cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
femfan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmfæn/
rhymes: -ɛmfæn
homophone: femme fan
Forms: form: femfans
form: femfen
Etymology: Blend of female + fan
Senses: examples: text: Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, page 31:
text: So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.
ref: 1953 August, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 133:
text: When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans." Gay people were in the closet.
ref: 2010, Eleanor Arnason, Mammoths of the Great Plains, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A female science fiction fan.
Synonyms: fangirl
fanne
femme fan
femfans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femfan
femfen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of female + fen
Senses: glosses: plural of femfan
femme fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femmefen
Senses: glosses: plural of femme fan
femmefan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femmefans
form: femmefen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of femme fan.
femmefans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femmefan
femmefen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femmefan
earthpigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthpig
belliesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellyful
piedforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piedfort
Japanese wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Japan wax
tomato worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato worms
Senses: glosses: The caterpillar of the five-spotted hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata).
potato worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato worms
Senses: glosses: tomato worm (Manduca quinquemaculata)
unputtied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + puttied.
Senses: glosses: Not puttied.
pitsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitsaws
Etymology: From pit + saw.
Senses: glosses: A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit.
pitsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitsaw
unelucidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + elucidated.
Senses: glosses: Not elucidated.
post mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post mills
Senses: hypernyms: windmill
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mill#Noun
glosses: A form of windmill constructed so that the whole building rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground. It is capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies.
automatic writings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatic writing
end for end
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: One end for the other; in reversed order.
Libavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Libavian
form: most Libavian
Etymology: From Libavius + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Andreas Libavius (ca. 1555–1616), German doctor, alchemist, and chemist.
Mott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Motte.
* Also as an English surname, from a medieval pet form of Matilda. Also see Mould.
* As a German surname, from the root of the noun Moder (“swamp, decomposing mass”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in Missouri.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Hettinger County, North Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Mott cell
misframings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misframing
okayest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
ref: 1976, Records in Review, page 407:
glosses: superlative form of okay: most okay
jumping shrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping shrews
Senses: glosses: Sengi (Macroscelididae)
dress circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress circles
Etymology: Formal dress clothing was generally worn in this gallery.
Senses: examples: text: This concerned complaints arising under the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by blacks denied hotel accommodations in Kansas and Missouri, excluded from the ladies' car of a train in Tennessee, and barred from the dress circle of a theater in San Francisco and from the Grand Opera House of New York City.
ref: 2019, Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution:
glosses: A gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats.
family circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family circles
Senses: glosses: A gallery in a theater, generally one containing inexpensive seats.
examples: text: As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
ref: 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
coordinate_terms: circle of friends
glosses: The social circle comprising one's family.
marine interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: interest at any rate agreed on for money lent upon respondentia and bottomry bonds
bog moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog mosses
form: bogmoss
Etymology: From bog + moss.
Senses: glosses: peat moss; sphagnum
alhidade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alhidades
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of alidade.
alhidades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alhidade
alidad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alidads
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of alidade.
alidads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alidad
lace piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace pieces
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: The main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship.
Ludden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
Derived terms: luddenite
steel wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel wines
Senses: glosses: Wine, usually sherry, in which steel filings were placed for a considerable time; once used as a medicine.
navel gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navel galls
Senses: glosses: A bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle.
dead angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead angles
Senses: glosses: An angle or space which cannot be seen or defended from behind the parapet of a fortification.
landing stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing stages
Senses: examples: text: Close by, across the Parade, are the Customs Examination Rooms and the floating landing stage.
ref: 1950 June, K. Longbottom, “Liverpool Riverside Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.
Related terms: landing place
landing waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing waiters
Senses: glosses: landwaiter
predicative adverbial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicative adverbials
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adverbial that is congruent with the subject of the sentence, present for example in Finnish.
milk leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phlegmasia alba dolens.
synonyms: word: phlegmasia alba dolens
white leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phlegmasia alba dolens.
synonyms: word: phlegmasia alba dolens
neck verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck verses
Senses: examples: text: I haue ſeene a pardon giuen to a man vpon the gallovves, but vvho ſo emboldeneth himſelfe thereuypon, perhaps the rope may be his hire: it is not good to put it vpon the Pſalme of Miſerere, and the neck-verſe, for ſometime he prooues no clarke.
ref: 1619, Samuell Hieron, “The Worth of the Water of Life. Dauids Longing, and Dauids Loue. The Good Fight. [II. Tim[othy] 4. 7.]”, in The Sermons of Master Samuell Hieron, […], London: […] Iohn Beale [and John Legatt printer to the Uniuersitie of Cambridge for Thomas Man, Ioyce Macham, Cantrell Legge, and Simon Waterson], published 1620, →OCLC, pages 222–223:
text: Letter or line know I never a one,
Were't my neck-verse at Hairibee
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: For having learned to read, but never to write, beyond, that is, the trifle of her maiden name, she valued scholarship both by that she had, and that she had not; and in the year after I was breeched, prevailed on my father who, for his part, good man, never advanced beyond the Neck Verse, to bind me to the ancient Grammar School at Bishop's Stortford, then kept by a Mr. G----.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter I, in Shrewsbury:
glosses: The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc.
examples: text: These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing "broad and cause," being presently put to death.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.
neck yoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neck yokes
Senses: glosses: A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harnesses.
glosses: A device with projecting arms for carrying buckets, etc., suspended from one's shoulders.
neck or nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Originally a steeplechase phrase; to win by a neck or to be nowhere—i.e. not counted at all because unworthy of notice.
Senses: examples: text: It is a neck-or-nothing venture to wrest valuable merchandise traffic from road transport.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 45:
glosses: at all costs.
pertinaceously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pertinaceously
form: most pertinaceously
Etymology: From pertinaceous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pertinaciously.
remeasurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remeasurement
steeple engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steeple engines
Senses: glosses: A vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
crossheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosshead
traveloguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveloguers
Etymology: From travelogue + -er.
Senses: glosses: The author of a travelogue.
traveloguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traveloguer
travelblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelblogs
form: travel blog
Etymology: From travel + blog, perhaps influenced by travelogue.
Senses: examples: text: These travelblogs are a form of digital community.
ref: 2010, Christian Schott, Tourism and the Implications of Climate Change:
glosses: A blog describing the author's travels.
travelblogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travelblog
semiviscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + viscid.
Senses: glosses: Partly or somewhat viscid.
semiviscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + viscous.
Senses: glosses: Partly or somewhat viscous.
caking coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bituminous coal which softens and becomes pasty or semiviscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish-black, cellular mass of coke is left.
violent profits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: damages obtained from a tenant wrongfully occupying premises, such as after a lease has expired, and after warning. They are recoverable upon eviction.
wild radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild radishes
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Raphanus raphanistrum (jointed charlock or white charlock).
Hitomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひとみ (Hitomi), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
phytotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotechnologies
Etymology: From phyto- + technology.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (U.S.), Agricultural Biotechnology, page 98,
Capitalizing on the low costs and other advantages of environmental phytotechnologies, many companies, individuals and government agencies are now using plants to restore and protect the environment.
text: A variety of federal environmental laws govern the use of phytotechnology for remediation.
ref: 2006, Harry LeVine, Genetic Engineering: A Reference Handbook, page 33:
text: Engineering of phytotechnologies presents many opportunities for sustainable development of plant-based approaches to water quality issues.
ref: 2007, Dawn Marie Reinhold, Fate of Fluorinated Organic Pollutants in Aquatic Plant Systems, page 1:
glosses: Any biotechnology that uses plants.
phytotechnologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytotechnology
nonstressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-stressful
Etymology: From non- + stressful.
Senses: glosses: Not stressful.
Synonyms: unstressful
-mance
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: to carry out a specified form of divination
Related terms: -mancy
-mancer
-mantic
-mance
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From a rebracketing of romance.
Senses: examples: text: I very much look forward to this on my Dorianmance playthrough.
ref: 2015 February 10, Velynven, Reddit:
text: My Andersmance was taken at a more leisurely pace, so I really got into the depth and grief over his character and his romance.
ref: 2021 December 1, cappyfish, Reddit:
text: My own Galemance run will go full swing once my Astarionmance one wraps up, so more to come soon ☺️
ref: 2023 September 19, Irma 'Aimo (@aimostudio), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
video-games
glosses: A suffix attached to a noun or character's name to create a word for an in-game romance subplot or mechanic.
exercise for the reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From academic writing. One of the first known recorded occurrences of this phrase is in An Elementary Course of Mathematics by Thomas Stephens Davies, Stephen Fenwick, and William Rutherford from 1853.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see exercise, for, the, reader.
examples: text: She does not ask to see the dossier on this man before she goes, even though the co-worker has said that he has seen it, etc. The credibility of this conduct is another matter and is left as an exercise for the reader.
ref: 2003, Wells Earl Draughon, Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Moreover, determining what is “passionate,” “artistic,” and “suitable for young children” is left as an exercise for the reader.
ref: 2006, Hossein Bidgoli, Handbook of Information Security, Information Warfare, Social, Legal, and International Issues and Security Foundations, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 413:
glosses: A matter left to the addressee's judgement to decide.
HAMLET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Acronym of Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made LEthal to Tumor cells, chosen to spell out Hamlet.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein complex of alpha-lactalbumin and oleic acid that induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in healthy cells.
wincest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wince + -est.
Senses: examples: text: Poor is thy love who wincest at the smart
Thou know'st to wring from out dear looks and words
Given to another, making them sharp swords
Wherewith to prick and goad thy hungry heart.
ref: 1868, George Auster, “Jealousy”, in Abel Holt, and other poems, A. W. Bennett:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of wince
wincest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.sɛst/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛst
Etymology: Blend of win + incest
Senses: examples: text: Oh I see, so if they were over the age of 18 you wouldn't be having "wincest" with them as you put it, huh?
ref: 2009 October 22, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “Re: Tomba's pedo website ...ripe for hacking”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):
text: 5. Powerpuff Girls wincest (It's basically an act of hot sex between family members, which makes it WINcest according to www.urbandictionary.com).
ref: 2009 October 27, Ashleigh Johnson, “Playboy steals the Internet's idea”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 27, California State University, Fullerton, page 6:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: incest, usually of two siblings.
raw_tags: with a positive connotation
Rovinj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Croatian Rovinj, ultimately from Latin Arupinum (later Ruvinium, Ruginium, also Mons Rubineus); compare Italian Rovigno.
Senses: glosses: a city in Croatia on the Istrian peninsula in the Adriatic
Related terms: Rovignese
Rovigno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Rovigno.
Senses: glosses: Rovinj
browis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹuːɪs/
Etymology: Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).
Senses: glosses: brewis
unconflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conflated.
Senses: glosses: Not conflated.
HGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of holy guardian angel.
glosses: human granulocytic anaplasmosis
manjos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manjo
manjus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manju
ravin down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ravins down
form: ravining down
form: ravined down
form: ravined down
Senses: examples: text: Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 128:
glosses: To gobble ravenously, devour voraciously
hammer price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer prices
Senses: coordinate_terms: starting price
glosses: The amount of the highest bid at an auction, accepted by the striking of the auctioneer's gavel.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The amount for which the shares of a trader who has defaulted are sold.
hammer prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammer price
Moebius syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Möbius syndrome
Etymology: Named after the neurologist who first described the disability, Paul Julius Möbius.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A rare congenital disorder characterized by facial paralysis and an inability to move one's eyes from side to side.
wikipedia: Paul Julius Möbius
bed rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed rests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedrest.
Möbius syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Moebius syndrome.
bottom-feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom-feeders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bottom feeder.
Priene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient city of Ionia.
razor thin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of razor-thin.
Santa's workshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Santa's workshops
Senses: glosses: The mythical structure, usually envisioned as located at the North Pole, where Santa Claus and a large number of capable elves work tirelessly and gladly year-round to produce all of the toys and other gifts to be delivered throughout the world on Christmas Day.
glosses: A fanciful replica of this structure, temporarily erected in a retail store, shopping mall, or other public venue at Christmastime as an attraction for children and parents.
examples: text: Like a Santa's workshop for the rich, the huge shopping atrium was jammed with frenzied workers pushing to finish by Monday's opening.
ref: 1983 February 11, Robin Herman, Laurie Johnston, “Frenzied Finish For Trump Tower Atrium”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 May 2014:
text: An acid-tongued blonde who writes a legal-affairs column for the right-wing weekly Human Events, Ann Coulter . . . laughed. "There are lots of us busy elves working away in Santa's workshop."
ref: 1999 February 21, Michael Isikoff, “The Right Wing Web”, in Newsweek, retrieved 15 May 2014:
text: U.S. consumers . . . will look to China, as they have since the country a decade ago became a regular Santa's workshop for toys, clothes and electronic gizmos.
ref: 2001 January 8, Aparisim Gosh, “Trapped in the System”, in Time, retrieved 15 May 2014:
text: Next week 500 books not shipped elsewhere directly from the printer will arrive at our house. . . . At that point my Brooklyn brownstone will turn into Santa’s workshop as I package courtesy copies for all the sources who helped and people whose photos appear in the book. I will also send out review copies.
ref: 2012 June 13, Deborah L. Jacobs, “How My Book Became A (Self-Published) Best Seller”, in Forbes, retrieved 15 May 2014:
glosses: A busy, productive large or small work environment, populated by dedicated workers.
Synonyms: sense: busy, productive workplace
word: hive of activity
observation wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observation wheels
Senses: glosses: Ferris wheel
observation wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observation wheel
ascobolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asco- (sac, bag), and Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”).
Senses: glosses: Ascobolus is a genus of fungi in the Ascobolaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution, and contains an estimated 61 species, most of which are coprophilous.
squatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squatments
Etymology: From squat + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Squatter settlement.
labside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lab + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Labside prosthesis modification was required, necessitating a delay before final insertion.
glosses: Relating to activities that happen in the dental laboratory, as opposed to chairside activities.
labside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lab + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The prosthesis was modified labside using a scanner and a CNC milling machine.
glosses: In the dental laboratory.
Related terms: sense: analogous terms ending in -side
word: bedside
sense: analogous terms ending in -side
word: chairside
sense: analogous terms ending in -side
word: webside
Luso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Luena (“city in Angola”).
unpeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpeople
fig-wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig-warts
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found around the genitals, often massed into large groups. It is a variety of condyloma.
loneroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bog-myrtle
Mr. Nice Guys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mr. Nice Guy
mitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mitt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Use only your mitted hand to reach into the oven.
glosses: Covered with or wearing a mitt.
glosses: Having fur on the feet that is a different colour from the rest of the coat.
raw_tags: of a cat
velvet duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet ducks
Senses: glosses: velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca)
saddle bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle bars
Senses: glosses: One of the small iron bars to which the lead panels of a glazed window are secured.
saddle joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle joints
Senses: glosses: In sheet-metal roofing, a joint formed by bending up the edge of a sheet and folding it downward over the turned-up edge of the next sheet.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A joint allowing movement in every direction except axial rotation.
mast coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mast coats
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below.
sail coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sail coats
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A canvas cover laced over furled sails etc. to keep them dry and clean.
coat link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coat links
Senses: glosses: A pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lapels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat.
heyduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heyducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hajduk.
tooth key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth keys
Senses: glosses: A tool used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key.
jack arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack arches
Senses: glosses: An arch of the thickness of one brick.
jack block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars.
jack rafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack rafters
Senses: glosses: One of the shorter rafters used in constructing a hip roof.
glosses: Any secondary roof timber, such as the common rafters resting on purlins in a trussed roof; also, one of the pieces simulating extended rafters, used under the eaves in some styles of building.
rainband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbands
Etymology: From rain + band.
Senses: glosses: A dark band in the yellow portion of the solar spectrum near the sodium line, caused by the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere, and hence sometimes used in weather predictions.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elongated cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elongated cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall.
The spiralling bands of cloud and precipitation that make up the bulk of most tropical cyclones.
rainbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainband
lace leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace leathers
Senses: glosses: Thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts.
ropefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropefishes
form: ropefish
Etymology: From rope + fish.
Senses: synonyms: reedfish
glosses: Erpetoichthys calabaricus
reedfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedfishes
form: reedfish
Etymology: From reed + fish.
Senses: synonyms: ropefish
glosses: Erpetoichthys calabaricus
ropefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropefish
reedfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reedfish
silver lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt.
chain boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain boats
Senses: glosses: A boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc.
chain pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain pipes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An opening in the deck, lined with iron, through which the cable is passed into the lockers or tiers.
yellow metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Muntz metal
qualifier: auctions
glosses: Gold (or some alloy of gold) that cannot be labelled as gold in the UK because it does not bear an Assay Office mark.
Coordinate terms: white metal
fleabeetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleabeetles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flea beetle.
fleabeetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleabeetle
uncordial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncordial
form: most uncordial
Etymology: From un- + cordial.
Senses: glosses: Not cordial.
uncordially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncordially
form: most uncordially
Etymology: From uncordial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncordial manner.
uncordiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + cordiality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncordial.
spikegrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikegrasses
form: spike-grass
Etymology: From spike + grass.
Senses: glosses: Either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata and Uniola latifolia) with broad leaves and large flattened spikelets.
spikegrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spikegrass
spike team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spike teams
Senses: glosses: Three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span.
salmon peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salmon peels
Senses: glosses: A young salmon.
star gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star gauges
form: star gage
Senses: glosses: A long rod, with adjustable points projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of different parts of the bore of a gun.
starwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starwheels
Etymology: From star + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A star-shaped disk, used as a kind of ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions of some machines.
starwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starwheel
stage wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage wagons
form: stage waggon
Senses: examples: text: At the end of 3 days Captain Roger and Rebecca were united and immediately after the Ceremony set off in the Stage Waggon for the Captain's seat in Buckinghamshire.
ref: 1787, Jane Austen, “Frederic and Elfrida”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: A wagon which runs between two places for conveying passengers or goods.
stage carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage carriages
Senses: glosses: stagecoach
over head and ears
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They were over head and ears in debt.
text: “Well, I must say, it is a comfort to have any body like you about one, Helen, for Georgiana […] is really over head and ears in love with that sailor[…]; she thinks of nothing else, I am convinced, though the most spirit-stirring affair in the world is on the tapis—your brother Glentworth’s election.”
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 164–165:
glosses: Completely; wholly; hopelessly; head over heels.
otay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of okay.
hedge school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge schools
Senses: glosses: A rudimentary school in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, held outdoors or in a house or barn.
oatier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of oaty: more oaty
oatiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of oaty: most oaty
repoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repo
repoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repo
light oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
hypernyms: oil#Noun
glosses: The oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief fraction of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene.
hypernyms: lubricating oil#Noun
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glosses: Any of various types of low-viscosity lubricating oil. Sometimes named for principal uses (e.g., spindle oil, sewing machine oil).
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: lamp oil
red silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver.
Toutatis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teutates
Etymology: From Gaulish. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people, nation”).
Senses: qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: A god worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 4179 Toutatis, a main belt asteroid.
photochemotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photochemotherapy
pseudoallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pseudoallergy.
pseudoallergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoallergies
Etymology: From pseudo- + allergy.
Senses: glosses: A condition that resembles an allergy but is not a true allergy.
pseudoallergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoallergy
stop bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop beads
Senses: glosses: The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
stop plank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop planks
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of planks used to form a sort of dam in certain hydraulic works, particularly in canals as a temporary measure following a major leak.
key bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key bolts
Senses: glosses: A bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut.
key wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key wrenches
Senses: glosses: An adjustable wrench in which the movable jaw is made fast by a key.
scapegoatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapegoatisms
Etymology: From scapegoat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of holding somebody accountable as a scapegoat.
keep one's hand in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's hand in
form: keeping one's hand in
form: kept one's hand in
form: kept one's hand in
Senses: glosses: To retain one's skill through regular practice.
DNACPR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
turn cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turncap.
break gates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks gates
form: breaking gates
form: broke gates
form: broken gates
Senses: examples: text: He broke gates to-day; and then there was something that Grove did'nt seem inclined to be very explicit about.
ref: 1868, “Willowstoke”, in The Light blue, a Cambridge university magazine, volume 3, page 210:
text: From 12½ to past 2 at a College meeting: we rusticated 'sine die', an ill-conducted idle reckless vagabond named Moore — he had been gated, but he broke gates, shirked Sunday Evening Chapel & went to a Hotel to drink & smoke till they shut up the house & turned him out: —we did a good deal of Bursarial work.
ref: 2000, Joseph Romilly, M. E. Bury, J. D. Pickles, Romilly's Cambridge Diary 1848-1864:
text: Students were frequently caught by the proctors and bulldogs for breaking gates ( i.e. going absent without leave ) .
ref: 2011, Peter Linehan, St John's College, Cambridge: A History, page 304:
qualifier: universities
glosses: To enter an Oxford or Cambridge college enclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
examples: text: I have had horses break gates with me , and that both with and without getting a fall ; but candour must make me allow I never rode at one contemplating such a result ;
ref: 1846, Harry Hieover, Stable Talk and Table Talk, Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, page 32:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, gates.
move out to move up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves out to move up
form: moving out to move up
form: moved out to move up
form: moved out to move up
Senses: examples: text: In our world of communications, you don't have to move out to move up. When your objectives change and your abilities expand, you'll find your next level of achievement is waiting for you elsewhere in our world.
ref: 1978 May 22, "Come Aboard! Electro '78 Career Cruises" (GTE employment advertisement), Computerworld, p. 85 (retrieved 16 May 2014)
text: After a year of working below my capacity and receiving no response several times when I asked to be moved into the position promised, I realized I'd need to move out to move up.
ref: 2004, Jeffrey G. Allen, The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Now, with flatter organizations, promotions may be less available so you may have to move out to move up.
ref: 2011, Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 11th edition, →ISBN, page 210:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: To advance one's career by leaving one's present employer in order to take a better position with another employer.
Related terms: go along to get along
job-hopping
up or out
giraffe unicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giraffe unicycles
Etymology: Because giraffes are generally tall and slim.
Senses: examples: text: Gino Farfan is a wizard on the flying trapeze, and Barry Lappy does amazing tricks on a "giraffe" unicycle that's taller than he is.
ref: 1976 September, “Coming Up in Boys' Life for October”, in Boys' Life, volume 66, number 9, page 82:
text: Before dark we pull down the five-foot giraffe unicycle and put KariAnna up on it.
ref: 2004, Lars Clausen, One Wheel, Many Spokes: USA by Unicycle, Straight Into Gay America, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Another person she's heard about can ride a giraffe unicycle on the wire, and perform a back tuck off the unicycle and land on the wire.
ref: 2007, Scott McCredie, Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense, New York: Little, Brown, and Co., →ISBN:
glosses: A very tall unicycle.
Synonyms: word: giraffe
giraffe unicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giraffe unicycle
ditto suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditto suits
Senses: glosses: A suit of dittoes.
suit of dittoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suits of dittoes
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: ditto suit
glosses: A suit consisting of matching trousers, coat, and waistcoat.
cold cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold cuts
Senses: glosses: singular of cold cuts
dittoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditto
semismoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + smoked.
Senses: examples: semismoked sausage
glosses: Partly smoked.
capicolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capicola
French dips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French dip
capicoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capicola
haupia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian haupia.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Hawaiian dessert based on coconut milk and starch, somewhat resembling blancmange.
steak bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steak bombs
Senses: glosses: A hot submarine sandwich with steak, salami, provolone cheese, and vegetables.
steak bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak bomb
sunblocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sun + blocking.
Senses: examples: a sunblocking cream or agent
glosses: Absorbing or reflecting the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
Related terms: sunblock
photolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photologs
Etymology: From photo + log.
Senses: glosses: photoblog
photologs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photolog
dog's mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mercurialis perennis, a herbaceous, downy perennial woodland plant with erect stems bearing simple, serrate leaves, found in much of Europe.
horn mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mineral chloride of mercury, having a semitranslucent, horn-like appearance.
siphon condenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphon condensers
Senses: glosses: A condenser for a steam engine, in which the vacuum is maintained by the downward flow of water through a tall vertical pipe.
barren-ground caribou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, a subspecies of caribou found mainly in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, along with western Greenland.
draught engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draught engines
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: An engine used for pumping, raising heavy weights, etc.
draught hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draught hooks
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward.
booby hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby huts
Senses: examples: text: January 5 1835, letter to Charles Matthew
I induced him on Wednesday to accompany Mrs. Eliot and myself in a "Booby Hut," (for such is called a covered sleigh)
glosses: A carriage body put upon sleigh runners.
booby hutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby hutches
Senses: examples: text: There is something humiliating in the idea of getting into a one-horse booby hutch.
ref: 1888, Robert Smith Surtees, Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life:
glosses: A clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.
rose camphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solid odourless substance which separates from rose oil.
rose cold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose colds
Senses: examples: text: One of th' worst fits he ever had," said Martha, "was one time they took him out where the roses is by the fountain. He'd been readin' in a paper about people gettin' somethin' he called 'rose cold' an' he began to sneeze an' said he'd got it an' then a new gardener as didn't know th' rules passed by an' looked at him curious. He threw himself into a passion an' he said he'd looked at him because he was going to be a hunchback. He cried himself into a fever an' was ill all night."
ref: 1910 November – 1911 August, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, published 1911, →OCLC:
glosses: A variety of hay fever, once attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses.
rose engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose engines
Senses: glosses: A machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines.
heel ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heel rings
Senses: glosses: A ring for fastening a scythe blade to the snath.
salt of tartar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English salt tartre. So called because formerly made by heating cream of tartar, or potassium tartrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Potassium carbonate.
salt of soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Sodium carbonate.
salt of colcothar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron(II) sulfate
visual angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye.
angle tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle ties
Senses: glosses: angle brace
monkey rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey rails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship.
monkey gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey gaffs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light gaff attached to the topmast for the better display of signals at sea.
high milling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.
Coordinate terms: low milling
platemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platemarks
Etymology: From plate + mark.
Senses: glosses: A mark or emblem stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, etc.
platemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platemark
plantcutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantcutters
Etymology: From plant + cutter.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of passerine birds in the cotinga family.
plantcutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantcutter