cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
avahis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avahi
leafeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafeaters
Etymology: From leaf + eater.
Senses: examples: text: Eliminate just one kind of tree out of hundreds in such a forest, and some of its pollinators, leafeaters, and woodborers will disappear with it, then various of their parasites and key predators […]
ref: 1984, Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia, page 8:
glosses: Any organism that consumes leaves.
leafeaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafeater
fennelflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fennel + flower.
Senses: glosses: Nigella sativa, an annual flowering plant native to south and southwest Asia.
glosses: Nigella damascena, ragged lady
Synonyms: sense: Nigella sativa
word: black cumin
strike sail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes sail
form: striking sail
form: struck sail
form: struck sail
form: stricken sail
Senses: examples: text: […] at the last, famine and other necessities, caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker.
ref: 1568, André Thevet, translated by Thomas Hacket, The New Found World, or Antarctike, London: Thomas Hacket, Chapter, page 62:
text: 1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202,
[…] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,
text: It was accounted Treason, if any Ship whatsoëver had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in his own Sea, by striking Sail:
ref: 1652, John Selden, Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea, London, Book 2, Chapter 26, p. 402:
text: So many new unexpected accidents happen every hour, which no wit of man could foresee; that may make it necessary for us many times to depart from our former most advised resolutions: as the Mariner must strike sail again, (perhaps when he hath but newly hoyst it up,) if the winde and weather change.
ref: 1656, Robert Sanderson, “Ad Populum”, in Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, London: Henry Seile, page 408:
text: […] O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Heroism”, in Essays, Boston: James Munroe, page 215:
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: hoist sail
glosses: To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.).
examples: text: (obsolete)
text: O that the living Harry had the temper
Of he, the worst of these three gentlemen!
How many nobles then should hold their places
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Let vaunting Knowledge now strike sail,
And unto modest Ign’rance vail.
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden:
text: […] do you think, Sir, that Mr. Ironsides, who has been well bred, a good Scholar, and a topping Wit, will ever strike Sail to a Fool[?]
ref: 1713, John Arbuthnot, An Invitation to Peace: or, Toby’s Preliminaries to Nestor Ironsides, London: Mr. Lawrence, page 11:
text: I speak in the house of my friend as in my own, and strike sail to none.
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Pirate, volume 3, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 8:
synonyms: defer
vail
glosses: To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension.
tincture of steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An alcoholic solution of the chloride of iron.
umbrella tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella trees
Senses: glosses: An umbrella magnolia (Magnolia tripetala).
glosses: An African corkwood (Musanga cecropioides).
glosses: An Australian rainforest tree (Polyscias murrayi).
glosses: An octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla).
glosses: An Indian almond (Terminalia catappa).
examples: text: Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).
ref: 1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: An umbrella thorn (Vachellia tortilis).
Spanish red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish reds
Senses: examples: text: a deep red fecula subsides, called safflower, and, from the countries whence it is commonly brought to us, Spanish red and China lake
ref: 1808, William Nicholson, “CARTHAMUS”, in A Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry:
glosses: An ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, but slightly yellower and warmer.
glosses: Any red wine of Spanish origin.
cannon pinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannon pinions
Senses: glosses: The pinion on the minute hand arbor of a watch or clock, which drives the hand but permits it to be moved in setting.
apple of Peru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The flowering plant Nicandra physalodes of the nightshade family.
mock lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: blende
walking gentleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking gentlemen
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A male actor who usually fills subordinate parts which require a gentlemanly appearance but few words.
Coordinate terms: english: the female equivalent
translation: the female equivalent
word: walking lady
walking leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walking leaves
Senses: glosses: leaf insect (Phylliidae family).
leaf insect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf insects
Senses: glosses: Any of the insects in the family Phylliidae, which mimic leaves.
Synonyms: walking leaf
black manganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The black oxide of manganese, MnO₂.
black cattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any bovine cattle reared for its meat, as opposed to dairy cattle.
black draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black draughts
Senses: examples: text: He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in David Copperfield:
text: "You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?"
ref: 1871, George Eliot, chapter 16, in Middlemarch:
glosses: A cathartic medicine composed of senna and magnesia.
black tin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand.
leavee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leavees
Etymology: From leave + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The leavee is the one who may not have been quite ready to give up on the relationship and so may feel still committed in some way to the marriage.
ref: 2009, Lisa Rene Reynolds, Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce, page 125:
glosses: The person in a relationship who is left by the other.
leavees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leavee
New Jersey tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ceanothus americanus, a North American shrub whose leaves were once used as a substitute for tea.
butyrellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bog butter
bog butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, probably the result of an old method of making and preserving butter.
Synonyms: butyrellite
bog earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soil composed mainly of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber.
wire edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire edges
Senses: glosses: The thin, wire-like thread of metal sometimes formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening it.
pope's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Our good Annie would cook for you; and you should have the hot new milk, and the pope's eye from the mutton; and every foot of you would become a yard in about a fortnight."
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter L, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep.
glosses: A cut of steak from the buttock muscles of a bovine
Synonyms: pope's eye steak
pope's eye cut
popeseye steak
popeseye
popeseye cut
spider steak
spider cut
Related terms: english: cut of chicken
translation: cut of chicken
word: pope's nose
precibal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cibus (“food”).
Senses: examples: text: In discussing these observations they suggested that the precibal increase in olfactory acuity may be a measure for the intensity of the sensation of satiety afforded by the ingested food.
ref: 1955, Gunnar Holmgren, Acta Oto-laryngologica, volume 45, page 86:
text: Howe et al. (62) showed that a precibal injection of insulin reduced the postcibal fall in plasma volume at the same time relieving the symptoms.
ref: 1968, Helge Sigstad, Changes in plasma volume during the dumping syndrome, page 79:
text: This rapid fall in blood glucose to precibal levels, or a markedly lower level causes troublesome, even serious symptoms.
ref: 1981, Lloyd H. Smith, Samuel O. Thier, Pathophysiology: The Biological Principles of Disease, page 1624:
glosses: Before a meal.
Synonyms: sense: before a meal
word: preprandial
Related terms: postcibal
paper house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper houses
Senses: glosses: An audience composed of people who have come in on free passes.
Related terms: paper the house
break no squares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks no squares
form: breaking no squares
form: broke no squares
form: broken no squares
Senses: glosses: To do no harm; to make no difference.
red fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red firs
Etymology: From the bark colour of the older trees.
Senses: examples: text: […]in the ape posse, bent on vengeance, traversing landscapes clothed in snow and bristling with California red fir and silver pine, spooking human stragglers, and running across fresh graves as they search for the nameless colonel and try to piece together why the humans are killing each other.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: Shasta red fir
glosses: A fir tree of western North America (Abies magnifica).
antisurge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + surge.
Senses: glosses: Preventing a surge.
red manganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rhodochrosite
Derived terms: red manganese oxide
countersurety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersureties
Etymology: From counter- + surety.
Senses: glosses: A counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security.
countersureties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersurety
counterindication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterindications
Etymology: From counter- + indication.
Senses: glosses: contraindication
counterindications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterindication
bone oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives.
Synonyms: Dippel's oil
under hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Confined below in a vessel.
glosses: Under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
Sphynxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sphynx
Minskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Minskin
Minskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minskins
Senses: glosses: A cat of a breed derived by crossing the Munchkin with the Sphynx.
mountain flax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Phormium colensoi, a perennial plant native to New Zealand.
glosses: Polygala senega, Seneca root.
glosses: A fibrous form of asbestos.
pilot bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So named because of its original popularity with seafarers (pilots) as a long-lasting staple food.
Senses: synonyms: pilot biscuit
sea biscuit
sea bread
ship bread
ship's biscuit
ship biscuit
glosses: hardtack
leather carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A scaleless carp.
needle loom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needle looms
Senses: glosses: A loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle.
needle furze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pettywhin
glosses: Genista anglica, a shrubby flowering plant of the family Fabaceae.
by the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Assure thyself thou shalt have broth by the eye
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: In abundance.
Elliott eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elliott eyes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served.
wheel window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel windows
Senses: glosses: A circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel.
Synonyms: rose window
Todd's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to an influential description of the condition in 1955 by Dr. John Todd (1914-1987).
Senses: glosses: Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
pick hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick hammers
Senses: glosses: A pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners.
nettle cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nettlecloth.
sword lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword lilies
Senses: glosses: gladiolus (flowering plant)
scrollsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrollsaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scroll saw.
scrollsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrollsaw
on the shady side of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: a man on the shady side of fifty
text: Alice Marriot, a personator of male characters, who was on the shady side of forty at the time of her Galveston visit—and who had lost the “mold of form” of her early years
ref: 1962, Joseph Gallegly, Footlights on the Border:
glosses: Beyond (a specified age); older than.
starting hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starting holes
Senses: glosses: A loophole; evasion.
eye agate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye agates
Senses: examples: text: If the stripes run together around the centre, it is called the circle agate, and if in the same stone the centre shows more colored spots, it is called the eye agate, or eyestone
ref: 1867, Lewis Feuchtwanger, A Popular Treatise on Gems:
synonyms: eyestone
glosses: A kind of circle agate, with the central part of deeper tints than the rest of the mass.
Angolar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese-based creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.
wikipedia: + language
Spanish bayonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish bayonets
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants with narrow leaves coming to a sharp point:
Hesperoyucca whipplei.
glosses: Any of various plants with narrow leaves coming to a sharp point:
Yucca faxoniana.
glosses: Any of various plants with narrow leaves coming to a sharp point:
Yucca gloriosa.
glosses: Any of various plants with narrow leaves coming to a sharp point:
Yucca schidigera.
turkey's beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Xerophyllum asphodeloides, a plant producing spikes of white flowers.
archeopteryxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archeopteryx
stag hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stag hogs
Senses: glosses: babiroussa
standing cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing cups
Etymology: From Middle English standyng cuppe, standyngcuppes pl, stondyng cuppes pl, stondyng cuppys pl.
Senses: glosses: A tall goblet with a foot and a cover.
saw file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw files
Senses: glosses: A three-cornered file, such as is used for sharpening saw teeth.
king's spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Asphodeline lutea, a perennial plant native to southeastern Europe and Turkey.
king's yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242:
synonyms: yellow orpiment
glosses: A yellow pigment, consisting essentially of sulfide and oxide of arsenic.
king's cushion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: in this garb he was now mounted on the hands of two of the rioters, clasped together, so as to form what is called in Scotland, "The King's Cushion ."
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A four-handed seat made by two people crossing their hands and holding their own wrist with one hand, and holdin the wrist of the other person with the other hand
velvet crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet crabs
Etymology: From the short hairs on the body, which give the crab a velvety texture.
Senses: glosses: Necora puber, the largest swimming crab found in British coastal waters.
head and ears
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: to be head and ears in debt or in trouble
glosses: With the whole person; deeply; completely.
duneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dune + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without dunes.
counteropening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteropenings
Etymology: From counter- + opening.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place.
Synonyms: contraaperture
counterpuncture
counteropenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteropening
counterapproach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterapproaches
Etymology: From counter- + approach.
Senses: glosses: A trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers.
counterapproaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterapproach
blister beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blister beetles
form: blister-beetle
Senses: glosses: Any of the meloid beetles that secrete a blistering agent, cantharidin.
Derived terms: Say blister beetle
striped blister beetle
yellow-crescent blister beetle
get a pair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a pair
form: getting a pair
form: got a pair
form: got a pair
form: gotten a pair
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grow a pair.
synonyms: word: grow a pair
nonmarring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marring.
Senses: glosses: Not causing damage.
raw_tags: of a tool
pipetongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipetongs
Etymology: From pipe + tongs.
Senses: glosses: A jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.
Synonyms: pipe wrench
bull pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull pumps
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump.
bull stag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull stags
Senses: glosses: A castrated bull.
spoon oar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon oars
Senses: glosses: An oar with a curved blade to assist in rowing.
spirit of Mindererus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Latinized form of Raymund Minderer, a physician of Augsburg.
Senses: glosses: An aqueous solution of acetate of ammonium, once used to treat fever.
wikipedia: Raymund Minderer
Synonyms: Mindererus spirit
Mindererus' spirit
Mindererus's spirit
Related terms: opodeldoc
mud sunfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acantharchus pomotis, a sunfish widely distributed in the fresh waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.
puts to use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put to use
putting to use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put to use
balance dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balance docks
Senses: glosses: A kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.
bond timber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bond timbers
Senses: glosses: Timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.
finger steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger steels
Senses: glosses: A steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife.
corn poppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn poppy
house of call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of call
Senses: glosses: A place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assembled when out of work, ready for the call of employers.
Rotokas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An East Papuan language spoken in Bougainville Island.
house wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house wrens
Senses: glosses: Troglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.
mineral wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral waxes
Senses: glosses: ozocerite
glosses: Any wax of mineral origin, as opposed to an animal wax (such as beeswax) or a vegetable wax (such as carnauba).
staff tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staff trees
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Celastrus of shrubs and vines.
Related terms: bittersweet
hasanat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hasanat
form: hasanats
Etymology: From Arabic حَسَنَات (ḥasanāt), plural of حَسَنَة (ḥasana, “good deed”).
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Abu Alwafa, A study of the word "love" in the Qur'an Group: alt.religion.islam
The muhasneen or those who do good deeds (hasanats).
text: If we see through Islamic point of view, every act we do whether big or small are counted in our good deeds (hasanat), like cooking, cleaning, bringing up kids, serving the family, visiting relatives and neighbors, helping the needy, visiting the sick, even a smile is a sadaqah to be rewarded by Allah.
ref: 2014 December 4, Maryam Hedayat, “The importance of balance”, in MuslimVillage.com:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Credit for good deeds, which Allah weighs up against one's bad deeds at the final judgement after death.
Synonyms: ajr
thawab
wheel tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel trees
Etymology: A cross-section of the trunk resembles a spoked wheel.
Senses: glosses: Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree native to Peru.
glosses: Trochodendron aralioides, a tree or large shrub native to Japan, Taiwan, and southern Korea.
wolf net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf nets
Senses: glosses: A kind of fishing net, capable of catching many fish at a time.
blister steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blister steels
form: blistered steel
Etymology: From its blistered surface.
Senses: glosses: Crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation.
Synonyms: cement steel
universal chuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal chucks
Senses: glosses: A chuck, as for a lathe, having jaws which can be moved simultaneously so as to grasp objects of various sizes.
peasecod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peasecods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peascod.
peasecods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peasecod
counterbond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbonds
Etymology: From counter- + bond.
Senses: glosses: A bond to secure one who has given bond for another.
counterbonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterbond
counterdeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdeeds
Etymology: From counter- + deed.
Senses: glosses: A secret document which invalidates or alters a public deed.
counterdeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdeed
counterdistinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterdistinctions
Etymology: From counter- + distinction.
Senses: examples: text: Rorem decries our fascination with performers in counterdistinction to the modest interest paid to those who write the music performed.
ref: 1987 December 13, Donald Stone, “Ned Rorem's Nantucket Diary”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 9:
glosses: contradistinction
counterdistinctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterdistinction
pulse wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse waves
Senses: glosses: A kind of non-sinusoidal waveform that is similar to a square wave but lacks the perfectly symmetrical shape.
examples: H. N. Martin
The pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches.
hand money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest money.
salt tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt trees
Senses: glosses: Halimodendron halodendron, a deciduous spiny shrub native to Russia and southern Asia.
pappuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pappus
cut a feather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a feather
form: cutting a feather
form: cut a feather
form: cut a feather
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows.
glosses: To make oneself conspicuous.
Tutankhamen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tutankhamun.
unsloppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsloppy
form: most unsloppy
Etymology: From un- + sloppy.
Senses: glosses: Not sloppy.
decrunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decrunches
form: decrunching
form: decrunched
form: decrunched
Etymology: From de- + crunch.
Senses: examples: text: Several phone calls and a borrowed Mac later, I found that the single disk sent me wouldn't in any case decrunch (uncompress its data) without a sister disk — which had gone astray across the Atlantic. Such hitches are always irritating […]
ref: 1993, The New York Times Book Review, volume 98, page 2:
text: The executable is still decrunched in memory, so it will _use_ some extra memory but _save_ disk space.
ref: 1996, Marcus Alanen, “Re: Exe Crunchers”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet):
text: Dear Dr. Destiny, my dictionary on CD-ROM won't decrunch, what do you recommend?
ref: 1998, Sandra Martz, Shirley Coe, Generation to generation, page 123:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To decompress (data) previously compressed by crunching.
Derived terms: decruncher
decrunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decrunch
decrunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decrunch
decrunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decrunch
false works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Construction works, such as scaffolding, to facilitate the erection of the main work.
false vampire bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false vampire bats
Senses: glosses: A New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum; spectral bat.
glosses: Old World bat of the family Megadermatidae.
Synonyms: sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: great false vampire bat
sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: Linnaeus's false vampire bat
spectral bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectral bats
Senses: glosses: Vampyrum spectrum, the largest carnivorous bat.
Synonyms: sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: false vampire bat
sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: great false vampire bat
sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: Linnaeus's false vampire bat
sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: spectral vampire bat
sense: Vampyrum spectrum
word: spectre bat
false key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false keys
Senses: glosses: A picklock.
ajr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَجْر (ʔajr).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: hasanat
thawab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thawabs
Etymology: From Arabic ثَوَاب (ṯawāb, “recompense”)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: divine reward (for good deeds)
thawabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thawab
dandy brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandy brushes
Senses: glosses: A kind of hard-bristled brush used in grooming horses.
hippophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippophobes
Etymology: From hippo- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy.
ref: 1935, Time (volume 25, part 2, page 69)
glosses: One who fears or dislikes horses.
hippophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippophobe
hippophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippophobic
form: most hippophobic
Etymology: From hippo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Fearing or disliking horses.
make sail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes sail
form: making sail
form: made sail
form: made sail
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To extend an additional quantity of sail (i.e. to spread a sail or sails).
glosses: To embark; start a voyage.
short rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short ribs
Senses: glosses: false rib
Related terms: short rib-polydactyly syndrome
bioefficacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioefficacy
leadplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadplants
Etymology: From lead + plant; its presence was supposed to indicate lead ore.
Senses: glosses: a tall deciduous shrub of species Amorpha canescens, in the pea family, native to North America, with very small purple flowers grouped in racemes.
leadplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadplant
hippophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: The love of horses.
Synonyms: english: broadly synonymous
translation: broadly synonymous
word: hippomania
Derived terms: hippophile
hippophilic
hippophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippophilic
form: most hippophilic
Etymology: From hippo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Fond of horses.
Related terms: hippophile
hippophilia
enlarge oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlarges oneself
form: enlarging oneself
form: enlarged oneself
form: enlarged oneself
Senses: examples: text: [They] enlarged themselves with as high expressions against the government as at first
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: To give free vent to speech.
universal instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal instruments
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of altitude and azimuth instrument. The object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time.
lepidopterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lepidoptera + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of dermatitis caused by irritating caterpillar or moth hairs coming into contact with the skin or mucosa.
millipede burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millipede burns
Senses: glosses: A brownish pigmentation or burn on the skin caused by the toxic liquid secreted by some millipedes.
millipede burns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millipede burn
unpurifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpurifying
form: most unpurifying
Etymology: From un- + purifying.
Senses: glosses: Not purifying.
globe thistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe thistles
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants in the genus Echinops, with spiny foliage and blue or white spherical flower heads.
type punning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The circumvention of the system of data types in a programming language in order to achieve an effect that would be difficult or impossible to achieve within the bounds of the formal language.
manfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + fiction.
Senses: examples: text: He sang the praises of Elmore Leonard, Chabon, Malamud and a host of tough-guy “manfiction” novelists, to use his affectionately satirical term.
ref: 2007 March 18, Ben Neihart, “Prince of Darkness”, in The New York Times:
text: And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees.
ref: 2008 October 12, Stephen King, “Who Says Real Men Don't Read?”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: A professed affinity for Manfiction was a central tenet of this precarious Cool Girl identity; a Cool Girl was always ready to support the literary analysis presented by the dudes, even after consuming a fifth of bourbon at three in the morning.
ref: 2010, Amanda Hess (quoting Tiger Beatdown), "The Morning After: Manfiction and Mandles Edition", Washington City Paper, 1 June 2010
glosses: Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters.
Synonyms: dick lit
Hyponyms: frat lit
Coordinate terms: chick lit
dick lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: dick (“penis”) + lit (“literature”), as a play on chick lit.
Senses: examples: text: "I am really tired of reading about sad women and bad sex, especially in laddish terms - all that dick-lit stuff," she says dismissively.
ref: 2002 October 13, Jackie McGlone, “To hold but not to have”, in Scotland on Sunday:
text: She knew that he read books. Okay, so it was that trendy kind of real-life adventure-tragedy-on-Everest-in-Antarctica-in-Krakatoa-with-sharks-with-fire stuff. Sure, it was Dick Lit (a term Nina had coined in response to Chick Lit), but they were books, for god's sake, and not just the sports or business pages that many men considered "reading."
ref: 2004, Leslie Schur, The Dog Walker, Atria Books, →ISBN:
text: Peter Cameron's Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You has been touted as the current generation's Catcher in the Rye (both the Chbosky and Cameron titles provide teen dick lit alternatives to the many adolescent chick lit offerings).
ref: 2009, Malina Saval, The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens, Basic Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Literature which appeals to, or is marketed toward, male readers.
Synonyms: manfiction
Hyponyms: frat lit
Coordinate terms: chick lit
lad lit
lapdoggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lapdog + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: "They do eat up one's time — " she checks herself again, checks her lapdog's struggles against lapdoggery, and interviewers, and dubious, childless relationships […]
ref: 1979, The Fiddlehead, page 78:
text: Throstle adored Rosie, who had rescued him in the last three months from a life of uninterrupted lapdoggery by bringing him on her stable rounds every morning[…]
ref: 2002, Robin McKinley, Spindle's End, →ISBN, page 208:
text: If Nini Mo were alive today, she would not stand by idly as Califa is sucked ever deeper into lapdoggery, as we bow our heads ever lower to the Birdie yoke.
ref: 2010, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora's Dare, →ISBN, page 454:
glosses: Behavior or activity characteristic of a lapdog, such as idleness or submission.
Socratic method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Socrates, who employs it in Plato's dialogues.
Senses: synonyms: elenchus
elenctic method
erotematic method
maieutics
glosses: A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.
Coordinate terms: Socratic irony
Adamstown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈædəmzˌtaʊn/
Etymology: From Adam + -s- + town or Adams + town. The place on Pitcairn is named after John Adams, one of the mutineers who originally settled there. The place in Ireland is named for Adam Devereux, the one in Maryland for Adam Kohlenburg, and the one in Pennsylvania for William Addams.
Senses: glosses: The capital and only settlement of the Pitcairn Islands.
glosses: A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
glosses: A census-designated place in Maryland.
glosses: A borough of Pennsylvania.
glosses: A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: ESS
glosses: The only settlement on the island of Tristan da Cunha.
wikipedia: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
Sooretama slaty antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sooretama slaty antshrike
prologuize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prologuizes
form: prologuizing
form: prologuized
form: prologuized
form: prologise
form: prologize
form: prologuise
Etymology: From prologue + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The place of the prologuizing minstrel is but ill supplied, indeed, by the epistolary dissertations which are prefixed to each book of the present poem.
ref: c. 1808, The Edinburgh Review, review of Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, in John Louis Haney (ed.), Early Reviews of English Poets (1904)
text: The duke and his train appear,—the pedagogue prologuizes,—the clowns dance,—and their self-satisfied Coryphaeus apologizes and epiloguizes.
ref: 1833, William Spaulding, A Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of, The Two Noble Kinsmen, New Shakspere Society edition, published 1876, page 42:
text: I am a Goddess of the ambrosial courts,
And save by Here, Queen of Pride, surpassed
By none whose temples whiten this the world.
ref: 1842, Robert Browning, Artemis Prologuizes:
glosses: To deliver or create a prologue, as for an oration or for a written or musical work.
prologuise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prologuises
form: prologuising
form: prologuised
form: prologuised
Etymology: From prologue + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prologuize.
prologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prologises
form: prologising
form: prologised
form: prologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prologuize.
Semnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Iranian Persian سمنان (semnân).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Semnan County's Central District and the capital of Semnan Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province of Iran.
Yazd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian یزد (yazd), see it for more.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Yazd County's Central District and the capital of Yazd Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province of Iran.
Fars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian فارس (fârs), see it for more. Doublet of Persis.
Senses: glosses: A province of Iran.
Related terms: Pars
Persis
Persia
Sooretama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Sooretama.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Derived terms: Sooretama slaty antshrike
Springbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spring Brook
Senses: glosses: A mountain, plateau, town, and locality in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A hamlet in central Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in the township of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A community in the township of Lot 21, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A tiny city in Jackson County, Iowa.
glosses: A tiny city in Williams County, North Dakota.
glosses: A town with unincorporated community and census-designated place therein, in Washburn County, Wisconsin.
Agawam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: First cultivated by the Agawam, broadleaf tobacco was soon planted by white settlers as a cash crop after they drove the Natives off the land.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 86:
glosses: An Eastern Algonquian tribe, native to northeastern Massachusetts (around Ipswich).
Agawam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of this tribe.
glosses: A settlement of this tribe.
glosses: A city in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.
glosses: A river in Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts.
glosses: Former name of Westfield River in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Montana.
glosses: A ghost town in Oklahoma.
Hartville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hart + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Wright County, Missouri.
glosses: A village in Ohio.
glosses: A town in Wyoming.
Related terms: Hartsville
Wheatland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From wheat + -land.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Yuba County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Steen Township, Knox County, Indiana; named for the wheat production in the area.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Clinton County, Iowa; named for Wheatland, President James Buchanan's home.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wheatland Township, Rice County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Hickory County, Missouri; named for James Buchanan's home.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Broadwater County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Quay County, New Mexico.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, New York; named for the wheat production in the area.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cass County, North Dakota; named for a nearby wheatfield.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yamhill County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Mercer County, Pennsylvania; now part of Hermitage.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Kenosha County, Wisconsin; named for the wheat production in the area.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Platte County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: South Wheatland
Wheatland County
Harlowton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Harlow + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Wheatland County, Montana, United States.
stfcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfcons
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + convention.
Senses: examples: text: From the smogbound coast of Calif to the 'tater farms of Maine
We will see you-all in Portland when it's stfcon time again!
ref: 1950 January, Art Rapp, editor, Spacewarp, number 34, pages 17–21:
text: Scene: A street in Eugene, Oregon, site of the 17th World Stfcon
ref: 1951 November, Lee Hoffman, “The Tragedy of Fannius McCainius”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 1, page 23:
text: Externally no-one would imagine there was a stfcon going on, no beanies, zap guns (or water pistols) in fact no fun at all.
ref: 1952 October, “Contemplations (part 2)”, in Fred J. Robinson, editor, Straight Up, volume 1, number 5:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: convention of science fiction fans.
stfcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfcon
Trans-Amadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trans Amadi
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
iono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From ion + -o-.
Senses: glosses: ISV combining form denoting relationship to ions
Eatonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Eaton + -ia.
Senses: synonyms: word: Eaton
alt: former name
glosses: A town in the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Paciolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Paciolian
form: most Paciolian
Etymology: From Pacioli + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Luca Pacioli (1445–1517), Italian mathematician and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.
vomitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vomitable
form: most vomitable
Etymology: From vomit + -able.
Senses: examples: vomitable material in the stomach
glosses: Capable of being vomited.
glosses: Repulsive; abhorrent.