cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skew-wiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skew-wiff
form: most skew-wiff
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skew wiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skew wiff
form: most skew wiff
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skew wift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skew wift
form: most skew wift
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skew-wift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skew-wift
form: most skew-wift
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skewquieff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skewquieff
form: most skewquieff
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skeow-wheef
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skeow-wheef
form: most skeow-wheef
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
skeow wheef
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skeow wheef
form: most skeow wheef
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
VTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VTEs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of venous thromboembolism.
angioCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angioCTs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of angio-CT.
MDCTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MDCTAs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: MDCT
CTA
glosses: Initialism of multidetector computed tomography angiography.
letterlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From letter + locking; coined in 2009 by researcher Jana Dambrogio.
Senses: glosses: The securing of a letter without an envelope, by folding and cutting so that portions of the paper can be interlocked.
letterplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterplace
MDCTAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MDCTA
flaming sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaming swords
Senses: examples: text: He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumined Hell.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost:
text: The dexter figure has five stars round the verge of his head, and a flaming sword in the left hand. The sinister figure has the same flaming sword coupled with a branch of olive.
ref: 1861 March 2, Patonce, Notes and Queries (2), volume 11, number 270, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, Queries, page 172:
text: A pair of scales are also used as a single symbol, excepting the flaming sword mentioned by your correspondent Mr. Vincent, to typify the Archangel Michael, in the same way that the white lily denotes the Archangel Gabriel. He is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the good and bad actions which the man had accomplished during his stay on earth.
ref: 1866 March 3, Rhodokanakis, “Saint Michael”, in Notes and Queries (3), volume 9, number 218, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, pages 181–182:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A metal sword wreathed in or emitting flames, appearing as a symbol or supernatural weapon in many mythologies.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sword with a blade composed of supernaturally solidified flames, appearing as a symbol or weapon in many mythologies.
glosses: The flowering plants Lutheria splendens (syn. Vriesea splendens), Vriesea flammea, and other species, especially in the tribe Vrieseeae, with similar blooms.
examples: text: Ancient swords were frequently “flamboyant,” or with waved edges; more especially those used for purposes of state. The Dukes of Burgundy bore a two-handed sword of this form. Indeed, “flaming swords,” as they were called, were worn down to the times of our Charles II., and perhaps later.
ref: 1851 April 12, William John Bernhard-Smith, Notes and Queries (1), volume 3, number 76, London: Bell & Daldy, →ISSN, Replies to Minor Queries, page 292:
glosses: A sword with a blade forged in an undulating pattern; a flame-bladed sword. Also characterized as a wavy blade or a serpentine blade.
Related terms: Newton's flaming laser sword
kris
a type of dagger
short sword customarily made with a flaming
wavy style of blade
flaming swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaming sword
arencha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of aren’t you.
Kweiyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwāʹyängʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 貴陽／贵阳 (Guìyáng).
Senses: examples: text: To the south, the original road from Chungking to Kweiyang in Kweichow has been supplemented by a second one between Luchow (a Yangtze port above Chungking) and Kunming in Yunnan.
ref: 1943, Hubert Freyn, “Szechwan and Sikang”, in Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 157:
text: Up every pass, through every ancient trail, for weeks and months, the Chinese had been trekking to the shelter of their government on the far side of the barrier. But now, of all the passes, none was more crowded than the great cleft which led two hundred and sixty miles from Liuchow, in Kwangsi, up to Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichou.
ref: 1958, Theodore H. White, The Mountain Road, New York: William Sloane Associates, page 14:
text: In mid-November, the Japanese began to advance westward toward Kweiyang, Kunming, and Chungking. To stop this new and serious threat, General Wedemeyer requested General Sultan to transfer to him two of the American-trained and -equipped Chinese divisions advancing in Burma. These were promptly shipped north to China by air. Additional reinforcements were gathered from other parts of the front in China. These forces, strongly supported by the Fourteenth Air Force, counterattacked east at Kweiyang. This unexpectedly strong opposition finally stopped the Japanese advance.
ref: 1963, Trevor Nevitt Dupy, Asiatic Land Battles: Allied Victories in China and Burma, New York: Franklin Watts, Linc., page 44:
text: Another poster which appeared in Kweiyang City in southern China March 25, says that Kweichow Province has become a “world of coupons.”
ref: 1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3:
glosses: Dated form of Guiyang.
overcompliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcompliant
form: most overcompliant
Etymology: From over- + compliant.
Senses: glosses: Excessively compliant.
phums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phum
jumbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbi
traderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradership
neoechinulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoechinulin
reëstablished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reëstablish
Liuchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 柳州 (Liǔzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: After three days the boat brought us to Liuchow, the end of waterway traffic. From there on, it was train and truck travel. With rails salvaged ahead of the Japanese advances into North China a new line had been laid from Liuchow more than two hundred miles in the direction of Chungking.
ref: 1945, Mark Tennien, “Wuchow to Chungking”, in Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., page 6:
text: During this summer of 1944 the Japanese pushed on with dogged purpose. They were coming toward the American air bases at Liuchow and Kweilin. Should they get that far, the whole American combat air effort in China would be marked down to little. From there, the Japanese troops would be able, unless Chinese forces not then in sight were brought against them, to press on either to Kunming or Chungking or both.
ref: 1953, Herbert Feis, The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission, Princeton University Press, page 166:
text: With sympathy and support, Chang decided to receive and train the Vietnamese revolutionists. He first received a unit of the Phu Quoc army led by Hoang Luong and Nong Kinh Du. The French authorities asked Chang to return the men. Chang rejected the request and later set up a Vietnam Special Training Class in Liuchow for them. Then he sent Truong Boi Cong to Chinghsi (about 600 miles from Liuchow and 65 miles from Vietnam) to organize a border work team for enlisting other political refugees.
ref: 1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Dated form of Liuzhou.
Liuchow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: HAINAN, an island of Kwangtung Province, China, situated in the South China Sea due s. of the Liuchow peninsula. Hainan Strait, about 15 m. in width, separates the peninsula from the island, which adjoins the Gulf of Tonkin on the E.
ref: 1955, “HAINAN”, in The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, volume 11, Funk & Wagnalls Unicorn Yearbook Service, →OCLC, page 4104:
glosses: Misspelling of Luichow.
aposthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aposthia.
tuboid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tube + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or taking the form of a tube.
culminativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of having one main stress per word.
Related terms: culminative
Guiping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwāʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: Kuei-p'ing
form: Kweiping
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 桂平 (Guìpíng).
Senses: examples: text: There was a battle at Kueiping just before the ladies came down. The buildings were hit but no one was hurt. Fighting is still going on in various places along the West River.
ref: [2010, Bernice A. Verbyla, “News from Kwangsi”, in Aunt Mae's China: This is the Story of Beatrice Mae Tonkin, Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132:
text: Once their boat reached Tai Hong Kwong, a village alongside a sharp bend in the Pearl River north of Kweiping (Guiping), Ka Yik led his American friends down the muddy, narrow streets to a shop belonging to his father.
ref: 2016, Bill Lascher, “"Why Should I Contribute a Little More Trash?"”, in Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific, 1st edition, William Morrow, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
text: An officer with the Guiping city traffic police said six vehicles were covered in mud and rocks, but it wasn’t clear how many people were inside them.
ref: 2013 August 19, “Death toll from weekend flooding, landslides passes 100”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2013, China:
text: In Guangxi, two cities -- Guiping and Beiliu -- both said students would not be allowed to go to school unless both of their parents were fully vaccinated. After vocal opposition on social media, the notices were deleted although it is unclear if the restrictions will still apply.
ref: 2021 July 15, Ben Westcott, “Unvaccinated people in parts of China to be denied access to hospitals, parks and schools”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2021:
glosses: A county-level city of the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
sandbeaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbeach
Harroun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harrouns
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic هَارُون (hārūn), a male given name.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Hakanson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hakansons
Etymology: Variant of Hakansson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish [in turn from Old Norse].
Hakansons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hakanson
Harrouns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harroun
tender-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.
ref: 1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:
text: For the first time known in over 10 years, a Stanier Pacific travelled the Windermere branch on June 23, when 46255 (12A) was seen at Aikrigg on an early afternoon local; it had to return tender-first as the Windermere turntable could not accommodate it.
ref: 1962 August, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Central Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 136:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of a steam locomotive with a tender (a tender locomotive), when it is operating in reverse, with the tender leading.
Garants
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garant
scuffle hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scuffle hunters
Senses: examples: text: Those (who are distinguished by the nick-name of Scuffle-hunters) prowl about the wharfs […], under pretence of asking employment: but their chief object is to pillage and plunder whatever comes in their way.
ref: 1796, Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis:
text: Scuffle-hunters were also found as an addition to the thousand or so warehouse labourers storing and dispatching goods from the port to their destination.
ref: 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 221:
glosses: A type of porter or manual labourer formerly employed at a port.
scuffle hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuffle hunter
Figley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Figleys
Etymology: Altered form of German Fiegle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Livas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Livases
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Catalan Livas. It can be also from Greek Λίβας (Lívas).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Livases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Livas
D dimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: D dimers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of D-dimer.
Figleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Figley
D-dimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D-dimer
Siangtan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: sē-ängʹtänʹ
shē-ängʹtänʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 湘潭 (Xiāngtán).
Senses: examples: text: Steam navigation is in its infancy: four small 600-ton steamers ply between Hankow, Changsha, and Siangtan; and there are also perhaps a score of launches plying in and out of the province.
ref: 1907, Mark Tennien, edited by Marshall Broomhall, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, London: Morgan & Scott, page 169:
text: After returning from the long walk which was about ten miles, I had a note from Les Walker asking me to go riding, so after a short snooze I went with him out the wide military road toward Siangtan. I don’t know how far we went but it was great fun and a good evening.
ref: 1926 April 27, “April 27, 1926 - Changsha”, in Healing, Romance & Revolution, →ISBN, page 245:
text: A small force was dispatched towards the city of Siangtan with instructions to circle around the hills and join the main body, which, on the night of November 30, crossed the river on a pontoon bridge and marched westward to Yiyang. Their simple ruse had sent the imperialists scurrying along the east bank to Siangtan, thus permitting the rebels to escape without molestation. They had beleaguered Changsha since the tenth of September.
ref: 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale History Press, →OCLC, page 78:
text: In Hunan, the cities of Changsha, Chuchow, Siangtan, and Hengyang, located on the Hankow-Canton railroad or one of its major spurs, form a growing industrial district. Changsha is important in the processing of nonferrous metals, including antimony, lead and silver, and has long been noted for its handicrafts including embroidery and porcelain. Since 1949, Siangtan has become an industrial center, producing electrical goods, wire, machine tools, cement and chemicals. A cotton textile plant is also found in the city.
ref: 1962, E. Willard Miller, A Geography of Manufacturing, Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 245:
glosses: Dated form of Xiangtan.
Zhuzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuːˈd͡ʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈdʒuˈdʒoʊ/
ipa: /ˈdʒüˈdʒoʊ/
enpr: ˈjü-ˈjō
enpr: jo͞oʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Chuchow
form: Chu-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 株洲 (Zhūzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: A June 27 Hsinhua report tells how 8,000 young people have been successfully "settled" and "re-educated" on the outskirts of Chuchou, a city in Hunan province. Success was achieved in this task because "the Chuchou municipal committee of the Chinese Communist party raised its consciousness of the struggle between the two lines during the great movement to criticize Lin Piao and rectify the style of work."
ref: [1974 August 5, Peter Green, “The Big-Character Posters on the Walls of China”, in Intercontinental Press, volume 12, number 30, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1075, columns 2, 3:
text: In the 1960s it was reported that Chinese uranium ore was only partly processed at the Chuchou Uranium Processing Plant in Hunan Province and was then sent to Czechoslovakia for further concentration.
ref: [1978, Doing Business with the People's Republic of China: Industries and Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280:
text: In Hunan Province, a spill occurred Jan. 4 in the industrial city of Zhuzhou after workers cleaning up a wastewater ditch mistakenly diverted the sewage water into the nearby Xiangjiang River.
ref: 2006 January 12, Jim Yardley, “China Chemical Spills Spur Plan to Guard Water Supply”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: In May, authorities in China’s southern Hunan province detained Chen after he made a posting on social media commemorating the crackdown. He described being harassed by state security police over the years during “sensitive periods” around the anniversary date.
The rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said he was believed to have been held in a detention center in Zhuzhou, in Hunan, shortly after.
ref: 2023 September 22, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “A Chinese dissident in transit at a Taiwan airport pleads for help in seeking asylum”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023, World News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Koetter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koetters
Etymology: Occupational surname, borrowed from German Kötter (“tenant, cotter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mally
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mallys
Etymology: Variant of Malley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mallys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mally
Koetters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Koetter
Lafitte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lafittes
form: Laffitte
form: Laffite
form: Lafite
Etymology: Borrowed from French Lafitte.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Derived terms: Jean Lafitte
Kubeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kubes
Lafittes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lafitte
Keady
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keadys
form: Keedy
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Céadaigh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
glosses: A community in Georgian Bluffs township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
Kaeser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaesers
Etymology: Occupational surname, borrowed from German Käser (“maker or seller of cheese”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kaesers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaeser
Keadys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keady
Nantung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng).
Senses: examples: text: NANKING, Feb. 15 (PTI-Reuter): Chinese Government forces have evacuated the Nantung, Haimen and Chitung districts, north of the Yangtse River, stretching from 60 miles northwest to within 40 miles north of Shanghai, according to reports reaching here from Chinkiang.
Communists forces now control the north bank of the Yangtse at the river mouth and the northern part of two channels leading to the sea.
ref: 1949 February 16, “Govt. Forces Evacuate 3 Districts”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 7:
text: Between 1914 and 1918 the number of spindles in Chinese-owned cotton mills increased from 160,000 to 216,000 in Shanghai, from 45,000 to 59,000 in Wusih, and from 40,000 to 61,000 in Nantung; the number of Chinese-owned tobacco factories in Shanghai rose from two to nine, and of reeling machines in the Shanghai silk factories from 14,000 to 18,000.
ref: 1968, Jean Chesneaux, translated by H. M. Wright, The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927, Stanford University Press, page 9:
text: After liberation the informal groups survived especially in Kiangsu, Chekiang, and Fukien, where the number of lay devotees had been largest. About most of them we know only their names, which indicate that their purpose was usually Pure Land practice. About one we know somewhat more. This was the Mu-kuang Lotus Society in Nantung, Kiangsu. Its seventy-six members got together to recite buddha's name once a month; and on other occasions to celebrate Pure Land festivals.
ref: 1972, Holmes Welch, Buddhism under Mao, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 315:
glosses: Dated form of Nantong.
Fleurys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fleury
Tubbses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tubbs
Andreses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Andres
Bucknall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bucknall and Waddingworth with Tupholme Parish Council) in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1668).
glosses: A suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, north-east of the city centre (OS grid ref SJ9047).
Related terms: Bucknell
Haiphong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪfɒŋ/
ipa: /ˌhaɪˈfɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪˌfɒŋ/
Forms: form: Hai Phong
form: Hải Phòng
Etymology: From Vietnamese Hải Phòng.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the arms and supplies used by North Vietnam's armies entered the country through the port of Haiphong, with lesser amounts entering through the smaller ports of Cam Pha and Hong Gai.
ref: 1999, John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: A city in Vietnam.
Hai Phong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haiphong.
'terp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'terps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terp (“interpreter”).
'terps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'terp
Tunhuang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng); Wade–Giles romanization: Tun¹-huang².
Senses: examples: text: For years Chinese garrisons held points in what is now Western Kansu. Modern archeology has shown that the frontier wall built west of Tunhuang toward the close of the second century B.C. was held by Chinese garrisons until the middle of the second century A.D. It was only when the increasing impotence of the Han monarchs made it difficult to maintain order even at home that these were withdrawn.
ref: 1934, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Chinese: Their History and Culture, volume 1, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 128:
text: At Lungmen in northern Honan, where Buddhist sculpture of the T'ang period is found side by side with the earlier work of the Northern Wei, at Tunhuang in western Kansu, where the explorations of Stein and Pelliot have brought to light a wonderful collection of sculpture and painting dating from the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries, and at various other points in the empire the artists of T'ang China have left behind them convincing evidence of noble religious inspiration coupled with a high degree of technical proficiency.
ref: 1944, G. Nye Steiger, A History of the Far East, Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 115:
text: In 1900, Sir Aurel Stein led his first Central Asian expedition, conducting extensive excavations in the Khotan oasis. This same indefatigable explorer conducted another memorable journey over Central Asia in 1906-09, which ended with his investigation of the Thousand Buddha Caves at Tunhuang. Stein in his last expedition to Innermost Asia, as he titled his report of this mission, conducted further excavations in the Turfan and Loulan area from 1913 to 1915.
ref: 1974, Benjamin Rowland, The Art of Central Asia, Crown Publishers, Inc., page 23:
text: The great Chinese Silk Route connected India with central Asia, West Asia, and Europe. This route stretched some 4,350 miles from Loyang on the Yellow river (also known as the Huang He) in China to Ctesiphon on the Tigris river in West Asia. From Loyang it went on to Ch'ang^([sic – meaning Ch'ang-an]) and Tunhuang, near the source of the Yellow river.
ref: 2016, Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Pearson India, →ISBN, page 409:
text: One of the earliest surviving papers from Tunhuang that exhibits this dyeing is a 26-feet long roll providing a commentary on the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra.
ref: 2021 June 5, Martin Paul Eve, “When and why did paper become white and why was white paper so valued?”, in Martin Paul Eve, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2021, Blog:
glosses: Alternative form of Dunhuang.
B'way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Syncopic form of Broadway.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Broadway.
Nan'ao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹouʹ
Forms: form: Nan-ao
form: Namoa
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南澳 (Nán'ào).
Senses: examples: text: The force composition of the two PLA concentrations—on the Dongshan-Nan'ao Islands area at the southern end of the Strait and Haitan Island at the northern end-reflected their assigned missions dealing with achievement of air and sea superiority and amphibious assault.
ref: 1997, John W. Garver, “The Confrontation”, in Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 99–100:
glosses: A county of Shantou, Guangdong, China.
Greatford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0811).
Shanahans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shanahan
Newband
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Luntai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: Lun-t'ai
Etymology: From the Mandarin 輪臺 /輪台 /轮台 (Lúntái).
Senses: examples: text: In many cases, the Postal Guide gives the Chinese name alone. This applies to most small places, and it is not always easy to identify Chinese post offices with Turki villages ; e.g. are Luntai (east of Kucha) and Shanshan (east of Turfan), as shown in the somewhat diagrammatic Postal Atlas of China, identical with the Bugur and Pichan of the Survey of India maps?
ref: 1925 March, J. H. Reynolds, “Place-names in Sinkiang”, in The Geographical Journal, volume LXV, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 242:
text: In September, state media said police shot dead 40 rioters, some of whom were seeking to blow themselves up, after explosions went off in Luntai county.
ref: 2014 October 12, Michael Martina, “Policewoman killed in China's Xinjiang - state media”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 May 2022, World News:
glosses: A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Macklin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macklins
Etymology: Unexplained. It could be a variant of McLean.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Rural Municipality of Eye Hill No. 382, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Brinded
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Harphams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harpham
Macklins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Macklin
'd best
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Shortening of had best.
Senses: examples: text: It's getting late. You'd best get on home.
text: “This career you'd best be ending, And your ways you'd best be mending"
ref: 1874, “Rattletrap Rhymes, No. 47, The Blighted Clerk and the Cruel Millner”, in Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal, volume 15, page 199:
text: She'd come over for supper this evening, and though she volunteered to help Robbie and his mother with the dishes, Lambright had said he'd best deliver her home, it being a school night.
ref: 2013, Bret Anthony Johnston, “Encounters with Unexpected Animals”, in Elizabeth Strout, Heidi Pitlor, editors, The Best American Short Stories 2013, page 93:
text: “I guess,” said Horace at this point, “you'd best speak civil of Miss Strode. I'm not taking any insolence this day.”
ref: 2020, Fergus Hume, The Wooden Hand, page 168:
glosses: Had best.
Dzingel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps a variant of Dziengiel / Dzięgiel, from Polish dzięgiel (“angelica”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
PSIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSISs
form: PSISes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: ASIS
AIIS
PIIS
glosses: Initialism of posterior superior iliac spine.
AIIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AIISs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: ASIS
PSIS
PIIS
glosses: Initialism of anterior inferior iliac spine.
PIIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIISs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: ASIS
PSIS
AIIS
glosses: Initialism of posterior inferior iliac spine.
Kharbin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: khärbyēnʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Харбин (Xarbin, “Harbin”).
Senses: examples: text: Whenever one passed by an officer's quarters he invariably invited one to come and to partake of something, and however little he had for himself, he gave you of his best. It was quite extraordinary to see what a fuss they made about a guest. The first example I had of this was in the train from Kharbin to Mukden, when I was in General Holodovsky’s carriage.
ref: 1906, Maurice Baring, With the Russians in Manchuria, 3rd edition, Methuen & Co., page 67:
text: Fire is the best disinfectant, and the Russians burned up the more seriously affected districts, particularly at Karbin, the chief town in Russian-Manchuria.
ref: [1913 May, L. Lodian, “A Plague-Stricken Railroad in China”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering: A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances, volume XXVI, number 5, New York, →OCLC, page 165:
text: The Japanese train which connects at Kwang-cheng-tse with a Russian train for Kharbin, and by means of it with the Trans-Siberian train, starts from Dairen. The South Manchurian Railway is well equipped. The sleeping cars of coupé type are comfortable.
ref: 1923, James Mavor, My Windows on the Street of the World, volume 2, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, page 354:
text: The chief Russian centre in Manchuria is at Kharbin (about 75,000 souls), and it is here that the lot of the refugees has been more atrocious than anywhere else in the world: the record of their sufferings is almost beyond belief in what is supposed to be a civilized era. Two archbishops, Mgr. Methody (d. 1931) and his successor Mgr. Melety, have been true fathers in God to these unhappy people.
ref: 1937, Donald Attwater, The Dissident Eastern Churches, The Bruce Publishing Company, page 99:
text: Most of the eight Siberian parishes were very extensive and the work of a Lutheran pastor in those parts was exacting and strenuous. For instance, the pastor in Vladivostok spent three months there at the centre of his parish and nine months travelling to visit those of his 3,000 parishioners who were living in Sakhalin Island, Khabarovsk and even in Kharbin in Manchuria.
ref: 1961, Walter Kolarz, “Western Protestantism I (Lutheranism, Calvinists, Mennonites)”, in Religion in the Soviet Union, London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, →OCLC, page 251:
text: The imperialistically minded Russian colony in Kharbin, which also housed Russia’s most active fascist movement, was terribly upset by their exclusion from the schemes of the Eurasianists domiciled in Europe. Conscious of their location facing the Pacific Ocean, they demanded, like the Vostochniki, sliyanie (merger) of Russian and Chinese cultures at the expense of the European linkage.
ref: 1990, Milan Hauner, What is Asia to Us?: Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today, Unwin Hyman, page 158:
glosses: Synonym of Harbin.
synonyms: word: Harbin
wikipedia: Columbia University Press
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McCool Junction
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From McCool + junction. From "McCool", the former name of McCool Junction, York Co., Neb., USA.
Senses: glosses: A village in York, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A school district in York, Nebraska, United States.
Crynant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7904).
Menemism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Menem + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines and policies of Carlos Menem, former president of Argentina.
Related terms: Menemnomics
Seminara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seminaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Seminara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
intermediarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˌmiːdiˈɛɹɪli/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˌmiːdiˈæɹɪli/
ipa: /ˌɪn(t)ə(ɹ)ˌmiːdiˈɛɹɪli/
Forms: form: more intermediarily
form: most intermediarily
Etymology: From intermediary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intermediary manner.
Cotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coteses
form: Cotes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A hamlet near Levens, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD4886).
glosses: A placename
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Burton on the Wolds, Cotes and Prestwold Parish Council) in Charnwood borough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SK5520).
glosses: A placename
A hamlet in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SJ8434).
Coordinate terms: word: Coat
word: Coate
word: Coates
word: Coats
word: Cote
Derived terms: Newton-Cotes formula
Newton-Cotes rule
Cotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cote
lenocinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lenocinates
form: lenocinating
form: lenocinated
form: lenocinated
Etymology: See lenocinant.
Senses: examples: text: Cardinall Bellarmyne he abuseth more grosly, for he calleth him, a Cardinal parasite, the lenocinating pander of the whore of Babylon, […]
ref: 1612, Robert Persons, A discussion of the Answere of M. William Barlow:
text: Rolling eyes, wandering looks, out-stretched necks, fleering smiles, and lenocinating glances, disparage the most modest […]
ref: 1844, Samuel Annesley, The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate … Being Divers Sermons, Preached A.D. 1659-1689 by Several Ministers, page 508:
glosses: To entice to immorality; to pander (“tempt with or cater to impropriety”).
lenocinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lenocinate
linnow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linnow
form: most linnow
form: lennow
Senses: examples: text: Baynyngmaketh the skynne linnowe or soupulle.
ref: 1528 (1535), Paynel, Salerne's Regim.,, page 108 b
text: "I'm as linnow now as ever."
ref: 1877, "an aged man", quoted in The Montgomeryshire Collections, page 216
text: Then Rowland got up with a despairing gesture. “I haven't nobody,” he murmured, and went tottering up the stairs. “Lor!” said Priss meditatively, “I thought as the lad wud have had more spunk in 'im, but he's as linnow as a glove.
ref: 1904, Catherine Milnes Gaskell, Old Shropshire Life, page 291:
qualifier: Worcestershire
glosses: Flexible, supple.
baby hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby hairs
Senses: examples: text: Medium size cornrows going back with a curl at the end of each braid. A silky, smooth, hairline, highlighted with soft black baby hairs.
ref: 2003, Darcel Turner, Dana Dances on Paper:
glosses: A fine, wispy strand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's) hairline.
glosses: The hair of a baby.
examples: text: You shed your hair, too. Old hairs fall out nearly every day, and new baby hairs grow in their places .
ref: 1919, Eleanor Atkinson, The how and why Library:
text: He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curling baby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]
ref: 1931, Lida Louise Fleitmann, The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present:
glosses: Any immature or fine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Compare baby tooth, baby fat.)
baby hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby hair
wind break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind breaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windbreak.
wind breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind break
in limine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn ˈlɪmɪneɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin in līmine (literally “in the threshold”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: At the beginning, as a preliminary matter; specifically, before a particular procedure or proceeding takes place.
in limine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn ˈlɪmɪneɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin in līmine (literally “in the threshold”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of a motion, hearing, ruling, etc., pertaining to a request made at the start of a trial that the judge rule that certain evidence may not be introduced in a trial; most common in criminal trials where evidence is subject to constitutional limitations, such as statements made without Miranda warnings.
mensually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mensual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: monthly
member of the public
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: members of the public
Senses: examples: text: The average member of the public has only a vague idea of the wide-ranging integration of effort needed to put on an intensive train service like the Southern's and run it with so high a degree of safety and reliability.
ref: 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
text: There was an easy charm to Stars in Their Eyes – inspired by the Dutch series Soundmixshow – in that a member of the public was lifted from their day job, given a makeover to sing their song on stage to a huge television audience, and then... normal life resumed.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: A regular or normal citizen, as opposed to an official or agent acting in an official capacity.
Related terms: public member
Fosbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Forstebury, from Old English *Forstabyriġ, dative of *Forstaburh, from forst (frost) + burh (“fort”).
Senses: glosses: A small village in Tidcombe and Fosbury parish, east Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU3258).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Fosbury flop
thatta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atta (“that's the; that's a”).
Derived terms: thattaboy
thattagirl
debeards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debeard
Staddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staddons
form: Statton
Etymology: Habitational surname from any of various minor places in Devon and Somerset, from Old English stōd (“stud, stallion”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Eavis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
EFTSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of equivalent full time student load.
special someone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special someones
Senses: glosses: A significant other.
playmateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playmateships
Etymology: From playmate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of playmate.
playmateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playmateship
paracortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracortex
paracortexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracortex
TR4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
mycology
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tropical race 4; the pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense that causes Panama disease, which is 100% deadly to the Cavendish banana.
newsfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsfilms
form: news film
Etymology: From news + film.
Senses: glosses: A news report recorded or presented on film.
nosecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosecaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nose cap.
phantom debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom debts
Etymology: From phantom + debt.
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: zombie debt
glosses: Debt that is old, defaulted, or not owed but has somehow been revived, henceforth haunting the presumed debtor.
Related terms: debt collection
zombie debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie debts
Etymology: From zombie + debt.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phantom debt.
synonyms: word: phantom debt
Derived terms: zombie debtor
Gros Michel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gros Michels
Etymology: From French banane Gros Michel.
Senses: glosses: A triploid cultivar of banana, popular in the early 20th century, predominant in the marketplace, but wiped out as a commercial cultivar mid-20th century by Panama disease.
Synonyms: Big Mike
Coordinate terms: Cavendish
Big Mike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Mikes
Etymology: Calque of French Gros Michel; from gros (“big”) + Michel (“Michael”)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Gros Michel.
synonyms: word: Gros Michel
Big Mike
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to conspiracy theories alleging that Michelle Obama is secretly transgender. First use appears c. 2016.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Big Mike.
synonyms: Mike Obama
glosses: Michelle Obama.
Related terms: Bathhouse Barry
Cameltoe Harris
Chimpy McFlightsuit
Don the Con
Genocide Joe
Mango Mussolini
Moscow Mike
Nasty Pelosi
Sleepy Joe
Tampon Tim
Zion Don
palaiyam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaiyams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pollam.
palayam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palayams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pollam.
palayams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palayam
thaw wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaw winds
Senses: examples: text: "“These are the earliest flowers at the Heights,” she exclaimed. “They remind me of soft thaw winds, and warm sunshine, and nearly melted snow. Edgar, is there not a south wind, and is not the snow almost gone?”"
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XIII, in Wuthering Heights:
qualifier: Cheshire
glosses: A cold, piercing wind from the south or south-east, which often accompanies the breaking up of a long frost.
levator veli palatini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈveɪ.tɚ ˌviˌlaɪ ˌpæl.əˈtaɪˌnaɪ/
Forms: form: levatores veli palatini
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin levātor vēlī palātīnī (“lifter of the palatine veil”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: levator
coordinate_terms: levator anguli oris
levator ani
levator costae
levator labii superioris
levator labii superioris alaeque nasi
levator palpebrae superioris
levator prostatae
levator scapulae
glosses: A muscle arising from the temporal bone and the cartilage of the Eustachian tube and descending to insert into the midline of the soft palate which it elevates especially to close the nasopharynx while swallowing is taking place to prevent regurgitation of liquid or solid matter through the nose.
a-back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Aw seed him aback o’th’ edge.
qualifier: Chester
glosses: behind, at the back
abbur
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: but
above a bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Eh Polly! Aw do you love thee above a bit.
text: He did vex me above a bit.
synonyms: word: above a bit
word: absolutely
word: abundantly
word: all too
word: but good
word: completely
word: eminently
word: ever so
word: exceedingly
word: excessively
word: extremely
word: greatly
word: highly
word: in spades
word: main
word: mightily
word: murrain
word: passing
word: positively
word: pretty
word: quite
word: right
word: simply
word: sore
word: specially
word: strongly
word: swith
word: truly
word: vastly
word: very
word: very much
word: way
word: way too
word: wicked
qualifier: Chester
glosses: greatly, very much
abundation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: abundance
abyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abylls
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: A mode of copyhold tenure mentioned in the records of the Stockport Grand Leet Court.
accussin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: disputing, wrangling
achorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achorns
Senses: qualifier: Chester
glosses: An acorn.
dip candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dip candles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dipped candle.
dip candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dip candle
a good look
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Conversely, I have seen many bottles of wine that have been exposed to excessive amounts of oxygen... and it isn't a good look!
ref: 2003, Tyson Stelzer, Screwed for Good?: The Case for Screw Caps on Red Wines:
text: A convicted felon caught with four kilos of crack cocaine was not a good look.
ref: 2007, Nikki Turner, 50 Cent, Death Before Dishonor:
text: These distinguished scholars, lawyers, and activists are charged with generating high-minded deliberation about what is fit and proper for Facebook to host. It’s a good look for Facebook—as long as no one looks too closely.
ref: 2020, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation”, in Wired:
glosses: Something that gives a positive impression.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, look.