cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
principial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more principial
form: most principial
Etymology: Probably a learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipiālis. By surface analysis, principia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject a principial nature. By principial nature I mean that which exists in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of any antecedent nature.
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:
text: My only aim will be to trace the dislocating work of the two conditions that ensue, namely, the principial condition over which the foundation presides and the ground as the originary condition.
ref: 2003, Reiner Schürmann, Broken Hegemonies, page 274:
text: The latter, a principial christocentrism, may include the monergistic view of salvation, but it will also assume that Christ is the principium cognoscendi theologiae or, in Kickel's phrase the Erkenntnissgrund of theology.
ref: 2011, David Gibson, Reading the Decree:
glosses: Elementary; fundamental.
alligator pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator pears
Etymology: The "alligator" is likely an alteration of Spanish aguacate, perhaps influenced by the similarity in texture between the skin of the fruit and of an alligator.
Senses: examples: text: There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 52”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: An avocado.
Related terms: english: avocado
translation: avocado
word: pear
Echinidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Echinidans
Etymology: Compare French échinide.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Echinoidea.
Echinidans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Echinidan
superfinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfinical
form: most superfinical
Etymology: From super- + finical.
Senses: glosses: Extremely finical.
sweltry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweltry
form: most sweltry
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweltery.
sclerenchyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sclerenchyma.
kokam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kokum.
kokus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koku
+1
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Internet forums such as Slashdot that allow users to vote for or against a comment, increasing or decreasing its score by one.
Senses: coordinate_terms: +0
glosses: Used to signify agreement with the comment to which one is replying.
+1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Reyes Vidal has invited you to be his +1 at a party hosted by Sloane Kelly.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Night on the Town:
text: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian showed up at the ESPYS last night and walked the red carpet with the cutest +1 ever: their 7-year-old daughter Olympia.
ref: 2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Alternative form of plus one.
+1
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There was a hint of structural problems for Germany from the opening exchanges. With Jonas Hector ruled out, Marvin Plattenhardt of Hertha Berlin had come in to play at left-back. Otherwise this was Germany to the max, Germany +1, with Mesut Özil included despite some whispered talk to the contrary, and the old familiar champion faces all over the pitch.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
glosses: To a high degree.
Related terms: like
unlike
supercunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercunts
Etymology: From super- + cunt.
Senses: examples: text: He takes me so violently that I tell him he must have reached a supercunt.
ref: 1935, Anaïs Nin, diary, 5 Sep 1935
text: This time I call the realm of the super-cunt, for it defies speed, calculation or imagery.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 191:
text: ‘I know – it's crazy,’ Testio said, putting down several lines. ‘There you have this incredibly gorgeous twenty-three-year-old supercunt, and she only gets off on fifteen-year-old boys.’
ref: 2000, Jackie Collins, Lethal Seduction:
glosses: The vagina, seen as being supremely sexually powerful or exciting.
examples: text: "You know, you see me as supercunt. You always have. It's one way you frighten yourself off, keep yourself distant. Well, I'm not supercunt.
ref: 2002, Martin Duberman, Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey, page 173:
glosses: An exceptionally annoying person.
Synonyms: superpussy
phyllostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllostomes
Etymology: From translingual Phyllostomus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: phyllostomid
phyllostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllostome
shepster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepsters
Etymology: From Middle English shepster, shapster, shuppester, equivalent to shape + -ster.
Senses: examples: 14th century, William Caxton, Dialogues
Mabyll the shepster Cheuissheth her right well
glosses: A seamstress.
Derived terms: shepster time
Related terms: shapester
shepsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepster
pervicacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pervicācia.
Senses: examples: text: You mother will have me do so, that you may be destitute of all defence, if you persist in you pervicacy.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pervicacity; stubbornness.
ople tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ople trees
Etymology: Latin opulus a kind of maple tree.
Senses: examples: text: in English Matish Elder , and Whitten tree , Ople tree, and Dwarffe Plane tree
ref: 1597, John Gerard, The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes:
glosses: The witch hazel.
Hypernyms: tree
ople trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ople tree
balister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balisters
form: ballister
Etymology: From Old French balestre. See ballista.
Senses: examples: text: From thence to the door of the Church was made a Gallery about three foot broad, with a Balister on each side, and both on one side, and the other were placed Benches for the Criminals and their Godfathers to sit on
ref: 1688, Gabriel Dellon, The History of the Inquisition as it is Exercised at Goa:
glosses: A crossbow.
examples: text: standeth the cunning Balister
ref: 1642, Thomas Goodwin, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta:
glosses: An arbalister or crossbowman.
balisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balister
tranation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tranare, transnare (“to swim over”), from trans (“across, over”) + nare (“to swim”).
Senses: examples: text: In his Tranation he lookt about, and saw under him (though a farre off) his Lord upon Rosinante, no bigger than a Toad upon a Ducking-stoole.
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes Upon Don Quixot:
glosses: The act of swimming over.
boroughhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroughheads
Senses: glosses: A headborough.
boroughheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boroughhead
dowlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowlases
form: dowlass
Etymology: Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.
Senses: examples: text: Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back.
Falstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 3:
glosses: A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.
dowlases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowlas
palification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin palus (“a stake”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French palification. See -fy.
Senses: examples: text: Among which notes I haue sayd nothing of Palification, or Pyling of the Groundplot
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
text: After experiment and discussion, larch was chosen as the wood for palification[…]
ref: 1928, Laura Maria Roberts Ragg, Crises in Venetian history:
glosses: The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
cascarilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə
Forms: form: cascarillas
Etymology: From Spanish cascarilla.
Senses: glosses: A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton eleuteria).
glosses: The aromatic bark of this shrub, formerly used as a gentle tonic or mixed with tobacco for smoking.
Derived terms: cascarillin
cascarillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cascarilla
choanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choanoid
form: most choanoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χοάνη (khoánē, “funnel”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The choanoid muscle of a lemur's eye
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: funnel-shaped;
Synonyms: funnershaped
morphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek μόρφωσις (mórphōsis, “shaping”).
Senses: examples: text: morphotic, or tissue, proteids
text: Potassium sulphocyanate is present, but morphotic elements are absent
ref: 1878, Sir Michael Foster, A Text Book of Physiology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
phylacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlæktə/
ipa: /fəˈlæktəɹ/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: phylacters
Etymology: Borrowed from French phylactère, from Middle French filatiere, philaterie, philatiere, and Old French filatiere, philatiere (“amulet; reliquary; tefilla”), from Late Latin phylacterium (“amulet; reliquary; tefilla”), from Koine Greek φῠλᾰκτήρῐον (phŭlăktḗrĭon, “amulet; tefilla”) (used in the New Testament to translate Hebrew תפילין (“tefillin”)), from Ancient Greek φῠλᾰκτήρῐον (phŭlăktḗrĭon, “fortified outpost, watchman’s post; protection, safeguard”), from φυλακτήρ (phulaktḗr, “guard, watcher”) + -ῐον (-ĭon, suffix forming nouns). Φυλακτήρ (Phulaktḗr) is derived from φυλακ- (phulak-) (the stem of φῠλᾰ́σσω (phŭlắssō, “to guard, watch; to defend, protect”)) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix forming masculine agent nouns); and φῠλᾰ́σσω (phŭlắssō) from φῠ́λᾰξ (phŭ́lăx, “guard, sentry”), probably Pre-Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Men full of appearing sanctity , observant to traditions , and skilful expositors of the Mosaical Law , wearing the precepts thereof in phylacters (narrow scrolls of parchment) bound about their brows and above their left elbows
ref: 1636, George Sandys, Christ's Passion (Annotations)
glosses: Synonym of phylactery.
synonyms: word: phylactery
Derived terms: phylactered
phylacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylacter
submissly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more submissly
form: most submissly
Etymology: From submiss + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Humility consists not in railing against thyself , or wearing mean clothes , or going softly and submissly , but in hearty and real evil or mean opinion of thyself
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a submissive manner; with submission.
daroo tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daroo trees
Senses: synonyms: sycamore
sycomore
glosses: A sycamore fig or fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus).
Hypernyms: tree
daroo trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daroo tree
clupeoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clupeoid
form: most clupeoid
Etymology: Clupea (“genus of herrings”) + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to fish closely related taxonomically to herring.
clupeoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clupeoids
Etymology: Clupea (“genus of herrings”) + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of fish closely related taxonomically to herring.
puffleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pufflegs
form: puff-leg
Etymology: From puff + leg.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous species of hummingbirds of the genera Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia, with large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Related terms: puff-legged
puff-legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puff-leg
thanksgave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of thanksgive
thanksgive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thanksgives
form: thanksgiving
form: thanksgave
form: thanksgiven
Etymology: From thanks + give.
Senses: examples: text: As he took down book after book, and as I remarked on his rich collection, he shewed me Thomas Hearne's solemn prayer of thanksgiving for having "unexpectedly met with three old MSS. yesterday." But Southey evidently thanksgives for more than his old books; he is so happy in his family, so cheerful, benevolent, and kind-hearted [...]
ref: 1848, [author not stated], “Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of the World”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 157:
text: SPIRIT OF THE YEARS:
Something of difference animates your quiring,
O half-convinced Compassionates and fond,
From chords consistent with our spectacle!
You almost charm my long philosophy
Out of my strong-built thought, and bear me back
To when I thanksgave thus.... Ay, start not, Shades;
In the Foregone I knew what dreaming was,
And could let raptures rule! But not so now.
Yea, I psalmed thus and thus.... But not so now.
ref: 1903, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts:
glosses: To give or dedicate as a token of thanks.
Related terms: thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
thanksgiven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of thanksgive
thanksgives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thanksgive
skeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skee
skeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skid (“timber”).
skeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeed
egence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egences
Etymology: From Latin egens, egentis, present participle of egere (“to be needy, suffer want”).
Senses: examples: text: Egence is the life of the universe : the highest forms of egence are variously called ' love ' : the lowest are simple appetence , perhaps merely physical .
ref: 1876, John Grote, Treatise on Moral Ideals:
glosses: The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.
egences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egence
adragant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.
Senses: examples: text: From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant :
“We had (says he) the Satisfaction
“of fully observing the Gum
“Adragant […]
ref: 1741, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:
text: 3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant […] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub […]
ref: 1800, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, translated by W. Nicholson, Elements of Chemistry ... Translated from the French. The third edition, page 39:
text: Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, ...
ref: 1795, American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected from the Practice of the Best Artists and Containing an Account of the Various Methods, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Gum tragacanth.
Benzaiten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 弁才天 (Benzaiten) 弁財天 (Benzaiten).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: (Also known as "Benten-sama") The Hindu goddess, Saraswati, of knowledge, art and beauty, music, language, wisdom, poetry and rivers.
Related terms: word: Kitsushōten
word: the goddess of happiness
word: charm and beauty
word: of fertility
word: nature
word: and of human creativity
word: and the patronesses of joy
word: amusement and festivities
word: Hotei
word: the fat and happy god of abundance and good health
word: Jurōjin
word: god of longevity
word: Fukurokuju
word: god of happiness
word: wealth and longevity
word: Bishamonten
word: god of warriors
roman: Daikoku
alt: 大黒天
word: Daikokuten
word: god of wealth
word: commerce and trade. Ebisu and Daikoku are often paired and represented as carvings
word: masks on the walls of small retail shops
word: Ebisu
word: god of fishers
word: merchants
word: often depicted carrying a sea bream
sankha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæŋkə/
Forms: form: sankhas
Senses: glosses: A chank (Turbinella pyrum).
glosses: A bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.
sankhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sankha
pettywhin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtiˌwɪn/
Etymology: From petty + whin.
Senses: glosses: The needle furze.
miscensure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: miscensures
form: miscensuring
form: miscensured
form: miscensured
Etymology: From mis- + censure.
Senses: examples: text: if we mis-censure your actions, which are euer (as those of men) according to the vogue
ref: 1618, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
glosses: To misjudge.
miscensure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈsɛnʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: miscensures
Etymology: From mis- + censure.
Senses: examples: text: Your hard Opinions, and mis-Censures
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: erroneous judgment
miscensures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscensure
miscensured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscensure
miscensuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscensure
insolubilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insolubilize
insolubilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made insoluble.
osteoformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + formation.
Senses: glosses: The process of bone formation.
parathormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹəˈθɔɹmoʊn/
ipa: /pæɹəˈθɔːməʊn/
Forms: form: parathormones
Etymology: Blend of parathyroid + hormone.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parathyroid hormone
synonyms: word: parathyroid hormone
pistaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistache
caroubiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroubier
parathormones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parathormone
frockcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frockcoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frock coat.
Derived terms: frockcoated
frock coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frock coat
adverticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /adˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ædˈvɝ.tɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪkəl
Forms: form: adverticles
Etymology: Blend of advertisement + article
Senses: glosses: An advertisement masquerading as an actual news or feature article in a newspaper or magazine.
magmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.mɪk/
Etymology: From magma + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Tremendous magmic pressure built up beneath the earth, causing a volcanic eruption.
glosses: Of or pertaining to magma.
Synonyms: magmatic
nicey-nicey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nicey-nicey
form: most nicey-nicey
form: nicey-nice
form: nicey nicey
form: nicy-nicy
Senses: examples: text: Things have not always been so nicey-nicey in the Pleiades. They blew up a planet; they had some negative energy, and they said, "We're never going to experience that negativity again. We are going to banish it!"
ref: 1987, Robert Shapiro, The Explorer Race, →ISBN, page 323:
text: Choosing to be ignorant is choosing to be nicey-nicey. The opposite of a nicey-nicey is a bitch, who does bite (take hold of an issue), rip (attack a problem without delay), and snarl (use threatening language).
ref: 1988, Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, Joanna Frueh, Feminist Art Criticism: an Anthology, →ISBN, page 163:
text: One answer seemed to be the idea of having a nicey-nicey penis, which would never do anyone any harm. But the nicey-nicey penis seemed too sweet, too totally determined by being the very opposite of the bad penis, like two ends of a line.
ref: 1997, John Rowan, Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Nice, especially in an impotent or insincere fashion.
pregnancy test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnancy tests
Senses: examples: A modern pregnancy test looks for human chorionic gonadotropin to determine whether a woman is pregnant.
glosses: a piece of test equipment that determines whether a woman, or by extension, a female animal is pregnant
nicey nicey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nicey nicey
form: most nicey nicey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nicey-nicey.
nicy-nicy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The day of the "nicy-nicy," "namby-pamby," "frockcoated," "kid-gloved" preacher, is gone, and gone forever.
ref: 1922, Fred A. Grammell, The Oregon Exchange, page 14:
text: This nicy-nicy business about food isn't smart. Carry it to extremes and it becomes very foolish indeed.
ref: 1952, Galaxy Magazine, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 43:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nicey-nicey.
reprecipitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reprecipitates
form: reprecipitating
form: reprecipitated
form: reprecipitated
Etymology: From re- + precipitate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To purify a material by means of reprecipitation
call to account
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls to account
form: calling to account
form: called to account
form: called to account
Senses: examples: text: TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: "This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account."
ref: 2022 January 26, Paul Clifton, “"Intolerable" service cuts under emergency COVID timetables”, in RAIL, number 949, page 8:
glosses: To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.
give a good account of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a good account of oneself
form: giving a good account of oneself
form: gave a good account of oneself
form: given a good account of oneself
Senses: examples: text: He was one of two changes to the Spurs starting line-up as interim manager Ryan Mason called up Bale and Dele Alli in place of Harry Winks and Lucas Moura.
Both gave good accounts of themselves - Alli showing sparkles of quality in the first half before fading in the second.
ref: 2021 May 2, Emma Sanders, “Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 Sheffield United”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To act in a creditable manner.
on no account
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Under no circumstances.
on one's own account
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: On one's own behalf.
glosses: By oneself.
glosses: At one's own risk.
Related terms: on someone's account
on someone's account
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: For someone's sake.
examples: text: On the majority's account, a Fourth Amendment "seizure" takes place whenever an officer "merely touches" a suspect.
ref: 2021, Torres v. Madrid (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19-292), Justice Gorsuch dissenting
glosses: According to someone's interpretation or account.
bromeliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Bromeliaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Bromeliaceae of flowering plants
cock of the roost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocks of the roost
Senses: synonyms: cock of the walk
rooster
glosses: A proud or conceited person.
Related terms: peacockery
uncomplying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + complying.
Senses: glosses: Not complying
uncompliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + compliant.
Senses: glosses: incompliant
shillelah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shillelahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shillelagh.
spahee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spahees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of spahi.
pep talks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pep talk
mesocephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meso- + cephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The pons; pons Varolii.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The mesencephalon
sonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonances
Senses: examples: text: [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene ii, page 86:
glosses: A sound; a tune.
glosses: The quality or state of being sonant.
sonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonance
twin rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twin room
subaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subactions
Etymology: Compare Latin subactio a working up, discipline.
Senses: examples: text: there are of concoction two periods ; the one assimilation , or absolute conversion and subaction ; the other maturation
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of reducing to any state, such as of mixing two bodies completely.
subaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subactions
Etymology: From sub- + action.
Senses: examples: text: This is so because efforts, exertions, and endeavorings, if they were to exist, would need to be actions themselves, or parts of actions, or subactions or behaviors of some sort […]
ref: 2012, Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action:
glosses: An action that makes up part of a more complex action.
double rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double room
subactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subaction
single rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single room
annomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annominations
Etymology: From Latin annominatio. See agnomination.
Senses: glosses: paronomasia; punning
examples: text: Giraldus Cambrensis speaks of Annomination , which he describes to be what we call Alliteration , as the favourite rhetorical figure of both the Welsh and English in his time
ref: 1775–1778, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer:
glosses: alliteration
annominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annomination
piroplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piroplasmas
form: piroplasmata
form: piroplasm
Etymology: From Latin pirum (“pear”) + Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “image, formation”).
Senses: examples: text: It has been known for some years past that Piroplasma in the digestive tube of an adult female tick can give rise to infection in the offspring of that female, so that one generation of ticks can acquire the parasites from cattle, and the next generation can transmit the disease to other cattle
ref: 1895, Entomological Pamphlets: Slingerland Collection.:
topics: biology
epidemiology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Babesia, a genus of hematozoa that invades the red blood cells of humans and domesticated animals such as dogs and sheep
examples: text: Present systematics of piroplasms is based almost entirely upon criteria derived from taxonomic interpretation of a combination of morphology of the intraerythrocytic stages, host specificity, vector, mode of pathogenesis and pathogenicity, cross-immunity, frequency of schizonts and piroplasms, and spatial distribution
ref: 2011, Jan Votýpka, Piroplasmorida, Tree of Life Web Project:
glosses: Any of many other parasitic protozoa related to Babesia in order Piroplasmida
Related terms: piroplasmic
piroplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piroplasms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piroplasma.
babesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babesias
form: babesiae
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Babesia, named after Victor Babeș.
Senses: topics: biology
epidemiology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.
Derived terms: babesial
standardiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standardisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of standardizer.
accounting machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accounting machines
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: adding machine, tabulator
topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: bookkeeping machine#Noun
coordinate_terms: calculator#Noun
computer#Noun
glosses: A business machine, generally a combined calculator and printer, that tabulates, adds, subtracts, and totals.
accounting machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accounting machine
gadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadis
form: gaddi
form: guddee
form: guddy
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गद्दी (gaddī).
Senses: glosses: A cushioned throne used by Indian princes.
examples: text: I have thought we were friends and should still love to think so. However what has happened since August 9 last makes me wonder whether you still regard me as a friend. I have perhaps not come in such close touch with any other occupant of your gadi as with you.
ref: 1942 December 31, Mahatma Gandhi, “Letter on New Year’s Eve: May the New Year bring peace to us [Letter to Lord Linlithgow]”, in R. L. Khipple, editor, Famous Letters of Mahatma Gandhi, Lahore: The Indian Printing Works, published 1947, page 131:
glosses: The office or position of a monarch; throne.
account payable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accounts payable
Senses: examples: text: Until that time, the amount is held as an account payable and added to the current liabilities of your business. When an outstanding expense is paid, the payment amount is subtracted from a cash account and removed from the accounts payable.
ref: 2008, Barbara Findlay Schenck, John Davies, Selling Your Business For Dummies, page 99:
text: If a company, for example, purchases $500 in raw materials from its supplier on credit, the company incurs a $500 account payable.
ref: 2013, Paul Pignataro, Financial Modeling and Valuation:
text: After delivery, sellers issue an invoice, recorded as an account receivable by the seller and an account payable by the buyer.
ref: 2017, Sergio L. Schumukler, Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance, page 50:
topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: AP
coordinate_terms: account receivable
glosses: A balance due to a creditor on a current account.
gada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadas
Etymology: From Sanskrit गदा (gadā) or Hindi गदा (gadā).
Senses: glosses: A blunt mace, originally from India and also common in Southeast Asia.
ray grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ray grasses
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); ryegrass; red darnel.
ray grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ray grass
scapiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scapiform
form: most scapiform
Etymology: From scape + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a scape.
A/R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AR
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of accounts receivable.
contratenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contratenors
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: countertenor
contratenors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contratenor
gib-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gib-cats
form: gib cat
Etymology: From gib + cat.
Senses: examples: text: I am as Melancholly as a Gyb-Cat, or a lugg'd Beare.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
glosses: A male cat, especially an old or castrated one.
Synonyms: gib
tomcat
Derived terms: gibship
gib-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gib-cat
scissors-tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the outer feathers by far the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
Related terms: scissortail
scissor-tailed
crab yaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fungous excrescences on the soles of the feet; called crab yaws, often prove very obstinate , and remain a long time after the disease has totally disappeared in other parts
ref: 1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone:
glosses: A disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.
LBF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Initialism of Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
curialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From curial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
curialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curialists
Etymology: From curial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
curialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curialist
slocking stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slocking stones
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A rich piece of ore displayed in order to tempt people to embark in a mining enterprise.
slocking stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slocking stone
hyperaroused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperaroused
form: most hyperaroused
Etymology: From hyper- + aroused.
Senses: glosses: In a state of hyperarousal.
vogad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vogads
Etymology: Short for voice-operated gain-adjusting device or volume-operated gain-adjusting device.
Senses: glosses: A type of AGC (automatic gain control) or compressor for microphone amplification.
vogads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vogad
overmodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + modulation.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The condition where the instantaneous level of the modulating signal exceeds the value necessary to produce 100% modulation of the carrier, resulting in distortion.
Related terms: undermodulation
corticolimbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + limbic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the cortex and limbic system.
Derived terms: mesocorticolimbic
dilection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilections
Etymology: From Latin dilectio (“dilection”). See diligent.
Senses: examples: text: 1554, Dr. Martin [ Stephen Gardiner? ], Treatise on the Marriage of Priestes
These words mine, and thine, proceeded first of iniquitie, because men did not observe mutual and natural dilection.
text: And this was the first testimony of the infinite dilection of God towards man.
ref: 1586, John Harmar, transl., Master Bezaes sermons:
text: A bone not far from his heart, to put him in mind of dilection and love to the woman.
ref: 1614, John King, Vitis Palatina:
text: So free is Christ's dilection, that the grand condition of our felicity is our belief.
ref: 1648, Robert Boyle, Discourse on Seraphick Love, published 1660
glosses: love; loving kindness
glosses: choice
dilections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilection
crouper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croupers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crupper.
croupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crouper
linstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linstocks
form: lintstock
Etymology: Corrupted from luntstock, Dutch lontstok, from lont (“lunt”) + stok (“stock, stick”). See link (“a torch”), lunt, and stock.
Senses: examples: text: […] now, sir, (as we were to ascend), their master gunner (a man of no mean skill and courage, you must think,) confronts me with his linstock ready to give fire;
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
text: The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner / With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, [Alarum, and chambers go off] / And down goes all before them.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene chorus]:
text: "[…] And now, our news are told, noble Crevecoeur, and what think you they resemble?" "A mine full charged with gunpowder," answered Crevecoeur, "to which, I fear, it is my fate to bring the kindled linstock. Your news and mine are like flax and fire, which cannot meet without bursting into flame, or like certain chemical substances which cannot be mingled without an explosion."
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], Quentin Durward. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The ship no sooner crossed the schooner's bows than a Malay ran forward with a linstock. Pop went the colonel's ready carbine, and the Malay fell over dead, and the linstock flew out of his hand.
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, chapter VIII, in Hard Cash: A Matter-of-Fact Romance, volume I, Boston: Dana Estes & Co, page 222:
text: For further quotations, see lintstock.
glosses: A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.
linstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linstock
Caroluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carolus
Poupart's ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poupart's ligaments
Etymology: Named after François Poupart (1661-1708), French anatomist.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ligament extending in most mammals from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.
Poupart's ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poupart's ligament
squabash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwəˈbæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: squabashes
form: squabashing
form: squabashed
form: squabashed
Senses: examples: January 17 1827, Walter Scott, diary
his satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs
glosses: To crush, quash or squash.
squabashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squabash
squabashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squabash
squabashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squabash
chank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æŋk
Forms: form: chanks
form: chanquo
form: chonk
form: chunk
Etymology: From Sanskrit शङ्ख (śaṅkha).
Senses: glosses: The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.
chank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æŋk
Forms: form: chanks
form: chanking
form: chanked
form: chanked
Etymology: Expressive verb akin to champ, chomp; probably alteration of champ.
Senses: glosses: To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.
chank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æŋk
Forms: form: chanks
Etymology: Mispronunciation of chink.
Senses: glosses: chink.
chanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chank
cholecystis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) + κύστις (kústis, “bladder”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cholecyst
glosses: The gall bladder.
glosses: Misspelling of cholecystitis.
Derived terms: cholecystotomy
bandore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandores
Etymology: From Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, “three-stringed lute”). Compare pandore, banjo, mandolin, bandura.
Senses: glosses: A historical stringed instrument similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
bandores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandore
duboisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: duboisine
perspicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perspicable
form: most perspicable
Etymology: From Latin perspicabilis, from perspicere.
Senses: examples: text: I fancied that I saw the Fire and a Serpent engraven : which being most obvious to wind and weather , is most worn and least perspicable
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: discernible
scapholunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scapho- + lunar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: scapholunate
scapholunar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapholunars
Etymology: From scapho- + lunar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A bone formed by the coalescence of the scaphoid and lunar in the carpus of some macropods or carnivores.
scapholunars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapholunar
girl crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: girl crazier
form: girl craziest
Senses: glosses: Having a great romantic or sexual attraction to girls of one's age group.
Related terms: boy crazy
girl crazier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of girl crazy: more girl crazy
girl craziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of girl crazy: most girl crazy
streptothrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptothrixes
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the former genus Streptothrix of bacilli, having long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. Some species are now classified in genus Actinomyces.
streptothrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streptothrix
bummery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bum + -ery and the idea that they were a collective of bums?
Senses: examples: text: When De Leon broke with the I. W. W. in 1908 there were again members of the Party who declaimed against his abandoning the I. W. W. - members who had no sympathy with the bummery element.
ref: 1924, Proceedings of the National Convention of the Socialist Labor Party, page 36:
text: But the hour belonged to the bummery. Proclaiming a millennial vision of “One Big Union,” the hobo insurgents won the day, ousting the home-guard and dedicating the IWW to direct economic action exclusively.
ref: 2010, Todd DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, page 95:
glosses: The faction of the Industrial Workers of the World in the 20th century which favored direct action.
bummery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Variant form.
Senses: examples: R. North
There was a scrivener of Wapping brought to hearing for relief against a bummery bond.
glosses: Obsolete form of bottomry.
linchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linchis
Etymology: Possibly from Javanese lintye (“a kind of swallow”).
Senses: glosses: The edible-nest swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus)
synonyms: linchi swiftlet
glosses: The cave swiftlet (Collocalia linchi)
linchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linchi
serosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serosity
serosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serosities
Etymology: Compare French sérosité. See serous.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being serous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin watery animal fluid, resembling serum, such as synovial fluid or pericardial fluid.
somnopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somno- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of somnipathy.
whammel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whammels
form: whammeling
form: whammelling
form: whammeled
form: whammeled
form: whammelled
form: whammelled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whemmel.
whammel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whammels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whemmel.
whammelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whammel