cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ghost word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost words
form: ghostword
Etymology: Coined by Walter William Skeat in 1886; from ghost + word.
Senses: examples: text: Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
ref: 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
text: Anglo-Indian English was recognised in colonial days as having unique features, but it was never called Hobson-Jobson at that time. Therefore, this is really a ghost word, or, rather, a ghost meaning.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At 'Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 65:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: phantom word
glosses: A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.
Related terms: nihilartikel
sniglet
gibbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: gibbets
Etymology: From Middle English gibet, from Old French gibet (French gibet), either from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”) or from Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: gallows
text: Thy Friends without the help of Prophecie, / Read Goals^([sic – meaning Gaols]) and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]
ref: 1702, [Daniel Defoe], “Part I”, in Reformation of Manners, a Satyr, [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 22:
text: No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ſhould not have had four King's Evidences to-day ſwear impudently I was a Papiſt, when I was never at Maſs yet ſince I was born, nor indeed at any other Worſhip theſe twenty Years.
ref: 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Soldier’s Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume II, London, page 37:
text: Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 241-242:
coordinate_terms: cross
crucifix
glosses: An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
synonyms: jib
glosses: The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
glosses: A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
Derived terms: gibbetlike
gibbet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: gibbets
form: gibbeting
form: gibbetting
form: gibbeted
form: gibbeted
form: gibbetted
form: gibbetted
Etymology: From Middle English gibet, from Old French gibet (French gibet), either from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”) or from Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”).
Senses: glosses: To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
glosses: To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: flibberty-gibbet
benight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnaɪt/
ipa: /bɪˈnaɪt/
ipa: /bə-/
homophone: beknight
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: benights
form: benighting
form: benighted
form: benighted
form: benighten
Etymology: From Middle English benyghten, binighten, bynyȝten, equivalent to be- + night.
Senses: examples: text: How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost ſpent.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 47:
text: [H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The public road, however, was tolerably well-made and safe, so that the prospect of being benighted brought with it no real danger.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 4:
qualifier: chiefly passive voice
glosses: To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
examples: text: The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
ref: 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXV: The Oracles”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, stanza 4, page 51, lines 13–14:
glosses: To darken; to shroud or obscure.
examples: text: Can we whose souls are lighted
With Wisdom from on high,
Can we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
ref: 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:
glosses: To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
Derived terms: benighted
benightedly
benightedness
benighter
benighting
benightment
benighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
ipa: /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
ipa: /bə-/
ipa: [-ɾɪd]
homophone: beknighted
Etymology: From benight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of benight
bento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɛnˌtoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Forms: form: bento
form: bentos
form: bentō
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō). Doublet of biandang.
Senses: synonyms: bento box
glosses: A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
glosses: Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
synonyms: word: bento box
extra: a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served
examples: text: Typical Singaporean lunch bento wolved down in 5 minutes
ref: 2020, Chan Joon Yee, Not Quite Over The Hill: Swinging My Way to 60 and Beyond, Dewdrop Books:
glosses: A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: hamburger
kebab
meatball
glosses: A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: masonry
glosses: A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.
Derived terms: bento box
psychosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkəʊsəˈmætɪk/
ipa: /ˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more psychosomatic
form: most psychosomatic
Etymology: From psycho- + somatic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
examples: text: Even the “unconscious” frequently prefers physical problems to psychological ones as suggested by the prevalence of psychosomatic ailments: physical symptoms--for example, stomach aches--caused by an emotional problem. It has been estimated that more than 50% of a physicians’ practice involves the treatment of psychosomatic complaints.
ref: 2000 May 28, Peter Wolson, “A World of Psychophobia”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.
Related terms: somatoform
chromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊmɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or containing chromium, especially in oxidation state 3
Derived terms: acidochromic
bathochromic
chemochromic
chlorochromic acid
chromate
chromic acid
chromic anhydride
chromic chloride
chromic iron
chromicise
chromicize
chromic oxide
dichromic
exochromic
fluochromic acid
hydrochromic
hypsochromic
lithochromic
pentachromic
perchromic acid
piezochromic
polychromic
potassio-chromic sulfate
potassio-chromic sulphate
radiochromic
tetrachromic
trichromic
xanthochromic
Related terms: chromium
chromous
chromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromo- + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or containing chromium, especially in oxidation state 2
Derived terms: chromous acid
chromous chloride
chromous oxide
Related terms: chromic
oxidation state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidation states
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the state of an atom having a particular oxidation number
alpenglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.pən.ɡloʊ/
ipa: /ˈal.pən.ɡləʊ/
Forms: form: alpenglows
Etymology: A partial calque of German Alpenglühen (literally “glow of the Alps”), with the second element replaced by the English equivalent glow.
Senses: examples: text: But Jim was all smiles and, as if in added welcome, alpenglow suddenly flared to flood the summit hot pink and lit up the cabin.
ref: 2021 February 16, Dan Richards, “Peak cabin: a fire-spotter's lonely vantage point in Washington state”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A rosy or reddish glow seen during sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains, especially snow-covered mountains on the opposite side of the sun.
Derived terms: aspenglow
Related terms: Alps
foreglow
afterglow
diadem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī'ədem
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ədɛm/
rhymes: -aɪədɛm
Forms: form: diadems
form: diademe
Etymology: From Middle English diademe, dyademe, from Old French diademe, from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “band, especially worn around a tiara”), from διαδέω (diadéō, “bind around”).
Senses: examples: text: The Apollon wing of the Louvre has a set of historic crowns, diadems and sovereign jewellery.
ref: 2025 October 19, Angelique Chrisafis, “‘Priceless’ jewellery stolen from Louvre in raid by ‘experienced’ thieves”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
examples: text: And vvhen the princely Perſean Diadem, / Shall ouervveigh his vvearie vvitleſſe head, / And fall like mellovved fruit, vvith ſhakes of death, / In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain / Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
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 II, scene i:
text: I am his firſt borne ſonne, that vvas the laſt / That vvare the Imperiall Diademe of Rome, […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A3, recto:
text: The fever’d diadem on my brow / I claim’d and won usurpingly— / Hath not the same fierce heirdom given / Rome to the Caesar—this to me?
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: A crown.
glosses: Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.
Derived terms: diadem lemur
diadem monkey
diadem spider
diadem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dī'ədem
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ədɛm/
rhymes: -aɪədɛm
Forms: form: diadems
form: diademming
form: diademing
form: diademmed
form: diademmed
form: diademed
form: diademed
form: diademe
Etymology: From Middle English diademe, dyademe, from Old French diademe, from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “band, especially worn around a tiara”), from διαδέω (diadéō, “bind around”).
Senses: examples: text: The star of her destiny is the morning star of the new-born century. O’er the Golden Gate it glitters, diademming this youthful Queen of the Pacific in her robes of freedom gorgeously inlaid with gold.
ref: 1902, Horace G. Platt, “California”, in Harr Wagner, editor, Notable Speeches by Notable Speakers of the Greater West, San Francisco, Calif.: The Whitaker and Ray Company (Incorporated), page 215:
text: Paul cites as an example the Macedonian churches and mentions specifically several things about their liberality which adorn their grace and crown it with beauty as the lily work diademmed the pillars of the Temple.
ref: 1920 January, G. J. Rousseau, “The Grace of Liberality”, in The Homiletic Review: An International Magazine of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy; Treats Every Phase of the Minister’s Work, volume LXXIX, number 1, New York, N.Y.; London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, section “Sermonic Literature”, page 72, column 1:
text: From many lands and from far distant climes have come great men and women to rest within our heart and to do great deeds and shape the noble events that have diademmed our crown with stars of splendor.
ref: 1921, Linwood Taft, “Historic Festival and Pageant”, in The Technique of Pageantry, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes and Company, part II, page 143:
text: butt (maomant scoffin, but apoxyomenously deturbaned but thems bleachin banes will be after making a bashman’s haloday out of the euphorious hagiohygiecynicism of his die and be diademmed).
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 353:
text: Vardan, brave champion [or, “martyr”] who routed the enemy,
 You diademmed the Church in your rosy blood.
ref: 1987, The Armenian Review, page 6:
antonyms: undiadem
glosses: To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
midbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midbrains
form: middlebrain
Etymology: From mid- + brain.
Senses: examples: text: When the instinctive and subconscious world of the snake is confronted in initiation, the vital force of the snake rises and floods the second brain, the midbrain, the limbic ring.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 226:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).
Synonyms: mesencephalon
Meronyms: tectum
tegmentum
Related terms: afterbrain
forebrain
hindbrain
Xtianity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1634, from Christianity, replacing Christ with the abbreviation Xt (from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, the letter chi), the first letter of Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + t, the last letter of "Christ"). Compare the more common Xmas. By surface analysis, Xtian + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xtianity.
ref: 1950 December 14, C. S. Lewis, Letter to Sheldon Vanauken:
glosses: Alternative form of Xianity (“abbreviation of Christianity”).
Related terms: Xtian
trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of tree
trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tree
parfait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːfeɪ/
ipa: /pɑːˈfeɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹfeɪ/
ipa: /pɑɹˈfeɪ/
Forms: form: parfaits
Etymology: From French parfait (“perfect”). Doublet of perfect, perfecto, and perfectus.
Senses: examples: text: Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: A French parfait (parfait glacé), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.
glosses: An American parfait, a layered dessert often consisting of fruit, ice cream, pastries, whipped topping, etc. and served in a glass, often a parfait glass.
glosses: A smooth pâté, usually made from liver and flavoured with liqueurs.
Derived terms: parfait spoon
Related terms: parfait amour
parfait d'amour
thixotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more thixotropic
form: most thixotropic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θίξις (thíxis, “touch”) + -tropic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: rheopectic
glosses: Becoming a fluid when agitated but solid or semi-solid when allowed to stand.
raw_tags: of a gel
Related terms: thixotropy
aerial camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerial cameras
Senses: glosses: A camera that is placed on an aircraft or anything else that goes into the sky, used to get a bird's-eye view of locations.
posited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of posit
crimen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪmən/
Forms: form: crimina
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.
Senses: examples: 1884, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 3rd Series, Volume V, page 416,
Such presumptions are common in connection with crimen and affinity.
2006, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, Volumes 29-30, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, page 7,
Third, some might think that Michael avoids the impediment of crimen because a civil court approved his petition to deprive Terri of nutrition and hydration.
topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: impediment of crime
coordinate_terms: conjugicide
glosses: An impediment to Catholic marriage due to a conspiracy to murder or a death of a previous spouse.
Related terms: crimen adulterii
crimen exceptum
crimen falsi
crimen injuria
nullum crimen
bigamy
diriment
diriment impediment
pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊks/
ipa: /poʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
rhymes: -oʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poke
pokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊks/
ipa: /poʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
rhymes: -oʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of poke
prod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒd/
ipa: /pɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: prods
form: prodding
form: prodded
form: prodded
Etymology: Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.
Senses: glosses: To poke, to push, to touch.
examples: text: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref: 2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86:
glosses: To encourage, to prompt.
glosses: To prick with a goad.
prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒd/
ipa: /pɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: prods
Etymology: Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.
Senses: glosses: A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
glosses: A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
examples: text: "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
glosses: A poke.
examples: text: The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second.
ref: 1983, Popular Mechanics:
glosses: A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
Derived terms: cattle prod
on the prod
stock prod
prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒd/
ipa: /pɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: prods
Etymology: Shortened from production.
Senses: examples: text: We've hit ten million users in prod today.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
examples: text: Check our BBS for the latest prods.
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A production; a created work.
prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒd/
ipa: /pɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: prods
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).
prods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prod
thixotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θίξις (thíxis, “touching”) + Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “turning”, from τρέπω (trépō, “turn, change”)) + -y.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The reduction of viscosity with increased shear
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The property of certain gels whereby they become fluids when agitated and return to being solid or semi-solid when allowed to stand.
Related terms: thixotropic
DIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It is still early for the US to have a comprehensive picture of the impact of the strikes, and none of the sources described how the DIA assessment compares to the view of other agencies in the intelligence community.
ref: 2025 June 24, Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, “Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Defense Intelligence Agency.
glosses: Initialism of Department of Indian Affairs.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Denver International Airport.
Coordinate terms: sense: agency on indigenous peoples
word: BIA
Related terms: sense: Canadian agency on indigenous peoples
word: DIAND
DIA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of diastolic blood pressure, found on blood pressure monitors.
scienter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈɛntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /saɪˈɛntɚ/
Etymology: From Latin scienter (“knowingly”), from sciō (“know”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: deliberately, knowingly
scienter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈɛntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /saɪˈɛntɚ/
Etymology: From Latin scienter (“knowingly”), from sciō (“know”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: knowledge of one's own illegal acts; intent
Llanelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɬəˈnɛɬi/
ipa: /θlænˈɛθ.li/
Forms: form: Llanelly
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5000).
glosses: Alternative form of Llanelly, Monmouthshire (for the village, not the community).
Derived terms: Llanelli Rural
charnel house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charnel houses
form: charnel-house
Senses: examples: text: It's words cast long - long shadows
 From the doorway of the Charnel House
 The ghosts of the Charnel House
 They were born to deathless guilt
 The ghosts of the Charnel House
 They were born to shameful night
ref: 2014, “Ghosts of the Charnel House”, performed by Primordial:
synonyms: crypt
ossuary
hypernyms: vault
coordinate_terms: deadhouse
morgue
mortuary
glosses: A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored.
anthropodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropo- + dermic.
Senses: examples: text: The Necronomicon is a fictional anthropodermic book.
glosses: Of a book: bound in human skin.
Derived terms: autoanthropodermic
-gram
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -gramme
Etymology: From Ancient Greek suffix -γραμμα (-gramma), from γράμμα (grámma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”), from γράφω (gráphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”).
Senses: glosses: Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded.
examples: nonagram
glosses: A star polygon, with the number of points indicated by the numeral prefix.
Synonyms: sense: that written, drawn
word: -graph
Derived terms: word: cisternogram
word: correlogram
word: cosmogram
word: engram
word: gyrogram
word: histogram
word: interferogram
word: logogram
english: a time cross-section producing and using data for a specific weather station on the ground
translation: a time cross-section producing and using data for a specific weather station on the ground
word: meteogram
word: monogram
english: a type of probabilistic model for predicting the next item in a sequence
translation: a type of probabilistic model for predicting the next item in a sequence
word: n-gram
word: nastygram
word: Ntigram
word: photogram
word: pictogram
word: radargram
word: reflectogram
word: renogram
word: scintigram
word: sonogram
word: spectrogram
word: stereogram
word: trigram
word: zymogram
word: Lexical
word: alphagram
word: ambigram
word: anagram
word: ideogram
word: semantogram
word: pangram
word: Types of message
word: candygram
word: datagram
word: strippergram
word: telegram
word: Types of geometric figures
word: decagram
word: enneagram
english: a star polygon that has eleven points
translation: a star polygon that has eleven points
word: hendecagram
word: heptagram
word: hexagram
word: octagram
word: parallelogram
word: pentagram
Related terms: Instagram
'Gram
-ide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French -ide m, from Latin -idēs.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of -id.
-ide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French -ide f, from Latin -is.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of -id.
-ide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪd/
Etymology: Generalized in the early 19th c. from oxide (which has its ending from French acide, itself from Latin -idus in acidus), and gradually displaced earlier -uret, both introduced in the English translation of de Morveau, Lavoisier et al.'s 1787 book Méthode de nomenclature chimique.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of related compounds - azide, polysaccharide, glycoside.
glosses: A binary compound - bromide, arsenide, palladide.
glosses: Any of a group of several elements - lanthanide.
sarabande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarabandes
form: saraband
form: sarabrand
form: zarabanda
Etymology: Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A 16th-century Spanish dance.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stately Baroque dance in slow triple time.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music for either of these dances.
Nicole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈkəʊl/
ipa: /nɪˈkoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology: Borrowed from the French Nicole, the feminine form of Nicolas (“Nicholas”).
Senses: examples: text: Nicole. They were all named Ashley or Nicole or Ashley Nicole. A sultry temptress of thirteen was after poor innocent Bob who was still a child, although lately his voice had been getting deeper […]
ref: 1999, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Acts of Malice, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Nicola
Nicki
Nikki
Nicolle
hayrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayricks
Etymology: From hay + rick. Compare Middle English heyrek (from related Old English hrēac).
Senses: examples: text: It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: haystack
wynd
glosses: A haystack.
Hypernyms: rick
Coordinate terms: hay-cock
hay wain
stook
hayride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayrides
Etymology: From hay + ride.
Senses: glosses: A recreational ride in a vehicle full of hay.
Synonyms: sense: ride
word: hayrack ride
Derived terms: haunted hayride
hawser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːzə/
ipa: /hɔzɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hawsers
Etymology: From Middle English hauser, haucer, from Anglo-Norman haucer, from Vulgar Latin *altiāre (“to raise”), derived from Latin altus (“high”). Altered in English by mistaken association with hawse and perhaps haul. Compare French aussière, haussière.
Senses: examples: text: The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. All around the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Ebb-tide Runs”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 185:
text: A hatchet to my hawser? all adrift to go?
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML CHAPTER 26].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.
Derived terms: hawser iron
hawser-laid
hawser-laid rope
Related terms: word: hawse
word: hawse
BFPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BFPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Forces Post Office.
bewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Forms: form: more bewitched
form: most bewitched
Senses: examples: text: "I have heard my grandmother tell that story, and she used also to tell another about a mill-goblin somewhere up in the country, where no one could get anything ground at the mill, it was so bewitched."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 157:
glosses: Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.
qualifier: Of a person
glosses: entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.
Derived terms: bewitchedly
bewitchedness
unbewitched
water bewitched
widow bewitched
bewitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewitch
biomanipulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomanipulations
Etymology: From bio- + manipulation.
Senses: glosses: the deliberate alteration of an ecosystem by adding or removing species, especially predators
air-conditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air-condition
air-conditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Alternative spelling of air conditioning.
loci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈləʊkaɪ/
enpr: lō'sī
ipa: /ˈloʊsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈloʊkaɪ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊkaɪ
rhymes: (RP) -əʊsaɪ
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊkaɪ
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊsaɪ
Senses: examples: text: Next generation sequencing or a range of nuclear loci for Sanger sequencing will be used for higher level phylogenetic questions.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, SYSTEMATICS OF HYPER-DIVERSE MOTH SUPERFAMILIES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURAL PESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS, AND FOOD SECURITY:
glosses: plural of locus
air conditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-conditioning
Senses: glosses: The state of temperature and humidity produced by an air conditioner.
examples: text: This car has air conditioning.
glosses: An air conditioner or system of air conditioners.
Synonyms: A/C
Derived terms: HVAC
Related terms: air conditioner
air conditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air-conditioning.
editorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of editorial
editors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdɪtɚz/
ipa: /ˈɛdɪtəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of editor
ENSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Entertainments National Services Association.
succor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His hand, that oft the enemy did lame, / He reach't to thoſe whoſe ſuccors were diſmayde; [...]
ref: 1583, George Whetstone, A Remembraunce of the Life, Death, and Vertues of the Most Noble and Honourable Lord, Thomas Late Erle of Sussex, […] VVho Deceased at Barmesey the 11th of June 1583, London: Imprinted by John Wolfe & Richard Jones, →OCLC; republished as A Remembraunce of the Life, Death, and Vertues of the Most Noble and Honourable Lord, Thomas Late Earle of Sussex (Frondes Caducæ), [Auchinleck, East Ayrshire]: Reprinted, at the Auchinleck Press, by Alexander Boswell, 1816, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of succour.
succor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: succors
form: succoring
form: succored
form: succored
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: succor
form: succor
form: succored
form: succor
form: succorest
form: succored
form: succoredst
form: succors
form: succoreth
form: succored
form: succor
form: succored
form: succor
form: succored
form: succor
form: -
form: succoring
form: succored
Senses: examples: text: Say to the true believers, Sufficeth it not, that God succoreth you with three thousand of his angels? Truly, if you have patience, and fear God, he will come to succor you at need, and your Lord will assist you with five thousand of his angels sent from heaven; [...]
ref: 1835, “Chapter III. Entitled, the Lineage of Joachim, […]”, in The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Translated from the Arabic— […], Lancaster, Pa.: Printed for the publisher, by Boswell & M’Cleery, […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: Not him alone, who seeks thy clemency, / Thou succorest, but oftentimes in sooth, / Outrunnest prayer with liberality.
ref: 1854, Dante [Alighieri], “Canto XXXIII”, in C[harles] B[agot] Cayley, transl., Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Paradise: Translated in the Original Ternary Rhyme, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 245, lines 16–18:
text: He [Charlemagne] was very forward in succoring the poor, and in that gratuitous generosity which the Greeks call alms, so much so that he not only made a point of giving in his own country and his own kingdom, but when he discovered that there were Christians living in poverty in Syria, Egypt, and Africa, at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Carthage, he had compassion on their wants, and used to send money over the seas to them.
ref: 1960, Einhard, translated by Samuel Epes Turner, The Life of Charlemagne (Ann Arbor Paperbacks; AA35), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, published 1991, →ISBN, paragraph XXVII, page 55:
text: Celia had lain less asleep than in a state of suspended animation, succored by the sound of Bella's steady breathing and Sylvie's warmth beside her on the bed.
ref: 2010, Myla Goldberg, chapter 2, in The False Friend: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
text: The [Holy] Spirit takes on Himself a part of the burden, by which our weakness is oppressed; so that He not only helps and succors us but lifts us up, as though He went under the burden with us.
ref: 2019 November, John Calvin, “July 15: Supported by God’s Hands”, in Susan Hill, compiler, Captivating Grace: 365 Devotions for the Reformed Thinker, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of succour.
diets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diet
diets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diet
turds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turd
turds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turd
any time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anytime.
any time
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anytime.
injurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʒʊəɹɪəs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdʒɔːɹɪəs/
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊɹi.əs/
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɝi.əs/
Forms: form: more injurious
form: most injurious
Etymology: From Middle English injurious, from Anglo-Norman enjurius, from Latin iniūriōsus; analysable as injury + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
glosses: Causing harm to one's reputation; invidious, defamatory, libelous, slanderous.
Synonyms: scathel
harmful
hurtful
defamatory
invidious
libelous
slanderous
Derived terms: injuriously
injuriousness
non-injurious
noninjurious
preinjurious
self-injurious
subinjurious
uninjurious
tenebrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/
Forms: form: more tenebrous
form: most tenebrous
form: tenebrious
Etymology: ]
From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).
Senses: examples: text: Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
Met in a dusky arch,[…]
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part II, page 94:
text: […]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, “Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem”, in Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.
ref: 1993, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, “Works and Days”, in Natalie Zemon Davis, Arlette Farge, editors, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Although Ishiguro’s novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emo- tional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, “against tenebrous historical backdrops.”
ref: 2008, Kazuo Ishiguro, “Introduction”, in Brian W. Shaffer, Cynthia F. Wong, editors, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page xi:
synonyms: word: blear
word: caliginous
word: cimmerian
word: crepuscular
word: dark
word: darksome
word: darkling
word: dim
word: dimpsy
word: dingy
word: dull
word: dusky
word: fuliginous
word: gloomy
word: leaden
word: lightless
word: mirksome
word: murky
word: murksome
word: obscure
word: shady
word: somber
word: sombrous
word: stygian
word: sunless
word: swarthy
word: tenebrous
word: twilightish
word: umbrageous
word: unilluminated
glosses: Dark and gloomy; obscure.
wikipedia: Washington Monument
Derived terms: tenebrously
tenebrousness
Related terms: word: Tenebrae
word: tenebricose
word: tenebrific
word: tenebrificous
word: tenebrionid
word: tenebrism
word: tenebrity
word: tenebrize
word: tenebrose
word: tenebrosity
Mutt and Jeff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From characters in a comic strip by U.S. cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, first published in 1908.
Senses: examples: 1962, "Facial Farceur" (film review of A Matter of WHO), Time, 10 Aug.,
The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up, Mutt-and-Jeff fashion.
glosses: Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, of whom one is tall and the other short.
Mutt and Jeff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mutt and Jeff
form: most Mutt and Jeff
Etymology: From characters in a comic strip by U.S. cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, first published in 1908.
Senses: glosses: Deaf.
sybarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪbəɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪbəˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: sybarites
Etymology: The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite.
ref: 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 87
text: Lisa (Sian Breckin), the blondest and wildest of the women; Kim (Jamie Winstone), who is ready and willing; and Tammi (Nichola Burley), the most reluctant sybarite, are from Leeds.
ref: 2009 January 22, Stephen Holden, “Passion and Pain at Sea, With Fatal Consequences”, in New York Times:
text: Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite. He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.
ref: 2011 December 16, William Grimes, “Christopher Hitchens, Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, Dies at 62”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: voluptuary
word: bon viveur
word: epicure
word: epicurean
word: hedonist
word: high-stepper
word: lapling
word: lotus-eater
word: pleasure seeker
word: pleasurist
word: sensualist
word: softling
word: sybarite
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
antonyms: hedonophobe
glosses: A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.
sybarite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪbəɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɪbəˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: more sybarite
form: most sybarite
Etymology: The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: synonyms: word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: Babylonian
word: decadent
word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicureous
word: epicurish
word: hedonic
word: hedonistic
word: intemperate
word: lotus-eating
word: luxurious
word: self-indulgent
word: sensualistic
word: sinful
word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
word: sybaritic
extra: of or having the qualities of a sybarite; dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent
glosses: Synonym of sybaritic (“of or having the qualities of a sybarite; dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent”).
huggermugger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more huggermugger
form: most huggermugger
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hugger-mugger.
huggermugger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huggermuggers
form: huggermuggering
form: huggermuggered
form: huggermuggered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hugger-mugger
swale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: swales
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).
Senses: glosses: A low tract of moist or marshy land.
glosses: A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
glosses: A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
examples: text: The stored water creates an underground reservoir that aids plant growth for tens of feet below the swale. Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.
ref: 2009, Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
examples: text: Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
swale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: swales
Etymology: See sweal.
Senses: glosses: A gutter in a candle.
swale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: swales
form: swaling
form: swaled
form: swaled
Etymology: See sweal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”).