cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paronomasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæɹənɵˈmeɪzɪə/
ipa: /pæɹənɵˈmeɪʒə/
Forms: form: paronomasias
Etymology: From Latin paronomasia, from Ancient Greek παρονομασία (paronomasía, “play upon words which sound alike”), from παρα- (para-) + ὀνομασία (onomasía, “naming”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, by the way, any attempt to present me with any kind of testimonial will result in stern measures.
And when I say stern measures, I am indulging in a paronomasia, or play on words! Good night.
ref: 1936 Ian Hay: Housemaster. London Hodder & Stoughton p. 234
text: Ev’rywhere but at Norfolk, where talk of Passion far outweighs its Enactment,– indeed, the Sailors’ paronomasia for that wretched Place,
is ‘No-Fuck’.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: A pun or play on words.
examples: text: Paronomasia to the sense alludes,
When words but little varied it includes.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Paronomasia.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 88:
text: […] he gloomily regarded his new digital watch, faintly fascinated by the onward march of the square figures
which turned one into the other with insolent ease, a kind of numerical paronomasia.
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
glosses: The use of puns.
Related terms: paronomasiac
paronomasic
paronomastic
pathic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæθɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: pathics
Etymology: From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “I feel, I suffer”).
Senses: examples: text: In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic.
ref: 1810, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810
text: And enough of these gooey saints with a look of pathic dismay as if they getting fucked up the ass and try not to pay any mind.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 115:
text: But in those days I was Paul Dempster, who had been made to forget it and take a name from the side of a barn, and be the pathic of a perverted drug-taker.
ref: 1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders:
text: Clermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.
ref: 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
glosses: Synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse.
synonyms: word: bottom
extra: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse
pathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæθɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: more pathic
form: most pathic
Etymology: From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “I feel, I suffer”).
Senses: glosses: Passive; suffering.
glosses: Relating to disease.
paynim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪnɪm/
Forms: form: paynims
form: painim
form: painym
form: paynym
Etymology: From Middle English paynym, paynyme, from Anglo-Norman paienime, peinime et al., from Late Latin paganismus (“paganism”), from Latin paganus (“pagan”). Doublet of paganism.
Senses: examples: text: But there was one knyght that dyd merueyllously thre dayes / and he bare a black shelde / and of alle knyghtes that euer I sawe he preued the best knyȝt / thenne said Kyng mark that was syre launcelot or syre palomydes the paynym
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
text: And if it be idolatry to do as the paynims did—make an idol “God”—it must needs be much worse idolatry to do as these heretics do,
ref: 1530, Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, Preface to the Christian reader
text: To this his native soyle thou backe shalt bring, / Strongly to ayde his countrey to withstand / The powre of forreine Paynims which invade thy land.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: (Though like a covered field, where champions bold / Wont ride in armed, and at the soldan's chair / Defied the best of paynim chivalry / To mortal combat, or career with lance).
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 763-6:
text: St Helen’s bell rang reminders that she lived, a paynim or Mahometan, in the church’s shadow.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
glosses: A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.
peculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛkjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: peculations
Etymology: From Latin pecūlātiō (“embezzlement”) from pecūlor (“to defraud the public”), related to pecūlium (“property in cattle, private property”), from pecū (“cattle, money”).
Senses: examples: text: [The Chief Magistrate] might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression.
ref: 1787, “Impeachment of the Executive, [20 July] 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives; Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 10, 27 May 1787–3 March 1788, ed. Robert A. Rutland, Charles F. Hobson, William M. E. Rachal, and Frederika J. Teute. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977, p. 108
text: Sir Pitt Crawley (named after the great Commoner) was the son of Walpole Crawley, first Baronet, of the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days ...
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.
ref: 1885, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 20, in Nuttie's Father:
text: She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil’s Mode
text: It was a feature of Athens’ democratic constitution that at the end of their year in office Athenian officials had to submit an account of their service, financial and otherwise, to public scrutiny. Ephialtes took the opportunity to bring charges of peculation against the outgoing archons who were about to enter the Areopagus and succeeded in having them removed from that council.
ref: 1990, Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 42 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
topics: law
hypernyms: misappropriation
;
embezzlement
glosses: The wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.
Related terms: peculate
peculator
corruption
corruptocracy
kleptocracy
venality
pelorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɪˈlɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: peloruses
Etymology: Reportedly the name of Hannibal's pilot.
Senses: examples: text: Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear…fans up softly off the dial of the pelorus…spills out portholes onto the white river.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: A device used to take a bearing on a distant object.
Great Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the Great Lakes in North America or East Africa.
Related terms: Great Lakes
pelosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɪˈlɒsəti/
Etymology: From Latin pilosus (“hairy”), from pilus (“hair”).
Senses: examples: text: 1918-20, James Joyce, Ulysses
To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pelosity.
text: Sex, not in pornographic black and white, / But in bright hues – the rod’s monstrosity, / The opposed pudenda and their rich pelosity.
ref: 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
glosses: pilosity; hairiness
stymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stymies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stymie.
stymy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stymies
form: stymying
form: stymied
form: stymied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stymie.
spectral class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectral classes
Senses: examples: text: Maji orbits the Vamshi binary giant stars. Vamshi-A is a blue star of spectral class A4III which burns at half again the temperature of Sol. Vamshi-B is an aging red giant of class M5III, over 220 times the size of Sol.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maji planet description:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A classification of stars depending on their spectra and luminosity; usually one of O, B, A, F, G, K, M.
dipterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipterists
Etymology: From translingual Diptera + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: 1857, Henry Tibbats Stainton (editor), Review of Francis Walker, Insecta Britannica - Diptera, Volume 3, in The Entomologist's Annual, page 170,
It must be very gratifying to Mr. Walker to hear the dictum of the great Dipterist of Posen, Professor Loew, that the arrangement “adopted by Mr. Walker is one of the best, or even the best, systematic arrangement of the Diptera that has yet been proposed."
text: This catalog is the work of a devoted band of dipterists in the Entomology Research Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, assisted by more than 40 collaborators, each of them a specialist on some particular group of flies.
ref: 2004, Howard Ensign Evans, The Man Who Loved Wasps: A Howard Ensign Evans Reader, page 88:
text: The Dipterists Forum (flies) has over 300 members (also known for its journal Dipterists Digest), the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society over 400 members (its journal is BWARS News) and the beetle enthusiasts have The Coleopterist journal, with 400 subscribers.
ref: 2010, Alan Stubbs, “27: Flies, beetles and bees, wasps and ants (Diptera, Coleoptera and aculeate Hymenoptera)”, in Norman Maclean, editor, Silent Summer: The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland, page 496:
synonyms: dipterologist
glosses: An entomologist who specializes in the order Diptera (true flies).
isolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪtɪk
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or causing isolysis
isolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + lysis.
Senses: glosses: The breakdown of cells due to the action of an isolysin and its antigen.
cohesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/
ipa: /koʊˈhi.sɪv/
ipa: /kəʉˈhiː.sɪv/
note: cultivated
ipa: [kəʉˈhɪi.sɪv]
ipa: /kɐʉˈhiː.səv/
Forms: form: more cohesive
form: most cohesive
form: cohæsive
Etymology: From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Vedanta, Bahaism, and the other sparks from the one New Light.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
text: “It was presented as a cohesive worldview that you could maintain if you studied the Bible,” she told me. “Part of that was that climate change isn’t real, that evolution is a myth made up by scientists who hate God, and capitalism is God’s ideal for society.”
ref: 2017 April 13, Molly Worthen, “The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: The idea of loyalty to a single country and culture, particularly in East Asia, may also “imply the desire to maintain a cohesive ethnocultural identity,” said Dzankic, of GLOBALCIT.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
glosses: Having cohesion.
Synonyms: word: coherent
word: cohesive
word: consociated
word: corporate
word: tenacious
word: unified
word: united
Hyponyms: word: inextricable
word: infrangible
word: inseparable
word: undivided
word: unseparated
word: unsessile
word: close-knit
word: solid
word: tight-knit
Derived terms: cohesive energy
cohesively
cohesiveness
cohesivity
discohesive
dyscohesive
incohesive
noncohesive
uncohesive
Related terms: adhesive
cohere
coherence
coherent
cohesion
cohesive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/
ipa: /koʊˈhi.sɪv/
ipa: /kəʉˈhiː.sɪv/
note: cultivated
ipa: [kəʉˈhɪi.sɪv]
ipa: /kɐʉˈhiː.səv/
Forms: form: cohesives
form: cohæsive
Etymology: From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaereō, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The thesaurus (Chapman, 1977) lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
ref: 2001, Doris Banowsky Arrington, Home is Where the Art Is, →ISBN:
text: Direct comparison meta-analysis showed that viscoadaptives lead to a lower loss in cell density compared with very low viscosity dispersives, and compared with super viscous cohesives.
ref: 2012, Lens Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition, →ISBN:
glosses: A substance that provides cohesion
examples: text: The fourth of this group of cohesives is the anaphoric, same UT.
ref: 1988, Michael R. Walrod, Normative Discourse and Persuasion: An Analysis of Gaʹdang ...:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A device used to establish cohesion within a text
Derived terms: cohesive device
organista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organistas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish organista.
Senses: glosses: Any of several South American wrens of the order Troglodytidae, noted for the sweetness of their song.
synchysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs/
Forms: form: synchyses
form: synchesis
form: synchisis
Etymology: Through Latin from the Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).
Senses: qualifier: poetics
glosses: A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
glosses: Confused arrangement of words in a sentence
glosses: A confused mixture.
glosses: Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.
Related terms: hyperbaton
anastrophe
conjuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkənd͡ʒʌŋkt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: conjunctures
Etymology: From French conjoncture.
Senses: examples: text: To be sitting, at so pleasant a conjuncture of one's courses, in oneself, by oneself, that I think it will freely be admitted is a way no worse than another, and better than some, of whiling away an instant of leisure.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
examples: text: [I]n his later years, he [James II of England] repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 635–636:
glosses: A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
Derived terms: conjunctural
-ster
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -estere, -ester, from Old English -estre (“-ster”, feminine agent suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā, of disputed origin. Cognate with Middle Low German -ester, Dutch -ster.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is, or who is associated with, or who does something specified.
examples: text: 1992, Russell Baker, "Observer; Pretty Good Read" (review of What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer), New York Times, 25 Jul.,
Cramer's exploration of the hearts, minds and souls of America's ambition-crazed Presidential candidates moves ahead at a pace that feels childishly frantic . . . . This is not just because it keeps referring to Senator Robert Dole as "the Bobster."
text: “Never better,” the Raabster spat back. “Just get on with it. What’s the score?”
ref: 2023 April 21, John Crace, “Psycho goes down raging: the liberal wokerati finally get to Raab”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A diminutive appended to a person's name.
Synonyms: -er
-or
Derived terms: Baxter
dumpster
huckster
spinster
teamster
youngster
your all's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: From your + all + -'s, formed after you all.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, your all’s close questioning goes right to the heart of the discrimination and everything else, and that’s the basis of their operation.
ref: 1982, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Tuition Tax Credit Proposals http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=OCLC09290207&id=p88KC1hVqHcC&q=%22your+all%27s%22&dq=%22your+all%27s%22&pgis=1
text: 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0061097314&id=O-XiVJO1K1gC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=%22your+all%27s%22&sig=5Da_gaMm3H8qL9XdRqNEJb2XkMg
“Bless your all’s hearts,” she said. “Take good care.”
text: 2004, George Pelecanos, Soul Circus http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0446611425&id=RCjLCwr8XikC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=%22your+all%27s%22&sig=cqBMtWCUeBgQTgUcwVxmTXWiDbM
“He might say somethin’ to our mother. I don’t want her stressin’ over me.”
“I can understand that. We don’t need to be worryin’ your all’s moms.”
glosses: Belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.
spectrogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛktɹəˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: spectrograms
Etymology: From spectro- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A visual representation of the spectrum of a sound changing through time.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A visual representation of the spectrum of a celestial body's radiation.
Related terms: spectrum
spectrograph
voiceprint
sonogram
spectrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛktɹəˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: spectrographs
Etymology: From spectro- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329:
glosses: A machine for recording spectra, producing spectrograms.
Synonyms: quantometer
Derived terms: mass spectrograph
Related terms: spectrographic
spectrography
African cherry orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African cherry oranges
Senses: glosses: A small tree or shrub of species Citropsis articulata, bearing a small citrus fruit about three inches in diameter, native to Africa.
point cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point clouds
Senses: glosses: A series of points in three-dimensional space that collectively describe the geometry of a physical object.
vagaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagary
Buddha's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buddha's hands
Senses: glosses: Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus, a fragrant variant of citron whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections.
Synonyms: sense: Buddha's Hand citron, fingered citron
word: Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus
forbearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈbɛː.ɹən(t)s/
ipa: /fɔɹˈbɛɹ.ən(t)s/
ipa: /foːˈbeə.ɹən(t)s/
ipa: /foːˈbiəɹɘn(t)s/
Forms: form: forbearances
Etymology: From forbear + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Though I would give no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place of residence, and the existence of the child. Still he didn’t molest her; for which forbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter III, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, pages 63–64:
text: I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip. What my crime was, I forget. My mother was, and remains, a woman of exceptional forbearance. I must have done something so obnoxious as to beggar belief.
ref: 2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109:
glosses: Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
glosses: A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
Synonyms: word: forgiveness
word: patience
word: restraint
word: thole
Coordinate terms: sense: debt cancellation
word: deferment
Derived terms: unforbearance
Related terms: forbear
forbearant
oroblanco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɔːɹoʊˈblɑːŋkoʊ/
Forms: form: oroblancos
Etymology: From Spanish oro + blanco literally "white gold".
Senses: glosses: A hybrid fruit developed by crossing a pomelo and a white grapefruit. When fully developed, it is approximately the size of a grapefruit.
Synonyms: sweetie
portrayal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɹˈtɹeɪ.əl/
rhymes: -eɪəl
Forms: form: portrayals
Etymology: From portray + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of portraying.
examples: text: 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...
text: 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste
For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.
text: Dickens was the quintessential actor, luxuriating in the portrayal of his idiosyncratic characters. In contrast, more than a characterist, Poe was above all a wonderfully musical reader, […]
ref: 1994, Sara K. Schneider, Concert Song as Seen, page 28:
text: Images of Dutchness in American visual culture and literature during the nineteenth century differed radically between portrayals of the Netherlands Dutch and those of the American Dutch.
ref: 2009, Hans Krabbendam, Cornelis A. van Minnen, Giles Scott-Smith, Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations: 1609-2009, page 238:
glosses: The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
Derived terms: misportrayal
nonportrayal
profligacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑflɪɡəsi/
Forms: form: profligacies
Etymology: From profligate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: No question has arisen within the records of history that pressed with the importance of the present.[…]whether man shall inherit his rights, and universal civilisation take place? Whether the fruits of his labours shall be enjoyed by himself or consumed by the profligacy of governments?
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC:
text: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: Outsiders who scoffed at this profligacy misunderstood the masquerade. Condé’s editors were the original influencers, their lives a top-to-bottom marketing campaign for the company that hired them.
ref: 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Careless wastefulness.
examples: text: He had, indeed, reduced several women to a state of utter profligacy, had broke the hearts of some, and had the honour of occasioning the violent death of one poor girl, who had either drowned herself, or, what was rather more probable, had been drowned by him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Sir Robert bitterly reproached himself for having consigned his child to another, when he saw the effect of too early initiation into profligacy, or, as Francis called it, knowledge of the world.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 58–59:
glosses: Shameless and immoral behaviour.
Synonyms: profligateness
prosthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒsˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɑsˈθɛtɪk/
Etymology: From New Latin prostheticus, from Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding; repletive; giving additional power”), from πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”).
Senses: examples: text: prosthetic leg/arm
text: Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
ref: 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:
glosses: Artificial, acting as a substitute for part of the body; relating to prosthesis.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Prothetic.
Derived terms: bioprosthetic
endoprosthetic
exoprosthetic
interprosthetic
keratoprosthetic
megaprosthetic
neuroprosthetic
nonprosthetic
periprosthetic
postprosthetic
preprosthetic
prosthetically
prosthetic group
prostheticist
retroprosthetic
subprosthetic
transprosthetic
prosthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒsˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɑsˈθɛtɪk/
Forms: form: prosthetics
Etymology: From New Latin prostheticus, from Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding; repletive; giving additional power”), from πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”).
Senses: glosses: An artificial replacement for part of the body; a prosthesis, prosthetic device.
examples: text: The specialist makers of prosthetics are part chemist, part artist and part engineer. Each tends to specialise in a particular area, such as sculpting, mould making, foaming latex, knotting hair into the pieces, colouring or artworking.
ref: 2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist:
glosses: An addition to an actor etc.'s body as part of a costume, intended to transform the person's appearance.
schematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪˈmætɪk/
ipa: /skiːˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more schematic
form: most schematic
Etymology: From scheme or schema + -atic.
Senses: glosses: Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter.
examples: text: Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account—so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all[…]
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture IX. Conversion.”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Sketchy, incomplete.
examples: text: Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
(4) Specifier + Head + Complement
Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 228:
glosses: Relating to a schema.
Derived terms: schematic drawing
schematic variable
schematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪˈmætɪk/
ipa: /skiːˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: schematics
Etymology: From scheme or schema + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.
text: In contrast to other media players and similar devices, the Chumby’s internal schematics and source code — the programs that make it work — are completely open and available on www.chumby.com.
ref: 2007 November 15, John Biggs, “Tinkering at Home, Selling on the Web”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A simplified line drawing used by scientists, engineers, technologists and others to illustrate a system at an abstract level. Schematic drawings often use standard symbols for clarity.
Synonyms: diagram
past continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.
Synonyms: imperfect
imperfective past
past progressive
Related terms: past perfect continuous
present continuous
preaspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: preaspirations
Etymology: From pre- + aspiration.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A period of voiceless breathing that precedes some consonants in some languages—a sort of mirror-image of aspiration.
Related terms: preaspirated
hygro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: hygr-
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet”, “moist”).
Senses: glosses: moisture
glosses: humidity
wabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wabbit
aerial cableway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerial cableways
Senses: glosses: A large assortment of cables, suspended above the ground at a minesite or quarry, used to transport tools and equipment over rough territory.
radial velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial velocities
Senses: glosses: Motion of an object toward or away from an observer.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Motion of an object toward or away from an observer.
Motion of a star toward or away from the earth.
Related terms: proper motion
peculiar motion
peculiar velocity
zodiacal light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zodiacal lights
Senses: examples: text: I also, this morning gave attention to the stars as seen through the Zodiacal Light, and found, even to 4ʰ 30ᵐ, when the effulgent Light below the zigzag lines is very strong, that with the naked eye I could readily make out stars of the 6th magnitude within the effulgent Light; [...]
ref: 1856, George Jones, “No. 271. December 30th, 1854: Morning.”, in Observations on the Zodiacal Light, from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855, Made Chiefly on Board the United States Steam-Frigate Mississippi, during Her Late Cruise in Eastern Seas, and Her Voyage Homeward: With Conclusions from the Data thus Obtained (Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, […]; III; 33d Congress, 2d Session, Senate Ex. Doc. no. 79), Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, senate printer, →OCLC, page 542:
text: Westward I saw the zodiacal light mingling with the yellow brilliance of the evening star.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Thing in the Forest”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC, pages 81–82:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A soft glow of white light seen in the sky along the ecliptic in an elongated triangular form with its base being on the horizon, particularly in the tropics.
Derived terms: exozodiacal light
Related terms: exozodiacal dust
zodiacal cloud
zodiacal dust
gegenschein
Kordylewski cloud
cenote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈnoʊteɪ/
ipa: /səˈnoʊtiː/
Forms: form: cenotes
Etymology: From Spanish cenote, from Yucatec Maya tsʼonoʼot (“hole with water”).
Senses: glosses: A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Mexico and Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes groundwater underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
sinkhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: sinkholes
form: sink hole
form: sink-hole
Etymology: From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to sink + hole.
Senses: examples: text: A sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath the track of a heavy freight route in the eastern United States. Golfers playing the 13th hole at Hartford, Connecticut, had a new obstacle to tackle: a section of track suspended in mid-air after heavy rainfall in the aftermath of Storm Ida.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Sinking feeling on unlucky 13th”, in RAIL, number 940, page 18:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: cenote
word: doline
word: dolina
word: shakehole
word: sink
word: swallet
word: swallow hole
glosses: A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
glosses: A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
examples: text: Pro Pinball is as authentic as pinball has ever been on the PC. It's all here, from the ramps, bumpers and sinkholes to the satisfying "clack" when you make the high-score list.
ref: 1997, Windows magazine, volume 8, numbers 1-3:
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
glosses: A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: An attack which redirects requests, whether network or memory accesses, to a new location defined by the attacker.
sinkhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: sinkholes
form: sinkholing
form: sinkholed
form: sinkholed
form: sink hole
form: sink-hole
Etymology: From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to sink + hole.
Senses: glosses: To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).
Shtokavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Stokavian.
Shtokavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Stokavian.
X-linked trait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-linked traits
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any trait or characteristic whose appearance or absence in a person is determined by a gene on the sex chromosomes. Typically, these genes are found on the X chromosome but not on the Y chromosome.
Synonyms: sex-linked trait
xiphosuran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphosurans
Etymology: From Xiphosura + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the order Xiphosura, including horseshoe crabs.
xiphosuran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Xiphosura + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the order Xiphosura.
bikini wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikini waxes
Senses: glosses: The use of hot wax to remove pubic hair so that it may be easier to wear a bikini.
Related terms: Brazilian wax
sacellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacella
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sacellum.
Senses: glosses: A small chapel, as a monument within a church.
glosses: In Ancient Rome, a shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine.
Cassiope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cassiopeia.
five card stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Alternative spelling of five-card stud.
five-card stud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: a simple form of stud poker where each individual receives five cards
stud poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Any of several versions of poker in which some cards are dealt face-down and some face-up.
suit of armor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suits of armor
form: suit of armour
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: body armor (often coordinate)
glosses: A collection of garments, usually made of metal, worn over the body for protection in battle from weapons.
Related terms: brassard
breastplate
chain mail
cubitiere
épaulière
gambeson
gauntlet
helmet
surcoat
suit of armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suits of armour
form: suit of armor
Senses: glosses: A collection of garments, usually made of metal, worn over the body for protection in battle from weapons.
Related terms: breastplate
gambeson
helmet
surcoat
shrewdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shrewdly
form: most shrewdly
Etymology: From shrewd + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
glosses: In a shrewd manner.
-ane
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪn/
Etymology: From Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "belonging to" or "origin from". Doublet of English -an.
Senses: glosses: Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes alone (mundane).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A saturated hydrocarbon; an alkane.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple binary compound of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid.
Derived terms: sense: alkanes
word: butane
sense: alkanes
word: decane
sense: alkanes
word: ethane
sense: alkanes
word: heptane
sense: alkanes
word: hexane
sense: alkanes
word: methane
sense: alkanes
word: nonane
sense: alkanes
word: octane
sense: alkanes
word: pentane
sense: alkanes
word: propane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: alane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: alumane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: arsane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: astatane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: azane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: bismuthane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: bromane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: chlorane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: fluorane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: gallane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: germane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: indigane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: iodane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: oxidane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: phosphane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: plumbane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: polane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: selane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: silane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: stannane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: stibane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: sulfane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: tellane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: tellurane
sense: compounds of hydrogen and a nonmetal or metalloid
word: thallane
Related terms: -ene
-yne
schizophrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more schizophrenic
form: most schizophrenic
Etymology: From schizophrenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to schizophrenia.
glosses: Afflicted with schizophrenia; having difficulty with perception of reality.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Schizophrenia is where two or more personalities live in the same brain. The ancients of the 20th Century actually looked upon schizophrenia as a disease! Everyone felt it was very shameful to have a schizophrenic person in the family,
ref: 1951, Wyman Guin, “Beyond Bedlam”, in Galaxy Science Fiction:
text: The average person is afraid that such a common experience means that he is "splitting off" and becoming schizophrenic.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 220:
glosses: Exhibiting more than one personality; having a wildly changeable personality.
examples: text: Höss, a man of schizophrenic sensibility, preferred gassing to shooting because he was “spared all these bloodbaths.”
ref: 1975, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933-1945:
text: That feverish response and Jackson's infamous negative attitude towards his fans contributed to a performance which was schizophrenic at best. The program was divided into three sections, distinguishable only by the fact that slide projections on the side of the stage informed us that we were now watching "Part 1, 2, or 3."
ref: 1986 August 9, Christopher Wittke, “Joe Jackson: Friend or 'Phobe?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: Society currently displays a schizophrenic attitude to drug abuse. We seem to accept alcohol intake and smoking during pregnancy even though we know that these drugs can be addictive, and that regular use can affect the baby.
ref: 2011, Edmund Hey, Neonatal Formulary: Drug Use in Pregnancy and the First Year of Life:
text: The neoclassical synthesis was a schizophrenic approach to economics – a way of subscribing to both Keynesian and classical analysis.
ref: 2012, Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman, Hahn and Economic Methodology:
glosses: Having qualities that strongly conflict or are at odds.
Derived terms: schizophrenic number
Related terms: nonschizophrenic
paranoid schizophrenic
schizo
schizophrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskɪtsəˈfɹɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: schizophrenics
Etymology: From schizophrenia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, what an extraordinary idea! I have served 11 governments in the past 30 years. If I'd believed in all their policies, [proceeds to describe contradictory policies by different parties], but above all, I would have been a stark-staring raving schizophrenic! (laugh track).
ref: 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Whisky Priest”, in Yes, Minister, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):
glosses: A person suffering from schizophrenia.
penthos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnθɒs/
rhymes: -ɛnθɒs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πένθος (pénthos).
Senses: examples: text: He watched with a chill of wonder the basalt mask splotched with ivy shadow whose round eyes stared back with Kolonian penthos, Dushara with his face among leaves.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: sorrow; grief; mourning or sadness
peri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪə.ɹi/
rhymes: (UK) -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: peris
form: pari
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).
Senses: examples: text: He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."
ref: January-June 1829, “The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume 27, page 549:
text: In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at […]
ref: March 16 1916, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473:
text: The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.
ref: 2008, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales, page 75:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sprite or supernatural being.
Synonyms: sense: sprite
word: fairy
sense: sprite
word: pixie
sense: sprite
word: sprite
Related terms: peri-peri
pericarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑːp/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑɹp/
Forms: form: pericarps
Etymology: From French péricarpe, from New Latin pericarpium, from Ancient Greek περικάρπιον (perikárpion, “pod, husk, shell”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). By surface analysis, peri- + -carp.
Senses: examples: text: When, as in the cherry, the different layers of the pericarp are well-defined and largely developed, they received distinctive names ; the outer skin is the epicarp (epi, upon, carpon, a fruit), the middle fleshy part is the mesocarp (mesos, middle) ; and the innermost hard shell is the endocarp (endos, within) ; in other words the pericarp is made up of epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. […] In all normal fruits these three layers of the pericarp are present […].
ref: 1880, The Farmer's Magazine, page 208:
text: The pericarp of sorghums of the factorial titution BBSSrr, BBSsrr, BbsSrr, and BbSsrr may possess some t degree of coloration even though the pericarp color factor R is nt.
ref: 1928, Journal of Agricultural Research, page 582:
text: Many fruits show differentiation of the pericarp into layers – the plum, for example, has a thin outer pericarp forming the skin, a succulent middle pericarp forming the flesh and a stony inner pericarp surrounding the single seed.
ref: 1992 August 20, Jim C. Forbes, James C. Forbes, Drennan Watson, Plants in Agriculture, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 180:
text: One important difference is the pericarp of sorghum is more bran-like and contains starch granules in the cells. However, as with maize, the sorghum pericarp is often referred to as a “hull” and is generally removed during processing.
ref: 2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech Publications, Inc, →ISBN, page 207:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: carpodermis
glosses: The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
examples: text: He learned, afternoon after afternoon, how to edge her into delicious frenzies, how to tremble the clitoris, pericarp, and tip.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: The outer layer of anything.
Derived terms: pericarpal
pericarpic
pericarpous
Related terms: endocarp
exocarp
mesocarp