cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sperm morula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm morulae
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: spermosphere
sperm morulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperm morula
Dellacruscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dellacruscan
marvel of Peru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mirabilis jalapa, an ornamental flowering plant from the Americas, used until the 19th century also medicinally.
wikipedia: marvel of Peru
Synonyms: four-o'clock
four-o'clock flower
seedy toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedy toes
Senses: glosses: An affliction of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.
Synonyms: white line disease
steely iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steely irons
Senses: glosses: A compound of iron containing less than 0.5 percent carbon.
urchin fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urchin fish
form: urchin fishes
Senses: glosses: A porcupine fish.
urchin fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urchin fish
Cologne umber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brown pigment obtained from lignite.
universal arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: algebra
squawk duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squawk ducks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Baikal teal.
synonyms: word: Baikal teal
squawk ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squawk duck
contact level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contact levels
Senses: glosses: A delicate level pivoted so as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
contact levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contact level
walling wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: walling wax, to put round the plate, […]is made of bees wax, dissolved in a pipkin with horse turpentine
ref: 1811, John Hassell, Calcographia:
glosses: A mixture of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, etc.
cattle plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rinderpest
spherical excess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
citrine ointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citrine ointments
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A yellowish ointment made from nitric acid and mercury, the unguentum hydrargyri nitratis.
absorbent ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absorbent grounds
Senses: examples: text: Absorbent ground canvas intended for mural purposes should, while being prined, be given a sizing of casein or gelatin on the reverse side.
ref: 1939, Raphael Doktor, Canvas Adhesives:
qualifier: painting
glosses: A ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper or watercolours, by which the oil is absorbed and a brilliancy is imparted to the colours.
absorbent grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absorbent ground
take up the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up the hatchet
form: taking up the hatchet
form: took up the hatchet
form: taken up the hatchet
Etymology: Referring to Native Americans' use of the tomahawk.
Senses: antonyms: bury the hatchet
glosses: To declare war or go to war.
balloon frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloon frames
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A house frame constructed entirely of small timber. It uses long continuous framing members (wall studs) that run from the sill plate to the top plate, with intermediate floor structures let into and nailed to them.
Related terms: balloon framing
balloon net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted around the warp so as to create a pattern of raised, rounded shapes that give it a three-dimensional appearance.
round in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rounds in
form: rounding in
form: rounded in
form: rounded in
Senses: examples: text: Moncrieff rounded in the slack of the rope and landed the captain most beautifully.
ref: 1891, William Gordon Stables, Our Home in the Silver West:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.
glosses: To round up (cattle) by riding around them.
let drive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets drive
form: letting drive
form: let drive
form: let drive
Senses: examples: text: Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: […] if ever love had any cause to revenge the wrongs which are done unto him, it is against them they ought to let drive all the arrows of his justice, and make them exemplary unto all such as abuse the name of Lovers.
ref: 1658, Honoré d’Urfé, translated by John Davies, Astrea, Part 3, Book I, p. 213:
text: While he was drinking, one of our men snatcht up his Gun, and let drive at him, and kill’d his Horse
ref: 1687, William Dampier, chapter 9, in A New Voyage Round the World, volume I, London: James Knapton, page 253:
text: 1720, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer, London: for the author et al., Book III, p. 155,
They turn’d immediately upon me, and let drive at me several Blows, which had the good Fortune not to hit me […]
glosses: To aim a blow; to strike with force; to attack; to shoot (an arrow or firearm).
examples: text: And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:15:
text: 1625, Nicholas Downton, “Extracts of the Journall of Captaine NICHOLAS DOWNTON” in Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. ,
The Nabob sent Lacandas to informe me, that these supplyes were not for warre, but fild full of combustible matter to fire, and so to be let driue with the tyde vpon our ships in the night […]
text: Finding that they left us we consulted which way to steer, and resolved to let drive before the Wind.
ref: 1683, chapter 17, in John Morrison, transl., The Perillous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys, London: Samuel Smith, page 207:
text: […] he ordered our Boats to be heaved overboard and let drive with the Wind.
ref: 1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin: for the author, page 169:
text: Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.
ref: 1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To allow (a vessel) to be propelled by the wind, current or tide.
dipped candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipped candles
form: dip candle
Senses: glosses: A candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick in melted tallow.
shriek owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shriek owls
Senses: glosses: The screech owl.
glosses: The swift; so called from its cry.
shriek owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shriek owl
pregnant construction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnant constructions
Senses: glosses: An utterance in which more is implied than is said, such as "the beasts trembled forth from their dens" (i.e. trembling with fright)
pregnant constructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pregnant construction
size roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: size rolls
Senses: glosses: A small piece of parchment added to a roll.
size stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: size sticks
Senses: synonyms: Ritz stick
shoe stick
glosses: A stick used by shoemakers to measure the size of the foot.
Related terms: Brannock device
fiber gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiber guns
Senses: glosses: A kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is then suddenly relieved by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.
fiber guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiber gun
cavefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavefish
sound as a roach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Perfectly sound.
buffiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of buffy: most buffy
buffier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of buffy: more buffy
pecan pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecan pie
Stymphalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /stɪmˈfeɪləs/
Etymology: From Latin Stymphālus, from Ancient Greek Στύμφᾱλος (Stúmphālos).
Senses: glosses: An ancient town in Arcadia, in modern Greece, near modern Stymfalia.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of various mythological figures.
Related terms: Stymphalian
Stymphalian bird
Stymphalides
musicianer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicianers
Etymology: From musician + -er, with redundant suffix.
Senses: glosses: musician
musicianers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicianer
musicianships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicianship
womanhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanhood
vigilance committee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigilance committees
Senses: glosses: A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.
Related terms: vigilante
coat armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat armours
Etymology: From Middle English cote armure; equivalent to coat + armour.
Senses: glosses: The escutcheon of a person or family, with its charges, mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc.
glosses: A silk vest embroidered in colours, worn by a knight over the armour.
Related terms: coat of armour
coat armours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coat armour
assay ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assay tons
Senses: glosses: A standard quantity used in assaying, equal to 29+¹⁄₆ grams (the short assay ton) or 32+²⁄₃ grams (the long assay ton).
assay tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assay ton
presphenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presphenoid
establishment of the port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
hydrography
hydrology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A datum on which the tides are computed at the given port, obtained by observation. It is the interval between the Moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new moon and full moon.
actual sin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Sin committed by an individual, in contradistinction to original sin.
scalp lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalp locks
Senses: synonyms: scalping tuft
glosses: A long tuft of hair on the top of the head, worn by some Native American tribe members.
earn one's stripes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: earns one's stripes
form: earning one's stripes
form: earned one's stripes
form: earned one's stripes
form: earnt one's stripes
form: earnt one's stripes
Senses: glosses: To acquire recognized credentials by competent performance.
Synonyms: earn one's wings
aqua ammonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: liquid ammonia (an aqueous solution of ammonia)
aqua ammoniae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aqua ammonia.
pariah kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pariah kites
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of the black kite (Milvus migrans govinda), found in India, where it is a scavenger.
pariah dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pariah dogs
form: pariah
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Ellipsis of Indian pariah dog, a breed indigenous to India.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of pye-dog: a half-wild stray dog, particularly in Indian contexts.
synonyms: word: pye-dog
extra: a half-wild stray dog, particularly in Indian contexts
Derived terms: Indian pariah dog
spray drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray drains
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.
chorda dorsalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: notochord
auriculotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auriculotherapists
Etymology: From auriculo- + therapist.
Senses: glosses: One who practises auriculotherapy.
auriculotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auriculotherapist
Stymphalian bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stymphalian birds
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A man-eating bird with a bronze beak and sharp metallic feathers it could launch at its victims, which infested Stymphalus. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.
Related terms: Stymphalides
roc
cyclability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclabilities
Etymology: From cycle + -ability or cyclable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being cyclable.
glosses: The extent to which something is cyclable.
Related terms: walkability
cyclabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclability
miracle play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miracle plays
Senses: glosses: A kind of mystery play that re-enacted miraculous interventions by the saints into the lives of ordinary people.
miracle-monger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miracle-mongers
Etymology: From miracle + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who deals in, or fakes, religious miracles; an impostor who pretends to work miracles.
Related terms: miraclemongering
miracle-mongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miracle-monger
disformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not conformal
Derived terms: disformally
gravitoweak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gravito-weak
Etymology: From gravito- + weak.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to, or unifying, the gravitational and electroweak forces.
gyroresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + resonant.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gyroscopically resonant
Related terms: gyroresonance
hypersymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + symmetric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting hypersymmetry
Taurus Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Taurus.
synonyms: word: Taurus
subplanckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-Planckian
Etymology: From sub- + Planckian.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Concerning lengths or durations less than the Planck length or Planck time.
dumb spinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb spinets
Senses: glosses: clavichord
drumhead court-martial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumhead court-martials
form: drum-head court
Etymology: Perhaps because a drumhead had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table.
Senses: examples: text: So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the other.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Between the summer of 1906 and the beginning of 1907, Prime Minister Stolypin used the powers which the Emergency Laws gave him to have more than one thousand terrorists sentenced to death by drumhead courts martial (voennye polevye sudy).
ref: 2006, Jorg Baberowski, “Law, the judicial system and the legal profession”, in Dominic Lieven, editor, The Cambridge History of Russia, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 366:
text: See also citations under drum-head court.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.
Synonyms: drumhead tribunal
shift off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shifts off
form: shifting off
form: shifted off
form: shifted off
Senses: glosses: To delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.
safe hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe hits
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: base hit
marigold window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marigold windows
Senses: glosses: rose window
hummingbird moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hummingbird moths
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Hemaris of sphinx moths.
Taurica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taurida
form: Tauris
form: Tavria
Etymology: From Latin Taurica, from Ancient Greek Ταυρῐκή (Taurĭkḗ).
Senses: synonyms: Tauric Chersonese
glosses: An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.
Taurida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːɹɪdə/
Senses: examples: text: He told her that in his childhood he had been a simple shepherd in the Taurida, pasturing other people's sheep and calves.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of Taurica: (historical) An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.
Tauris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Taurica: (historical) An ancient geographic region and peninsula, the name used by the Greeks and Romans for the modern Crimean Peninsula in Eastern Europe, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but occupied by Russia.
luff tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luff tackles
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes.
Tauric Chersonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Taurica.
synonyms: word: Taurica
Tauric Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Crimean Mountains.
synonyms: word: Crimean Mountains
Crimean Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Tauric Mountains
glosses: A mountain range running parallel to the south-east coast of Crimea.
counter-magic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəˌmadʒɪk/
Forms: form: countermagic
Etymology: From counter- + magic.
Senses: examples: text: After 1736 when the possibility of formal prosecution was no longer open, villagers turned to informal violence, counter-magic and the occasional lynching.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 563:
text: Particularly in Catholic areas, countermagic could employ sacred objects such as holy water or consecrated wafers, or the recitation of particular prayers.
ref: 2003, William E Burns, Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia, page 58:
text: The Lisu of the northern Thai highlands feared witchcraft acutely but relied on service magicians or private counter-magic to keep them at bay.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 25:
glosses: Magic used to counteract or protect against a spell or enchantment.
countermagic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-magic.
catmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catmills
Etymology: From cat + mill.
Senses: synonyms: jenny
glosses: An apparatus with several beams protruding from a central rotating pole, used to train fighting dogs by having them chase a cat or other small animal in circles.
catmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catmill
acromicric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acromicria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to acromicria
wood pewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood pewees
Senses: glosses: A bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee, but smaller.
wood pewees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood pewee
dialytic telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialytic telescopes
Senses: glosses: An achromatic telescope in which the coloured dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.
dialytic telescopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialytic telescope
Hamburg lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.
geleophysic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek "gelios" (happy) + "physis" (nature)
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by a round, happy-looking face
Derived terms: geleophysic dysplasia
as broad as long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: tis as Broad as ' tis long , whether they Rise to others , or bring others down to them
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes.
Synonyms: same difference
Related terms: six of one, half a dozen of the other
High Churchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High Churchmen
form: high churchman
form: high Churchman
Etymology: First attested in the 17th century, originally in sense 2, with high meaning “extreme”. Compare High Tory.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing riled English high churchmen more than the phrase Protestant church. It seemed to lump them with Germans against miracle or Swiss against Trinity or ranters against decorum.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 174:
text: High Churchmen were not beyond praying for the dead; and the stories collected in Boswell's Johnson show that the possibility of ghosts was a reality in the eighteenth century for many educated men […].
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 571:
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A member of the Church of England who prioritises those aspects of Anglicanism which distinguish it from Calvinism and other Protestant denominations, and which it has in common with Catholicism, especially the authority of the priesthood and the importance of church ritual.
examples: text: The same Noise that is now made against the taking off the Tests, will then be made against a Repeal of Penal Laws. Whoever will consult the various Methods these high Churchmen have used to Cajole and Abuse you, will see cause to conclude, That you cannot run a greater hazard, than to put any Trust or Confidence in them.
ref: 1688, Some Reasons to Move Protestant Dissenters To be for the taking off Penal Laws, yea and Tests too […], page 5:
glosses: An Anglican opponent of religious toleration; a Tory.
Coordinate terms: Broad Churchman
Derived terms: high church
High Churchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of High Churchman
old man's beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old man's beards
form: old men's beards
Senses: glosses: Chionanthus virginicus, a tree.
glosses: Clematis aristata, an Australian climbing plant.
glosses: Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant.
glosses: Tillandsia usneoides, a bromeliad; Spanish moss.
synonyms: beard lichen
usnea
glosses: Usnea, a type of lichen.
examples: text: The old man's beard and hair were as white as snow—the former descending almost to his girdle; so were the thick overhanging brows that shaded his still piercing eyes.
ref: 1865, W. H. Ainsworth, Auriol; or, the Elixir of Life., G. Routledge & Sons, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, man, -'s, beard.
kësterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kësterites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kesterite.
bifidobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bifidobacteria.
immunocolloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + colloidal.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing colloidal particles (especially of gold) that attach to immunological targets, and are thus used in electron microscopy of biological materials
shrift father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrift fathers
Senses: glosses: A priest who listens to confessions.
shrift fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrift father
weed hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weed hooks
form: weedhook
Etymology: From Old English wēodhōc.
Senses: examples: text: In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,
And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
synonyms: weeding hook
glosses: A gardening tool containing a hook, used for cutting away or uprooting weeds.
weed hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weed hook
sea buckthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea buckthorns
form: sea-buckthorn
Senses: synonyms: sallowthorn
glosses: Any deciduous shrub of the genus Hippophae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hippophae rhamnoides
word: common sea buckthorn
taxonomic: Gelechia hippophaella
word: sea buckthorn moth
underrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underrun
underrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of trawling in which the hooks are cleared and again baited in the same operation.
underran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of underrun
satellitosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellitoses
Etymology: From satellite + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal clustering of cells around another, different, one; especially a clustering of glial cells around damaged neurons
astral spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astral spirits
Senses: examples: text: At an abstruse philosophical level the possibility was kept alive by the occult theories of the Neoplatonists, Paracelsians and Behmenists, who believed in astral spirits which lingered on after the body had decayed.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 572:
glosses: One of numerous beings formerly believed to live among the heavenly bodies, variously seen as fallen angels or the spirits of dead men.
astral spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astral spirit
billicock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billicocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of billycock.
seroepizootiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + epizootiology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the dynamics and epidemiology of animal diseases of the blood
Related terms: seroepizootiologic
billicocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billicock
revenue cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenue cutters
Senses: glosses: An armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, especially charging tariffs on imports and preventing smuggling, etc.
seroepizootiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: relating to seroepizootiology
wattle turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattle turkeys
Senses: glosses: brush turkey
salvestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvestrols
Etymology: Coined by Gerald Potter.
Senses: glosses: A natural phytoalexin that can be converted into a cytotoxic metabolite by certain enzymes that are overexpressed by cancer cells.
fringe tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringe trees
Senses: glosses: A small tree (Chionanthus virginicus) of the southern United States, having white flowers with long pendulous petals.
salvestrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvestrol
preaching cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preaching crosses
Senses: examples: text: In the churchyard stands a rare 14th-century preaching cross.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 73:
glosses: A cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected outdoors to designate a preaching place.
preaching crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preaching cross
sovnarkhoz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovnarkhozes
form: sovnarkhozy
Etymology: From Russian совнархо́з (sovnarxóz), abbreviation of сове́т наро́дного хозя́йства (sovét naródnovo xozjájstva).
Senses: glosses: Any of the regional economic councils of the Soviet Union, which were created in 1957.
Matissean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Matissean
form: most Matissean
Etymology: From Matisse + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French artist known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
grand chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand chops
Senses: glosses: A ship's port clearance.
chop dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop dollars
Senses: glosses: A silver dollar stamped to attest its purity.
malleableization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malleable + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of malleableizing.
Megrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Megrels
Etymology: From Russian мегрел (megrel, “Mingrelian person”), мегрелец (megrelec, “Mingrelian person”), мегрельскій (megrelʹskij, “Mingrelian”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Mingrelian, Megrelian
Megrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Russian мегрел (megrel, “Mingrelian person”), мегрелец (megrelec, “Mingrelian person”), мегрельскій (megrelʹskij, “Mingrelian”, adjective).
Senses: glosses: Mingrelian, Megrelian
sue out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sues out
form: suing out
form: sued out
form: sued out
Senses: examples: to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal
topics: law
glosses: To petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain.
loxodromically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From loxodromic + -ally.
Senses: examples: to navigate loxodromically
glosses: In a loxodromic fashion.
sleeping table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping tables
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed.
Hypernyms: buddle
tread out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treads out
form: treading out
form: trod out
form: trodden out
Senses: examples: to tread out grain with cattle or horses
glosses: To press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat.
clericalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clerical + -ization.
Senses: examples: the clericalization of monastic communities
glosses: The process of making clerical.
hoist bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoist bridges
Senses: glosses: A drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.
hoist bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoist bridge
mort stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mort stones
form: mortstone
Senses: examples: text: Oh me ! the mortstone ! No it is not here!
ref: 1842, Henry Taylor, Edwin the Fair:
glosses: A large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin, or a huge stone placed on a coffin or grave to dissuade body snatchers from defiling the corpse.
mort cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mort cloths
form: mortcloth
Senses: glosses: A pall for a coffin; a casket saddle
grunting ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grunting oxen
Senses: glosses: yak.
detinues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detinue
hopping Dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopping Dicks
Senses: synonyms: white-chinned thrush
glosses: A black thrush (Turdus aurantius), native to Jamaica.
nitrum flammans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably so called because it deflagrates when suddenly heated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ammonium nitrate
Chinese celery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese celeries
Senses: glosses: Apium graveolens var. secalinum, a variety of celery with smaller stalks and flavorful leaves, grown in East Asian countries for use in cooking.
glosses: Oenanthe javanica
inch stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.
pretorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretorian
lichenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic acid, C₁₄H₂₄O₃, obtained from Iceland moss.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fumaric acid
missiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From missiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, missiology.
varying hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varying hares
Senses: glosses: Any hare or rabbit which becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of the northern United States and Canada.
wild leek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild leeks
Senses: glosses: A perennial wild onion native to eastern North America, Allium tricoccum, with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.
glosses: A wild onion native to southern Europe and western Asia, cultivated and consequently naturalized in many other places, Allium ampeloprasum.
Synonyms: sense: ramp, ramps, spring onion, ramson, wood leek, wild garlic
word: A. tricoccum
sense: broadleaf wild leek
word: A. ampeloprasum
ware geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ware goose
ware goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ware geese
Etymology: So called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed.
Senses: glosses: The brent goose.
jet ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet ants
Etymology: From its jet-black colour.
Senses: glosses: A blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paper-like material in the trunks of trees.
jet ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet ant
let go by the run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets go by the run
form: letting go by the run
form: let go by the run
form: let go by the run
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: let off
glosses: To loosen and let run freely (lines)
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: drop
glosses: To let fall freely (sail)
telphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of telpher
telphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telpher
suspense account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspense accounts
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: An account in which receipts or disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in the books is determined.
Hypernyms: account
suspense accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suspense account
bancors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bancor
Berlin blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Prussian blue.
synonyms: word: Prussian blue
rising main
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rising mains
Senses: glosses: The pipe through which water from an engine is delivered to an elevated reservoir.
Forefathers' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A holiday celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 22, to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620.
bundle pillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundle pillars
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A column or pier with others of smaller dimensions attached to it.
wikipedia: John Weale
groom-porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groom-porters
Senses: glosses: An officer in the English royal household who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.
seaming machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaming machines
Senses: glosses: A machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.
Numidian crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Numidian cranes
Senses: glosses: A bird, the demoiselle.
banana bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana birds
Senses: glosses: A small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx) which feeds on bananas.
Related terms: alt: Certhiola spp.
word: bananaquit
levy in mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levies in mass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of levy en masse.
speaking tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speaking tubes
Senses: glosses: A tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance.
Synonyms: voicepipe
Hyponyms: Gosport tube
on speaking terms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Ms. [Gomotsang] Modibu considers herself to be on speaking terms with the animals she sees every day. She sees them as her colleagues.
ref: 2017 August 22, Hillary Richard, “The Wonder Women of Botswana Safari”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2017:
text: Cap [Captain America] and I fell out hard. We're not on speaking terms.
ref: 2018, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, Avengers: Infinity War (motion picture), spoken by Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.):
glosses: Acquainted and friendly; in a state where salutations and general remarks can be comfortably exchanged.
rites de passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rite de passage
declinatory plea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declinatory pleas
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction.
mash tun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæʃ tʌn/
rhymes: -æʃtʌn
Forms: form: mash tuns
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: An insulated vessel used in making the mashing process in which grains and water are mixed and heated to produce wort prior to fermentation.
knight service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knight-service
Etymology: From Middle English knyght service.
Senses: examples: text: Land became fully devisable with the abolition of knight-service in 1660, but magnates continued to inherit property which was tied up in strict settlements, giving the current representative of the family no more than a life-tenancy.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 585:
text: If they were not heiresses, a lord's daughters were sometimes married off to his knights, but the latter […] might well need an incentive such as a cash payment, land or a reduction in their knight service.
ref: 2002, Christopher Gravett, English Medieval Knight 1200-1300, page 43:
topics: law
glosses: The military service a knight owed to his chief lord as a condition of holding title to his lands and rank.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of knight's fee, the system of land tenure based on such service.
synonyms: word: knight's fee
extra: the system of land tenure based on such service
Hypernyms: military service
Coordinate terms: serjeanty
intercalarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intercalary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intercalary manner.
knight-service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knight service.
Trans-Jordan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Transjordan.
Transjordania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Transjordan.
Trans-Jordania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Transjordan.
swing round the circle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swings round the circle
form: swinging round the circle
form: swung round the circle
form: swung round the circle
Senses: examples: text: He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief.
ref: 1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought:
glosses: To make a complete circuit.
Trabzon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Trabzon, from Ottoman Turkish طرابزون (Tırabızon), ultimately from Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦς (Trapezoûs). Doublet of Trapezus and Trebizond.
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in northeastern Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.
glosses: A port city, the capital of Trabzon Province, Turkey.
Synonyms: sense: historical names
word: Trebizond
word: Tribisonde
word: Trapezund
word: Trapezus
Related terms: Trapezuntine
Trebizond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Trébizonde, from Ottoman Turkish طرابزون (Tırabızon), from Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦς (Trapezoûs). Doublet of Trabzon and Trapezus.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Trabzon.
Trapezund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnta), from Ancient Greek Τραπεζοῦς (Trapezoûs).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Trabzon.
Related terms: Trapezuntine
Tribisonde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Trabzon.
Trapezus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Trapezus. Doublet of Trabzon and Trebizond.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Trabzon.
superfluous interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfluous intervals
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone.
onyx marble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onyx marbles
Senses: glosses: A banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.
aftergames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftergame
Şanlıurfa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey, with a Kurdish majority.
glosses: A city, the capital of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, commonly called Urfa.
duplication of the cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplications of the cube
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.
Urfa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish اورفه and اورفا (Urfa), from Classical Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ (ʾUrhāy).
Senses: glosses: A city in southeastern Turkey.
glosses: Synonym of Sanliurfa, a province of Turkey around Urfa.
synonyms: word: Sanliurfa
extra: a province of Turkey around Urfa
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
english: official
translation: official
word: Sanliurfa
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Edessa
trivet table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivet tables
Senses: examples: text: The trivet-table of a foot was lame
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A three-legged table.
collect oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collects oneself
form: collecting oneself
form: collected oneself
form: collected oneself
Senses: glosses: To recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
wellordering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellorderings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-ordering.
Derived terms: prewellordering
wellorderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellordering
wellfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of well-founded.
prewellorderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prewellordering
prewellordering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prewellorderings
Etymology: From pre- + wellordering.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A binary relation that is transitive, total, and well-founded.
Pharos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros) via Latin Pharos. Doublet of Hvar.
Senses: glosses: A small island off Alexandria where the Lighthouse of Alexandria was located.
glosses: The Lighthouse of Alexandria, located on the island Pharos
Muley axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muley axles
Senses: examples: text: THE CHAIRMAN: Don't you think that many complaints of hard-riding coaches are owing to the fact that the lateral motion is often so great with cars equipped with the Muley axle?
ref: 1899, Pacific Coast Railway Club, Official Proceedings:
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals.
madderworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madderwort
grayanotoxanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayanotoxane
graynesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayness
greymail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of graymail.