cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
passed wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass wind
deadline fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadline fighter
another pair of shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quite a different matter; something else entirely.
Related terms: kettle of fish
endless screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endless screws
Senses: glosses: An arrangement for producing slow motion in machinery, consisting of a screw whose thread gears into a wheel with skew teeth.
Related terms: worm drive
endless screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endless screw
snakebite and blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakebite and black
sprunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sprunny
form: most sprunny
Senses: glosses: neat; spruce
sprunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprunnies
Senses: glosses: A sweetheart.
sprunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprunny
strigilose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strigilose
form: most strigilose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strigillose.
chidling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chidlings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chitterling.
dollier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolliers
Etymology: From dolly + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Probably this natural pause of two or three minutes at the completion of a task is sufficient rest for the dolliers […]
ref: 1919, H.M. Stationery Office, Report, numbers 1-16, page 15:
text: The dolliers were tardy too; the coal should have been brought and the boilers stoked by 5.30.
ref: 2015, Emily Woof, The Lightning Tree:
glosses: One who dollies.
dolliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollier
rampsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rampsmen
Senses: glosses: A highway robber.
rampsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampsman
baptism of desire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baptism by desire
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The grace given to a believer who ardently desires baptism, but dies before being able to receive it.
babala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several cultivated species of grass in the genus Pennisetum.
sculsh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rubbish; trash
glosses: unwholesome foods such as confectionery or unripe fruits
decubation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːkjuːˈbeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌdikjuˈbeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: PIE word
 *de
From Latin dēcubō (“to lie in a bed (that is not one’s own)”) + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process or its result). Dēcubō is derived from dē- (“from”) + cubō (“to lie down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-); compare dēcumbō (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: Here we may not omit what Learned men have obſerv'd concerning the Cuſtome of Prophets and Perſons inſpir'd of old, to ſleep [...] on Matraſſes and Beds made of their Leaves, ad Conſulendum to ask adviſe of God. [...] At this decubation upon Boughs the Satyriſt ſeems to hint where he introduces the Gypſies.
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter XXXV. An Historical Account of the Sacrednesse, and Use of Standing Groves, &c..”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 231:
text: Whatever might evene, I was procinct against a decubation in a state of deteriority, by an infrangible consortion with an amotorculist.
ref: 1856, Lorenzo Altisonant [pseudonym; Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], “Response to the Above. [Letter No. XIII.]”, in Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, by Lorenzo Altisonant, an Emigrant to the West. […], 2nd edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Applegate & Co., →OCLC, page 46:
text: The editor of one of our Aberdeen papers, [...] jumped on board a farmer's pony, and bounded over the river's banks with more vigour than grace, knocked a few pipes out of the teeth of Aunt Sally in a field hard-by, and knocked two men into an attitude of decubation at Cults Station on the way home because they dared to intrude on his first-class privacy. Not a bad record for an afternoon, was it?
ref: 1886 July 17, “Will o’ the Wisp”, in Bon-Accord: The Illustrated News of the North, volume I, number 18, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire: Henry J. Clarke, […], →OCLC, page 7, column 1:
synonyms: word: cubation
word: decumbence
word: decumbency
word: decumbiture
glosses: The act of lying down.
Related terms: word: accubation
word: accumb
word: accumbent
word: decubital
word: decubitus
word: decumbence
word: decumbency
word: decumbent
word: decumbiture
word: humicubation
word: recumbence
word: recumbency
word: recumbent
word: recumbently
prankingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prankingly
form: most prankingly
Etymology: From pranking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With showy display or adornment.
pedagoged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedagog
pedagoging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedagog
pedagogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pedagogue
pedagoguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pedagogue
pedagogery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedagogeries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedagoguery.
pedagogeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedagogery
pedagoguery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedagogueries
Senses: glosses: pedantic teaching or lecturing; didacticism
pedagogueries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedagoguery
cramesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cramesies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cramoisie.
cramesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cramesy
knockout auction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockout auctions
Senses: glosses: An auction where most of the bidders are secretly shills.
knockout auctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockout auction
convocationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more convocationally
form: most convocationally
Etymology: From convocational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In or as a convocation.
hypebeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypebeast
reptiliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From reptile + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing fossils of reptiles.
reptiliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reptiliform
form: most reptiliform
Etymology: From reptile + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to reptiles.
Comus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κῶμος (Kômos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances, a son of Dionysus.
coffee berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee berries
Senses: glosses: The red fruit of the coffee tree, which contains the bean.
coffee berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee berry
variegated coffee bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variegated coffee bugs
Senses: glosses: A shield bug of the genus Antestiopsis, a pest of coffee plants.
robin snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin snipes
Senses: glosses: A bird, the red-breasted snipe or dowitcher.
robin snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robin snipe
inorganised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inorganised
form: most inorganised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inorganized.
syzygetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syzygetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a syzygetic manner.
prick-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prick-eared
form: most prick-eared
Etymology: From Middle English prik-eryd.
Senses: synonyms: tulip-eared
glosses: Having pointed ears.
variegated coffee bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variegated coffee bug
triandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: triandrian
rogue money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An assessment formerly levied in every county in Scotland for the expenses of catching and prosecuting criminals.
petchary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petcharies
Senses: glosses: gray kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
petcharies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petchary
pitirre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitirres
Senses: glosses: gray kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
pitirres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitirre
India proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: India proofs
Senses: glosses: A high-quality proof taken from engraved plates by means of India paper.
India proofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of India proof
unequatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + equatable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be equated.
wax-resist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wax + resist.
Senses: glosses: The method of using wax to mask parts of a work, such as cloth or pottery, when applying a coating or treatment; the resist method, using wax.
henniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of henny: most henny
hennier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of henny: more henny
pulza oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The oil of the curcas or physic nut.
Savage Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic.
sourcerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sourcerer
spelked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spelk
spelking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spelk
walk with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks with
form: walking with
form: walked with
form: walked with
Senses: examples: text: Tho’ I walks with fifty ’ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand, An’ they talks a lot o’ lovin’, but wot do they understand?
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay:
glosses: To attend as a sweetheart; to go out with.
sunkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunket
kented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kent
kenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kent
tawdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tawdered
form: most tawdered
Senses: glosses: dressed in a tawdry fashion
precular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preculars
Senses: glosses: A beadsman.
preculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precular
precummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precum
countersigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersigners
Etymology: From countersign + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who countersigns a document.
countersigners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersigner
contrarianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrarianly
form: most contrarianly
Etymology: From contrarian + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrarian manner.
slottery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slottery
form: most slottery
Etymology: From slotter + -y.
Senses: glosses: foul; filthy
stair rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stair rods
Senses: synonyms: carpet rod
glosses: Any of a number of metallic rods for holding a stair carpet in place.
Derived terms: come down in stair rods
rain stair rods
stair rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stair rod
Fastens Tuesday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Cheshire
glosses: Shrove Tuesday
crinkums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jail fever; typhus
glosses: venereal disease
Monarchianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monarchianists
Etymology: From Monarchian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Monarchian.
Monarchianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monarchianist
Monarchianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Monarchianistic
form: most Monarchianistic
Senses: glosses: Holding, or relating to, Monarchian beliefs.
Nordhausian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nordhausian
form: most Nordhausian
Etymology: From Nordhaus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Nordhaus (born 1941), American economist known for his work in economic modelling and climate change.
reunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reune
reuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reune
reuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reune
maxillipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxillipedes
Etymology: From maxilla + -i- + -pede.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maxilliped.
maxillipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxillipede
hubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hubble
luminants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luminant
simple fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple fractures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fracture where the bone only is divided.
Coordinate terms: compound fracture
simple fractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple fracture
monactinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + actinal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a single ray.
synalephe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synalephes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of synalepha.
synalephes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synalephe
vinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin vīnārius (“relating to wine”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to wine.
exoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: exorations
Senses: examples: text: At first, the maid used to give him a thick slice of bread and butter, but it was found that he only devoured this on the door-step, and went to repeat his exorations next door.
ref: 1858, The Train, volume 5, page 331:
glosses: entreaty
exorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoration
Whistleresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Whistleresque
form: most Whistleresque
Etymology: From Whistler + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of work by the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903).
reharmonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reharmonises
form: reharmonising
form: reharmonised
form: reharmonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reharmonize.
reharmonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reharmonise
reharmonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reharmonise
reharmonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reharmonise
prescission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prescissions
Senses: glosses: The act or result of prescinding.
prescissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prescission
Havannah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Havannahs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Havana (“type of cigar”).
Havannahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Havannah
Havannas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Havanna
revirginates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revirginate
revirginating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revirginate
revirginated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revirginate
revirginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revirginated
form: most revirginated
Senses: examples: text: Now we have him knighted, by a rascal who, tiring of thieving a livelihood by the road-side, assures it by cleaning out his guests; and by two revirginated strumpets.
ref: 1927, Miguel de Unamuno, The life of Don Quixote and Sancho according to Miguel de Cervantes:
text: It makes him feel like one of those revirginated types, someone who's in love enough to wait for sex.
ref: 2007, American Short Fiction - Issues 36-39, page 40:
text: Once you've lost your virginity, then that's it, you cannot become revirginated.
ref: 2011, A. Vyctoria Abrams, Ava's Diary: From Atlantic Anguish to London Love Vol. 1, Series 3X, →ISBN:
glosses: Restored to virginity.
resocialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resocialise
resocialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resocialise
Yunxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yünʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Yunsi
form: Yün-hsi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄖西 /郧西 (Yúnxī).
Senses: examples: text: The revolutionary committee of Yunhsi county, Hupeh, has sent a propaganda team of medical workers to treat the ko ting (0344 3050) disease among peasants in Lion commune located in mountains over 1,000 meters above sea level.
ref: [1969 June 4 [1969 May 24], “Hupeh Disease”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 107, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 4:
text: Two more fossil teeth were discovered last year in Pailung (White Dragon) Cave in neighboring Yunhsi county, an upper right second premolar and a lower left first premolar, both very well preserved from root to crown.
ref: [1977, China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: Not far from Yun Xian County, another fossil site was found in Yunxi County, also in Yunyang Prefecture, Hubei Province. Fifteen kilometers east of the county seat of Yunxi is Bailongdong Cave on the eastern slope of Shenwuling Hill.
ref: 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
text: Zheng Dajing, from Hubei Province, said the detention center he was held in had banners hanging inside its small grounds declaring it a "law education class." But there were no textbooks or lectures in the disused tobacco-buying station in his home county, Yunxi, that he said became his jail for over a year.
ref: 2009 February 9, Chris Buckley, “Growing opposition to China's 'black jails'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
revirgination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revirginations
Etymology: From revirginate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Steinem had, on arriving in India, "revirginated" herself, as she would later put it. Her practice of revirgination in India — that is, of allowing the assumption that she was a virgin — had to do both with the protection virginity offered and with the Toledo knowledge that once a woman "lost" her virginity ...
ref: 1996, Winifred Bryan Horner, Life Writing, →ISBN, page 241:
text: The time it takes for revirgination to occur varies from woman to woman. Some might revirginate in a matter of weeks, while for others it might take months.
ref: 2004, Jill Conner Browne, God Save the Sweet Potato Queens, →ISBN, page 158:
text: For their sexual bodies will always be dangerous, the sign of the fall and original sin, the "disease that's in my flesh"(King Lear, 2.3.224), "the imposition.../Hereditary ours" (The Winter's Tale, 1.2.74-75): as they enter into sexuality, the virgins -- Cressida, Desdemona, Imogen -- will be transformed into whores, their whoredom acted out in the imaginations of their nearest and dearest; and the primary antidote to their power will be the excision of their sexual bodies, the terrible revirginations that Othello performs on Desdemona, and Shakespeare on Cordelia.
ref: 2012, Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers, →ISBN:
text: Alison Dundes Renteln's chapter (Chapter 14) shows how women seeking hymenoplasty (revirgination surgery) are sometimes met with resistance from their own physicians.
ref: 2017, Marie-Claire Foblets, Michele Graziadei, Alison Dundes Renteln, Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies: A Principle and its Paradoxes, →ISBN:
glosses: The restoration of virginity.
revirginations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revirgination
rehymenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehymenates
form: rehymenating
form: rehymenated
form: rehymenated
Senses: examples: text: The self-delusion of a person who has two husbands yet still needs the "thrill" that the Hickey's plastic tubule gives her rehymenated crotch.
ref: 2002 June 25, “Mother Bernadette Strange Another Reason Homosexuals Are EVIL!!!”, in nz.soc.queer (Usenet):
text: The reddish meat of the chicken breast, cooked from a Tandoori recipe, rehymenates the perfect surface of the porcelain plates.
ref: 2002, A. Johnson, Žakalin Nežić, Voices from the faultline: a Balkan anthology, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Dean: I have been rehymenated. Sam: Rehy—? Please! Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of hell, but no one can do that. Dean: Brother! I have been rehymenated! And the dude will not abide.
ref: 2016, Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of revirginate.
synonyms: word: revirginate
reificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reification + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: For one, the reification of cultural identities can be a political necessity in the pursuit of equal rights: precisely because the reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation, both political and mediatic, it is a useful resource in challenging established inequalities.
ref: 2002, Heidrun Friese, Aleida Assmann, Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries, →ISBN, page 190:
text: His conceptualization eschews some crucial normative and epistemological distinctions between various forms or modalities of translation, especially between stronger and weaker ones (or reificatory and non-reificatory ones) and, in doing so, impairs our ability to evaluate them, viz. of choosing the side of the weak.
ref: 2003, Dick Pels, Unhastening Science, →ISBN:
text: Note that wherever, above, I have spoken about 'time' and 'times', I should be understood to have done so entirely without reificatory intent.
ref: 2013, Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler, Josef Quitterer, The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: That reifies.
reimportune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimportunes
form: reimportuning
form: reimportuned
form: reimportuned
Etymology: From re- + importune.
Senses: examples: text: The distinguished Secretary being importuned and reimportuned by the Chinese authorities, just as they importuned and reimportuned Secretary Evarts and Secretary Blaine, said, “I will see if the President will not submit it to the compassion and the generostiy and the pity of Congress.
ref: 1886, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:
text: 'Is that -- she dismantlingly ogled -- what you're after?':and Mrs Thoroughfare 'reimportunes' her friend.
ref: 1977, Mervyn Horder, Ronald Firbank: memoirs and critiques, page 219:
text: This done, he reimportuned Victor Riley, who, knowing now what Fred had known for weeks about the T.T. engine inventory, had one of the spares gift wrapped and released to the gruff little Yorkshireman.
ref: 1988, Beverly Rae Kimes, Great Cars and Grand Marques, →ISBN, page 43:
text: And on first advantage Of his 'gained sense, will I reimportune him Unto the making of his testament : And show him this.
ref: 1999, Ben Jonson, G. A. Wilkes, Gerald Alfred Wilkes, Five Plays, →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: To importune again.
reimportunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reimportune
reimportuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reimportune
reimportuned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reimportune
akhoond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akhoonds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of akhund.
Bunke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bunkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bunke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
International Baccalaureate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A rigorous educational program for high school students, focused on developing critical thinking, collaboration, and reflection skills.
Coordinate terms: english: AP
translation: AP
word: Advanced Placement
Related terms: IB
IBO
pallisade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pallisades
Senses: examples: text: Small offerings of fruit and roots seemed to be daily made at this shrine, as some pieces were quite fresh. These were deposited upon a whatta, or altar, which stood without the pallisades; and within these we were not permitted to enter.
ref: 1784, James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean:
text: The earliest hillforts had a single line of defences comprising a timber pallisade wall on top of an earth bank with an external ditch.
ref: 2017, Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories: A spotter's guide to the British landscape, Quarto Publishing, page 24:
glosses: Obsolete form of palisade.
pallisades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallisade
separable polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separable polynomials
Senses: examples: text: Over a perfect field, the separable polynomials are precisely the square-free polynomials.
text: The study of the automorphisms of splitting fields of separable polynomials over a field is referred to as Galois theory.
text: We know that F(#92;zeta) is a normal extension because it is the splitting field of the separable polynomial xⁿ-1 (see Theorem 7.5).
ref: 1978, Marvin Marcus, Introduction to Modern Algebra, M. Dekker, page 277:
text: Proposition 1.4.2 A finite field extension M#47;K is Galois if and only if M is the splitting field over K of a separable polynomial.
ref: 2005, Arne Ledet, Brauer Type Embedding Problems, American Mathematical Society, page 6:
text: If #92;pi#95;P is a separable polynomial in K#91;t#93;, then the derivative #92;partial#95;t#92;pi#95;P is prime to #92;pi#95;P in K#91;t#93;, and therefore a unit in K#91;t#93;#95;P.[…]In the case when #92;pi#95;P is an inseparable polynomial we may write #92;pi#95;P#61;f(t#123;pʳ#125;) for a suitable rgt;0 and separable polynomial f.
ref: 2006, Philippe Gille, Tamás Szamuely, Central Simple Algebras and Galois Cohomology, Cambridge University Press, page 321:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: A polynomial over a given field that has distinct roots in the algebraic closure of said field (the number of roots being equal to the degree of the polynomial).
Coordinate terms: inseparable polynomial
Derived terms: discriminantly separable polynomial
Related terms: separable extension
splitting field
square-free polynomial
separable polynomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separable polynomial
nutrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutrushes
Etymology: From nut + rush.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Scleria of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.
nutrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutrush
JREF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of James Randi Educational Foundation.
festie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festies
Etymology: From festival + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Spaces are saved for women who need to drive into town to pick up additional supplies, first time festival-goers (“festie virgins”) are welcomed and brought into the fold […]
ref: 1998, Mary Alice Gebhart, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Building a Lesbian Community:
text: Is it just me, or is there an absolute glut of rock festivals these days? Now, back in the days when I was a gadabout festie-masher, you had your basic four festivals to choose from.
ref: 2004, New Statesman:
text: Have you ever been to a festival before? […] Well this is similar to that, but people at this festie are a little less concerned with consciousness and that whole acoustic guitar thing than they are with getting off their heads.
ref: 2014, Radmer Lenasch, Paper Samurai, page 54:
glosses: A festival.
examples: text: There was this policy that happened – there was this discussion that happened about – 'You know, you have to talk nicer to people in front of the festies, because that's just not polite. And so you have to be nice and wave at each other. […]
ref: 2008, Laurie J. Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning:
glosses: A festival attendee.
canvaswork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canvas + -work.
Senses: glosses: Embroidery upon cloth over which canvas has been laid to guide the stitches.
glosses: Embroidery in Berlin wool on silk canvas with plush stitch.
hodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodges
Etymology: From the name Hodge, from Roger.
Senses: glosses: A rustic; a country person.
hodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hodge
tirlie-whirlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tirlie-whirlies
Senses: glosses: A whirling motion or dance.
glosses: An ornamental combination of irregular lines.
tirlie-whirlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tirlie-whirlie
skipper-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skipper-birds
Senses: glosses: A tramp who does not go to lodging-houses; a rough sleeper.
skipper-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skipper-bird
made dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: made dishes
Senses: examples: text: ‘As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 332:
text: Suppose you get in cheap made dishes from the pastrycook’s, and hire a couple of green-grocers, or carpet-beaters, to figure as footmen, dismissing honest MOLLY, who waits on common days, and bedizening your table (ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch, page 71:
text: Viand of Cyprus was a made dish, of fowl brawn, almond milk, rice, and spices, with strips of toast set round the dish.
ref: 1880, Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart and Hearth, page 199:
glosses: A dish made of several different ingredients.
made dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of made dish
contentfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contentfully
form: most contentfully
Etymology: From contentful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contentful manner.
contentfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contentful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being contentful.
Related terms: contentedness
contentsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contentsome
form: most contentsome
Etymology: From content + -some.
Senses: examples: text: If thou continuest in thy body, 'tis easie for thee, and sweet and contentsome to heap up treasures for eternity: and if thou partest from it, thy hopes are great and fair that the journey thou art going is to a world of unknown felicity.
ref: 1866, original 1665, John Morris, Kenelm Digby, Words of Comfort for the wayfarer, the weary, the sick, and the aged:
text: I hope you've had a contentsome winter isnt^([sic]) it joyous to feel spring is on the way—leastways that the winter has probably done its worst for this year it busted my pipes.
ref: 1990, Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, Doreen Walker, Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms:
text: Martha, Nan's sister-in-law, comforts the baby; she says her own child '“was wonderful contentsome.”'
ref: 2015, Carl Wells, By Noble Things She Stands:
glosses: Characterised by contentedness, contentfulness, or contentment
sweet marjoram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Myrrh, sweet marjoram, and the plum-like myrobalan fruit were likewise usual ingredients of aromatic preparations.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 180:
synonyms: sampsuchine
glosses: Origanum majorana, a fragrant species of marjoram.
primitive colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primitive colours
Senses: glosses: Synonym of primary colour.
synonyms: word: primary colour
primitive colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primitive colour
Massoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masoretic.
Massoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masoretic.
frost nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frost nails
Senses: glosses: A horseshoe nail with a sharp point to prevent it from slipping on ice.
frost nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frost nail
hook pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hook pins
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A pin with a hooked head, used to pin together the frame of a floor or roof.
hook pins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hook pin
schoolgirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schoolgirl
white rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white rents
Senses: glosses: Rent paid in silver.
glosses: A poll tax of eightpence paid by tinners to the Duke of Cornwall.
white rents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white rent
nohowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nohowish
form: most nohowish
Etymology: From nohow + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps I worked too hard, or the Oxford climate after the Cotswold air got me down. Within a fortnight I was feeling nohowish, as Keats called it.
ref: 1936, John Middleton Murry, The autobiography of John Middleton Murry: between two worlds:
glosses: Feeling out of sorts.
the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: no pain, no gain
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you don't get something for nothing
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
glosses: In order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that some sacrifices be made.
Related terms: collateral damage
get one's hands dirty
side effect
proud-stomached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proud-stomached
form: most proud-stomached
Senses: glosses: haughty; arrogant
countertomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + -tomy, a calque of Chinese 反切.
Senses: examples: text: Here we need mention only such momentous developments as the creation of countertomy or cut-and-splice pseudospelling (fan-ch'ieh), generally attributed for the last thousand years to the Buddhists, which for the first time enabled Chinese to indicate the pronunciation of unknown graphs fairly unambiguously and analytically [...].
ref: 1994, The journal of Asian studies:
text: Another related phenomenon, which lasted from at least the latter part of the tenth century until the end of the nineteenth century, was the practice of writing fan-ch'ieh (countertomy or reverse cutting), Buddhist-inspired pseudo-spellings as one graph instead of three.
ref: 2010, Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Fanqie.
unintimidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unintimidates
form: unintimidating
form: unintimidated
form: unintimidated
Etymology: From un- + intimidate.
Senses: examples: text: His purpose in dwelling on labor was to demystify the business of authorities, to unintimidate the uninitiated.
ref: 1993, Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism, page 93:
glosses: To make no longer intimidated; to reassure.
scorched carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorched carpets
Senses: glosses: A geometrid moth of species Ligdia adustata.
scorched carpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorched carpet
scorchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scorched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being scorched.
scorchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scorch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be scorched.
scorchproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scorch + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to scorching.
unintimidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unintimidate
scorched wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorched wings
Senses: glosses: Plagodis dolabraria, a geometrid moth.
scorched wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorched wing
contentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛnt.lɪs.nɪs/
enpr: kŏn'tĕnt
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛnt.lɪs.nɪs/
Etymology: From contentless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being contentless; having little to no content
Duras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Uncertain. There is no known connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux.
Senses: glosses: A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.
Durasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Durasian
form: most Durasian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Durassian.
half-lengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-length
Christian sharia law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Christian sharia.
digital clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: digital clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock that displays the time (hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds) in digits, rather than by hands on a dial (like an analog clock).
Carthew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cardew
Etymology: From Cornish ker (“fort”) + du (“black”), a topographic or habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
type designer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type designers
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A person who designs typefaces as a profession.
Müller's muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Müller's muscles
Etymology: Named after German anatomist Heinrich Müller (1820–1864).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of superior tarsal muscle.
synonyms: word: superior tarsal muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of orbitalis.
synonyms: word: orbitalis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Rouget's muscle
glosses: The circular fibers of the ciliary muscle.
outer arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outer arms
Senses: glosses: The outer part of the arm, from the shoulder to the wrist.
Related terms: sleeve
resilement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resile + -ment.
Senses: glosses: resilience
Subboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sub-Boreal
form: subboreal
Etymology: From sub- + Boreal.
Senses: examples: text: According to Iversen the steep decline of Hedera must be effected by a change of climate, viz. a fall in winter temperatures which would be characteristic of the Subboreal time.
ref: 1955, Willem van Zeist, Pollen analytical investigations in the northern Netherlands:
text: The people had a significant effect on the vegetation in the Subboreal (accelerated replacement of deciduous trees by Picea).
ref: 2006, E. M. Scott, Andrey Yu. Alekseev, Ganna Zaitseva, Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia, →ISBN:
text: Results obtained from disciplines as varied as pollen analysis, geomorphology and archeology point at more humid and cool climate for the beginning of the Subboreal (5.500 – +/- 4.000 BP) (28) (32) (18) in the Levant.
ref: 2014, R. Fantechi, N.S. Margaris, Desertification in Europe, →ISBN:
glosses: A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.
Sub-Boreal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sub- + Boreal.
Senses: examples: text: Kremenetsky (1991) who gathered his pollen data in southern Ukraine and Moldova, argues that in the early Sub-Boreal (4200-2700 BP) the climate in that area became cool and dry; pollen spectra showed the disappearance of Ulmaceae from the forests in the Moldavian highlands; warm-loving trees such as oak and lime withdrew from the forests of Volhynia.
ref: 2014, Pavel Dolukhanov, The Early Slavs, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Subboreal.
subboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Subboreal.
scarlet eggplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: bitter tomato
word: Ethiopian eggplant
word: garden egg
word: mock tomato
word: pumpkin-on-a-stick
word: scarlet eggplant
word: Ethiopian nightshade
extra: Solanum aethiopicum
glosses: Synonym of Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum).
Meronyms: gilo
gilo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese giló, jiló, from Kimbundu njilu.
Senses: glosses: Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)
Swiss meringue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss meringues
Senses: glosses: A kind of dense meringue, made by whisking over a bain-marie.
French meringue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French meringues
Senses: glosses: The most basic kind of meringue, made with caster sugar.
Italian meringue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian meringues
Senses: glosses: A kind of stable, soft meringue, made with hot sugar syrup.
saucery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːsəɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English saucerie, from Old French sausserie.
Senses: examples: text: Vinegar and cold water, brought by the groom of the saucery ; the chief officers also of the cellar and pantry are to be ready, one with a cup of red wine, and the other with a manchet, (of bread) to offer the criminal after the hand be cut off...
ref: 1827, W. H. Pyne, The World In Miniature: England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 51:
text: It may have been delivered direct to the saucery by the wardrobe clerk, but this can not be proved, as the 'Black Book' lacks an independent 'sausery' section.
ref: 1970, Randall Monier-Williams, The Tallow Chandlers of London: The mystery in the making, page 24:
text: Next door to the dry fish house, a staircase went up to the first floor to a landing which led left into the pastry and saucery office (no. 21) and right into the confectionary (no. 22).
ref: 2011 April 1, Peter Brears, All the King's Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace, page 64:
glosses: The part of a noble estate dedicated to making sauces.
holy man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊlɪ mæn/
Forms: form: holy men
Senses: glosses: A man who has devoted himself to religious practice, especially one who has absented himself from society to follow his religion; an ascetic or saint.
resiluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: renewed attack
patoncée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patonce.
patoncy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patonce.
dash-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dash-wheels
Senses: glosses: A wheel-shaped box with compartments, in which cotton cloth is washed by the revolution of the wheel in liquid.
dash-wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dash-wheel
tubthumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubthumpers
Etymology: From tub + thumper.
Senses: glosses: A ranting preacher.
glosses: Someone who promotes something aggressively.
Related terms: tubthumping
tubthumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubthumper
identity document
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity documents
Senses: synonyms: identification
ID
papers
glosses: A document which may be used to prove a person's identity.
Related terms: identity card
travel document
identity documents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity document
victimist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more victimist
form: most victimist
Etymology: From victim + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of victimism; feigning or co-opting victimhood.
victimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimists
Etymology: From victim + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the victim; one who inclines to victimism
Related terms: victimism
victim
victimize
victimise
victimization
victimisation
victimists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimist
mophato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mephato
Etymology: From Tswana mophato.
Senses: glosses: In Tswana culture, people in the same age group considered as a "regiment".
examples: text: During the initiation process for boys (lebollo), they leave home for three to eight months and reside at the mophato (which is constructed in a secluded spot for the purpose of housing the initiates during this process), […]
ref: 2013, Scott Rosenberg, Richard F. Weisfelder, Historical Dictionary of Lesotho, page 187:
text: Livingstone records that since Mamochisane was a woman and hence could not enter the mophato with men, Sibitwane arranged that Mpepe (his nephew) should act on behalf […]
ref: 2010, Mutumba Mainga Bull, Bulozi under the Luyana Kings, page 72:
glosses: A lodge used for rituals in parts of Africa.
tropologise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tropologises
form: tropologising
form: tropologised
form: tropologised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tropologize.
tropologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tropologise
tropologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tropologise
tropologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tropologise