cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
contumeliously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contumeliously
form: most contumeliously
Etymology: From contumelious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, Because I would take away all occasions which men might have to incur the danger of the penalty allowed by the Parliament by hindring them so to doe, at least untill I could so provide for my selfe, as that I need not to be extreamly rigorous against any, but such as shall contumeliously affront the Authority of my grant.
ref: 1648, William Petty, A Declaration Concerning the newly invented Art of Double Writing., page 4:
glosses: In a contumelious, insolent manner.
reflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflation
apaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apache
ebriosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer
to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden:
glosses: Drunkenness or intoxication from alcohol, especially as a habitual state.
mnestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to memory.
Related terms: mnemonic
barge master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barge masters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bargemaster.
diploës
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diploë
Arline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I have lost the taste of joy, and the sight of youth and beauty recalls to my memory that treasure of both, my loved and lost Arline.
ref: 1843 Michael William Balfe - Alfred Bunn, The Bohemian Girl, Act II, Scene II
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of older usage, variant of Arlene.
Arleen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene.
summum genus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summa genera
Etymology: From Latin. Literally “highest genus”.
Senses: examples: text: Summum genus, in its strictest sense, is that all-extensive term under which every object of whatever kind may be classed, and of every one of which it may be affirmatively predicated: the word which is generally used to denote such genus is substance, or, as some call it, being. ... ; thus by ornithologist, bird would be regarded as the summum genus under which he would arrange the different subdivisions of birds ...
ref: 1827, John Huyshe, A Treatise on Logic, on The Basis of Aldrich:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
glosses: The highest, most all-inclusive genus; the one that is not a species of any other genus.
Warsaw Pact
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Warsaw Pact
Senses: examples: text: The Warsaw Pact formalized Moscow's dominance in Europe's east.
glosses: A pact (long-term alliance treaty) signed on May 14, 1955 in Warsaw by the Soviet Union and its Communist military allies in Europe.
glosses: The Warsaw Treaty Organization that was established by the above treaty; a strategic alliance comparable and opposed to NATO.
Synonyms: sense: treaty
alt: TFCMA
word: Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
bear witness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bears witness
form: bearing witness
form: bore witness
form: borne witness
Senses: examples: text: He hesitated to bear witness against them in court for fear of reprisals by the felons' accomplices
glosses: To deliver a testimony, especially as witness
examples: text: The dubious state of the whole society bears witness of years of misrule
text: In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:
glosses: To prove, demonstrate
Synonyms: sense: deliver a testimony
word: testify
Derived terms: bear false witness
haplorrhine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haplorrhines
Etymology: From Neo-Latin Haplorrhini, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “simple”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nose”).
Senses: glosses: Any primate of the evolved clade (half of the order) which comprises all apes (including hominoids), monkeys and even (prosimian) tarsiers
Synonyms: alt: primate
word: dry-nosed
supposably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supposable + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: conceivably#Adverb
imaginably#Adverb
glosses: Able to be supposed or conjectured.
examples: Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
glosses: Supposedly.
let someone have it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets someone have it
form: letting someone have it
form: let someone have it
form: let someone have it
Senses: examples: text: At dawn we really let 'em have it with a 30 minute artillery barrage.
text: […] purchased a heavy-duty, light-weight, stainless steel purse, complete with a flame throwers […] and a special attachment that let anyone stupid enough to make a derogatory remark about Gil's sexual persuasion have it right in the family jewels with a bronzed golf shoe.
ref: 1976 August 14, Bill Russell, “Gil Hustle Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 11:
glosses: To attack someone with great force.
examples: text: When I came home, he let me have it for wrecking the car.
glosses: To verbally assail someone.
examples: text: When he showed me that he'd gotten the insurance certificate for our old car, I decided to let him have it.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, have, it.
neoumbilicoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoumbilicoplasties
Etymology: From neo- + umbilic + -o- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical creation of a new belly button.
jumps someone's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump someone's bones
jumping someone's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump someone's bones
jumped someone's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump someone's bones
metric tons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metric ton
gigagramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigagrammes
Etymology: From giga- + gramme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gigagram.
gigagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigagramme
teragramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teragrammes
Etymology: From tera- + gramme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of teragram.
teragrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teragramme
petagramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petagrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of petagram.
petagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petagramme
exagramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exagrammes
Etymology: From exa- + gramme.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exagram.
exagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exagramme
zettagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zettagramme
abat-voix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑˌbɑvˈwɑ/
ipa: /ɑˌbɑvˈwɑz/
Forms: form: abat-voix
form: abatvoix
Etymology: Borrowed from French abat-voix, from French abattre (“to beat down”) + voix (“voice”).
Senses: glosses: A device for reflection of sound, as in a sounding board over a pulpit or rostrum.
squaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squaliform
form: most squaliform
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a shark
squaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaliforms
Senses: glosses: Any shark of the order Squaliformes
dress coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress coats
Senses: glosses: A usually black evening tailcoat worn by men as part of the white tie dress code.
Synonyms: clawhammer coat
swallowtail coat
tailcoat
dress coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dress coat
recueil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recueils
Etymology: From Middle English recuel, recuyell, recule, from French recueil.
Senses: examples: text: Thus parrot dothe pray you
with hert most tender
To rekyn with this recule now
And it to remember
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
glosses: compendium, literary compilation
recueils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recueil
podcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podcat
precation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precations
Senses: examples: text: The Litany […] was ordered to be sung immediately before High Mass, by the priests "with others of the choir" […] and this solemn form of precation, like so many other things, assumed the livery of uniformity.
ref: 1881, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England, volume 2, Routledge, page 431:
text: The full form of the precation was God give you a good even.
ref: 1893, Charles P. G. Scott, “English Words Which Hav Gaind or Lost an Initial Consonant by Attraction,”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 24, page 123:
text: The present inquiry therefore aims to pay more than lipservice to the notion of drama as performance, and to make more than a gesture towards the idea of theatre as a composite art, one that mixes music and mime, dance and song, painting and design, poetry and narrative, and much else. It is precation and response, and seeks out evidence of the manipulation of the audience and its powers of perception.
ref: 1996, J. L. Styan, The English Stage, →ISBN, pages xiii–xiv:
glosses: A prayer or act of praying; an earnest request.
Derived terms: precative
precatory
Sevan trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sevan trout
Senses: synonyms: ishkhan
glosses: A highly-valued endangered species of freshwater trout, Salmo ischchan, that is native only to Sevan, a mountain lake in Armenia.
ishkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ishkhans
Etymology: From Armenian իշխան (išxan).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Sevan trout.
synonyms: word: Sevan trout
glosses: a feudal title in medieval Armenia
ishkhans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ishkhan
it's someone's funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: that's someone's funeral
Senses: examples: text: He can make as many empty tubes and corrugations out of me as he likes. It's his funeral.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: And then having the nerve to pray to God. It's her pimp, if she wants to do it it's her funeral.
ref: 1936, Caroline Slade, Sterile Sun:
text: "Well, it's your funeral," Charlie said. "If you like it, I should worry." "Who says I like it?" the other lad said, angrily. "What else can I do?"
ref: 1946, Winston Clewes, Sweet River in the Morning:
glosses: Someone's decisions or actions will bring undesirable consequences only on that person.
Related terms: go one's own way
have it coming
have it your way
on one's head
serve someone right
so be it
ileal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ileum + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ileum.
Derived terms: gastroileal
ileally
ileal papilla
ileoileal
intraileal
jejunoileal
nasoileal
ureteroileal
gaillarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaillardes
Senses: examples: text: At its most elemental, the gaillarde consisted of four steps or hops (pieds en l'air or grèves), a jump (saut), and a pose (posture), for which the combination was known as the cinq pas or "five steps."
ref: 2005, Kate van Orden, Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France:
text: The connection of these three examples of the gaillarde step is unmistakeable. Magri says that it is one of the steps — along with jeté, chassé, and glissade — used "by all three kinds of Ballerini: Seri, mezzo Carattere and Grottesco" when two dancers dance in a Carè or square formation.
ref: 2005, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, editor, The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-century Stage:
text: Arbeau gives a lengthy description of the gaillarde, the second dance of the First Pas-de-Trois from Agon.
ref: 2006, Louis Andriessen, Elmer Schönberger, The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky:
glosses: Alternative form of galliard (dance)
gaillardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaillarde
retrocyclin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrocyclins
Etymology: From retro- + cyclin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An artificial human theta-defensin shown to be effective against HIV and other viruses.
retrocyclins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrocyclin
retrodicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrodict
retrodicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrodict
retrodicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrodict
stubbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stubbily
form: most stubbily
Etymology: From stubby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stubby way.
stubbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stubby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being stubby.
dungmixen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungmixens
Etymology: From dung + mixen.
Senses: glosses: dung heap
spikeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spike + -less.
Senses: examples: text: As the leader in spikeless golf shoes, we have what you want.
ref: 1998, Golf Journal, volumes 51-52, page 120:
text: Yet on islands in the Indian Ocean that lack insouciant ramblers and rapacious herbivores the palms are spikeless – just as birds on islands that traditionally had no humans or cats tend to be tame[…]
ref: 2006, Colin Tudge, The Secret Life of Trees:
glosses: Without a spike or spikes.
salmony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salmony
form: most salmony
Etymology: From salmon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This stream, which forms the Cascade de Con, abounds with a delicious little trout, the best flavoured and the most salmony I ever ate.
ref: 1840, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting review:
text: The color is pretty much the shade seen in Queen Alexandra, a salmony bronze, one of the kinds commonly called off-colors...
ref: 1906, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticulture:
glosses: Resembling salmon or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: salmonlike
dungmixens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungmixen
uncheckered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncheckered
form: most uncheckered
form: unchequered
Etymology: From un- + checkered.
Senses: glosses: Not checkered; constant, unvarying.
Synonyms: regular
unvaried
steady
fauvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauvettes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fauvette, diminutive of fauve (“fawn-coloured”).
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand a young owl, which had as yet only been fed by hand, began of itself to eat by devouring a fauvette which was lodged with it.
ref: 1853, James Rennie, Bird-architecture, page 287:
glosses: Any of a number of small songbird, such as nightingales or warblers.
fauvettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauvette
Bloomsday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbluːmz.deɪ/
Forms: form: Bloomsdays
Etymology: From the name of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Ulysses + -s- + day.
Senses: examples: text: I happened into a meeting of the James Joyce Society last Bloomsday (June 16) at the Gotham Book Mart in New York, an unlikely stop for me; for such gatherings usually have the odor of formaldehyde about them. But not this one.
ref: 1993, William Kennedy, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: An annual celebration (on 16 June, in Dublin and elsewhere) of the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the events depicted in his novel Ulysses.
wikipedia: Leopold Bloom
Ulysses (novel)
unchequered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchequered
form: most unchequered
Etymology: From un- + chequered.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uncheckered.
vauriens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaurien
metacommunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacommunity
barium meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barium meals
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preparation of barium sulfate (a radioopaque compound) which the patient ingests for the purpose of producing clear radiographs of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A diagnostic procedure based on observing the barium meal's progress in the digestive tract.
examples: text: The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.
ref: 2017, Nancy Howell Lee, Peter Dale Scott, Bertram Gross, Forbidden Bookshelf's Resistance in America Collection:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The deliberate release of traceable information to a suspect to see whether they leak it.
electrodepositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrodeposition
electroless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of an external electric current.
raw_tags: of a metal plating process
fossilhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossil + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Tossed by the waves, I felt like a trilobite on its way to fossilhood.
ref: 2002, J Neil C Garcia, The Likhaan book of poetry and fiction, 2000:
text: In one of our stranger follies, we deny ourselves and our loved ones the opportunity of a true lasting memorial — fossilhood — with extravagant protections...
ref: 2008, Alan Weisman, The World Without Us:
glosses: The state of being a fossil (mineralized remains).
examples: text: A seductive and dangerous media revolution was under way, and literary fossilhood, about which he had once teased Emerson...
ref: 2001, Bruce Michelson, Literary wit:
text: It has come to be a mark of narrowness and fossilhood to be a devout believer in Christ and His Cross.
ref: 2006, Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture:
glosses: The state of being a fossil (old-fashioned).
paleoanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paleoanthropic
form: most paleoanthropic
form: palaeanthropic
form: paleanthropic
form: palaeoanthropic
Etymology: From paleo- + anthropic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to early forms of fossil humans, as Neanderthal
dressing tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressing table
sloshings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloshing
palaeoanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palaeoanthropic
form: most palaeoanthropic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoanthropic.
Hallantide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Allantide
form: Hallontide
form: Hollandtide
form: Hollantide
Senses: examples: text: Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupied
ref: c. 17th century, William Browne, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock, volume 2, published 1894, page 229:
text: Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)
ref: 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's, page 17:
qualifier: Isle of Man; Northampton; Worcestershire; Isle of Wight; Somerset; Isle of Man; Northampton; Worcestershire; Isle of Wight; Somerset
glosses: All Saints' Day
Related terms: Hallan apple
Hallan cake
Hallan day
Hallan night
lightbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightbars
Etymology: From light + bar.
Senses: synonyms: cherry light
glosses: A bar mounted on the roof of a vehicle, such as a police car, with rotating beacons or other lights to provide a visual warning.
lightbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightbar
rehat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehats
form: rehatting
form: rehatted
form: rehatted
Etymology: From re- + hat.
Senses: examples: text: The 6000-strong force was to have six infantry battalions, four being rehatted ECOMOG units already serving in Sierra Leone and two coming from Kenya[…]
ref: 2006, William J Durch, Twenty-first-century peace operations:
text: Aho takes note of the deficiencies in the contingent-owned equipment of rehatted troops, and requests the Secretary-General to review options[…]
ref: 2007, Yearbook of the United Nations 2005:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To redeploy troops with different hats, uniforms, etc.
rehat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehats
Senses: glosses: The rules and traditions governing the Sikh lifestyle and orthodoxy.
rehats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehat
rehats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehat
rehatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehat
rehatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehat
blown away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow away
blanscue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanscues
Senses: glosses: a misfortune, an unforeseen accident
naat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːt
Forms: form: naats
Etymology: From Classical Persian نعت, which is from Arabic نَعْت (naʕt).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: poetry in praise of the prophet Muhammad
ladies of the night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady of the night
halster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halsters
Senses: glosses: One who draws a barge alongside a river using a rope.
regenerative medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regenerative medicines
Etymology: First coinage is widely attributed (incorrectly as it turns out) to William Haseltine (founder of Human Genome Sciences). From the work of Michael Lysaght (Brown University), his team "first found the term in a 1992 article on hospital administration by Leland Kaiser. Kaiser’s paper closes with a series of short paragraphs on future technologies that will impact hospitals. One such paragraph had ‘‘Regenerative Medicine’’ as a bold print title and went on to state, ‘‘A new branch of medicine will develop that attempts to change the course of chronic disease and in many instances will regenerate tired and failing organ systems.’’
Senses: glosses: Medicine that replaces or regenerates human cells, tissue or organs, to restore or establish normal function.
Villány
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hungary.
sacraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrarium
sacraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrary
sacrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrist
freetard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freetards
Etymology: Blend of freedom + retard, by surface analysis, free + -tard.
Senses: glosses: A zealous advocate of free software.
freetards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freetard
lawyerball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lawyer + ball, after the names of sports such as football and basketball.
Senses: examples: text: I think this answers your question. It is sufficiently vague enough that it doesn't answer your question *specifically* if you're playing lawyerball, but I think the meaning is clear.
ref: 1998, Eddie Auerbach, “Rules Question: Straddling Foul Line OK?”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):
text: ...Ashcroft/Carnahan is now 50/50, and the bulk of the MO vote is from St. Louis. All hail the dead man! (Should be an interesting court battle, although the Republicans ought to accept the popular will and not play lawyerball).
ref: 2000, Steve Ferra, “(NBC) Turning away from FL for a minute...”, in rec.music.artists.springsteen (Usenet):
text: If your attorney and the city's attorney wrestle control of the negotiating process away from you, they will immediately start playing "lawyerball."
ref: 2007, Ronald J York, The Police Negotiator's Handbook:
glosses: A supposed game consisting of pedantic legal wrangling.
eulogia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eulogiae
Etymology: From Latin eulogia, from Ancient Greek εὐλογῐ́ᾱ (eulogĭ́ā).
Senses: examples: text: To Severus he sends "a Campanian loaf from his cell, as a eulogia," together with a boxwood casket, and begs him, as before, by accepting the loaf in the name of the Lord to convert it into a eulogia.
ref: 1880, Sir William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, volume 1, Eulogiae, page 630:
text: At Easter it was even sent into other dioceses, bishops being in the habit of sending the consecrated host to each other as a mark of intercommunion, of brotherhood and amity. To the sacred host, on these occasions, the name of eulogia was given, and thus until the fifth century the word eulogia appears to have been synonymous with eucharistia, and used interchangeably with it to designate the sacrament of the altar, the chalice and bread of benediction spoken of by St. Paul.
ref: 1891, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 383:
text: It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.
ref: 1917, William Herbert Freestone, The Sacrament Reserved: A Survey of the Practice of Reserving the Eucharist, with Special Reference to the Communion of the Sick, During the First Twelve Centuries:
text: Popular devotion to the consecrated host grew significantly from the eleventh century onwards, and a number of twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts indicate that it was reverence, not indifference, which discouraged frequent lay reception of the eucharist. The eulogia, meanwhile, came to be regarded as, at least in a partial sense, a surrogate for communion.
ref: 2015, Gervase Rosser, The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.
eulogia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin eulogia, plural of eulogium.
Senses: examples: text: So many memorials of character, and so many eulogia on his talents have fallen to the lot of few writers of that age.
ref: 1811, The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, volume 1, page vii:
text: We confess our inability to dod justice to a theme so mighty; but if our pen is inadequate to the eulogia, our humble attempt will at least prove, that our heart is not insensible to the excellencies of […]
ref: 1828, Spirit of the Age Newspaper, page 125:
text: The almanac obtained general circulation, not only as a marine, but also as an astronomical ephemeris, and the objects, arrangements, and rigid accuracy of its execution, became the subject of warm eulogia; added to which, many valuable papers were occasionally subjoined, which were directly or indirectly connected with its general contents, and principal object.
ref: 1832 July 24, “On the nautical almanac”, in The United Service Journal, page 7:
glosses: plural of eulogium
autoguide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoguides
form: autoguiding
form: autoguided
form: autoguided
Etymology: From auto- + guide.
Senses: glosses: To guide automatically.
bejel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَجَل (bajal).
Senses: synonyms: button scurvy
sibbens
njovera
belesh
dichuchwa
glosses: Endemic syphilis, a chronic disease of skin and tissue caused by infection by a subspecies of the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
Related terms: frambesia
yaws
pinta
zemi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemis
form: cemi
form: zeme
Senses: glosses: Any of various local deities, human or animal and represented by small idols, once worshipped by the Caribbean peoples of the Taino culture.
zemis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zemi
lumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luma
sphære
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphæres
Senses: examples: text: The description and vse of the sphære deuided into three principal partes: whereof the first intreateth especially of the circles of the vppermost moueable sphære, and of the manifould vses of euery one of them seuerally: the second sheweth the plentifull vse of the vppermost sphære, and of the[…]
ref: 1613, Edward Wright, The description and vse of the sphære deuided into three principal partes, (printed by E. Allde for Iohn Tap: dwelling at S. Magnus corner), main title:
glosses: Archaic spelling of sphere.
sphæres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphære
detinue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detinues
Etymology: From late Middle English detenue, from Old French detenue, feminine singular past participle of detenir (“to detain”). See detain.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing detained; a detainee.
topics: law
glosses: A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained.
fuqaha'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fuˈkɑˌhɑ/
Forms: form: fuqaha’
Etymology: From Arabic فُقَهَاء (fuqahāʔ), plural form of فَقِيه (faqīh).
Senses: examples: text: Ayatollah Muntazeri, in contrast to Ayatollah Khomeini, states that the argument that the faqih or fuqaha (plural of faqih) are responsible for the establishment and running of the government at the time of occulation does not have a strong base in Islamic sources and cannot withstand a vigorous examination.⁶⁰
ref: 1997, Jamal S. Suwaidi, Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability, I.B.Tauris Publishers, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: plural of faqih
divalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From divalent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a divalent way.
bivalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bivalent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bivalent way.
to-morrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-morrow
hoggan-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoggan-bags
Etymology: From hoggan (“pork pasty”), which see for more.
Senses: examples: text: [page 39:] Baccy, with cowals for the chowters, Saalt pilchers, and some ' taties, Eggs, clidgy, traade, and hoganbags, Gowks, sparables, and lattice.
[page 45:] When, who but your man com a tott'ring along, / So drunk that I thoft fath, he'd fall in the doong. A let tumble hes hoggan bag jist by the dour, So I cal'd to the man, as one woud to be shoar. Says I, "Martin, dost hire, cheel, tak up tha bag."
ref: 1846, William Sandys, Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect:
text: To his work he carries from the surface his keg of water, his “hoggan-bag,” and a tin, carelessly slung over his shoulder, which is full of charges[…]
ref: 1901, The Windsor Magazine, page 325:
glosses: A miner's bag used to carry provisions.
tissue engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ.
zaptieh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaptiehs
Etymology: From French zaptieh, from Ottoman Turkish ضبطیه (zaptiye, “policeman”), from Arabic ضَبْطِيَّة (ḍabṭiyya, “policeman”).
Senses: examples: text: One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptieths are shown walking along at one side.
ref: 1918, Aurora Mardiganian, Ravished Armenia, page 10:
glosses: A Turkish policeman
cota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotas
Senses: glosses: A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.
Ran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew רָן (ran).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Ran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese らん/蘭.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Ran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
trial balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trial balances
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A statement of the balances of all nominal accounts in a double-entry ledger, made to test their equality. The total value of the debits should equal the total of the credits any difference indicates that an error has been made.
general ledgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general ledger
x-div.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Those who buy a security before the x-div. date should be especially alert about receiving their first dividend.
ref: 1968, Samuel C. Greenfield, The Low-high Theory of Investment: How to Make Money in the Stock Market and Keep it, page 40:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of ex dividend.
xanthitane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzænθɪteɪn/
Senses: examples: text: In view of the highly aluminous nature of the enclosing rock, there seemed some possibility that this mineral might be the little-known aluminium titanate, xanthitane
ref: 1942, A. B. Edwards, The chemical composition of leucoxene in Cainozoic bauxite from Boolarra, Victoria:
glosses: A yellow fibrous earthy material that is an aluminium titanite.
Maltais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Maltais.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
masquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masquers
Etymology: From masque + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
roulement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roulements
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: a short deployed tour for a major combat unit or other grouping of personnel on a continuing operation.
aspers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asper
aspron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asprons
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἄσπρον (áspron), the neuter of ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”), from Latin asper (“rough, newly minted”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asper.
asprons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspron
canchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cancha
NODE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English.
Related terms: NOAD
ODE
Hitchcockian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hitchcockian
form: most Hitchcockian
Etymology: From Hitchcock + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: What is this tree? I think it's another in the series of Hitchcockian big things, like the Mount Rushmore statues, or to take another example, like Moby Dick. This tree is not simply a natural object. It is within our mental space what in psychoanalysis is called “the thing”.
ref: 2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):
glosses: Of or pertaining to Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), British filmmaker and producer, or his works, especially noted for suspense and psychothrillers.
Synonyms: Hitchcockesque
leavable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leavable
form: most leavable
Etymology: From leave + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]
ref: 1995, Paul West, The tent of orange mist, page 210:
glosses: Capable of being left, or departed from.
examples: text: Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third.
ref: 2011, Rob Grant, Fat:
glosses: Capable of being left behind.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: theory of gambling
glosses: Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.
Derived terms: unleavable
hoggaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoggasters
Senses: glosses: A boar or lamb in its third year.
putting greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putting green
placative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈkeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more placative
form: most placative
Etymology: From placate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative.
ref: 1914, Booth Tarkington, chapter 21, in Penrod:
text: Temple entered the dining-room from the kitchen, her face fixed in a cringing, placative expression [...].
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 64:
glosses: That placates; pacifying.
Synonyms: placatory
Derived terms: placatively
placatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more placatively
form: most placatively
Etymology: From placative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "All right," she said, placatively. "I didn't mean to bother you, dear."
ref: 1916, Booth Tarkington, chapter 29, in Seventeen:
glosses: In a manner that placates or pacifies.
Synonyms: calmingly
estoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estocs
Etymology: From French estoc, see there for more. Compare Middle English touk (“a sword”) (whence obsolete English tuck (“rapier, sword”)), Middle English stok(e) (“blow with a sword”) (both probably from Old French estoc).
Senses: glosses: A type of sword used from the 14th to the 17th century, characterized by a long, straight, edgeless, sharply pointed blade designed for penetrating mail or plate.
Bollington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Bolin (“River Bollin”) + tūn (“settlement”), 'the settlement on the river Bollin'.
Senses: examples: text: The township of Bollington (Macclesfield) has been very unhealthy the whole year. There were 50 deaths in it this quarter, 22 of which were from typhus and scarlatina.
ref: 1863, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, Twenty fourth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, page xxxi:
text: Collieries are established in the townships of Hurdsfield, Rainow, Bollington, Adlington, Pott- Shrigley, Lyme, Worth, Poynton, and Norbury
ref: 1808, Sir Henry Holland, Board of Agriculture and General Improvement, “Minerals”, in General view of the agriculture of Cheshire: with observations drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 14:
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire East borough, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9377).
vachette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vachettes
Etymology: From French vachette.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
surgery
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.
vachettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vachette
mistigris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mistigri (“card game”).
truand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of truant.
truand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truand
form: most truand
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of truant.
truands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truand
swinging-door chad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinging-door chads
Senses: examples: text: In brief: a "pregnant" or "dimpled chad" was one bearing an indentation left by the voter but which had not become detached at any of its corners. Those would not be counted as votes. Other chads with one corner, two corners or three corners detached - "hanging door", "swinging door" and "tri-corner" chads respectively - would be counted.
ref: 2000 November 13, David Usborne, “The state of the Union rests on the state of Chad”, in The Independent:
text: My discovery of the chad in all its permutations — the dimpled chad, the hanging chad, the penciled chad, the pregnant chad, the swinging-door chad, the tri-chad, the incomplete detached chad, the trapdoor chad, the nondetached chad - opened up a whole new world.
ref: 2001, K Holland, Design issues: how graphic design informs society:
glosses: chad with two corners detached
sigmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigma
phone call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone calls
Senses: examples: text: A simple phone call would take care of it.
text: In some situations, a phone call cuts through the clutter more efficiently than emails, IMs, or chat bots.
text: Then he put a trunk line phone call through to the nearest township and asked the Police to send someone out as soon as possible.
ref: 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:
text: On November 20, they had a phone call and later a meeting with others lasting at least 1 1/2 hours.
ref: c. 1988, Peter W. Rodino, Jr. et al., Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair, page 646:
glosses: Clipping of telephone call.
Related terms: phone line
phone number
phone tree
phone calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone call
something good
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Guess you knocked that noggin of yours somethin' good."
ref: 1999, Jessica Speart, Bird Brained, page 56:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a significant degree.
Related terms: something awful
something bad
something fierce
something terrible
something bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Missed you somethin' bad, ol' man.
ref: 1986, Terry C. Johnston, Borderlords - Page 365:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a considerable degree; badly.
Related terms: something awful
something fierce
something good
something terrible
something terrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I've got the hiccups something terrible, Mom.
ref: 1988 November 16, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes:
text: You see the streets have me stressed somethin' terrible.
ref: 1994, Nas, “"One Love"”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: I pamper them babies somethin terrible.
ref: 1999 Nov/Dec, E Annie Proulx, “The Blood Bay”, in Literary Cavalcade, volume 52, number 3, page 8:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a great degree.
Related terms: something awful
something bad
something fierce
something good
Middle Low German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: MLG
Senses: examples: text: The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the Middle Low German, adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.
ref: 1837, The Encyclopædia of Geography:
synonyms: Middle Saxon
glosses: A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Low German terms
aucas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auca
responsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒnʃən/
Forms: form: responsions
Senses: glosses: An answer or reply; a response.
topics: education
glosses: The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.
Related terms: response
responsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsion
interposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interposures
Etymology: From interpose + -ure.
Senses: glosses: The action of interposing; interposition; interposal.
Related terms: interpose
interposal
interposer
interposures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interposure
profanations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profanation
montuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more montuous
form: most montuous
Etymology: From Middle English mountuous, from Latin montuōsus, equivalent to mount + -uous.
Senses: glosses: Mountainous, hilly.
glosses: Situated among mountains.
mensiversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛnsɪˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌmɛnsɪˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌmɛnsəˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: mensiversaries
Etymology: Blend of Latin mēnsis (“month”) + anniversary, perhaps through French mensiversaire.
Senses: examples: text: How flourishes the King of Clubs? I always observe its mensiversary in my fancy.
ref: 1805 June 1, James Mackintosh, edited by Robert James Mackintosh, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, volume 1, published 1835, letter to Richard Sharp, page 250:
synonyms: monthiversary
glosses: A day that marks an exact month (or specified number of months) since the occurrence of a significant event.