(e)rge, cerge & chierge.
Senses: glosses: A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies.
kirtle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːt(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)-/
ipa: /ˈkɚt(ə)l/
ipa: /-ɾ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: kirtles
form: kirtling
form: kirtled
form: kirtled
Etymology: From Middle English kirtel, from Old English cyrtel, cognate with Old Norse kyrtill (“tunic”) (whence Icelandic kyrtill, Danish kjortel (“gown, tunic”), Swedish kjortel (“petticoat, skirt”)), from Old Norse *kurtil-, supposedly a diminutive of *kurt-, from Latin curtus (“short, shortened”). Compare German Kittel.
Senses: examples: text: Eastward the Night / Climbs slow with hooded brows, and languid Day / Kirtles her robe fantastical, and leans / To take the embrace of darkness.
ref: 1899, Charles Camp Tarelli, “God’s Magic”, in The Spectator, volume 82, London: F. C. Westley, →OCLC, page 521, column 1; reprinted in Frank M[orrison] Pixley, editor, The Argonaut, volume XLVIII, number 1243, San Francisco, Calif.: Argonaut Publishing Company, 1901 January 7, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
text: Father Fogen led the way, his skinny shanks a gleaming white as he kirtled his cassock about his thighs. I was obliged to do the same, for the hillside above the house was thick with grass and thorny shrubs that caught at the coarse wool skirts of my borrowed robe.
ref: 1994, Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (Outlander Series; 3), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC:
text: I didn't kirtle my skirts above my knees. I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings.
ref: 1999, Mercedes Lackey, editor, Flights of Fantasy (DAW Book Collectors; no. 1141), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 264:
text: Kirtling her skirts for freedom of movement, she accelerated to full speed and headed for the road, hoping to reach the relative safety of the village.
ref: 2007, Chris Holmes, chapter 28, in Blood on the Tartan (Excalibur Book), High Springs, Fla.: Highland Press, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: To clothe or cover with, or as if with, a kirtle; to hitch up (a long garment) to the length of a kirtle.
palfrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːl.fɹi/
Forms: form: palfreys
Etymology: From Middle English palfrey, from Anglo-Norman palefrei (“steed”), from Old French palefroi, palefreid, from Late Latin paraverēdus (“post horse, spare horse”), from Ancient Greek παρά (pará) + Latin verēdus (“post horse”), from Gaulish *werēdos (“horse”) (compare Welsh gorwydd (“horse”)), from Proto-Celtic *uɸoreidos (“horse”). Doublet of prad. Compare Dutch paard and German Pferd.
Senses: examples: text: Five warriors seiz'd me yestermorn, / Me, even me, a maid forlorn: / They choked my cries with force and fright, / And tied me on a palfrey white. / The palfrey was as fleet as wind, / And they rode furiously behind.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part I.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 8:
text: The eye of father and sister alike forgot every other object while watching the evolutions of the young and graceful boy, who realised the descriptions of romance as, his golden curls dancing on the wind, his cheek flushed with exercise, and his large blue eyes dilated and flashing with triumph, he ruled the snow-white palfrey by a wave of the hand and an imperceptible pressure of the knee. It seemed as if the docile creature intuitively divined his will.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 154–155:
glosses: A small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
Derived terms: palfreyed
palfreyman
chicken guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of chikungunya.
foul wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul winds
Senses: examples: text: We lost several hours having to tack into a foul wind just off the coast.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wind blowing against the direction of travel.
fair wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair winds
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A favourable wind, i.e. one blowing in the desired direction of travel for the vessel.
Axt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Axts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Axt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
arrière-pensée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrière-pensées
form: arrières-pensées
Etymology: Borrowed from French arrière-pensée.
Senses: examples: text: He knew that I had guessed his arrière-pensée, but he let me off for the moment, for which I was thankful; either because he was still ashamed of it, or because he supposed I was reserving myself for the catastrophe,—should it occur.
ref: 1884, Henry James, “The Path of Duty”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, 2(15): 240-256:
glosses: A mental reservation or ulterior motive.
exanimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzænɪmɪt/
Forms: form: more exanimate
form: most exanimate
Etymology: From Latin exanimātus, perfect passive participle of exanimō (see ex-, -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ex- + animō, from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: carckasses exanimate
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead.
examples: text: Pale […] wretch, exanimate by love.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively.
Synonyms: sense: dispirited
word: dejected
Related terms: animate
exanimation
exanimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzænɪmeɪt/
Forms: form: exanimates
form: exanimating
form: exanimated
form: exanimated
Etymology: From Latin exanimātus, perfect passive participle of exanimō (see ex-, -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Latin ex- + animō, from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To deprive of animation or of life.