cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
timber-toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timber-toes
Senses: glosses: A person with a wooden artificial leg.
tagitinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagitinins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tagitinine.
tagitinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagitinin
retributionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retributionary
form: most retributionary
Etymology: From retribution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Punishment, moreover, loses all its retributionary character [...]
ref: 1877, Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham, The Congregational Quarterly, page 567:
text: It might be thought, for example, that a rehabilitation approach simply costs more in both time and money than a retributionary approach. But while retributionary approaches may be a boon to the average taxpayer, they are a bane to ...
ref: 1984, Charles F. Abel, Knute Martin, Frank H. Marsh, Punishment and Restitution: A Restitutionary Approach to Crime and the Criminal, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Of course, the 'just deserts' retributionary approach does not mean the punishment should be exactly like the crime; it means that there should be equivalencies of seriousness of punishment.
ref: 2004, Ian Marsh, John Cochrane, Gaynor Melville, Criminal Justice: An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice, Routledge, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Being or relating to retribution; retributive; retaliatory.
you got a mouse in your pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: do you have a mouse in your pocket
form: have you a mouse in your pocket
form: is there a mouse in your pocket
Etymology: From the idea of another referent included in "we," besides the speaker, being invisible.
Senses: examples: text: Your back teeth don't know what your front teeth are saying. 'We know nothing about anything.' Who's we, Connors, you got a mouse in your pocket?
ref: 1979, Rosemary Edelman, Fireworks: a novel, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Used as a response to statements starting with "we," usually indicating the speaker does not want to be involved in the interlocutor's statements.
sproutarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sproutarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of following a sproutarian diet.
easify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: easifies
form: easifying
form: easified
form: easified
Etymology: From easy + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Once again the pedagogic purpose of this “approach' appears to be to easify the pupil's access to academic discourse (or the language of schooling) and once again the belief is that “awareness raising' may afford part of the answer to doing so.
ref: 1993, Makhan Lal Tickoo, Simplification: Theory and Application, page 211:
text: The above examples easify the particular texts chosen but do not necessarily teach students how to easify for themselves.
ref: 1995, Michael John Allen, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues Yearbook, page 117:
text: Also note that the scatter matrices and distance matrices mentioned in the above steps are normalized such that the maximum value in the matrices is 1 to easify the selection of the significant Eigen vectors.
ref: 2014, Malay Kumar Kundu, Durga Prasad Mohapatra, Amit Konar, Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 1, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: To make easy.
easifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of easify
easifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of easify
easified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of easify
summer flounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer flounders
Senses: glosses: The marine flatfish Paralichthys dentatus, the fluke.
peacock flounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peacock flounders
Etymology: Its bright coloration is reminiscent of a peacock's feathers.
Senses: synonyms: flowery flounder
glosses: A flatfish of species Bothus mancus.
summer flounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer flounder
peacock flounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacock flounder
sandbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbirds
Etymology: From sand + bird.
Senses: glosses: A sandpiper.
glosses: A shorebird.
sandbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbird
mason worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mason worm
sand mason worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand mason worms
Senses: glosses: Lanice conchilega, a burrowing marine polychaete worm.
Related terms: mason worm
sand mason worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand mason worm
sand mason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand masons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sand mason worm.
synonyms: word: sand mason worm
sand masons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand mason
mevrouwen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch mevrouwen.
Senses: glosses: plural of mevrouw
sand flounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand flounders
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Paralichthyidae of flounders.
Derived terms: alt: Rhombosolea plebeia
word: New Zealand sand flounder
sand flounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand flounder
sand dart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand darts
Senses: glosses: A noctuid moth of species Agrotis ripae.
sand darts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand dart
sand saucer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand saucers
Senses: glosses: A round mass of the agglutinated egg-capsules of a naticoid gastropod, found on beaches.
sand saucers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand saucer
sand viper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand vipers
Senses: glosses: Any of various snakes:
horned viper (Vipera ammodytes)
glosses: Any of various snakes:
Sahara sand viper (Cerastes vipera)
glosses: Any of various snakes:
hognose snake (Heterodon spp.)
sand vipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand viper
sand shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand sharks
Senses: synonyms: sand tiger shark
gray nurse shark
ragged tooth shark
glosses: A mackerel shark of the family Odontaspididae.
sand sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand shark
proportioneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: proportion + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proportion
portioneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: portion + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of portion
thrust one's nose in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrusts one's nose in
form: thrusting one's nose in
form: thrust one's nose in
form: thrust one's nose in
form: thrusted one's nose in
form: thrusted one's nose in
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stick one's nose in.
synonyms: word: stick one's nose in
stumpify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stumpifies
form: stumpifying
form: stumpified
form: stumpified
Etymology: From stump + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: I sympathize in your resentment against the canonical Dons, who stumpify the heads of those good green people, beneath whose friendly shade so many of your happiest hours have glided away, — but they defy them; let them stumpify as much as they please, time will repair the mischief, — their verdant arms will again extend, and invite you to their shelter.
ref: 1861, Winthrop Sargent, The Life and Career of Major John André, page 20:
text: They are some of the finest old stumpified staring trees I ever saw, with a small waterfall, rocks of all shapes &c &c.
ref: 1939, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, The letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth:
text: This particular tree is being stumpified due to its unacceptable branching at present-- its saving grace is a tremendous trunk bole and surface roots, which is why I originally bought it.
ref: 1997 March 23, Fle...@aol.com, “Pruning Prunus”, in rec.arts.bonsai (Usenet):
text: I find ankle straps sexy as all get out, and don't think they stumpify the leg at all.
ref: 2006 June 9, Userb3, “Ankle straps unflattering?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet):
glosses: To turn into a stump.
examples: text: I did make sure my PALcode was above the required minimum but other than that, I have been stumpified.
ref: 2002 October 11, LMcC, “Trying to install OVMS 7.0 on Digital Alphaserver 1000 4/266”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet):
text: That question stumpified me.
ref: 2011, AJ Stern, Principal for the Day, →ISBN:
glosses: To baffle; to completely puzzle.
stumpified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stumpify
stumpified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stumpified
form: most stumpified
Senses: examples: text: We were both stumpified as to how to get Bark to the veterinarian.
ref: 2010, AJ Stern, Doggy Day Care, →ISBN:
glosses: Completely baffled.
stumpifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stumpify
stumpifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stumpifying
form: most stumpifying
Etymology: Compare stumped.
Senses: examples: text: This was a bit stumpifying. I did not know why something like this would happen when we both agreed about what right a fortune I gave him.
ref: 2012, AJ Stern, Miss Fortune, →ISBN:
text: However, starting with these basics can often help you determine the best strategies for solving even the most stumpifying of business reference stumpers.
ref: 2013, Celia Ross, Making Sense of Business Reference, →ISBN:
glosses: Baffling; leaving one confused with no helpful ideas.
stumpifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stumpify
self-consistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Consistency with oneself or itself, or with one's principles.
Derived terms: Novikov self-consistency principle
Related terms: self-consistent
self-consistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-consistent
form: most self-consistent
Etymology: From self- + consistent.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting self-consistency; consistent with oneself or itself, or with one's principles.
horse boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse boys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stable boy.
synonyms: word: stable boy
Related terms: horse girl
horseman
horsewoman
horse boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse boy
hop flea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop fleas
Senses: glosses: A small flea beetle, Chaetocnema concinna, very destructive to hop plantations in springtime.
hop fleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop flea
hop fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop flies
Senses: glosses: A kind of aphid that is destructive to hop plantations.
hop flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hop fly
half-suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-suits
Senses: glosses: A kind of armour worn in the 17th century, less cumbersome than full-body armour, and sometimes worn for portraiture etc. rather than combat.
half-suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-suit
half-kirtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-kirtles
Senses: glosses: A kind of jacket worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries.
half-kirtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-kirtle
upskirter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upskirters
Etymology: From upskirt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes upskirt photographs or video footage.
upskirters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upskirter
looked through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look through
looks through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look through
looking through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look through
wall spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall springs
Senses: glosses: A spring of water running between stratified rocks.
wall springs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall spring
multislotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + slotted.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one slot.
piebaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, Potatoes of this grade should find a ready sale in the South, where they may be used for such purposes as piebaking and canning.
ref: 1916, Market Growers Journal - Volumes 18-19, page 210:
text: Most strawberries for instance were packed in 30-lb. containers and in sugar for the ice cream and piebaking trade.
ref: 1943, Quick Frozen Foods and the Locker Plant - Volume 6, page 18:
text: Because the consumer is not aware of the shift to a smaller can, it would seem that the industry might advise her of the need to use more than 1 can in her piebaking.
ref: 1959, Trienah Meyers, How You Can Size Up Consumers You'll Never See, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of pie baking.
piebaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piebaking
form: most piebaking
Senses: examples: text: No one has to be an ancient to recall a piebaking mother or grandmother rolling a little cornucopia of brown paper and sticking it into the center of a fruit pie just before it went in the oven.
ref: 1974, Marcia Ray, Collectible Ceramics:
glosses: Alternative form of pie-baking.
premythological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more premythological
form: most premythological
Etymology: From pre- + mythological.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of mythology.
postmythological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postmythological
form: most postmythological
Etymology: From post- + mythological.
Senses: glosses: After the development of mythology, or the time when it was popularly believed in.
play fine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays fine
form: playing fine
form: played fine
form: played fine
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: play full
glosses: To strike the object ball near the edge.
play full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays full
form: playing full
form: played full
form: played full
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: play fine
glosses: To strike the object ball nearer to its centre than its edge.
pie baking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie bakings
form: pie-baking
form: piebaking
Etymology: From pie + baking.
Senses: examples: text: But wouldn't it be nice to add pie baking to your resume anyway?
ref: 2008, Lauren Chattman, Mom's Big Book of Baking:
text: Both adept storytellers, they frequently recount memories of the culinary and family traditions that were part of their childhoods— mass pie bakings, special-edition family cookbooks, and family parades; the experiences are varied and treasured.
ref: 2013, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Table: Recipes, →ISBN, page 54:
text: ln perusing much of what has been written about pies in the last decade or so, I'm struck by how often pie baking is transformed into something quite time-consuming, even intimidating.
ref: 2013, John Phillip Carroll, Pie Pie Pie: Easy Homemade Favorites, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: The act of baking pies.
pie bakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie baking
schiller-spars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schiller-spar
schillerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schiller + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: schiller-spar
pie-baking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie-bakings
Senses: examples: text: “It appears you have not forgotten the pies yet,” exclaimed the czar, with a burst of laughter; “but I do not clearly see the connection between pie-baking and shipbuilding."
ref: 1865, The Boys' Journal - Volumes 4-5, page 338:
text: The old lodgings are aromatic with her pie-bakings.
ref: 1913, The Christian Advocate - Volume 88, page 1726:
text: Of course, all housekeepers make enough pastry for two or three pie-bakings, don t we?
ref: 1927, Farm Journal - Volume 51, page 96:
text: Winner of three blue ribbons in the pie-baking contest and four in the cakebaking contest at the county fair.
ref: 2014, Sherryl Woods, The Calamity Janes, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pie baking.
pie-baking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pie-baking
form: most pie-baking
Senses: examples: text: One year later, writer and humorist Andrei Codrescu informed readers of Travel Holiday magazine that "going to the Ozark Mountains is like visiting your grandmother, provided your grandmother was an old-fashioned, pie-baking, herb-growing pioneer who used homemade brooms and poured ice cream from a dented churn."
ref: 2002, Brooks Blevins, Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image, →ISBN, page 271:
text: But the thing is, I don't like being compared to a pie-baking paragon who doesn't even exist, and I don't like you implying that I don't have the brains or the professionalism to assist this investigation.
ref: 2004, Erin McCarthy, Smart Mouth, →ISBN:
text: It was the seemingly total transplant of her personality from a sweet, pie-baking granny to a septuagenarian hooligan.
ref: 2014, Phyllis Bourne, Every Road To You, →ISBN:
glosses: That bakes pies.
pie-bakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie-baking
septuagenarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From septuagenarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being in one's eighth decade of life, aged between 70 and 79.
heart-stirring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart-stirring
form: most heart-stirring
Senses: glosses: Rousing the emotions; exhilarating.
grantless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grant + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a grant; not funded by a grant of money.
personal exception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A ground of objection that applies to an individual and prevents them from doing something which, except for their conduct or situation, they would be allowed to do.
personal service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The delivery of a message or an order into a person's hands, as distinguished from delivery in any other indirect way.
personal transaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal transactions
Senses: glosses: Something done by a person's own efforts, not through the agency of another.
personal transactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal transaction
cloudform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudforms
Etymology: From cloud + form.
Senses: examples: text: This article which was a sketchy summary of my investigations, contains also the laws of the motions of the lower cloudforms, such as cumulus, cumulo-stratus, conus.
ref: 1877, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:
text: These observations comprise four regular observations daily on the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and other instruments, giving the pressure,. temperature, humidity, cloudiness, cloudform, direction, and force of the wind, and the rainfall.
ref: 1880, Legislative Documents Submitted to the General Assembly of the State:
text: The next five plates depict our commonest and, in its infinite variety, most beautiful cloudform, the cumulus.
ref: 1939, Tanganyika Notes and Records - Issues 7-12, page 126:
glosses: The type or shape of a cloud.
examples: text: The flyer or gliding pilot knows well the rising air current under cumulus bursts; their flat bottoms show the exact cold-air level at which condensation into cloudform took place.
ref: 1943, The Pegasus - Volumes 1-4, page 237:
text: Halos are caused by light shining through ice cloudform, usually marking the advance of a warm front — with rain.
ref: 1944, The Popular Science Monthly - Volume 145, page 216:
text: Over five miles up, all cloudform is cirrus in type, being composed of ice.
ref: 2006, Eric Sloane, Eric Sloane's Book of Storms: Hurricanes, Twisters and Squalls, →ISBN:
text: The other was truly alien, a sentient cloudform, an intelligent grouping of tangible electrons.
ref: 2010, Paul Williams, The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon - Volume 3, page 104:
glosses: A collection of particles condensed into a cloud.
examples: text: A sober breadth of treatment and massive dignity of cloudform distinguish “ Evening,” by Mr. J. Olsson, who seems never unmindful of the great importance of the sky in a picture, as too many painters often are.
ref: 1894, Marion Harry Spielmann, The Magazine of Art ... - Volume 17, page 95:
text: To left and right is cloudform or ribbon which the Persian artists derived from the Chinese.
ref: 1923, Country Life - Volume 54:
text: Yet, a satisfyingly few artists want to give their own interpretation of cloudform while there is such a challenge to reproduce clouds as they already exist.
ref: 1956, Ernest William Watson, Arthur Leighton Guptill, American Artist, page 52:
glosses: A depiction of a cloud or something resembling a cloud.
cloudforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudform
at short sight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: bills at short sight
topics: business
finance
glosses: (payable) soon after being presented
Related terms: short sight
poking-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poking-sticks
Senses: glosses: A small metal rod that was heated and used to adjust the plaits of ruffs on clothing.
Related terms: better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
more than one can poke a stick at
poking-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poking-stick
desalinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desalination
semireflex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + reflex.
Senses: examples: text: Sniffing is a semireflex response to a new smell.
glosses: Of an action: performed involuntarily, but not entirely independent of the will.
semi-Tychonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + Tychonic.
Senses: glosses: Approximating the Tychonic system of astronomy.
semisupernatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + supernatural.
Senses: glosses: Half or partly supernatural.
semisupinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + supinated.
Senses: glosses: In a position between supination and pronation.
Related terms: semisupination
semisupervision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + supervision.
Senses: glosses: A limited amount of supervision.
semipiscine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + piscine.
Senses: glosses: Half fish in form.
Related terms: merman
mermaid
semiplantigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + plantigrade.
Senses: glosses: Incompletely plantigrade; partly digitigrade.
semidependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: Partially dependent.
semidependent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidependents
Etymology: From semi- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: One who is partially dependent on another.
semidependents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semidependent
semidependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + dependence.
Senses: glosses: Partial dependence; the condition of being semidependent.
semimenstrual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + menstrual.
Senses: glosses: half-monthly
road locomotive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road locomotives
Senses: glosses: Synonym of road steamer.
synonyms: word: road steamer
glosses: Synonym of traction engine.
synonyms: word: traction engine
road locomotives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road locomotive
swan hopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swan hoppers
Etymology: By corruption.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swan upper.
swan hoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swan hopper
swan neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swan necks
Senses: glosses: The end of a pipe, etc., curved like a swan's neck.
Derived terms: swan neck deformity
swan-necked
swan necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swan neck
swan-dived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swan-dive
swan-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swan-dive
shank-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shank-irons
Senses: qualifier: shoemaking
glosses: A shaping tool for the shanks of a shoe.
glosses: A metal plate inserted as a stiffening between the leather parts of a shank.
shank-irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shank-iron
mission school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mission schools
Senses: glosses: A school for religious, and sometimes also secular, education for the poor, funded by charitable donations.
glosses: A school conducted by a missionary abroad.
mission schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mission school
ill turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill turns
Senses: synonyms: bad turn
evil turn
antonyms: good turn
glosses: An act of unkindness or enmity; a bad deed; an evil turn.
glosses: A change for the worse.
ill turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ill turn
evil turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evil turns
Senses: synonyms: bad turn
ill turn
antonyms: good turn
glosses: An act of unkindness or enmity; a bad deed.
evil turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evil turn
rushbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushbearings
form: rush-bearing
Etymology: From rush + bearing.
Senses: glosses: A rural festival when the parish church was strewn with rushes, between haymaking and harvest.
rushbearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushbearing
spreagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreaghs
form: spreath
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic sprèidh (“cattle”).
Senses: glosses: Plunder, especially cattle taken as booty.
Derived terms: spreaghery
spreaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreagh
latitude by account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latitudes by account
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The latitude calculated from the course and distance sailed since the previous observation.
latitudes by account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latitude by account
is there a mouse in your pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you got a mouse in your pocket.
Second Adventist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Second Adventists
Senses: topics: Christianity
hyponyms: premillennial
glosses: One who lives in expectation of a second coming of Christ to establish a personal kingdom on earth.
Second Adventists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Second Adventist
taroc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarocs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of tarot.
tarocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taroc
ground ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anchor ice.
synonyms: word: anchor ice
tramp-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramp-picks
Senses: glosses: A kind of pick forced by the foot into the ground.
tramp-picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramp-pick
telecobaltotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cobalt therapy as a teletherapy
Ellisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ellisian
form: most Ellisian
Etymology: From Ellis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Albert Ellis (1913–2007), American psychologist.
elliptopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptope
terfinadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terfenadine.
terpenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terpenomes
Etymology: From terpene + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: All the terpenoids present in an organism
terpenomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terpenome
wall tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall towers
Senses: glosses: A tower built into and forming part of a line of fortification or a fortified city wall.
wall towers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall tower
thrombelastograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombelastographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thromboelastograph.
thrombelastographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombelastograph
thrombelastometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thromboelastometry.
walls of sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall of sound
walls of shame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall of shame
thrombohemorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thrombo- + hemorrhagic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to thrombosis and hemorrhage
stone brash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone brashes
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A soil made up of finely broken rock.
stone brashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone brash
thymineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thymine + -less.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lacking thymine.
Related terms: thymidineless
St-Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint-Louis.
St.-Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint-Louis.
St. Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈluː.ɪs/
rhymes: -uːɪs
homophone: St. Lewis
homophone: Saint Louis
Etymology: The community in Prince Edward Island is named after Louis IX (1214 - 1270).
Senses: examples: text: After years of debate, hundreds of United Methodists from all over the world gathered in St. Louis last week to settle the denomination’s stance on LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings.
ref: 2019 March 3, Dakin Andone, “Fractured after vote against LGBT clergy, weddings, United Methodists face possible split”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint Louis.
glosses: A community and rural municipality of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Derived terms: East St. Louis
wonderworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wonder + working.
Senses: glosses: The performance of wonders, marvels, or miracles.
wonderworking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wonder + working.
Senses: glosses: Performing wonders, marvels, or miracles.
tomopterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomopterids
Senses: glosses: Any planktonic polychaete of the family Tomopteridae.
tomopterids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomopterid
St Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint Louis.
triptonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An isomer of triptolide
triptriolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triptolide.
IHDK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I honestly don't know.
signorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more signorial
form: most signorial
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seigneurial.
St Louis County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Louis County
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint Louis County.
ultrafreezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrafreezers
Etymology: From ultra- + freezer.
Senses: glosses: A freezer that operates at a very low temperature
ultrafreezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrafreezer
max facs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mæks fæks/
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Maxillofacial.
Related terms: nec fasc
vas cath
ultrasedimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + sedimentation.
Senses: glosses: sedimentation by means of an ultracentrifuge
urogynecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urogynecological.
vasomotility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaso- + motility.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vasomotion.
synonyms: word: vasomotion
vernodalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An antibacterial lactone present in plants of genus Vernonia.
Red Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A depiction of a red star, often used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.
examples: text: Red Star over Europe: The Bolsheviks seized power firmly convinced that socialist revolution was imminent in advanced western countries. These, they believed, would come to the aid of backward Russia.
Red Star over Asia: As the prospects of revolution dimmed in the west, Lenin looked eastwards to the backward countries colonised by the great powers. Here the struggle for independence might be combined with the fight for socialism.
ref: 1978, Geoffrey Barraclough, editor, The Times Atlas of World History, page 258:
glosses: Socialism or communism itself.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Red Star Belgrade (a professional football club from Belgrade, Serbia)
Related terms: hammer and sickle
VIPergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From VIP + -ergic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Activated by vasoactive intestinal peptide
viscerofugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viscero- + -fugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That radiate from the viscera
vitivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitiviruses
Senses: glosses: Any virus of the genus Vitivirus.
vitiviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitivirus
volvocacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volvocaceans
Senses: glosses: Any biflagellate of the family Volvocaceae
volvocaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volvocacean
vulnibactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A siderophore, related to salicylic acid, present in the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus
behind every successful man there stands a woman
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛə ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/
ipa: /bə-/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd ˌɛvɹi səkˈsɛsfl̩ ˈmæn ðɛɚ ˈstændz ə ˈwʊmən/
Senses: synonyms: behind every great man is a great woman
behind every great man there stands a woman
glosses: A man’s achievements are made possible by the support and work of their wife or female partner.
Related terms: one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
behind every great man there stands a woman
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of behind every successful man there stands a woman (“men's success often depends on the support and work of their wives or female partners”).
synonyms: word: behind every successful man there stands a woman
extra: men's success often depends on the support and work of their wives or female partners
Lithuanianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lithuanianize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The Lithuanianization affected commercial enterprises and rapidly developing cooperatives.
ref: 2005, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe:
text: Another provision of the Lithuanianization program was aimed at Jewish enrollment in universities.
ref: 2008, Karen Sutton, The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania: Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941-1944, Gefen Books, →ISBN:
text: The Lithuanianization of the cities accelerated dramatically upon the establishment of independence in 1918.
ref: 2014, Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The act or process of Lithuanianizing.
Vectensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This probability is strengthened by the enthusiastic praises Wilkes always bestowed on the native charms of the lower class of Vectensian females; and in his hours of levity with the companions of his gallantries, he always distinguished it by the name of Cyprus.
ref: 1800, The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, page 379:
text: Of a similar type, but dealing with a less cultivated, less fertile field, is the anthology of Vectensian verse, Poets of the Wight, compiled by Charles J. Arnell.
ref: 1969, Poetry Review, page 56:
text: Equally satisfying to the connoisseur is the poem Cupid and Euphrospie by Percy Goddard Stone, a Vectensian poet whose work never really made it on the mainland.
ref: 1988, Nicholas Parsons, The Joy of Bad Verse, HarperCollins:
glosses: of or from the Isle of Wight.
Vectensian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vectensians
Senses: examples: text: I have never been able to appreciate nor to understand why it is that Vectensians are constantly challenged to explain why they live in the Isle of Wight at all.
ref: 1914, John Morgan Richards, Almost Fairyland, personal notes concerning the Isle of Wight:
text: In reality, a readily agreed confederation seems the most likely course for Vectensians in AD 43.
ref: 2007, Mark Gardiner, “The” Archaeological Journal, →ISBN, page 13:
text: The Isle of Wight had been a winter port for Danish and Norse ships off and on for a century or more, and during this decade the Vectensians had begun to welcome visits by such ships.
ref: 2019, Skye Smith, Knut - Forkbeard's Peace: Novel Four of the Knut Series by Skye Smith, Skye Smith, →ISBN:
glosses: someone from the Isle of Wight
Joe Blow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Joe Bloggs.
synonyms: word: Joe Bloggs
Quintinshill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A remote location near Gretna Green, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY3269).
Buddhaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Buddha + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Buddhahood
engrainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engrainers
Senses: examples: text: He introduced himself to the owner as a first-rate painter and engrainer, and offered to turn this door into a mahogany, walnut, oak, or what-not door.
ref: 1868, Charles Reade, It's never too late to mend, page 296:
glosses: Alternative form of ingrainer.
engrainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engrainer
ingrainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingrainers
form: engrainer
Etymology: From ingrain + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ingrains.
ingrainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingrainer
Little Master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little Masters
Etymology: Calque of German Kleinmeister
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Any of a group of German printmakers who produced finely detailed miniature prints in the first half of the 16th century.
Little Masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Little Master
Belgian hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgian hares
Etymology: Its precursors were bred in Belgium in the early 18th century.
Senses: glosses: A fancy breed of domestic rabbit (not a true hare) that has been selectively bred to resemble the wild hare, with a slender wiry frame and long powerful legs.
Belgian hares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgian hare
fashionmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The following complaint, borrowed from the same writer, while it establishes the early fashionmongering of the French, will appear very singular to our modish contemporaries.
ref: 1823, Leigh Hunt, The Literary Examiner:
glosses: Slavish following of the latest fashions.
fashionmongering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Slavishly following the latest fashions.
Related terms: fashionmonger
weather box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather boxes
Senses: examples: text: Like the toy figure in a weather box, Maria popped from the swinging door.
ref: 1982, Ann Shively, Whirlwind, page 53:
glosses: Synonym of weather house (“mechanical device to indicate atmospheric conditions”).
synonyms: word: weather house
extra: mechanical device to indicate atmospheric conditions
weather boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather box
Big Thicket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A forested area of southeast Texas, between Beaumont and Nacogdoches.
marudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marudis
Senses: glosses: A large, tree-dwelling bird, of the genus Penelope, native to Guyana
marudis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marudi
blown it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow it
blowing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow it
blows it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow it
Australianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Australian + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed, the Review reported, that the Foreign Investment Review Board would approve the terms and timetable of any Australianisation proposals.
ref: 1979, Susan Bambrick, Australian Minerals and Energy Policy:
text: This Australianisation of natural resource ownership is forcing the other companies to dilute their majority holdings and earlier this year CRA announced that it would move towards reducing its foreign ownership to less than 50 per cent.
ref: 1979, Investors Chronicle:
text: However, design adaptation to meet the Australian Navy's unique requirements and political pressures to increase local content have resulted in considerable Australianisation of original designs.
ref: 2009, Stefan Markowski, Peter Hall, Robert Wylie, Defence Procurement and Industry Policy: A small country perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: the act or process of Australianising
inachievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inachievable
form: most inachievable
Senses: examples: text: It is clear that this type of evidence should be allowed; not only to support the exact testimony of Carl Wille concerning these facts which were allowed into evidence, but also to affirmatively prove to the Administrative Law Judge and to the Board that the purpose for which this information was requested by the Union was inachievable because the secondary records are not available or are not in existence.
ref: 1977, Joseph W. Weigel, “THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE ERRED IN NOT ADMITTING RELEVANT EVIDENCE AS TO THE PRACTICES OF THE INDUSTRY”, in National Labor Relations Board V. Custom Excavating, Inc., Milwaukee: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, page 30:
glosses: unachievable
Israelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Israelises
form: Israelising
form: Israelised
form: Israelised
Etymology: From Israel + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: For a number of years, it has been evident that the Israeli government has intensified its efforts to Judaise and Israelise Jerusalem.
ref: 1997, Naim Ateek, Cedar Duaybis, Marla Schrader, Jerusalem: What Makes for Peace! : a Palestinian Christian Contribution to Peacemaking, →ISBN:
text: ... defended it against Arab accusations, told the Israeli foreign ministry that 'if the Israeli Government went on like this even her friends would have to believe that she was trying to get rid of the Arab population on the West Bank in order to Israelise it'.
ref: 2012, Jeremy Bowen, Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Opposition has come from inside the Arab community: Jamal Zahalka, then a Balad Party MK, warned at the time that national service was a stepping stone towards imposing the army draft: 'They are trying to Israelise our youth', he said
ref: 2014, Benjamin Pogrund, Drawing Fire: Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Alternative form of Israelize.
Jamaicanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Jamaicanizes
form: Jamaicanizing
form: Jamaicanized
form: Jamaicanized
Etymology: From Jamaican + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Barclays Bank is the fourth foreign owned bank to Jamaicanize its operations.
ref: 1973, Caribbean and Central American Letter:
text: And then I decided it was time for me to come home and to bring all that experience and to Jamaicanize it and I said if I come home I really want to promote art.
ref: 2001, Cari Lee Borja, Jamaican Art Worlds: Encounters, Transformations and Metamorphoses:
text: Today, Jamaican is spoken by about five million people, who manage to preserve it thanks to their ability to Jamaicanize English words and a positive attitude towards neologisms.
ref: 2017, Roberto Masone, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Dismantling of the English Norm, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: to make Jamaican.
Jamaicanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jamaican + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: This is perhaps implied by his statement: Government's programme of Jamaicanization of business operations in the country is moving ahead, and soon every Canadian bank operating in the island will have gone Jamaican
ref: 1990, G. E. Mills, A Reader in Public Policy and Administration:
text: Jamaicanization, though, did not mean nationalization.
ref: 1994, Pablo Tomas Spiller, Ingo Vogelsang, Regulation, Institutions, and Commitment, World Bank Publications, page 12:
text: Since independence in 1962, the trend has been towards the Jamaicanization of education. This is evidenced by the Jamaicanization of the administration of education, both at the national and institutional level, of the teaching profession at all levels, of syllabi and curricula, and the Jamaicanization and Caribbeanization of examinations.
ref: 2018, Colin Brock, Donald Clarkson, Education in Central America and the Caribbean, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: the act or process of Jamaicanizing.