cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rope's end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A piece of rope, especially one used as a lash in inflicting punishment.
bench show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench shows
Senses: glosses: An exhibition of dogs, during which the dogs are mainly kept in assigned locations so that spectators and breeders can walk around the event and view them.
bench table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench tables
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.
Fresnel's rhomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fresnel's rhombs
Etymology: Designed in 1817 by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
Senses: examples: text: In Fresnel’s rhomb, whatever be the colour of the light, the retardation of the phase is exactly 90°, or the corresponding retardation in space is exactly ^λ⁄₄ whatever the value of λ may be.
ref: 1831, George Biddell Airy, Mathematical Tracts on the Lunar and Planetary Theories, the Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, the Calculus of Variations, and the Undulatory Theory of Optics, 2nd edition, Cambridge: […] J. Smith, […] for J. & J. J. Deighton; and J. G. & F. Rivington, […] London, page 400:
glosses: A rhombus or oblique parallelopiped of glass cut so that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhombus, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse.
terra ponderosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin.
Senses: glosses: Barite, or heavy spar.
terra-japonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "Japanese earth"; it was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan.
Senses: synonyms: Japan earth
Japanese earth
glosses: gambier (Uncaria gambir)
Arabian tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Abyssinian tea.
synonyms: word: Abyssinian tea
Inter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Inter Milan football team
tea board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea boards
form: tea-board
form: teaboard
Senses: examples: text: The newſpaper was immediately called for, if not brought in on the tea-board, from which he would ſcarcely lift his eyes while I poured out the tea,[…].
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter IX, page 14:
text: […] they all four ascended to the parlour; where—[…]—the tea-board was at that moment being set out.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Is a Chapter of Love”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 252:
glosses: A board or tray for holding a tea set; a tea tray.
tea garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea gardens
Senses: glosses: A public garden where tea and other refreshments are served.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Synonym of teahouse (“cafe restaurant that primarily serves tea and accompaniments”).
synonyms: word: teahouse
extra: cafe restaurant that primarily serves tea and accompaniments
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A tea plantation.
Related terms: beer garden
tea party
tea clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea clams
Senses: glosses: A small quahog.
man ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man apes
Senses: glosses: Any anthropoid ape, such as the gorilla.
man engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌɛnd͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: man engines
Senses: hypernyms: engine#Noun
machine#Noun
device#Noun
coordinate_terms: water engine
glosses: A mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (mining) a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he then steps, and so on, travelling by successive stages.
seasickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of seasick: most seasick
beer engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer engines
Senses: glosses: A device for pumping beer from a cask in a pub's cellar.
yard of ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yards of ale
Senses: synonyms: word: yardie
english: Australia & New Zealand slang
translation: Australia & New Zealand slang
glosses: The amount of ale that fills a very tall tapering beer glass (approximately 1 yard). Drinking it as quickly as possible is a traditional pub game.
spear foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spear feet
Senses: glosses: The off hind foot of a horse.
unumlauted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + umlauted.
Senses: glosses: Not marked with an umlaut.
Related terms: word: umlaut
bank swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank swallows
Senses: glosses: A small American and European swallow (Riparia riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.
Synonyms: sense: Riparia riparia
word: sand martin
sense: Riparia riparia
word: Clivicola riparia
bank beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank beavers
Senses: glosses: otter
congelifraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛlɪˌfɹækʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Etymology: Coined by Kirk Bryan in 1946 in "Cryopedology—the study of frozen ground and intensive frost action with suggestions on nomenclature" in the American Journal of Science, volume 244, pages 622–642.
Senses: examples: text: The rubble is produced by intense frost riving, or congelifraction (Bryan, 1946, p. 640), of the bedrock.
ref: 1960, Arthur T. Fernald, "Geomorphology of the Upper Kuskokwim region, Alaska", U.S. Geological Survey, Geological Survey Bulletin, issue 1071, page 215
text: Congelifraction occurs in mountains where frosts and thaws alternate.
ref: 2007, QA International, Understanding the Earth, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: the weathering of material through the repeated freezing and thawing of water.
Related terms: gelifraction
congelifractate
alkali green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alkali salt of a sulfonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green.
Synonyms: Helvetia green
ground angling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: angling with a weighted line without a float
ground bailiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground bailiffs
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A superintendent of mines.
mummy wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. It was once believed that it could still germinate in modern times.
native bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native breads
Senses: synonyms: blackfellow's bread
glosses: The edible portion of a pore fungus of species Laccocephalum mylittae (syn. Polyporus mylittae), found in Australia.
mockados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mockado
mock sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock suns
Senses: glosses: A sun dog or parhelion.
strange woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strange women
Senses: examples: text: For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 5:3:
qualifier: Scripture
glosses: A harlot.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see strange, woman.
land rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the rights of indigenous peoples to land, either individually or collectively.
Synonyms: sense: native title
word: 1
summer colt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer colts
Senses: glosses: Heat haze.
cotton velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton velvets
Senses: glosses: An imitation velvet, made of cotton.
glosses: Velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk.
zoothapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζωός (zōós, “alive”) and θάπτω (tháptō, “bury”).
Senses: examples: text: In Great Britain, where the custom is to keep the body above ground so long, that evidences of putrid decomposition usually present themselves before interment, but little danger can exist; and consequently, the subject of zoothapsis has scarcely received due attention from the medico-legal writers of that country.
ref: 1880, College and Clinical Record, volume 1, page 60:
glosses: premature burial
zoothecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoothecia
Etymology: From zoo- + Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “sheath”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The outer layer of certain protozoans.
harbormistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbormistresses
Etymology: From harbor + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A female harbormaster.
zoothecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoothecium
local circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local circuits
Senses: glosses: The circuit of the local battery.
zootsuiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zootsuiters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoot-suiter.
local attraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local attractions
Senses: examples: text: The town's local attractions include a zoo and a leisure centre.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see local, attraction.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A magnetic attraction near a compass, causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction, especially on shipboard.
ring spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring spinners
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A machine for spinning, in which the twist, given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.
job printer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job printers
Senses: glosses: A person who does miscellaneous printing, especially circulars, cards, billheads, etc.
Hypernyms: job shop
Related terms: jobber
herb Gerard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after St. Gerard of Toul, who used to be invoked against the gout.
Senses: examples: text: […] Calamint given inwardly, Betony, Elecampane, Master-wort or the Herb Gerard given inwardly […]
ref: 1720, E. R. (Gent.), “Things good in general for Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews”, in The Experienc'd Farrier; Or, Farring Compleated, page 257:
text: GOUT WORT, the herb Gerard, Ashweed and Jump-about.
ref: 1731, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary:
glosses: The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
wikipedia: Gerard of Toul
herb paris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herb Paris
form: herb-paris
Etymology: From French herbe paris, from Latin par (“equal”), in reference to the regularity of its leaves, petals, etc. See image.
Senses: glosses: An Old World plant (Paris quadrifolia) related to the trillium.
pot metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot metals
Senses: glosses: The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.
examples: text: Copper, with about a fourth of its weight of lead, forms pot-metal, used by the ancients for their coins.
ref: 1819, William Nicholson, American Edition of the British Encyclopedia:
glosses: An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
glosses: A kind of stained glass, the colours of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of monkey metal.
synonyms: word: monkey metal
Related terms: white metal
blood baptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood baptisms
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered to have been baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
town cress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English tonncresse, from Old English tuuncressa.
Senses: glosses: garden cress, or peppergrass.
train mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train miles
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
coordinate_terms: bus mile
plane mile
glosses: A unit used in estimating railway running expenses, etc.: the total number of miles run by all the trains of a railroad, or system of railroads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure.
Synonyms: mile run
waygoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of way-going.
zygobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygobranchs
Senses: glosses: A zygobranchiate mollusc.
zygobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygobranch
hunting cog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting cogs
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth.
blaze of glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blazes of glory
Senses: examples: text: 1718, Alexander Pope, trans., Homer, The Iliad, Book XVII, line 240.
A blaze of glory ere thou fad'st away.
text: Jon has taken an "all or nothing approach," and he wants to go down in a blaze of glory. […] The issue has become an ego thing: a conflict of Jon Parker versus the rest of the world.
ref: 1991 February 4, Elizabeth Yukins, quoting Will Murphy, “Needle Exchange Heatedly Debated In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 3:
glosses: An impressive but brief display of strength before expiring, in the way that a fire burns more brightly shortly before burning out.
examples: text: Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light,/A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
ref: 1686, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:
glosses: A sight, usually associated with a deity, that is forbidden or that is too glorious to behold.
simily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: similys
form: similies
Senses: examples: text: His celebrated passages are quoted by every body; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similies, and describe with his descriptions; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: Obsolete form of simile.
chalk mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk mixtures
Senses: glosses: A preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, formerly used to treat diarrhea in infants.
scarlet tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet tanagers
Senses: glosses: Piranga olivacea, a medium-sized American songbird. Adult males are crimson-red with black wings and tail.
royal metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gold
reposter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reposters
Etymology: From repost + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] reposted bombmaking and narcotics manuals from notorious publishers like Paladin and Loompanics. Some of these reposters alluded to the “Feinstein Amendment” as an abridgement of speech and motivator behind their repostings.
ref: 2020, Mark A. Tallman, Ghost Guns, page 138:
glosses: One who reposts.
reposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reposter
blazes of glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blaze of glory
mixed number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: mixed fraction
glosses: A number consisting of a whole number and a fraction, such as 11½.
end in smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends in smoke
form: ending in smoke
form: ended in smoke
form: ended in smoke
Senses: glosses: To be destroyed or ruined; to go up in smoke.
skunk cabbages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skunk cabbage
decatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decatrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dekatron.
decatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decatron
dekatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛk.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈdɛk.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: dekatrons
form: decatron
Etymology: Originally a brand name.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gas-filled tube used as a decade counter in early computers and calculators.
dekatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekatron
decade counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decade counters
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A counter that counts in decimal digits, rather than in binary.
native devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native devils
Senses: glosses: Tasmanian devil
happy hunting ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy hunting grounds
Senses: examples: text: “Hawk-eye! my fathers call me to the happy hunting-grounds. The path is clear, and the eyes of Mohegan grow young.[…]”
ref: 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 282:
text: Nevava, the great Ute chief of the White River tribes, had passed into the Happy Hunting Grounds and his sons each claimed the inheritance of ruler.
ref: 1902, Merrill Tileston, chapter XVII, in Chiquita:
text: Had he killed me on the battlefield my spirit would have at once joined my brothers in the happy hunting grounds, but being killed by a coward, my spirit is doomed to roam until I can find some brave man who will kill this coward and bring me his scalp.
ref: 1916, Marie L. McLaughlin, Myths and Legends of the Sioux:
text: Mr Johnson is proud that London will soon be free of these buses. Conservative Home, a website, quotes him as saying at a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference on Monday night, that: “The last breeding pair of bendy buses will be despatched this year to the happy hunting ground of some Scandinavian airport.”
ref: 2011 October 6, Boris Johnson, quotee, “Bus conduct”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: A Native American idea of the afterlife, conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.
examples: text: Most of the Americans who had used up their credit at home and those whose incomes were insufficient for their wants, immediately migrated to these happy hunting grounds, where life was inexpensive and credit unlimited.
ref: 1898, Eliot Gregory, “A Conquest of Europe”, in Worldly Ways & Byways, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons:
text: Victoria is not a happy hunting ground for the seeker after the picturesque.
ref: 1944 July and August [1893], “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
text: Spanish businesses have spent nearly $60 billion snapping up British firms, culminating in the recent purchase of Scottish Power by Iberdrola, a Spanish utility. Britain's open economy has made it a happy hunting ground, because the Spanish encounter less opposition than in France and Italy.
ref: 2007 May 3, “Conquistadors on the beach”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: A land of plenty.
happy hunting grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy hunting ground
pith paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pith papers
Senses: glosses: rice paper
roll latten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: latten polished on both sides ready for use
amphid salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphid salts
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of the oxy type, formerly regarded as composed of two oxides, an acid and a basic oxide.
salt of amber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: succinic acid
take up the glove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up the glove
form: taking up the glove
form: took up the glove
form: taken up the glove
Etymology: In reference to the gauntlet traditionally thrown down and picked up to propose and accept a duel.
Senses: glosses: To accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.
Indian ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian oxen
Senses: glosses: zebu
ladder handle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladder handles
Senses: glosses: A rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to be grasped with the hand while climbing.
salt acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydrochloric acid
salt garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt gardens
Senses: glosses: An arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
subaddress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subaddresses
Etymology: From sub- + address.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary part of an address.
subaddress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subaddresses
form: subaddressing
form: subaddressed
form: subaddressed
Etymology: From sub- + address.
Senses: glosses: To use an address of this kind.
subaddresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subaddress
nursing bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursing bottles
Senses: glosses: feeding bottle
Synonyms: baby bottle
baby's bottle
antiatheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiatheist
Leonine verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leonine verses
Etymology: From leonine + verse.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
synonyms: leonine
glosses: A kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also, the form of such verse.
Karelian pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karelian pies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Karelian pasty.
synonyms: word: Karelian pasty
Karelian pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Karelian pie
unvindicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvindicable
form: most unvindicable
Etymology: From un- + vindicable.
Senses: glosses: Not vindicable.
Roman wormwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A smaller relative of wormwood, Artemisia pontica
glosses: A type of ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia.
antigospel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigospel
form: most antigospel
Etymology: From anti- + gospel.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Opposing the gospel.
square stern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square sterns
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom.
salt sedative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: boric acid
comfort foods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfort food
risk-adverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of risk-averse.
empire-waist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All those empire-waist gowns and tops that looked so stylish not so long ago suddenly have turned into the fashion equivalent of pumpkins, morphing from au courant to out-of-date as quickly as the New Year's clocks chimed 12.
ref: 2008 January 8, “Sun sets on the empire line”, in Brisbane Times:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Having an empire waist.
Egyptian pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Egyptian peas
Senses: glosses: chickpea
cheese skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese skippers
Senses: glosses: The larva of the cheese fly.
cheese fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːz.flaɪ/
Forms: form: cheese flies
Etymology: From cheese + fly.
Senses: glosses: Piophila casei, a small fly whose larvae infest cheese and other foods.
cottongrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottongrass
enokitake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enokitakes
form: enokitake
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 榎茸 (enokitake, “enoki mushroom”), a kind of mushroom that grows on the enoki or Chinese hackberry tree.
Senses: glosses: enoki mushroom
harvest fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest flies
Senses: glosses: cicada
harvest spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest spiders
Senses: glosses: harvestman; daddy longlegs
bitter rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of apples, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.
white rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniella diplodiella.
glosses: A fungal decay of wood that consumes the darker-colored lignins, leaving the lighter-colored cellulose.
glosses: Any of several plants, including marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris) and butterwort (Pinguicula spp.), once believed to produce rot in sheep.
glosses: Allium white rot, a disease of onions, garlic, and leeks, caused by fungi of species Sclerotium cepivorum.
black rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Guignardia bidwellii.
Related terms: Java black rot
local option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local options
Senses: glosses: The ability of local political jurisdictions, typically counties or municipalities, to allow decisions on certain controversial issues, especially the sale of alcohol, based on popular vote within their borders.
dandy fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdændi ˌfiːvə/
Etymology: Often said to be named after the gait of dengue patients.
Senses: glosses: dengue
ship fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship-fever
Etymology: It was once common in the crowded conditions on ships.
Senses: examples: text: "No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage. What with the ship's surgeon and this other doctor, our only danger will be from drug or pill."
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: A form of typhus fever.
Synonyms: hospital fever
jail fever
putrid fever
make ship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes ship
form: making ship
form: made ship
form: made ship
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To embark in a ship or other vessel.
gate vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate veins
Senses: glosses: portal vein
Welsh flannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh flannels
Senses: glosses: A fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of Welsh Mountain sheep. It was mostly manufactured by hand.
cutting horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting horses
form: cutting-horse
Senses: examples: text: The average cow can dodge and turn quicker than the ordinary horse. . . . Cunning and ingenuity, combined with the required alertness, a perfect rein, coupled with years of actual work, produce that rarest of range mounts—the cutting horse.
ref: 1911, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Wells Brothers:
text: A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market.
ref: 1953 April 13, “Sport: Cutting Horse”, in Time, retrieved 08 May 2014:
text: [T]he other day Magnus, our 300-pound Tamworth boar, got out. . . . Remedy, the retired cutting horse, cut left and right, agile as a cat, flaring and snorting, to keep Magnus at bay.
ref: 2006 January 2, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Rural Life: Magnus”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 May 2014:
glosses: A horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.
cutting-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting-horses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cutting horse.
ship-fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ship fever.
show stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show stones
Senses: glosses: crystal ball
witches' butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witches' butters
form: witch's butter
Senses: glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus (yellow brain fungus, golden jelly fungus).
glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
Dacrymyces chrysospermus (orange witch's butter).
glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus.
glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Exidia glandulosa (black witch's butter).
glosses: A yellow slime mold (Fuligo septica).
glosses: Certain species of Nostoc of blue-green algae, especially Nostoc commune, that form a brownish gelatinous mass when wet.
Related terms: witch's egg
witch's hair
Welsh parsley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hemp, or halters made from hemp
nonpruritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pruritic.
Senses: glosses: Not pruritic.
nonpapular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + papular.
Senses: glosses: Not papular.
restless genital syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: persistent genital arousal disorder
well drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well drains
Senses: glosses: A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wetland.
glosses: A drain conducting to a well or pit.
well room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: well rooms
form: well-room
form: wellroom
Senses: glosses: A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring.
glosses: A depression in the bottom of a boat or ship, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop.
wash ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wash-ball.
Spanish chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of steatite obtained from Aragon in Spain.
unguilted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unguilt
sensitive fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitive ferns
Etymology: From the observation by early American settlers that the plant is very sensitive to frost, the fronds dying quickly when first touched by it.
Senses: glosses: Onoclea sensibilis, a coarse-textured, medium to large-sized deciduous perennial fern.
bead fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead ferns
Senses: glosses: sensitive fern
boothook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boothooks
Etymology: From boot + hook.
Senses: glosses: A hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.
boothooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boothook
night parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night parrots
Senses: examples: text: Two small green-feathered birds, no bigger than mice, jumped from twig to twig in the nearby grass. Rare birds. Rare find. Night parrots.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 419:
glosses: Pezoporus occidentalis, a small parrot endemic to Australia.
iron flint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron flints
Senses: glosses: An opaque, flint-like, ferruginous variety of quartz.
iron liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solution of iron acetate, used as a mordant by dyers.
white latten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of brass and tin.
shaven latten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of latten, thinner than black latten.
earth oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of a word used in several languages of India. Compare Sinhalese ඛනිජ තෙල් (khanija tel, literally “mineral oil”), Dutch aardolie (literally “earth oil”).
Senses: glosses: petroleum
Synonyms: rock oil
earth pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mineral tar, a kind of asphalt
mule pulley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mule pulleys
Senses: glosses: An idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel.
gap lathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gap lathes
Senses: glosses: A turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to allow turning a short object of large diameter.
stand in the gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands in the gap
form: standing in the gap
form: stood in the gap
form: stood in the gap
Senses: glosses: To expose oneself for the protection of something; to make defence against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
the grapes are sour anyway
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicating that one despises what one cannot obtain.
Related terms: sour grapes
civil law notary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil law notaries
Senses: synonyms: Latin notary
glosses: A publicly appointed legal officer.
Related terms: notary-at-law
notary public
Latin notary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin notaries
Senses: synonyms: civil law notary
glosses: A publicly appointed legal officer.
Related terms: notary-at-law
notary public
MOH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOHs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Medal of Honor.
glosses: Initialism of maid of honour (“chief bridesmaid”).
SSRIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SSRI
motorcycle sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sport of racing with motorcycles.
vley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vleys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vlei.
vleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vley
DCd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Sorry I DCd - my internet is bad.
glosses: Abbreviation of disconnected.
euthycarcinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euthycarcinoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Euthycarcinoidea, a group of enigmatic, possibly amphibious arthropods that ranged from Cambrian to Triassic times.
euthycarcinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euthycarcinoid
cryofreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + freeze.
Senses: glosses: cryogenic freezing
cryofreezing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + freezing.
Senses: glosses: cryogenic freezing
comparative method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with a common ancestor.
Related terms: internal reconstruction
e-travel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + travel.
Senses: examples: text: Another fundamental problem with the DTS is that it does not provide travel agents with the information necessary for them to process DOD travel expenditures. The original contract stated that this would be a time-saving tool that the enhanced e-travel system would perform; yet, today this task must still be performed manually for the majority of travel transactions and often requires travel agent intervention to correct the DTS errors.
ref: The Defense Travel System: Boon Or Boondoggle (page 112)
text: The management of T&E expenses can be taken a step further. ERP systems can now support online travel centers or e-travel capabilities.
ref: 2006, Ashutosh Deshmukh, Digital Accounting, page 219:
text: […] we analyzed the experience with the Deutsche Bahn Web presence as a free and popular e-travel service in Germany.
ref: 2010, Gerhard Leitner, Martin Hitz, Andreas Holzinger, HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure: 6th Symposium:
glosses: The use of computerized information systems to handle travel arrangements or expenses.
motoball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moto- + ball.
Senses: glosses: A game resembling football (soccer), but with players (except the goalkeepers) riding motorcycles, and with a much larger ball.
beachwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beach + wort.
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Batis (Batis maritima).
turtleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turtle + weed.
Senses: glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Batis (Batis maritima).
whale shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: spermaceti
antiforensic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + forensic.
Senses: glosses: Acting as a countermeasure against forensic analysis.
antiforensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + forensics.
Senses: glosses: countermeasures against forensic analysis
cyberforensics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + forensics.
Senses: glosses: forensic analysis of computers
cyberforensic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + forensic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cyberforensics.
postvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postviz
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: postvisualization
postviz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postvis
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: postvisualization
match cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match cuts
Senses: coordinate_terms: match dissolve
glosses: A cinematographic cut between two different objects, spaces, or compositions in which there is a correspondence between the two scenes, helping to establish continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically.
L cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: L cuts
Etymology: From the L shape of a piece of physical film when cut for this purpose.
Senses: examples: text: Without L cuts, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An edit transition from one shot to another, where the picture and sound are synchronized but the transitions in each are not coincident.
postvisualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + visualization.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Manipulation of recorded footage in order to change the way a scene is presented.
Synonyms: postvis
postviz
mangle-wurzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangle-wurzels
Senses: examples: text: By degrees, vegetable diet was supplied instead of milk; and at the present day the animal is fed on clover, hay, corn, chaff, bran, mangle-wurzel, carrots, and white cabbage.
ref: 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XL, page 494:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.
mangle-wurzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangle-wurzel
processus mamillaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processus mamillaris
Etymology: Coined by the British surgeon G. M. Humphry; from Latin, because of its resemblance to a small breast.
Senses: examples: text: The processus mamillaris is located on the dorsolateral edge of the upper articular process.
ref: 2011, Jiri Nedoma, Jiri Stehlik, Ilan Hlavacek, Josef Danek, Tatjana Dostolova, & Petra Preckova, Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems, Chapter 7.10, page 464
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rounded protuberance found on the posterior edge of the superior articular process of a lumbar vertebra.
Synonyms: mamillary process
metapophysis
pot wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot wheels
Senses: glosses: A noria.
dghaisa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ̯sə/
homophone: dicer (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: dghaisas
form: dghajsa
Etymology: From Maltese dgħajsa (“boat”).
Senses: examples: text: Mediterranean peoples are thought to be excitable, but the Maltese stood up to the blitz with great aplomb, especially the dghaisa men who plowed back and forth across the harbours regardless of the raids, the mateys who made the devastated dockyard work, and all who served in units of the armed forces.
ref: 2011, Gordon W. Stead, A Leaf upon the Sea, page 63:
glosses: A small boat resembling a gondola, common in Malta.
dghaisas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dghaisa
dghajsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dghajsas
form: dghajjes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dghaisa.
dghajsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dghajsa
luzzu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luzzus
Etymology: Borrowed from Maltese luzzu.
Senses: examples: text: The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.
ref: 1964, R[obert] Franklin Brown, Jr., USS Shangri-La, Attack Carrier, Boston, Mass.: Burdette, →OCLC, page 205, column 1:
glosses: A traditional, brightly painted Maltese fishing boat.
luzzus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luzzu
dghajjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dghajsa
in the rough
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: an artist's sketch in the rough
text: contemplating the people in the rough
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sixth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: In an unwrought, unrefined, or unfinished condition; unpolished.
Derived terms: diamond in the rough
intelligence office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligence offices
Senses: glosses: An office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
glosses: Intelligence agency.
all and some
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: one and all
casting weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casting weights
Senses: glosses: A weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.
block system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block systems
Senses: examples: text: Signalling was by the standard 'block' system of the time, which prevents any two trains being on the same track section at once, but this was operated with boldness, with margins shaved. The Metropolitan would prove to have an excellent safety record nonetheless.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: On railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are run by the guidance of electric signals so that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Given a group G that acts on a set X, a partition of X that is G-invariant.
MANPADS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MANPAD
form: MPADS
Senses: glosses: Acronym of man-portable air-defense system, a handheld anti-aircraft missile.
jobmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobmaster
upshorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upshorts
Etymology: From up + shorts; compare upskirt.
Senses: glosses: A voyeuristic image of the view up somebody's shorts.
unexpungable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexpungable
form: most unexpungable
Etymology: From un- + expungable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be expunged.
purgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From purge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being purged.
unpurgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + purgeable.
Senses: glosses: Not purgeable.
unpurifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + purifiable.
Senses: glosses: Not purifiable.
purifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From purify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being purified.
Voguette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voguettes
Etymology: From Vogue + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female follower of fashion as dictated by Vogue magazine.
Voguettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Voguette
show glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show-glass.
show box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show boxes
form: showbox
Senses: glosses: A box containing an object or objects, carried or transported round as a show.
leechline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leechlines
Etymology: From leech + line.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by.
leechlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leechline
upper ten thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in the 1800s by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Senses: glosses: The ten thousand people, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.
Synonyms: upper ten
Related terms: uppertendom
puppet ruler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppet rulers
form: puppet leader
Senses: glosses: A leader or ruler chosen by another ruler to head a government, usually under the other ruler's order