cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lioness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ə.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ə.nɛs/
Forms: form: lionesses
Etymology: From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Residents on the south-western outskirts of Berlin are being urged to stay indoors after overnight sightings of a “loose, dangerous animal”, suspected to be an escaped lioness.
ref: 2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: queen of beasts
glosses: A female lion (animal).
examples: text: The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.
ref: 1877, The Contemporary Review, volume 29, page 1123:
text: The Middlesbrough Labour MP, Stuart Bell, a political and personal friend, said: "Mo was a lioness both in terms of the Labour party and politics nationally. She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order when seeking to negotiate the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement.
ref: 2005 August 19, James Sturcke, quoting Stuart Bell, “Mowlam a political ‘lioness’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The social worker said she talked to her 28-year-old daughter about the battles Feinstein fought so that younger generations of women could dream bigger. “She was a lioness.”
ref: 2023 October 6, “Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN:
glosses: A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
examples: text: When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]
ref: 1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford, page 305:
text: "Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.
ref: 1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, page 271:
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
Derived terms: mountain lioness
werelioness
hyaena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaenas
form: hyaenae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyena.
pronghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronghorn
form: pronghorns
Etymology: From prong + horn.
Senses: examples: text: If historical records are accurate, the current population of about 250 pronghorn in the northern range is less than 15% of that in the early 1900s (YNP 1997) (Figure 4–7).
ref: 2002, National Research Council, Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range, unnumbered page:
text: When a pronghorn breaks into an easy, rocking canter (a 30 miles per hour pace that it can keep up indefinitely), the humerus swings back and forth over just a few inches with each stride. Only when a pronghorn stretches into a gallop does the humerus appear to be swinging freely, and then the hoof travels several yards with each stride.
ref: 2009, John A. Byers, Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn, page 6:
text: For the 10-year period 1981-90 an additional 736 pronghorns were transplanted within the state.
During 1980-90, pronghorn occupied about 13.5 million acres in the Trans-Pecos, High Plains, Rolling Plains, and Edwards Plateau ecological regions.
ref: 2011, Ted L. Clark, “13: Wildlife Management Programs, Goals, and Issues: The State Perspective, 1990”, in Raymond C. Telfair II, editor, Texas Wildlife Resources and Land Uses, page 220:
glosses: A North American mammal, Antilocapra americana, that resembles an antelope.
Synonyms: sense: Antilocapra americana
word: pronghorn antelope
deserter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɜːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdəzɚtɚ/
Forms: form: deserters
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin desertor (“deserter”), from desero (“I forsake, I abandon”); or from desert + -er.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who has physically removed him- or herself from the control or direction of a military or naval unit with the intention of permanently leaving
Under the United States Code of Military Justice, a person who has been placed on AWOL status for more than 30 days
glosses: One who is familiar with the desert climate and environment.
Derived terms: antideserter
desertress
Related terms: word: desert
scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔː.pi.ən/
ipa: /-pɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈskɔɹ.pi.ən/
other: /'skwɚ-/
Forms: form: scorpions
form: skorpion
Etymology: From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English sċorpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpiō, ultimately from Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos). The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger.
Senses: examples: text: Who led thee through that great and terrible wildernesse, wherein were fierie serpents, and scorpions, & drought, where there was no water, who brought thee foorth water out of the rocke of flint,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 8:15:
glosses: Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.
glosses: An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
glosses: A very spiteful or vindictive person.
glosses: A cheerleading move in which one foot is pulled back and held up with both hands while the performer stands on the other foot.
examples: text: And now whereas my father did lade you with a heauy yoke, I wil adde to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whippes, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 12:11:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: scourge
glosses: A whip with points like a scorpion's tail.
Derived terms: bark scorpion
book-scorpion
book scorpion
emperor scorpion
false scorpion
microwhip scorpion
pseudoscorpion
rock scorpion
scorpionate
scorpion bowl
scorpion bug
scorpionfish
scorpionfly
scorpion fly
scorpion grass
scorpionid
scorpionism
scorpion kick
scorpionlike
scorpion lobster
scorpion mouse
scorpion plant
scorpion senna
scorpion shell
scorpion spider
scorpion volley
scorpionweed
sea scorpion
Trinidad scorpion
water scorpion
whip scorpion
wind scorpion
Related terms: arachnid
Scorpio
bull ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull ants
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^([sic]) the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.
ref: 2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194:
glosses: Myrmecia brevinoda
army ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: army ants
Senses: glosses: A tropical nomadic ant, principally in the subfamilies Dorylinae and Leptanillinae, that preys on other insects.
Synonyms: sense: ant in Dorylinae
word: driver ant
sense: ant in Dorylinae
word: legionary ant
Derived terms: army ant syndrome
baboon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bəbo͞onʹ
ipa: /bəˈbuːn/
ipa: /ˌbæˈbuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: baboons
form: babian
form: babion
Etymology: From Middle English babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of West Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.
Senses: examples: text: Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.
ref: 1971, Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection, Nelson Doubleday, page 79:
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017, page 162:
glosses: An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
glosses: A foolish or boorish person.
Derived terms: word: antibaboon
taxonomic: Papio anubis
word: Anubis baboon
taxonomic: Papio hamadryas
word: Arabian baboon
word: baboonery
word: babooness
word: babooning
word: baboonish
word: baboonize
word: baboonlike
english: Theraphosidae
translation: Theraphosidae
word: baboon spider
word: baboon syndrome
word: Cape baboon
taxonomic: Papio ursinus
word: chacma baboon
taxonomic: Papio hamadryas
word: dog-faced baboon
taxonomic: Theropithecus gelada
word: gelada baboon
taxonomic: Papio papio
word: Guinea baboon
taxonomic: Papio hamadryas
word: hamadryas baboon
word: huboon
taxonomic: Papio kindae
word: Kinda baboon
alt: Macacus silenus
word: lion-tailed baboon
taxonomic: Papio anubis
word: olive baboon
word: orange baboon tarantula
taxonomic: Papio hamadryas
word: sacred baboon
word: sheboon
taxonomic: Papio sphinx
word: sphinx baboon
taxonomic: Papio ursinus
word: ursine baboon
taxonomic: Papio papio
word: western baboon
taxonomic: Mandrillus leucophaeus
word: wood baboon
taxonomic: Papio cynocephalus
word: yellow baboon
Related terms: taxonomic: Papio ursinus
word: chacma
taxonomic: Mandrillus leucophaeus
word: drill
taxonomic: Mandrillus sphinx
word: mandrill
bushbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊʃˌbeɪbi/
Forms: form: bushbabies
form: bush baby
Etymology: From bush + baby.
Senses: glosses: A small, nocturnal, African primate, similar to a lemur.
Synonyms: galago
Derived terms: mohol bushbaby
needle-clawed bushbaby
thick-tailed bushbaby
monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌŋki/
ipa: /ˈmʊŋki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: monkeys
form: monkeying
form: monkeyed
form: monkeyed
form: monkied
form: monkied
Etymology: Uncertain. May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”)) or earlier Old French monnekin (“monkey”), originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also Old French and Middle French monin (“monkey”). The French terms may have been borrowed from Italian monna (“monkey”), from Old Spanish mona (“female monkey”), itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon”)). However, Old French monnekin may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early Middle Dutch mannekin (a diminutive of a personal name or surname; hence, nickname, literally “miniature man”).
Senses: examples: text: Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
text: “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps! […] Why monkey with weak imitations when you can come close to the original?”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:
synonyms: interfere
fiddle
glosses: To meddle; to mess (with).
examples: text: He winked at Liza, who monkeyed him, holding her own eye shut.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Mosier, The Playgroup, page 83:
glosses: To mimic; to ape.
Derived terms: monkey around
monkey up
spank the monkey
Related terms: ape
primate
crocodile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/
ipa: [ˈkʰɹɑkədaɪɫ]
ipa: /ˈkɹɒkədaɪl/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkɹakədo̞ɪl/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkɹakədəɪl/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkɾakədo̞ɪl/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkɾakədəɪl/
Forms: form: crocodiles
form: crocodiling
form: crocodiled
form: crocodiled
Etymology: Derived from the noun as a calque of Esperanto krokodili.
Senses: glosses: To speak another language than Esperanto at an Esperanto-language gathering.
Related terms: alligator
caiman
cayman
croc
freshie
freshy
gator
gavial
gharial
mugger
saltie
Python
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪθən/
ipa: /ˈpaɪθɑn/
ipa: /ˈpaɪθɔn/
ipa: /ˈpaitɔn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪθən
rhymes: (General American) -aɪθɑn
rhymes: -aɪθɔn
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.
Senses: examples: text: Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
ref: 1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11:
text: It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos.[…]Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.⁴¹³ Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
ref: 2000, Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis, page 70:
text: Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.
ref: 2005, M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology, page 183:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
Derived terms: Monty Python
Pythoneer
Pythonesque
Pythoness
pythonic
Pythonist
Pythonista
unpythonic
Python
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪθən/
ipa: /ˈpaɪθɑn/
ipa: /ˈpaɪθɔn/
ipa: /ˈpaitɔn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -aɪθən
rhymes: (General American) -aɪθɑn
rhymes: -aɪθɔn
Forms: form: Pythons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.
Senses: examples: text: John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.
glosses: Any member of the comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin.
Related terms: python
spitting cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitting cobras
Senses: glosses: Any of various cobras of the genus Naja that can spit venom.
wikipedia: spitting cobra
Synonyms: word: spitter
cobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊbɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɒbɹə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊbɹə/
rhymes: -əʊbɹə
rhymes: -ɒbɹə
rhymes: -oʊbɹə
Forms: form: cobras
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“female snake”).
Senses: examples: text: In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
glosses: A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
Hyponyms: Asian cobra
Indian cobra
spectacled cobra
Cape cobra
yellow cobra
cobra capella
cobra de capello
Egyptian cobra
Equatorial spitting cobra
king cobra
monocled cobra
Philippine cobra
Pugachev's Cobra
snake-eating cobra
snouted cobra
spitting cobra
Derived terms: cobra chicken
cobra effect
cobralike
cobra lily
cobra maneuver
cobra pose
cobra roll
cobratoxin
cobric
liar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/
homophone: lyre
homophone: lier
rhymes: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liars
form: lyar
Etymology: From Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) + *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie + -ar. More at lie.
Senses: examples: text: She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![…]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything?[…]’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.
examples: text: The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with making clean the Ship within board, but without.
ref: 1703, Sir William Monson, Sir William Monson's Naval Tracts in Six Books, page 348:
text: The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks. By tradition, each Monday a new crewmember was appointed the liar—the first person caught telling a lie the previous week.
ref: 2005, Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, page 35:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
Synonyms: bluffer
bullshitter
contradictor
deceiver
fabricator
fabulist
falsifier
fibber
goofer
gossiper
nonsenser
red flagger
storyteller
tall tale teller
Derived terms: barefaced liar
Bliar
liar dice
liar liar pants on fire
liar loan
liar paradox
liar's dividend
nonliar
pathological liar
the devil is a liar
lyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /laɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
homophone: liar
homophone: lier
homophone: lire
Forms: form: lyres
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyra.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
glosses: A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
glosses: A composer of lyric poetry.
Synonyms: sense: a general class of instruments
word: yoke lute
Derived terms: bell lyre
lyrate
lyre-guitar
lyrelike
lyre snake
lyre sponge
lyretail
lyric
lyrichord
lyriferous
lyriform
lyrism
lyrist
Related terms: Lyra
lyrebird
lyrical
lyre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /laɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
homophone: liar
homophone: lier
homophone: lire
Forms: form: lyres
form: lyring
form: lyred
form: lyred
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyra.
Senses: examples: text: Alas, far times ago / A woman lyred here / In the evenfall; one who fain did so / From year to year; / And, in loneliness bending wistfully, / Would wake each note / In sick sad rote, / None to listen or see!
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “Penance”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: to play the lyre
Related terms: harp
poisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪzənəs/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪznəs/
rhymes: -ɔɪzənəs
rhymes: -ɔɪznəs
Forms: form: more poisonous
form: most poisonous
Etymology: From Middle English poisounous, poysonouse. By surface analysis, poison + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: While highly poisonous to dogs, this substance is completely harmless if ingested by humans.
text: Nor taint-worm ſhall infect the yeaning herds / Nor penny-graſs, nor ſpearwort's poiſ'nous leaf.
ref: 1757, John Dyer, “Book I”, in The Fleece: A Poem […] , London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 40:
text: I had picked a mushroom so poisonous that particles of it, stuck to my fingers and accidentally swallowed, could have made me deathly ill, and a piece the size of my thumb could have killed me.
ref: 2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 77:
synonyms: word: poisoned
word: toxic
word: venomous
word: attery
antonyms: nonpoisonous
unpoisonous
glosses: Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
examples: text: Poisonous snakes should only be handled by experienced professionals.
text: SERPENT … either that which is not poiſonous: or that which is counted poiſonous, having two long, hollow, moveable teeth, …
ref: 1668, John Wilkins, chapter V, in An Essay Towards a Real Character, And a Philosophical Language., London: Printer to the Royal Society, page 161:
text: The Cencoatl (o), which is alſo a poiſonous ſnake, is about five feet long, and eight inches round at the thickeſt part.
ref: 1787, F.S. Clavigero, The History of Mexico, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, page 60:
text: Evidently the first thing to ascertain is whether the case is really that of a bite by a poisonous snake…
ref: 1895, Leonhard Stejneger, The Poisonous Snakes of North America, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 475:
text: The characteristics which separate the dangerously venomous groups from their non-poisonous relatives are emphasized.
ref: 1963, United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations Office, Poisonous Snakes of the World, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 29:
text: These antivenins make living near poisonous spiders much safer.
ref: 2002, B. Kalman and K. Smithyman, The Life Cycle of a Spider, Crabtree Publishing Company, page 31:
glosses: Of an animal such as a snake or spider, or parts of its body: producing a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting poison.
examples: text: He didn't want to end up like his grandfather, bitter and intractable, consumed in his hatred like an addict on haze — a poisonous attitude that would possess him all his remaining years.
ref: 2013, Kylie Griffin, Allegiance Sworn, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: toxic
glosses: Negative, harmful.
Derived terms: autopoisonous
fruit of the poisonous tree
nonpoisonous
poisonous compliment
poisonously
poisonousness
unpoisonous
brioche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbriːɒʃ/
ipa: /briːˈɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: brioches
Etymology: Borrowed from French brioche.
Senses: examples: text: French brioche dough is especially rich in butter and eggs. It's often retarded […] for 6–18 hours to stiffen it, then rolled out and briefly rested.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
text: She sat him at the table in the saloon, then unobtrusively she made him tea and brought him slices of brioche spread with lock keeper’s honey.
ref: 2017, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books, →ISBN, page 304:
hypernyms: viennoiserie
coordinate_terms: croissant
pain au chocolat
Danish pastry
glosses: A type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin.
glosses: A knitted cushion for the feet.
Derived terms: bruffin
toxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
note: of Canada
ipa: /tɑkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
note: of Canada
ipa: [tɑkˈsɪs.ə.ɾi]
note: of the US
ipa: /tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
note: of the US
ipa: [tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /tɔkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
ipa: [tɔkˈsɪs.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Forms: form: toxicities
Etymology: From toxic + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: poisonousness
glosses: The quality or degree of being toxic.
Derived terms: acidotoxicity
acute toxicity
antitoxicity
autotoxicity
biotoxicity
chemotoxicity
chondrotoxicity
chronic toxicity
chronotoxicity
cryotoxicity
cytotoxicity
digitoxicity
ecotoxicity
embryotoxicity
endotoxicity
enterotoxicity
equitoxicity
excitotoxicity
fertotoxicity
fetotoxicity
fish acute toxicity syndrome
gastrotoxicity
genotoxicity
gliotoxicity
glucolipotoxicity
glucotoxicity
glycotoxicity
gonadotoxicity
haematotoxicity
haemotoxicity
hematotoxicity
hemotoxicity
hepatotoxicity
hepatoxicity
histotoxicity
hypertoxicity
hypotoxicity
ichthyotoxicity
immunotoxicity
leucotoxicity
leukotoxicity
lipotoxicity
lymphotoxicity
mixtoxicity
monotoxicity
mycotoxicity
myelotoxicity
myotoxicity
nanotoxicity
nematotoxicity
nephrotoxicity
neurotoxicity
nontoxicity
osmotoxicity
ototoxicity
ovotoxicity
oxygen toxicity
pharmacotoxicity
phototoxicity
phytotoxicity
proteotoxicity
psychotoxicity
pulmonotoxicity
renotoxicity
retinotoxicity
rhizotoxicity
ribotoxicity
splenotoxicity
subtoxicity
synaptotoxicity
thyrotoxicity
urotoxicity
vasculotoxicity
vestibulotoxicity
xenotoxicity
toxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒksɪn/
ipa: /ˈtɑksɪn/
homophone: tocsin
rhymes: -ɒksɪn
Forms: form: toxins
Etymology: From Latin toxicum, equivalent to toxi- + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: antitoxin
antidote
antivenom
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A toxic substance, specifically a poison produced by the biological processes of organisms.
glosses: Synonym of toxicant: a toxic substance in a body requiring removal.
synonyms: word: toxicant
extra: a toxic substance in a body requiring removal
Hypernyms: poison
toxicant
Hyponyms: english: offensive animal toxins
translation: offensive animal toxins
word: venom
Derived terms: actinotoxin
aetokthonotoxin
amatoxin
anaphylatoxin
anatoxin
angiotoxin
antitoxin
arachnotoxin
autotoxin
bacteriotoxin
batrachotoxin
biotoxin
Botox
botulinum toxin
caramboxin
cardiotoxin
cephalotoxin
charybdotoxin
chemotoxin
chlorotoxin
ciguateratoxin
ciliotoxin
coagulotoxin
Coley's toxin
conotoxin
corynetoxin
crotoxin
cyanotoxin
cytotoxin
dendrotoxin
dermatotoxin
dermatoxin
digitoxin
digoxin
ecotoxin
embryotoxin
endotheliotoxin
endotoxin
enterotoxin
entomotoxin
equinatoxin
ergotoxine
erototoxin
excitotoxin
exotoxin
gastrotoxin
genotoxin
ginkgotoxin
glycotoxin
gonyautoxin
haematotoxin
helminthotoxin
hematotoxin
hemotoxin
hepatotoxin
heterotoxin
holotoxin
homeotoxin
ichthyoacanthotoxin
ichthyohemotoxin
ichthyootoxin
ichthyosarcotoxin
ichthyotoxin
immunotoxin
insectotoxin
isotoxin
leucotoxin
leukotoxin
lignotoxin
lipotoxin
lymphocytotoxin
lymphotoxin
maitotoxin
mangotoxin
mechanotoxin
mitotoxin
multitoxin
mycotoxin
myotoxin
necrotoxin
nephrotoxin
nereistoxin
neurotoxin
ophiotoxin
ototoxin
ovotoxin
pathotoxin
peptotoxin
phototoxin
phycotoxin
phytotoxin
picrotoxin
pneumotoxin
prototoxin
protoxin
pyrotoxin
radiotoxin
rhizotoxin
rhodotoxin
ribotoxin
sarcotoxin
scyllatoxin
Shiga toxin
spermatotoxin
spindle toxin
teretoxin
thyrotoxin
time delay toxin activation
toxinemia
toxinic
toxinlike
toxinogenic
toxinology
toxinome
toxinomic
toxinomics
toxinosis
toxinotype
toxisome
toxoid
tyrotoxin
urechitoxin
urotoxin
virotoxin
vomitoxin
xanthotoxin
xenotoxin
zootoxin
Related terms: toxic
ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āp
ipa: /eɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: apes
Etymology: From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”) (hence English place name Avon, Irish abha, Welsh afon), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).
Senses: examples: text: Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:
glosses: A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
glosses: Any such primate other than a human.
glosses: An uncivilized person.
glosses: One who apes; a foolish imitator.
glosses: A black person.
Synonyms: word: ape
Hypernyms: word: primate
Hyponyms: sense: young or small
word: apeling
sense: young or small
word: apelet
word: apess
word: great ape
Coordinate terms: word: monkey
Derived terms: alt: macaque
word: ape-baboon
word: ape-bearer
word: apedom
word: apefirmative action
word: ape-fissure
word: apefly
word: Apefrica
word: Apefrican
word: apegirl
word: apehanger
word: ape hanger
word: apehood
word: ape in
word: apekind
word: Apelanta
word: ape leader
word: apelet
word: apelike
word: apeling
word: apely
word: apeman
word: ape-man
word: apeness
word: ape-person
word: aperest
word: apery
word: apesault
word: apeshit
word: ape shit
word: apess
word: apetempt
word: apewoman
word: apish
word: aquatic ape theory
word: aquatic ape hypothesis
taxonomic: Macaca sylvanus
word: Barbary ape)
word: Bili ape
taxonomic: Macaca nigra
word: black ape
alt: †Dryopithecus spp.
word: dental ape
word: go ape
word: God's ape
word: great ape
word: gutter ape
english: Lemuroidea
translation: Lemuroidea
word: half-ape
word: hog-ape
taxonomic: Papio spp.
word: hog-faced ape
word: lesser ape
word: like a raped ape
word: man ape
word: naked ape
taxonomic: Aotus spp.
word: night-ape
word: North American wood ape
taxonomic: Nasalis larvatus
word: nose ape
word: pavement ape
word: rape ape
taxonomic: Pongo spp.
word: red ape
taxonomic: Semnopithecus entellus
word: sacred ape
taxonomic: Enhydra lutris
word: sea ape
word: semi-ape
word: she-ape
word: skunk ape
word: Steller's sea ape
word: stoned ape theory
word: street ape
word: swamp ape
word: sysape
word: teenaper
word: yard ape
ape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: āp
ipa: /eɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: apes
form: aping
form: apeing
form: aped
form: aped
Etymology: From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”) (hence English place name Avon, Irish abha, Welsh afon), if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. Cognate with Scots aip (“ape”), West Frisian aap (“ape”), Dutch aap (“monkey, ape”), Low German Ape (“ape”), German Affe (“monkey, ape”), Swedish apa (“monkey, ape”), Icelandic api (“ape”).
Senses: glosses: To behave like an ape.
examples: text: And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
ref: 1772, [Thomas Bridges], “Something by Way of Preface”, in A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], →OCLC:
text: But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights:
text: It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 454:
text: Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.
ref: 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
Derived terms: aper
ape
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: āp
ipa: /eɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Etymology: Clipping of apeshit (“ape-shit (crazy)”).
Senses: examples: text: We were ape over the new look.
text: He went ape when he heard the bad news.
glosses: Wild; crazy.
Related terms: word: monkey
word: troop
sense: Appendix
word: Animals
TBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TBDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of torpedo boat destroyer.
TBD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of to be dated.
glosses: Initialism of to be decided.
glosses: Initialism of to be declared.
glosses: Initialism of to be deducted.
glosses: Initialism of to be defined.
glosses: Initialism of to be delivered.
glosses: Initialism of to be derived.
glosses: Initialism of to be designed.
glosses: Initialism of to be destroyed.
glosses: Initialism of to be determined.
glosses: Initialism of to be developed.
glosses: Initialism of to be disclosed.
glosses: Initialism of to be discovered.
glosses: Initialism of to be discussed.
glosses: Initialism of to be done.
glosses: Initialism of to be documented.
Related terms: TBA
TBC
ANZAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænzæk/
Forms: form: Anzac
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Derived terms: Anzac biscuit
Anzac Day
Anzac wafer
ANZAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænzæk/
Forms: form: ANZACs
form: Anzac
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (1914-1918).
erase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪs/
ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪz/
note: Indic
ipa: /eˈɾeːs/
rhymes: -eɪz
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: erases
form: erasing
form: erased
form: erased
Etymology: From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
Senses: examples: text: I erased that word from the page because it was wrong.
glosses: To remove (markings or information).
examples: text: I'm going to erase this tape.
glosses: To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
examples: text: I'm going to erase those files.
glosses: To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
examples: text: Jones was erased by a 6-4-3 double play.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
examples: text: The chalkboard erased easily.
text: The files will erase quickly.
glosses: To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
examples: text: I suggest, then, that counterdiscourses, when reductive, tend to emulate the screen discourse that erases gay sociality.
ref: 1998, Janice Lynn Ristock, Catherine Taylor, Inside the academy and out:
text: As a result, Palestinians are hyperpresent in Israeli media, while Mizrahim are erased from public discourse.
ref: 2004, Daniel Lefkowitz, Words and Stones, page 209:
text: Silence around Native sexuality benefits the colonizers and erases queer Native people from their communities.
ref: 2011, Qwo-Li Driskill, Queer Indigenous Studies, page 40:
text: C.J. Henderson has the speed and anticipation to erase receivers all over the field, and his athleticism is absurd; according to Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Henderson bench presses 380 pounds and squats 545.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
glosses: To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
glosses: To kill; assassinate.
Derived terms: dry-erase
erasability
erasable
erasement
eraser
nonerasing
unerasable
unerase
Related terms: erasure
erase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪs/
ipa: /ɪˈɹeɪz/
note: Indic
ipa: /eˈɾeːs/
rhymes: -eɪz
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: erases
Etymology: From Latin erasus, past participle of eradere (“to scrape, to abrade”), from ex- (“out of”) + radere (“to scrape”). Compare Middle English arasen, aracen (“to eradicate, erase”). Displaced native Old English dilegian.
Senses: examples: text: This subsystem is waiting to become Exclusive after having issued an erase.
ref: 2000, Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, page 603:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of deleting data.
atlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætləs/
ipa: /ˈætlɪs/
enpr: ătʹləs
ipa: /ˈætləs/
rhymes: -ætləs
homophone: Atlas
Forms: form: atlases
form: atlasses
Etymology: From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas).
Senses: examples: text: I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]
ref: 1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.:
text: Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]
ref: 2016, Pius Malekandathil, The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India, page 53:
glosses: A rich satin fabric.
Zeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zjuːs/
ipa: /zus/
ipa: /zɪu̯s/
ipa: /zʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: Zeuses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús). Doublet of Dyeus and Jove.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
glosses: A male given name.
examples: text: 67 give zeus a bath Wash off whatever your dog rolled in over the weekend. It'll freshen up your house and you'll burn about 100 calories.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
text: Eventually, he was named the world’s tallest male dog, taking over the title from fellow Great Dane Zeus who also died aged three in September, after suffering from bone cancer.
ref: 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN:
glosses: A representative given name for a dog.
Derived terms: oh my Zeus
Zeusian
automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ô-tŏm'ə-tən
enpr: ô-tŏm'ə-tŏn
ipa: /ɔːˈtɒmətən/
ipa: /ɔːˈtɒməˌtɒn/
ipa: /əˈtɑməˌtɑn/
Forms: form: automatons
form: automata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”). Doublet of automat.
Senses: examples: text: Nick had heard her play through the very beginning of it a dozen times, until he was screaming at her in his head to go on. Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
examples: text: Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.
text: July 12, 1816, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval Monticello
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
text: —to the young man who filled a place at table as the permitted, not invited, the unrewarded labourer for an ungrateful taskmaster—the handsome dangler, allowed to join in a quadrille, on the condition of being an automaton before and after—the listener to young members, and old women of rank—the person who must bore nobody, but whom every body had a right to bore!
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 228–229:
glosses: A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
glosses: A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
glosses: A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
glosses: The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.
Hyponyms: robot
Derived terms: automatonlike
automatonophobia
auton
biautomaton
Büchi automaton
cellular automaton
finite automaton
finite-state automaton
Obamaton
pushdown automaton
semiautomaton
teleautomaton
Related terms: automat
automatic
automation
automatization
automatize
Rosicrucian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rosicrucians
Etymology: Originally employed in the three Manifestos of the Order, published as anonymous in the early 17th century: Fama Fraternitatis, 1614; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615; and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616.
Senses: glosses: A 'Brother' of the 'Order of the Rose Cross'; a member of a Rosicrucian Order.
examples: the Rosicrucian Fellowship
glosses: A member of certain modern groups or organizations formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
Rosicrucian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Originally employed in the three Manifestos of the Order, published as anonymous in the early 17th century: Fama Fraternitatis, 1614; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615; and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616.
Senses: glosses: mystic, occult or esoteric and related to the philosophy of Rosicrucianism.
raw_tags: of teachings
mad cow disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Synonym of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
synonyms: word: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Coordinate terms: zombie deer disease
scrapie
fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə/
ipa: /fɛː/
ipa: /fɛɚ/
ipa: /feː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /feə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fiə/
ipa: /feɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: fare
homophone: fear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: fir (fair–fur merger)
homophone: fur (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fair
Etymology: From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“suitable, fitting, nice”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Cognate with Scots fayr, fare (“fair”), Danish feir, faver, fager (“fair, pretty”), Norwegian fager (“fair, pretty”), Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Umbrian pacer (“gracious, merciful, kind”), Slovak pekný (“good-looking, handsome, nice”). See also peace.
Senses: examples: text: When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
glosses: Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
examples: text: Love and Hymen, hand in hand,
Come, restore the nuptial band!
And sincere delights prepare
To crown the hero and the fair.
ref: 1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 2, scene 8:
text: Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: If single, probably his plighted Fair
Has in his absence wedded some rich miser […].
ref: 1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto III, stanza 24:
glosses: A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
examples: text: My decayed fair
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Fairness, beauty.
examples: text: I have found out a gift for my fair.
ref: 1743, William Shenstone, A Pastoral Ballad:
glosses: A fair woman; a sweetheart.
examples: text: Now, fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Good fortune; good luck.