cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑkt/
ipa: /blɒkt/
rhymes: -ɒkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of block
quasihemidemisemiquaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasihemidemisemiquavers
Etymology: From quasi- + hemidemisemiquaver.
Senses: examples: text: Telemann's ‘Gulliver’ suite for two violins includes a Lilliputian chaconne in quasihemidemisemiquavers and a Brobdignanian^([sic]) gigue in semibreves.
ref: 2004, Paul Griffins, The Penguin Companion to Classical Music, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: principally UK
glosses: A note having a time value half as long as a hemidemisemiquaver or 64th note; a 128th note.
Synonyms: word: 128th note
word: hundred twenty-eighth note
word: semihemidemisemiquaver
riba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic رِبًا (riban).
Senses: topics: Islam
business
finance
lifestyle
religion
glosses: interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.
generic name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generic names
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: species name (the binomial unit), binominal name, binomial name
text: Its generic name is Staphylococcus, but you may know it better by the common name staph.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: genus name
generic epithet
coordinate_terms: specific epithet
species epithet
specific name
;
subspecific epithet
subspecific name
glosses: The first word in a binominal name, which identifies the genus of the lifeform considered.
examples: text: Its generic name is rosuvastatin, but you may know it better by the proprietary name Crestor.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: trade name
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A nonproprietary name given to a drug that is used to identify it irrespective of trademark.
examples: text: Its generic name is flying disc, but you may know it better by the proprietary name Frisbee. The generic name frisbee (lowercase) is used informally but not officially or legally.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: A similar nonproprietary name for any other product or service, denoting any member of the category.
aposiopesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæpəsaɪəˈpiːsɪs/
Forms: form: aposiopeses
Etymology: From Latin aposiopesis, from Ancient Greek ἀποσιώπησις (aposiṓpēsis), from ἀποσιωπάω (aposiōpáō, “be silent”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, from”) + σιωπάω (siōpáō, “to be silent”).
Senses: examples: text: —"My ſiſter, mayhap," quoth my uncle Toby, "does not chooſe to let a man come ſo near her ****" Make this daſh—'tis an Apoſiopeſis.—Take the daſh away, and write Backſide,—'tis Bawdy.
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter VI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume II, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 123:
text: Aposiopesis leaves imperfect sense;
And, sometimes, such a pause speaks eloquence.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Aposiopesis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: “If you are not—” The aposiopesis was icy.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
text: “Have fire in this garret before night or—” / He stopped because he could not go on. It was an aposiopesis of the purest kind.
ref: 1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy, London: George Routledge & Sons, OCLC 939632162; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1957, OCLC 855435111, page 164
text: This somewhat abrupt ending (or aposiopesis) is caused by a previous movement from the figure on the bed.
ref: 1982, John Fowles, Mantissa, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: reticence
glosses: An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).
Hypernyms: brachylogy
Related terms: adynaton
anapodoton
ellipsis
or else
appetence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæp.ɪ.təns/
Forms: form: appetences
Etymology: Circa 1600, from French appétence, from Latin appetentia, from appetere (“to seek after”). Doublet of appetite.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat fair femal Troop […] / Bred onely and completed to the taſte / Of luſtful appetence, to ſing, to dance, / To dreſs, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 610 and 614–616:
text: The days passed quickly; I could see that the professor was all quivering with suppressed excitement, and I could scarce credit the eager appetence of his glance as we left the old manor house behind us, and began our journey.
ref: 1895, Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors:
text: They had assumed the wild sweet freedom of jacking off in their inviolable privacy. Their appetence became resilient with repetition.
ref: 1974, Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: The state or action of desiring or craving.
Derived terms: inappetence
aprosopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æpɹəˈsəʊpɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: having an underdeveloped face, or having no face
archon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kən/
Forms: form: archontes
form: archons
form: arkhon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn), a noun use of the present participle of ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”).
Senses: examples: text: Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.
ref: 1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
glosses: A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
examples: text: But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: A ruler, head of state or other leader.
examples: text: Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 83:
topics: Christianity
Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A supernatural ruler of the cosmos.
Derived terms: archonship
Related terms: archaeo-
archaic
archaism
archeo-
archive
-archy
argillaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more argillaceous
form: most argillaceous
Etymology: From Latin argillaceus, from argilla (“clay”), from Ancient Greek ἄργιλλος (árgillos, “white clay, potter's earth”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).
Senses: examples: text: […] natural colossi from two to five hundred feet high, done in argillaceous sandstone or a singular species of conglomerate, all of which owe their existence almost entirely to the agency of wind.
ref: 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
text: The gleam of the land is in its rocks, the fine-grained argillaceous rocks, here, not purple or grey, but green of living stone.
ref: 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies, page 104:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay; clayey.
Derived terms: calcareoargillaceous
assafoetida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The smell, too, is often perverted—Parosmia. The author was formerly acquainted with a lady, who scented her snuff with the tincture of assafœtida.
ref: 1842, Robley Dunglison, “Of the Neuroses”, in The Practice of Medicine; or, A Treatise on Special Pathology and Therapeutics. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, book VI (Diseases of the Nervous System), page 280:
glosses: Alternative spelling of asafoetida.
assegai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsəɡaɪ/
Forms: form: assegais
form: assagai
form: assagaie
form: assagay
form: assegaai
form: assegay
form: azagaia
form: hassagay
form: hassaguay
form: zagaie
form: zagaye
Etymology: From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).
Senses: examples: text: But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 33:
text: My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:
text: A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 32:
glosses: A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
examples: text: In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 236:
glosses: The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.
assegai
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsəɡaɪ/
Forms: form: assegais
form: assegaiing
form: assegaied
form: assegaied
form: assagai
form: assagaie
form: assagay
form: assegaai
form: assegay
form: azagaia
form: hassagay
form: hassaguay
form: zagaie
form: zagaye
Etymology: From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).
Senses: glosses: To spear with an assegai.
Related terms: Curtisia
ataraxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈatəɹaksi/
Forms: form: ataraxies
Etymology: From Middle French ataraxie, from Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía, “impassiveness”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ταράσσω (tarássō, “I disturb”). Doublet of ataraxia.
Senses: examples: text: When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Youth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term—and now, all of a sudden, in mid-term, peace, ataraxy, a profound and leisured stillness.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 21, in Zuleika Dobson, New York: John Lane, published 1912, page 319:
text: There was no longer any need for fortitude: he felt nothing at present and there was no point in artificial ataraxy.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
text: I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea Of Fun:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ataraxia; freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
examples: text: Ataraxy can be produced by ataractics, drugs that have a calming or quieting effect.
ref: 2000, M. Basavanna, Dictionary of Psychology, Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: State of psychological calm and tranquility, absence of discomfort, or metabolical inactivity.
Related terms: ataractic
atomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəmi/
Forms: form: atomies
Etymology: Rebracketing of anatomy (“skeleton”) as an atomy.
Senses: examples: text: Hostess Quickly. Ay, come, you starv’d bloodhound.
Doll Tearsheet. Goodman death, goodman bones!
Hostess Quickly. Thou atomy, thou!
Doll Tearsheet. Come, you thin thing! come, you rascal!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, Dublin: George Risk et al., Act II, Scene 1, p. 67,
I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons; and now, poor Man, he is among the Otamys [sic] at Surgeon's Hall.
text: I was now thrown into a violent perturbation of spirit; for I never could behold an atomy without fear and trembling, even when I knew it was no more than a composition of dry bones;
ref: 1769, Tobias Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom, volume 1, London: Robinson and Roberts, page 2:
text: […] a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 28:
text: The veriest atomy he looked,
With grimy fingers clutching and crooked,
Tight skin, a nose all bony and hooked,
And a shaking, sharp, suspicious way;
ref: 1866, Christina Rossetti, “The Prince’s Progress”, in The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 11:
glosses: A skeleton.
atomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəmi/
Forms: form: more atomy
form: most atomy
Etymology: From atom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXXV, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 398:
text: 1894, Richard Henry Savage, The Princess of Alaska, Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 235,
[…] the atomy speck, hurled through space, which we mortals call the world!
text: Things that flit in the sky or creep
In the atomy dust, or swarm in the deep,
ref: 1919, George Rostrevor Hamilton, “Thoughts”, in Escape and Fantasy: Poems, New York: Macmillan, page 19:
glosses: Resembling a tiny particle; made up of tiny particles.
Related terms: atomic
aul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
Forms: form: auls
form: aoul
form: auol
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ау́л (aúl), from West (Kypchak) Turkic awul, awïl; compare Karachay-Balkar ауул (awul), Bashkir ауыл (awıl), Kazakh ауыл (auyl) and Turkish ağıl.
Senses: examples: text: His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among the auls, out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN:
text: Bitter fighting took place for Gimry, the home both of Khadzhi-Murat and Shamil. A highway ran along here, which permitted us to bring up artillery and to subject the aul to preliminary bombardment. We did not fire at any specific target, but if even half of our thirteen hundred shells had landed there, there would have been only a heap of ruins in place of the aul.
ref: 1993, Eduard M[artynovich] Dune; Diane P. Koenker and S[tephen] A[nthony] Smith, translators and editors, Notes of a Red Guard, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Crossing the large plateau, they passed the auls of Megeb and Chokh before reaching Gunib, a significant Avar settlement. […] The Avar auls were surrounded by a virtually uninterrupted circle of mountain ranges and occupied most of the plateaus between the tributaries of the Sulak River: Andi Koysu, Avar Koysu and Kara Koysu.
ref: 2011, Michael Khodarkovsky, “Journey through the Northeast Caucasus”, in Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
aul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
ipa: /əʊl/
ipa: /aʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of auld.
aul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
ipa: /əʊl/
ipa: /ɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
ipa: /aʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
ipa: /əʊl/
Forms: form: auls
Senses: examples: text: […] and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 21:6:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of awl.
auol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑː.ʊl/
Forms: form: auols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aul (“village encampment”).
snowcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I had simply rounded a corner and smacked into […] a stretch of snowcapped Rockies so intricately cragged and utterly enormous that every time I rediscovered them, I had to slow down and gawp at their impassive beauty.
ref: 2009 January 29, Matt Gross, “Banff is about The View”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of snow-capped.
Auster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstə/
ipa: /ˈɔːstə/
ipa: /ˈɑstəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɔstəɹ/
Etymology: From Latin auster.
Senses: examples: text: For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.
ref: 1714 June 10, [Alexander Pope], The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the south wind.
examples: text: Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds
All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens,
With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps,
And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: ‘My homeland too,’ Aetius grinned. ‘I was born under the Auster.’
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Hun”, in The Devil's Mode:
synonyms: auster
ostro
glosses: The south wind, especially when personified.
Hypernyms: Anemoi
Coordinate terms: english: north
translation: north
word: Boreas
english: north
translation: north
word: Aquilon
english: north
translation: north
word: Septentrio
english: south
translation: south
word: Notus
english: south
translation: south
word: Auster
english: east
translation: east
word: Eurus
english: east
translation: east
word: Subsolanus
word: Zephyr
word: Zephyrus
word: Favonius
spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspænjəl/
ipa: /ˈspænəl/
rhymes: -ænjəl
Forms: form: spaniels
Etymology: From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniolus (“Spanish”), from Hispānia (“Spain”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.
examples: text: Pro[theus].[…]Yet (Spaniel-like) the more ſhe ſpurnes my loue, / The more it growes, and fawneth on her ſtill;
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 33, column 1:
glosses: A cringing, fawning person.
Derived terms: Clumber spaniel
cocker spaniel
English toy spaniel
field spaniel
German Spaniel
Irish water spaniel
King Charles spaniel
Norfolk spaniel
springer spaniel
Sussex spaniel
water spaniel
Welsh springer spaniel
spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspænjəl/
ipa: /ˈspænəl/
rhymes: -ænjəl
Forms: form: spaniels
form: spanieling
form: spanielling
form: spanieled
form: spanieled
form: spanielled
form: spanielled
Etymology: From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniolus (“Spanish”), from Hispānia (“Spain”).
Senses: examples: text: Antony: Do we shake hands.—All come to this!—The hearts / That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave / Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: J. Sedgewick (1840), Timon, but not of Athens, page 200: “Always spanielling at the heels of power, the mitred Dignitaries displayed, from first to last, the most rancorous hostility against her.”
text: David S. Bell (2000), Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France, →ISBN, page 30: “Hence Duverger's famous question about de Gaulle's first spanielling Prime Minister makes political ('M. Debré, existe-t-il?'), but not constitutional sense.”
text: The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story.
ref: Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (2003), The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, page 65
glosses: To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel.
-'
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: enpr: z
enpr: zəz
ipa: /z/
ipa: /zɪz/
enpr: s
enpr: səz
ipa: /s/
ipa: /sɪz/
note: Received Pronunciation, General American, weak vowel distinction
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
note: Received Pronunciation, General American, weak vowel distinction
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
note: General Australian, weak vowel merger
Forms: form: -’
Senses: examples: Her heart leapt when she saw the expressions on her teachers’ faces.
their faces’ expressions
The countesses’ husbands were generally quite lavish.
I'll have your car repaired in a few days' time.
glosses: Possessive marker used on plurals that end with -s (or -es, etc).
examples: text: Jesus' disciples
text: Chris' cake recipe
text: Robin Williams’ ghost has apparently stuck around and is haunting the California home the actor died in.
ref: 2014 August 29, Minyvonne Burke, “Robin Williams Death: Actor’s Ghost Haunting Home He Died In, Playing Practical Jokes?”, in HNGN Headlines & Global News:
text: GOP donor and real estate magnate Harlan Crow paid thousands of dollars in tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, who he served as the legal guardian for, ProPublica reports, without the justice disclosing it, the latest in a series of controversies involving Thomas’ financial relationship with Crow that have sparked ethics concerns and calls for Thomas to resign.
ref: 2023 May 4, 0:09 from the start, in GOP Megadonor Harlan Crow Paid Tuition For Clarence Thomas’ Relative, Report Says, Forbes:
glosses: Possessive marker sometimes used on singular names which end in s, indicating than an object belongs to the noun bearing the marker.
backfisch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækfɪʃ/
Forms: form: backfisch
form: backfische
form: backfisches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).
Senses: examples: text: When we were charming Backfisch / With curls and velvet bows / We shared a charming kitten / With tiny velvet toes.
ref: 1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940:
text: I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:
glosses: A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
baff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: baffs
form: baffing
form: baffed
form: baffed
Etymology: From Middle English baffen (“to bark”). Cognate with Dutch baffen (“to bark”), Low German baffen (“to bark”), German baffen, bäfzen (“to bark”), Danish bjæffe (“to yelp”), Swedish bjäbba (“to yelp, bark”). Compare buff, yaff.
Senses: glosses: To bark; yelp.
baff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: baffs
form: baffing
form: baffed
form: baffed
Etymology: Probably from Scots baff, beff, bauf, probably from West Flemish baf, baffe (“a blow, slap in the face”). Compare also Old French baffe (“slap in the face”) (Modern French baffe), of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke.
Derived terms: baffed out
baffy
baff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæf/
rhymes: -æf
Senses: glosses: blank
barbitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːbɪtəs/
Forms: form: barbitoi
form: barbiton
Etymology: From Latin barbitos, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos).
Senses: examples: text: The singer prepares his tone and rhythm on the barbitos before he adds his voice to the melody.
ref: 1974, Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: An ancient stringed musical instrument from Greece, apparently a type of lute or lyre.
barbiton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːbɪtən/
Forms: form: barbitoi
form: barbitos
Etymology: From Latin barbiton, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτον (bárbiton).
Senses: glosses: an ancient stringed musical instrument, apparently a type of lute or lyre
nit comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nit combs
Senses: glosses: A fine-toothed comb used to remove nits from the hair.
Related terms: nit nurse
batrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/
Forms: form: batrachians
Etymology: From New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).
Senses: examples: text: The warmth of his defence of the toad led me to suspect uneasily that a close search of his quarters would pretty certainly reveal a comfortable vivarium somewhere, bursting with the little batrachians.
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 421:
glosses: A frog or toad.
batrachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bəˈtɹeɪkɪən/
Forms: form: more batrachian
form: most batrachian
Etymology: From New Latin Batrachia, former name of the zoological order Anura, from Ancient Greek βατράχεια (batrákheia), neuter plural of adjective from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).
Senses: examples: text: Anon the minnow-bucket will emit '"batrachian"' sobs.
ref: 1905, Eugene Field, Songs And Other Verses:
text: At this Lena smiled again with that mirthless batrachian grin.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 31:
text: His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
text: 2000 The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "The Innsmouth Look"
I dig her batrachian lips / Her bulbous eyes and scaly hips
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling a frog or toad.
Synonyms: anuran
Hypernyms: lissamphibian
Hyponyms: salientian
Related terms: froggish
froggy
froglike
frogly
ranine
toadish
toadlike
toadly
beccal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛkəl/
Etymology: From Latin beccus (“beak”).
Senses: examples: text: It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives […]
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:
glosses: Pertaining to a beak or bill.
bedight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdaɪt/
ipa: [bɪˈdʌɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: bedights
form: bedighting
form: bedight
form: bedight
form: bedighted
form: bedighted
Etymology: From Middle English bedighten, bidihten; equivalent to be- + dight.
Senses: glosses: To equip or bedeck.
bedight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdaɪt/
ipa: [bɪˈdʌɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: more bedight
form: most bedight
Etymology: From Middle English bedighten, bidihten; equivalent to be- + dight.
Senses: examples: text: In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered – flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas:
text: She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
text: […] [F]rom every Southern hill, / And mount and stream and vale bedight […]
ref: 1908, James Ryder Randall, “John W. Morton”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 26:
text: Who comes through Michan’s land, bedight in sable armour? O’Bloom, the son of Rory: it is he.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: There rose a fabled horde of mounted lancers and archers bearing shields bedight with bits of broken mirrorglass that cast a thousand unpieced suns against the eyes of their enemies.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian:
glosses: That has been equipped or bedecked.
Ricky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Etymology: From Rick + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
béguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beˈɡiːn/
Forms: form: béguins
Etymology: Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb embéguiner (“to wear a bonnet”) came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from beguine (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).
Senses: examples: text: Then he said: 'But what does Ata say to it?' 'It appears that she has a beguin for you,' I said. 'She's willing if you are. Shall I call her?'
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 51”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: ‘I see now. And you have a béguin for her too? It is no use, I warn you.’
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
glosses: An infatuation or fancy.
Prichard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pritchard
Etymology: From Welsh ap + English Richard.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Mobile County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Shoshone County, Idaho.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Prichardian
Hongcouver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: HongCouver
Etymology: Blend of Hong Kong + Vancouver, referring to the large-scale Chinese Canadian immigration to that city in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly from Hong Kong.
Senses: glosses: Derogatory name for Vancouver: a major city in British Columbia, Canada.
benthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnθɒs/
Forms: form: benthoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βένθος (bénthos, “the depths”).
Senses: glosses: The flora and fauna at the bottom of a body of water.
Derived terms: benthic
benthophyte
benthoscape
endobenthos
epibenthos
hyperbenthos
macrobenthos
megabenthos
meiobenthos
microbenthos
microphytobenthos
phytobenthos
suprabenthos
zoobenthos
Related terms: benthon
benthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnθɪk/
Etymology: From benthos + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The benthic environment, except for intertidal areas, has been scarcely explored[…]
ref: 1878, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 3:
text: As the classical approach to benthic community studies originated primarily with Danish biologists, a section is devoted to comparisons of Danish bottom communities with those obtained in Hadley Harbor.
ref: 1974, R. H. Parker, The Study of Benthic Communities, New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, page 191:
text: Benthic foraminifera have been used for stratigraphic purposes almost since they began to be studied systematically.
ref: 1994, Hans M. Bolli, Jean-Pierre Beckmann, John B. Saunders, Benthic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the South Caribbean Region, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
synonyms: benthonic
antonyms: planktonic
glosses: Pertaining to the benthos; living on the seafloor, as opposed to floating in the ocean.
Hypernyms: marine
limnic
Hyponyms: sublittoral
neritic
bathyal
abyssal
hadal
Coordinate terms: planktonic
pelagic
Derived terms: abyssalbenthic
abyssobenthic
archibenthic
benthically
benthic black
cryptobenthic
endobenthic
epibenthic
holobenthic
hyperbenthic
macrobenthic
megabenthic
meiobenthic
merobenthic
mesobenthic
microbenthic
nonbenthic
pelagobenthic
phytobenthic
subbenthic
suprabenthic
zoobenthic
benthic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnθɪk/
Forms: form: benthics
Etymology: From benthos + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that lives on the seafloor.
berceuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛɹˈsuz/
Forms: form: berceuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French berceuse.
Senses: examples: text: What was in my mind as I waited for sleep and the engines thundered their ineffectual berceuse was the chapter, a brief one, about the Jews.
ref: 1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition that resembles a lullaby, often in 6/8 time.
bilboes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪlbəʊz/
Etymology: Unknown. Purported to have been invented in Bilbao, Spain, yet the device's name predates the Spanish Armada that supposedly imported it.
Senses: examples: text: … me thought I lay
Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,
ref: c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, line 2505 (Folio 1, 1623)
text: The bilboes looked like handcuffs that went around the ankles. The prisoner lay flat on his back, in the dirt, his feet suspended in the air by a length of iron bar to which the bilboes were fastened.
ref: 2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats The Devil:
glosses: An iron bar placed around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles.
wikipedia: Spanish Armada
bistoury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪstəɹi/
enpr: bĭs􂀽'tə-rē
Forms: form: bistouries
Etymology: From French bistouri, from archaic Italian pistorese or pistorino (“from Pistoia”); the city of Pistoia was once famous for the manufacturing of blades.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: lancet
scalpel
glosses: A narrow-bladed surgical knife
bobance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒbəns/
Forms: form: bobaunce
Etymology: From Middle English bobance, from Old French bobance.
Senses: examples: text: Than thou behelde the synners and the good men; and whan thou saw the synners overcom, thou enclyned to that party for bobbaunce and pryde of the worlde [...].
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
text: ye recke not for honesty, no nor for your own law, nor for deeds of mercy and charity, but in folly, and in Bobance
ref: 1808, James G. Savage, The Librarian:
text: "We've had enough bobance and boasting" said Hordle John, rising and throwing off his doublet.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, →ISBN, page 68:
text: she distributed her own clothing amongst the poor, thus demonstrating that the pomp and bobance of the world should be eschewed, and she conformed her unto the Virgin Mary'
ref: 2002, Gail Ashton, The generation of identity in late medieval hagiography: speaking the saint, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Boasting.
scoliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolioses
Etymology: From Latin scoliosis, from Ancient Greek σκολίωσις (skolíōsis, “twisting; torsion”).
Senses: examples: text: “Scoliosis,” Mwita said. “Curvature of the spine. It’s hereditary, but that doesn’t always explain it. Most common in girls, but boys get it, too.”
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 211:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: scolioma
glosses: The abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.
Hyponyms: dextroscoliosis
levoscoliosis
rotoscoliosis
Derived terms: scoliometer
scoliotic
bombinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒmbɪneɪt/
Forms: form: bombinates
form: bombinating
form: bombinated
form: bombinated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin bombināre (“buzz, hum”), variant of Latin bombilō, from Ancient Greek βομβυλιάζειν (bombuliázein), from βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming”), of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: None of this multitude of thinkers and their satellites brought his thoughts into really conclusive contact with the others. To do it would have been to discover much practical identity and so lose distinction. After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other bombinators.
ref: 1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284:
text: So full a ship, so close-packed a world, moving urgently along, surrounded by its own vacuum; each man bombinating in his own, no doubt.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
glosses: to buzz or hum; to speak idly, vacuously, or to little effect.
Derived terms: bombination
bombinator
cystic fibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inherited condition in which the exocrine glands produce abnormally viscous mucus, causing chronic respiratory and digestive problems.
Synonyms: mucoviscidosis
Marburg disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the German city of Marburg.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A viral, often fatal infection characterised by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices.
Synonyms: green monkey disease
Marburg fever
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Marburg virus disease
Related terms: Ebola
baubon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːbən/
Forms: form: baubons
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek βαυβών (baubṓn).
Senses: examples: text: At quiet hour in the afternoon they were adepts of the olisbos, baubon, and finger.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: A dildo.
boodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: boodles
Etymology: From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle (in the sense of "house").
Senses: examples: text: around 1900, O. Henry, According to Their Lights
He was your 'man higher up' when you were on the force. His share of the boodle passed through your hands. You must go on the stand and testify against him.
text: […] marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garotted.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
examples: text: He pulled off his coat and threw it down, and declared he'd fight the whole boodle of 'em
ref: January 4 1833, Jack Downing, letter to Ephraim Downing:
glosses: The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
examples: text: Send the first boodle in an airtight container so that there is a place for the storage of future packages […] Suggestions for Boodle: cookies, candy, individual packets of drink mixes (sugar-free), raisins, nuts, gum.
ref: 1986, The Parent's Guidebook to West Point, page 62:
qualifier: West Point
glosses: Candy and snacks.
Synonyms: topics: money
finance
business
word: money
sense: illegally acquired money
word: dirty money
word: black money See Thesaurus:booty
sense: whole collection
word: kit and caboodle
Derived terms: boodle fight
boodler
boodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: boodles
form: boodling
form: boodled
form: boodled
Etymology: From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle (in the sense of "house").
Senses: glosses: To engage in bribery.
bourdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊədən/
ipa: /ˈbɔːdən/
ipa: /ˈbʊɹdən/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹdən/
Forms: form: bourdons
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burdoun (“accompaniment”), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō, burdōnem (“drone”). The modern pronunciation and form (for *burdon) is influenced by modern French bourdon.
Senses: examples: text: The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The burden or bass of a melody.
glosses: The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
examples: text: The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 5:
glosses: The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
glosses: The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
glosses: A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
glosses: A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
bourdon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊədən/
ipa: /ˈbɔːdən/
ipa: /ˈbʊɹdən/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹdən/
Forms: form: bourdons
form: bordon
form: burdon
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burdoun (“pilgrim's staff”), from Old French bordon, from Medieval Latin burdō, burdōnem (“pilgrim's staff”). The modern pronunciation and form is also influenced by modern French bourdon.
Senses: examples: text: The left hand was gone, this held the bourdon or pilgrim's staff, a small portion only of which appeared over the scrip.
ref: 1883 October, M.H. Bloxam, “On The Sepulchral Effigy of a Pilgrim in St. Mary's Church, Haverfordwest, South Wales”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, volume 14, number 56, page 258:
text: The pilgrim's return was denoted by a bunch of palm, which was tied round the head of the bourdon, the leaves being, of course, ghe guerdon of his enterprise, giving the name of Palmer to the tribe.
ref: 1897 May, W. Connor Sydney, “Out With the Old Pilgrims”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 489:
text: Both in Wright's text and in Lydgate's version the hutch from which Grace Dieu gets the scrip and bourdon is said to contain 'many a fair jewel.'
ref: 1904, James Blanton Wharey, A Study of the Sources of Bunyan's Allegories, page 29:
text: A thin wand is frequently bound against the pilgrim's bourdon in fifteenth century pictures.
ref: 1926, James Charles Wall, Pilgrimage, page 27:
glosses: A pilgrim's staff.
nitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭch
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: knitch
Forms: form: nitches
Senses: examples: text: "Bless thy simplicity, Tess," said her companions. "He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!"
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:
text: Later in the morning, a party of villagers, led by the rector, go to Salisbury Cathedral, where four women, dressed in 19th-century costume and carrying nitches - bundles of sticks - dance on the cathedral green.
ref: 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 210:
glosses: Alternative form of knitch (“a small bundle”).
nitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭch
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: knitch
Forms: form: nitches
Etymology: Sound-symbolic blend of nick + notch.
Senses: glosses: A notch or small incision.
nitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭch
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
homophone: knitch
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of niche.
brail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: brails
Etymology: From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: brailing
glosses: A small rope used to truss up sails.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
glosses: A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.
glosses: The feathers around a hawk's rump.
Derived terms: throat brail
unbrail
brail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: brails
form: brailing
form: brailed
form: brailed
Etymology: From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).
Senses: examples: text: The winds blew at their own caprice and there was brailing and loosing of canvas.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
glosses: To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.