cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cloam ovens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloam oven
craftist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftists
Etymology: From craft + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A craftsperson.
craftists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftist
deconstitutionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + constitutionalization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of deconstitutionalizing.
reconstitutionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + constitutionalization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reconstitutionalizing.
renaturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renaturalizes
form: renaturalizing
form: renaturalized
form: renaturalized
Etymology: From re- + naturalize.
Senses: glosses: To naturalize again.
Related terms: renaturalization
renaturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renaturalize
renaturalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renaturalize
renaturalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renaturalize
interfluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fluvial.
Senses: glosses: Between rivers or streams.
Related terms: word: interfluve
english: between rivers; between; river
translation: between rivers; between; river
alt: from a feminine substantive form of the adjective μεσοποτάμιος (mesopotámios; ), from the Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, ) + ποτᾰμός (potamós, ) + -ιος (-ios); see more detailed etymology there
word: Mesopotamia
kneejointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knee + jointed.
Senses: examples: text: Alg. genufleza, filaments kneejointed.
ref: 1840, Amos Eaton, John Wright, North American Botany:
glosses: Having bent joints like those of knees.
hybristophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑβρίζειν (hubrízein, “to commit an outrage against someone”) + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
Related terms: hubris
hybristophile
zoomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From zoomorphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Usually the deity seems to be zoomorphically rather than anthropomorphically conceived.
ref: 1967, Raymond Firth, Tikopia Ritual and Belief, Routledge Revivals, published 2012, page 252:
text: Here sin zoomorphically is likened to a wild beast and by metonymy refers to the result of temptation.
ref: 2006, Eugene H. Merrill, Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament, page 219:
text: Nefer-Tem was the son of Ptah and Sekhmet and like his mother, was zoomorphically represented as lion-headed.
ref: 2008, Charles Finch III, “27: From the Nile to the Niger: The Evolution of African Spiritual Concepts”, in Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, editors, A Companion to African-American Studies, page 457:
text: Zoomorphically, this constellation is usually depicted in Western star charts as a scorpion, but in esoteric astrology, the scorpion transmutes itself (or shape-shifts) into the figure of an eagle.
ref: 2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light: Touring the Visionary Geography of Santa Fe, New Mexico, page 259:
topics: manner
glosses: In a manner that is zoomorphic or involves zoomorphism.
examples: 1987, John P. O'Neill (editor in chief), The Islamic World, Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 10,
Although the arts of Islam are zoomorphically rich, it could be argued that in depicting goats, cows, deer, and bears the great animalier was as true to his Near Eastern upbringing as to his religious tradition.
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a degree characteristic of or involving zoomorphism.
autassassinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + assassin + -o- + -philia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A paraphilia in which an individual is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed.
bacteriostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bacteriostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: With regard to bacteriostasis; by means of a bacteriostat.
nanometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nanometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nanometric manner.
orthorhombically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthorhombic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an orthorhombic manner
pentavalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pentavalent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pentavalent manner
urologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From urologic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a urologic manner; with respect to urology
vindolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vindoline
kawain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kavain.
flavokawain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavokawains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flavokavain.
flavokawains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavokawain
flavokavain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavokavains
form: flavokawain
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of chalconoids found in the kava plant.
flavokavains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavokavain
Redwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In government their last two Welsh Secretaries were John Redwood (Wokingham) and William Hague (Richmond).
ref: 2004, Alan Trench, Has Devolution Made a Difference?: The State of the Nations 2004:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.
algebraization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algebraizations
Etymology: From algebra + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: conversion to algebraic form
Related terms: algebraize
bioprosthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioprosthetic
no soap
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The phrase appears, with no clear meaning, in a 1755 Samuel Foote nonsense prose poem, "The Grand Panjandrum". In the U.S., soap took on the meaning of money (see OED), and so no soap was a denial of money, say in response to a request for some.
Senses: examples: text: I went back down to the men's room on the second floor and yelled his name in front of the private apartments, but no soap.
ref: 1942, Rex Stout, Black Orchids, Farrar & Rinehart:
text: I waited for his assistance but it didn't come. He let me trail for I don't know how long. I hollered and cried, cursed, rocked the boat. No soap.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXV, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: I rang. Nothing happened. I rang again and leaned on it. No soap.
ref: 1973, Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript, Houghton Mifflin:
text: Still and all, after weighing the pluses and minuses of Smooth's offer, he came, to the only possible conclusion for a civilized man—no soap.
ref: 1983 March, Bruce Jay Friedman, “Detroit Abe”, in Esquire:
text: And he tried again—Lou always persisted—but no soap.
ref: 1992, Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Random House:
synonyms: no joy
nothing doing
glosses: It is (or was) a failure.
wikipedia: Samuel Foote
copredication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copredications
Etymology: From co- + predication.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act of making two (sometimes incompatible) things the subject/predicate of a proposition.
decorrelator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decorrelators
Senses: glosses: A device or system that produces decorrelation
decorrelators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decorrelator
graphynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphyne
graphdiyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of graphyne in which each benzene ring is connected to each of six others by a diacetylene bridge
Related terms: graphtriyne
graphtriyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of graphyne in which each benzene ring is connected to each of six others by a triacetylene bridge
Related terms: graphdiyne
triacetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacetylenes
Etymology: From tri- + acetylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polyyne containing three linked acetylene residues
haploblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haploblocks
Etymology: From haplo- + block.
Senses: glosses: A block of haplotypes that are rearranged during meiosis
memristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From memristor + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of a memristor
galacto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek stem γάλακτ- (gálakt-) of γάλα (gála, “milk, milky sap, the Milky Way”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form medical and biochemical terms related to galactose
examples: galacto- + -centric → galactocentric
glosses: Used to form astronomical terms related to galaxies
nanoweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanowebs
Etymology: From nano- + web.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale web, especially a molecular filter of this form
nonmetricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + metricity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonmetric.
piperidinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From piperidine + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cation formed by the protonation of piperidine.
polyhedrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyhedral + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polyhedral
pseudomomentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + momentum.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of a wave, analogous to momentum, that determines the force exerted by the wave when it interacts with matter
quasicondensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quasi- + condensation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of a quasicondensate
catch-22s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catch-22
Catch-22s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catch-22
supersquare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersquares
Etymology: From super- + square.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The equivalent of a Latin square in greater than two dimensions
supersquares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersquare
synchrophasor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synchrophasors
Etymology: From synchro- + phasor.
Senses: glosses: A phasor measurement unit
thermofield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermofields
Etymology: From thermo- + field.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantum mechanical field associated with thermal quantum field theory
endolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoliths
Etymology: From endo- + -lith.
Senses: examples: text: Endoliths have been found in a variety of environments, from the shallow surface to the deep terrestrial and ocean crust.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism (generally a small or micro-organism) living inside rocks.
Derived terms: autoendolith
cryptoendolith
euendolith
microendolith
photoendolith
Related terms: endolithic
papillo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From the noun papilla and the interfix -o-.
Senses: glosses: Papillary.
Moorish Scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moorish Scientists
Senses: glosses: An adherent of the Moorish Science Temple of America, a religion founded in the early 20th century by Timothy Drew on the claim that African Americans descended from Moors and were originally Islamic, and centered on personal transformation and racial pride.
Related terms: Moorish Science
Nuwaubian
Nation of Islam
power structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power structures
Senses: examples: text: Mr Xi is also struggling with issues within his carefully-constructed power structure. The unexplained disappearances of key members of his leadership team and military top brass could be seen as either signs of pervasive corruption or political purges.
ref: 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
glosses: A system of authoritative power in an institution.
glosses: Those who participate in such a system.
tonners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonner
follow the crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows the crowd
form: following the crowd
form: followed the crowd
form: followed the crowd
Senses: examples: text: As much as the next guy, I don't like to follow the crowd.
glosses: To conform to majority beliefs, opinions, or practices.
powerstructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerstructures
Senses: examples: text: The family then is still one important locus of patriarchal control of women although the change in the powerstructure has diminished the power of the family though not the importance of the family.
ref: 1982, Anna-Birte Ravn, Bente Rosenbeck, Birte Siim, Capitalism and Patriarchy: Report from a Seminar at Aalborg University Centre, page 93:
text: This new numerical input in the powerstructure changed the position of the bourgeoisie elite. Votes became a new resource which they could not control and by 1930 a totally new powerstructure emerged, whereby landowning agrarian elite, urban elite and proletariate were united in a single system.
ref: 1986, M. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn, Pieter Van De Velde, Private Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to 'Big-Man' Systems, page 146:
text: In this situation, the majority must have access to the powerstructure in order to enforce its superiority and prejudicial beliefs on others.
ref: 1988, Inn Sook Lee, Korean American Women's Experience: A Study in the Cultural and Feminist Identity Formation Process, page 73:
text: In these organizations, official hierarchical structures are a bad instrument to detect the real powerstructure.
ref: 1995, P. Tordoir, The Professional Knowledge Base of Science Teaching, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of power structure.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An analog of a power set in the context of mathematical structuralism.
Scholastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scholastics
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of scholastic.
Scholastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Scholastic
form: most Scholastic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of scholastic.
bed wetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed wetters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedwetter.
cuddly toy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuddly toys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of soft toy.
synonyms: word: soft toy
skewnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skewness
tip-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tip-toes
form: tip-toeing
form: tip-toed
form: tip-toed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tiptoe.
tip-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip-toes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tiptoe.
tippytoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpiˌtoʊ/
Forms: form: tippytoes
Senses: examples: text: Auntie Marg was down from Magnet and me and Lee played cricket out the back with the littlies to get some air and keep them busy. Now and then a batter would really get onto one and the ball'd go out through the doublegee paddock towards the train tracks and someone'd have to go tippy-toeing through all that shit to get it.
ref: 2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p.114
text: White shirt now red, my bloody nose
Sleepin', you're on your tippy toes.
ref: 2019, “Bad Guy”, Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish O'Connell (lyrics), performed by Billie Eilish:
glosses: Alternative form of tiptoe.
tippytoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpiˌtoʊ/
Forms: form: tippytoes
form: tippytoeing
form: tippytoed
form: tippytoed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tiptoe.
tippy-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tippy-toes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tippytoe.
tippy-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tippy-toes
form: tippy-toeing
form: tippy-toed
form: tippy-toed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tippytoe.
legitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more legitly
form: most legitly
Etymology: From legit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: legitimately
glosses: really, very
Grenadians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grenadian
common juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common junipers
Senses: glosses: Juniperus communis.
strong silent types
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong silent type
cryptorchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptorchisms
Etymology: From cryptorch(id) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
Synonyms: cryptorchidism
Related terms: cryptorchid
monorchism
polyorchism
cryptorchisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptorchism
polyorchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyorch(id) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Usually asymptomatic, polyorchism has often been identified apparently coincidentally in the setting of additional pathology such as inguinal hernia, testicular torsion, hydrocele, or varicocele in addition to cryptorchidism in up to 50% of cases [1], [2], [5], [8].
ref: 2013 January 24, Chloe B. Wilcox, Rachel D'Cruz, Andrew J.A. Holland, “Polyorchism in association with an undescended testis and testicular atrophy: Report of a unique case and review of the literature”, in Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page e7:
glosses: The medical condition of having more than two testicles.
Synonyms: polyorchidism
Related terms: cryptorchism
monorchism
polyorchid
hip replacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip replacements
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant.
Related terms: hip fracture
acetabuloplasty
HMOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HMO
bring sand to the beach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings sand to the beach
form: bringing sand to the beach
form: brought sand to the beach
form: brought sand to the beach
Senses: glosses: To take something to a place where it is already plentiful.
Related terms: coals to Newcastle
carbonmonoxyhemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonmonoxyhemoglobin
carboxyhemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxyhemoglobin
carboxyhaemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxyhaemoglobin
carbonmonoxyhaemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonmonoxyhaemoglobins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carbonmonoxyhemoglobin.
carbonmonoxyhaemoglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonmonoxyhaemoglobin
aminohexanoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminohexanoates
Etymology: From aminohexanoic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of an aminohexanoic acid.
aminohexanoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminohexanoate
azone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azones
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any azo derivative of a ketone, but especially any of a family of aliphatic azo derivatives of cycloheptanone that are used to increase the permeability of skin in order to facilitate drug uptake
azones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azone
cryotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryotomes
Etymology: From cryo- + -tome.
Senses: glosses: A form of microtome that operates on frozen tissues
Derived terms: cryotomist
ultracryotome
dean's list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A list of students in a college or university who achieve high grades during the academic term or year.
dermatomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermatome + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Treated or removed with a dermatome
powerstructures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerstructure
esculentoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esculentosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of saponins isolated from the roots of the plant Phytolacca esculenta
abgoosht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abgusht.
abhenrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɛn.ɹiˈs/
Senses: glosses: plural of abhenry
esculentosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esculentoside
wuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wuffle
wuffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wuffle
wuffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wuffle
command paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command papers
Etymology: So called because they are presented to Parliament formally "by Her Majesty's Command".
Senses: glosses: A document issued by the government and presented to Parliament.
command papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of command paper
multifuel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fuel.
Senses: glosses: Using or involving more than one kind of fuel.
hyperconserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + conserved.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: conserved through very many generations
Related terms: hyperconservation
infusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infusion + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Applied via infusion
intracohort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + cohort.
Senses: glosses: Within a cohort
Related terms: intercohort
intercohort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cohort.
Senses: glosses: Between cohorts
Related terms: intracohort
larviculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The breeding and farming of fish or shellfish larvae
methodologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of methodological.
synonyms: word: methodological
reëstablishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reëstablishment
osmotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osmo- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of dissolved nutrients by means of osmosis
Coordinate terms: phototrophy
phagotrophy
Derived terms: osmotrophic
osmotropotactic
Related terms: osmotroph
pyrrolidinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrolidiniums
Etymology: From pyrrolidine + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cation formed by protonation of a pyrrolidine
ruse de guerre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːz.dəˌɡɛə/
Forms: form: ruses de guerre
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ruse de guerre.
Senses: examples: text: When a fire breaks out in the town, the citizens are straitly ordered not to rush to the fire but to the city-gates in order to secure them; and only then may they put out the fire; for, the statues explain, wilful incendiarism is a well-tried ruse de guerre much used by fifth-columnists anxious to let in the enemy.
ref: 1966, Elena Lourie, “A Society Organized for War: Medieval Spain”, in Past and Present:
glosses: A stratagem of war.
Related terms: ruse
ruses de guerre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruse de guerre
splint bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splint bones
Senses: glosses: One of the rudimentary, splint-like metacarpal or metatarsal bones on either side of the cannon bone in the limbs of the horse and related animals.
splint coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of splent coal.
splint bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splint bone
splent coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splint coal
Senses: glosses: An inferior kind of cannel (coal) from Scottish collieries, having a slaty structure.
spliceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From splice + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being spliced.
glomerular lipidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glomerular lipidoses
Senses: glosses: A relatively benign condition, found especially in dogs, that is characterized by glomerular tufts of fatty material.
Medjool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Medjools
form: medjool
Etymology: From Arabic مَجْهُول (majhūl)
Senses: glosses: A kind of large, moist date (the fruit).
Medjools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Medjool
stirrup cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirrup cups
Senses: examples: 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 2, Chapter 4, pp. 85-86,
[…] after the Lord Keeper, the Master, and the domestics, had drunk doch-an-dorroch, or the stirrup-cup, in the liquors adapted to their various ranks, the cavalcade resumed its progress.
glosses: A parting drink taken after mounting one's horse.
examples: text: Mrs. French insisted that they come into her room for a cordial, when she heard they were leaving. “You must have a stirrup cup,” Mrs. French said to Carol.
ref: 1952, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 19, in The Price of Salt, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 2015, page 190:
synonyms: one for the road
glosses: A drink taken before leaving or parting company with someone.
examples: text: Bishop Dancer is a man you would most quickly understand if you saw him on a Saturday in Camden, dressed in his red hunting jacket and high black boots, leaning forward to accept some hot toddy from the stirrup cup.
ref: 1988, Peter Carey, chapter 65, in Oscar and Lucinda, New York: Vintage, published 2011:
glosses: A cup from which such a drink is taken.
ribolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: homogenizing in a ribolyser
sexton beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexton beetles
Senses: glosses: A necrophore.
sexton beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexton beetle
ribolyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribolysers
Senses: glosses: A form of small ball mill used for the homogenization of biological samples
done brown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See do someone brown.
Senses: examples: text: At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]
ref: 1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:
glosses: Thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled.
forest flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forest fly
forest fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest flies
Senses: glosses: A horsefly, any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae.
synonyms: horse tick
horsefly
horse louse
glosses: A fly of the genus Hippobosca, especially Hippobosca equina; a horse tick.
pinch at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinches at
form: pinching at
form: pinched at
form: pinched at
Senses: examples: text: […]and lastly in what case the Putcase, and his fellowes are, that in broade speeches openly, and in printed bookes directly oppugne them; and by calumnious questions pinch at them?
ref: 1592, Matthew Sutcliffe1, “CERTAINE QVESTIONS PROPOVNDED to the Putcase and his adherents”, in An Answer to a certaine libel supplicatorie, […] and also to certaine calumnious articles […] to the slaunder of the Ecclesiasticall state, […] put forth under the name of a petition directed to Her Maiestie [relating to the alleged wrongful condemnation of J. Udall on an indictment for libel], page 185:
text: If the enimie come home to vs it is not ten subsidies that wil satisfie him: & why are men so wret∣ched as to pinch at one or two?
ref: 1599, Edward Topsell, “18th sermon”, in Times lamentation: or An exposition on the prophet Ioel, in sundry sermons or meditations, page 229:
text: The one is, I would have them be at the pains (though they took time enough to do it) to have a Common-Prayer framed throughout altogether in Scripture-expression, that no mortal wight should ever pinch at it.
ref: 1663, John Humfrey, A Defence of the Proposition: Or, Some Reasons Rendred why the Nonconformist-minister who Comes to His Parish-church and Common-prayer Cannot Yet Yeeld to Other Things that are Enjoyned, Without Some Moderation. Being a Full Reply to the Book [by Thomas Tomkins] which is a Pretended Answer Thereunto, pages 58–59:
glosses: To find fault with; to take exception to.
sonophoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sono- + phoresis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The application of ultrasound to assist the adsorption of topical medicine through the skin.
Bengal stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Plain piece goods, say mulls, jaconets, maddapollams, and long cloth, sell more currently, and at a trifling advance. Printed goods, —as Bengal stripes, single stripes, single coloured plats, pine and neutral chintz, are selling also currently.
ref: 1831 November, “Prices of European Goods in the East”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, volume 6, page 156:
text: Take the finer class of ducks such as Bengal stripes, and we get them from the old country , chiefly from England and France .
ref: 1906, Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons, page 2357:
text: Stripes have held long-term popularity in interior design, and the term 'Regency' has been used to refer to those stripes which, according to Hampshire and Stephenson, were originally called 'tiger' or 'Bengal' stripes and were associated with the British Raj in South Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2006b: 35).
ref: 2015, Michael Hann, Stripes, Grids and Checks, page xxvii:
glosses: A kind of cotton cloth woven with white and coloured stripes.
Bolognian stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bolognian stones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bologna stone.
Bolognian stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolognian stone
spantide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spantides
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of oligopeptides used as tachykinin antagonists
deep mourning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mourning garments that are not only all black, but also composed of lustreless materials and made in a fashion identified with mourning.
eat to windward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats to windward
form: eating to windward
form: ate to windward
form: eaten to windward
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.
raw_tags: of a vessel
gossamer spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gossamer spiders
Senses: glosses: Any spider capable of ballooning
gossamer spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossamer spider
Caroline Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəlaɪn ˌaɪləndz/
Forms: form: the Caroline Islands
Etymology: From Spanish Carolinas, after Charles II of Spain.
Senses: synonyms: Carolines
glosses: A widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea, politically divided between the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
wikipedia: Charles II of Spain
eat into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats into
form: eating into
form: ate into
form: eaten into
Senses: examples: text: Rust ate into the old swords and armour.
text: The cost of these house repairs is eating into my savings.
glosses: To consume gradually, especially by erosion.
tautomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautomerases
Etymology: From tautomer + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes a tautomerization reaction
swordfish sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordfish suckers
Senses: glosses: A spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera), which attaches itself to a swordfish, billfish, or shark and feeds off it.
swordfish suckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordfish sucker
shrinking violets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrinking violet
Chinese indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria, syn. Isatis indigotica).
glosses: Indigofera decora, a kind of indigo plant (summer wisteria).
glosses: Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria), a flowering plant in the buckwheat family.
wild indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: yellow false indigo
glosses: An American herb of species Baptisia tinctoria, which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other species of the same genus.
to the backbone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: staunch to the backbone
ref: 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii:
text: Sir Culling was an extreme Low Churchman, an Exeter Hallite to the backbone, and the head and front of the Platitudinarian Party.
ref: 1894, Richard William Murray, South African Reminiscences, page 138:
text: In temperament he was Dutch to the backbone — at least as we imagine Dutch.
ref: 1907, Alfred Thayer Mahan, From Sail to Steam: Reflections of Naval Life:
synonyms: word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: Through and through; thoroughly; entirely.
letching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of letch
letched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of letch
Kapan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Կապան (Kapan).
Senses: glosses: a town at the southeast of Armenia and the capital of the Syunik Province
collective fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collective fruits
Senses: examples: text: While the true aggregate fruit is produced by the ovaria of a single flower, a collective fruit, if aggregate, is produced by the ovaria of many flowers
ref: 1832, John Lindley, An Introduction to Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fruit formed from a mass of flowers, such as the mulberry or pineapple.
collective fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collective fruit
Schneiderian membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schneiderian membranes
Etymology: Named after the German anatomist Konrad Viktor Schneider.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mucous membrane that lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.
Schneiderian membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schneiderian membrane
Decoration Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called from the practice of decorating the military graves with flowers.
Senses: examples: text: When Carney heard they were renaming Decoration Day and moving it from May 30th to the last Monday in May, he hadn’t seen the point.
ref: 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 16:
glosses: Memorial Day.
Kermanshah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian کرمانشاه (kermânšâh).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Kermanshah County's Central District and the capital of Kermanshah Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
synonyms: word: Bakhtaran
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Kermanshahan
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A province of Iran, formerly known as Bakhtaran and Kermanshahan.
femerells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femerell
dorsal vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsal vessels
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects that circulates hemolymph (blood).
dorsal vessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsal vessel
Kefalonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cephalonia.
slider pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slider pumps
Senses: glosses: A form of rotary pump.
slider pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slider pump
Kzyl-Orda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kyzylorda.
brass leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Brass made into very thin sheets.
Synonyms: brass foil
Dutch gold
Kyzylorda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: from the Turkic "кзыл", red (used here in the common Soviet ideological connotation) and the Turkic Mongolian "орда", city
Senses: glosses: A city in Kazakhstan, the country's capital from 1925 to 1929.
Synonyms: alt: Kokand fortress, 1820-
word: Ak-Mechet
english: Russian conquest, 1853-1925
translation: Russian conquest, 1853-1925
word: Fort-Perovsky
english: Russian conquest, 1853-1925
translation: Russian conquest, 1853-1925
word: Perovsk
sense: former name
alt: -1991, Russian-based romanization
word: Kzyl-Orda
cosseter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosseters
Etymology: From cosset + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cossets.
cosseters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosseter
preciouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precious
Kizlyar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia
superspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + specific.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a superspecies.
pawnbrokery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawnbrokeries
Senses: glosses: The trade of pawnbroking.
glosses: A pawnbroker's shop.
pawnbrokeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawnbrokery
chelonitoxism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of seafood poisoning caused by eating turtles (Chelonia).
mock turtle soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We refreshed ourselves with a tin of mock-turtle soup and wine from the neighbouring pantry.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 266:
synonyms: mock turtle
glosses: A cheaper imitation of turtle soup, often made from brains and organ meats such as calf's head or calf's foot.
haunch bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haunch bones
form: haunch-bone
Etymology: From Middle English haunche bon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The innominate bone.
haunch bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haunch bone
sludge hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sludge holes
Senses: glosses: The hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.
sludge holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sludge hole
Jamaica pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: allspice
Jamaica ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of ginger prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.
Synonyms: white ginger
Jamaica rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamaica roses
Senses: glosses: A West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervia), with showy pink flowers.
Jamaica roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamaica rose
double-convex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Convex on both sides.
Synonyms: convexoconvex
residuary devise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residuary devises
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will.
residuary clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residuary clauses
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The part of the testator's will in which the residue of the estate is disposed of.
residuary legatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residuary legatees
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed.
hypophosphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypophosphite
try cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: try cocks
Senses: glosses: A cock (valve) for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, for example for testing.
try cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of try cock
little swimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little swimmers
Senses: glosses: A phalarope.
little swimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little swimmer
American Cordillera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A chain of mountain ranges (a cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western backbone of North America, Central America, South America and Antarctica.
synovial capsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synovial capsules
Senses: glosses: A closed cavity of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial (free-moving) joints.
synovial capsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synovial capsule
lithia emerald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithia emeralds
Senses: glosses: hiddenite
lithia emeralds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithia emerald
cinerary urn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinerary urns
Senses: glosses: A vessel used to preserve cremated remains.
Synonyms: larnax
cinerary urns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinerary urn
nongenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + genomic.
Senses: glosses: Not genomic.
glover's suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glover's sutures
Senses: glosses: A kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.
glover's sutures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glover's suture
nontoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + toothed.
Senses: examples: a nontoothed gear wheel
glosses: Without teeth.
unharrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + harrowed.
Senses: glosses: Not harrowed.
quartering block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartering blocks
Senses: examples: text: The week however passed away without any disclosure : the gallows and quartering block were ready at Tyburn : the sledge and axe were at the door of Newgate
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.
prophetic week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophetic weeks
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A period of seven years.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A prophetic timeframe based on specific biblical time computations.
prophetic weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophetic week
multicentrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multicentral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With more than one centre.
Kyzyl Kum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Qyzylqum
Etymology: From Turkic, literally “Red Sand”.
Senses: glosses: a large desert in Central Asia in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, divided between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
fuller's herb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth.
Qyzylqum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyzyl Kum.
marcasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marcasite
unassistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassistable
form: most unassistable
Etymology: From un- + assistable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being assisted.
distaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distaff
Locris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Locris, from Ancient Greek Λοκρίς (Lokrís).
Senses: glosses: An ancient region of Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.
Distaff Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So called because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas holiday.
Senses: glosses: 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany.
Synonyms: Roc Day
Rock Day
ellipsoid of revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellipsoids of revolution
Senses: examples: text: An ellipsoid of revolution may be either prolate or oblate.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A spheroid; a solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about one of its axes.
ellipsoids of revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellipsoid of revolution
shackle joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shackle joints
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.
examples: text: The screw 22, which actuates the rod 19 of the piston, passes through the screw 23, and is jointed to the end of the rod 19 by a shackle joint;
ref: 1818, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture, page 266:
glosses: A joint held together by a shackle or clevis and a bolt.
shackle joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shackle joint