cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
e-mentees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mentee
crimping house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimping houses
form: crimp house
form: crimping-house
Senses: examples: text: Under pretense of taking up mendicants and vagabonds, they had scoured the streets at night, seizing upon honest mechanics, or their sons, and hurrying them to their crimping-houses, for the sole purpose of extorting money from them as a ransom.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, The Crayon Papers:
glosses: A (usually low-rise) building into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
Related terms: impressment
press-gang
pondspice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pond + spice.
Senses: glosses: Litsea aestivalis, an American shrub of the laurel family, growing in ponds and swamps.
galaxy filament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galaxy filaments
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A massive, thread-like formation of gravitationally bound galaxies forming the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
Synonyms: supercluster complex
great wall
galaxy filaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galaxy filament
nonmention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmentions
Etymology: From non- + mention.
Senses: glosses: Failure to mention something.
nonmentions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmention
nonmentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mentioned.
Senses: glosses: Not mentioned.
Mikulicz disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Jan Mikulicz-Radecki, a Polish surgeon who wrote about the condition.
Senses: synonyms: Mikulicz syndrome
glosses: A benign lymphoepithelial lesion of the parotid and/or lacrimal glands, sometimes associated with Sjögren's syndrome.
undebunked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + debunked.
Senses: glosses: Not debunked.
nonmarathon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marathon.
Senses: examples: text: Marathon and nonmarathon runners were surveyed in the study.
glosses: Not relating to a marathon.
nonportfolio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + portfolio.
Senses: examples: nonportfolio income; nonportfolio properties
glosses: Not relating to a (financial) portfolio.
unflowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flowing.
Senses: glosses: Not flowing.
nonaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aggregate.
Senses: glosses: Not aggregate.
chiasmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the optic chiasma.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to or characterized by a chiasma (the contact point between the two chromatids of a chromosome during meiosis).
Derived terms: achiasmatic
hypochiasmatic
monochiasmatic
multichiasmatic
nullichiasmatic
postchiasmatic
prechiasmatic
retrochiasmatic
superchiasmatic
suprachiasmatic
unvisual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvisual
form: most unvisual
Etymology: From un- + visual.
Senses: glosses: Not visual.
nonstressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstressors
Etymology: From non- + stressor.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a stressor.
nonstressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonstressor
antihallucinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hallucinatory.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering hallucination.
prisoner's cinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The visual phenomenon of seeing colours, which may resolve into human or other figures, when kept in darkness or otherwise deprived of visual stimulation.
antisonar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sonar.
Senses: examples: an antisonar coating
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Preventing detection by sonar.
undiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiverse
form: most undiverse
Etymology: From un- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Not diverse.
unenmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + enmeshed.
Senses: glosses: Not enmeshed.
nonamplifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + amplifying.
Senses: glosses: Not amplifying.
unimmured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + immured.
Senses: glosses: Not immured.
liaison aircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liaison aircrafts
form: liaison aircraft
Senses: glosses: a small, usually unarmed aircraft primarily used by military forces for artillery observation or transporting commanders and messages.
Wilson loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson loops
Etymology: Named after Kenneth G. Wilson.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: A gauge-invariant observable obtained from the holonomy of the gauge connection around a given loop.
Wick rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wick rotations
Etymology: Named after Gian-Carlo Wick.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method of finding a solution to a mathematical problem in Minkowski space from a solution to a related problem in Euclidean space by means of a transformation that substitutes an imaginary-number variable for a real-number variable.
wikipedia: Gian-Carlo Wick
Haag's theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Rudolf Haag.
Senses: glosses: A theorem stating that the interaction picture does not exist in an interacting, relativistic quantum field theory.
wikipedia: Rudolf Haag
gunloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunloons
Etymology: From gun + loon (“crazy or deranged person”).
Senses: examples: text: Of course, to a gunloon, freedom is _defined_ by gun ownership.
ref: 1996 July 1, rafe b., “Re: Rpt on San Jose City Council Mtg 6/18 PM”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):
text: Allowing pilots to carry guns is so insane and stupid that only a gunloon would support it.
ref: 2003 September 20, Siva, “Re: Pilot to passengers - I'm armed & drunk”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: The problem is that these NRA gunloons don't believe that they also have the *duty* to own them *responsibly.*
ref: 2010 December 3, Fred, “Re: Thrill Killer -- NRA buttfuck rightards on National Geographic”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
glosses: A person obsessed with owning guns; a zealous supporter of the right to bear arms.
Synonyms: ammosexual
gunfucker
guntard
hoplophile
nondesire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + desire.
Senses: glosses: absence of desire
angel water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A perfumed liquid originally made with angelica and later with rose, myrtle, and orange-flower waters, with ambergris, etc.
angel bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel beds
Senses: glosses: A bed without bedposts, whose canopy is supported from a wooden structure.
gong farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong farmers
form: gong-fermer
form: gongfermor
form: gongfermour
Senses: glosses: One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.
Synonyms: gong scourer
Related terms: night soil man
subjective case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjective cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: subject case
nominative case
antonyms: objective case
glosses: The form of a noun or pronoun used as the subject of a finite verb. In the active voice this is the agent, in the passive voice the subject is the receiver of the action. In both cases the subject is the thing subjected to what is said about it, it is the “topic of the statement”.
Related terms: grammatical case
butafosfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From but(yl)a(mino) + phosphan(ium).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An organic phosphorus compound used as a drug in animals.
at rovers
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: shooting at rovers
text: Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers.
ref: 1551 Raphe Robynson translation of Thomas More's Utopia T. F. Didbin's 1808 edition, Vol.2 Ch.9 p.161
text: You must always give your men of great reading leave to show their talents on the meanest subjects, says Eugenius ; it is a kind of shooting at rovers : where a man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim, to show his strength.
ref: 1726, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals: Especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets:
glosses: at random.
sandwich girder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich girders
Senses: glosses: A girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.
stone hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone hammers
Senses: glosses: A hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, used for breaking stone.
tetterberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetter + berry.
Senses: glosses: White bryony (Bryonia alba)
gutter mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutter mouths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guttermouth.
unicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnɪkət/
Forms: form: unicates
Etymology: Back-formation from duplicate.
Senses: examples: text: Dead inflorescences and infructescences are well worth collecting if no fresh material is available or if fresh material is only sufficient for a unicate or one duplicate.
ref: 1986, John Dransfield, “A guide to collecting palms”, in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, volume 73, number 1, page 167:
text: Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.
ref: 2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A biological specimen that has no duplicates.
examples: text: Our data perhaps are more robust for analyzing patterns of endemism because some nuclei for which we have few inventories show high numbers of unicates (e.g., Caribbean, Mexico), and others for which we have sampled far more thoroughly show low numbers (e.g., Brejo and Peri-Caatinga). Though the percentage of unicate species varies widely from 1.9 to 77.5 percent, in general it is high, with 12 of 23 nuclei showing greater than 20 percent unicates, suggesting high endemism.
ref: 2011, Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, R. Toby Pennington, “Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forests: Diversity, Endemism, and Biogeography of Woody Plants”, in Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Harold A. Mooney, Gerardo Ceballos, editors, Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Ecology and Conservation, Washington: Island Press, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that occurs at only a single geographical site.
unicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicate
wicked tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wicked tongues
Senses: examples: text: My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend;
A wicked tongue is worse than is a fiend
ref: c. 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer (original), David Laing Purves (modern translation), The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple's Tale
text: [W]hen I met with any despicable thing, I hesitated not to call it so; and men had never done with talking of my restless head and wicked tongue.
ref: 1839, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Book VII, ch. 3:
text: [T]he stories which came to his ears . . . sometimes spoke strange evil of her—of her violent temper, of her wicked tongue, of her outraging of all customs and decencies.
ref: 1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 14, in His Grace of Osmonde:
text: He called him everything he could think of, and this was a great deal, for Sammy has a wicked tongue.
ref: 1917, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter 18, in The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver:
text: She lies, steals and sleeps around, gleefully spreading malicious rumours wherever she goes. "I like strong, conniving women with wicked tongues," Roos explains.
ref: 1999 January 14, Geoffrey Macnab, “Arts: Strong, conniving women: the final frontier”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 12 May 2014:
text: Playing amateur sleuth . . . frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs.
ref: 2007 February 4, Marilyn Stasio, “Murder Most Suburban”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:
glosses: An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.
Related terms: foul-mouthed
guttermouth
potty mouth
sharp tongue
silver tongue
your blood's worth bottling
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A statement of praise or admiration.
from the East German judge
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Because of the reputation of East German judges for giving low scores to West Germans at sporting events.
Senses: examples: text: The Birdman receives straight 6-figure contracts across the board except from the East German judge, who makes him pay for his own lunch and won't even validate parking.
ref: 1988, Linda Frye Burnham, High Performance:
text: “Nice pop, Aldo.” “Well, I guess a five-point-six from the East German judge. Let’s get moving.”
ref: 2003, Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger, The Berkley Publishing Group, page 444:
text: The Camry interior styling and fit and finish get eights, even from the East German judge, but the Kia's pull solid nines.
ref: 2007, Car and Driver, volume 52, page 72:
glosses: Used with an imaginary low score in a competition.
road iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road irons
Senses: glosses: A motor vehicle, such as a car or a motorbike.
hoka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red codling.
synonyms: word: red codling
Caisse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: essiac
balsam of fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Canada balsam
Canada turpentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Canada balsam
cotton thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton thistles
form: cottonthistle
Senses: glosses: Any of various flowering plants in the genus Onopordum of the family Asteraceae, especially Onopordum acanthium.
Scotch thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch thistles
Senses: glosses: Onopordum acanthium, a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
biocriticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + criticism.
Senses: glosses: biographical criticism
biocritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to biocriticism.
Derived terms: biocritically
helmetshrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmetshrikes
form: helmet-shrike
Etymology: From helmet + shrike.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of crested birds of the genus Prionops.
helmetshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmetshrike
close time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close times
Senses: glosses: A fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law.
moor buzzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moor buzzards
Senses: glosses: A bird, the marsh harrier.
composition metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composition metals
Senses: glosses: Muntz metal
hopper boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopper boys
form: hopperboy
Etymology: Derived from the occupation of boys who would carry out the task prior to the invention of the machine.
Senses: glosses: A rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.
blue asbestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Crocdilite
black flux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter.
black rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom whose rich domains in Meath he received a “black rent” equivalent to £10,000 a year[.]
ref: 1856, “Notes on Old Irish Maps”, in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, volume 4, page 121:
glosses: Blackmail (rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin).
examples: text: [N]othing could have preserved them from total extirpation but the assistance afforded them by the other Irish princes and tribes, whose friendship and protection they purchased by paying them a tribute, or black rent, as it was called.
ref: 1825, Edward O’Reilly, “An Essay on the Subject Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 14, page 160:
text: [S]he pays me the black rent, and I let her alone[.]
ref: 1831, Edmond O’Foelin, “Eman Oge: A Translation from an Original Irish Story”, in The National Magazine, volume 2, number 3, page 289:
qualifier: Scottish Borders
glosses: Protection money.
lady paramount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies paramount
Senses: topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The lady who achieves the best score in archery.
ladies paramount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady paramount
back the field
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs the field
form: backing the field
form: backed the field
form: backed the field
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.
mill bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill bars
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
toe out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toes out
form: toeing out
form: toed out
form: toed out
Senses: glosses: To have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot.
toe in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toes in
form: toeing in
form: toed in
form: toed in
Senses: glosses: To stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of each foot incline toward the other.
glosses: To align the front wheels of a vehicle so that they point slightly toward each other.
heavy glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavy glasses
Senses: glosses: A heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of potassium borosilicate.
glass silk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders.
glass metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fused material for making glass.
glass of antimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulfide.
glass coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass coaches
Senses: examples: text: Mr. and Mrs. Nollekens took me one Sunday morning with them in a glass-coach, to pass a day with their friend Mrs. Haycock, a very aged lady, who resided near Hampstead-heath.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 47:
glosses: A coach with glass in the windows, especially one hired as a private carriage.
soluble glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soluble glasses
Senses: glosses: sodium silicate.
Synonyms: water glass
glasspapers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glasspaper
glasspapering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glasspaper
glasspapered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glasspaper
love knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love knots
form: love-knot
Etymology: So called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.
Senses: examples: text: They kept up the Christmas carol, sent true love-knots on Valentine morning, eat pancakes on Shrove-tide, shewed their wit on the first of April, and religiously cracked nuts on Michaelmas eve.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there / But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, / Bess, the landlord's daughter, / Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza III, page 46:
glosses: A knot or bow, as of ribbon.
Brussels net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brussels nets
Senses: glosses: A machine-made imitation of Brussels ground.
Brussels ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brussels grounds
Senses: glosses: The hand-made ground of Brussels lace.
Brussels lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brussels laces
Senses: glosses: A kind of pillow lace that originated in and around Brussels, with sprigs applied on a net ground.
pigeonhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonhouses
Etymology: From pigeon + house.
Senses: glosses: dovecote
pigeonhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonhouse
pigeonberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonberries
Etymology: From pigeon + berry.
Senses: glosses: The red berry of Rivina humilis, a flowering plant in the pigeonberry family Petiveriaceae.
pigeonberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonberry
squirreltail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirreltails
Etymology: From squirrel + tail.
Senses: glosses: Elymus elymoides, a species of wild rye.
squirreltails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirreltail
fox sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox's sleep
Senses: glosses: Feigned sleep while actually alert.
stock lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock locks
Senses: glosses: A lock enclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door.
tailstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailstock
blockmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockmakers
Etymology: From block + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of nautical blocks.
glosses: A manufacturer of blocks for use in printing.
blockmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockmaker
blockmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From block + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of nautical blocks.
glosses: The manufacture of blocks for use in printing.
noncoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncopers
Etymology: From non- + coper.
Senses: glosses: One who is unable to cope.
noncoping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coping.
Senses: glosses: Unable to cope.
noncopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncoper
mild steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mild steels
Senses: hypernyms: steel
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glosses: Any of various steels having a lower proportion of carbon than hardenable steels, rendering them softer and more malleable and ductile.
Related terms: alloy steel
carbon steel
cast steel
spring steel
tool steel
black iron
cast iron
pig iron
wrought iron
Xeres wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xeres wines
Senses: glosses: Sherry.
New Edinburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Edinburgh, both then and now the capital city of Scotland.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The capital of the short-lived Scottish colony of New Caledonia (1698–1700), now Sukunya, a.k.a. Puerto Escocés (Spanish for “Port Scotland”).
glosses: A community founded in 1783, currently located in Clare district municipality, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in Ontario, Canada, established in 1829, incorporated as a village of that name in 1867, and annexed by the City of Ottawa in 1887, of which it now forms a neighbourhood in its Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward. (The affluent neighbourhood is notable as the location of the official residences of both the Governor General and the Prime Minister of Canada.)
magic smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The strong caustic smoke produced by overloading electronic circuits or components.
plug valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plug valves
Senses: glosses: A tapering valve which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.
plug rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plug rods
Senses: glosses: A rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine.
undercovert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercoverts
Etymology: From under- + covert.
Senses: glosses: One of the feathers situated beneath the bases of the quills in the wings and tail of a bird.
undercoverts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercovert
bless us
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of surprise.
Synonyms: wow
bless me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of surprise.
bless my soul
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Exclamation of surprise.
butter tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter teeth
Senses: topics: anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two middle incisors of the upper jaw.
lay by the heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays by the heels
form: laying by the heels
form: laid by the heels
form: laid by the heels
Senses: examples: text: As I live,
If the king blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all
By the heels , and suddenly; and on your heads
Clap round fines , for neglect
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: [M]y Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
ref: 1668 November 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “October 23rd, 1668”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VIII, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1896, →OCLC, page 129:
text: I […]could not but wonder that none of the Middlesex justices took care to lay some of them by the heels.
ref: 1714 June 1 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 44. Friday, May 21. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
text: I read the papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on the look-out for any chance of laying him by the heels.
ref: 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Empty House:
text: If you will come with us to-night I shall be able to help you to lay him by the heels.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Six Napoleons:
glosses: To fetter, to shackle; to imprison.
upon the heels of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the heels of.
ragged lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragged ladies
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Nigella damascena.
strawberry crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry crabs
Etymology: From its resemblance to the fruit.
Senses: glosses: A small speckled bright pink crab of species Neoliomera pubescens, found in the Indo-Pacific.
violent presumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violent presumptions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
geometrical pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometrical paces
Etymology: Calque of Latin passus geometricus or French pas géometrique.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure used in the 16th century, defined as "five feet" or "five geometrical feet".
bastard gemsbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard gemsboks
Etymology: A calque of Afrikaans bastergemsbok, itself based on similarities between the animal and the gemsbok.
Senses: glosses: roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), native to savannas of the central latitudes of Africa.
remeasurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remeasurements
Etymology: From re- + measurement.
Senses: glosses: measurement again or anew
lac lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The colouring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
Ceylon lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A resinous exudation of the tree Macaranga tanarius, resembling lac.
heck board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heck boards
form: heck-board
Senses: glosses: The loose board at the bottom or back of a cart.
salt bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt bottoms
Senses: glosses: A flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences.
hornpox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horn + pox.
Senses: glosses: abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chickenpox
horn slate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn slates
Senses: glosses: A gray siliceous stone.
dead freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadfreight
Senses: glosses: A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.
dead oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead oils
Senses: glosses: The heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, containing phenol, naphthalus, etc.
speak someone's language
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks someone's language
form: speaking someone's language
form: spoke someone's language
form: spoken someone's language
Senses: examples: text: "When I'm with you I seem to get back to my natural conditions—the conditions in which I can live and work." . . . He turned to her eagerly. "You're the only one, Lois, who knows what I mean—who can speak my language."
ref: 1915, Basil King, chapter 15, in The Side Of The Angels:
text: Mr. Dole, a Republican from neighboring Kansas who made more than a dozen trips to Iowa last year is, according to Calvin O. Hultman, Republican leader of the State Senate, "one of us - he speaks our language."
ref: 1987 January 22, Bernard Weinraub, “Dole tests Iowa political waters, preparing '88 state organization”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 May 2014:
text: "The crucial thing is for young women to look at the magazine and think, ‘Cosmo is speaking my language’."
ref: 2004 October 25, Ciar Byrne, “Media: Sex and frocks and readers' real lives”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 13 May 2014:
text: If you are one of the more than 70 million Americans who suffer from chronic hurt, The Pain Chronicles could very well be the first time you hear from someone who speaks your language.
ref: 2010 Sept. 6, Kayla Webley, "The Skimmer" (Book Review: The Pain Chronicles by Melanie Thernstrom), Time (retrieved 13 May 2014)
glosses: To speak about concerns, feelings, ideas, etc. which someone understands well and can relate to intimately.
Related terms: on the same wavelength
crap shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crap shoots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crapshoot.
crap shoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crap shoot
woorari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curare.
powder burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder burns
form: powder-burn
Senses: examples: text: To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President.
ref: 1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 13 May 2014:
text: Most had head wounds and powder burns, indicating that they had been shot at close range.
ref: 1983 June 4, Lydia Chavez, “Salvador Photos Indicate Massacre”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 May 2014:
text: Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face.
ref: 2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, "Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT," Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014)
glosses: A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.
powder-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder-burns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of powder burn.
invertases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invertase
actifan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæk.tɪˌfæn/
/ˈæk.tɪf.ən/
Forms: form: actifans
form: actifen
Etymology: Blend of active + fan.
Senses: examples: text: If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.
ref: 1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3:
text: Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.
ref: 1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92:
text: Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's "good time" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.
ref: 1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, →ISBN, page 94:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity.
actifans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actifan
neopatriarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəʊˈpeɪtɹɪɑːkɪ/
ipa: /ˌniːəʊˈpeɪtɹɪɑːki/
ipa: /ˌniːəʊˈpatɹɪɑːki/
ipa: /ˌnioʊˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹki/
Forms: form: neopatriarchies
Etymology: From neo- (“new, contemporary”) + patriarchy (“dominance of men in social or cultural systems”).
Senses: glosses: Modern patriarchy, especially as exercised within the nuclear family rather than wider society.
tabsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabsules
Etymology: Blend of tablet + capsule
Senses: glosses: A medicine tablet shaped like a capsule.
tabsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabsule
Tylerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tylerism
fannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanne
gonge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonges
Senses: examples: text: The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday.
ref: a. 1513, Robert Fabyan, New Cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, volume II, page xxxii:
glosses: Alternative form of gong: an outhouse.
trufan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹuˌfæn/
Forms: form: trufans
form: trufen
form: truefan
Etymology: From tru- (“true, genuine”) + fan. The irregular plural is derived from fen, itself formed in analogy with men and women.
Senses: examples: text: On either side of him were numerous parks and gardens, great and small, and of varying types of beauty, and in them walked shining, godlike figures whom he knew to be Trufans.
ref: 1954 February 24, Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, chapter 18, in The Enchanted Duplicator, page 26:
text: And even though I have gone on to find other interests, I remain at heart a "trufan."
ref: 1975 March, Joe Pumilia, “The Vulcan Invasion”, in KPFT, volume 2, number 7, page 1:
text: It is difficult to put into words, but for the "trufan" science-fiction or the magazines entered his life more than a hobby and only a little less than a vocation. Over and over one encounters the statement that when a trufan discovered science-fiction he/she found a fulfillment.
ref: 1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years, →ISBN, Introduction, page xxix:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: megafan
stan
superfan
uberfan
glosses: A very active and dedicated fan, particularly of science fiction.
Derived terms: trufandom
trufans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trufan
trufen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trufan
genius familiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genii familia
form: genii familiae
Etymology: From Latin genius (“lar”) + familiae (“of (a) person”), genitive singular form of familia (“family”, “household”) = “(guardian) spirit of a family”.
Senses: glosses: A spirit presiding over or guarding a family or household.
conworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnwɜːld/
ipa: /ˈkɑnwɚld/
Forms: form: conworlds
Etymology: From constructed world; equivalent to con- (“constructed”) + world.
Senses: examples: text: However, you will have created a pile of crossword puzzles you'll be proud to submit to Will Shortz, or a conworld that's so rich and real the inhabitants have actually attained sapience and now worship you as their god.
ref: 2007, Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans, Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level, Wiley Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: The most respected languages in the conlang community often have years of work behind them, and may even be attached to whole "conworlds" or "concultures" that help give them coherence and a model "literature."
ref: 2009, Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, Spiegel & Grau, published 2009, →ISBN, page 287:
text: […] in my conworld Almea the great navigators of southern Ereláe were the Jei, and undoubtedly Jei-based pidgins sprung up.
ref: 2012, Mark Rosenfelder, Advanced Language Construction, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: An imaginary world, especially one with highly-detailed cultures, languages, and geography.
Synonyms: word: paracosm
word: paracosmos
Derived terms: conworlding
neopatriarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neopatriarchal
form: most neopatriarchal
Etymology: From neo- + patriarchal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neopatriarchy.
passionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of passionate
passionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passionate
passionates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of passionate
passionating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of passionate
GATS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of General Agreement on Trade in Services.
glosses: Initialism of Global Adult Tobacco Survey.
cocurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cocurates
form: cocurating
form: cocurated
form: cocurated
Etymology: From co- + curate.
Senses: examples: text: The two artists cocurated their exhibition.
glosses: To curate jointly.
cocurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cocurate
cocurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cocurate
cocurates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cocurate
cocurator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cocurators
Etymology: From co- + curator.
Senses: glosses: A joint curator; one who cocurates.
cocurators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocurator
carry all before one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries all before one
form: carrying all before one
form: carried all before one
form: carried all before one
Senses: examples: text: “I will do for this country what I did for London where we were able to lift the poor and the needy in our society while also sticking up for the wealth creators. If we can restore this basic philosophy we will carry all before us,” he said.
ref: 2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success.
pickpocketings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickpocketing
passifan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæs.ɪˌfæn/
/ˈpæsɪfən/
Forms: form: passifans
form: passifen
Etymology: Blend of passive + fan
Senses: examples: text: Passifan: The "unawakened" Fan, interested now only in reading the magazines and books; not yet participating in any activities.
ref: c. 1944, Forrest J Ackerman, Fantasy Flanguage:
text: I learned that last phrase from a femme passifan Miss Marlene Maples.
ref: 1948 December, J. Harmon, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 33, number 2:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan, particularly of science fiction, who watches and reads the genre but does not actively engage in fanac, or fan activity.
passifans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passifan
Jew's frankincense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: benzoin (resinous substance)
Jew's mallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jute mallow.
synonyms: word: jute mallow
frost-nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frost-nails
Etymology: From frost + nail.
Senses: glosses: A nail with a sharp head, driven into a horseshoe to keep the horse from slipping.
frost smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.
ref: 1853, Elisha Kent Kane, The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin:
synonyms: Arctic smoke
Arctic sea smoke
glosses: A phenomenon resembling smoke, caused by the congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in times of severe cold.
leading motive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading motives
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: leitmotif
egology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ego + -logy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A science of the ego, in Husserlian philosophy.
Related terms: egological
egologist
ganev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganevs
Senses: examples: text: For a child from a good family could have gotten into trouble for befriending a cook's son who was a ganev besides.
ref: 2019, Sholom Aleichem, From the Fair:
glosses: Alternative form of ganef.
egological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From egology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to egology.
straw bail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Jew bail
glosses: Worthless bail, as given by irresponsible persons.
straw bid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw bids
Senses: glosses: A worthless bid; a bid for a contract which the bidder is unable or unwilling to fulfill.
Dutch clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch clinkers
Senses: glosses: clinker (hard brick from the Netherlands)
Dutch tile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch tiles
Senses: glosses: A type of glazed and painted ornamental tile, used in the jambs of chimneys etc.
femme fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛm fæn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: femfan
Forms: form: femme fans
form: femme fen
form: femmefan
Senses: examples: text: Here was a picture whose screen fortunes must have caused much uncertainty as to the femme fan reaction. As it turns out all the signs are that the woman angle is favorable and that sets the picture for better than average money at the box office
ref: 1931 February 18, Alfred Rushford Greason, “Dracula”, in Variety:
text: Samuel Merwin, Jr., editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, said much the same when he lamented in the December, 1946 (p. 100) that he didn't have a letter from a "femme fan" to publish that month and encouraged his female readers to send in letters.
ref: 1946 December, Eric Leif Davin, quoting Samuel Merwin, Jr., Partners in Wonder, published 2006, →ISBN:
text: Both reviews singled out the fact that Como's songs were greeted by a "frenzied screaming from the teenage femme fan fringe that follows Como around."
ref: c. 1953, Malcolm Macfarlane, Ken Crossland, Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record, published 2009, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Trust a femme-fan to start a stream-of-consciousness conversation every time.
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The End”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A female fan, particularly of science fiction.
Synonyms: fangirl
fanne
femfan
femme fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femmefans
Senses: glosses: plural of femme fan
elbow scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Surgical scissors bent in the blade or shank for convenience in cutting.
pharmacracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharma- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: rule by doctors or medicine
pharmacratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pharmacracy.
through stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through stones
Senses: glosses: A perpend.
glosses: A flat gravestone.
through bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through bridges
Senses: glosses: A bridge whose floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them.
Related terms: deck bridge
thinking caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinking cap
bridle wrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridle wrists
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The wrist of the left hand, in which a horseback rider holds the bridle.
wrist plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist plates
Senses: glosses: A swinging plate in a steam engine, bearing two or more wrists, for operating the valves.