cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bit by a barn mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: bitten by a barn mouse
form: bitten by a barn weasel
form: bit by a barn weasel
Etymology: * probably from an allusion to barley.
Senses: glosses: tipsy; slightly drunk
generalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒen.(ə.)ɹə.lɪst/
Forms: form: generalists
Etymology: From general + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A general practitioner.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. A eurytopic species.
Derived terms: supergeneralist
brush-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush-offs
form: brushoff
Etymology: Deverbal from brush off.
Senses: examples: A halfhearted “thank you” may be a brush-off.
For the first time, we in the SF ghetto are beginning to get criticism – not brush-offs from literary snobs.
glosses: An abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.
Derived terms: give someone the brush-off
give someone the brush-off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the brush-off
form: giving someone the brush-off
form: gave someone the brush-off
form: given someone the brush-off
Senses: examples: text: I asked three different clerks, and they all gave me the brush-off.
glosses: To rebuff, snub or curtly reject someone.
Synonyms: give somebody the run-around
give somebody the cold shoulder
battner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battners
Etymology: From batten + -er; so called because beef is apt to batten or fatten those that eat it.
Senses: examples: The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.
glosses: An ox.
guerdon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gûrʹdn
ipa: /ˈɡəː.dən/
ipa: /ˈɡɝ.dən/
Forms: form: guerdons
form: guerdoning
form: guerdoned
form: guerdoned
form: gerdon
Etymology: From Middle English guerdon, guerdoun, gardone, from Old French guerdon, guerredon, guarredon, werdon, from Medieval Latin widerdōnum, alteration of widerlōnum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin dōnum (“gift”).
Senses: examples: text: And when thou see'st the Admiral ride by,
Discharge thy musket, and perform his death;
And then I'll guerdon thee with store of crowns.
ref: 1593, Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris, I:ii:
text: […] him we gave a costly bribe
To guerdon silence […]
ref: 1847, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess, Book I:
glosses: To give such a reward to.
Derived terms: guerdonable
guerdonless
batchelor's son
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batchelors' sons
Senses: glosses: A bastard; someone born out of wedlock.
gruntled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gruntled
form: most gruntled
Etymology: See gruntle.
Senses: examples: text: Along about the time Orion's sword sloped down the west, Chabot heard their gruntled noises and the scurry of the flock.
ref: 1909, Mary Austin, Lost Borders, page 172:
glosses: Grunted.
gruntled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntl̩d/
Forms: form: more gruntled
form: most gruntled
Etymology: Back-formation from disgruntled (c. 1925).
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
ref: 1938, P. G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
text: It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate.
ref: 1994 July 25, Jack Winter, “How I met my wife”, in The New Yorker:
text: After all, a number of players were disgruntled, and a few more were gruntled.
ref: 1996 March 13, Ira Berkow, “Sports of The Times: A Case For Fill-In Coaches”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Jul 2012:
text: [S]he was rumoured to be rather less than gruntled when The Soup's Joel McHale said: "Here's Ryan Seacrest and Tyra Banks playing Lady and the Tramp ... You figure out which is which."
ref: 2009 March 18, Ian O'Doherty, “Tyra—the cause of all evil”, in Irish Independent, retrieved 15 Dec 2023:
text: Gruntled employees are happy employees. Gruntled employees like their coworkers. … gruntled employees like their employers. … So how do you keep your employees gruntled?
ref: 2011, Jay Shepherd, “Gruntled Employees”, in Firing at Will: A Manager's Guide (Business), Apress, →ISBN, page 228:
antonyms: disgruntled
glosses: Satisfied, pleased, contented.
gooseherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooseherds
form: gissard
form: gosherd
form: gozzard
Etymology: From goose + herd (“herder”).
Inherited from Middle English gosherde, from Old English gōshierde, a compound of gōs (“goose”) and hierde (“herder”).
Senses: glosses: A person who tends to geese.
Synonyms: gosherd
Related terms: bearherd
cowherd
goatherd
herd
herder
herding dog
herd instinct
herdsman
Herdsman
herdswoman
hogherd
horseherd
neatherd
oxherd
shepherd
swanherd
swineherd
battle royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbætl̩ ɹɔɪˈæl/
Forms: form: battles royal
form: battle royals
form: battle-royal
form: battle-royale
form: battle royale
Etymology: Preserves the French pattern of adjective after noun. Royal here means “grand in scale”.
Senses: examples: text: I was told that since I was to be there anyway I might as well take part in the battle royal to be fought by some of my schoolmates as part of the entertainment.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 17:
text: Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 278:
glosses: A fight involving three or more individuals, teams, or factions; fought until one person, team, or faction is left standing.
glosses: A heated discussion or debate.
golden age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: golden ages
Senses: examples: text: The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.
ref: 1951 March, John W. Cline, “The Future of Medicine”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 165:
text: When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog . . . Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: That unprecedented act of petulance risks undermining Wall Street’s confidence in the economy and undercutting Trump’s campaign pledge to give the United States another economic “golden age.”
ref: 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: golden era
coordinate_terms: silver age
glosses: A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Golden Age.
Related terms: Gilded Age
golden anniversary
golden oldie
golden time
golden years
bawbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːˈbiː/
Forms: form: bawbees
Etymology: From Scots bawbee.
Senses: glosses: A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
examples: text: He said there were already plans for a tramline, and a museum of the theatre. Folk should not, he implied, waste their bawbees on the devil's spinning wheel.
ref: 2007 July 12, Simon Hoggart, The Guardian:
glosses: A copper; a small amount of money.
gobble up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gobbles up
form: gobbling up
form: gobbled up
form: gobbled up
Senses: examples: text: supper gobbled up in haste
ref: 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady:
glosses: To consume [something] rapidly.
examples: text: The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.
glosses: To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
Synonyms: forsling
grump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: grumps
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly altered from grum, see there for more.
Senses: synonyms: grumpy pants
glosses: A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
examples: text: If you're not taking Action to change the situation, either sit in a grump or Accept it.
ref: 2004, Toby Chapman-Dawe, Passport to Performance: Raise Your Business Performance!, page 29:
glosses: A grumpy mood.
grump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: grumps
form: grumping
form: grumped
form: grumped
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly altered from grum, see there for more.
Senses: examples: text: Grumping to himself as he made up his own bed, Bradly thought, "Have to wash that blanket; young blighter going to bed with all that mud on his feet."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: To complain.
glosses: To be grumpy.
Derived terms: grumpity
colorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorization
form: colourisation
form: colourization
Etymology: From colorise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: When milk is kept at a high temperature for a long period of time chemical reactions take place and the resultant reaction products give rise to brown colorisation of milk and a caramel-like flavour.
ref: 1995, Frank Harding, Milk Quality http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PWmQTKDWPz0C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&sig=BvZKvNvaIAXfQ3lfUpZWxQkRxj4
text: Despite these design and safety implications, the potential of interventional MR in the future is astouding and includes:
liver imaging and tumour ablation with colorisation imaging capabilities, …
ref: 1998, Catherine Westbrook and Carolyn Kaut, MRI in Practice http://print.google.com/print?id=im0ndwXIe24C&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&sig=E8AhW_MhImdgXcNP3HjAJTQ0lLc&pli=1
text: The special prints with their computer-applied colour were released by MGM on 4 July 1985. ‘Colorisation,’ as it is known, has become a controversial issue in the industry.
ref: 2001, Patrick Robertson, Film Facts http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=4PnEvNC_F9oC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&sig=mu8dvRv_igiOEcqrLi1NZvSHn60
glosses: The process of converting to colour.
grumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: plural of grump
grumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: A fit of bad temper.
grumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grump
SPCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
bawdy-house bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdy-house bottles
Senses: glosses: A very small bottle.
goatherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatherds
Etymology: From Middle English goteherd, from Old English gāthierde, equivalent to goat + herd (“herder”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Oh, yes. A man was brought to us about a year ago. There'd been a big storm along the southern sector of the Taklamakan. It went on for four or five days. This man was a goatherd from Tongguzbasti. He'd gone out into the desert in search of tamarisk, along with a camel for the load. At midday he had some bread and water and lay down for a sleep. When he woke there was a storm the like of which he'd never seen before. There was nothing for it but to hunker down and make the best of it; but at some point - whether it was day or night he couldn't say - he found himself on his feet, shouting and screaming at the noise, and walking for what must have been miles.'
ref: 2000, Daniel Easterman, Incarnation (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 411:
text: Looking up from the center of Rmaich, a Christian town lodged on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, a sun-wizened Lebanese goatherd points to a cluster of pine trees on a ridge.
ref: 2024, Scott Peterson, ‘This is not our war.’ Lebanese Christians caught between Hezbollah and Israel., in: The Christian Science Monitor, June 12 2024
glosses: A person who herds, tends goats.
Synonyms: word: goatherder
word: goatkeeper
Derived terms: goatherdess
Related terms: word: bearherd
word: cowherd
word: gooseherd
word: herd
word: herder
word: herding dog
word: herd instinct
word: herdsman
alt: Boötes
word: Herdsman
word: herdswoman
word: hogherd
word: horseherd
word: neatherd
word: oxherd
word: shepherd
word: swanherd
word: swineherd
Bay fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bay fevers
Senses: glosses: Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.
gashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: Having gashes; slashed.
Derived terms: ungashed
gashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gash
Reuben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bən/
ipa: /ˈɹu.bən/
rhymes: -uːbən
Forms: form: Reubens
form: Ruben
form: Rubin
form: Rube
Etymology: * From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (r'uvén), from רְאוּ (r'ú, “see [masculine plural imperative]”) + בֵּן (ben, “son”); its literal meaning is therefore roughly, "See, all: a son!"
* There are several unconfirmed etymologies for the name of the sandwich.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: First son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Reuben College, Oxford.
Derived terms: Reubenite
Reubens
Reuben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuː.bən/
ipa: /ˈɹu.bən/
rhymes: -uːbən
Forms: form: Reubens
form: Ruben
form: Rubin
form: Rube
Etymology: * From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (r'uvén), from רְאוּ (r'ú, “see [masculine plural imperative]”) + בֵּן (ben, “son”); its literal meaning is therefore roughly, "See, all: a son!"
* There are several unconfirmed etymologies for the name of the sandwich.
Senses: glosses: A grilled or toasted sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and either Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Reubenite
glosses: A member of one of the Israelite tribes, descended from Reuben.
Coordinate terms: Rachel sandwich
Related terms: Cape Cod Reuben
Reuben egg roll
Bayard of ten toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the fact that humans, unlike horses, have ten toes. (Bayard was a horse famous in old romances.)
Senses: examples: text: An honest poor man is the proof of misery, where patience is put to the trial of her strength to endure grief without passion, in starving with concealed necessity, or standing in the adventures of charity : if he be married, want rings in his ears, and woe watereth his eyes : if single, he droopeth with the shame of beggary, or dies with the passion of penury : of the rich he is shunned like infection, and of the poor learns but a heart-breaking profession : his bed is the earth, and the heaven is his canopy, the sun is his summer’s comfort, and the moon is his winter’s candle : his sighs are the notes of his music, and his song is like the swan before her death : his study is patience, and his exercise prayer : his diet the herbs of the earth, and his drink the water of the river : his travel is the walk of the woeful, and his horse Bayard''' of ten toes : his apparel but the clothing of nakedness, and his wealth but the hope of heaven : he is a stranger in the world, for no man craves his acquaintance, and his funeral is without ceremony, when there is no mourning for the miss of him ; yet may he be in the state of election, and in the life of love, and more rich in grace than the greatest of the world. In sum, he is the grief of nature, the sorrow of reason, the pity of wisdom, and the charge of charity.
ref: circa''' 1616 : Nicholas Breton, An Honest Poor Man ; reprinted (with modernised spelling) in Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart. M.P., Archaica : Containing a Reprint of Scarce Old English Prose Tracts, with Prefaces, Critical and Biographical, volume 1, 1815 pages 32–33 (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; T. Davidson, Whitefriars)
glosses: The feet, as a means of travelling.
Synonyms: shanks' pony
gruesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹuːsəm/
rhymes: -uːsəm
Forms: form: gruesomer
form: more gruesome
form: gruesomest
form: most gruesome
form: grewsome
Etymology: From grue (“to shudder”) + -some. Compare Danish and Norwegian grusom (“cruel; horrible”), German grausam (“cruel”), and Dutch gruwzaam (“gruesome; cruel”).
Senses: examples: text: True, there were the usual night-sounds of the country—the whir of night-birds, the buzzing of insects, the barking of distant dogs, the mellow lowing of far-off kine—but these didn't seem to break the stillness, they only intensified it, and added a grewsome melancholy to it into the bargain.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Battle of the Sand-belt”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 560:
text: In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: Jay Carney said that the US was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed on Sunday but that the photos were gruesome and could be inflammatory.
ref: 2011 May 4, “Bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead”, in Al Jazeera:
glosses: Repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.
Derived terms: gruesomely
gruesomeness
gruesome twosome
ungruesome
Clive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Senses: glosses: A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).
examples: text: "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."
ref: 1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
glosses: A village in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A city in Dallas County and Polk County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, United States.
glosses: A town on the Clive River in Hawke's Bay region, New Zealand.
glosses: An eastern suburb of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6766).
glosses: A village and civil parish in north Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5124).
gammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: gammier
form: gammiest
form: gammie
Etymology: Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), or from Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”), English gam (“leg”)).
Senses: examples: text: I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.
text: "With that gammy leg I wouldn't risk a bet against the chance of another accident on those stairs."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:
text: In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.
ref: 2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015
text: I'm not exactly spectacular at the moment with a gammy knee that sometimes lets me down and hair that looks as if it's been cut with a knife and fork.
ref: 2009, Abigail Gordon, A Summer Wedding at Willowmere, page 31:
synonyms: lame
glosses: Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
examples: text: A little bit of real lace would be fixed on this as in process of making, and a lot of "gammy" stuff, imitation lace, would be carried with it.
ref: 1891, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 270, page 389:
glosses: Fake; counterfeit.
glosses: Bad; unfavourable.
gammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæmi/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: gammies
form: gammie
Etymology: Abbreviation + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Had our beloved gammy lost it?
glosses: Grandmother.
Related terms: grammy
gamey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪmi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Forms: form: more gamey
form: gamier
form: most gamey
form: gamiest
form: gamy
Etymology: From game + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.
glosses: Plucky, spirited or gritty.
glosses: Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Involving in-game actions or behaviour that break immersion or contradict common sense in favour of exploiting game mechanics.
garniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑrnɪtʃər/
Forms: form: garnitures
Etymology: From Middle English garnetture, from Anglo-Norman garniture, gerneiture, from Old French garneture (“accessory for a saddle”), from Old French garnir, guarnir, from Frankish *warnijan (“to prevent, deny”).
Senses: examples: text: The Countess came forward to meet them, looking more beautiful than ever. But it was not now that Emily envied her beauty;—no philosopher like a girl in love, to feel, for the time being, utter indifference to all possible pomp and garniture.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: […] I fancied Cuthbert's reddening face / Beneath its garniture of curly gold, / Dear fellow, till I almost felt him fold / An arm in mine to fix me to the place / That way he used.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XVI:
text: They believed that the ladies and the gentlemen alike had covered them with endearments, were candidly, gushingly glad to make their acquaintance. They had not in the least seen what was manner, the minimum of decent profession, and what the subtle resignation of old races who have known a long historical discipline and have conventional forms for their feelings—forms resembling singularly little the feelings themselves. Francie took people at their word […] It would not have occurred to the girl that such things need have been said as a mere garniture. Her lover, whose life had been surrounded with garniture and who therefore might have been expected not to notice it, had a fresh sense of it now […]
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: Something that garnishes; a decoration, adornment or embellishment
glosses: A matching array of plate armour and its accessories
micrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɹɒmɪtə/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: [maɪˈkɹɑmɪɾɚ]
Forms: form: micrometers
Etymology: From French micromètre.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure distance very precisely but within a limited range, especially depth, thickness, and diameter.
Derived terms: ocular micrometer
photomicrometer
radiomicrometer
sonomicrometer
stage micrometer
submicrometer
ultramicrometer
videomicrometer
micrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɹɒmɪtə/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: [maɪˈkɹɑmɪɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹəˌmiːtə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌmiːtəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌmiːɾɚ]
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɒmɪtə/
ipa: /maɪˈkɹɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: [maɪˈkɹɑmɪɾɚ]
Forms: form: micrometers
Etymology: From micro- (“one millionth”) + meter.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”).
gnamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnammas
Etymology: Aboriginal Australian, an anglicization of a Nyunga language word from Western Australia describing a naturally-formed rock hole and its retained rain water.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: gnamma hole
glosses: A hollow or hole that is eroded or indented in bare rock, in which water collects.
glossal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒs.əl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɒs.l̩/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑs.əl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɔs.əl/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “a tongue”) + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: lingual
glosses: Of or relating to the tongue.
Derived terms: aglossal
basiglossal
basioglossal
entoglossal
genioglossal
hypoglossal
labioglossal
palatoglossal
pharyngoglossal
retroglossal
styloglossal
subglossal
thyroglossal
potboiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potboilers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pot boiler.
diabolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diabolo
backslide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backslides
form: backsliding
form: backslid
form: backslided
form: backslidden
form: backslid
form: backslided
Etymology: From back + slide.
Senses: examples: text: He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
text: […] Monna Brigida, who had backslided into false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her.
ref: 1893, George Eliot, “Meeting Again”, in Romola, volume III, page 233:
text: Despite backsliding in various parts of the globe, there's a very clear trend towards the decentralisation of governments.
ref: 1997, J. J. King, quoting Kevin Kelly, “The Right Connections: Tea with Kevin Kelly”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN:
synonyms: retrograde
glosses: To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
examples: text: Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines.
ref: 2002 June 24, “Rich countries backsliding on WTO commitments on drug patent rules says Oxfam International”, in Oxfam America, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2007:
glosses: To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
topics: Christianity
glosses: To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
Derived terms: word: backslider
word: backsliding
backslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backslides
Etymology: From back + slide.
Senses: glosses: A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: moonwalk
glosses: A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
NAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Arbitration Forum.
go all the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes all the way
form: going all the way
form: went all the way
form: gone all the way
Senses: glosses: To travel the entire distance to one's intended destination.
glosses: To continue to the conclusion of a task or project.
examples: text: Let's go all the way, baby / Let's not wait / Let's go all the way, down, it's alright
ref: 1977, “Let’s Go All the Way (Down)”, in I Keep Coming Back for More, performed by Brenda & the Tabulations:
text: Actually, going all the way is like a really big decision. I can’t believe I was so caprecious^([sic]) about it. Dee, I almost had sex with him.
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):
glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: sense: achieve completion
word: cross the line
sense: to have sexual intercourse
word: do it
word: get it
word: have sex
word: copulate
Related terms: get to first base
go a long way
take it to the next level
something for the weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When they had finished your haircut and were moving towards the till, they would lean over, pull a display box from behind a row of hair potions on the shelf, finger the box which you then saw contained condoms – normally Durex in those days – and ask, “Something for the weekend, Sir?” – even if it was only Monday! The first few times this happened to me was around 1955 and after having just left school and started work, I was extremely naïve and hadn't a clue what the barber meant.
ref: 2009, David Fowler, National Service, Elvis and Me!, page 69:
glosses: A condom.
trefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛ.fɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɹiː.fɔɪl/
Forms: form: trefoils
Etymology: From Middle English trefoil, from Old French trifoil, trefeul, from Latin trifolium, from tri- (“three”) + folium (“leaf”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
examples: text: "The pristine, unbroken condition of the vessel – sometimes called a trefoil jug – caused the entire dig to 'come to a halt,' Søvsø remarked."
ref: 2015 June 16, David DeMar, “Ancient Pitcher Discovered in Historic Danish City”, in New Historian:
synonyms: threefoil
glosses: A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Ellipsis of trefoil knot.
Coordinate terms: word: quatrefoil
word: cinquefoil
word: hexafoil
word: sexfoil
word: octofoil
english: several
translation: several
word: multifoil
english: many
translation: many
word: polyfoil
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lotus australis
word: austral trefoil
taxonomic: Anagyris foetida
word: bean trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus uliginosus
word: big trefoil
word: birdsfoot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus australis
word: bird's-foot trefoil
taxonomic: Hosackia pinnata
word: bog bird's-foot trefoil)
taxonomic: Medicago scutellata
word: snail trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago sativa
word: burgundy trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago polymorpha
word: burr trefoil
taxonomic: Desmodium spp.
word: bush trefoil
taxonomic: Trifolium arvense
word: hare's-foot trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago arabica
word: heart trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago lupulina etc.
word: hop trefoil
word: lesser trefoil
word: lesser hop trefoil
taxonomic: Trifolium dubium
word: lesser yellow trefoil
taxonomic: Menyanthes trifoliata
word: marsh trefoil
taxonomic: Hosackia pinnata
word: meadow bird's-foot trefoil
taxonomic: Laburnum anagyroides
alt: syn. Cytisus laburnum
word: milk trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago arborea
word: moon trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus australis
word: native birdsfoot trefoil
word: prairie bird's-foot trefoil
taxonomic: Lotus americanus
word: prairie trefoil
taxonomic: Trifolium arvense
word: rabbit-foot clover
taxonomic: Desmodium canadense
word: showy tick trefoil
taxonomic: Ptelea trifoliata
word: shrubby trefoil
taxonomic: Oxalis acetosella
word: sour trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago sativa
word: Spanish trefoil
taxonomic: Anagyris foetida
word: stinking bean trefoil
taxonomic: Trigonella caerulea
word: sweet trefoil
taxonomic: Fagonia spp.
word: thorny trefoil
taxonomic: Desmodium spp.
word: tick-trefoil
taxonomic: Menyanthes trifoliata
word: water trefoil
taxonomic: Trifolium repens
word: white trefoil
taxonomic: Medicago lupulina
word: yellow trefoil
Related terms: trifoliolate
trifolium
depressant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: depressants
Etymology: From depress + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Alcohol acts first as a stimulant and then as a depressant.
text: The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing. That in combination with the alcohol, another respiratory depressant, overwhelmed her brain, which stopped giving her heart and lungs the signal to keep functioning.
ref: 2012 November 15, Maxwell Newfield, “Prescription drug deaths: Two stories”, in CNN:
text: On the opposite end of the drug side effect spectrum are downers. This slang term refers to CNS depressants, the types of drugs that produce a sedative effect by slowing down the messages sent and received between the central nervous system and the brain.
ref: 2024 April 10 [2020 August 27], Nick B., “Which Drugs Are Uppers And Downers?”, in The Freedom Center:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An agent that inhibits the flotation of a mineral or minerals.
Derived terms: antidepressant
cardiodepressant
immunodepressant
manic-depressant
neurodepressant
prodepressant
depressant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more depressant
form: most depressant
Etymology: From depress + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: the conception of the asomatous depressant malaria
ref: 1876, Alfred Alexander Woodhull, Studies, chiefly clinical […] :
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Reducing functional or nervous activity.
brod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brods
form: brodding
form: brodded
form: brodded
Senses: glosses: To goad or prick.
bantam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæntəm/
rhymes: -æntəm
Forms: form: bantams
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bantam (Banten province in Java).
Senses: examples: text: From the dairy we passed into the poultry-yard; and there I was introduced to a train of milk-white turkeys, and fowls of the same colour, a few bantams, and three galenies, Mrs. Helen's especial favourites, […]
ref: 1829, Caroline Bowles Southey, Chapters on Churchyards, page 114:
glosses: Any of several small chickens, especially of a breed that is a miniature version of another breed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A competitor in an age division between peewee and midget.
Derived terms: bantamize
bantamweight
Sebright bantam syndrome
bantam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæntəm/
rhymes: -æntəm
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bantam (Banten province in Java).
Senses: examples: text: Dragonflies may be bantam, but their appetite is bottomless.
ref: 2013 April 1, Natalie Angier, “Nature’s Drone, Pretty and Deadly”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Small or miniature.
glosses: Spirited or aggressive.
bean-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean-eaters
form: bean eater
form: beaneater
Etymology: The sense referring to Mexicans is explained by beans being a staple of Mexican cuisine. The sense referring to Bostonians came from a time when navy beans were a staple in Boston, especially as Boston baked beans. It is sometimes said to have originated in reference to immigrants there, but in usage it more often has referred to Boston Brahmins just as much as other Bostonians, and the assertion may well be only an ill-founded assumption.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican.
glosses: A Bostonian (a person from Boston, Massachusetts).
Related terms: word: beaner
english: slur towards Irish people
translation: slur towards Irish people
word: potato eater
english: slur directed towards Asian people
translation: slur directed towards Asian people
word: rice-eater
dramedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɑːmədi/
ipa: /ˈdɹɑmədi/
Forms: form: dramedies
Etymology: Blend of drama + comedy.
Senses: glosses: A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.
examples: text: ”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.
ref: 2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times:
text: Last year, the Daily Mail found that Emily in Paris, a bubblegum dramedy starring Lily Collins, plugged 37 brands throughout 10 episodes.
ref: 2025 October 29, Alaina Demopoulos, “What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A film or television programme belonging to this genre.
Synonyms: topics: drama
dramaturgy
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
comedy
word: genre
topics: drama
dramaturgy
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
comedy
word: film
topics: drama
dramaturgy
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
comedy
word: TV programme
Related terms: seriocomic
tragicomedy
first-aid box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-aid boxes
Senses: examples: text: It consists exclusively of loose-coupled open mineral wagons and a guard's brake van; owing to the isolation of the branch the last-named is equipped with a first aid box and a jack, to enable any emergency to be dealt with rapidly.
ref: 1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 643:
glosses: A first aid kit; the box that contains the kit's contents.
collects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collect
collects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collect
dawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawn
dawns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dawn
jonquil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑŋkwəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒŋkwəl/
Forms: form: jonquils
form: jonquille
Etymology: Borrowed from French jonquille, itself a borrowing from Spanish junquillo. Possible doublet of junket.
Senses: glosses: A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil.
examples: text: She had a jonquil silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same colour, with a bird of paradise plume, looking very much like an illuminated butterfly.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 187:
text: At sunset dusky ghosts of sampans, laden with families living up the river, glide homeward against a jonquil sky.
ref: March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 258:
glosses: A shade of yellow.
have a bone to pick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a bone to pick
form: having a bone to pick
form: had a bone to pick
form: had a bone to pick
Senses: examples: text: "I offered her that sum if she would take the garment back. And she did, she did, and I shall never have to wear that dreadful satin again." ¶ I made a note of this dressmaker's name. She and I may have a bone to pick some day.
ref: c. 1900, Anna Katharine Green, The Ruby and the Cauldron:
text: "I have a bone to pick with you," said Mrs Bosenna. . . . "You have not been near Rilla for weeks," she went on, reproachfully.
ref: 1912, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 18, in Hocken and Hunken:
text: Clearly, Mr. Jarrett has a bone to pick with musicians like Branford Marsalis, whom he believes "sell out".
ref: 1992 September 6, Merryl R. Goldberg, “Letters: Jazz”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jul 2011:
text: Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another.
ref: 2004 July 18, Smita Madhur, Barbara Kiviat, “World Briefing”, in Time:
glosses: To have a complaint or grievance (with somebody); to have a contentious issue to discuss.
raw_tags: followed by with
Related terms: make no bones about
have a crow to pull
have an axe to grind
Mister Right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mister Rights
form: Mr. Right
form: Mr Right
Senses: examples: text: She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right.
coordinate_terms: Miss Right
glosses: A perfect, ideal or suitable male companion, especially a husband.
Related terms: Prince Charming
marinade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɹɪˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmaɹəˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹəˈneɪd/
Forms: form: marinades
Etymology: Borrowed from French marinade.
Senses: examples: text: I like to use a lemon marinade with chicken.
text: How much marinade you need depends on the amount of food to be marinated.
ref: 2003, Jean Paré, Company’s Coming: Year-Round Grilling, Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, published 2005, →ISBN, page 11:
text: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
ref: 2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking.
marinade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɹɪˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmaɹəˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹəˈneɪd/
Forms: form: marinades
form: marinading
form: marinaded
form: marinaded
Etymology: Borrowed from French marinade.
Senses: examples: text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: To marinate.
overexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overexpose
overexposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexposed
form: most overexposed
Senses: examples: text: The snapshot was overexposed, giving its subjects a too-bright, washed out appearance.
glosses: Exposed too much, especially of film or a photograph.
Related terms: overexposure
pikeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪk.mən/
Forms: form: pikemen
Etymology: From pike + -man. Compare the Middle English surname Pykeman.
Senses: examples: text: Vitellius comming on couragiouſly with his pikemen and his harquebuſiers , deuided into two wings, charged them fiercely
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A soldier armed with a pike.
examples: text: Then there was the music of the rattling harness, and the ring of the horses' feet on the hard road, and the glare of the two bright lamps through the steaming hoar frost, over the leaders' ears, into the darkness; and the cheery toot of the guard's horn, to warn some drowsy pikeman or the ostler at the next change ; and the looking forward to daylight — and last but not least, the delight of returning sensation in your toes.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: A person who operates a turnpike.
examples: text: “My missus told it me at the pit-head, when she brought me my breakfast,” said a pikeman to his comrade, and he struck a vigorous blow at the broad seam on which he was working.
ref: 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations, book 6:
glosses: A miner who works with a pick.
necroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From necro- + -scopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a post mortem examination
gambier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambiers
Etymology: From Malay gambir.
Senses: examples: text: When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
glosses: A flowering plant, Uncaria gambir, family Rubiaceae, native to Southeast Asia.
glosses: An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
gadwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadwalls
Etymology: Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).
garganey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garganeys
Etymology: From the Italian/Lombard language word gargenei, variant of garganello, by dissimilation of earlier *gargalella, diminutive of *gargala, ultimately from Late Latin gargala (“tracheal artery”), from the root *garg (“throat”), imitative of gargling, see also Ancient Greek γαργαρεών (gargareṓn, “uvula, trachea”).
The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner, who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium (History of Animals) of 1555.
Senses: glosses: A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
wikipedia: Conrad Gesner
goldcrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldcrests
Etymology: From gold + crest.
Senses: glosses: A very small passerine bird, Regulus regulus, that breeds in Eurasia.
Related terms: firecrest
firecrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firecrests
Etymology: From fire + crest.
Senses: glosses: A very small passerine bird, Regulus ignicapilla, that breeds in Eurasia.
Derived terms: Taiwan firecrest
Related terms: goldcrest
gyrfalcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɜːfɔːlkən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝˌfælkən/
Forms: form: gyrfalcons
form: gerfalcon
form: gyr falcon
form: jerfalcon
Etymology: From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).
Senses: examples: text: For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.
ref: 1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1671, →OCLC, Act IV, page 53:
glosses: Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
examples: text: [T]he usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its […] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:
glosses: Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
quirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quirt
quirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quirt