cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deck boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deck box
Withcall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small settlement and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2883).
naughty word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naughty words
Senses: glosses: A swear word.
naughty words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naughty word
sharpening stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharpening stones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whetstone.
synonyms: word: whetstone
sharpening stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharpening stone
Nauheim bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nauheim baths
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A therapeutic bath taken as part of the Nauheim treatment.
Nauheim baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nauheim bath
pencil heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil heels
Senses: glosses: A very long, thin high heel on a shoe.
glosses: A shoe having this kind of heel.
Related terms: pencil-heeled
pencil heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pencil heel
MacNab cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MacNab cypress
Shasta cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shasta cypresses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of MacNab cypress.
synonyms: word: MacNab cypress
Shasta cypresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shasta cypress
shathmont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shathmonts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shaftment.
shathmonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shathmont
Shaykhism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Shi'a Islamic school founded by Shaykh Ahmad in early 19th-century Qajar Iran, diverging from the Usuli school in its interpretation of key ideas such as the nature of the end times and the day of resurrection, the source of jurisprudential authority, and the proper hermeneutic to be employed in interpreting prophecy through the mystical writings of the Twelver Imams.
Shaykhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shaykhis
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of Shaykhism.
Shaykhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shaykhites
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of Shaykhism.
Shaykhis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shaykhi
Shaykhites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shaykhite
shea butter tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shea butter trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shea.
synonyms: word: shea
shearsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearsmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shearman.
shearsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearsman
shear modulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear moduli
Senses: synonyms: modulus of rigidity
glosses: A measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material, defined as the ratio of shear stress to shear strain.
shear moduli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shear modulus
modulus of rigidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moduli of rigidity
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shear modulus.
synonyms: word: shear modulus
moduli of rigidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modulus of rigidity
mock duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gluten-based, protein-rich meat substitute resembling duck meat.
modern greats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: PPE
glosses: A degree course at the University of Oxford comprising philosophy, politics, and economics, introduced in the 1920s as a modern alternative to classics or "greats".
Hallington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3085).
glosses: A hamlet in Whittington parish, north of Hexham, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9875).
Mocoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.
model basin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model basins
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ship model basin.
synonyms: word: ship model basin
model basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of model basin
ship model basin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ship model basins
Senses: synonyms: model basin
glosses: A basin or tank used to carry out hydrodynamic tests with ship models, for the purpose of designing a new (full-sized) ship, or refining the design of an existing one.
ship model basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ship model basin
moerithere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moeritheres
Senses: glosses: An extinct primitive proboscidean of the genus Moeritherium.
moeritheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moerithere
Mohs' scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mohs scale.
moisturemeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moisturemeters
form: moisture meter
Senses: examples: text: One of the largest manufacturers of electronic moisturemeters in the world is in the little river town of Atchison, Kans., which was mentioned here yesterday as a potential future growth city.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations, Committee Prints, page 131:
glosses: An instrument that measures the percentage of water in a given substance.
moisturemeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moisturemeter
mollemock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollemocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mollymawk.
mollemocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollemock
monkshood vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Ampelopsis aconitifolia.
maqama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maqāma
Etymology: From Arabic مَقَامَة (maqāma).
Senses: glosses: Arabic literary genre
revokings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revoking
monkey island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey islands
Senses: examples: text: We passed them on our way to the monkey island, or flying bridge, where we could enjoy the best view.
ref: 2008, George Fetherling, Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter, page 54:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of flying bridge.
synonyms: word: flying bridge
monkey islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey island
monkey ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey ladders
Senses: glosses: The flowering liana Entada gigas.
glosses: A set of monkey bars in a playground.
monkey ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey ladder
moon month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon months
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lunar month.
synonyms: word: lunar month
moon months
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon month
Moulmein cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moulmein cedars
Senses: glosses: Any tree of species Toona ciliata.
Moulmein cedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moulmein cedar
savings and loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savings and loan
ihsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The practice of showing one's faith in deed and action, as though watched by Allah.
biangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biangle
paper bag job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper bag jobs
Senses: examples: text: While she was not exactly a paper bag job, she was no answer to a young man's prayer, either. Still, I found by concentrating on her bathing costume, she improved an awful lot.
ref: 2012, Jim Cunningham, Wee Willie Harris Once Stood on My Foot:
glosses: A very ugly person.
Related terms: double-bagger
two-bagger
panty man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panty men
Senses: examples: text: For example, it was often hinted that 'well you know back home they does call yuh buller man, batty bwoy or panty man and they does laugh at you, sometimes stone yuh, beat yuh up, and if they could kill yuh, they will.'
ref: 2004, Wesley Eddison Aylesworth Crichlow, Buller Men and Batty Bwoys, page 15:
glosses: A homosexual man.
panty men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panty man
panwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panwits
Senses: examples: text: “You speak for yourself, you panwit. How do you know what she can or can't do?” said Tusom, defending her friend against her brother's snide remark.
ref: 2011, Alan Springer, e-Kidz in Cyberspace, page 58:
glosses: An idiot.
panwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panwit
Heimie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hymie.
Heimie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heimies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hymie (“a Jew”).
Crissy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chrissie (“female name”).
Crissie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chrissie (“female name”).
Heebie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heebies
Senses: examples: text: The man said, “I'll take one of them Heebies, not two.” So, I went back with them.
ref: 2004, Philo Bregstein, Johanna Katherina Barends, Remembering Jewish Amsterdam, page 224:
text: We'd see the boys outside in their yarmulkes, and we'd laugh and call them the “little Heebies.” One time an older Jewish woman came along with us to lunch. Chris didn't know she was Jewish, and started in on the “Heebies,” […]
ref: 2014, Crissy Shreve, BMom: Lovely Weeds, page 166:
glosses: Alternative form of Hebe (“a Jew”).
Related terms: heebie-jeebies
Heebies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heebie
earless dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earless dragons
Senses: glosses: Any of the Australian lizards of the genus Tympanocryptis.
earless dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earless dragon
poo-pooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poo-poo
poo-pooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poo-poo
poo pooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poo poo
poo pooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poo poo
blone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blones
Senses: glosses: A woman.
Synonyms: woman
coquettery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coquetry.
fuck-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck-uppers
Etymology: From fuck up + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Did the Recording Academy (historic fuck-uppers) initially consider Ledisi for the spot? According to John Legend, Beyoncé approached them to perform—aka Beyoncé suggested that Beyoncé sing the song—which is a proposition you can't turn down.
ref: 2015 February 9, Clover Hope, “Conspiracy Theorists Think Beyoncé Stole Ledisi's Grammys Moment”, in Jezebel:
glosses: One who fucks up.
Myshelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Myshelles
Etymology: Fanciful respelling of Michelle.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
mixologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mixological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of mixology.
Taniqua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Latisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lateisha
form: LaTisha
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Letitia
Related terms: Tish
Tisha
'NSYNCers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'NSYNCer
farm-yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm-yards
Senses: examples: text: The place deserves it, Bertram. You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman’s residence. That will be done, by the removal of the farm-yard, for independent of that terrible nuisance, I never saw a house of the kind which had in itself so much the air of a gentleman’s residence, so much the look of a something above a mere Parsonage House, above the expenditure of a few hundreds a year.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 149–150:
text: This somewhat paradoxical circumstance—and all the farmers expenses were shown to be strictly analogous, was fully accounted for by the taxes on the articles consumed by all workmen and labourers from the mines to the farm-yard; including, of necessity, the productors of the tools which their workmen employ.
ref: 1836 January 1, “Romford Agricultural Association”, in The Essex Standard; and Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, Harwich Manningtree, Witham, Halsted, Braintree, Romford, Sudbury, Hedingham, Coggeshall, Bishop’s-Stortford, Dunmow, Saffron-Walden, Southend, and General County Advertiser, number 261, Colchester: John Taylor, Jun.; Chelmsford: Henry Thomas Biddell:
text: […] as if the howl of curs was more grateful than the bleating of flocks, and the design of improvident legislation by an inefficient tax, was to let these disturbers of the night and burglars of the farm-yard, pass yet a little longer unwhipt, or pardon me for saying, unhung of justice.
ref: 1860, Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, volume XIX (1859), Albany, N.Y.: Charles Van Benthuysen, page 50:
glosses: Archaic form of farmyard.
koa finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koa finches
Senses: glosses: An extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper of the genus Rhodacanthis.
koa finches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koa finch
garbage fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage flies
Senses: glosses: The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
banana fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana flies
Senses: glosses: The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).
garbage flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage fly
banana flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana fly
parisosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The arrangement of corresponding clauses of a sentence so that they are of the same length.
gas-jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas-jets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gas jet.
wave base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wave bases
Senses: examples: text: Beneath the wave base, the floor of the seabed is flat, disturbed only by burrowers.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 253:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The lowest depth at which waves have an effect on the sediment of the sea bed.
farm-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farm-house
angel-drawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angel-drawers
Senses: examples: text: HOST: Can I call you "sugar plum"?
ROSS: No.
HOST: "Pussycat"?
ROSS: No!
HOST: "Angel drawers"?
ref: 1969, "It's the Arts" (TV comedy sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 1)
text: RICKY: Don't you worry about my drinking, angel-drawers. I've drunk more beer than you ever saw.
ref: 2000, Barbara Marchant, A Young Actor's Scene Book: A Training Tool, page 29:
text: We're on the move, Angel-drawers. Every boring mile brings me closer to you.
ref: 2012, Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature, page 372:
glosses: Affectionate term of address.
mansion-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mansion-like
form: most mansion-like
Senses: examples: text: It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows—it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farm-house—it is a solid walled, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: Rather, they are a “group” of rich 20-somethings who have gathered under the threat of an imminent hurricane at a remote, mansion-like estate to drink, take drugs and pursue the murder-mystery-style role-playing game of the title, in which players must identify an unknown “killer” (who chooses his or her “targets” by tapping them on the back).
ref: 2022 August 12, Michael O’Sullivan, “A slasher with some surprisingly sharp satire”, in The Spokesman-Review, 140th volume, number 65, Spokane, Wash., page E6, columns 1–2:
text: La Tavola’s servers inhabit this vast, mansion-like venue.
ref: 2022 September 20, Diana Biederman, “Marco Island’s La Tavola offers spotless, old-school charm”, in Marco Eagle, page 4B, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of mansionlike.
nupercaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The method of anesthetizing the mother is as follows: When the pains are every five minutes and quite strong or the cervix is five cm. dilated along with regular and strong pains, the mother is given a block anesthesia of 1 cc. of 1:200 nupercaine, 1 cc. of 10 per cent dextrose with .05 cc. of 1:1000 adrenalin.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 99:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Cinchocaine.
Nuremberg violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A violet pigment made from ammonia, manganese oxide, and phosphoric acid.
Nuzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nuzu
Senses: glosses: An ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of the city of Arrapha (modern Kirkuk), located near the Tigris river.
Derived terms: Nuzian
Nuzu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nuzi (“ancient city”).
NWG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Northumbrian Water Group.
OASDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of old age, survivors, and disability insurance.
OASI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of old age and survivors insurance.
land-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land-holders
Senses: examples: text: Many of the noble land-holders in Sleſwick and Holſtein, have the power of life and death.
ref: [1790], Neville Wyndham, Travels Through Europe. Containing a Geographical, Historical, and Topographical Description of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Provinces, in That Civilised, Polished, and Enlightened Quarter of the Globe. […], volume III, London: […] H. D. Symonds, […], page 208:
text: […] that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great land-holder of the parish, by every creature travelling the road; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.
ref: 1900–1907, Andrew Lang, A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation, Edinburgh; London: W[illiam] Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Dated form of landholder.
land-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land-holder
oatmeal paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oatmeal papers
Senses: glosses: A coarse wallpaper coated with sawdust or a similar substance, and sometimes dyed or patterned.
oatmeal papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oatmeal paper
OAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Organisation of African Unity.
Grójec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, gmina, and county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
obereks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oberek
obleege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obleeges
form: obleeging
form: obleeged
form: obleeged
Senses: glosses: To oblige.
obleeges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obleege
obleeging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obleege
octave species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octave species
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In Ancient Greek music, a specific sequence of intervals within an octave.
good-humour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sotherton was a word to catch Mrs. Norris, and being just then in the happy leisure which followed securing the odd trick by Sir Thomas’s capital play and her own, against Dr. and Mrs. Grant’s great hands, she called out in high good-humour, “Sotherton! “Yes, that is a place indeed, and we had a charming day there.[…]”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 153–154:
text: It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 105–106:
text: We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purpose—that of bringing swift and sure destruction on the rebels who had for so long a period successfully resisted our arms.
ref: 1910, Charles John Griffiths, “Capture of the City”, in Henry John Yonge, editor, A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi with an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857, London: John Murray, […], pages 148–149:
glosses: Archaic form of good humour.
odd man wins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An old coin-tossing game for three players. The player whose outcome (heads or tails) first differs from that of the other two players is the winner.
odorimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odorometer.
odorimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorimeter
office machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office machines
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A device incorporating a mechanical calculator and a printer.
office machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office machine
22d
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From Warſaw, May 25. That the Dyet of Convocation had held its laſt Seſſion on the 22d, and then agreed to and ſign'd a general Confederacy in good Order, having firſt Sworn not to Elect a Foreigner as above. The Day of Election was fixt for the 25th of Aug. But a Proteſt was enter'd by the Diſſidents, who had been excluded.
ref: 1733 May, “Foreign Advices in May, 1733”, in “Sylvanus Urban” [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, volume III, number 24, London: Printed, and sold at St John's Gate, by F. Jeffries in Ludgate-street, and most booksellers, →OCLC, page 272:
text: […] could detail the considerations which had induced him to fix on the 22d, as the most eligible day. William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22d would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlier. Mrs. Norris was obliged to be satisfied with thinking just the same, and with having been on the point of proposing the 22d herself, as by far the best day for the purpose.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 173:
text: On the 22d, the corporation of Albany passed a vote of thanks to General Heath, for the alacrity which he had displayed in defending the northern frontiers of the state of New York against the maraudings of the enemy.
ref: 1834, R Thomas, The Glory Of America, page 514:
text: It is therefore agreed, this 22d day of February, 1843, by and between the parties above named, that all matters of dispute, of whatsoever nature, between the Liberians and the Golahs, shall be referred to the Governor of the Commonwealth for adjustment; […]
ref: 1843 August, “From Liberia. Treaty of Amity and Alliance, Entered into this 22d Day of February, A.D. 1843, between Joseph J[enkins] Roberts, Governor of the Commonwealth of Liberia, and Yando, Head King of the Golah Country, and Others, Kings and Headmen in the Same Country.”, in The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, volume XIX, number 8, Washington, D.C.: [Published by the American Colonization Society;] Alexander and Barnard, printers, Seventeenth Street, →OCLC, page 246:
text: The morning of the 22d, this reënforcement was thrown into Olmutz between Lodenitz and Heiligenberg.
ref: 1865, Samuel Beckley Holabird, Treatise on Grand Military Operations, Or, A Critical and Military History of the Wars of Frederick the Great, as Contrasted with the Modern System, volume 1, translation of original by D. Van Nostrand, page 343:
glosses: Obsolete form of 22nd.
re-arrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-arranges
form: re-arranging
form: re-arranged
form: re-arranged
Senses: examples: text: With such matters to ponder over, and arrange, and re-arrange, Edmund could not on his own account think very much of the evening, which the rest of the family were looking forward to with a more equal degree of strong interest.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 178–179:
text: Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation.
ref: 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter I, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part IX, page 88:
text: He went back to his play like an opium-smoker back to his drug. He revised and re-arranged and revamped. He closed his eyes, valiantly, and cut away whole act-ends, at one grim stroke, like a surgeon operating on his own flesh and blood.
ref: 1920 December, Arthur Stringer, “A Sense of Humor: A Christmas Story”, in Canadian Home Journal, volume 17, number 8, Toronto, Ont.: Home Journal Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 8, columns 2–3:
text: The shuffle() function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.
ref: 1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162:
text: Re-Arranging the Furniture
ref: 2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of rearrange.
unfindably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfindably
form: most unfindably
Etymology: From unfindable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that cannot be found.
pentachotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentachotomies
Etymology: From penta- + -chotomy, after dichotomy, or from Ancient Greek πένταχα (péntakha, “in five divisions”).
Senses: glosses: The division of one into five separate but related parts.
Coordinate terms: word: monochotomy
word: dichotomy
word: tetrachotomy
word: hexachotomy
word: heptachotomy
word: octachotomy
word: decachotomy
word: polychotomy
hexachotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachotomies
Etymology: From hexa- + -chotomy, after dichotomy, or from Ancient Greek ἑξαχῇ (hexakhēî, “in six ways”).
Senses: glosses: The division of one into six separate but related parts.
Coordinate terms: word: monochotomy
word: dichotomy
word: tetrachotomy
word: pentachotomy
word: heptachotomy
word: octachotomy
word: decachotomy
word: polychotomy
Ogalala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oglala (“Lakota subtribe”).
pentachotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentachotomy
Ohian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ohians
Senses: examples: text: It was enjoyed by Institute members not Ohians and it was profitable to the Ohio members.
ref: 1920, G. A. Hunton, Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volumes 14-15, page 68:
text: For instance, New Englanders smile less than Ohians and Ohians less than people of similar backgrounds from Atlanta or Nashville.
ref: 1973, Doris Cook Sutterley, Gloria Ferraro Donnelly, Perspectives in Human Development, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of Ohioan.
Ohian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ohian
form: most Ohian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ohioan.
Ohians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ohian
oilfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilfielders
Etymology: From oil field + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who works on an oil field.
oilfielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilfielder
memehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meme + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.
ref: 1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359:
text: Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.
ref: 2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2:
text: This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.
ref: 2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:
text: […] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.
ref: 2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
text: Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.
ref: 2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4, column 1:
text: The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^([sic]) episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.
ref: 2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2023:
glosses: The state of being a meme.
oiticica oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oiticica oils
Senses: glosses: A light-yellowish oil obtained from the seeds of the oiticica tree, used in paints and varnishes.
oiticica oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oiticica oil
Jyles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
self-sexing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autosexing.
synonyms: word: autosexing
Oklahoma plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oklahoma plums
Senses: glosses: The American plant Prunus gracilis.
Oklahoma plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oklahoma plum
oleiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The agricultural production of oils.
oligochaetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to oligochaetology.
psycholexically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a psycholexical manner.
bloodhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodhorns
Senses: glosses: Ochrosia elliptica, an Australian tree.
hand-writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-writings
Senses: examples: text: Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did in plene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it;
ref: 1671, Robert MacWard, The true non-conformist in answere to the modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland:
text: Ye are next to aſſure all Perſons, vvho are ſo kind as to give you Audience, that to prevent the leaſt Suſpicion of Spurioſity, they may ſee every Letter I have ever printed of Mr. Pope’s in his Ovvn Hand-VVriting, […]
ref: 1736, Alexander Pope, “To the Sisters”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence, volume IV, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], →OCLC, page iv:
text: Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: I was breakfasting at the Ellisons,—and her letter, with some others, was brought to me there from my lodgings. It happened to catch Sophia’s eye before it caught mine—and its size, the elegance of the paper, the hand-writing altogether, immediately gave her a suspicion of its nature.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 174–175:
text: The Fac Similes (at pp. 90, 288,) shew the character of the hand-writing of two of the oldest MSS. contained in this Volume.
ref: 1848, “Preface”, in Taliesin Williams, Iolo Morganwg, Thomas Price, Owen Jones, editors, Iolo Manuscripts, page vi:
glosses: Archaic form of handwriting.
hand-writings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-writing
fire hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire hawks
Senses: glosses: Any of certain types of bird of prey that spread fires by carrying burning material to new locations.
unbroody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbroody
form: most unbroody
Etymology: From un- + broody.
Senses: glosses: Not broody.
safe travels
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪf ˈtɹævəlz/
Forms: form: safe travels !
Senses: examples: text: “That would be most welcome Comrade Qing. I wish you good luck in the bidding, and safe travels back to your home. Gong Xi Fa Cai my friend — prosper well in the New Year!” Zhang signaled to his security guard, who ran over to escort Qing out. He did not bother to stand or say goodbye, but instead ordered his servant to bring another plate of dumplings. The video stopped.
ref: 2016, Scott S. Elliott, “Loki.net – Virgil 3.0”, in Virgil – Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 193:
glosses: Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the journey of a person is positive for them.
Omahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Omahans
Etymology: From Omaha + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Omaha in Nebraska.
Omahan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Omahan
form: most Omahan
Etymology: From Omaha + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Omaha in Nebraska.
glosses: Of or relating to the Omaha tribe.
Omahans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Omahan
omda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmdə/
ipa: /ˈɔmdə/
ipa: /ˈɑmdə/
rhymes: -ɒmdə
Forms: form: omdas
form: omdah
form: omdda
form: omdeh
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic عمدة (ʕumda), from Arabic عُمْدَة (ʕumda).
Senses: glosses: A village head man in Egypt.
omdehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omdeh
Ommiad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Umayyad.
Ommiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ommiads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Umayyad.
Ommiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ommiad
hit on all six
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits on all six
form: hitting on all six
form: hit on all six
form: hit on all six
Senses: glosses: Dated form of fire on all cylinders.
omniphibious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of omni- + amphibious
Senses: coordinate_terms: amphibian#Adjective
amphibious
triphibian#Adjective
triphibious
glosses: Of an aircraft: able to land on water and on all kinds of terrain.
superbloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superblooms
Etymology: From super- + bloom.
Senses: glosses: An explosion of wildflowers that surpasses usual spring blooms.
hitting on all six
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit on all six
superblooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbloom
blood bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood bees
Senses: glosses: A black-and-red bee of the genus Sphecodes.
Oneota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cultural complex that existed in the eastern plains and Great Lakes area of what is now occupied by the United States from around AD 900 to around 1650 or 1700, considered a major component of Upper Mississippian culture, and characterized by globular, shell-tempered pottery that is often coarse in fibre.
house-keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house-keepers
Senses: examples: text: PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.
ref: 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:
text: Before any person can become a Tackle Porter he must give bond with four sufficient house-keepers as sureties, for 500l. to make restitution for any loss or damage that may be sustained through his neglect or connivance.
ref: 1814, Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales, page 443:
text: […] left alone to bear the worrying of Mrs. Norris, who was cross because the house-keeper would have her own way with the supper, and whom she could not avoid though the house-keeper might, Fanny was worn down at last to think every thing an evil belonging to the ball, […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: It is intended as a means of rendering house-keepers thinking beings, and not as they have hitherto often been, mere pieces of mechanism; or, what is little better, the mere creatures of habit or slaves of custom.
ref: 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 17:
text: Our model house-keeper minded closely her own business, never moving about or rootching around in what did not concern her.
ref: 1870, American Educational Monthly, page 332:
glosses: Archaic form of housekeeper.
house-keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house-keeper
on everybody's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “We want to make history at the end of the season,” Míchel said. “Departing the Bernabéu top would be special too, it would leave Girona on everybody’s lips.[…]”
ref: 2024 February 9, Sid Lowe, quoting Míchel Sánchez, “Madrid v Girona is no clásico but promises to be a title-defining classic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of on everyone's lips.
synonyms: word: on everyone's lips
Ongole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Prakasam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Ongole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ongoles
Senses: glosses: A cow or bull of a strong, aggressive breed originating from Ongole.
Ongoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ongole
OTEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OTE
sollicit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sollicits
form: solliciting
form: sollicited
form: sollicited
Senses: examples: text: That fruit […] sollicited her longing eye.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.
ref: 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:
text: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 9, p. 128,
[…] she does not come hither as a beggar, however well the state of beggary may accord with her poverty: she only sollicits the payment of a bill […]
glosses: Obsolete spelling of solicit.
homeworlder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeworlders
Etymology: From homeworld + -er.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of the homeworld.
homeworlders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeworlder
Przybylski's Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After astronomer Antoni Przybylski, who discovered it.
Senses: glosses: A star, about 356 light-years from Earth and in the constellation Centaurus; in which actinides, up to and including at least einsteinium, have been detected.
wikipedia: Antoni Przybylski
Related terms: technetium star
decay series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decay series
Senses: glosses: Synonym of decay chain.
synonyms: word: decay chain
over-anxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more over-anxious
form: most over-anxious
Senses: examples: text: Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss Crawford wondered she did not smile, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 227:
text: What over-anxious care for details!
ref: 1873, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Fred[erick] Williams and George A[lexander] O[tis] Ernst, The Widow Lerouge. A Novel., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], page 88, column 1:
text: In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.
ref: 1978, Dan Olweus, “Personality factors and aggression: With special reference to violence within the peer group”, in Willard W. Hartup, Jan de Wit, editors, Origins of Aggression, Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 267:
text: It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value.
ref: 1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Alternative form of overanxious.
nilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nil + -ium. "Nil" means "zero".
Senses: glosses: Synonym for neutronium
neutron-degenerate matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Matter that is subject to such huge pressure that electrons are forced into nuclei to form neutrons: neutron-star matter.
Hypernyms: degenerate matter
Related terms: neutronium
bifluorescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifluorescence
bifluorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifluoride
bifunctional chelators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bifunctional chelator
big ends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big end
big white chiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big white chief
opened doors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open doors
opens doors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open doors
opening doors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of open doors
Orang Laut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈoʊɹəŋ ˌlɑːuːt/
/ˈɔːɹ-/
Senses: glosses: Any of several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands.
Morawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and local government area in the Mid West region, Western Australia, Australia; in full, Shire of Morawa.
glosses: A village in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Lidzbark County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
Zawiercie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Zawiercie.
Senses: glosses: A town in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.