cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acanthocephalan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkæn.θəˈsɛf.ə.lən/
ipa: /əˌkænt.θəˈsɛf.ə.lən/
ipa: /əˌkæn.θoʊˈsɛf.ə.lən/
rhymes: -ɛfələn
Forms: form: acanthocephalid
Etymology: From acantho- + Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: In a manner similar to Acanthocephala.
acanthocephalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acanthocephalan
acanthocephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkæn.θəˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
ipa: /əˌkænt.θəˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
ipa: /əˌkæn.θoʊˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
Forms: form: acanthocephalids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acanthocephalan.
acanthocephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkæn.θəˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
ipa: /əˌkænt.θəˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
ipa: /əˌkæn.θoʊˈsɛf.ə.lɪd/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acanthocephalan.
anthropogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropogenous
form: most anthropogenous
Etymology: From anthropo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to anthropogeny
glosses: having its origin in the activities of mankind; particularly, referring to environmental alterations resulting from the presence or activities of humans
Synonyms: anthropogenic
acanthocephalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acanthocephalid
secund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkənd/
Etymology: From Latin secundus (“following the course or current of wind or water”). Doublet of second and secundo.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk; unilateral.
sea coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seacoal.
cascara sagrada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˌskɑː.ɹə səˈɡɹɑː.də/
ipa: /kæˌskɛɹ.ə səˈɡɹɑ.də/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cáscara sagrada (“sacred bark”).
Senses: examples: text: Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day. I try: Miralax, Restoralax, magnesium citrate (liquid and powder), […] dandelion, cascara sagrada, pumpkin purée, […].
ref: 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A purgative made from the dried bark of an American buckthorn.
glosses: The tree from which cascara is obtained (Rhamnus purshiana), native to western North America.
Related terms: cascara
compactedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compactedly
form: most compactedly
Etymology: From compacted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a compacted manner; close together.
a capriccio
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ kɑˈpɹit.tʃoʊ/
Etymology: From Italian capriccio (“sudden start or motion”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: At whatever tempo and with whatever expression the conductor or performer desires.
mollemoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollemokes
form: malmock
form: mallemocke
form: mallemoke
form: mollemock
form: mollymawk
form: molly-mawk
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish mallemucke (“stormy petrel”).
Senses: examples: text: Ivory gulls and mollemokes were seen farther on. They did not lose sight of the birds after this, as far as they went. The ivory gulls flew very high, but the mollemokes alit, and fed on the water, flying over it well out to sea, as we had seen them do in Baffin Bay.
ref: 1877, Daid Murray Smith, Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores:
glosses: Any of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Pterodroma of the Southern Ocean.
Synonyms: sense: Fulmarus glacialis
word: northern fulmar
sense: Fulmarus glacialis
word: Arctic fulmar
sense: Fulmarus glacialis
word: fulmar
sense: Pterodroma
word: gadfly petrel
mollemokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollemoke
chevachie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevachies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chevauchee.
chevachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevachie
sawbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawbelly
sawbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawbellies
Etymology: From saw + belly?
Senses: examples: text: Every few minutes an eagle would reach daintily into the water and pluck a dead sawbelly from the half-frozen soup. Sawbellies, or alewives, are fish that do not grow that big. A full day of dipping one’s naked talons into frigid slush might yield a decent mealful.
ref: 1990 January 2, Rick Marsi, “The Russian bear can’t beat the Tier’s gray fox”, in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., →ISSN, page 1D, column 4:
glosses: A fish, the alewife.
parauque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parauques
Senses: synonyms: common pauraque
glosses: A species of nightjar (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America.
parauques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parauque
chivachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chivachie
parraqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parraquas
Senses: glosses: The little chachalaca (Ortalis motmot), similar to the guan and other chachalacas.
parraquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parraqua
acaroid gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acaroid resin.
acarpelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acarpelous
form: most acarpelous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of acarpellous.
yaird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yairds
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, by the first break of day, he went over the street to his yaird barefooted and bareheaded, (as David did when he went up Mount Olivet, fleeing out of Jerusalem from his son Absolom,) he locked the yaird doore behinde him, haveing charged them that were in the house with Helen Gardener, the baillie’s wife, to attend her, sitting quyet besyde hir.
ref: 1842, The Woodrow Society, Row’s History of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh Printing Company, page 434
text: and in this equipage, with his little phizie (fusee) upon his shoulder, he marches to the church yaird, where the May-pole was sett up, and the solemnitie of that day was to be kept.
ref: 1870, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, A. & C. Black, page 425:
text: A witness, Thomas Storie, said that Dalmahoy, with ‘a young woman Iron coloured of a high stature [i.e. tall] in common habit’, called at a neighbour’s house and asked for a drink of ale and enquired ‘if there was a yaird or any place for him and her to walk in’, and that they went to the yaird in question where Storie saw him ‘kissing and Imbraceing the said woman’.
ref: 1998, Leah Leneman, Alienated Affections: The Scottish Experience of Divorce and Separation, 1684-1830, Edinburgh University Press, page 30:
glosses: Obsolete form of yard.
xenomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xeno- + -morphic or xenomorph + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrography
petrology
glosses: That does not have its characteristic crystalline form but has a form impressed on it by surrounding grains; anhedral.
raw_tags: of a mineral grain
glosses: In an unusual form; having a strange form.
Synonyms: xenomorphous
masheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masheens
form: machine
Senses: examples: text: Tha'd better pin thi slops first or else they'll happen catch t' masheen an' throw thi off.
ref: 1902, Arthur Smith, The Doin's o' Jim o' Doads: Sketches of Lancashire Life, Nelson, Coulton, page 9:
text: One day Mr. Magilacutty wanted to build a potato masheen.
ref: 1982, Robert E. Newman, Reading, Writing, and Self-esteem (Education), Prentice-Hall, page 195:
text: This is the second purpose of the great masheen that we have directed for so many years without any knowledge of why.
ref: 1993, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, The Hand of Chaos (Sci-fi), Bantam, →ISBN, page 464:
text: … and has brought with him a sewing masheen such as I never saw before in my life although I have heard of them, a big masheen glittering with knobs ...
ref: 1994, Janet Frame, Intensive Care, Digitized edition (Fiction), George Braziller, published 2008, →ISBN, page 283:
text: The "Masheen": The Wool Carding Machine Comes to New England
ref: 2002, Paul E. Rivard, A New Order of Things: How the Textile Industry Transformed New England, UPNE, →ISBN, page 15:
text: A new Chehalis business is offering old-school entertainment. Time Masheen Arcade, which opened at 570 N. Market Blvd. on Saturday, has more than 20 classic arcade games, including such hits as Frogger, Pac-Man and Dig Dug.
ref: 2012 May 23, Amy Nile, “Time Masheen Arcade Opens in Chehalis”, in The Chronicle, Lewis County, WA:
glosses: Simplified or sensational spelling of machine.
juvenile delinquency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Participation in illegal behaviour by minors.
Synonyms: juvenile offending
youth crime
Related terms: delinquent juvenile
yairds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yaird
nyan
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃん (nyan).
Senses: synonyms: nya
nyaa
nyao
glosses: The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
Derived terms: nyan-binary
whethersoever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English queþer-so-ever, weder-so-ever, wheder so ever, wheder-so-ever. By surface analysis, whether + so + ever.
Senses: glosses: In or to whatever place; anywhere; whithersoever.
glosses: In all places; everywhere.
whethersoever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English queþer-so-ever, weder-so-ever, wheder so ever, wheder-so-ever. By surface analysis, whether + so + ever.
Senses: glosses: Whatever; whoever.
whethersoever
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English queþer-so-ever, weder-so-ever, wheder so ever, wheder-so-ever. By surface analysis, whether + so + ever.
Senses: glosses: Whether.
snoopervision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of snoop + supervision.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the supervision of the past has been rightfully called "snoopervision" because it had as its chief concern the activities of the teachers.
ref: 1938, Floyd Tompkins Goodier, Administration of Town and Village Schools, Webster Publishing Co, published 1938, page 91:
glosses: Oversight deemed to be excessively invasive or prying.
antiphotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphoton
strollerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of stroller + aerobics.
Senses: examples: text: Fitness trainer Kristen McAuliffe started "strollerobics" classes in May at a neighborhood park as an option for new moms who want to shape up and keep their babies nearby.
ref: 1997 June 29, “'Strollerobics' Classes Help New Mothers Shape Up”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: An exercise routine for new mothers which incorporates their babies' strollers.
kitchen roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen rolls
Senses: examples: text: Nigella suggests draining the grated carrot in kitchen roll before using it, to absorb the excess liquid – but in a more conventional recipe, this doesn't seem necessary.
ref: 2012 March 15, Felicity Cloake, The Guardian:
synonyms: paper towel
glosses: (a roll of) thick absorbent paper used especially in kitchens for wiping up spills etc.
Related terms: kitchen paper
kitchen towel
exploitables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploitable
Ripperologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ripperologists
Etymology: From ripper + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One with an interest in Ripperology.
Ripperology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ripper + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer active around the Whitechapel district of London in the late 19th century.
Related terms: Ripperological
Ripperologist
Ripperologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ripperologist
quicklier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quickly + er.
Senses: examples: text: The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.
ref: 1834, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator, and the Companion, page 6:
text: The apprentice will learn much better and quicklier how to do things for knowing beforehand why he is bidden to do them in any particular way[…]
ref: 1871, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 24, page 332:
glosses: More quickly; with greater rapidity.
tummal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tummals
Senses: examples: text: Sich powerful tummals of beastes was there, / One cud gist e'ne scrouge room for to stond in the fere.
ref: 1846, Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect, page 27:
text: "It's pure gowld," said Betty, " and wuth tummals of money."
ref: 1863, John Tillotson, The boy's yearly book, page 73:
text: […] it's a good thing for she to get a husbind that can give her a goulden coach to ride in, if she's got a mind to it. But there, her pretty face is wuth a tummal of money[…]
ref: 1878, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, Love's crosses:
glosses: A great quantity or heap.
tummals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tummal
aswail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marathi अस्वल (asval) or a related term in another Indian language.
Senses: examples: text: An Aswail brought to me from the woods when quite young, and which lived some time in my possession, fed by choice almost exclusively upon roast mutton and fowl; rejecting all fruits and vegetables.
ref: 1832, William Henry Sykes, A Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds Observed in Dukhun:
text: […] mutilated parts of an Aswail from Ceylon together with parts of a three-toed Sloth […]
ref: 1953, Dirk Pieter Erdbrink, A Review of Fossil and Recent Bears of the Old World, volume 1:
glosses: The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), an India bear.
discinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪŋkt/
Forms: form: more discinct
form: most discinct
Etymology: From Latin discinctus, past participle of discingere (“to ungird”), from dis- + cingere (“to gird”).
Senses: glosses: ungirded; loosely dressed
souvenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: (Souvenance of a Cruise on Northern Seas.) Edinburgh 1910.
ref: 1928, Helmar Gustaf Emanuel Eneborg, Swedish Year-book, page 274:
text: […] he abandoned himself afresh to indulgence in the souvenance of the great critical scene of the morning. Yes, he had done marvels; and fate was astoundingly kind to him also. But there was one aspect of the affair that intrigued and puzzled him, and weakened his self-satisfaction[…]
ref: 2022 May 25, Arnold Bennett, The Complete Clayhanger Family Novels: Clayhanger + Hilda Lessways + These Twain + The Roll Call, DigiCat:
glosses: Alternative form of sovenance.
planogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of planogram
planogrammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of planogram
petalody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πετᾰλώδης (petălṓdēs, “full of flakes”), from πέταλον (pétalon) (whence also petal).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: petalification
glosses: The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.
unfamiliarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unfamiliarised
Etymology: From un- + familiarized.
Senses: glosses: Not familiarized.
unfamiliarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfamiliarity
tatouay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatouays
Etymology: From a compound word in a Tupi-Guarani language (compare tatu-ai), of which the first element is ultimately from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”). Compare Portuguese tatu, French tatou. The second element (ay or ai) may mean "wound" because of a belief that its fat was used on wounds, or "colored", or "worthless".
Senses: glosses: An armadillo (Cabassous tatouay), native to tropical South America; the broad-banded armadillo.
tatouays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatouay
mononuclidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + nuclidic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That exists in nature as a single nuclide
raw_tags: of an element
slash pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash pines
Etymology: Named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat.
Senses: glosses: Pinus elliottii, a pine tree native to the southeastern United States.
slash pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slash pine
Scincoidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdiən
Forms: form: Scincoidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: skink
Scincoidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scincoidian
laiks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laik
precedaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛsɪˈdeɪni.əs/
Senses: examples: text: The necessity of this performance to any undertaking may appear by those several precedaneous methods in common life , which have nothing in themselves to ingratiate them unto us
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: preceding; antecedent; previous
crotaphite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρόταφος (krótaphos, “the side of the forehead”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the temples; temporal.
Related terms: crotaphitic
crotaphites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotaphite
strigment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪɡ.mənt/
Forms: form: strigments
Etymology: Latin strigmentum.
Senses: examples: text: the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: scraping, or something which is scraped off (e.g. off the skin)
strigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strigment
retinophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinophorae
Etymology: From retina + Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, “bearer”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae.
retinophorae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinophora
partialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: partializes
form: partializing
form: partialized
form: partialized
Etymology: From partial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Julie: I would like to be self-sufficient and not have to rely on my parents for everything.
Social worker: Okay, now let's partialize your goal and break it down […]
ref: 2013, Francis J. Turner, William Rowe, 101 Social Work Clinical Techniques, page 311:
glosses: To make or become partial; to divide into parts.
Related terms: partialization
partialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of partialize
partializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of partialize
partializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of partialize
sidebone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidebones
Etymology: From side + bone.
Senses: examples: text: ringbone and sidebone co-exist in the same leg, […]where the three bones are completely anchylosed
ref: 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field:
glosses: A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
sidebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidebone
piédouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piédouches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piedouche.
piédouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piédouche
runrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runround
parture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː(ɹ)tjʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: partures
Senses: examples: text: the late ruine of proud Marinell, and suddein parture of faire Florimell
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:
text: If I should now forget, or not remember thee,
Thou, Spencer, mightest a foule rebuke and shame impute to mee;
For I to open shew did loue thee passing well,
And thou wert he at parture whom I loathed to bid farewell;
ref: 1851, George Turberville, Notes upon Russia, volume 1, Certaine Letters in Verse:
glosses: departure
tamarillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamarillo
dudhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudhis
Etymology: From Hindi दूधी (dūdhī), दूदी (dūdī).
Senses: glosses: Bottle gourd, calabash.
dudhis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudhi
Ngbandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ngbandi
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group of the southern Central African Republic and northern Congo, traditionally farmers.
Ngbandi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people, a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family.
Nganasans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nganasan
cloop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluːp/
ipa: /klup/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: cloops
form: clooping
form: clooped
form: clooped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The young men brought up the rear, each with a basket, from which there came ever and anon a cool clooping noise, maddeningly suggestive of refreshing drinks imprisoned within the wicker.
ref: 1872, [Mary Elizabeth] Braddon, “Mr. Walgrave indulges his Social Instincts”, in To the Bitter End […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: Not even by the lightning flashes could Peter see down the corridor into which the creek thus turned, and ran, and clooped.
ref: 1896, Edward W[illiam] Thomson, “Imprisoned in the Cave”, in Walter Gibbs, the Young Boss and Other Stories: A Book for Boys, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, […], →OCLC, page 253:
text: He beat his breast and "clooped" his lips like any aborigine in the agony of "chop" deferred.
ref: 1900, Alfred Kinnear, “When Harcourt Led”, in Our House of Commons: Its Realities and Romance, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1901 (2nd edition, extended), →OCLC, page 190:
text: Again on sheltered stretches Stair could send a smooth, flat stone skipping from one side to the other of the still bay, which Patsy declared was no sort of sport because hers, though every bit as well thrown as Stair's, invariably plumped to the bottom with a little farewell "cloop" as soon as they encountered the water. "You get all the best stones!" Patsy cried at last, vexed at her lack of success. Whereupon Stair handed over his ammunition to her, which "clooped" and sank as before.
ref: 1912, S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett, “The Land of Always Afternoon”, in The Moss Troopers, London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 286:
text: On Sunday she jumped off the roan three-year-old at eight o'clock, after she had ridden since six, and after the animal's tired hoofs had clooped over the pavement on Main Street down to the front of our Phirst Fotografer's studio.
ref: 1915 June 19, Richard Washburn Child, “The Phœnix: Her Negatives”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 187, number 51, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 3:
text: On good days the rise was a sunny thicket of alders sheltering deer and foxes, surrounded by marshland which clicked and clooped with waders and amphibia, where pelicans sailed in to land like full-rigged galleons.
ref: 1981, Diana Norman, chapter 2, in King of the Last Days, London: Canelo Digital Publishing Limited, published 2019, →ISBN:
text: [A] silver fish clooped a lazy arc downstream, not really caring that the mayfly were out of reach; […]
ref: 1986, Mary Brown, “The Gathering: One; The Unicorn and the Prince”, in The Unlikely Ones (Pigs Don’t Fly; 1), London: Century, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun sense 1).
cloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluːp/
ipa: /klup/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: cloops
Etymology: Blend of club + coop.
Senses: examples: text: He had resolved not to segue into the jig he used to do in the "cloops" because his singing was the issue here.
ref: 1999, Alvin Yudkoff, “1940: New York”, in Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams, New York, N.Y.: Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 77:
text: This may be a deliberate tie-in to what Gene [Kelly]'s brother Fred [Norbert Kelly] did when they played the "cloops" as teenagers.
ref: 2009, Earl J. Hess, Pratibha A. Dabholkar, “Everything but Dancing”, in Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Kelly wasn't a singer, but a talented dancer who had also spent many hours in vaudeville houses and after-hours "cloops," learning tap steps from the great vaudevillians and street dancers in order to bring these steps back to his students at the Kelly family dance studio.
ref: 2020, Julianne Lindberg, “Gene Kelly: Tough, Charming, Working Class”, in Pal Joey: The History of a Heel, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Chez Joey: The World of Pal Joey), chapter 6 (Joey Dances), page 143:
glosses: A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
cloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluːp/
ipa: /klup/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: Blend of c(ompressed) + loop.
Senses: examples: text: The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device.
ref: 2005 April, Daniel Barlow, “Building Your Own Live CD”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number 132, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, column 1:
text: Using cloop technology, you can more than double the amount of software and data you can get on a live CD.
ref: 2006 November, Christopher Negus, “Using the Cloop Driver”, in Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables (Negus Live Linux Series), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Looking Inside Live CD Components), “Understanding File Systems for Live CDs” section, page 156:
text: Load a MyDSL extension (xchat.uci) to check that the cloop driver is working.
ref: 2007 August, Robert Shingledecker, John Andrews, Christopher Negus, “Using a New Kernel for DSL”, in The Official Damn Small Linux Book: The Tiny Adaptable Linux That Runs on Anything (Negus Live Linux Series), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 11 (Setting Up a Full Remastering Environment), “Full Remastering” section, page 239:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
enantioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enantiosis
enantiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantioses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐναντίος (enantíos, “contradiction”).
Senses: glosses: A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and vice versa; affirmation by contraries.
poynado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poynados
form: poynadoes
Senses: glosses: A poniard.
poynadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poynado
poynados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poynado
moric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: morin
thermae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin thermae, plural of therma. See thermal.
Senses: examples: text: The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
ref: 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:
synonyms: spa
glosses: Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water.
ENTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENTPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
pepper dulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper dulses
Senses: glosses: A pungent edible seaweed, Osmundea pinnatifida.
pepper dulses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper dulse
arefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arefy
arefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪfaɪ/
/ˈæɹɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: arefies
form: arefying
form: arefied
form: arefied
Etymology: Latin ārefaciō, from āreō (“to dry”) + faciō (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: Time, and Heat, are Fellovves in many Effects. Heat drieth Bodies, that doe eaſily expire; As Parchment, Leaues, Roots, Clay, &c. And, ſo doth Time or Age arefie; […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “III. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching the Like Operations of Heat, and Time.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 294, page 76:
glosses: To dry, or make dry; wither.
arefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arefy
high color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high colors
form: high colour
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
examples: text: […] put in as much tincture of saffron as will give them a high colour, but no currants[…]
ref: 1796, Hannah Glasse, The art of cookery, made plain and easy, London: T. Longman, page 318:
glosses: a strong color
raw_tags: of a substance
examples: text: […] That when she had a high Colour she was very ill, and when she was pale, she was at Death's Door,[…]
ref: 1709 September 2, The Female Tatler, page 1:
text: […] Their features are strongly marked, and their bodies are very fleshy, and cumbrous: they have a high colour in their cheeks, and the complexion is fair enough[…]
ref: 1796 December, George Forster, “Article IV: Voyage Philosephique et Pittoresque, &c.–A Philosophical and Picturesque Journey along the Banks of the Rhine, to Liege, through Flanders, Holland, &c. in the Year 1790”, in Analytical Review; Or, History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, page 592:
glosses: a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face
raw_tags: of a person's appearance
Coordinate terms: deep color
true color
phatagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phatagins
Senses: glosses: The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla).
Synonyms: ipi
phatagins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phatagin
ipi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla)
Synonyms: phatagin
statary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin statarius (“standing fast”), from stare (“to stand”).
Senses: examples: text: Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.
text: The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete outside biology
glosses: Fixed; settled.
ENFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENFPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ESTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESTPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, sensing, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ESFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESFPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
INTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INTPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
INFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INFPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
atmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmos
Etymology: From atmosphere.
Senses: examples: text: 1880? William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Heat
under a constant pressure of one atmo
text: In this case, at a pressure of one atmo, the quantity of gas absorbed by one gramme of water is .875 gramme at 0°C.
ref: 1891, John Parker, Elementary Thermodynamics, page 309:
text: Now the above change of ratio is established at a pressure about 2.5/10⁶ atmo as given by log. dec., when the mean free path of a molecule of air ought to be about 10⁶ × .00001 ÷ 2.5 centim. or 4 centim., which is about the radius of the bulb.
ref: 1897 February, William Sutherland, “Two New Pressure-Gauges for the Highest Vacua”, in Philosophical Magazine, volume 43, number 261, page 88:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.
glosses: Clipping of atmosphere
atmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmo
atmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmoses
Senses: examples: text: Wherever possible, it is best to record your sound effects in the location as they will contain the right atmos for the location.
ref: 2009, Steve Dawkins, Ian Wynd, Video Production: Putting Theory into Practice, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Maurice Moss: Compiling a playlist for a role-playing game I'm hosting. Important to get the right atmos.
ref: 2010 June 25, Richard Ayoade (actor), Graham Linehan (writer, director), “Jen The Fredo”, IT Crowd, series 4, episode 1, FremantleMedia
text: Similarly, in radio drama there is an audio backdrop, usually called ‘atmos’ (short for atmosphere). The atmos suggests the location of the drama.
ref: 2011, Richard J. Hand, Mary Traynor, The Radio Drama Handbook: Audio Drama in Context and Practice, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Like all its brethren, the Lotusman was encased head to foot in a brass atmos-suit, studded with fixtures and gears and spinning clockwork, shielding it from the pollution the rest of the populace breathed daily.
ref: 2012, Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer: The Lotus War, volume 1, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 22:
qualifier: sound production
glosses: Clipping of atmosphere.
ISFP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISFPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ISTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISTPs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, sensing, thinking and perceiving: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type.
ENTJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENTJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
INTJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, intuitive, thinking and judging (“a personality type in the Myers-Briggs type indicator”).
ESTJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESTJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, sensing, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ISTJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISTJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, sensing, thinking and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ENFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENFJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, intuitive, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
INFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INFJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, intuitive, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type.
ISFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISFJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of introverted, sensing, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
ESFJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ESFJs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of extraverted, sensing, feeling and judging: a personality type in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
glosses: A person with this personality type
prologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prologizes
form: prologizing
form: prologized
form: prologized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prologuize.
prologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prologize
prologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prologize
prologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prologize
Central Germany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region in the eastern part of Germany, including the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia.
unrecouped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recouped.
Senses: glosses: Not recouped.
safeguarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safeguarders
Etymology: From safeguard + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Women, positioned as safeguarders of tradition, are often the ones directing the design of homes and gardens.
ref: 2004, Allaine Cerwonka, Native To The Nation: Disciplining Landscapes And Bodies In Australia, page 83:
glosses: One who safeguards.
safeguarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safeguarder
interclan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + clan.
Senses: glosses: Between clans.
intraclan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + clan.
Senses: glosses: Within a single clan.
camelbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more camelbacked
form: most camelbacked
Etymology: From camel + backed.
Senses: examples: text: With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: […] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Tartarians Alienated from the Christians; Bendocdar Tyrannizeth over Them, and Lewis King of France Setteth Forth again for to Succour Them”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 215:
glosses: Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.
storified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of storify
storifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of storify
storify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: storifies
form: storifying
form: storified
form: storified
Etymology: From story + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: There are narratives that use nova to storify the transfiguration itself; they render the alteration (as mistake, or correction, or both), within the narrative, via actual time-travel, presenting us with the jump back to change the course of history […]
ref: 2014, Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions:
glosses: To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
examples: text: The advocates for the storifying system boast, that it is highly favourable to the formation of artificial swarms; it should, however, be previously demonstrated, that any actual advantage is to be derived from an artificial swarm.
ref: 1844, Robert Huish, Bees: Their Natural History and General Management:
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: To store (additional honey) in additional tiers or stories of a hive.
storifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of storify
gier eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gier eagles
Etymology: Compare Dutch gier (“vulture”), German gier, and English gyrfalcon.
Senses: examples: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Leviticus 11:18: “And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,”
glosses: A bird referred to as unclean in the Bible, possibly the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
karam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So Prince Earth-worm secured Prince Tortoies with chains and raised the earth on his back, and in a short time there was an island in the midst of the waters. Thakur Jiu then caused a karam tree to spring up, and at the foot of the karam tree he caused sirom grass to grow. He then caused dhobi grass to spring up, after which he covered the earth with all kinds of trees and herbs. In this manner the earth became firm and stable.
ref: 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 21:
text: The bride is given a comb made locally of karam wood, bracelets, chawar, which is a braid of false hair, and a blouse
ref: 1964, Victor Rosner, “The Marriage Ceremonies of the Telia Nagesia of Jashpur, India”, in Anthropos, volume 59, number 3:
glosses: The tree Adina cordifolia.
metempsychose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metempsychoses
form: metempsychosing
form: metempsychosed
form: metempsychosed
Etymology: See metempsychosis.
Senses: examples: text: To other bodies of like simpathie, Thou art the last of these Metemps'chosed.
ref: 1594, William Percy, Coelia:
glosses: To translate or transfer (e.g. the soul) from one body to another.
metempsychosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metempsychose
metempsychosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metempsychose
surfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: supercooling
cathedralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cathedralic
form: most cathedralic
Etymology: From cathedral + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or resembling, a cathedral.
secle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secles
Etymology: From Latin saeculum. Compare French siècle. See secular. Doublet of saeculum.
Senses: examples: text: Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's life-time, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years in the genealogies.
ref: 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
glosses: A century.
examples: text: If on this principle we calculate back from this first secular epoch preserved in history, the beginning ot the second secle falls U.C. 78.
ref: 1845, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Sir Travers Twiss, Niebuhr's History of Rome - Volumes 1-2, page 55:
text: Such a secular year therefore was probably the term assigned to the life of the gods, as the natural secle was to the life of man, the secular day to that of nations, the secular week to that of one human race. They taught, as we know historically, that the expiration of each secular day was announced by wonders and signs, intelligible to them. So was the close of every natural secle; ten of which, of unequal length, made up a great day. The signs by which each of these epochs had been foreshewn, were recorded in their history .
ref: 1847, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz, The History of Rome - Volume 1, page 138:
text: So the haruspex Vulcatius announced that the comet which appeared shortly after the assassination of Julius Cæsar indicated the end of the ninth secle and the beginning of the tenth.
ref: 1887, Horace, James Lonsdale, Samuel Lee, The Works of Horace, page 85:
glosses: The length of an epoch, believed to be the amount of time that elapsed from the start of one epoch to the time when no one who was alive at that point is still alive (starting at the founding of Rome).
secles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secle
farlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farlies
Etymology: From Middle English farli, ferly, ferlich, feorlich (“a wonderful thing, a marvel, a wonder”), from Middle English farli, ferly, verlich, ferlik, ferlic, feorlic (“terrible, marvellous, wonderful”), from Old English fǣrlīċ (“sudden, unexpected, quick, horrible”), equivalent to fear + -ly. Cognate with Scots ferlie (“farlie”), Old Norse ferlíki, ferlíkan (“a monster, abnormality, monstrosity”), Old Norse ferligr (“monstrous”).
Senses: examples: text: (Whilst thus himselfe to please, the mightie Mountaine tells
Such farlies of his Cluyd, and of his wondrous Wells)
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 161:
text: I saw, in passing, many a farlie and fine things, such as St Paul's and the Tower
ref: 1822, John Galt, The Steam-Boat:
glosses: An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
farlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farlie