cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kleroterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kleroteria
form: cleroterion
form: cleroterium
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κληρωτήριον (klērōtḗrion), from κληρόω (klēróō, “appoint by lot”) + -τήριον (-tḗrion, adjective suffix).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Athenian democracy
glosses: A device used in sortition, consisting of a stone slab incised with rows of slots and with an attached tube, and operating on tokens representing citizens.
cleroterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleroteria
Senses: glosses: Latinised spelling of kleroterion
cleroterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleroteria
Senses: glosses: Partly Latinised spelling of kleroterion
kleroteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kleroterion
cleroteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleroterion
glosses: plural of cleroterium
tip the scale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips the scale
form: tipping the scale
form: tipped the scale
form: tipped the scale
form: tip the scales
Senses: examples: text: The priest went on to say that God tipped the scales in favor of hope "through the resurrection of our crucified divine brother Jesus."
ref: 2007, Melannie Svoboda, In Steadfast Love: Letters on the Spiritual Life, page 122:
glosses: To change the fortunes, either positively or negatively.
examples: text: was kindly called to account by the good doctor when her nine-months'-old baby tipped the scales at barely twelve pounds.
ref: 1917, Mabel Thorp Boardman, Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad, page 190:
glosses: To weigh (have a certain weight).
raw_tags: used with "at"
axiomatizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axiomatizability
battery cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battery cage
better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Latin ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora, from Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais.
Senses: synonyms: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
take the cash and let the credit go
glosses: It is better to have a sure thing now than a possibility of more later.
wikipedia: Rabelais
Related terms: sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
Zelophehad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /zɪˈlɒfɪhæd/
Etymology: From Hebrew צְלָפְחָד (ts'lofchád, “Zelophehad”).
Senses: examples: And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
qualifier: very rare outside the Bible
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
fanal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪnəl/
Forms: form: fanals
Etymology: Borrowed from French fanal, from Ancient Greek φανάριον (phanárion).
Senses: glosses: A lighthouse
examples: text: On the right hand, as you enter the port, there is an elegant fanal, or lighthouse, kept in good repair: but in all the charts of this coast which I have seen, this lanthorn is laid down to the westward of the harbour; […]
ref: 1764 January 20, Tobias Smollett, “Letter, XIV”, in Travels Through France and Italy, published 1766:
text: In order to assemble our full force in due time, fanals should be erected […] and kindled in such a manner as to direct the movements of the troops to any point according to an order.
ref: 1811, Wilhelm Müller, The elements of the science of war, page 487:
synonyms: lantern
glosses: The beacon inside a lighthouse
the jury is still out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the jury is out.
Related terms: on the fence
-ened
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of -en
fetids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetid
home sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home side
away side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: away sides
Senses: glosses: away team.
away sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of away side
trouble in paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troubles in paradise
Senses: examples: text: My wife wasn't in the best of moods on our honeymoon last week. ― Trouble in paradise?
text: Chaucer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise.
ref: 1969 February 14, “New Plays: Pilgrims' Regress”, in Time, retrieved 10 Jul 2014:
text: Is there trouble in paradise? Maybe not, but it will be interesting to see whether the Bulls can make it through another season without serious internal problems.
ref: 1996 December 10, Clifton Brown, “Challenge for the Bulls Is to Repair the Cracks”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jul 2014:
text: [H]e’ll keep on peeping through her window, anxious for some glimpse of trouble in paradise with the new boyfriend.
ref: 2013 October 5, Tom Russo, “Reasons to get ‘Stuck in Love’”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 10 Jul 2014:
glosses: An unexpected problem in a supposedly positive situation, especially in a marital or romantic relationship.
-our
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of -or.
rubiscos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubisco
hinge on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hinges on
form: hinging on
form: hinged on
form: hinged on
form: hinge upon
Etymology: 1700, hinge (verb) + on.
Senses: examples: text: The success of this plan hinges upon his approval.
glosses: To depend on; to be contingent upon.
Synonyms: depend on
Related terms: hinging on
hinge upon
hinging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This type of construction is sometimes possible, hinging on the circumstances involved.
glosses: present participle and gerund of hinge on
simple quadruple time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note; specifically common time.
joint-stock companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint-stock company
SAAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of Seasonally adjusted annual rate.
motza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motser
Etymology: Probably from motza, a variant of matzo, or its etymon Yiddish מצה (matse, “(unleavened) bread”). Compare bread, dough (“money”).
Senses: examples: text: How often is this happening? I don't think anyone knows. It must be costing a motza and that's a real concern.
ref: 2010 March 2, Fiona Simpson quoted in, Brisbane Times:
glosses: A lot of money.
motza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motzas
Etymology: See matzo.
Senses: examples: text: […]militant Hebrews have all been enabled to keep their Passover in accordance with the Mosaic Law, for they were furnished with the necessary “motzas,” or cakes of unleavened bread, by their London co-religionists.
ref: 1901, Parley P. Pratt, The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, volume 63, page 279:
text: During the seven days of this festival, as everyone knows, Jews eat motzas, or unleavened cakes, instead of bread, in commemoration of the flight from Egypt.
ref: 1952, Victor Gollancz, My Dear Timothy, page 67:
text: 1984, Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain), Nursing Times, Volume 80, Issues 1-13, page 58,
As the fleeing Israelites had no time to allow their bread to rise, one of the dietary restrictions associated with Passover is the eating of unleavened bread called ‘motza’, which contains no yeast.
glosses: Alternative form of matzo.
eromenoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eromenos
have the wolf by the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the wolf by the ear
form: having the wolf by the ear
form: had the wolf by the ear
form: had the wolf by the ear
Etymology: Initially attributed to Roman Emperor Tiberius circa year 1 AD by biographer C. Suetonius Tranquillus.
United States, 1820, Thomas Jefferson, writing about the institution of slavery and the Missouri Compromise:
: "But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
:: — Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes (discussing slavery and the Missouri question), Monticello, 22 April 1820
Senses: synonyms: on the horns of a dilemma
have a tiger by the tail
glosses: To be in a dangerous situation from which one cannot disengage, but in which one cannot safely remain.
wikipedia: Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson
Tiberius
capataces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capataz
nigromancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigromancy
old farts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old fart
110%
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of a hundred and ten percent.
Derived terms: give 110%
4-on-the-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of four-on-the-floor.
gay bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay bar
Japanese giant salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese giant salamander
eurythermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurythermal
form: most eurythermal
Etymology: From eury- + thermal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: eurythermic
eurythermous
antonyms: stenothermal
glosses: Able to tolerate a wide range of temperature.
raw_tags: of an organism
Related terms: eurythermy
altimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to altimetry or to altimetrics
glosses: Obtained by means of an altimeter
Derived terms: altimetrically
anholonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + holonomic.
Senses: glosses: nonholonomic
antitriplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitriplets
Etymology: From anti- + triplet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle of a specified triplet (triquark).
cryogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryogen
cryogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryogens
Etymology: From cryo- + -gen.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a cryogenic liquid (that boils below about -160°C) used as a refrigerant
Related terms: cryo
cryogenic
cryogenics
cryonic
cryonics
decahydroisoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkəhaɪdɹəʊaɪsəʊˈkwɪnəliːn/
Forms: form: decahydroisoquinolines
Etymology: From deca- + hydro- + isoquinoline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated, bicyclic heterocycle, related to isoquinoline, composed of a cyclohexane ring fused to that of piperidine
Synonyms: perhydroisoquinoline
perhydroisoquinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perhydroisoquinolines
Etymology: From per- + hydro- + isoquinoline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: decahydroisoquinoline
decentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːsɛntˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decentrations
Etymology: From de- + centration.
Senses: glosses: The removal of something from a centre.
decorrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decorrelate
decorrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɒɹəleɪtəd/
Forms: form: more decorrelated
form: most decorrelated
Senses: glosses: Modified by decorrelation
Brose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Take poor Brose, who was actually christened Ambrose. A thing like that could simply warp a person's life, if he wasn't a good enough fighter to make the other kids start calling him by some nickname at an early age.
ref: 1951, Rosamond Du Jardin, Class Ring, Lippincott, page 140:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose.
casaquin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casaquins
Etymology: From French casaquin.
Senses: glosses: A kind of short gown associated with French working-class or peasant women.
casaquins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casaquin
caraco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women.
eye-strain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eyestrain.
stamp hinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamp hinge
contreforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrefort
seigneurie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seigneuries
form: seigneury
Etymology: From French seigneurie.
Senses: examples: text: Conventionally, seigneuries were divided between, first, the domain land […]; and, second, the tenures (or censives) which were divided among the peasantry and others.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 153:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An area governed by a seigneur (French noble).
glosses: The estate of a seigneur.
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: The official residence of a Seigneur.
seigneuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seigneurie
seigneurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seigneurial
form: most seigneurial
Etymology: From seigneur + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: In April 1768 Carleton had proposed the restoration of the seigneurial militia system.
ref: 1724-1759, William Wood, The Father of British Canada= A Chronicle of Carleton:
glosses: Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism.
examples: text: She would chat for hours, without thinking anything of it, with the chief of the village on her mother's estate, when he happened to come into town, and talk with him as if he were her equal, without any signs of seigneurial condescension.
ref: 1873, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Liza:
text: It had a church, just at the junction of the roads, and a fine seigneurial chateau, in a garden, beside the church; otherwise it was a little lonely mean place, built of brick and plaster on a great lonely heap of chalk downland.
ref: 1918, John Masefield, The Old Front Line:
glosses: Befitting a seigneur.
Related terms: seigneurialism
arbusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbust
med-evacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of med-evac
sculk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sculks
form: sculking
form: sculked
form: sculked
Senses: examples: text: It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.'
ref: 1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5:
text: No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches.
ref: 1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
text: Let other nice lords sculk at home from the wars, Prank'd up and adorn'd with garters and stars, Which but twinkle like those in a cold frosty night; While to yours you are adding such lustre and light, That if you proceed, I'm sure very soon 'Twill be brighter and larger than the sun or the moon: A blazing star, I foretell, 'twill prove to the Gaul, That portends of his empire the ruin and fall.
ref: 1910, Jonathan Swift, Poems (Volume II.):
glosses: Alternative spelling of skulk.
schnozz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schnozzes
form: schnoz
form: shnoz
form: shnozz
Etymology: Likely from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout”) and English snout. Compare schnozzle. A less common theory suggests a variant of nose influenced by schm-, or by general association with Yiddish words. Attested since at least 1940.
Senses: examples: text: […] you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of that face—look at the shnoz on him, for God’s sakes!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, pages 149–150:
text: There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz.
ref: 1993 March 5, Adam Langer, “Sex Lives of Superheroes/Subfertile”, in The Chicago Reader:
text: One presumes the anesthetic is for the bull, although if I were about to pound a nail through some bull's schnozz I might want some anesthetic myself.
ref: 1998 June 26, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in The Chicago Reader:
text: In another talk, a DinoNose collaborator, Scott Sampson of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pointed out a number of ridges in the ceratopsian schnozz that probably supported curtains of cartilage; these in turn may have served as scaffolding for layers upon layers of mucous membranes.
ref: 1999 November 5, Carl Zimmer, “Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: The Stories Behind the Bones”, in Science, volume 286, number 5442, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1071–1074:
synonyms: word: nose
word: beak
word: beezer
word: boko
word: conk
word: honker
word: hooter
word: neb
word: pecker
word: proboscis
word: schnozz
word: schnozzle
word: schnozzola
word: schnoz
word: smeller
word: sneck
word: sniffer
word: snitch
word: snoot
word: snotbox
word: snout
word: trunk
raw_tags: of an elephant
glosses: Nose.
schnozzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schnozz
schnockered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schnockered
form: most schnockered
Senses: examples: text: So if you and the pooch go out and get schnockered some night, make sure you don't let him drive.
ref: 1990 January 5, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Ordinarily, Cecil doesn't take this kind of thing too seriously but in this instance was impressed by Freilich's impeccable research methodology: he spent his nights getting schnockered with the Mohawks at their favorite bar in Brooklyn.
ref: 1992 December 18, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of snockered.
mod cons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mod con
bladdered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblædəd/
ipa: /ˈblædɚd/
ipa: /ˈblædəd/
ipa: [ˈblæd.ɜːd]
Forms: form: more bladdered
form: most bladdered
Etymology: From bladder + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] the fabric was holding onto the smell of urine. Their small bladdered friend had soiled it so much that new furniture was needed, so Jason and Colin had gone out and hijacked some aluminium garden chairs.
ref: 2007, Paul Knight, Coding of a Concrete Animal, page 302:
glosses: Having a specified kind of bladder.
glosses: Drunk.
glosses: Swollen like a bladder; bladdery.
Derived terms: weak-bladdered
schooly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːli
Forms: form: more schooly
form: most schooly
Etymology: From school + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was disappointed with the Law School social milieu, describing it as “a very high-schooly atmosphere” characterized by competition, cliquishness, and emotional immaturity.
ref: 2006, Carrie Yang Costello, Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools, page 6:
glosses: Of or relating to school.
examples: text: Tony had objected that she did not want anything so "schooly," and that the very fact that Jean liked the Hostelry would be proof positive that she, Tony, would not like it.
ref: 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings:
text: And 'Home for Girls' means that it isn't a home at all, but a schooly, outside-sort-of place."
ref: 1914, Edna Turpin, Honey-Sweet:
glosses: Studious, involving study.
schooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːli
Forms: form: schoolies
Etymology: From school + -y.
Senses: examples: 2000, Gerald Barnhart, Foreword, Ron Bern, Manny Luftglass, Gone Fishin′: The 100 Best Spots in New York, page xv,
Surf casters are frantically catching and releasing schooly stripers and some early blues at Montauk, and the fluke have shown in good numbers in the sound.
glosses: Alternative spelling of schoolie.
gold coins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold coin
sauerbraten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauerbratens
Etymology: From German: sauer (“sour”) + Braten (“roast meat”).
Senses: examples: text: My sauerbraten ($10.95) was a disaster, thin slices of beef drowned in a lake of gravy, and way too sauer, although the accompanying spaetzle were firm and buttery.
ref: 1992 March 13, Jody Stern, “Restaurant Tours: joie de Germans?”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The worst thing that would have happened if Germany had won is that I'd be speaking German now and eating sauerbraten instead of hamburger," he says. "
ref: 1994 July 22, Grant Pick, “Bigot for Hire”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But some meat dishes, like the sauerbraten, are drenched in sauces that tend to be a little too heavy and sweet.
ref: 2006 November 24, Michael Gebhert/Mike Sula/David Hammond, “Critic's Choice/Roast Pheasant in a Sleigh and Other Eastern European Delights”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A German dish of roasted marinated horsemeat or (now more frequently) beef or pork.
screak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screaks
Senses: examples: text: She did not run against chairs nor move a stool so that the legs emitted a "screak" of agony, and she could sit still for an hour at a time if she had a book.
ref: 1898, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Boston:
glosses: shriek; screech
screak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screaks
form: screaking
form: screaked
form: screaked
Senses: examples: text: The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
ref: 1895 October, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XCI, number DXLV, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, [book I], part II, chapter XVI, page 746, column 1:
text: They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 64:
text: Which'll jar your bones, Jim!...sap your breath...distort your hearing for your own concrete thoughts 'til they screak like the muddled static of distant homily.
ref: 1999 July 2, Richard Meltzer, “Vinyl Reckoning”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He finally does the hit next to the factory, causing the birds to screak and batter their cages.
ref: 2003 November 14, Jeff Huebner, “Coming Home”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: shriek; screech
screaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screak
screaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screak
screaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screakings
Senses: examples: text: […] and his calls of the female would readily be mistaken by a stranger for the screakings of an ungreased wheel-barrow.
ref: 1832, A Book of Ornithology, for Youth, page 154:
glosses: A shriek or screech.
screaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screak
semicircularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semicircularly
form: most semicircularly
Etymology: From semicircular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He whirled and came back open-mouthed, and the little boy and big basket had to whisk semicircularly not to be run down, for de minimis non curat Medicina-even when not in a rage.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments.
ref: 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete:
glosses: Done in a semicircular manner.
sellery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up.
ref: 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
text: We had most of us fasted eight-and-forty hours, some more; it was time therefore to make enquiry among ourselves what store of sustenance had been brought from the wreck by dire providence of some, and what could be procured on the island by the industry of others; but the produce of the one amounted to no more than two or three pounds of biscuit-dust preserved in a bag; and all the success of those who ventured abroad, the weather being still exceedingly bad, was to kill one sea-gull and pick some wild sellery.
ref: 1816, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of celery.
spinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinages
Senses: examples: text: Take a quart of good boiling pease which put into a pot with a gallon of soft water whilst cold; add thereto a little beef or mutton, a little hung beef or bacon, and two or three large onions; boil all together while your soop is thick; salt it to your taste, and thicken it with a little wheat-flour; strain it thro' a cullender, boil a little sellery, cut it in small pieces, with a little crisp bread, and crisp a little spinage, as you would do parsley, then put it in a dish, and serve it up.
ref: 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of spinach.
semaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semaphoric
form: most semaphoric
Etymology: From semaphore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: using semaphore
examples: text: He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.
ref: 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:
text: This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.
ref: 2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
seede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedes
Senses: examples: text: THE RUINES OF TIME. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND BEAUTIFULL LADIE, THE LA: MARIE, COUNTESSE OF PEMEBROOKE. Most honourable and bountifull Ladie, there bee long sithens deepe sowed in my brest the seede of most entire love and humble affection unto that most brave knight, your noble brother deceased; which, taking roote, began in his life time somewhat to bud forth, and to shew themselves to him, as then in the weakenes of their first spring; and would in their riper strength (had it pleased High God till then to drawe out his daies) spired forth fruit of more perfection.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: Vppon the braunches of the coorrall, there were artificially sette certayne open flowers with fiue leaues, some of Saphyre, some of Iacynth and Berill, and in the middest of them a little round seede of golde, fastening the leaues to the stalke of corrall.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
text: It bringeth foorth at the top of the branches little yellow floures, and afterward small rough whitish and flat huskes, and almost round fashioned like bucklers, wherein is contained a flat seede almost like to the seed of castell or stocke gilloflers, but greater.
ref: 1850, Various, Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850:
text: After this they brought him a bagge of gunpowder, which they carefully preserved till the next spring, to plant as they did their corne, because they would be acquainted with the nature of that seede.
ref: 1881, Charles Dudley Warner, Captain John Smith:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of seed.
seedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seede
secureness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secure + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And now, though there is none of that sweetness of stolen fruits, none of that creeping insecurity of former readings, there is an undisturbing, quiet secureness that makes our books more living to us.
ref: 1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams Anthology:
text: A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.
ref: 1919, Ellen N. La Motte, Peking Dust:
text: That's partly because of the high level of professionalism and efficiency of M. Seth Reines's staging of the show at Apple Tree Theatre; the very secureness of the production mitigates any feelings of insecurity the characters might want to communicate.
ref: 1990 December 21, Albert Williams, “Closer Than Ever”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: the quality or state of being secure, security
semispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + spherical.
Senses: examples: text: The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan.
ref: 1902, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands:
text: The acorns, the largest among the oaks, are semispherical with the cups extremely shallow.
ref: 1914, Jacob Joshua Levison, Studies of Trees:
text: Hence, the fracture surface consists of a periodic array of semispherical bowls.
ref: 1998 October 30, Anvar A. Zakhidov et al., “Carbon Structures with Three-Dimensional Periodicity at Optical Wavelengths”, in Science, volume 282, number 5390, →DOI, pages 897–901:
glosses: hemispherical, having the shape of a hemisphere
seraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seraphically
form: most seraphically
Etymology: From seraphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “You’re an angel, by Jove, you’re an angel!” said Foker, at which Blanche looked seraphically up to the chandelier.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: They smiled at Kate seraphically, and she saw that they wanted to be alone, and that it made little difference to them whether they were sitting in a warm room or walking the windy streets.
ref: 1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice:
text: She was all in white like a lily, and otherwise carried out the lily tradition of belonging obviously to the non-toiling-and-spinning species, justifying the arrangement by looking seraphically lovely in the fruits of the loom and labor of the rest of the world.
ref: 1921, Margaret Rebecca Piper, Wild Wings:
glosses: in a seraphic manner; with angelic purity.
serfage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serfages
Etymology: From serf + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Christianity finding men in serfage and degraded all over the earth, had arisen on the fall of the Roman Empire, like a mighty vengeance, though under the aspect of a resignation.
ref: 1856, H. T. Ryde., History of the Girondists, Volume I:
text: The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.
ref: 1890, John Richard Green, History of the English People, Volume I (of 8):
text: Since then the process of abolishing wage-slavery went slowly forward until at last the war came not only to threaten its destruction altogether but also to place the emancipated workers in a position where they could dictate terms and conditions to capital, to employers, to government and to the general public; while even now in many parts of Europe and America, besides Russia, overt attempts are being made to bring back the old slavery, only with the former bondsmen in supreme dictatorship, the former employers and the "bourgeoisie" in the new serfage.
ref: 1922, Ralph Adams Cram, Towards the Great Peace:
glosses: serfdom
serfdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serfdom
sepulchrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sepulchrally
form: most sepulchrally
Etymology: From sepulchral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is he whose hoarse whispers sound sepulchrally through the tubes, who rings the mysterious bell, and by such complex means despatches his 'shadows' upon their errands.
ref: 1872, James D. McCabe, Lights and Shadows of New York Life:
glosses: in a sepulchral manner
sesamum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin sēsamum. Doublet of sesame.
Senses: examples: text: While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some will persist so obstinately, as to have all their fingers thus mutilated.
ref: 1760, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1:
text: The latter is called the feast of 'six sesamum acts,' for sesamum is a holy plant, and in each act of this rite it plays a part.
ref: 1896, Edward Washburn Hopkins, The Religions of India:
glosses: sesame
calendarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calendarizes
form: calendarizing
form: calendarized
form: calendarized
form: calendarise
Etymology: From calendar + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To structure in terms of dates; to put onto a timescale.
seton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setons
Etymology: From Middle English seton, setoun, from Medieval Latin sētō, sētōn-.
Senses: examples: text: If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
ref: 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2:
text: The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast.
ref: 1904, Gustave Flaubert, Over Strand and Field:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
glosses: A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen etc., introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to induce suppuration; also, the issue so formed.
setons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seton
seveare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sevearer
form: sevearest
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
text: He was very punctuall and regular in his devotions, so that he was never knowne to enter upon his recreations or sportes, though never so early in the morninge, before he had bene at publique prayers, so that on huntinge dayes, his Chaplynes were bounde to a very early attendance, and he was likewise very stricte in observinge the howres of his private cabbinett devotions, and was so seveare an exactor of gravity and reverence in all mention of religion, that he could never indure any light or prophane worde in religion, with what sharpnesse of witt so ever it was cover'd; and though he was well pleased and delighted with readinge verses made upon any occasyon, no man durst bringe before him any thinge that was prophane or uncleane, that kinde of witt had never any countenance then.
ref: 1918, Various, Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of severe.
troble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trobles
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of trouble.
troble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trobles
form: trobling
form: trobled
form: trobled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of trouble.
revendge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of revenge.
indevour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indevours
form: indevouring
form: indevoured
form: indevoured
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
indevours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indevour
indevouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indevour
indevoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indevour
appeale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of appeal.
beneathe
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of beneath.
skandall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skandalls
Senses: examples: text: His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of scandal.
skandalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skandall
sevenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seven + pence.
Senses: examples: text: A newspaper cost sevenpence; there were no national schools or Sunday schools, no penny publications, no penny postage, no railways, no gas, and no free libraries, and no free education!
ref: 1895, F. J. Cross, Beneath the Banner:
text: "A Costermonger in this street," says Crabbe, "finding lately that his rope of onions, which he hoped would have brought a shilling, was to go for only sevenpence henceforth, burst forth into lamentation, execration and the most pathetic tears.
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:
glosses: The value of seven old pennies.
sevenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sevenpences
Etymology: From the above.
Senses: glosses: Construed as singular.
dizis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dizi
elevenpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevenpences
Etymology: From eleven + pence.
Senses: examples: text: Now the dealer was a young man, who did not know the ways of Castellybryn, and he was aware that the first dealer was a big buyer and a cunning bargainer; so he purchased the butter for elevenpence farthing a pound, being a farthing a pound above the market price of that day.
ref: 1915, Caradoc Evans, “A Heifer without Blemish”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni & Liveright, published 1918, page 35:
glosses: the value of eleven old pennies
shd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: U shd cum2my party
glosses: Abbreviation of should.
gaohus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaohu
sharke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharkes
Senses: examples: text: Nowe what sharke Or wyde-mouth'd whale shall swallowe upp my budgett, May it at th'instant choake him!
ref: 1882-89, A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of shark.
swallowe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swallowes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of swallow.
swallowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swallowes
form: swallowing
form: swallowed
form: swallowed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of swallow.
wyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wydes
Etymology: From wide, respelled analogously to byte from bite.
Senses: examples: text: We would then take a surrogate pair consisting of two wydes: the first from the high area, the second from the low area.
ref: 2007, Yannis Haralambous, Fonts & Encodings, page 64:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Two-byte unsigned data, mainly used for a Unicode character.
wyde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wyder
form: wydest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wide.
choake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: choakes
form: choaking
form: choaked
form: choaked
Senses: examples: text: Glut[tony]: […] now Fauſtus, thou haſt heard all my Pꝛogeny, wilt thou bid me to ſupper? / Fau[ſtus]. No, Ile ſée thée hanged, thou wilt eate vp all my victualls. / Glut[tony]. Then the diuell choake thée. / Fau[ſtus]. Choake thy ſelfe glutton: […]
ref: 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature [C4], verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of choke.
choake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choakes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of choke.
shorewards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz
Etymology: From shore + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Then it all came back, and I was a boy again on the trawler, creeping shorewards in the light breeze of an August night, and watching that friendly twinkle from the Manor woods above the village.
ref: 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet:
text: The men rowed shorewards, but were stopped by four canoes carrying armed men, "new men" the narrative calls them.
ref: 1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery:
glosses: towards the shore
shootable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shootable
form: most shootable
Etymology: From shoot + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Amongst other animals shootable are the native bear--a sluggish creature looking like a small bear; the bandicoot, a small animal with a pig's head and snout; the native cat; cockatoos, parrots, eagles, hawks, owls, parroquets, wild turkey, quail, native pheasants, teal, native companions, water-hens, and the black swan and the opossum.
ref: 1883, R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny, Town Life in Australia:
text: I've shot and hunted every beast, I think, shootable and huntable, from a humming-bird to an elephant; and I had some splendid fishing in Canada; but, after all, give me a Whitbury trout, on a single-handed Chevalier.
ref: 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
text: Because native species, such as Illinois' native grouse, the prairie chicken, have been driven out of vast areas by habitat destruction, managers have sought to import shootable birds that can survive in the devastated landscapes of postsettlement America.
ref: 1989 January 13, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: able to be shot
shog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: shogs
Etymology: From Middle English schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), possibly from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schucken (“to shog”); all from Proto-Germanic *skukkōną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Doublet of shock.
Senses: examples: text: The shog of the vessel threw a young Chinese (whom Xavier had christened, and carried along with him) into the sink, which was then open.
ref: 1808, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18):
text: Another's diving bow he did adore, Which, with a shog, casts all the hair before, Till he with full decorum brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake.
ref: 1881, Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play:
text: My learned friend assured me further, that the earth had lately received a shog from a comet that crossed its vortex, which, if it had come ten degrees nearer us, had made us lose this whole term.
ref: 1899, George A. Aitken, The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899:
glosses: jolt, shake (brisk movement)