cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unhappy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: unhappies
form: unhappying
form: unhappied
form: unhappied
Etymology: From Middle English unhappy; equivalent to un- + happy.
Senses: examples: text: A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
By you unhappied and disfigured clean
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 1]:
text: In the greate desire I have unto your grace's service, nothing has more unhappied me than the wante of opportunitie in which I might expresse the character of my harte that onlie takes of your impressions.
ref: 1625, Sir John Eliot, Letter to the duke of Buckingham:
text: They unhappied their estates by sinning against God, and of glorious Angels became unclean devils: there is not part of the work of Gods hands so eternally cast away, reserved in chains of darknesse for the judgement of the last day.
ref: 1637, Samuel Page, The Broken Heart, page 29:
text: Nor do these unhappying beings, after they become the property of Europeans (from whom as a more civilized people, more humanity might naturally be expected), find their situation in the least amended.
ref: 1788, Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade:
text: Most unhappying! I had to get up, have a nice hot bath and then go out into the cold rain to Ted's for breakfast.
ref: 2011, Jeanne Comings Majdalany, “In Foreign Lands — A Teacher and A Learner”, in Anne Peet Carrington and Børre Ludvigsen, editor, Fill the bathtub!, page 65:
synonyms: word: deject
word: depress
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To make or become unhappy; to sadden.
papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚz/
ipa: /ˈpeɪpəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of paper.
papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚz/
ipa: /ˈpeɪpəz/
Senses: examples: text: He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.
text: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
ref: 2013 January 24, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
text: The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.
ref: 1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7:
glosses: Official documents or identification, as a passport.
glosses: A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
examples: text: "All right, if you happen to be over that way, just get me some fags. No, wait a shake, get me a tin of cigarette tobacco and some papers."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: cigarette papers
papers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚz/
ipa: /ˈpeɪpəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paper
plans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plan
plans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Senses: glosses: plural of plan
Maximilian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈmæksɪmɪljən]
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: Maximillian
Etymology: From German Maximilian, ultimately of Latin origin.
Senses: examples: text: It is as well certainly not to call a parcel of idle and ragged young rogues by the titles of Augustus, Orlando, and Theodore: nor does it sound very fitting and heroical to hear a father cry out pompously to his little boy, as we did once, - "You, Sir, there, - Maximilian,- come out of the gutter."
ref: 1820 February 9, Leigh Hunt, “Names”, in The Indicator, number XVIII:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, rare in English.
Derived terms: Max
Maximiliann
Maximilianna
Maximilianne
Maximillian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, variant of Maximilian, a modern spelling of Maximilian, taken from films and video game characters.
Derived terms: Max
Maximilliann
Maximillianna
Maximillianne
Gillian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪliən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪljən/
note: some women
ipa: /ˈɡɪl-/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: Jillian
Senses: examples: text: Dromio of Ephesus. Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicely, Gillian, Ginn!
Dromio of Syracuse. Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch! - - -
Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such a store
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: "Just Jill, I'm afraid." "Would you prefer if it was Gillian?" "Oh, I think so. Gillian sounds so much fancier." "Fancy?" Terrence said. He smiled at her. "Or perhaps it sounds flashy?" "Royal," Richard said. "Flowery," Terrence added. "You could say Gillian was more flowery. That would fit. What about you, Corrie, what does it sound like to you?" "Rich," Corrie glanced at Jill. "Gillian sounds richer than Jill."
ref: 1994, Floyd Skloot, Summer Blue, Story Line press, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A female given name from Latin; Medieval variant of Julian and Juliana, revived and quite popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
Derived terms: Gill
gillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭl'yən
enpr: jĭl'yən
ipa: /ˈɡɪljən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪljən/
homophone: jillion
homophone: Gillian
homophone: Jillian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪljən
Etymology: From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.
Senses: examples: text: The internationally agreed symbol for 10^6 is M and this is the initial letter of million. Would it not be logical and convenient to turn this happy accident into a principle and use G, the internationally agreed symbol for 10^9, as the initial letter of the word for 1,000,000,000? That number would thus be called a gillion. Whether the g should be hard or soft is a matter of opinion. I incline to hard because of the derivation from giga.
ref: 1968, N. W. Pirie, More About the Units (Nature vol. 220):
glosses: A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion.
gillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭl'yən
enpr: jĭl'yən
ipa: /ˈɡɪljən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪljən/
homophone: jillion
homophone: Gillian
homophone: Jillian stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: gillions
Etymology: From gi(ga)- + -illion. Modelled after million, billion etc. Compare also jillion.
Senses: examples: text: At Guy's school there had been an outdoor pool, in use from April to October, a watery grave for a billion insects, or quite possibly a gillion or a squillion. The bright turquoise lining had wrinkled under the children's feet.
ref: 2012, Rebecca Smith, A Bit of Earth:
text: I looked down to see my dog, Roof, short for Rufus, curled in sleep below the window, unworried by the wings of hummingbirds whirring at speeds of a gillion miles an hour as they flitted in and out of the trumpets of honeysuckle growing on the side of the house.
ref: 2022, Frank Voss, My House Was Not a Home:
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
squillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: squillions
Etymology: See + -illion
Senses: examples: text: The word million was adequate for most things, billion came in handy on occasions, but if you wanted to use a word for a very, very large number, you just had to invent one. Anna invented one: a squillion.
ref: 1974, Fynn, Mister God, This Is Anna, Ballantine Books (2000), pages 102-103
text: You thinks to yourself, ‘There’s a billion, trillion squillion of them, no one’s going to notice.’ But that’s where professionalism comes in, sort of thing.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Eric, page 138:
text: It'll just take a squillion times longer than the age of the universe to happen.
ref: 2004 May 7, Xaonon, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: I just ran the numbers and got 1.7 squillion, myself.
ref: 2004 May 8, Noelle S. Alito, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
glosses: A very large, unspecified number (of).
raw_tags: used hyperbolically
Stilton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪltən/
rhymes: -ɪltən
Forms: form: Stiltons
Etymology: Recorded as Stichiltone in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English stigel (“stile”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The cheese was named after the village where it was originally sold.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1689).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Stilton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪltən/
rhymes: -ɪltən
Forms: form: Stiltons
Etymology: Recorded as Stichiltone in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from Old English stigel (“stile”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The cheese was named after the village where it was originally sold.
Senses: glosses: A type of blue-veined cheese made in England.
examples: text: That's the Stilton!
glosses: That which is needed or wanted; the very thing; the ticket.
gazillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gə-zĭl'yən
ipa: /ɡəˈzɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: gazillions
form: gajillion
form: kajillion
form: kazillion
Etymology: See -illion
Senses: examples: text: Even if you are not a transistor collector, it is still pretty neat seeing that many early transistors. Wowzers...yes indeed...wowzers! Ok...it is not a gazillion but sure is a bunch.
ref: 2004 November 28, (0) -^- (0) [username], “A gazillion vintage transistors for sale on Ebay”, in rec.antiques.radio+phono (Usenet):
text: First, he is merely following laws written by nativist Republicans. This is a cop-out. As president he sets priorities for the executive branch, which cannot catch and prosecute everyone who breaks any of the gazillions of federal rules.
ref: 2014 February 8, Schumpeter, “Barack Obama, deporter-in-chief”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8873:
synonyms: word: zillion
word: babillion
word: bajillion
word: bazillion
word: billion
word: bizillion
word: dillion
word: fafillion
word: fucktillion
word: gabillion
word: gadzillion
word: gagillion
word: gajillion
word: gatrillion
word: gazillion
word: gillion
word: godzillion
word: googillion
word: gorillion
word: grillion
word: hojillion
word: jajillion
word: jazillion
word: jillion
word: kabillion
word: kajillion
word: katrillion
word: kazillion
word: killion
word: lakh
word: majillion
word: morbillion
word: nonillion
word: quadrillion
word: quintillion
word: Sagan
word: scrillion
word: skillion
word: squillion
word: umpteen
word: umptillion
word: wazillion
word: zabillion
word: zillion
word: zilliard
word: million
word: trillion
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
Derived terms: gazillionaire
gazillionth
zillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zĭl'yən
ipa: /ˈzɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: zillions
Etymology: See -illion. An arbitrary coinage, appearing by 1916.
Senses: examples: text: "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."
ref: 2008 December 6, “Brain tests show child wealth gap”, in BBC News:
synonyms: gazillion
glosses: An unspecified large number (of).
Synonyms: word: babillion
word: bajillion
word: bazillion
word: billion
word: bizillion
word: dillion
word: fafillion
word: fucktillion
word: gabillion
word: gadzillion
word: gagillion
word: gajillion
word: gatrillion
word: gazillion
word: gillion
word: godzillion
word: googillion
word: gorillion
word: grillion
word: hojillion
word: jajillion
word: jazillion
word: jillion
word: kabillion
word: kajillion
word: katrillion
word: kazillion
word: killion
word: lakh
word: majillion
word: morbillion
word: nonillion
word: quadrillion
word: quintillion
word: Sagan
word: scrillion
word: skillion
word: squillion
word: umpteen
word: umptillion
word: wazillion
word: zabillion
word: zillion
word: zilliard
word: million
word: trillion
Hypernyms: word: a lot
word: lot
word: many
Derived terms: zillionaire
zillionth
Related terms: word: countless
word: innumerable
word: uncounted
word: uncountable
word: googol
word: shedload
word: shitload
word: eleventeen
word: eleventy
hyperbolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hyperbolically
form: most hyperbolically
Etymology: From hyperbolic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hyperbolic manner.
Wilton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪltən/
rhymes: -ɪltən
Forms: form: Wiltons
Etymology: From either Old English welig (“willow”) or wella (“spring, stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A type of carpet, originally made in the town of Wilton.
classifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsɪfaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈklæsɪfaɪə/
Forms: form: classifiers
Etymology: From classify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
ref: 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:
glosses: Someone who classifies.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
glosses: A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that classifies.
examples: text: A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.
ref: 2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9:
text: The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.
ref: 2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40:
text: The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.
ref: 2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142:
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
Derived terms: autoclassifier
massifier
metaclassifier
multiclassifier
phyloclassifier
subclassifier
subobject classifier
subset classifier
Related terms: counter
counting word
measure word
Nile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: Nilus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).
Senses: examples: text: The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.
ref: 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus:
text: A river you think so little about, you don’t even realize that’s not the Nile, this is the Nile.
ref: 2016 March 6, “Special Districts”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 4, via HBO:
glosses: A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
glosses: A township in Ohio, United States, named after the river; in full, Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
Derived terms: Blue Nile
denial is not a river in Egypt
Nilean
Nile bird
Nile fox
Nile goose
Nile monitor
Nile perch
Nile tilapia
nilometer
Niloscope
Nilotic
West Nile encephalitis
White Nile
Related terms: sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Bolbitic
word: Bolbitine
sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic
word: Bucolic
sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Herakleotic, Heracleotic, Naucratitic
word: Canopic
sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Tanitic, Busiritic
word: Mendesian
sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Bubastic
word: Pelusian
sense: Branches of the Nile
word: Saïtic
sense: Branches of the Nile
alt: Thermutiac
word: Sebennytic
riding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
homophone: writing (t-flapping)
Etymology: From Middle English rydyng; equivalent to ride + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ride
riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
homophone: writing (t-flapping)
Forms: form: ridings
Etymology: From Middle English rydyng; equivalent to ride + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: royd#Noun
thwaite#Noun
assart#Noun
coordinate_terms: glade#Noun
meadow#Noun
clearcut#Noun
glosses: A path cut through woodland.
examples: text: I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe, volume 1, page 95:
synonyms: ride#Noun
glosses: The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
examples: text: The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
ref: 1946 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
text: A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:
glosses: The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.
examples: text: It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 27:
glosses: A festival procession.
Derived terms: bow riding
common riding
English riding
hedge riding
horseriding
mud riding
night-riding
riding academy
riding-bitts
riding boot
riding coat
riding committee
riding crop
riding dress
riding glove
riding habit
riding hall
riding halter
riding hood
riding-hood
riding horse
riding in tandem
riding interest
riding lawnmower
riding light
riding mower
riding officer
riding rhyme
riding robe
riding-robe
riding-rod
riding sail
riding school
riding skirt
riding spear
riding St. George
riding time
riding whip
roof riding
speed riding
surf riding
riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
homophone: writing (t-flapping)
Forms: form: ridings
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From trithing (initial /t/ absorbed into preceding north, south, east, west, inner ⟨th⟩ already sometimes /d/ in Middle English), from Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriþing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”), from Proto-Germanic *þridjô (“third”) (English third). Equivalent to third + -ing; compare with farthing (“fourth part”). Cognate with English trithing.
The folk etymology that connects the term to the area a horse-rider could cover in a single day is incorrect, but may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
glosses: Electoral district or constituency.
Derived terms: word: East Riding
word: East Riding of Yorkshire
word: North Riding
word: North Riding of Yorkshire
word: riding association
word: West Riding
word: West Riding of Yorkshire
Related terms: wapentake
permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈmɪt/
ipa: /pəˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪt
Forms: form: permits
Etymology: From Middle English permitten, borrowed from Middle French permettre, from Latin permittō (“give up, allow”), from per (“through”) + mittō (“send”).
Senses: examples: text: A construction permit can be obtained from the town offices.
text: Go over to the park office and get a permit for the #3 shelter.
glosses: An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
glosses: An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
A learner's permit.
glosses: Formal permission.
Derived terms: beginner's permit
building permit
construction permit
destruction permit
driver's permit
driving permit
handicapped permit
learner permit
learner's permit
learning permit
parking permit
permitholder
permitholding
permitless
permit nature to take its course
permittee
pollution permit system
pull a permit
residence permit
work permit
Related terms: permission
mission
permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈmɪt/
ipa: /pəˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪt
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪt
ipa: /pɚˈmɪt/
ipa: /pəˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ˈpɝmɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːmɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪt
Forms: form: permit
Etymology: An irregular borrowing from Spanish palometa, probably from a Doric variant of Ancient Greek πηλαμύς (pēlamús, “young tuna”).
Senses: glosses: A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.
Related terms: Trachinotus
flummox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌməks/
rhymes: -ʌməks
Forms: form: flummoxes
form: flummoxing
form: flummoxed
form: flummoxed
Etymology: Uncertain, probably risen out of a British dialect (OED finds candidate words in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, southern Cheshire, and Sheffield). The formation seems to be onomatopœic, expressive of the notion of throwing down roughly and untidily. [OED]. First use appears c. 1837 in the writings of Charles Dickens.
Senses: examples: text: With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.
ref: 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
glosses: To give in, to give up, to collapse.
Derived terms: flummoxable
flummoxed
flummoxer
flummoxery
flummoxing
flummoxy
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mums
form: mam
form: mom
form: Mom
form: Mum
Etymology: Alternative form of mam, or an abbreviation of mummy. Compare mom, mama.
Senses: examples: text: From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:
text: 'Ooh Mum, Auntie don′t allow smokin’ - Pat′s eyes were round with awe as Mum struck a match.
ref: 1993, Hilda Hollingsworth, Places of Greater Safety, Zenobia Press edition, page 278:
text: Her mum says that she is deaf and only partially sighted, so I need to go and stand in front of her, so she can see the gift.
ref: 2004, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2, page 336:
text: “Mum! Mum!” he shouted out. The laughter stopped. Two bright, sparkling yellow eyes peeped from the hollow. Atop her head were the fluffy ear tufts that his mum was so proud of because they were fuller and lovelier than those of most Great Horned Owls. It was indeed his mum!
ref: 2006, Kathryn Lasky, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book 11: To Be a King, page 88
text: 2011, Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang, unnumbered page,
He′s looking at my mum, at her swollen eyes, busted nose and bloodied lips. She′s mashed up something chronic, and the man who did this to her is my dad.
glosses: Mother.
Derived terms: ballet mum
bank of mum and dad
be mum
grandmum
gymslip mum
mumfluencer
mumhood
mum-in-law
mum jeans
mumness
mumoir
mumpreneur
mumsy
queen mum
soccer mum
stepmum
supermum
tiger mum
wine mum
your mum
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mums
form: 'mum
Etymology: Abbreviation of chrysanthemum.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know whether that's true or whether New Yorkers are being enjoined from watering the mums in their window boxes or whatever, but I do know that there hasn't been one rain-delay in the whole tournament so far […].
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, “Democracy and Commerce at the US Open”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 139:
glosses: A chrysanthemum.
glosses: A decoration made originally of a real chrysanthemum but now usually an artificial (silk) flower combined with ribbons and marked with such indicators as the wearer's name, school name, the year, and so on; traditionally worn by girls at high school homecoming celebrations.
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mumm
Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).
Senses: examples: text: The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
text: [Vladimir Putin] has serious climate problems. And he has been mum on his willingness to do anything.
ref: 2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, quoting Joe Biden, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Silent.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: “Come here, friend,” sternly from the doctor. “Now I give you the way inside if you’ll promise to keep it mum.”
ref: 1922, Robert Welles Ritchie, Dust of the Desert, page 149:
glosses: Secret.
Derived terms: mum's the word
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mumm
Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).
Senses: examples: text: Mum, then, and no more.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Ahab has that that’s bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: stop speaking!, stop talking!, hush!
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mums
form: mumming
form: mummed
form: mummed
form: mumm
Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).
Senses: glosses: To act in a pantomime or dumb show.
examples: text: "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
ref: 1857, Hidden Links; Or the Schoolfellows. A Tale, volume 2, page 233:
glosses: To silence.
Derived terms: mummer
mummery
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mumm
Etymology: From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).
Senses: examples: text: Entrust it under solemn Vows / Of Mum and Silence,[…]
ref: 1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: Silence.
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From German Mumme.
Senses: examples: text: The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: mums
Etymology: A variant of ma'am.
Senses: examples: text: “Wy, mum,” said Mr. Weller, “I don’t think you’ll see a many sich, and that’s the truth. But if my son Samivel vould give me my vay, mum, and only dis-pense vith his—might I wenter to say the vurd?” / “What word Mr. Weller?” said the housekeeper, blushing slightly. / “Petticuts, mum,” returned that gentleman, laying his hand upon the garments of his grandson. “If my son Samivel, mum, vould only dis-pense vith these here, you’d see such a alteration in his appearance, as the imagination can’t depicter.”
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “Chapter the Eighth”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC, page 130:
text: [H]e axed if wer stock o' coals was nearly done. I telled him it was, an' we was ill set to get more—but you know mum I didn't think o' him helping us—but howsever, he sent us a sack o' coals next day; […]
ref: 1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Cottagers”, in Agnes Grey. […], London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 176:
text: "A telegruff message, mum, for Mr. William," said the maid, looking at her mistress with eyes opened wide, as she handed the important bit of paper to her master.
ref: 1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “William Belton Does Not Go Out Hunting”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), →OCLC, pages 220–221:
text: Then she took off the hank and looked me straight in the face, but very pleasant, and says: / “Come, now—what’s your real name? / “Wh-what, mum?” / “What’ your real name? Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob?—or what is it?”
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ma'am.
blur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɜː/
ipa: /blɝ/
ipa: /blʌr/
ipa: /bløː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bleː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /blɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: blare
homophone: Blair (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: blurs
form: blurring
form: blurred
form: blurred
Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
Senses: examples: text: to blur a photograph (by moving the camera while taking it)
glosses: To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
examples: text: to blur a manuscript (by handling it while damp)
glosses: To smear, stain or smudge.
glosses: To become indistinct.
examples: text: His eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
glosses: To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
examples: text: Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, / But cannot blur my lost renown.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
examples: text: Then give this box focus to blur the first one: […]
ref: 2003, John Pollock, JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 175:
text: These form elements need to have an onFocus event handler to blur the current focus.
ref: 2001, Martin Webb, Michel Plungjan, Keith Drakard, Instant JavaScript, page 678:
text: Blurring one window and focusing on another window yields the same result of sending the window to the back of the pile.
ref: 2007, Danny Goodman, JavaScript Bible, page 273:
text: A manual way to blur a text object is to press the Tab key, which advances focus to the next field in order and removes it from the current field (blurring it).
ref: 2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, page 329:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transfer the input focus away from.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
Synonyms: sense: make indistinct or hazy
word: pixelate
sense: make indistinct or hazy
word: smooth
sense: make indistinct or hazy
word: fuzz
sense: move input focus from
word: unfocus
Derived terms: ablur
beblur
blurrable
blurrer
blurringly
blur the line
blur the lines
deblur
nonblurring
unblur
blur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɜː/
ipa: /blɝ/
ipa: /blʌr/
ipa: /bløː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bleː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /blɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: blare
homophone: Blair (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: blurs
Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
Senses: glosses: A smear, smudge or blot.
examples: text: The surroundings went by in a blur.
text: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: The fightback when it came was in the [Roger] Federer fashion: unfussy, filled with classy strokes from the back with perfectly timed interventions at the net that confounded his opponent. The third set passed in a bit of a blur, the fourth, which led to the second tie-break, was the most dramatic of the match.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
glosses: Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
examples: text: Unfortunately, a small artificial pupil also tends to increase the amount of diffraction somewhat, but this increase in blur is considerably smaller than the decrease that results from the control of other factors.
ref: 1978, Stanley Coren, Joan S. Girgus, Seeing Is Deceiving: The Psychology of Visual Illusions, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 82:
text: The second option (right-hand page) features a sharp background and a cyclist who appears as a smudge of blur.
ref: 2014, Albrecht Rissler, Photographic Composition: Principles of Image Design, Rocky Nook, Inc., →ISBN:
text: Selectively applying blur to the edges can give the impression of a toy camera or a tilt-shift lens.
ref: 2016, Kat Sloma, Art with an iPhone: A Photographer’s Guide to Creating Altered Realities, Amherst Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Haziness, blurriness.
examples: text: […]with her raillyng sette a great blurre on myne honesty
ref: 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
glosses: A moral stain or blot.
Derived terms: anti-blur
blurless
blurry
Blursday
motion blur
zoom blur
blur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɜː/
ipa: /blɝ/
ipa: /blʌr/
ipa: /bløː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bleː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /blɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: blare
homophone: Blair (both fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more blur
form: most blur
Etymology: From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.
Senses: examples: text: If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid).
ref: 2002 July 22, Hwee Hwee Tan, “A War of Words Over ‘Singlish’”, in Time:
text: Even if you don't know, just pretend as if you know-lah Mike. You are embarrassing me you know. If you are so blur like this, how to accept you as my sidekick man?
ref: 2007, Elangovan, P, Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Lacking awareness; clueless or confused.
Pavlovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pævˈloʊvi.ən/
Etymology: Named after Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov.
Senses: examples: text: A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning.
Derived terms: neo-Pavlovian
neo-Pavlovianism
Pavlovian conditioning
Pavlovianism
Pavlovianly
rearrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːəˈɹeɪndʒ/
Forms: form: rearranges
form: rearranging
form: rearranged
form: rearranged
form: re-arrange
form: reärrange
Etymology: From re- + arrange.
Senses: examples: text: With the extension of Piccadilly Line tube trains, the four tracks were rearranged for parallel working; tube trains run on the middle pair with no platforms at Stamford Brook and Chiswick Park, and District line trains use the outside lines.
ref: 1944 March and April, “Elaborate London Transport Junctions”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
text: For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252:
glosses: To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).
Synonyms: rejigger
reshuffle
Derived terms: rearrangeability
rearrange someone's face
rearrange someone's guts
rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
cul-de-sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌldəsæk/
ipa: /ˈkʌldəsak/
Forms: form: cul-de-sacs
form: culs-de-sac
form: culdesac
form: cul de sac
Etymology: Borrowed from French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”).
Senses: examples: text: Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: His was the end house of a cul-de-sac, with the side wall of a huge brewery beyond.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A blind alley or dead end street.
examples: text: And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.
ref: 2010 January 17, Cara Buckley, “A Suburban Treasure, Left to Die”, in New York Times, page Section MB; Column 0; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 1:
glosses: A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.
examples: text: Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.
ref: 2005 February 14, National Review:
text: The internet is a remarkable tool to find others and coordinate, but as an end to itself can become a cul de sac of frustrated desires and circular arguments.
ref: 2022 June 3, Günseli Yalcinkaya, quoting Mat Dryhurst, “Are you content? How the internet rewired our brains”, in Dazed, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022:
glosses: An impasse.
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.
Related terms: turning circle
Albion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælbi.ən/
ipa: /ˈælbɪən/
Etymology: From Middle English Albion, from Latin Albiōn, an Ancient Gallo-Latin name for Britain (Middle Welsh Albbu, Old Irish Albu), from Proto-Celtic *Albiū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”), whence also Latin albus (“white”) and Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “whiteness, white leprosy”). The primary meaning of the Common Celtic word is "upper world" (as opposed to underworld), with semasiological development similar to e.g. Russian свет (svet, “world; light”).
It is often hypothesised that the Romans took it as connected with albus (“white”), in reference to the white cliffs of Dover.
Senses: examples: text: [M]ightie Albion, father of the bold / And warlike people which the Britaine Iſlands hold. / For Albion the ſonne of Neptune was, / Who for the proofe of his great puiſſance, / Out of his Albion did on dry-foot pas / Into old Gall, that now is cleeped France, / To fight with Hercules, that did auance / To vanquiſh all the world with his matchleſſe might, […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Edwards County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Noble County, Indiana, also located in Albion Township and Jefferson Township. Named after Albion, New York.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Boone County, Nebraska.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Orleans County, New York.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A village in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community in Dane County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of several places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Albion Township.
examples: text: The Reds laid siege to the Albion goal throughout, with Jordan Henderson striking the underside of the bar and Dirk Kuyt the inside of the post.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Any of a number of football clubs in Great Britain, including West Bromwich Albion F.C., a football club from West Bromwich in the West Midlands, Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., a football club from the city of Brighton and Hove in Sussex, and Stirling Albion F.C., a football club in the city of Stirling in central Scotland.
Derived terms: Albionean
Albionian
Albion metal
New Albion
Perfidious Albion
Related terms: word: Alba
viviparously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From viviparous + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In a viviparous manner.
viviparousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viviparous + -ness.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.
vixenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vixenish
form: most vixenish
Etymology: From vixen + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Although he has persuaded Clara to leave the house for a few hours, he turns the key in the lock, just in case her vixenish instinct should lure her unexpectedly back.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), pages 612–613:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
vixenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vixenly
form: most vixenly
Etymology: From vixen + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a vixen; vixenish.
vizarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vizard + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: ...her mother hath intended,
The better to denote her to the doctor,—
For they must all be mask’d and vizarded—
That quaint in green she shall be loose enrob’d,
With ribands pendent, flaring ’bout her head;...
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act IV, scene VI:
glosses: Wearing a vizard.