cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carry weight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries weight
form: carrying weight
form: carried weight
form: carried weight
Senses: glosses: To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
examples: text: Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
text: Our motion did not carry much weight with the judge.
text: When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight'. I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.
ref: 1948, Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, page 31:
text: Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, page 376:
text: A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.
ref: 2010, Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion,, page 247:
glosses: To have influence.
Related terms: carry one's weight
soft coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bituminous coal, as distinguished from hard coal (anthracite).
soft tortoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft tortoises
Senses: glosses: Any of the soft-shelled turtles of the family Trionychidae.
puppet rulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppet ruler
puppet leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppet leaders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puppet ruler.
puppet leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puppet leader
flatrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatrods
Etymology: From flat + rod.
Senses: glosses: A hinged rod used to transfer a water wheel's mechanical movement over short distances.
flatrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatrod
pistonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piston + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pistons.
antirodeo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirodeo
form: most antirodeo
Etymology: From anti- + rodeo.
Senses: glosses: Opposing rodeos.
escape wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape wheels
Senses: topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of scape-wheel
synonyms: word: scape-wheel
Danish pastries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Danish pastry
weirdscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weirdscapes
Etymology: From weird + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: But sixty-plus middle-aged women dangling from ape-hanger handlebars, their modified Hogs parked along the town's half-mile drag, make for an unexpected, discombobulating weirdscape.
ref: 2007, Don Waters, Desert Gothic, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: You need a four-wheel-drive to get to the old Zero Meridian monument through a boulder-strewn, euphorbia-covered weirdscape and tiny craters called hornitos (little ovens), via the Orchilla lighthouse where the first man crossed the island.
ref: 2007 May 6, Marion Bull, “Journey to the Edge of the World”, in Daily Mail:
text: Zawinski was one of the founders of Netscape, “the first web browser that mattered”, and is often touted as an example of a techie who has worked to keep San Francisco’s vaudevillian weirdscape alive and dancing, rather than just getting out with his pile.
ref: 2014 April 9, Laurie Penny, “A tale of two cities: how San Francisco's tech boom is widening the gap between rich and poor”, in New Statesman:
glosses: A bizarre place or atmosphere.
Málagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malagan.
Indian file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Attested since the 18th century, as Native Americans traversed woods in this way.
Senses: examples: text: In about an hour they returned very much intoxicated, singing their dead war songs, and every warrior naked, painted black from head to foot: as they approached the house in Indian file, each one repeated the following words […]
ref: 1791, Voyages And Travels Of An Indian Interpreter And Trader, page 69:
glosses: Single file.
Indian wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian wheats
Senses: glosses: Maize or Indian corn.
synonyms: blond plantain
desert Indianwheat
blond psyllium
ispaghol
glosses: A plant of species Plantago ovata, a plantain that is a source of psyllium.
follow board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follow boards
Senses: qualifier: metal founding
glosses: A board on which the pattern and the flask lie while the sand is rammed into the flask.
Related terms: cope
drag
freedom fine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedom fines
Senses: glosses: A sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades.
occult line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occult lines
Senses: examples: text: Yet in making an occult line on my chart, to indicate this rise from a depth at present beyond estimate, I by no means meant it as a mark for shoal water in which navigation is concerned.
ref: 1854, William Henry Smyth, The Mediterranean: A Memoir Physical, Historical, and Nautical, pages 136–37:
glosses: A line drawn as a part of the construction of a geometrical figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan.
linimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liniment
linimented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liniment
Mr. Irrelevant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mr Irrelevant
form: Mister Irrelevant
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The person who is picked last in a professional sports draft.
ants climbing a tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 螞蟻上樹 /蚂蚁上树 (mǎyǐshàngshù); the bits of ground meat clinging to the noodles evoke an image of ants walking on twigs.
Senses: glosses: A Sichuan dish of ground meat cooked in a sauce and poured over cellophane noodles.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ants, climbing, a, tree.
liquor sanguinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: blood plasma
Rachel sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rachel sandwiches
Etymology: Perhaps in reference to the song Reuben and Rachel (1871).
Senses: synonyms: Rachel
glosses: A variation on the Reuben sandwich, substituting pastrami or turkey for the corned beef, and coleslaw for the sauerkraut.
wikipedia: Reuben and Rachel
Rachel sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rachel sandwich
marine store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine stores
Senses: examples: text: The delivery of Mrs Dibble's goods to the purchaser was done, as a standing grievance, by a marine-store dealer who kept a horse and cart in the lane at the rear of Mrs Dibble's premises, and Rita called on him that evening to arrange for his services.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 48:
glosses: A store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a junk shop.
marine league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine leagues
Senses: glosses: three geographical miles
Bode's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Titius-Bode law
Titius-Bode law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode.
Senses: synonyms: Bode's law
glosses: The hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semimajor axes in a function of planetary sequence.
Hillel sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hillel sandwiches
Etymology: In reference to Hillel the Elder.
Senses: glosses: An Ashkenazi sandwich made with matzo and either horseradish or lettuce, a modern attempt at complying with a food requirement in the Haggadah.
wikipedia: Hillel the Elder
Hillel sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hillel sandwich
fig-dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds.
occult lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occult line
meddle and make
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meddles and makes
form: meddling and making
form: meddled and made
form: meddled and made
form: meddle nor make
form: meddle or make
Senses: examples: text: […] for such kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them, why the more is for your honesty.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: For it is accounted a disgrace for the man to meddle or make with those affairs, that properly do belong unto the Woman.
ref: 1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, London: Richard Chiswell, Part III, Chapter 7, p. 91:
text: Hold your foolish Tongue, Mr. Metal, said she, and get you to-bed; have’nt I plague enough with this audacious Slut, do you think, without your meddling and making?
ref: 1756, anonymous author, Emily; or, The History of a Natural Daughter, London: F. Noble & J. Noble, Volume I, Book III, p. 205:
text: She is the most unquiet person I know; cannot be still—meddles and makes about every thing and every body.
ref: 1840, Ellen Pickering, chapter 5, in The Quiet Husband, volume I, London: T.&.W. Boone, page 162:
text: “Nay, I must not meddle or make in this business,” said the Shaker.
“You did meddle and make in it once,” retorted Ford, unresentfully but inflexibly […]
ref: 1880, William Dean Howells, chapter 27, in The Undiscovered Country, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 399:
glosses: To intrude oneself into another person's concerns.
raw_tags: in the negative
hay tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hay tea has been used for a great number of years to feed calves with, after they have lost their mothers. A Birmingham gentleman, who travels into various parts of the Kingdom, tells me, that hay tea is used by many families in different parts of the country: and that it is preferred, for its wholesomeness, to Indian tea.
ref: 1819, “On the substitution of hay tea for China tea”, in The Black Dwarf:
glosses: The juice of hay extracted by boiling, used as food for cattle, etc.
ball valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball valves
Senses: glosses: A contrivance by which a ball, placed in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve.
glosses: A ballcock valve.
composition cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composition cloths
Senses: glosses: A kind of cloth covered with a preparation making it waterproof.
composition cloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composition cloth
pipsissewas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipsissewa
witch-meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchmeal
form: witches' meal
Etymology: A figurative use of the word meal, prompted by fancied resemblance.
Senses: examples: text: […] substance which Graine knew to be 'witch-meal'; the seeds of dried lycopodium moss; the other set the dust on fire with a burning stick, the flame pursuing the flying particles till they were consumed, when the light flashed out[…]
ref: 1915, Alice Mona CAIRD, The Stones of Sacrifice, page 275:
glosses: A flash powder made from club moss; vegetable sulphur.
fashion piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion pieces
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: fashioning piece
glosses: One of the timbers which terminate the transom and define the shape of the stern.
coral insect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coral insects
Senses: glosses: One of the polyps (not insects) by which corals are formed.
coral insects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coral insect
terra Lemnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Lemnian earth, sphragide, a medicinal clay.
pull a rabbit out of a hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a rabbit out of a hat
form: pulling a rabbit out of a hat
form: pulled a rabbit out of a hat
form: pulled a rabbit out of a hat
form: pull a rabbit from a hat
Etymology: In reference to a popular conjuring trick.
Senses: examples: text: But Salmond the magician's dazzle has not pulled those crucial rabbits out of his hat. Not on tax and spending, on the currency union which he wants (but rUK does not), on Scotland's relations with an EU which does not want this aggro.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To do something surprising and beneficial that is unexpected.
schmoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mulder/Krycek and a bowl of kittens, what more could you want from schmoop?
ref: 1999 April 3, Drovar [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Would someone please give me some M/K or Sk/K or M/K/Sk or K/Sp or M/Sp or Sk/Sp (you get the picture) recs on some super super, sugar sugar, sweet sweet, honey-dipped, cavity-causing schmoop or hurt/comfort slash?
ref: 1999 May 3, geoffrey2 [username], “Re: Sugar sweet syrupy schmoopy slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature (Usenet):
text: Oh, and schmoop - this chapter's got a great heap of schmoop, but there'll be plenty of angst as well, not to fear.
ref: 2003 July 2, nik_cleo [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Life's Little Quirks, Part Three -R- (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweetly romantic or cute, usually to a degree considered maudlin.
Synonyms: fluff
Derived terms: schmoopiness
schmoopy
schmoopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: schmoopier
form: schmoopiest
Etymology: From schmoop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Ah... I find that the best way to maintain joyous shipperhood is to not read much schmoopy shipper fic.
ref: 1999 July 22, Kipler [username], “Re: Mulder/Scully "relationship"”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):
text: Nothing wrong with schmoopy fic Ingrid...
ref: 2002 September 7, Carolin, “Re: A What if.....?”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet):
text: That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv".
ref: 2005 June 25, campylobacter [username], “Re: Never Again question”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Characteristic of schmoop; maudlin.
Seventy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Seventy have totally miſrepreſented Iſaiah viii.14, 15 […].
ref: 1823, Herbert Marsh, Introduction to the New Testament, 4th edition, volume 1, page 224:
text: It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry.
ref: 1988, Elias J. Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Jerome could accommodate himself to the ecclesiastical consensus, but he expresses clearly and trenchantly his critical opinion that the Seventy were not inspired […].
ref: 1989, William McKane, Selected Christian Hebraists, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: The translators of the Septuagint
schmoopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schmoopy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Warnings on the series: Contains post-Emily angst. Some Mulder/Scully schmoopiness, but emphasis on UST.
ref: 1998 August 3, JenRose [username], “New! Facing Janus chap 5 (actually a repost, but hey...)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: A bit more angst than schmoopiness, but the underlying feelings are very well communicated.
ref: 1999 April 3, | vlbb | [username], “Re: Slash Suggestions?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: I'm all for earthy romance. I know a lot of folks abhor schmoopiness, and I'm not comfortable with the term schmoopy, but I'd love to see some long romantic kisses, or just one.
ref: 2000 July 4, Deborah, “Re: "Powerful good news"?”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The state or quality of being schmoopy.
shipperhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shipper + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: This ep pushed me off the fence and right into full-fledged shipperhood ( I WANT TO BELIEVE !!!)
ref: 1997 February 3, Colleen Sullivan-Baier, “Re: "Never Again"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: Ah... I find that the best way to maintain joyous shipperhood is to not read much schmoopy shipper fic.
ref: 1999 July 22, Kipler [username], “Re: Mulder/Scully "relationship"”, in alt.tv.x-files.analysis (Usenet):
text: Look, it's all happy and hopeful and absolutely wonderful--but I need more to sustain my Odo/Kira shipperhood!
ref: 2002 September 21, Tori Sky, “Re: FB: DS9: Edge of the World 1/2 (O/K; NC-17)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: shipperdom
glosses: The state or quality of being a shipper.
auger in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: augers in
form: augering in
form: augered in
form: augered in
Etymology: auger + in: the plane is metaphorically drilling into the ground.
Senses: examples: The pilot lost pitch control and the jet augered in.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To crash catastrophically into the ground.
Related terms: death spiral
lithobraking
noromoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noromo + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I vacillate between shipperhood and noromoness…call me a "noshow")...
ref: 1998 June 25, LSCHWABEN [username], “Re: Just Got Back From The Movie(Read with caution if you haven't seen it yet)”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: Did I even mention him? I was just asserting my noromoness.
ref: 1999 September 7, Laura Capozzola, “Re: 10EPS!! Just kiss the ship goodbye”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: I will concede that a part of my noromoness is simply based on not wanting to see someone I like (Mulder) become romantically involved with someone I don't like (Scully).
ref: 2000 February 6, adhokk7 [username], “Re: (NRMTPB): S&W (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
qualifier: The X-Files fandom slang
glosses: The state or quality of being a noromo.
Synonyms: noromodom
irresponsibilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irresponsibilists
Etymology: From irresponsible + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who permits or values a culture of irresponsibility.
take one's bat and ball and go home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's bat and ball and goes home
form: taking one's bat and ball and going home
form: took one's bat and ball and went home
form: taken one's bat and ball and gone home
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take one's ball and go home.
phytoextractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoextraction
clothes brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes brushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clothesbrush.
seven-year apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-year apples
Senses: glosses: A rubiaceous shrub (Casasia clusiifolia) growing in Florida and the Caribbean.
glosses: Its edible fruit.
seven-year vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-year vines
Senses: glosses: A tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning glory.
accessorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accessorize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of accessorizing, or furnishing with accessories.
Beboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bebe + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family that is a branch of Southern Bantoid and spoken principally in southwest Cameroon.
Tivoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tiv + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family that is a branch of Southern Bantoid.
Ekoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ekoi + -oid.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a cluster of dialects spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and adjacent regions of Cameroon.
philosopher's wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˌlɒsəfəz ˈwʊl/
ipa: /fəˌlɑs(ə)fəɹz ˈwʊl/
rhymes: -ʊl
Forms: form: philosophers' wool
Etymology: From philosopher (“(obsolete) an alchemist”) + -’s + wool.
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: word: philosophical wool
glosses: Zinc oxide (chemical formula ZnO) as a white flocculent powder.
Hypernyms: zinc oxide
Related terms: philosopher's game
philosopher's lamp
philosopher's stone
woolgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolgrasses
Etymology: From wool + grass.
Senses: glosses: Scirpus cyperinus, a herbaceous emergent that is native to the eastern United States and eastern Canada.
Derived terms: woolgrass bulrush
antislang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antislang
form: most antislang
Etymology: From anti- + slang.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the use of slang.
stump tracery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A form of late German Gothic tracery in which the moulded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the moulding is seen at the end of each similar stump.
cooper's flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because its long leaves were once placed between the staves of barrels to make them watertight.
Senses: glosses: A plant, the cattail.
visual white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverted into visual purple by the regenerating action of the choroidal epithelium.
visual yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A product intermediate between visual purple and visual white, formed by the photochemical action of light on visual purple.
shoulder-of-mutton sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder-of-mutton sails
Etymology: From its shape.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A triangular sail carried on a boat's mast.
keyhole saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole saws
Senses: glosses: A narrow, slender saw, used in cutting keyholes, etc.
Synonyms: pad saw
alligator saw
compass saw
drywall saw
jab saw
Related terms: fretsaw
keyhole limpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole limpets
Senses: glosses: A member of the family Fissurellidae of marine gastropods.
Coordinate terms: sense: limpets in Fissurellidae
word: slit limpet
keyhole urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyhole urchins
Senses: synonyms: keyhole sand dollar
glosses: Any of numerous clypeastroid sea urchins (sand dollars) of the genus Melitta
glosses: Any of various notched sand dollars of genera Rotula and Encope.
Derived terms: five-holed keyhole urchin
six-holed keyhole urchin
composing frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composing frames
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A stand for holding cases of type when in use.
composing rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composing rules
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted.
Synonyms: setting rule
dolphin fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphin flies
Senses: glosses: The black bean aphid (Aphis fabae).
painted turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted turtles
Senses: glosses: A common American freshwater turtle (Chrysemys picta), with red, orange and yellow markings.
cattleguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattleguards
form: cattle guard
form: cattle-guard
Etymology: From cattle + guard.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattle guard.
cattleguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattleguard
holy bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cascara sagrada; bark of (Rhamnus purshiana).
sleeper cabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeper cab
peg tankard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peg tankards
Senses: glosses: An ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions.
screw peg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw pegs
Senses: glosses: A small headless screw for fastening soles.
Hansom cabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hansom cab
raise the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises the wind
form: raising the wind
form: raised the wind
form: raised the wind
Senses: glosses: To procure ready money by some temporary expedient.
squadron leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squadron leader
modulus of rupture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moduli of rupture
Senses: glosses: A mechanical parameter indicating a material's ability to resist deformation under load.
guest houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guest house
lead glance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead glances
Senses: glosses: The mineral galena.
horse chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse chestnut
iron sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron sands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ironsand (“sand with iron content”).
glosses: An iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
glosses: steel filings used in fireworks.
moon rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moon rocket
iron scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The thin film that forms on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron.
torpedo tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo tube
ball vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball veins
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
glosses: A vein of the testicle
auction houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auction house
disturbingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disturbing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disturbing.
phytoextract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoextracts
Etymology: From phyto- + extract.
Senses: examples: text: However, the phytoextracts are normally composed of a mixture of several ecdysones, the separation of which is often very difficult.
ref: 1983, K. H. Büchel, editor, Chemistry of Pesticides, page 189:
text: After solidification, wells of 0.5 mm diameter were made with the help of a sterile cork borer and different concentrations of the phytoextracts and leachates were carefully incorporated into these wells.
ref: 1998, Enviro Media, Ecology, Environment & Conservation, volumes 4-5, page 248:
text: Snails were not fed during exposure to the phytoextracts.
ref: 2007, Shabad Preet, Anamike Kudeshiya, Laboratory Evaluation of Molluscicidal and Cercaricidal Potential of Artemisia annua (Family: Asteraceae): Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Parasitology and Health Care Initiatives, page 119:
text: Human dietary intervention studies using carotenoids combined with vitamins, polyunsaturated fatty acid, minerals and natural phytoextract ingredients show promise in protecting against pollutant and solar-induced effects.
ref: 2012, P. Morganti, “13: Skin photoprotection and nutraceuticals: an overview”, in Victor R. Preedy, editor, Handbook of Diet, Nutrition and the Skin, page 217:
glosses: An extract from a plant.
phytoextract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phytoextracts
form: phytoextracting
form: phytoextracted
form: phytoextracted
Etymology: From phyto- + extract.
Senses: examples: text: However, almost all removed Pb was simply washed from the soil and accumulated in the barrier, only a fraction (0.03%) of Pb was phytoextracted.
ref: 2008, Domem Leštan, “Enhanced Heavy Metal Phytoextraction”, in Martina Mackova, David N. Dowling, Thomas Macek, editors, Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation, page 127:
text: A plant's ability to phytoextract certain metals is a result of its dependence upon the absorption of metals such as arsenic, chromium, zinc, manganese, nickel, and copper to maintain natural function (Yadav et al., 2009; Lasat, 2002).
ref: 2010, Asha A. Juwarkar, Santosh K. Yadav, “9: Bioaccumulation and Biotransformation of Heavy Metals”, in M. H. Fulekar, editor, Bioremediation Technology: Recent Advances, page 267:
text: Because of a large amount of Se accumulated in shoot tissues, S. pinnata has been used to phytoextract Se from contaminated soil and water.
ref: 2013, L. Jones, V. Sever, Z.-Q. Lin, “The source-partitioning of selenium volatilization in soil—Stanleya pinnata and Brassica juncea systems”, in Gary S. Banuelos, Zhi-Qing Lin, Xuebin Yin, editors, Selenium in the Environment and Human Health, page 24:
glosses: To remove from the environment by phytoextraction.
cardinal red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal reds
Etymology: The traditional colour of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc.
Senses: glosses: A bright red colour, between scarlet and crimson.
phytoextracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoextract
phytoextracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phytoextract
phytoextracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phytoextract
meeting houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meeting house
phytoextracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phytoextract
window washers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of window washer
phytoextractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoextractors
Etymology: From phyto- + extractor.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that performs phytoextraction.
phytoextractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoextractor
phytoremediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoremediators
Etymology: From phyto- + remediator.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that can be used in phytoremediation.
phytoremediators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoremediator
phytovolatilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phytovolatilization.
air traffic controllers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air traffic controller
Adam's needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adam's needles
Senses: glosses: Certain species of Yucca:
Yucca filamentosa (spoonleaf yucca, filament yucca, silkgrass)
glosses: Certain species of Yucca:
Yucca flaccida (weak-leaf yucca, beargrass)
glosses: Certain species of Yucca:
Yucca gloriosa (Spanish dagger)
freezing workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freezing worker
Adam's needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adam's needle
coffee cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee cup
chicken Kievs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken Kiev
orang-utangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orang-utang
tank farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tank farm
fur farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fur farm
sell bargains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells bargains
form: selling bargains
form: sold bargains
form: sold bargains
Senses: examples: text: Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce?
ref: 1709, J[ohn] Dryden, J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], →OCLC:
text: No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er for ſelling Bargains fam'd, / Than ſhe, to name her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let out Wind.
ref: 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 19:
text: He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenches sold him a bargain.
ref: 1759 August 25, Samuel Johnson, The Idler, number 71:
synonyms: sell someone a bargain
glosses: To make saucy (usually indiscreet) comments; to come onto.
Related terms: ask my arse
chikuwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikuwa
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 竹輪, literally "bamboo ring".
Senses: glosses: A tube-shaped fish-paste cake from Japan.
dust masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust mask
double letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double letters
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Two letters on one shank; a ligature.
glosses: An item of mail requiring double postage.
painted beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted beauties
Senses: glosses: Batesia hypochlora, a colourful American butterfly.
painted finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted finches
Senses: glosses: Emblema pictum, a common estrildid finch of Australia.
Synonyms: painted firetail
painted firetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted firetails
Senses: glosses: painted finch
crown scab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown scabs
Senses: glosses: A cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof.
cannon cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannon crackers
Senses: glosses: A kind of large firecracker.
cannon lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannon locks
Senses: glosses: A device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.
haars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haar
seed potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed potato
outboard motors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outboard motor
dotted lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dotted line
forklift trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forklift truck
step grate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step grates
Senses: glosses: A form of grate for holding fuel, in which the bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.
step grates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step grate
steak and kidney pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steak and kidney pie
dipping needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipping needle
personal injuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal injury
wine acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It is found in wine grapes.
Senses: glosses: tartaric acid
wine biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine biscuits
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
psychomanteum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈmæntiəm/
Forms: form: psychomantium
Etymology: Coined by Raymond Moody in 1993 in his book Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones.
Senses: glosses: A dark, mirrored room dedicated to communication with the spirit realm.
Related terms: psychomancy
catoptromancy
necromancy
séance
scryer
second-growth forests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second-growth forest
out of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [He] perceyuing the most part of the Brytaynes and Scottes to be but newe Souldiers, taken vp of late to fil the numbers, knew that by proceeding tyme they woulde be soone out of heart, throughe watching and euill harborough, in such sort that in the ende they shoulde be easie ynough to deale with:
ref: 1571, “The Historie of Scotlande”, in Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, page 33:
text: “[…] heaven knows how much longer we may have to wait. Poor Edward! It puts him quite out of heart.”
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 20, in Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, London: T. Egerton, page 308:
text: […] he looked out of heart and very weary, having been all night afoot, either standing watch or doctoring the wounded.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in Kidnapped, New York: Scribner, page 102:
text: The old man had come down the bank and was sitting on his heels nodding at Suttree’s work and making encouraging talk. He always expected everyone to be out of heart.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 24, in Suttree, New York: Random House:
glosses: Discouraged.
discouragedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discouragedly
form: most discouragedly
Etymology: From discouraged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a discouraged manner.
flower clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower clocks
Senses: synonyms: floral clock
horologium florae
glosses: An assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time.
unousted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ousted.
Senses: glosses: Not ousted.
collar beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collar beams
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters.
dirt bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt beds
Senses: examples: text: Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation.
liquor of flints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A solution of silica, or flints, in potash.
crown sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown sheets
Senses: glosses: The flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or firebox of an internally fired steam boiler.
crown bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown bars
Senses: glosses: One of the bars which support the crown sheet of a steam-boiler furnace.
Seventh-day Adventists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seventh-day Adventist
supervixen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervixens
Etymology: From super- + vixen.
Senses: examples: text: She has a high old time as a supervixen sashaying around in fuck-me shoes that double as fuck-you shoes.
ref: 1990, Vanity Fair, volume 53, page 173:
text: Kitt plays—what else?—a supervixen who's seen and done it all. (Kitt shares another affinity with the original work: The poem was banned in Boston, the same town that in the 1960s briefly nixed her sexy shows.)
ref: 2000, Out, volume 8, number 9, page 44:
glosses: A very racy or salacious woman.
supervixens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supervixen
plate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate bones
Senses: glosses: scapula
baritone horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baritone horn
rational symptom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rational symptoms
Senses: glosses: A symptom elicited by the statements of the patient and not as the result of a physical examination.
synectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to synectics.
synectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, suggesting the bringing together of apparently unrelated elements. Originally a trademark.
Senses: glosses: A problem-solving methodology that stimulates thought processes of which the subject may be unaware.
band rotundas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band rotunda
scrubbing brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrubbing brush
clothes brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes brush
shoe brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe brushes
form: shoebrush
Senses: synonyms: shoeshine brush
glosses: A brush used to apply shoe polish to shoes, work the polish in and bring up a shine.
Related terms: shoe-leather
shoe polish
shoeshine
shoeshine boy
shoeshine girl
prickly poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly poppies
form: prickly-poppy
form: pricklypoppy
Senses: synonyms: poppy thistle
glosses: Any in genus Argemone of poppies, which is prickly
Derived terms: yellow prickly poppy
Mexican prickly poppy – Argemone mexicana
white-flowered prickly poppy – Argemone albiflora
short-horned prickly poppy – Argemone brevicornuta
Turner’s prickly poppy – Argemone turnerae
long-headed prickly poppy
prickly long-headed poppy – Papaver argemone
crested prickly poppy – Argemone platyceras
also Argemone polyanthemos
desert prickly poppy – Argemone arida
bronze-flowered prickly poppy – Argemone aenea
Arizona prickly poppy – Argemone arizonica
annual prickly poppy – Argemone polyanthemos
flatbud prickly poppy – Argemone munita
rough prickly poppy – Argemone hispida
hedgehog prickly poppy – Argemone squarrosa
finger bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger bars
Senses: glosses: The horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play.
bastard file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard files
Senses: glosses: A half-round file or rasp (being a flat file on one side, and a round file on the other); typically having coarse teeth.
glosses: A file of an intermediate cut, neither very coarse nor very fine.
Related terms: english: hybrid; impure; adjectival form, in the sense of or
translation: hybrid; impure; adjectival form, in the sense of or
word: bastard
Welsh hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh hooks
Senses: glosses: Welsh glaive
Welsh glaive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh glaives
Senses: examples: text: there shall not come the twang of a Welsh bow, nor the glimmer of a Welsh glaive within a fair league of its battlements!
ref: 1838, James Gregor Grant, Rufus, Or, The Red King: A Romance:
glosses: A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe.
Synonyms: Welsh hook
hydraulic cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulic cements
Senses: glosses: A cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden underwater.
hydraulic lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulic limes
Senses: glosses: quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing underwater, etc.
hydraulic limestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraulic limestones
Senses: glosses: A limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, underwater.
blind boil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind boils
Senses: examples: text: A singular species of worms, called by the natives 'Gusano del Monte'—Worm of the Woods, was found under the surface of the skin, and covered over like a blind boil.
ref: 1854, Darien Exploring Expedition (1854):
text: Boils are common, too, amongst the natives in some parts. Mr. Gason says that a disease—Mirra—afflicts every native once in his life—sometimes at three years of age, but more frequently at fourteen or thereabouts. The symptoms are large blind boils, under the arms, in the groin, or on the breast or thighs, varying in size from a hen's egg to that of an emu's egg.
ref: 1878, Robert Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, Volume 1/Chapter 9:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A boil under or on the skin that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head.
monk bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monk bats
Etymology: So called because the males live in communities by themselves.
Senses: glosses: The brown mastiff bat (Prompos nasutus)
unisensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + sensual.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single sense (means of perception).
unisensory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəɹi
Etymology: From uni- + sensory.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a single sense (means of perception).
semicontact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + contact.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a contact sport where only limited physical force is used.
ranivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From New Latin rānivorus.
Senses: glosses: frog-eating
arachnivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arachn- + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: spider-eating
Related terms: arachnivore
mellivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Honey-eating.
Synonyms: meliphagous
nucivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: nut-eating
fructivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From fructo- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: fruit-eating
ovivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From ovi- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: egg-eating
seminivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin sēmen (“seed”) + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: seed-eating
stercovorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin stercus (“dung”) + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: dung-eating
plantivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From plant + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: synonyms: phytophagous
glosses: plant-eating
bibliophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliophagists
Senses: glosses: A bibliophage; one who loves to read books.
bibliophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliophagist
glossophagine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡləˈsɒfədʒaɪn/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Glossophaginae, a subfamily of leaf-nosed bats.
plasmophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: feeding on plasma
saurophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sauro- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: lizard-eating
Kozue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
univorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + -vorous.
Senses: topics: biology
demographics
demography
natural-sciences
glosses: Liking or consuming only one kind of product.
vegetivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Senses: glosses: feeding on vegetables
ostreophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: (Greek) ostreo- + -phagous
Ostrei (Latin) genitive singular to ostreum (Latin)
Alternative form of oyster
Senses: glosses: oyster-eating
Related terms: ostreophagist