cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
duosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duosyllable + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Comprising two syllables; bisyllabic.
Synonyms: disyllabic
go the way of all the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the way of all the earth
form: going the way of all the earth
form: went the way of all the earth
form: gone the way of all the earth
Etymology: Popularized by the King James Bible (e.g., Joshua 23:14, 1 Kings 2:2).
Senses: glosses: To die.
moon madness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Want, and Moon-madness, and the Pest’s swift Bane,
When its shafts smite—while yet its bow is twanging—
Have each their mark and sign—some ghastly stain; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: Lunacy supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight
incohesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + cohesion.
Senses: glosses: Failure to cohere or unify.
hepatorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatorrhoea
Etymology: From hepato- + -rrhea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A morbid flow of bile.
hepatorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hepatorrhea.
hepatomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hepato- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hepatoscopy (“divination from entrails”).
synonyms: word: hepatoscopy
extra: divination from entrails
nepheloscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepheloscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for demonstrating cloud formation by compression of moist air.
nepheloscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepheloscope
representation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representation theories
Senses: examples: text: 1989 [Clarendon Press], Robert J. Baston, Michael G. Eastwood, The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory, 2016 Dover edition.
ref: 1998, A. Broer, A. Daigneault, Representation Theories and Algebraic Geometry, Springer:
text: 2005, Andrea Brini, Francesco Regonati, Antonio Teolis, Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Lie Superalgebras over Letterplace Superalgebras, Hongbo Li, Peter J. Olver, Gerald Sommer (editors), Computer Algebra and Geometric Algebra with Applications: 6th International Workshop IWWM and International Workshop GIAE, Springer, LNCS 3519, page 239,
As an application, we describe in detail the way to specialize general results to the representation theory of the symmetric group and to classical invariant theory.
text: From his numerous contributions through research articles, books, and conference volumes we just mention his^([Vlastimil Dlab's]) work on the representation theory of hereditary algebras in the mid-seventies of the last century, joint with C.M. Ringel, laying the foundations of, in particular, tame hereditary representation theory over arbitrary fields, a theory still at the centre of interest.
ref: 2005, Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Helmut Lenzing, Representations of Algebras and Related Topics, American Mathematical Society, page ix:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures.
Related terms: category theory
pinnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinny (“pinafore”).
crownvetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɹaʊnˈvɛt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: crownvetches
form: crown vetch
form: crown-vetch
Etymology: From crown + vetch, formed identically to Dutch kroonwikke, German Kronwicke.
Senses: glosses: A crawling leguminous vine, Securigera varia, which is native to Eurasia and Africa but widely planted elsewhere as a ground cover, where it can become an invasive weed.
glosses: Any plant in the genus Coronilla, including those now classified in the genus Securigera.
crownvetches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crownvetch
Dingzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǐngʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定州 (Dìngzhōu, “Orderly Prefecture”).
Senses: examples: text: Their colour, once described as silver or snow, was long held to be an achievement of the potters of the Song dynasty, but excavations at the Dingzhou kilns in Hebei as early as 1941 have established that white ware was already in production at that location during the ninth century.
ref: 1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Arts of the Tang Court, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: The Communist Party chief of Dingzhou, a city in northern Hebei Province, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in one the bloodiest rural clashes in recent years, family members of the victims said.
ref: 2006, Joseph Kahn, “World Briefing | Asia: China: City Chief Gets Life In Land Clash”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, World:
text: Dingzhou residents who lost family in a land row insist on official probe, saying five convicted in court are scapegoats
Residents of Dingzhou, Hebei province, where six villagers were beaten to death last summer over a land dispute, have been taking turns to petition authorities in Beijing for further investigations into the case despite a court verdict last month.
Although a court in Handan city sentenced four people to death and Dingzhou party secretary He Feng to life in prison for their roles in the violent crackdown, the villagers say they are convinced the five are only scapegoats and Beijing must act to bring the real criminals to justice.
ref: 2006 March 27, Minnie Chan, “Villagers keep up demands for justice”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2022:
text: Yousheng Village, Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, is about 100 miles southwest of Beijing.
ref: 2012, Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Manuel Gaspar Caraça, editors, Aftermath: the Cultures of the Economic Crisis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 267:
glosses: A county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China.
glosses: Synonym of Ding Prefecture, a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou.
synonyms: word: Ding Prefecture
extra: a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Lunu
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Boling
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Dingxian
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Tingsien
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Tingchow
malcontently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malcontently
form: most malcontently
Etymology: From malcontent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a malcontent manner.
glady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glady
form: most glady
Etymology: From glade + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having glades.
Newgate fringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newgate fringes
Etymology: From Newgate, the site of a prison in London; named after its appearance, like a hangman's noose around the neck.
Senses: glosses: A beard under the chin and jaw.
Synonyms: Newgate collar
Newgate frill
neckbeard
Newgate frill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newgate frills
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Newgate fringe.
synonyms: word: Newgate fringe
Newgate fringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newgate fringe
Newgate frills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Newgate frill
naval brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naval brigades
Senses: glosses: A body of seamen so arranged as to be able to serve on land.
naval brigades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naval brigade
naval officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naval officers
Senses: glosses: An officer on board a man-of-war.
glosses: A custom-house officer of high rank in the United States.
naval officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naval officer
Leibnitzianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leibnizianism.
Leibnizianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Leibnizian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Leibnizian beliefs.
hibernacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a hibernacle or hibernaculum.
datil yucca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datil yuccas
Etymology: From Spanish dátil (“date”) + yucca.
Senses: glosses: A yucca with edible fruit variously compared to dates or bananas, and native to the deserts of the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Yucca baccata
Synonyms: banana yucca
datil yuccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datil yucca
explodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploding
banana yucca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana yuccas
Senses: glosses: A yucca native to deserts of the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Yucca baccata
Synonyms: datil yucca
banana yuccas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana yucca
monocotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: monocot + -ic
Senses: examples: text: This phenomenon was also found in other monocotic plants, such as wheat and barley […]
ref: 2011, Parvaiz Ahmad, M.N.V. Prasad, Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change, page 284:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to plants belonging to the taxonomic monocots (monocotyledons).
Synonyms: monocotyledonous
Lunu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 廬奴 /庐奴 (Lúnú).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dingzhou.
synonyms: word: Dingzhou
hydrothoraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrothorax
dyepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyepots
Etymology: From dye + pot.
Senses: glosses: A pot used in dyeing.
dyepots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyepot
canarywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From canary + wood.
Senses: glosses: The dark timber of two lauraceous trees of the Azores and Madeira, Persea indica and Apollonias barbujana (formerly known as Persea canariensis).
glosses: The yellow wood of various trees:
Centrolobium species (South America).
glosses: The yellow wood of various trees:
Eucalyptus albens (Australia)
glosses: The yellow wood of various trees:
The tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera (US)
glosses: The yellow wood of various trees:
Morinda citrifolia
glosses: The yellow wood of various trees:
Nauclea orientalis (Southeast Asia to Australia)
discorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discorporate
discorporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discorporate
discorporates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discorporate
Dingxian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tingsien
form: Ting-hsien
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 定縣 /定县 (Dìngxiàn, “Orderly County”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China.
synonyms: word: Dingzhou
extra: a town in Hebei, China
examples: text: From the late Qing on, some local elites tried to find ways to make farmers cleaner, better educated, less superstitious, and more technically proficient in agriculture (Duara 1991; Hayford 1990). One excellent example of this, discussed in Chapter 3, was the eager welcome that elites in Dingxian county, Hebei, extended to the Mass Education Movement in the early 1930s in the expectation that it would rid the peasants of what the elites saw as their embarrassing backwardness.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth J. Remick, “A Theory of the Local State”, in Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of Ding County in Hebei, China.
synonyms: word: Ding County in Hebei
word: China
intercentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-centennial
Etymology: From inter- + centennial.
Senses: glosses: Between centuries; occurring over more than one century.
AABW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Antarctic bottom water.
other then
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of other than.
tomax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomaxes
form: tomaxe
Etymology: Blend of tomahawk + axe. Dating from the 1750s, this is the first recorded portmanteau word in the English language.
Senses: examples: text: As there is lately arrived from America a Mohawk Indian Warrior, one of General J ohnson's Guards who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Lake George, (where General Johnson beat the French) by his singular Valour in taking the French General, Monsieur Desseau, Prisoner ; and as the above-named Indian Warrior (for the Gratification of the Curious) is expos'd to public View, dress'd in the same Manner with his native Indians when they go to War, with his Face and Body painted, his Scalping-knife, and Tomax, or Battle-axe, and all the other Implements that are used by Indians in Battle, we imagine a Copper-plate Print of this extraordianry Person will be agreeable.
ref: 1759, Benjamin Martin, Miscellaneous Correspondence, containing a Variety of Subjects:
text: When Albion's safety would, how swift to save; (A deed for Gods !) he pitied, and forgave. Here he restrain'd the Indian's thirst of gore, And bid the murd'rous tomax drink no more.
ref: 1762, Samuel Eliot?, Tracts, page 35:
text: A friendly tomax then like lightning driven, Released Oswego's soul—It flew to love and heaven!
ref: 1802, The Speech of Caunonicus, Or an Indian Tradition: a Poem, with Explanatory Notes, page 19:
text: ...possibly be promoted by an unprovoked attack from an invisible foe, who, in the true spirit of Indian warfare, hurls his tomax, and aims his arrows from the covert of Concealment, and the ambush of Safety.
ref: 1810, Benjamin Moore, The Portfolio, page 76:
text: With this view, we immediately set about getting our water casks in readiness, and the next and two succeeding days, part of the crew were sent on shore to cut pine timber, and asist the carpenter in making it into yards and spars for the ship, while those on board were employed in refitting the rigging, repairing the sails, &c. when we proceeded to take in our wood and water as expeditiously as possible, during which time I kept myself busily employed in repairing the muskets, making knives, tomaxes, &c. and doing such iron work as was wanted for the ship.
ref: 1824, John Rodgers Jewitt, Richard Alsop, The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, page 24:
text: He grasps his tomax, strings his bow, And fearful looks his ire; His teeth are clenched, his eye balls glow With more than mortal fire.
ref: 1837, E. Battye, “The Red Indian”, in Giuliano de' Medici, and other poems:
glosses: Synonym of tomahawk.
synonyms: word: tomahawk
nectareously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nectareously
form: most nectareously
Etymology: From nectareous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nectareous manner.
indifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indifferentiations
Etymology: From in- + differentiation.
Senses: examples: text: Religious indifferentiation therefore stands for a third category of relation with the sacred, situated between the full identification of the sacred with the profane (as in ecstatic states) and their total separation (as in modern, disenchanted culture). Typically, folk religiosity greatly affirms the disposition to “indifferentiate”.
ref: 2014, Steven J. Sutcliffe, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion:
glosses: A lack of differentiation in the senses
erstwhiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erstwhile.
pansclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + sclerosis.
Senses: glosses: Complete thickening and hardening of the interstitial tissue of a part.
undiabolical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiabolical
form: most undiabolical
Etymology: From un- + diabolical.
Senses: glosses: Not diabolical.
in especial
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in particular
guilloching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guilloche
negand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negands
Senses: examples: text: A negation is true if and only if the negand is not true.
ref: 2006, Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, page 345:
text: "Maisie is a rottweiler" is the negand of "Maisie is not a rottweiler."
ref: 2012, Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith, Logic: The Laws of Truth, page 25:
text: In a negation, the formula being negated is called the negand.
ref: 2015, Howard Gregory, Language and Logics:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The proposition that is to be negated.
Synonyms: negatum
Coordinate terms: negate
negation
negands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negand
multiradicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + radicate.
Senses: glosses: Having many roots.
multifronded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fronded.
Senses: glosses: Having many fronds.
Ur-text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ur-texts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of urtext.
ego-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ego-trips
form: ego-tripping
form: ego-tripped
form: ego-tripped
Senses: examples: text: “Our generation of women is constantly told to have high self-esteem, but it seems that the women themselves are at risk of ego-tripping themselves out of romantic connection,” she writes.
ref: 2012 April 22, Bettina Arndt, “Why women lose the dating game”, in The Sidney Morning Herald:
glosses: To go on an ego trip; to behave in such a manner.
kilpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kelp.
cachexia Africana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It was encountered among native Africans.
Senses: glosses: A morbid impulse to eat dirt.
iniencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iniencephalic
form: most iniencephalic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to iniencephaly
poundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poundable
form: most poundable
Etymology: From pound + -able.
Senses: glosses: Sexually desirable.
approximand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approximands
Senses: examples: text: Each shape affects how well F approximates a given approximand and how quickly an adaptive fuzzy system F approximates when learning tunes the parameters of Aⱼ.
ref: 1998, International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Volumes 1-3, page 1237:
text: In effect, this result is ideal, as it gives the same rate m^(-(s-1/p)) we could hope to obtain by knowing that the underlying approximand was a ridge function in a specific direction […]
ref: 2000, Royal Society (Great Britain), Wavelets: The Key to Intermittent Information?, page 256:
text: The key task of approximating with granules is seeking for the tightest envelope for the approximand.
ref: 2012, Moamar Sayed-Mouchaweh, Edwin Lughofer, Learning in Non-Stationary Environments: Methods and Applications, page 275:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The solution to function, series, etc. that is to be approximated.
Coordinate terms: approximant
approximate
approximation
approximands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approximand
change the game
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪn(d͡)ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/
Forms: form: changes the game
form: changing the game
form: changed the game
form: changed the game
Etymology: Probably from the ability of a player of a team sport who has been brought on to the field as substitute to alter the outcome of the game.
Senses: examples: text: Today, Moore is in transition from a communications-product company to an information-management company, selling information-management systems— […] How has this changed the game for Moore salespeople?
ref: 1988, Larry Wilson, Hersch Wilson, “The Rules of the New Game”, in Changing the Game: The New Way to Sell (Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part I (The Changing Game of Selling), pages 73–74:
text: Brave and resourceful, creative and effective, will be the hallmarks of the transformative CEO. For the transformative CEO has no choice but to change the game, and to change the game forever.
ref: 2012, Jeffrey J. Fox, Robert Reiss, quoting Arkadi Kuhlmann, “On Transformative CEOs”, in The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Companies, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Four years before Fury Road, the Welsh director Gareth Evans made the berserker Indonesian fight movie The Raid: Redemption, changing the game by reducing the action movie to its simplest elements, telling it with visceral style.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road Might Already be the Best Action Movie Ever Made”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2018:
text: “Crazy Rich Asians” simply changes the game. It shows that minorities don’t need Spandexed suits or powers to be bankable (though one could argue that the comedic team of Ken Jeong and Awkwafina are superheroes in their own right). They can be glamorous and sassy and intimidating and genuine – and still relate to virtually all audiences.
ref: 2018 August 20, Rebecca Rubin, “Can ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Save the Rom-Com by Embracing Diversity?”, in Variety, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2018:
text: “If we were able to get a really high vaccination rate, that changes the game completely,” said Hassan Vally, an associate professor in epidemiology at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
ref: 2021 June 29, Adam Liptak, quoting Hassan Vally, “Covid Live Updates: Concern over the Delta variant triggers lockdowns in Asian and Pacific countries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To revolutionize a field of endeavor.
Related terms: game changer
game-changing
afterhours
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: After opening hours, usually after midnight and before daybreak.
ghost peak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost peaks
Senses: topics: chemistry
chromatography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a peak at an unexpected position (or time), due to e.g. contamination of the sample or from the previous analysis (if one of the substances had a retention time longer than the runtime)
Untalan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Untalans
Etymology: Filipino surname from Pangasinan and Tagalog.
Senses: glosses: A Filipino surname
A surname from Pangasinan
glosses: A Filipino surname
A surname from Tagalog
to this day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The philosophical ideas of the ancient Greeks endure to this day.
glosses: Even now, even after this time, still
Related terms: up to now
Songco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
binology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bin + -ology.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: the ethically questionable practice of searching through the dustbins of celebrities and other public figures to obtain information for use in tabloid newspapers
Related terms: dumpster diving
Seyhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seihan
form: Sihun
Senses: glosses: A river in Cilicia, in southern Turkey, also known as the Sarus, flowing to the Mediterranean Sea.
creeping barberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeping barberries
Senses: glosses: A low-growing shrub with prickly leaves, native to western North America, Berberis repens (syn. Mahonia repens).
creeping barberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeping barberry
Regala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Regalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Regala; this surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
joint fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint firs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jointfir.
joint firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint fir
crankery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The writings or ideas of a crank.
Mormon tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mormon teas
Etymology: One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: Any of the North American conifers in the genus Ephedra, leafless shrubs with gray or green needle-like smaller stems native to deserts and used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
popotillo
squaw tea
teamster tea
Brigham tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Brigham Young, former leader of the Mormons. One of a number of common names based on people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
popotillo
squaw tea
teamster tea
Mormon teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mormon tea
cowboy tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: Brigham tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
popotillo
squaw tea
teamster tea
desert tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert teas
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
popotillo
squaw tea
teamster tea
squaw tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaw teas
Etymology: One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
popotillo
teamster tea
squaw teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaw tea
Mexican tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, usually Ephedra trifurca, used to make an herbal tea.
glosses: Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mormon tea
popotillo
squaw tea
teamster tea
drug wormseed
epazote
herba sancti Mariae
Jerusalem oak
Jesuit's tea
paico
payqu
wormseed
teamster tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: One of a number of common names based on types of people known to live in the desert, with tea referring to the herbal drink brewed from the plant.
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
popotillo
squaw tea
poodle cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I managed to purchase a square-cut early sixties coat in a fabric we used to call poodle cloth for the price of a kebab and chips on The Smoke.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 218:
glosses: A type of shaggy (originally wool) cloth, resembling the fur of a poodle.
pay train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay trains
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train carrying people’s wages.
raw_tags: from pay (noun)
examples: text: Besides, is not the pay-train from Leeds disgorging a clutch of poets every lunch time, to read authentic texts aloud?
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 216:
text: Why was there not more talk about destaffing, pay trains, or simplified signalling or single-tracking?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train for which tickets are bought on board rather than at the station beforehand.
raw_tags: from pay (adjective)
Legros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Legroses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Legros.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Milkah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Milcah.
metempiricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metempiricists
Senses: glosses: One who studies metempiricism.
metempiricists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metempiricist
how-d'ye-dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of how-d'ye-do
Hessian fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hessian flies
Etymology: The fly was thought to have been accidentally imported into North America by Hessian soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
Senses: glosses: Mayetiola destructor, a species of fly that is a significant pest of cereal crops.
Synonyms: barley midge
wheat midge
Hessian flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hessian fly
barley midge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley midges
Senses: glosses: A Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor).
barley midges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley midge
horoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horoscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to horoscopes.
horoscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horoscope + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to horoscopes.
sigillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sigil + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a seal or sigil.
endecasyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endecasyllable
endecasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having eleven syllables.
poriferal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Porifera + -al
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the phylum Porifera of sponges.
mediumist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediumists
Etymology: From medium + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A spiritualist; a medium (person claiming to contact the dead).
mediumists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediumist
Möngke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mongke
Etymology: Compare Mongolian мөнх (mönx).
Senses: glosses: A Mongolian male given name, notably borne by Möngke Khan, a Mongol ruler.
oneseed juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oneseed junipers
form: one-seed juniper
Etymology: Translated from the taxonomic name: translingual Juniperus is from Latin iuniperus (“juniper”) and monosperma is from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single, alone”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”)
Senses: glosses: A shrub or small tree native to mountains in southwestern North America, Juniperus monosperma
oneseed junipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneseed juniper
one-seed juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-seed junipers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oneseed juniper.
one-seed junipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-seed juniper
mixed chalice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed chalices
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The chalice prepared for the Eucharist, containing wine mixed with water.
mixed chalices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed chalice
popotillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish popotillo from popote (“straw”) + -illo (“little”).
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest in the genus Ephedra, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: Brigham tea
cowboy tea
desert tea
ephedra
jointfir
Mexican tea
Mormon tea
squaw tea
teamster tea
disutilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disutilize
Nevada ephedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gray, leafless shrub native to dry, rocky or sandy areas of western North America and used to make an herbal tea, Ephedra nevadensis
Synonyms: gray ephedra
Nevada jointfir
gray ephedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gray, leafless shrub native to dry, rocky or sandy areas of western North America and used to make an herbal tea, Ephedra nevadensis
Synonyms: Nevada ephedra
Nevada jointfir
sceptredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sceptre + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: [S]tately Hyperion or the lordly ſonne, the moſt rutilant planet of the ſeuẽ, in Lent when Heralius herring enters into his chiefe reign and ſcepterdome, ſkippeth and danſeth[,] the goats iumpe on the earth for ioy of his entrance.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Reign; sovereign rule.
critickin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critickins
Senses: glosses: A petty critic; a criticaster.
critickins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critickin
disagreeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: disagree + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disagree
Nevada jointfir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gray, leafless shrub native to dry, rocky or sandy areas of western North America and used to make an herbal tea, Ephedra nevadensis
Synonyms: gray ephedra
Nevada ephedra
lizard-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A Cornish serpentine.
erythritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erythritic
form: most erythritic
Etymology: From erythrite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mineral erythrite.
resinographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to resinography.
disilluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disillude
disilluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disillude
disilludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disillude
Japanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japanesque
form: most Japanesque
Etymology: From Japan + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the Japanese style.
Synonyms: Japanesey
Niersteiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Niersteiners
Etymology: From German Niersteiner.
Senses: glosses: A variety of Rhine wine from Nierstein, near Mainz.
Niersteiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Niersteiner
room set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room sets
Senses: examples: text: In museum terms, this means reconstructing the real place, by providing room sets or even complete buildings for objects.
ref: 2000, Kevin Moore, Museums and Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Paula's shop, by contrast, had room sets behind its vast sheet of plate glass, a bedroom, or a sitting room with cushions and curtains in white linen to show off the dark wood of the furniture, and tropical ferns and grasses sprouting brilliantly out of pots that might, just might, have once graced a Balinese temple.
ref: 2008, Joanna Trollope, Friday Nights, →ISBN, page 130:
text: In a far corner, a room set had been built and furnished to resemble a bed-and-breakfast in the Swedish countryside.
ref: 2012, Dean Starkman, Martha Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, Best Business Writing, →ISBN, page 396:
glosses: Alternative form of roomset.
room-set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room-sets
Senses: examples: text: A Rembrandt would look hideously out of place in this room-set.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 206
text: ...the ability to go into a room-set, for example, creates a relationship entirely different from that of onlooker.
ref: 2003, Judith Alfrey, Tim Putnam, The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses, →ISBN:
text: One room is a room-set of a merchant ship, exploring how the more exotic parts of the museum collection came to Winterthur.
ref: 2009, Mark L. Brake, Emma Weitkamp, Introducing Science Communication: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Alternative form of roomset.
room-sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room-set
room sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of room set
cubic nitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nitrate of soda, so called because it crystallizes in cubes.
dishabilitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: disqualification
temptableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From temptable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being temptable.
school days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school day
glosses: Alternative form of schooldays.
hydrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrid
pamphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: There are conceivably other factors systematizing cell activity and movement: unknown subtle energies, pamphysical and telekinetic forces, microdoses and biphasic stimuli of enzymes, and psychic and telepathic signals at a cellular level.
ref: 2000, Richard Grossinger, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 235:
glosses: Relating to nature, regarded as embracing all things.
apocalyptic number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocalyptic numbers
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Number of the Beast
apocalyptic numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocalyptic number
trivertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From tri- + vertebral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to three vertebrae.
mentiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: glosses: Conveying thought; telepathic.
neuropathical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neuropathy.
reviewage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From review + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of reviewing.
gammock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammocks
form: gammick
form: gammik
form: gammuk
form: gammyk
form: gamock
form: gamalk
form: gammux
form: gommack
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *gammok, from Old English *gamnoc, *gamenoc (“little game, bit of fun”), equivalent to game + -ock (diminutive suffix). Alternatively, perhaps from Old English *gamnecian, *gamenecian (“to frolic”), from Old English gamen (“sport, amusement”) + -(e)cian (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: Fun, sport, play, frolic.
glosses: A joke, trick, prank.
Derived terms: gammocky
gammock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gammocks
form: gammocking
form: gammocked
form: gammocked
form: gammick
form: gammik
form: gammuk
form: gammyk
form: gamock
form: gamalk
form: gammux
form: gommack
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *gammok, from Old English *gamnoc, *gamenoc (“little game, bit of fun”), equivalent to game + -ock (diminutive suffix). Alternatively, perhaps from Old English *gamnecian, *gamenecian (“to frolic”), from Old English gamen (“sport, amusement”) + -(e)cian (frequentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: To romp, frolic, play pranks, lark about; to go partying from place to place.
Related terms: gammet
gammon
gammocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gammock
gammocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gammock
gammocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gammock
gammocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gammock
Borowy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Borowys
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Borowy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
eek out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of eke out.
verbal note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbal notes
Senses: glosses: In diplomacy, an unsigned memorandum calling attention to a neglected, though perhaps not urgent, matter.
verbal notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbal note
bespeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespeed
panjandarums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panjandarum
skillest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skill: most skill
zipway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɪp.weɪ/
Forms: form: zipways
Etymology: From zip + way.
Senses: examples: text: One brilliant thing about Wreckers is that you don't spend most of your time trudging around corridors. The Beacon's equipped with vertical and horizontal zipways, which are like elevators only a bit quicker and speed you between locations in a 'zip!'
ref: 1991, "Wreckers" (video game review) in Crash (issue 88, page 42)
text: I never cared for zipways as a way to get around megastructures like this. I always thought that there was a reason God invented taxis.
ref: 2006, K. A. Bedford, Hydrogen Steel:
text: He could only stay there, suspended halfway between the top of the wall and the zipway, and wish would all come out all right. He'd taken a gamble, and sometimes you lost gambles. He felt more than saw the flyers stop, and he dropped down the remaining meter and a half to the surface of the zipway.
ref: 2012, Connie Willis, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, A Cosmic Christmas:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A high-speed elevator, corridor, or similar transit route.
zipways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zipway
pygmean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pygmean
form: most pygmean
form: pigmaean
form: pigmean
form: pygmaean
Senses: glosses: Like a pygmy; very small.
Panjaubee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panjaubees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Punjabi.
Punjabee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punjabees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Punjabi.
Panjabee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panjabees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Punjabi.
Panjaubees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Panjaubee
Punjabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punjabee
Panjabees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Panjabee
gentilitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentilitious
form: most gentilitious
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gentilitial.
synonyms: word: gentilitial
gentilitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentilitian
form: most gentilitian
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gentilitial.
synonyms: word: gentilitial
hurricane deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurricane decks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cross-deck about amidships, a bridge-deck or bridge: the upper light deck of a passenger-steamer.
hurricane decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurricane deck
TAFKAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of the artist formerly known as Prince, the musical artist Prince Rogers Nelson.
sellanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French solandre.
Senses: glosses: An eruption in the tarsus of the horse.
Related terms: malanders
mallenders
torculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torcular
jazz rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: jazz-hop
glosses: A fusion subgenre of hip-hop and jazz music, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
joint pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint pines
Senses: glosses: A leafless shrub with needle-like branches, Ephedra fragilis, native to southern Europe and northern Africa and used medicinally due to its ephedrine content.
glosses: A related plant, Ephedra distachya
glosses: Any plant in the genus Ephedra.
Synonyms: sense: plant in genus Ephedra
word: ephedra
sense: plant in genus Ephedra
word: jointfir
joint pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joint pine
lared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lare
green ephedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green ephedras
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest, Ephedra viridis, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: green jointfir
green ephedras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green ephedra
memoirism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From memoir + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The act or art of writing memoirs.
green jointfir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A leafless desert shrub of the US Southwest, Ephedra viridis, used to make an herbal tea.
Synonyms: green ephedra
dysteleologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysteleologists
Etymology: From dysteleology + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who subscribes to the philosophy of dysteleology.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that frustrates a natural function, such as an insect that obtains honey by puncturing a nectary instead of by the floral opening.
dysteleologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysteleologist
phycologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the scientific study of algae.
mesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesial.
desert teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert tea
ease oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eases oneself
form: easing oneself
form: eased oneself
form: eased oneself
Senses: glosses: To defecate or urinate.