cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
urethritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethritis
ursiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ursiform
form: most ursiform
Etymology: From Latin ursus (“bear”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a bear.
urticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of urticate
urticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of urticate
urticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of urticate
utterest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From utter + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of utter
uwarowite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uvarovite.
pavan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavans
Senses: examples: text: And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan: and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: Alternative form of pavane (“musical style and dance”).
ouakari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ouakaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uakari.
ouakaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ouakari
paræsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paræsthesiæ
Etymology: From para- + -æsthesia.
Senses: examples: text: In examining into the bodily symptoms we first compare the condition present at the time with the man’s former state. Has pain, or paræsthesia, or loss of sensibility been present at any time?
ref: 1911, Thomas Smith Clouston, chapter XXXI, in Unsoundness of Mind, E. P. Dutton and Company, page 302:
glosses: Obsolete form of paresthesia.
Masahiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese まさひろ (Masahiro).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
toothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: toothlier
form: more toothly
form: toothliest
form: most toothly
Etymology: From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.
Senses: examples: text: For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.
ref: 1907, The Bay State monthly:
text: Peter stored his toothly treasures in a beautiful wooden case. Each tooth was secured to its own little compartment with a gray silk ribbon looped around it.
ref: 1998, Sheila De La Rosa, The Encyclopedia of Weird:
glosses: Of or pertaining to teeth; dental.
examples: text: 'I see you're admiring our decor,' the man said with a toothly smile, and Paresh noticed that his canines bit wolfishly into his thick mulberry lip.
ref: 1997, Kalpana Swaminathan, Cryptic death and other stories:
text: She returned a toothly grin that displayed her deep, pretty dimples.
ref: 2010, Robert Crudup, Malachi Moon: Journey of a Bluesman:
glosses: Toothy.
toothly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: toothlier
form: more toothly
form: toothliest
form: most toothly
Etymology: From tooth + -ly. Compare toothlike, teethlike, toothily.
Senses: examples: text: Toothly speaking then — it pays to stay savage. There is evidence too, that civilizations long before ours felt the stress of dental cares.
ref: 1934, Popular science talks: Volume 12
glosses: In a manner regarding teeth; dentally.
Synonyms: teethly
paræsthesiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore the presence of symptoms apart from those of the motor system—paræsthesiæ, headaches, etc.—testifies to a general toxæmia.
ref: 1908, A. S. Morton Palmer, Guy’s Hospital Reports, volume LXII, J. & A. Churchill, page 84:
glosses: plural of paræsthesia
paræsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Such a paræsthetic or hyperæsthetic state of these nerves seems to excite morbid emotion rather than pain or other sensations indicative of ordinary irritation in the part, and this is done chiefly by destroying the quality of that visceral sense, which is, as we have said, the substratum of the emotional states.
ref: 1867, William Murray, chapter III, in A Treatise on Emotional Disorders of the Sympathetic System of Nerves, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 60:
glosses: Obsolete form of paresthetic.
fevre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fevres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fever.
field mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field mouse
præfix'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prefix’d.
præfix'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Singul. g & s generally take a, except where the Verb has e in the Syllable, where g & s shall be præfix’d.
ref: 1888, David Zeisberger in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, volume XII, page 69
glosses: Obsolete form of prefix’d.
prefix'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prefixed.
prefix'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefixed
estovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estover
estovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An estover; an allowance made from an estate for a person's support.
topics: law
glosses: An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
topics: law
glosses: An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
examples: text: It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.
ref: 1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
topics: law
glosses: The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
Synonyms: bote
estover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estovers
Etymology: From Middle English estovers pl, from Old French estover (“obligation”).
Senses: examples: text: Your husband was seised of only one carucate of land, to which was appurtenant house-bote and hay-bote to be taken in that wood for burning at only one hearth in his chief messuage ; and if you by reason of your third part could in that wood take house-bote and hay-bote at your pleasure, there would be taken house-bote and hay-bote and fuel for two hearths, whereas they were previously appendant to only one hearth: wherefore, estovers for house-bote &c. you can not have; and we paray judgment.
ref: 1873, Alfred John Horwood, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First: XXI-XXII:
topics: history
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
topics: history
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Estovers.
Related terms: estoverium
mandarinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandarinates
Etymology: From French mandarinat, corresponding to mandarin + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a body of people performing it, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: The status of holding a position as a mandarin.
examples: text: As higher education, claiming more and more years of one’s life, widens the space between those who possess it and those who do not, and as the enlightenment of the public wanes relatively to the superior enlightenment of the learned castes and professions, the mandarinate will infallibly draw to itself a greater and greater share of social power.
ref: 1901, Edward Alsworth Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, page 88:
text: He criticized the monarchy and the mandarinate for failing to save the country and to help the people in their hour of greatest need.
ref: 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 101:
glosses: The collective body of mandarins.
glosses: A political form of rule by mandarins.
examples: text: Far from being a model of democracy, the EU is associated with an arrogant, out-of-touch mandarinate that issues rules and edicts with paternalistic and highhanded disregard for ordinary citizens.
ref: 2011, Ian Buruma, Europe without Turkey:
glosses: A type of government marked by excessive bureaucracy and Byzantine regulations.
Akira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あきら (Akira).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A female given name from Japanese (uncommon)
century break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: century breaks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A consecutive score of 100 or more points in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker.
Related terms: maximum break
leucrocotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucrocottas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leucrota.
cableless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cable + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cable.
cazic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cazics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cacique.
cazics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cazic
cedared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cedar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Planted with cedars.
centiped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centipeds
Etymology: Equivalent to centi- + -ped.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of centipede.
centipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centiped
centistere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centisteres
Etymology: French centistèare
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one hundredth of a stere.
centisteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centistere
millistere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millisteres
Etymology: French millistèare
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one litre or cubic decimetre
millisteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millistere
centners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centner
clicketting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clicket
clicketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clicket
ceriopyrochlores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceriopyrochlore
strontiopyrochlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strontio- + pyrochlore.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic fluoride mineral similar to pyrochlore but containing strontium
bariopyrochlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bario- + pyrochlore.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic fluoride mineral similar to pyrochlore but containing barium.
ceromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceroma
shagreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shagreen
chagreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shagreen.
chainwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chain + work.
Senses: glosses: Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
Related terms: chainworks
chalcocites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalcocite
hoist on one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sword in hand, U. S. Grant took up the rear as the procession hut-hutted up the front steps past a blurb from Publishers Weekly (“A lazy-day literary luncheon turns into an afternoon of terror as five novelists in the habit of using public figures for their own artistic purposes are hoist on their own petard—shocking, but overdue”), and on into the grimly compelling first novel.
ref: 1978 January, Richard Lipez, “The New Big One”, in The Atlantic, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
hoisted by one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
hoisted with one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
hoisted on one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
chasteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chastener
chasest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: chase + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of chase
chider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiders
Etymology: From chide + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who chides.
Derived terms: chideress
chiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chider
universalisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: universalizable
Etymology: c. 1920 universalise + -able
Senses: glosses: That can be universalised.
bootheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootheels
Etymology: From boot + heel.
Senses: glosses: The heel of a boot.
glosses: An area of land protruding south of the eastern or western end of a southern border.
Derived terms: under the bootheel of
bootheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootheel
præfixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The Infinitive is the root; the Present Indicative is formed from it by præfixing a Pronoun and instead of that the first syllable of the Infinitive is commonly thrown away, and the Præformative takes its place […]
ref: 1888, David Zeisberger quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, volume XII, page 330
glosses: present participle and gerund of præfix
skin and bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skin and bones.
præfigurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præfiguration
pequis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pequi
pecaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecary
pequin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pequins
Senses: examples: text: ... chili pequins, which come with a handwritten warning : 'fiery little devils.' I have a small bag of pequins in the pantry I haven't even used in a recipe yet, but somehow I feel a little safer knowing they're there.
ref: 2005 November 14, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork, Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 222:
text: ... chile peppers—Thais and Malaysians prefer cayennes and bird peppers; Caribbeans enjoy habaneros; Mexicans choose poblanos, jalapenos, and serranos; and Peruvians like ajis, rocotos, and pequins. Chile blends are prized not only for[…]
ref: 2006 October 23, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: [A] chile that grows wild along the Mexico–U.S. border, pequins are itty-bitty—and fiercely hot! It's rare to find them fresh. The dried form is available in specialty stores; […]
ref: 2018 August 7, Jane Butel, Chili Madness: A Passionate Cookbook by Jane Butel, Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A small, hot, citrusy and nutty chili pepper cultivar.
imitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imitants
Senses: examples: text: But this regimental fashion is now the order of the day, and the young generation growing up among Belgrave Squares, Eaton Squares, Lowndes Squares, Chester Squares, and their humbler imitants, may think differently from what we do.
ref: 1851, Charles Knight, Knight's Cyclopædia of London, page 757:
glosses: An imitator.
imitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Imitating.
cooperant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-operant
form: coöperant
Senses: glosses: Operating or working together.
cooperant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperants
form: co-operant
form: coöperant
Senses: glosses: One who or which cooperates.
lioncelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lioncelles
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of lioncel.
examples: text: […] he would no more have thought of asking a young innocent girl to cast in her lot with him for better or for worse, than he would have sat down to play piquet with a boy who could not count the points of the game. Neither did the taming of a lioncelle tempt him a whit.
ref: 1869, George Alfred Lawrence, Breaking a Butterfly; or, Blanche Ellerslie’s Ending, volume I, Tinsley Brothers, page 58:
text: You could pretend that Guenever was a sort of man-eating lioncelle herself, or that she was one of those selfish women who insist on ruling everywhere. […] People who have been digested by a man-eating lioncelle tend to become nonentities—to live no life except within the vitals of the devourer.
ref: 1940, T.H. White, “The Ill-Made Knight”, in The Once and Future King, Ace Trade, published 1996, →ISBN, page 497:
glosses: Treated as feminine and applied figuratively to a woman; a lioness.
lioncel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lioncels
form: lioncelle
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A small lion, when one of several in a coat of arms.
GCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GCPs
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: Initialism of ground control point.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of grapheme-phoneme correspondence.
File Transfer Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: File Transfer Protocols
Senses: glosses: A standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.
Synonyms: word: FTP
Umeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
Umeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 梅田 (Umeda).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Uchida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uchidas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 内田 (Uchida).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
breed in the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breeds in the bone
form: breeding in the bone
form: bred in the bone
form: bred in the bone
Senses: examples: text: "And for thy ill tongue, and worse practices, his lordship knows they are bred in the bone of thee."
ref: 1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 30, in The Betrothed:
text: "My father was a born aristocrat. I think, in some preexistent state, he must have been in the higher circles of spirits, and brought all his old court pride along with him; for it was ingrain, bred in the bone, though he was originally of poor and not in any way of noble family."
ref: 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 19, in Uncle Tom's Cabin:
text: Davies meticulously establishes the background, the breeding in the bone, of his hero's life.
ref: 1985 December 8, “Books: Robertson Davies returns to a familiar, fulfilling venue”, in Chicago Tribune, retrieved 12 Jul 2011, page I33:
text: The distinctiveness of Bellocchio's approach lay in his taking mental affliction, in this case epilepsy, and figuring it as symbolic of the self-immolating rage and frustration that the dysfunctional family breeds in the bone.
ref: 1998 May 29, Chris Darke, “Film: Famiglia feelings”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 12 Jul 2011:
text: One principle ought to be bred in the bone of any European after the carnage of the 20th century: that no act of state bears such ominous consequences as changing a border by force.
ref: 2008 August 13, James Graff, “Russia: In Search Of Unity”, in Time:
qualifier: personal characteristic
glosses: To establish or ingrain firmly within someone's nature.
raw_tags: of a habit
Derived terms: bred-in-the-bone
bred in the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breed in the bone
Mayumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese まゆみ (Mayumi).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
teethly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teethly
form: most teethly
Etymology: From teeth + -ly. Compare toothly.
Senses: examples: text: … I altered generally to dirty grayish white or on thick layer of medium showed more or less rosy coloration, without wrinkles, granular developement and teethly growth on either side of the streak; …
ref: 1892, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection: Volume 2231
text: The fish, which ^([sic]) scales, fins and tail are very carefully rendered, opens deeply his teethly mouth.
ref: 1998, Laurent Chrzanovski, D. V. Zhuravlev, Lamps from Chersonesos in the State Historical Museum, Moscow:
text: His large mouth sloshed around, trying to get teethly purchase into the grease-filled slab as two pieces of fried onion with a dab of ketchup hit his shirt and cascaded downwards, landing around his pants' zipper.
ref: 2005, Joseph A. McCaffrey, The Pony Circus Wagon:
glosses: Of or pertaining to teeth; dental; full of teeth.
Synonyms: teethy
toothly
toothy
handly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English handly, handliche; equivalent to hand + -ly. Compare German handlich (“handy, manageable”), Swedish handlig (“handy”).
Senses: examples: text: George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
ref: 1921, Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history:
text: […] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off-set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
ref: 1971, World justice: Volume 12
text: The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.
ref: 1859, The Spectator, volume 32:
glosses: Synonym of handy.
synonyms: word: handy
examples: text: The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
ref: [2009, Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
zeitnot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪt.nət/
Forms: form: zeitnots
form: Zeitnot
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitnot (literally “need of time”).
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately I didn't work it out in my zeitnot.
ref: 2010 August 1, Matan Prilleltensky, “Learning From Your Losses”, in U.S. Chess Federation, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2020, retrieved 11 Feb 2012:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: time trouble, time pressure, a situation where a player has little time to complete the required moves
softwarematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of software + automatically
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: By the use of software, especially without direct user intervention.
paleoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleosciences
Etymology: From paleo- + science.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palaeoscience.
palæoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæosciences
Etymology: From palæo- + science.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of palaeoscience.
palæosciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palæoscience
paleosciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoscience
Theotokos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θiːˈɒtəˌkɒs/
/ˌθeɪoʊˈtoʊkoʊs/
Forms: form: Theotocos
Etymology: Borrowed from Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “the God-bearer”), from Ancient Greek Θεός (Theós, “God”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”). First attested in 3rd–4th century. Cf. Christotokos.
Senses: examples: text: It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]
ref: 1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: Deipara
word: Mother of God
word: Mary
word: mother of Jesus
word: in particular reference to her role giving birth to God
qualifier: chiefly Orthodoxy
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
Derived terms: Intercession of the Theotokos
Related terms: Godbearing
gazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gazelle.
glosses: Archaic form of ghazal.
Zong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tsʊŋ/
/zɔŋ/
Forms: form: Zongs
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 宗 (Zōng).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
hypsilophodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypsilophodontids
Etymology: Named after the Hypsilophus genus of iguana lizard
Senses: glosses: An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1–2 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).
hypsilophodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypsilophodontid
forthspeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthspeakers
Etymology: From forth- + speaker, or as a derivative of forthspeak.
Senses: examples: text: He was not a soothsayer or foreteller of events, but a forthspeaker of a message from Jehovah.
ref: 1967, David Saville Muzzey, Ethics as a religion:
text: For example, Charles Kingsley's argument that God still sends prophets to guide man is obviously based upon this conception of the prophet as forthspeaker rather than foreteller.
ref: 1986, George P. Landow, Elegant Jeremiahs: the sage from Carlyle to Mailer:
glosses: One who speaks forth or makes declaration; an announcer.
examples: text: [...] to the forthspeaker for God this book has the greatly enhanced value that it is by one who had learned what many historians have ignored [...]
ref: 1912, Homiletic review, volume 63:
text: In "Prophet from Highland Avenue: Agee's Visionary Journalism," Paul Ashdown discusses Agee as sage, as forthspeaker in his journalistic works and his film criticisms.
ref: 1992, University of Southern Mississippi, The Southern quarterly: Volume 31:
glosses: A prophet.
Related terms: forthspeak
forthspeakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forthspeaker
myxœdema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxœdemata
Etymology: By surface analysis, myx(o)- + œdema.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, but heʼs in Antwerp, adding his views to a symposium on myxœdema.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 699:
glosses: Obsolete form of myxedema.
forthspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthspeaks
form: forthspeaking
form: forthspoke
form: forthspoken
Etymology: From forth- + speak. See Old English forþsprecan.
Senses: examples: text: The truth
Is not to be forthspoken to the mob,
Unless you wish to die for it.
ref: 1841, The Monthly Magazine, or, British Register:
glosses: To speak forth; declare; announce.
examples: text: All I ask is, Do the existing applications of matter forthspeak any operation of intelligent power?
ref: 1854, George Jacob Holyoake, The Reasoner: Volume 16:
text: These are the names assigned to the manifestations of God in Christ. And besides these five, none others, pure and fundamental, are found in Christian or Divine Religion. These five Energies are all which Christ forthspeaks in us and reveals.
ref: 1854, Henry S. Sutton, Quinquenergia, or, proposals for a new practical theology:
glosses: To reveal; divulge.
Derived terms: forthspeaker
forthspeaking
forthspoken
Azerbaijani Turkic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani Turkic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Azerbaijani, Azeri; the Turkic language of Azerbaijan.
prothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /pɹɑˈθɛtɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προθετικός (prothetikós).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or involving prothesis
examples: text: Basque does not allow word-initial r-, adding a prothetic vowel in Latin and Romance loans (e.g. Bq. errege 'king' << Lat. regem)
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 10:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: attached to the beginning of a word
raw_tags: of an instance of a phoneme
Orontes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈɹɒntiːz/
Forms: form: the Orontes
Etymology: From Latin Orontēs, from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης (Oróntēs), from Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒌓 (Arāntu, “Orontes; site of the Battle of Qarqar”) and also in Egyptian jrnt (“Orontes; river flowing by Qadesh”) attested at least from the period of Ramesses II:
* The meaning of which is contested with connections to: Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒌓 (arantu, “a type of grass; fennel”), perhaps in connection to the region around the city of Ugarit, the ruins today being known as رَأْس شَمْرَة (raʔs šamra, “Headland or Cape Fennel”).
* Also connected to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒀭𒁺 (araddu, arantu, “wild ass; stubborn”), possibly related to the modern name for the river الْعَاصِي (al-ʕāṣī, “rebel, stubbornly in error, refusing to be corrected”) so-called for its flowing south to the north unlike the rest of the rivers in the region.
* Disputably from Old Median *Arvand; compare Avestan 𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬧𐬝- (aᵘruuaṇt̰-, “swift”).
Doublet of Alvand and Arvand. More at Orontes.
Senses: synonyms: Asi
glosses: A river in West Asia, about 400 km (250 mi) long, flowing from Lebanon through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Turkey.
Derived terms: Orontian
Antioch on the Orontes
Orontes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈɹɒntiːz/
Etymology: From Latin Orontēs, from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης (Oróntēs), from Old Median *Arēvand, from Proto-Iranian *Raivant-, *Rayivant- (“possessing wealth”); see Old Armenian Երուանդ (Eruand) for more.
Senses: glosses: The name of any one of a number of ancient Armenian kings.
Derived terms: Orontid
Nier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: nierite
Stull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States, named after a postmaster.
glosses: A census-designated place in Noxen Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Vas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Hungary.
Auer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: owʹər
ipa: /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/
enpr: owr
ipa: /ˈaʊɚ/
homophone: hour
homophone: our
Forms: form: Auers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Auer, topographic surname from several places with the name Au, Aue, all from the noun Aue (“floodplain, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from Finnish.
glosses: A municipality in the autonomous province of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Italian spelling: Ora.
Neveu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Neveus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Neveu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
blennorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blennorrhœas
form: blennorrhœæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of blennorrhea.
blennorrhœæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blennorrhœa
bronchorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of bronchorrhoea.
menorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of menorrhea.
Derived terms: dysmenorrhea
cœmeterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As to the Poſition in the Grave, “ though we decline (ſays Dr. Browne, in his Urne‐burial) the religious Conſideration, yet in cœmeterial and narrower burying Places, to avoid Confuſion and croſs Poſition, a certain Poſture were to be admitted.
ref: 1777, John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, J. White; Chapter V., page #52
glosses: Archaic form of cemeterial.
cemeterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cœmeterial
Etymology: From cemetery + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cemetery
smell blood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells blood
form: smelling blood
form: smelled blood
form: smelled blood
form: smelt blood
form: smelt blood
form: smell blood in the water
Senses: examples: text: Later he intended to continue his goading of Neil. He could smell blood now; if only he could get the man to fall apart in one of their clubs.
ref: 1995, Jane Feather, Valentine, →ISBN, page 392:
text: Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign.
ref: 1998 September 7, Paul Quinn-Judge, “Russian Roulette”, in Time:
text: The Pistons, once they smelled blood, got more aggressive and the Spurs simply ran out of gas.
ref: 2005 June 15, David DuPree, “Detroit stalls Spurs 96-79 in Game 3 of Finals”, in USA Today, retrieved 14 Jul 2011:
text: When buyers do turn up nowadays, she says, “they smell blood in the water and routinely offer 15 to 20 percent below the asking price.”
ref: 2008 June 1, Nelson D. Schwartz, “The Trouble in Housing Trickles Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jul 2011:
glosses: To sense that one has an advantage over an adversary or rival.
Related terms: go for the jugular
have the upper hand
smell blood in the water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells blood in the water
form: smelling blood in the water
form: smelled blood in the water
form: smelled blood in the water
form: smelt blood in the water
form: smelt blood in the water
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smell blood.
git along
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of get along (“move along”).
Senses: examples: text: Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
It's your misfortune, and none of my own.
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
For you know Wyoming will be your new home.
ref: 1910, John Avery Lomax, Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads, page 87:
qualifier: cowboy slang
glosses: Move; keep going.
raw_tags: said to cattle
glosses: Go on your way; scram.
Related terms: get along
prosopopœiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosopopœia
forthspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forth- + speaking.
Senses: examples: text: Revelation means nothing else. It is the forthputting, forthspeaking of the interior of God's nature, [...]
ref: 1873, John Langdon Dudley, Tides and tendencies of religious thought:
text: Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking?
ref: 2008, Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's heroic muse, 1790-1910:
glosses: The act of speaking forth or declaring; declaration.
examples: text: Evolution of prophecy, or forthspeaking on behalf of the divine.
ref: 1901, Louis Wallis, An examination of society from the standpoint of evolution:
glosses: Prophecy.
examples: text: This refers not to ordinary religious discourses for the edification of the church, but to such a forthspeaking of the mind of God in relation to truth, duty, or coming events ns the inward action of the Holy Spirit on the mind may produce.
ref: 1888, Bible readings for the home circle
glosses: Revelation.
forthspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forthspeaking
form: most forthspeaking
Etymology: From forthspeak + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, in this political poetry Agee resembles nothing so much as the “ forthspeaking prophet” evoked by Paul Ashdown, who assumes a role “both satirical and visionary, to both attack and inspire [his] readers and to seek meaning in ostensibly trivial or grotesque events."
ref: 2008, Hugh Davis, The making of James Agee:
glosses: Speaking forth; declaring; prophesying.
forthspeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forthspeak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forthspeak
Schank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schanks
form: Schanck
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schank.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
short breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short break
lateral pectoral nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateral pectoral nerve
pliskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plisky
sago pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sago puddings
Senses: glosses: A milk pudding made from sago.
Related terms: tapioca pudding
carboxyl methyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxyl methyltransferase
carboxylmethyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxylmethyltransferase
exocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exocyst
milk puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk pudding
tapioca puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapioca pudding
rice puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice pudding
sago puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sago pudding
Pak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bak.
Pak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pak
form: most Pak
Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani and Pakistan or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Paki.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pakistani.
synonyms: word: Pakistani
Pak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either a clipping of Pakistani and Pakistan or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Paki.
Senses: examples: text: EU urges Pak to do more to curb militants
ref: 2002, Data India, page 20:
glosses: Clipping of Pakistan
derequisitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derequisition
derequisitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derequisition
derequisitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derequisition
bastile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastiles
Senses: examples: text: H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 28:
text: Thither arriv'd th' advent'rous Knight / And bold Squire from their Steeds alight, / At th' outward Wall, near which [there] stands / A Bastile built t'imprison hands; / By strange enchantment made to fetter / The lesser parts, and free the greater. / For though the Body may creep through, / The Hands in Grate are fast enough.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 57:
text: ―The devil it is! ſaid I—but I vvill go to then thouſand Baſtiles firſt— […]
ref: 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: But Nigel was somewhat immured within the Bastile of his rank, as some philosopher, (Tom Paine, we think,) has happily enough expressed that sort of shyness which men of dignified situations are apt to be beset with, […]
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 55–56:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bastille.
bastile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bastiles
form: bastiling
form: bastiled
form: bastiled
Senses: examples: text: Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?
ref: 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 332:
text: [W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
ref: 1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: […] P. Byrne, […], published 1792, →OCLC, Act IV, scene [i], page 43:
text: All the doleful stories of prisoners of earlier or later ages, in the Bastile, including much sentimental balderdash, are drawled out by a very stupid and would-be effective writer, for the purpose of proving that the imprisonment of political offenders and captives by the North is precisely on a par with that of ‘Bastiling’ them, and that Abraham Lincoln is only a revival of the worst kings of France in an American form.
ref: 1862 October, “A Southern Review”, in [Charles Godfrey Leland], editor, The Continental Monthly. Devoted to Literature and National Policy, volume II, number IV, New York, N.Y.: John F[owler] Trow, […], →OCLC, page 467, column 1:
text: I know that peaceable and unoffending citizens of my own State have been "bastiled" in different parts of the United States—"cut off from their family, their friends, and their every connection."
ref: 1863 January 8, Willard Saulsbury Sr., “Discharge of State Prisoners”, in John C. Rives, editor, The Congressional Globe: […] (United States Senate, 27th Congress, 3rd session), number 15 (New Series), Washington, D.C.: John C. Rives […] , →OCLC, page 233, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bastille.
paradon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradons
form: paridon
form: pariton
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baryton.
synonyms: word: baryton
Derived terms: viola paradon
log drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of log drive
Nyman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Madsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Madsens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Madsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Thomsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒmsən/
Forms: form: Thompsen
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Thomsen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mortensen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mortensens
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Mortensen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
gorilla in the room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorillas in the room
Etymology: Blend of 800-pound gorilla + elephant in the room
Senses: glosses: A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.
Related terms: elephant in the room
Henriksen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Henriksens
form: Henricksen
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish Henriksen, Norwegian Henriksen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clausen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish.
Jespersen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Jespersen.
Senses: examples: text: [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.
ref: 2021 May 29, Richard Nordquist, “What Is Headlinese?”, in ThoughtCo:
glosses: A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
ozoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozoner
Satoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: homophone: satoshi
ipa: /saˈtowʃi/
ipa: /sɐˈtowʃɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese さとし (Satoshi).
Senses: examples: text: Bitcoin is the oldest and best known of all crypto coins. Its creator — the ever-anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto — set things up so that there can never be more than 21 million bitcoins in existence.
Unlike other assets that are valued based on tangible components — for example, a company’s goods and services or a natural resource — bitcoin is considered a store of value, the price of which depends strictly on what others are willing to pay for it.
ref: 2024 November 19, Jeanne Sahadi, “Bitcoin has smashed records. Should you invest?”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Derived terms: satoshi
overbookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbooker
larimar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Combination of Larissa and Spanish mar (“sea”). Coined by Miguel Méndez after his 1974 rediscovery of the stone in the Dominican Republic. Named for his daughter Larissa and the Caribbean sea, which has a similar blue color.
Senses: glosses: A rare blue variety of pectolite found only in the Dominican Republic.
caratage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caratages
Etymology: From carat + -age.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the purity of gold