cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wordsmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːdsmɪθɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɝdˌsmɪθɪŋ/
Etymology: From wordsmith (verb) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wordsmith
observe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɜːv/
ipa: /ɒbˈzɜːv/
enpr: əb-zûrvʹ
ipa: /əbˈzɝv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v
Forms: form: observes
Etymology: From Middle French observer, from Old French observer, from Latin observō (“to watch”), from ob- (“before”) + servō (“to keep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to guard”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌰 (sarwa, “weapons, armour”), Old English searu (“device”).
Senses: examples: text: “It sticks in my mind that he would take it very ill,” says Alan. “But the little man cried to me to run, and indeed I thought it was a good observe, and ran. The last that I saw they were all in a knot upon the beach, like folk that were not agreeing very well together.”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: An observation (remark, comment or judgement).
lecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lectures
Etymology: From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“I read, I recite”).
Senses: examples: text: During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
examples: text: We will not have lecture tomorrow.
text: Lecture notes are online.
glosses: A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
examples: text: I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.
glosses: A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
examples: text: the lecture of Holy Scripture
glosses: The act of reading.
Derived terms: belecture
curtain lecture
lecture bottle
lecturee
lecture hall
lecturelike
lectureship
lecturesome
lecturess
lecture theatre
lecturette
lecturize
lecturous
microlecture
minilecture
nonlecture
postlecture
prelecture
telelecture
Related terms: word: acroamatic
lecture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɛktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lectures
form: lecturing
form: lectured
form: lectured
Etymology: From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“I read, I recite”).
Senses: examples: text: The professor lectured to two classes this morning.
glosses: To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
examples: text: Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.
text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: To preach, to berate, to scold.
Derived terms: lect.
lecturer
unlectured
Related terms: word: analects
word: lectern
word: lection
word: lesson
word: acroamatic
wordsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːdsmɪθ/
ipa: /ˈwɝdˌsmɪθ/
Forms: form: wordsmiths
Etymology: The noun is derived from word + smith (“craftsperson who works metal into desired forms; (by extension) one who makes anything”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: She has always been known as a capable wordsmith, but in this latest novel she also shows surprising emotional depth.
text: I bottle up and then spill it in verses / One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith / Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest
ref: 2021, Little Simz, “Introvert”, in Sometimes I Might Be Introvert:
synonyms: word: wordmonger
english: one sense
translation: one sense
hyponyms: logodaedalus
wordman
wordsman
wordster
glosses: One who uses words skilfully.
Coordinate terms: jokesmith
songsmith
Derived terms: wordsmithery
Related terms: prose stylist
writer
wordsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːdsmɪθ/
ipa: /ˈwɝdˌsmɪθ/
Forms: form: wordsmiths
form: wordsmithing
form: wordsmithed
form: wordsmithed
Etymology: The noun is derived from word + smith (“craftsperson who works metal into desired forms; (by extension) one who makes anything”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Then he reads the prompt, which has been carefully wordsmithed by Mr. [Ted] Wetzel and his collaborators.
ref: 2022 November 10, Simon Montlake, “In Ohio, one man’s quest to get more voters to agree to disagree”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2023:
glosses: To skilfully compose or craft (something written).
Derived terms: word: wordsmithing
divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔːs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /-voəs/
ipa: /dɪˈvɔɹs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /-vo(ː)ɹs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖiˈvoː(ɾ)s/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖajˈvoː(ɾ)s/
ipa: /ɖajˈvɜː(ɾ)s/
homophone: diverse
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: divorces
Etymology: Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Senses: examples: text: Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
glosses: The legal dissolution of a marriage.
examples: text: The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
text: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
text: To make divorce of their incorporate league
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 5, scene 2:
glosses: A separation of connected things.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
examples: text: Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.
ref: c. 1613, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Henry VIII, act 2, scene 1:
glosses: That which separates.
Synonyms: sense: legal dissolution of a marriage
word: divorcement
sense: separation of connected things
word: partition
sense: separation of connected things
word: separation
sense: separation of connected things
word: severance
Derived terms: antidivorce
bifurcated divorce
big divorce energy
divorce a mensa et thoro
divorce bill
divorcee
divorce from bed and board
divorceless
divorce mill
divorce rape
divorcive
divortiality
dudevorce
gray divorce
grey divorce
Mexican divorce
migratory divorce
no-fault divorce
nondivorce
postdivorce
predivorce
redivorce
Reno divorce
sleep divorce
Spenard divorce
undivorce
velvet divorce
divorce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɔːs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /-voəs/
ipa: /dɪˈvɔɹs/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /-vo(ː)ɹs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖiˈvoː(ɾ)s/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖajˈvoː(ɾ)s/
ipa: /ɖajˈvɜː(ɾ)s/
homophone: diverse
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: divorces
form: divorcing
form: divorced
form: divorced
Etymology: Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Senses: examples: text: A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
glosses: To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
examples: text: Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
glosses: To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
examples: text: Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
glosses: To obtain a legal divorce.
examples: text: The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
text: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269:
glosses: To separate something that was connected.
Synonyms: sense: to legally dissolve a marriage
word: split up
sense: to separate something that was connected
word: disassociate
sense: to separate something that was connected
word: disjoint
sense: to separate something that was connected
word: dissociate
sense: to separate something that was connected
word: disunite
sense: to separate something that was connected
word: separate
Derived terms: divorceable
divorcee
divorcer
divorcible
divorcive
innocently divorced
nondivorcing
redivorce
undivorce
marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkɪtɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, market + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of market
hire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīr
ipa: /haɪə/
ipa: /haɪɹ/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /haj(ə)r/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /hajə/
enpr: hīʹər
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: higher (some speakers)
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hires
Etymology: From Middle English hire, hyre, here, hure, from Old English hȳr (“employment for wages; pay for service; interest on money lent”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“payment”), from the verb *hūʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hūzijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewHs- or *kweHs-. Compare Hittite 𒆪𒊭𒀭 (kuššan-, “fee, pay, wages, price”).
Cognate with West Frisian hier (“hire”), Dutch huur (“lease, rental”), German Low German Hüür (“lease, rental”).
Senses: examples: text: We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
text: Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeastern hires are women.
ref: 2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62:
glosses: A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
examples: text: When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
synonyms: employ
glosses: The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
examples: text: The sign offered pedalos on hire.
glosses: Payment for the temporary use of something.
examples: text: I vvill him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that ſhield, more vvorthy of good knight; / For vvhy ſhould a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: I have five hundred crovvns, / The thrifty hire I ſav'd under your father […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], lines 682–683:
text: The labourer is worthy of his hire.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:7:
text: I haue ſeene a pardon giuen to a man vpon the gallovves, but vvho ſo emboldeneth himſelfe thereuypon, perhaps the rope may be his hire: it is not good to put it vpon the Pſalme of Miſerere, and the neck-verſe, for ſometime he prooues no clarke.
ref: 1619, Samuell Hieron, “The Worth of the Water of Life. Dauids Longing, and Dauids Loue. The Good Fight. [II. Tim[othy] 4. 7.]”, in The Sermons of Master Samuell Hieron, […], London: […] Iohn Beale [and John Legatt printer to the Uniuersitie of Cambridge for Thomas Man, Ioyce Macham, Cantrell Legge, and Simon Waterson], published 1620, →OCLC, pages 222–223:
glosses: Reward.
Derived terms: car hire
DEI hire
diversity hire
dry hire
hire car
hireling
hireman
hire out
hire purchase
hire system
hireworthy
murder-for-hire
on hire
spot hire
the laborer is worthy of his hire
the labourer is worthy of his hire
minority
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /mɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /maɪˈnɔɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /mɪˈnɔɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /maɪˈnɔɹ.ə.ti/
ipa: /maɪˈnɑɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /mɪˈnɑɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /mɑɪˈnɔɹ.ə.ti/
note: Indic
ipa: /majˈnɔrɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmajnərɪʈi/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: more minority
form: most minority
Etymology: From Middle French minorité, and its source Late Latin minōritās, from Latin minor. Morphologically minor + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: They hold a minority interest in the company.
glosses: Of or relating to a minority.
examples: minority government
topics: government
politics
glosses: Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.
raw_tags: of a party
Related terms: quantifier
flexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈflek.sɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: more flexible
form: most flexible
Etymology: From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“I bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
synonyms: pliable
antonyms: stiff
brittle
inflexible
rigid
glosses: Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
examples: text: Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
synonyms: tractable
manageable
ductile
glosses: Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
examples: text: You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
glosses: Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
examples: text: a flexible language
text: This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose
ref: 1735, John Rogers, Nineteen Sermons on various occasions:
synonyms: plastic
malleable
glosses: Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
Synonyms: word: bendsome
word: bendy
word: ductile
word: inconstant
word: limp
word: manageable
word: obsequious
word: pliable
word: pliant
word: supple
word: tractable
word: wavering
word: bain
word: bendable
word: flexible
word: flexile
word: limber
word: lithe
Derived terms: flexatone
flexbone
flexecutive
flexibilization
flexibilize
flexibleness
flexible sigmoidoscopy
flexible time
flexibly
flexihours
flexisexual
flexisexuality
flexitank
flexitarian
flexivore
heteroflexible
homoflexible
hyperflexible
make flexible
nonflexible
rectiflexible
semiflexible
ultraflexible
unflexible
Related terms: word: flexibility
word: inflexible
word: foldable
word: pliable
word: pliant
word: supple
word: withy
word: moldable
word: obstinate
word: soft
flexible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈflɛk.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈflek.sɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: flexibles
Etymology: From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“I bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.
ref: 2009 August 19, Terry McCrann, “Win-win deal for the times”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2009:
topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Something that is flexible.
pleasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛzn̩t/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: pleasants
Etymology: From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. Present participle of English please. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.
Senses: examples: text: […] Galba was no better than one of the buffons or pleasants that professe to make folke merry and to laugh.
ref: 1603, Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 1144:
text: 1696, uncredited translator, The General History of the Quakers by Gerard Croese, London: John Dunton, Book 2, p. 96,
Yea, in the Courts of Kings and Princes, their Fools, and Pleasants, which they kept to relax them from grief and pensiveness, could not show themselves more dexterously ridiculous, than by representing the Quakers, or aping the motions of their mouth, voice, gesture, and countenance:
glosses: A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
polite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: politer
form: more polite
form: politest
form: most polite
Etymology: From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“I polish, smooth”); see polish.
Senses: examples: text: It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.
text: Try and be polite to Auntie Maria for once.
text: He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.
ref: 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst:
text: I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Well-mannered, civilized.
examples: text: rays of light […]falling on […]a polite surface
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Smooth, polished, burnished.
Synonyms: word: civil
word: civilized
word: courteous
word: cultivated
word: mannerly
word: polite
word: politic
word: reasonable
word: refined
word: urbane
word: well-mannered
word: well-bred
Hyponyms: word: chivalrous
word: gallant
word: gentlemanlike
word: gentlemanly
Derived terms: nonpolite
overpolite
over-polite
polite fiction
politeful
polite literature
politely
politeness
polite notice
polite society
politesome
superpolite
unpolite
Related terms: word: polish
word: friendly
word: kindly
polite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: polites
form: politing
form: polited
form: polited
Etymology: From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“I polish, smooth”); see polish.
Senses: examples: text: those exercises plied, which polite men's spirits
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To polish; to refine; to render polite.
famous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.məs/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: more famous
form: most famous
Etymology: From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus, equivalent to fame + -ous. Displaced native Old English hlīsful.
Senses: examples: text: By this my ſword that conquer’d Perſea,
Thy fall ſhall make me famous through the world:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: Well known.
examples: text: Some people are only famous within their city.
glosses: In the public eye.
Synonyms: word: bait
word: fabled
word: famed
word: famous
word: famoused
word: iconic
word: irrecondite
word: known
word: legendary
word: mere
word: notable
word: noted
word: noteworthy
word: proverbial
word: recognizable
word: renowned
word: storied
word: well-known
Hyponyms: word: acclaimed
word: celebrated
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: prestigious
word: prominent
word: ill-famed
word: infamous
word: notorious
word: semifamous
word: superfamous
word: uber-famous
word: ultrafamous
word: cosfamous
word: Internet famous
word: world-famous
Derived terms: cosfamous
e-famous
famous for being famous
famousish
famous last words
famously
famousness
infamous
infamously
infamousness
instafamous
Instafamous
Internet famous
megafamous
microfamous
nonfamous
nonfamousness
overfamous
prefamous
pseudofamous
semifamous
superfamous
uber-famous
ultrafamous
unfamous
world-famous
Related terms: word: fame
word: glory
word: praise
word: big cheese
word: big-name
word: celebrity
word: megastar
word: personage
word: public figure
word: star
word: VIP
word: cause célèbre
word: famous last words
word: fame-ish
word: who's who
famous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.məs/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: famouses
form: famousing
form: famoused
form: famoused
Etymology: From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus, equivalent to fame + -ous. Displaced native Old English hlīsful.
Senses: glosses: To make famous; to bring renown to.
cornflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/
homophone: cornflour
Forms: form: cornflowers
Etymology: From corn + flower.
Senses: glosses: A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
glosses: A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
glosses: A color, cornflower blue.
Synonyms: sense: Centaurea cyanus
word: bachelor's button
sense: Centaurea cyanus
word: basket flower
sense: Centaurea cyanus
word: bluebottle
sense: Centaurea cyanus
word: boutonniere flower
sense: Centaurea cyanus
word: hurtsickle
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: common chicory
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: blue daisy
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: blue dandelion
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: blue sailor
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: blue weed
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: coffeeweed
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: chicory button
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: hendibeh
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: horseweed
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: ragged sailor
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: succory
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: wild bachelor's button
sense: Cichorium intybus
word: wild endive
cornflower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊ.ɚ/
homophone: cornflour
Etymology: From corn + flower.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.
synonyms: word: cornflower blue
extra: a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower
Derived terms: cornflower blue
number theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Factorization has driven many great discoveries in number theory.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers.
Derived terms: algebraic number theory
number-theoretical
Related terms: arithmetic
mathematics
natural number
number
prime number
theory
whole number
CFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFOs
Senses: examples: text: The acting CFO of Freddie Mac has been found dead in his basement, an apparent suicide. He's one of the executive team who has been clashing with regulators over how much to disclose about the ways the government has been running the company for its benefit, rather than that of the shareholders.
ref: 2009 April 22, Megan McArdle, “Freddie Mac CFO Commits Suicide”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 14 May 2021:
text: A new study from S&P Global Market Intelligence found that public companies with women CEOs or CFOs often were more profitable and produced better stock price performance than many of the companies that had appointed men to those roles.
ref: 2019 October 16, Jeanne Sahadi, “Why it’s good for business to have a woman at the top”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
glosses: Initialism of chief financial officer.
glosses: Initialism of cottage food operation.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of collateralized fund obligation.
CFO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Commission on Filipinos Overseas.
Related terms: CCO
CEO
CIO
COO
CSO
CTO
lock in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locks in
form: locking in
form: locked in
form: locked in
Senses: examples: text: The dog won't escape now we've locked him in.
text: The dog won't escape now we've locked him in the kitchen.
glosses: To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure.
examples: text: I've locked in a rate of 5%.
text: I've got a 5% rate locked in.
glosses: To fix the value of (something potentially variable).
examples: text: Our new foil packets keep the flavour of the crisps locked in.
text: Companies find various ways to try to lock in a customer base by preventing the products or services from being fully fungible.
glosses: To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To synchronize (especially a rhythm section) into a groove.
examples: text: I need to lock in for this exam I'm taking tomorrow.
text: The missile's path is now locked in.
text: The best ride of the day was one that Robert got - really locked in, screaming at the top of his lungs.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
coordinate_terms: lock on
;
home in
glosses: To focus entirely (on something).
Derived terms: word: lock-in
Related terms: locked-in syndrome
lock in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock ins
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of lock-in.
lock out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locks out
form: locking out
form: locked out
form: locked out
Senses: examples: text: I've locked myself out of my room again!
antonyms: let in#Verb
lock in#Verb
hypernyms: keep out#Verb
glosses: To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
examples: text: The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To prevent from accessing a data structure.
coordinate_terms: tag out#Verb
glosses: (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
Derived terms: word: lock-out
word: lockout
lock out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock outs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lockout.
Related terms: lock in
ziggurat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪɡʊˌɹæt/
ipa: /ˈzɪɡəˌɹæt/
Forms: form: ziggurats
form: ziggarat
form: zigurat
form: ziqqurat
form: ziqqurrat
form: zikkurat
form: zikurat
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒅆𒂍𒉪 (ziqqurratum).
Senses: examples: text: It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
examples: text: He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.
glosses: Any building with similar style or shape.
Derived terms: ziggurat algorithm
zigguratic
zigguratical
zapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: zăpʹə
ipa: /ˈzæp.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zappers
Etymology: From zap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
glosses: A remote control for a television.
examples: text: Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on.
ref: 2005, Robert Wood, Pushing Envelopes, page 51:
hyponyms: bug zapper
glosses: A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
examples: text: If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]
ref: 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:
text: You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love:
glosses: Anything that exterminates.
examples: text: I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper.
ref: 2011, Bob Cohn, To Catch a Catch, page 49:
glosses: A microwave oven.
arrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrogations
Senses: examples: text: The President's arrogation of this new Act oversteps his bounds and causes our rights to suffer.
text: It condescended and/or pandered to so many for so long that even its old suburbanite subscribers must have begrudged it deep down, and those New Yorkers who know it love to hate it outright – for the arrogation of its New York as the New York, among other crimes: who are those people in the cartoons anyway?
ref: 2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: The unjust assumption of rights or privilege.
Derived terms: nonarrogation
Related terms: arrogate
arrogant
wraith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāth
ipa: /ɹeɪθ/
rhymes: -eɪθ
Forms: form: wraiths
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 as a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it doublet of wrath and wroth.
Senses: examples: text: We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.
ref: 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Sola Tells Me Her Story”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, pages 159–160:
text: Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 80:
glosses: A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
wikipedia: Eneados
Gavin Douglas
Derived terms: wraithish
wraithful
wraithlike
slender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɛndə/
enpr: slĕnʹdər
ipa: /ˈslɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slenderer
form: more slender
form: slenderest
form: most slender
Etymology: From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.
Senses: examples: text: A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
text: She is very slender.
text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Thin; slim.
examples: text: Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
text: The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 413:
text: The slender service between Ellesmere Port and Helsby has been added, too.
ref: 2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 42:
glosses: Meagre; deficient.
qualifier: Gaelic languages
glosses: Palatalized.
Synonyms: sense: thin
word: lithe
word: svelte
word: willowy
sense: meagre
word: insufficient
word: scarce
word: sparse
word: inadequate
word: gaunt
word: gracile
word: lank
word: lean
word: leansome
word: lithesome
word: lissome
word: rangy
word: sleek
word: slender
word: slight
word: slim
word: slinky
word: swack
word: sylphlike
Hypernyms: word: physique
word: thin
Hyponyms: word: ectomorphic
word: flat-chested
Derived terms: red slender loris
slender-billed curlew
slender-billed greenfinch
slender-billed gull
slender-bodied
slender cypress pine
slender-horned gazelle
slenderish
slender loris
slenderly
Slender Man
slender moa
slenderness
slender poison
slender reed
slender seahorse
slender sea lettuce
slender sedge
slender shrew
slender skimmer
slender suckerfish
Slender West Lake
Related terms: word: cadaverous
word: scrawny
word: thin person
mamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæmbə/
ipa: /ˈmɑm.bɑ/
Forms: form: mambas
Etymology: From Zulu imamba.
Senses: glosses: Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
Derived terms: black mamba
green mamba
dashiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dashikis
form: danshiki
form: dasheki
Etymology: From Yoruba dàńṣíkí.
Senses: examples: text: Royce: African colors. Subtle... You want me to start wearing dashikis? Go all Marion Barry an' shit?
ref: 2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:31:10
glosses: A loose and brightly-colored African shirt.
parapet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.pɪt/
Forms: form: parapets
Etymology: From Middle French parapet, from Italian parapetto.
Senses: examples: text: Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 11:
coordinate_terms: railing
glosses: A low protective wall.
examples: text: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.
examples: text: Obviously if you have only a few days in which to train a soldier, you must teach him the things he will most need; how to take cover, how to advance across open ground, how to mount guards and build a parapet – above all, how to use his weapons.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: breastwork
glosses: A fortification consisting of a wall.
Derived terms: keep one's head below the parapet
parapeted
parapetless
parapetlike
parapetted
put one's head above the parapet
machicolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: machicolates
form: machicolating
form: machicolated
form: machicolated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin machicolātus, perfect participle of machicolāre, from Old French machicoller, from machicolleis (“machicolation”), from Old Occitan machacol, from macar (“to crush”) + col (“neck”).
Senses: examples: text: The wide-wing’d sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower / That stood with open doors […]
ref: 1871, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament”, in Gareth and Lynette etc., London: Strahan, published 1872, page 116:
glosses: To furnish with machicolations.
Derived terms: machicolation
epigenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From epi- + genetic.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
geography
geology
medicine
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to epigenesis.
examples: text: The old and optimistic “one gene — one character” concept has long been invalidated by phenomena such as pleiotropy and polygeny, and for a generation now we have thought of genomic activity as a system of complex epigenetic interactions — an epigenetic landscape.
ref: 1977 December, Rupert Riedl, “A Systems-Analytical Approach to Macro-Evolutionary Phenomena”, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, volume 52, number 4, →JSTOR, page 352:
text: Every cell in the body contains the same DNA but epigenetic settings on cells in the bone and blood, for example, mean the tissues do very different jobs. The epigenetic consequences of a huge range of environmental factors are under investigation, from exposure to drugs, chemicals and hormones, to the impact of poor maternal care in infancy, and the likelihood that they are as hereditable as DNA.
ref: 2010 November 6, “Sins of the Fathers”, in New Scientist:
text: It is now possible to define whole epigenomes, representing the totality of epigenetic marks in a given cell type. Epigenetic processes are essential for packaging and interpreting the genome, are fundamental to normal development and are increasingly recognized as being involved in human disease.
ref: 2008 August 7, The American Association for Cancer Research Human Epigenome Task Force; European Union, Network of Excellence, Scientific Advisory Board, “Moving AHEAD with an international human epigenome project”, in Nature, volume 454, →DOI, page 711:
text: As one celebrated example, if you're a baby rat growing up with an atypically inattentive mother, epigenetic changes in the regulation of one gene in your hippocampus will make it harder for you to recover from stress as an adult.
ref: 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to epigenetics.
Derived terms: epigenetically
epigenetic clock
epigeneticist
metaboloepigenetic
neuroepigenetic
optoepigenetic
pharmacoepigenetic
polyepigenetic
Related terms: epigenome
te reo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori te reo (“Māori”, literally “the language”).
Senses: examples: text: Currently, many Kiwis are learning te reo.
glosses: The Māori language.
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
form: perq
Etymology: Clipping of perquisite.
Senses: examples: text: Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.
glosses: Perquisite.
topics: video-games
glosses: A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
Derived terms: perkish
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
form: perking
form: perked
form: perked
Etymology: Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).
Senses: examples: text: I’ll perk some coffee.
glosses: To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
examples: text: The coffee is perking.
text: While the coffee perked, she flipped idly through a gardening magazine and scanned an article on the war against aphids.
ref: 1996, Sherry Lewis, This Montana Home, Harlequin Books, page 288:
glosses: Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
Derived terms: perkish
reperk
unperked
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
Etymology: Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).
Senses: glosses: A percolator, particularly of coffee.
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
form: perking
form: perked
form: perked
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick.
Senses: examples: text: [the squirrel] whisks his brush
And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 6, p. 247:
text: The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away.
ref: 1924, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 4, in A Gentleman of Courage, Toronto: Copp Clark:
glosses: To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
examples: text: The heads of plants above the crack’d ground perk:
ref: 1640, John Gower, transl., Ovid’s Festivalls, Cambridge, Book 4, April, p. 77:
text: A white Paris net sort of cap, glittering with spangles, and incircled by a chaplet of artificial flowers, with a little white feather perking from the left ear, is to be my head-dress.
ref: 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London, Volume 1, Letter 22, p. 159:
text: 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Lyrics of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866, pp. 35-36, lines 152-153,
[…] suddenly up the face
Of the Piper perked in the market-place,
text: 1937 Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 4, “Kavar,” p. 159,
A strong warm wind carried a sound of chopping with it and a rustle of dead plane-leaves; through those leaves perked the green crooks of young ferns.
glosses: To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
examples: text: 1574, Arthur Golding (translator), Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the Booke of Job, London: Lucas Harison and George Byshop, Sermon 38, The first upon the tenth Chapter,
For whereof commeth thys hypocrisie in the popedome, that men shall preache free will, merits, and satisfactions, and set vp their bristles in suche wise, and beare themselues in hande that they may come perking before God, yea and preace thither lyke shamelesse strumpets.
text: […] our Lord had never any such design, to set up a sort of men in such distance above their brethren; to perk over them, and suck them of their goods by tricks […]
ref: 1683, Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy, London: Brabazon Aylmer, Supposition 5, page 140:
glosses: To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
Derived terms: perk one's ears
perk up
perky
unperk
unperked
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: more perk
form: most perk
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a metathesis of prick.
Senses: examples: text: My ragged rontes all shiver and shake,
As doen high Towers in an earthquake:
They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes,
Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “Februarie”, in The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton:
text: All, joy’d at th’ omen, their foundation laid:
And in short time a perk new wall is made.
ref: 1640, John Gower, transl., Ovid’s Festivalls, Cambridge, Book 4, April, p. 96:
glosses: Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
form: perking
form: perked
form: perked
Etymology: The origin is uncertain. Perhaps a variant of peer + -k (frequentative ending).
Senses: examples: text: He is a tall, thin, bony man, with an interrogative nose, and little restless perking eyes, which appear to have been given him for the sole purpose of peeping into other people’s affairs with.
ref: 1835, Charles Dickens, “The Election for Beadle”, in Sketches by Boz, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: John Macrone, published 1837, page 32:
glosses: To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
glosses: To examine thoroughly.
perk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝk/
ipa: /pɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: perks
form: perking
form: perked
form: perked
Etymology: From Middle English perken, from Old Northern French perquer.
Senses: examples: text: His seconde hawke wexyd gery
And was with flyenge wery.
She had flowyn so oft,
That on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70:
text: Then sir, let me say, that Mineruas owle was proude, for perking vnder [h]ir golden target […]
ref: 1591, Robert Greene, Greenes Farewell to Folly, London: T. Gubbin & T. Newman:
text: O! what a ravishment ’thad beene, to see
Thy little Saviour perking on thy Knee!
ref: 1633, Francis Quarles, “On the Infancie of our Saviour”, in Divine Fancies Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations, London: John Marriot, page 3:
text: With respect to walking, it is the favourite exercise of my life; I sometimes divert myself with objects on the road, which, my being on a level with them, offers to observation; and yet, which, had I been perked up beyond my natural height on the back of a horse, would have been all overlooked.
ref: 1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 24, in Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost, volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, pages 205–206:
text: Laugh out in the loose green jerkin / That’s fit for a goddess to work in, / With shoulders brown, / And the wheaten crown / About thy temples perking.
ref: 1814, Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, scene III, page 64:
glosses: To perch.