cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decacumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diːkəkjuːmɪˈneɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin dēcacūminātiō (“a lopping off the top of a tree”).
Senses: examples: text: If M. Dutrochet has not adverted to Theophrastus, perhaps you may be interested in reading the following passage from that author, in the sixth chapter of the third book, where he particularly describes what he calls the ἄμφαυξις, or ἀμφιφύα, of the silver fir after decacumination.
ref: 1838, John Claudius Loudon, editor, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, IV, page 538:
glosses: The action or process of lopping off the top of a tree.
Related terms: decacuminate
parkleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From park + leaves?
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tutsan.
synonyms: word: tutsan
tutsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutsans
Etymology: From Old French toutesaine.
Senses: examples: text: The healing Tutsan
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 218:
glosses: Hypericum androsaemum, a Eurasian perennial shrub.
Synonyms: parkleaves
sweet-amber
tutsans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutsan
sea hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea hens
Etymology: From sea + hen.
Senses: examples: text: Besides the penguin many other birds are here to be found, among which may be mentioned sea-hens, blue peterels, teal, ducks, […]
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various seabirds, especially the common guillemot.
sea hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea hen
clearstories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearstory
clearstory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearstories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clerestory.
sensism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensisms
Etymology: From sense + -ism.
Senses: glosses: sensualism
sensisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sensism
cockal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockals
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
examples: text: [The altar is] of a little Tranſverce bone; / VVhich boyes and Bruckel'd children call / (Playing for Points and Pins) Cockall.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Fairie Temple: Or, Oberons Chappell. Dedicated to Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor at Law.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, pages 102–103:
glosses: The bone used in playing the game; a huckle bone.
cockals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockal
bandobast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandobasts
Senses: examples: text: […] the round-up of all must be simultaneous - that's why it takes such a lot of bandobast.
ref: 1924, John Buchan, The Three Hostages, page 122:
text: There was a nest in a huge tree inside the entrance gate of the High Court judge's sprawling bungalow, which had bandobust (protection duties) by armed Policemen.
ref: 2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of bundobust.
bandobasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandobast
wayupthere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From way + up + there.
Senses: examples: text: […] because when you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible – wayupthere, at any rate, changes took place in delirious actors that would have gladdened the heart of old Mr Lamarck […]
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, page 6:
glosses: on high; in the heavens
chapstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæpˌstɪk/
Forms: form: chapsticks
Etymology: Genericized trademark from ChapStick, a brand name, from chap + stick, since it is a stick that relieves chapped lips.
Senses: examples: text: I kissed a girl and I liked it / The taste of her cherry chapstick / I kissed a girl just to try it / I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
ref: 2008 April 28, Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, “I Kissed a Girl”, in One of the Boys, performed by Katy Perry:
text: After the kiss, she pulled out her chapstick and put it on.
ref: 2009, Laura Francois, Reckless Perfection, page 74:
glosses: Synonym of lip balm.
synonyms: word: lip balm
wikipedia: ChapStick
Derived terms: chapstick lesbian
chapsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapstick
drumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drumble
drumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drumble
scream blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːm bluː ˈmɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskɹiːm bluː ˈmɝdɚ/
ipa: /ˈskɹiːm bluː ˈmɚɾɚ/
Forms: form: screams blue murder
form: screaming blue murder
form: screamed blue murder
form: screamed blue murder
Senses: qualifier: This entry is a translation hub.
glosses: To protest loudly or angrily.
Related terms: blue murder
postgenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + genital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the genital region.
examples: text: The carpels show various degrees of congenital or postgenital connation (Gut 1966; Ramp 1988).
ref: 2010, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae, page 279:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Appearing as an organism matures.
postvaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From post- + vaginal.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that the latter had made the claim to the effect that a woman without postvaginal organs is to be considered impotent.
ref: 2000, Adolfo N. Dacanáy, Canon Law on Marriage, page 40:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the vagina or vaginal region.
prevaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
-ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From pre- + vaginal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In front of the vagina or vaginal region.
screams blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scream blue murder
screaming blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scream blue murder
screamed blue murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scream blue murder
cofoci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cofocus
coranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corank
colines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coline
copoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copoint
comatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comatrix
cointersections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cointersection
counions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counion
corings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coring
comorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comorphism
cocategories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocategory
coplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coplane
covectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covector
coaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaxes
Etymology: From co- + axis.
Senses: examples: text: Now draw the characteristic triangle mentioned above, […] of which the hypotenuse is a portion of the tangent or the element of the arc, and the sides are parallel to the axis and the coaxis.
ref: 2008, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, J. M. Child, The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz, page 43:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of the directional motion vectors perpendicular to a cocone.
cocomplete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + complete.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which all small colimits exist.
raw_tags: of a category
Related terms: cocompletion
cocompleteness
bicomplete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + complete.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Both complete and cocomplete.
raw_tags: of a category
Related terms: bicompletion
bicompleteness
bicompleteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bicomplete + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being bicomplete.
cocompleteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocomplete + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cocomplete.
cocategory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocategories
Etymology: From co- + category.
Senses: examples: text: Among the new results there is the existence of a closed monoidal structure on the category of cocomplete augmented cocategories over a ground field k.
ref: 2007, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Reviews:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a category.
coplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coplanes
Etymology: From co- + plane.
Senses: examples: text: In Section 4 we show that any PMD in which a coplane is not the intersection of two hyperplanes is an extension of a projective plane.
ref: 1980, Jaya Srivastava, Combinatorial Mathematics, Optimal Designs, and Their Applications, page 61:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a plane.
comorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comorphisms
Etymology: From co- + morphism.
Senses: examples: text: Concepts of comorphism may be defined for arbitrary modules and for arbitrary vector bundles[…]
ref: 2005, Kirill MacKenzie, London Mathematical Society, General Theory of Lie Groupoids and Lie Algebroids, page 177:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping associated with a morphism that, when applied to every member of the morphism, results in the same value as the morphism applied to the image of every member.
counion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counions
Etymology: From co- + union.
Senses: examples: text: the left adjoint […] preserves direct factors, their cointersections, their complements and thus their counions
ref: 1986, Yves Diers, Categories of Boolean sheaves of simple algebras:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The join or union of all sets that meet a specified condition.
examples: text: After weeks of fruitless negotiations, Bollinger and his counion members went out on strike, demanding a pay boost.
ref: 1977, McKee Fisk, Norbert J. Mietus, Applied Business Law:
glosses: Others in a trade union.
examples: text: Counion with Him is His desire, not a robotic family who is programmed or shows up out of duty or obligation.
ref: 2015, Rhonda Ambrose, Beyond the Door, →ISBN:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Communion.
examples: text: Yet this crucial break did not become an environmental threat until the counion of science and technology in the nineteenth century.
ref: 2001, Hans-Dirk van Hoogstraten, Deep Economy: Caring for Ecology, Humanity and Religion, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: The act or result of joining or merging; union.
cointersection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cointersections
Etymology: From co- + intersection.
Senses: examples: text: the left adjoint […] preserves direct factors, their cointersections, their complements and thus their counions
ref: 1986, Yves Diers, Categories of Boolean sheaves of simple algebras:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A family of behavioural equivalences which factors through all elements of a second specified family of behavioural equivalences and for which any morphism that factors through the second family of behavioural equivalences also factors through its elements.
comatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comatrices
Etymology: From co- + matrix.
Senses: examples: text: Better yet, we may take the coalgebra of the preceding corollary to be a comatrix coalgebra.
ref: 2011, David E. Radford, Hopf Algebras, page 182:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Adjoint; The transposed matrix of the cofactors of the entries of a matrix.
copoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copoints
Etymology: From co- + point.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dual of a point.
corank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coranks
Etymology: From co- + rank.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dimension of the left nullspace of a matrix.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The dimension of the cokernel of a linear transformation of a vector space
examples: text: First of all, we can see that coranks are the same for the elements of a conjugacy class.
ref: 1995, William M. Kantor, Lino Di Martino, Groups of Lie Type and their Geometries, page 117:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of elements of a matroid minus its rank.
Synonyms: nullity
cofocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cofoci
Etymology: From co- + focus.
Senses: examples: text: In general, the expression in focus is a predicate, which applies to something which is defined by the cofocus.
ref: 1987, Imre Ruzsa, Anna Szabolcsi, Proceedings of the '87 Debrecen Symposium on Logic and Language:
text: Not all cofoci are presuppositions; sometimes the cofocus is new information "accommodated" to the common ground which is introduced as though it were presupposed[…]
ref: 2000, Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.
Haroldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haroldian
form: most Haroldian
Etymology: From Harold + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: One could assume that the three poems that Heine had translated influenced him the most of all from among Byron's writings. And, indeed, the Book of Songs is full of Haroldian echoes.
ref: 2004, Richard Andrew Cardwell, The Reception of Byron in Europe: Southern Europe, France, and Romania, page 252:
text: But the way that the Haroldian allusion to Byron's recent exile of 1816 is superimposed upon this, gives a particular significance to the father character[…]
ref: 2012, Caroline Franklin, The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism, page 51:
glosses: Of or relating to Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a lengthy narrative poem published between 1812 and 1818.
pointing stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointing sticks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: clit mouse
nipple
nipple mouse
nub
track stick
glosses: An isometric joystick used as a pointing device.
teredos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teredo
pileworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pileworms
Etymology: From pile + worm.
Senses: glosses: The teredo.
pileworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pileworm
coastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coasting
christophine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: christophines
form: christophene
Etymology: From French christophine.
Senses: examples: text: No, the Almighty never told black folks to eat christophines every blessed day!
ref: 2003, Giséle Pineau, Macadam dreams, page 57:
text: He asked Ras why the green christophine vegetables we bought from him didn't ripen into the creamy white color we have come to expect from christophine.
ref: 2005, Lona Gray, Caught by the Lure of the Sea, page 217:
glosses: chayote
christophines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of christophine
christophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: christophenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of christophine.
christophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of christophene
one man's meat is another man's poison
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: one man's fish is another man's poison
form: one man's fish is another man's poisson
Senses: glosses: People have differing tastes; what pleases one person may displease another.
Related terms: one man's loss is another man's gain
one man's trash is another man's treasure
there's no accounting for taste
consolidatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolidatable
form: most consolidatable
Etymology: From consolidate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being consolidated.
Synonyms: consolidable
consolidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolidable
form: most consolidable
Senses: glosses: Capable of being consolidated.
Synonyms: consolidatable
Schwenkfelder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwenkfelders
Etymology: From Schwenkfeld + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Schwenkfelder Church, a small American Christian group rooted in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation teachings of Caspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig.
Synonyms: Schwenkfeldian
Schwenkfelders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwenkfelder
Schwenkfeldian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwenkfeldians
Etymology: From Schwenkfeld + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Schwenkfelder.
Schwenkfeldians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwenkfeldian
schwarzlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Schwarzlot, literally "black lead".
Senses: glosses: A kind of black enamel decoration applied to glass etc.
phenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
Related terms: phenic acid
sheathfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheathfishes
Etymology: From sheath + fish, possibly influenced by German Schaid (“sheatfish”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheatfish.
sheathfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheathfish
witching hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witching hour
buttery bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttery bar
semipalmate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + palmate.
Senses: glosses: semipalmated
samboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samboos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sambar.
samboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samboo
brownings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of browning
criticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of critic
criticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of critic
have done
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has done
form: having done
form: had done
form: had done
Senses: examples: text: Your turn, I've done talking for now.
text: 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority
Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
glosses: To reach an end.
Derived terms: have done with
stannaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stannary
post-captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-captains
form: post captain
form: postcaptain
Etymology: From both the action of taking or making post (“occupying an established military position”) and the practice of posting (“publicly announcing”) the names of such officers in the London Gazette.
Senses: examples: text: The general principle which governs the navies of the old world is... when the Post is attained, then promotion is by inheritance... If a Post Captain in the English navy lives long enough, he is certain of being an Admiral, though not before he is sixty years of age... Hence it is manifest that the public interest no more requires the new grade of Admiral to be added to the navy, than it does the bestowing of orders of nobility on all the diplomatic agents, who represent the United States at the different courts of Europe.
ref: 1836 March 17, 'Candor', "The Navy", Army and Navy Chronicle, Vol. II, No. 11, p. 173
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A captain of the 18th or 19th-century Royal Navy in command of a vessel, with his subsequent promotions almost always determined by seniority rather than merit or ability.
wikipedia: London Gazette
Coordinate terms: english: captain awaiting command
translation: captain awaiting command
word: on the bench
post-captains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-captain
clumpered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clumper
seedcod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedcods
Etymology: From seed + cod. See cod (“bag, pouch”).
Senses: synonyms: seedlep
glosses: a basket or bag for carrying seeds.
seedcods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedcod
scopiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskəʊpɪfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more scopiform
form: most scopiform
Etymology: From Latin scōpa (“a broom”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: zeolite[…], either stelliform or scopiform
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Having the form of a broom.
psalmographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psalmographers
Etymology: Latin psalmographus.
Senses: glosses: A writer of psalms; a psalmist.
psalmographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalmographer
scapegallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapegallowses
form: 'scapegallows
Etymology: From scape (archaic for escape) + gallows.
Senses: examples: text: […] And remember this, 'scapegallows,' said Ralph, menacing him with his hand, 'that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a jail once more […]
ref: 1838–1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
glosses: A criminal who has narrowly escaped from being hanged.
Synonyms: crack-hemp
gallows bird
scapegallowses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapegallows
stablings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabling
strongyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strongyloid
form: most strongyloid
Etymology: Strongylus + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like, or relating to genus Strongylus of parasitic nematode worms.
strongyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongyloids
Etymology: Strongylus + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any worm of the genus Strongylus.
strongyloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongyloid
Proto-Atayalic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Atayalic.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor to the group of Atayalic languages.
crépinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crépinette
prosateurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosateur
candlepin bowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]
ref: 1985, Stephen King, Nona:
synonyms: word: bowling
glosses: A type of bowling popular in New England, with tall, narrow pins.
organ harvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The removal, preservation and use of human organs and tissue from the bodies of the recently deceased to be used in surgical transplants on the living.
merlette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məːˈlɛt/
ipa: /mɚˈlɛt/
Forms: form: merlettes
Etymology: From Late Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman merlet (from merle (“blackbird”) + -et (“suffix forming a noun”)), or from Middle French merlette (“little blackbird; merlette (heraldic charge)”) (from merle (“blackbird”)—formerly a feminine noun) + -ette (“diminutive suffix for a feminine noun”). Merle is from Latin merula (“blackbird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In French heraldry, a depiction of a mythological bird without beak or feet.
Related terms: english: depiction of a bird in English heraldry with stylized feet
translation: depiction of a bird in English heraldry with stylized feet
word: martlet
mithridatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mithridatises
form: mithridatising
form: mithridatised
form: mithridatised
Etymology: From Mithridates + -ise, in reference to Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mithridatize.
wikipedia: Mithridates VI of Pontus
Pontus
Derived terms: mithridatisation
mithridatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mithridatise
vibrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrions
Etymology: Presumably from translingual Vibrio + -on and influenced by virion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microorganism, especially one that is pathogenic.
Related terms: vibrio
merlettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merlette
light day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light days
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of length equal to the distance light travels in one day; about 170 astronomical units
Related terms: light hour
light second
light year
Van Eck phreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Dutch computer researcher Wim van Eck, who published a proof of concept in 1985.
Senses: examples: text: Van Eck phreaking might be used to compromise the secrecy of the votes in an election using electronic voting.
glosses: The process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT or LCD display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions.
e-voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + voting.
Senses: glosses: The use of electronic or computer-based systems to cast and count votes in an election.
musketos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musketo
musketoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musketo
cacomixtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacomixtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cacomistle.
cacomixtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacomixtle
Tyrrhenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyrrhenian
spagyrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spagyric
lose sight of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses sight of
form: losing sight of
form: lost sight of
form: lost sight of
Senses: examples: text: The soldier lost sight of the enemy.
glosses: To be no longer able to see.
examples: text: After he graduated from university he lost sight of his career goals.
text: Smith warns: "You must not lose sight of the fact that not everyone can do contactless payment and mobile ticketing. Not everyone has a bank account, not everyone can use a smartphone, not everyone works cashless.
ref: 2022 March 9, Paul Clifton, “RAIL Supplement: Reimagining and rebooting the passenger railway”, in RAIL, number 952, page 6 (supplement):
glosses: To fail to remember; to overlook or neglect.
simonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simonial
form: most simonial
Senses: glosses: simoniac
shimmerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shimmering
mirrorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirroring
Androphagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀνδροφάγοι (Androphágoi).
Senses: glosses: an ancient nation of anthropophagi (cannibals) north of Scythia, recorded by Herodotus
carotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek καρωτικός (karōtikós, “stupefying”).
Senses: examples: the carotic arteries
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: carotid
treachour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: treachours
Etymology: See treacher.
Senses: examples: text: Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, / Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of treacher (“traitor”).
treachours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treachour
sea pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pinks
Etymology: From its habitat and colour.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants in the genus Armeria; a thrift.
glosses: The flowering plant Sabatia stellaris.
sea pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pink
symptomatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more symptomatical
form: most symptomatical
Senses: examples: a symptomatical classification of diseases
glosses: symptomatic
supplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpleɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: supplaces
form: supplacing
form: supplaced
form: supplaced
Senses: examples: text: No external forces can supplace the weakness of an inherent life.
ref: 1859, John Bascom, Political Economy:
glosses: To replace; to supplant.
palatonares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatonaris
palatonaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatonares
Etymology: From palato- + naris.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the posterior nares.
overlapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlappers
Etymology: From overlap + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, overlaps.
overlappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlapper
saucinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauciness
staylaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staylace
poons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poon
sea brief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea briefs
Senses: glosses: A sea letter.
sea briefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea brief
sea letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea letters
Senses: glosses: The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
Synonyms: sea brief
sea letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea letter
sigblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigblocks
Etymology: From sig + block.
Senses: examples: text: Now cut the sigblock with control-circumflex and control-k.
ref: 1996, R R Neuswanger, “signature at the bottom of reply/forward”, in comp.mail.pine (Usenet):
text: In fact, a good idea might be to have email sigblocks carry this warning, to avoid later hassles over privacy.
ref: 2001, David Harley, Robert Slade, Urs E. Gattiker, Viruses revealed:
glosses: A block of text used as a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).
sigblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigblock
sigfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigfiles
Etymology: From sig + file.
Senses: examples: text: Can anyone please tell me why I get an 'output from your job etc' message back from bitnet everytime^([sic]) I send a message out? Is there a problem with my sigfile or does everyone get them?
ref: 1994, BILL, “help with my sigfile”, in bit.listserv.help-net (Usenet):
text: You've seen sigfiles: the chunk of information at the end of an email.
ref: 2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 81:
text: How do you read abbreviations (IMHO)? Quoted text? Headers? Sigfiles? Emoticons?
ref: 2005, Randy Allen Harris, Voice Interaction Design, page 209:
glosses: A text file containing a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).
sigfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sigfile
toothfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothful
spinetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinetails
Etymology: From spine + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of swifts of Apodinae, having shafts of the tailfeathers terminate in rigid spines.
glosses: Any of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.
glosses: A ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis).
Derived terms: word: in Apodinae
taxonomic: Neafrapus boehmi
word: bat-like spinetail
taxonomic: Telacanthura melanopygia
word: black spinetail
taxonomic: Neafrapus boehmi
word: Böhm's spinetail
taxonomic: Neafrapus cassini
word: Cassin's spinetail
word: Madagascan spinetail
word: Madagascar spinetail
taxonomic: Zoonavena grandidieri
word: Malagasy spinetail
taxonomic: Telacanthura ussheri
word: mottled spinetail
taxonomic: Mearnsia novaeguineae
word: Papuan spinetail
taxonomic: Mearnsia picina
word: Philippine spinetail
taxonomic: Rhaphidura sabini
word: Sabine's spinetail
taxonomic: Rhaphidura leucopygialis
word: silver-rumped spinetail
taxonomic: Zoonavena thomensis
word: São Tomé spinetail
taxonomic: Zoonavena sylvatica
word: white-rumped spinetail
word: in Synallaxis
word: Apurímac spinetail
word: Araguaia spinetail
word: Azara's spinetail
word: Bahia spinetail
word: black-throated spinetail
word: blackish-headed spinetail
word: Cabanis's spinetail
word: chestnut-throated spinetail
word: Chinchiope spinetail
word: cinereous-breasted spinetail
word: dark-breasted spinetail
word: dusky spinetail
word: great spinetail
word: grey-bellied spinetail
word: hoary-throated spinetail
word: Marañón spinetail
word: McConnell's spinetail
word: necklaced spinetail
word: ochre-cheeked spinetail
word: pale-breasted spinetail
word: Pinto's spinetail
word: plain-crowned spinetail
word: red-shouldered spinetail
word: Río Orinoco spinetail
word: ruddy spinetail
word: rufous spinetail
word: rufous-breasted spinetail
word: rufous-capped spinetail
word: russet-bellied spinetail
word: rusty-headed spinetail
word: silver-throated spinetail
word: slaty spinetail
word: sooty-fronted spinetail
word: Spix's spinetail
word: stripe-breasted spinetail
word: white-lored spinetail
word: white-whiskered spinetail
word: formerly in Synallaxis
taxonomic: Schoeniophylax phryganophilus
word: chotoy spinetail
taxonomic: Mazaria propinqua
word: white-bellied spinetail
taxonomic: Hellmayrea gularis
word: white-browed spinetail
word: Other
taxonomic: Cranioleuca vulpecula
word: Parker's spinetail
taxonomic: Leptasthenura spp.
word: tit-spinetail
taxonomic: Cranioleuca vulpecula
word: white-breasted spinetail
word: wren-spinetail
Related terms: english: occasionally a synonym of spinetail
translation: occasionally a synonym of spinetail
word: needletail
spinetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinetail
scratchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scratch + work.
Senses: synonyms: scratch coat
glosses: The first layer of plaster to be applied in plasterwork.
glosses: Rough work produced while solving a mathematical problem.
chaprassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaprassy
glosses: plural of chaprassie
pellack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellacks
Etymology: Compare Gaulish peileag.
Senses: examples: text: Did not the devil appear in the midst of the Tay, dressed in a priest's scapular, gambolling like a pellack amongst the waves
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:
glosses: A porpoise.
pellacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellack
sesquialteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɛskwɪˈaltərəl/
Etymology: From Latin sesquialter + English -al, from sesqui (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of sesquialterate, 1½ times.
synonyms: word: sesquialterate
word: 1½ times
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or related to sesquialtera, 1½ notes.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having full florets accompanied by lesser ones.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having half as many stamens as petals.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occupying a third of a wing or including a smaller band or spot in a larger one.
Synonyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: sesquialter
topics: entomology
biology
natural-sciences
word: sesquialterous
disjunctives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disjunctive
antiputrefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiputrefactive
form: most antiputrefactive
Etymology: From anti- + putrefactive.
Senses: glosses: Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
Synonyms: antiputrescent
antiputrefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiputrefactives
Etymology: From anti- + putrefactive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance preventing putrefaction.
antiputrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiputrescent
form: most antiputrescent
Etymology: From anti- + putrescent.
Senses: glosses: Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
Synonyms: antiputrefactive
triflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a triflorous peduncle
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: trifloral
triflorate
glosses: Having or bearing three flowers or blooms.
trifloral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + floral.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Triflorous.
semitertians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitertian
potshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potshares
Senses: examples: text: They hew'd their helmes , and plates asunder brake ,
As they had potshares bene ; for nought mote slake
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of potsherd.
potshard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potshards
Senses: examples: text: I have been asked about the single most important artifact that I have seen. It is a single broken piece of pottery no bigger than a couple of inches, but its interpretation makes it one of the most significant artifacts in Jewish history. It is an inscribed potshard (a fragment of pottery) from Masada (in Israel) marked with the name "ben Yair." […] While it remains a single potshard marked in ink, it is a powerful symbol of what motivates archaeologists in the field: a simple object that signifies an entire historical event.
ref: 2012, Richard A. Freund, Digging through History: Archaeology and Religion from Atlantis to the Holocaust, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of potsherd.
potshards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potshard
protodoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protodoric
form: most protodoric
Etymology: From proto- + Doric.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Of or relating to a style in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.
e-voter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-voters
Etymology: From e- + voter.
Senses: glosses: A voter who uses an e-voting system.
e-voters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-voter
Storting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Storthing
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Storting (literally “great assembly, thing”).
Senses: glosses: The supreme legislature of Norway, the Norwegian parliament.
Storthing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Storting.
pogonip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonips
Etymology: From Shoshone paγinappih (“thunder cloud”) or a related word.
Senses: glosses: An ice fog which forms in valleys in the Western United States.
princesse dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princesse dresses
form: princess dress
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
princesse dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princesse dress
kokanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokanees
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Shuswap kəknǽxʷ.
Senses: glosses: A lacustrine (that is, land-locked, found in lakes and not in the ocean) sockeye.
kokanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokanee
Sclaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sclave
pretervection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin praetervectio, from praetervehere (“to carry beyond”).
Senses: examples: 1697-1698, John Potter, Archaeologia graeca
the pretervection of the body by some place
glosses: The act of carrying past or beyond.
muck-a-muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muck-a-mucks
Senses: examples: text: With all the Washington muck-a-mucks and pretend muck-a-mucks the facility built its market niche on an array of special security services.
ref: 2002, Richard Schwartz, Into the Dark, page 110:
glosses: Alternative form of muckamuck.
muck-a-mucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muck-a-muck
strumpeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strumpet
strumpeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strumpet
high muckety-muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high muckety-mucks
Senses: examples: text: Fed up with the city’s politics, a rebellious young soldier named Alex (Christopher Egan) plans to sneak away with his secret love, Claire (Roxanne McKee), who is the daughter of the grand high muckety-muck ruler of the city.
ref: 2014 June 18, Hank Stuever, “SyFy’s ‘Dominion’: Survivng the post-apocalypse with some low-rent angels”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Synonym of high muckamuck.
synonyms: word: high muckamuck
subregionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subregional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Regionally and subregionally agreed sustainable development initiatives and programmes
ref: 2002, United Nations, Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, page 71:
glosses: By or in terms of subregions.
high muckety-mucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high muckety-muck
high muckamuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high muckamucks
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon hiyu muckamuck (“plenty of food”). Compare muckamuck.
Senses: examples: text: He would become well when he reformed his eating habits and submitted himself to the regimen prescribed by Dr. John HArvey Kellogg and the high muckamucks of health.
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 94:
glosses: A person in a position of power, authority, or status.
high muckamucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high muckamuck
pulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puler
celatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celature
sowse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
homophone: souse
Forms: form: sowses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of souse.
sowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
homophone: souse
Forms: form: sowses
form: sowsing
form: sowsed
form: sowsed
Senses: examples: text: For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
text: The Dirae sowse from heaven with swift descent.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of souse.
sowses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sowse
subarcuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + arcuate.
Senses: glosses: Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.
Synonyms: subarcuated
subarcuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + arcuated.
Senses: glosses: subarcuate
cuneated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuneated
form: most cuneated
Etymology: From cuneate + -d.
Senses: glosses: cuneate
sowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sowse
sowsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sowse
Wenona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Winona.
colporters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colporter
fracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frac
utis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of utas.
pinky swear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinky swears
Senses: synonyms: pinky promise
glosses: A promise or oath made ceremonially binding by enjoining the pinkies of two individuals
pinky swear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinky swears
form: pinky swearing
form: pinky swore
form: pinky sworn
Senses: glosses: To swear (promise) with the pinky fingers entwined.
Related terms: cross my heart and hope to die
pinky swears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinky swear
pinky swears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinky swear
pinky swearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pinky swear
pinky sweared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinky swear
pinky promise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinky promises
Senses: synonyms: pinky swear
glosses: A promise made by entwining one's pinky finger with another person's.
pinky promise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinky promises
form: pinky promising
form: pinky promised
form: pinky promised
Senses: examples: text: Most awkward moment?
When I made him pinky promise to say nice things about me in his review.
ref: 2024 August 31, “Blind date: ‘I made him pinky promise to say nice things about me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To make such a promise.
pinky promises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinky promise
pinky promises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinky promise
pinky swore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinky swear
pinky sworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of pinky swear