cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
St Pancras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sənt ˈpæŋkɹəs/
Etymology: After Saint Pancras of Rome, whose relics were supposedly housed at the church in this location.
Senses: glosses: An area of the borough of Camden, in central London, in which St Pancras railway station is situated (OS grid ref TQ3082).
examples: text: Four summonses were brought recently on behalf of St. Pancras Borough Council against the British Transport Commission in respect of the emission of smoke by locomotives standing at Camden Motive Power Depot. (The summonses were dismissed)
ref: 1955 December, “Emission of Smoke by Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 812:
glosses: A former borough, the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras in the County of London, which became part of the London borough of Camden in Greater London in 1965.
Bargoed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community with a town council in Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1499).
Swaythling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4415).
day-dawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day-dawn
Dunbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dun + bridge, the bridge over the River Dun.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Mottisfont parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3126).
wikipedia: River Dun (River Test)
West Dean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England.
glosses: A village and civil parish in the city of Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8612).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the Hampshire boundary (OS grid ref SU2527).
glosses: Alternative form of Westdean, East Sussex.
Related terms: East Dean
Westdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: West Dean
Etymology: From west + Dean.
Senses: glosses: A village in Cuckmere Valley parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TV5299).
Related terms: english: East Sussex
translation: East Sussex
word: East Dean
East Dean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Dean and Friston parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TV5597).
glosses: A former civil parish in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.
glosses: A small village in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2726).
glosses: A village in the city of Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9013).
Related terms: word: West Dean
english: East Sussex
translation: East Sussex
word: Westdean
Tianshuihai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tyěnʹshwāʹhīʹ
Forms: form: Tien Shui Hai
form: T’ien-shui-hai
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 甜水海 (Tiánshuǐhǎi).
Senses: examples: text: On a vast, dry lakebed called Tianshuihai, we came to a community of sorts, a desperate huddle of concrete and mud structures. My map labeled the region “Soda Plain,” and it seemed a long time since any water had gathered there. It was also, evidently, earthquake country. Buildings, many of them abandoned, had been shaken off their foundations; their walls had cracked and roofs fallen in. The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses. Thousands of fifty-gallon drums littered the ground, along with broken machinery, derelict vehicles, chunks of concrete, goat carcasses, cans, bottles, and shit.
ref: 1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan, Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: Woo and Gong had flown out of Tianshuihai and were patrolling a section of the border where China abutted the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, including the disputed region of Askai^([sic – meaning Aksai]) Chin that was under Chinese control.
"Could you imagine being posted to this place?" Gong asked.
ref: 2004, Tom Grace, The Secret Cardinal, Perseus Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 265:
glosses: A lake in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, part of the disputed Aksai Chin.
trepak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trepaks
form: tripak
form: tropak
Etymology: From Russian трепа́к (trepák).
Senses: glosses: A traditional brisk Russian and Ukrainian folk dance.
Dun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, from the placename Dun, Angus, itself probably from Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress”).
* As an English surname, variant of Dunn.
* As a Dutch surname, from the adjective dun (“thin”).
* As a Chinese surname, Mandarin form of surname 頓 /顿 meaning "pause" or 敦 meaning "sincere."
Senses: glosses: A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
glosses: A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
glosses: An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
glosses: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
glosses: A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: word: Barnby Dun
alt: Angus
word: Bridge of Dun
english: Hampshire
translation: Hampshire
word: Dunbridge
trepaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trepak
please yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Do what you want; behave as you wish.
Tien Shui Hai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 甜水海 (Tʻien²-shui³-hai³).
Senses: examples: text: As the characteristic 1.5m height might reflect annual regression of the lake level, we have computed the potential annual evapotranspiration on the basis of meteorological data collected at Tien Shui Hai from 13/08/89 to 11/09/90.
ref: 1994, 9th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, 1st-4th April, 1994, Kathmandu: Abstract Volume, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Atmospheric pollen content was studied for one annual cycle from September 1989 to October 1990 on the Kunlun mountain at Tien Shui Hai station (35°40'N, 79°30'E; 4850 m. a.s.l) by Van Campo et al. (1996).
ref: 2000, Zuju Yao, “Ice-Core Pollen Studies From the Dunde and Guliya Ice Caps, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Louisiana State University, page 178:
glosses: Alternative form of Tianshuihai.
Ash Vale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Guildford borough, Surrey, England, near the town of Ash (OS grid ref SU8952).
Dophkah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hebrew דפקה.
Senses: examples: text: I have also endeavoured in the same book to show that the resting place called in the Bible Dophkah, is identical with the abandoned mines now called Wadi Maghȃra.
ref: 1890, Georg Ebers, Joshua A Story of Biblical Life, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Limited, page 12:
glosses: one of the Stations of the Exodus
Lalibela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Amharic ላሊበላ (lalibäla).
Senses: glosses: A town in Ethiopia, in the North Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region.
monochotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochotomies
Etymology: From mono- + -chotomy; formed analogously from dichotomy as if it were from mono- + -chotomy.
Senses: glosses: Division or separation into itself.
Coordinate terms: word: dichotomy
word: trichotomy
word: tetrachotomy
word: pentachotomy
word: hexachotomy
word: heptachotomy
word: octachotomy
word: decachotomy
word: polychotomy
Related terms: trichotomous
tetrachotomous
double degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double degrees
Senses: synonyms: combined degree
dual degree
glosses: A program at an institution of higher learning which allows students to work for two academic degrees at the same time.
double degrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double degree
huabiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hwɑːˈbjaʊ/
Forms: form: huabiaos
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 華表／华表 (huábiǎo).
Senses: examples: text: The most notable example of engraved dragons is on the stone columns of the Temple to Confucius at his birthplace in Chüfu. These are also found in the "cloud pillars" (single stone columns—huapiao in Chinese) outside the Tienanmen, while those at the Ming Tombs are still finer.
ref: [1961, Yutang Lin, “Studies in Form: Temples, Pagodas and the Plastic Arts”, in Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, New York: Crown Publishers, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: A type of ceremonial column used in traditional Chinese architecture.
huabiaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huabiao
truss bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truss bridges
Senses: glosses: A bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss.
Hyponyms: topics: bridge
games
word: deck truss
topics: bridge
games
word: through truss
topics: bridge
games
word: pony truss
topics: bridge
games
word: half-through truss
topics: bridge
games
word: double-decked truss
truss bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truss bridge
fingerwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerwidths
form: finger width
Senses: glosses: A width approximately one finger wide.
fingerwidths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerwidth
finger width
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger widths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fingerwidth.
finger widths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger width
small press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small presses
Etymology: From small + press (a printing press/press company).
Senses: glosses: A small-scale publishing company.
small presses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small press
streetlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹiːtlət/
Forms: form: streetlets
Etymology: From street + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small street.
streetlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streetlet
wine caves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine cave
Blisworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP7253).
ill feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill feelings
form: ill-feeling
Senses: examples: text: Then there was May 2018's timetable chaos, when so much was promised but not delivered. This still causes ill-feeling for Northern, TransPennine Express and Govia Thameslink Railway. Social media platforms really highlighted the anger - some just wanted to rant, but the frustration was real... and justified.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: A feeling of animosity or resentment.
sloggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slog + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: the tiny, sweet "ladyfingers" of the Carribbean; the sloggish "water bananas" of Equatorial Africa; and the big, yellow Gros Michel, which has become the standby of American, British Isles, and most European markets.
ref: 1951, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Tropics: World of Tomorrow, page 82:
text: With a gurgle and gush And a sloggish slush, I spray the logs and spatter the frogs,
ref: 1980, Fannie Safier, Adventures in reading, →ISBN, page 248:
text: I don't know why, I was just fine. Not at all sloggish.
ref: 1995, Sanford M. Dorbin, Never enough light: new & selected poems, 1966-1994, page 117:
text: The slow sloggish performance manufacturing and mining and quarrying sectors, as well as the private social and community services sector.
ref: 2002, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Financial and Economic Review, volume 34:
glosses: slow, sluggish
Butterley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ripley parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4051).
glosses: A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3460).
Old Dalby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally "Wold Dalby" or "Dalby on the Wolds".
Senses: glosses: A village in Broughton and Old Dalby parish, Melton district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6723).
post-transition metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-transition metals
Etymology: From post- + transition + metal; see transition metal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poor metal, usually including gallium, indium, tin, thallium, lead, and bismuth, also known as B-subgroup metals, other metals, and p-block metals.
intersexphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intersexphobic
form: most intersexphobic
Etymology: From intersex + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: There is an urgent need to unpack the sexism underpinning these transphobic and intersexphobic views of sport; […]
ref: 2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, page 285:
text: Sometimes participants can say or do things that reflect or highlight their heteronormative, gender[-]normative, or intersexphobic beliefs.
ref: 2017, Terence Humphreys, “Down The Rabbit Hole: Learning New Perspectives Around Diverse Genders, Sexes, and Sexualities”, in Jeffrey Lynn Sapp, William DeJean, editors, Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Teacher: Letters of Advice to Help You Find Your Way, IAP, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Use language that is informed, positive, affirming and supportive when referring to people born with intersex variations, challenging any language that is intersexphobic and accurately educating students about the human body.
ref: 2021, Annette Brömdal, “Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations”, in Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, volume 21, number 5:
glosses: Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.
Synonyms: interphobic
Starcross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Surface analysis star + cross. Compare English star-crossed.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9781).
aldermanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aldermanical
form: most aldermanical
Senses: examples: text: The defendant in this case was a gentleman of aldermanical proportions, and a countenance à la mode de Bardolph; his “fair round belly” being embraced by an apron (whose peculiar appearance gave ample proof that, although grease and water may sometimes come together, the former is sure to swim on the top,) and his "shining morning face" being adorned by a profusion of rubies and other gems, by which the charms of nature are too often disguised.
ref: 1845, George Hodder, Sketches of Life and Character, page 52:
text: The brothers of the boiled dew, Whose secret Hayden though he knew By false translation from the Latin, Who fancied man on air could fatten, That sunbeams had a hidden grease To make the lankest grow obese, Make cheeks of starvelings pale and hectic, Seem purple, bursting apoplectic, Turn spry, gaunt lawyers into slow men, With aldermanical abdomen, And feed on wind the Cassius shapen, Until they seemed pufi'ed out with capon
ref: 1855, William W. Fosdick, Elmslie William Dallas, Ariel, and other poems, page 259:
text: I seized the oars and homeward rowed, Inwardly vowing I'd be blowed If municipal legislation, Or aldermanical oration Could help the Island—'twere a pity We could not save it to the city.
ref: 1887, Jay Kayellem, Grip:
glosses: Synonym of aldermanic.
synonyms: word: aldermanic
nuclear physicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear physicists
Etymology: From nuclear physics + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly it would be better if he were a nuclear physicist. On the other hand, I believe that a team of that sort would give stronger support to industrial work than a team of four nuclear engineers.
ref: 1962, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Proceedings of the Conference on Progress in Nuclear Education Held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, August 20-22, 1962, page 184:
text: Explaining the history is a nuclear physicist who is also an accomplished writer.
ref: 1982, Boyd Norton, "The Early Years" in, Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments for and Against the Most Controversial Technology, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 15:
text: And Theodore Taylor, the nuclear physicist who designed America's smallest and largest atomic bombs, has repeatedly stated that given fissile material, building a bomb is "very easy. Double underline. Very easy."
ref: 2004, Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: a scientist of nuclear physics.
Towcester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊstə/
ipa: /ˈtoʊstɚ/
rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
homophone: toaster
Etymology: From Middle English Tofeceaster, the name of the Roman fort on the River Tove, from Tove + the Old English suffix ceaster (“town”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP6948).
wikipedia: River Tove
aldership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alderships
Etymology: From alder + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Thirty of 40 years ago he was selected to the aldership.
ref: 2001, Daniel Fred Johnson, New Brunswick Vital Statistics from Newspapers: 1893-1893:
text: It is also true that, as Catalbasoglu points out frequently, campaigns are distinct from alderships.
ref: 2017 November 3, “NEWS' VIEW: Uncontested but unclear”, in Yale Daily News:
glosses: The position of an alderman or alderwoman.
alderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldership
Slatter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Slatters
Etymology: Variant of Slater.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leans
Etymology: * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced form of McLean.
* As an English surname, from the adjective lean.
* As a Chinese surname, from 林 (lín) (see Lin).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Maclean
MacLean
Mac Lean
Malean
MaLean
McLean
Mclean
Mc Lean
M'Lean
alighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪtən/
Forms: form: alightens
form: alightening
form: alightened
form: alightened
Etymology: From Middle English alighten, from a merger of Old English ālīhtan (“to alight, dismount”), from prefix ā- (compare Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-), German er- originally meaning "out") + līhtan (“to alight”); and Old English ġelīhtan (“to alight, approach, come, come down, dismount”); equivalent to alight + -en.
Senses: examples: text: When I alighten at my destination, I saw them going in the rickshaw.
ref: 1971, Shankar's Weekly - Volume 24, Part 2, page 52:
text: Her house was barely half a kilometre away from the nearest bus stage; she alightened with ease and wiped the thin layer of sweat that had accumulated on her forehead.
ref: 1975, Bingu Matata, Free Love, page 34:
text: In case the train halts on account of such alert, the patrolling parties should alighten from the running train and be on the look out for the offenders.
ref: 1990, The Indian Police Journal - Volume 37, page 21:
glosses: To alight, to dismount or get down from.
examples: text: The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other.
ref: 1862, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 3, page 163:
text: Both of the two jays that had just moved flew out of the tree and alightened in the boughs of a nearby cedar.
ref: 2002, Diana Hignutt, Moonsword, page 214:
text: Even under the best ecological conditions, only a fraction of the flowers on which a bee alightens provide nectar and/or pollen.
ref: 2014, Raymond P. Kesner, David S. Olton, Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition:
glosses: To alight; to land, to descend and rest.
alighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪtən/
Forms: form: alightens
form: alightening
form: alightened
form: alightened
Etymology: From Middle English alighten, from a merger of Old English ālīhtan (“to lighten, relieve, alleviate, take off, take away, alight”) and Old English ġelīhtan (“to lighten, mitigate, assuage”); equivalent to a- + lighten.
Senses: examples: text: I shivered and shook, and would have screqamed in my fright—but the Fiend,—as he seemed to be, —in a hoarse, croaking voice, charged me to keep silence,—saying that I had lain seven years bound for my sin, and that my soul would speedily be sent on an errand to sinners yet on the earth, to warn them from the evil of their ways, —and that, then, my punishment in Purgatory would be alightened.
ref: 1850, Thomas Cooper, Captain Cobler; Or, The Lincolnshire Rebellion, page 311:
text: On the fifth day Mr. Hedly (who first motioned lot-drawing) and another died, whereby their boat was somewhat alightened.
ref: 1965, Thomas Fuller, P. Austin Nuttal, The History of the Worthies of England - Volume 1, page 459:
text: An honest poor man dwelling in Faladon beside Alnwick said to me that where he had denied to a gentleman his neighbour an unreasonable request, he answered rigorously these words: I shall alighten thee of that thing which thou bearest thee bold of — and within four hours after, was reaved him sixteen heads of nowt [=cattle].
ref: 1997, Andrew J. Brown, Robert Ferrar, page 43:
glosses: To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
alighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈlaɪtən/
Forms: form: alightens
form: alightening
form: alightened
form: alightened
Etymology: From Middle English alighten, from Old English ālīhtan (“to light up, enlighten”); equivalent to a- + light. Cognate with German erleuchten (“to light up, illuminate”).
Senses: examples: text: Of those who should be alightened by his faith and sanctified by his grace Christ designed to form a holy society, over which he will reign for ever.
ref: 1806, Permiffion, The Laity's Directory, page 62:
text: Sometimes, indeed, when for an hour or two my spirits are alightened, I glimmer a little into futurity; but my principal, and indeed my only pleasurable employment, is looking backwards and forwards in a moral and religious way.
ref: 1828, John Gibson Lockhart, Life of Robert Burns, page 46:
text: My joy shall be in the midst of thousands ; my soul shall alighten through the gloom of the fight !"
ref: 2010, James MacPherson, The Poems of Ossian - Volume 4, page 297:
glosses: To make light; to illuminate or brighten.
alightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alighten
alightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alighten
alightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alighten
the devil a one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: making great chear with a good deal of vineger, the devil a one of them did forbear from his victuals, it was a triumphant and incomparable spectacle to see how they ravened and devoured.
ref: 1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 2, Chapter 26, p. 168-169:
text: […] she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter, after being acquainted with her.
ref: 1709, Susanna Centlivre, The Man’s Bewitch’d, London: Bernard Lintott, act V, page 66:
text: (He helps them on with the clothes.) There, the devil a one of them can know you now— […] you’re so nicely disguised,
ref: 1790, John O’Keeffe, The Highland Reel, Dublin, act 2, page 34:
text: Whole volleys of muskets were level’d at him,
But the devil a one ever graz’d e’en a limb,
ref: c. 1813, anonymous author, “Perry’s Victory”, in Robert W. Neeser, editor, American Naval Songs and Ballads, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 1938, page 187:
text: 1912, George A. Birmingham, Priscilla’s Spies, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, G.H. Doran, Chapter 14, pp. 183-184,
Jimmy says it’s hard to tell what she’d be after. He did think at the first go off that it might be cockles; but it’s not, for he took her to Carribee strand, where there’s plenty of them, and the devil a one she’d pick up.
glosses: Not a single one, none (of a number of people or things).
examples: text: The devil a one of me will ever set foot there.
text: […] I met just as strange a man, and he sitting on his hat on the banks of the Fairy Lake of Lisnavarna, watching the moon’s reflection in the clear waters, and the devil a one of him knew that he was contrary at all.
ref: 1916, Seumas O’Brien, “The Lady of the Moon”, in The Whale and the Grasshopper and other Fables,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 164:
glosses: Not; with a singular pronoun, negates the clause.
skinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪn.tʃi/
rhymes: -ɪntʃi
Forms: form: skinchier
form: skinchiest
Etymology: From skinch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Being, or having the quality of, a skinch.
Holywell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From holy + well, in Eastbourne possibly from holly + well.
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1875).
glosses: A neighbourhood near Swords, County Dublin, Ireland.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A settlement in Studham parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0117).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Holywell-cum-Needingworth parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL3470).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A coastal village in Cubert parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7658).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Evershot parish and Frome St Quintin parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST5904).
glosses: A number of places in England:
An area in Eastbourne, East Sussex (OS grid ref TV6096).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wotton-under-Edge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7693).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Blakemere parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3741).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb in Watford borough, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TQ0995)
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small settlement in Careby Aunby and Holywell parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF0016).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Seaton Valley parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ3174).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in West Coker parish and East Coker parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5213).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Rowington parish, Warwick district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP1966).
Derived terms: Holywell-cum-Needingworth
Holywell Green
Holywell Street
West Holywell
skinchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skinchy: more skinchy
skinchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skinchy: most skinchy
vegetationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vegetation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1979, Pennsylvania State University School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources, Pinchot Institute for Environmental Forestry Research, Utilization of municipal sewage effluent and sludge on forest and disturbed land: proceedings of a symposium, Pen State University Press
During the second year of operation, however, only the vegetationless area exceeded the guidelines.
text: The vegetationless site also contiguous to the woodlots has remained uncultivated for the past 10 years and barring weed growth has no other vegetation.
ref: 1993, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Journal of Tropical Forest Science, volume 6, page 225:
text: The lack of fines in a sand-rich vegetationless environment may also be related to a greater aeolian influence, evidenced in the Athabasca Group, as dust storms effectively remove mud from the depositional areas.
ref: 2004, P.G. Eriksson, Wladyslaw Altermann, D.R. Nelson, W.U. Mueller, Octavian Catuneanu, The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 720:
glosses: without vegetation.
anascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more anascopic
form: most anascopic
Etymology: From ana- + -scopic.
Senses: examples: text: How then should we proceed to liberate criminology from criminal justice and to develop an anascopic view within criminology, that implicates the diversity of people, subcultural values, and social positions into the definition of conflicts.
ref: 1985, Elizabeth J. Barker, “Abolitionism: Towards a Non-repressive Approach to Crime”, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Prison Abolition, page 34:
antonyms: catascopic
glosses: Of scientific forms of thinking which strongly focus upon the individual (or its smaller components such as the body, an organ, tissue, cells, etc.) and look from that point of view toward bigger wholes.
catascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more catascopic
form: most catascopic
Senses: examples: text: To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.
ref: 2011, M. Foucault, The Courage of Truth, page 171:
glosses: Related to spying or scouting.
examples: text: New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).
ref: 2013, S.A. Paspalas, L.A. Beaumont, M.C. Miller, Zagora Archaeological Project, page 12:
glosses: Related to aerial photography.
examples: text: The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.
ref: 1980, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism, Unesco, page 185:
antonyms: anascopic
glosses: Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.
eats out of the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat out of the palm of someone's hand
eating out of the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat out of the palm of someone's hand
ate out of the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat out of the palm of someone's hand
eaten out of the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat out of the palm of someone's hand
eat from the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats from the palm of someone's hand
form: eating from the palm of someone's hand
form: ate from the palm of someone's hand
form: eaten from the palm of someone's hand
Senses: examples: text: He'd decided at the last minute to put the man to work, and as a result, Harrison had stolen the show. The audience was eating from the palm of his hand, and he knew it.
ref: 2005, Lisa Cach, Naomi Neale, Jennifer Ashley, Christmas Cards from the Edge, page 353:
text: Naptea and Lenny believed they had Ras Michael under their control and eating from the palm of their hands.
ref: 2011, Junior Mendez, Children of Scarface II: Am I My Brother's Keeper?, page 253:
text: With some skill, any woman can make a man eat from the palm of her hand.
ref: 2012, Maggie Robinson, Lord Gray's List, page 95:
glosses: Alternative form of eat out of the palm of someone's hand.
eats from the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat from the palm of someone's hand
eating from the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat from the palm of someone's hand
ate from the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat from the palm of someone's hand
eaten from the palm of someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat from the palm of someone's hand
falls into a trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall into a trap
falling into a trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall into a trap
fell into a trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall into a trap
fallen into a trap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall into a trap
Azqueltán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Azqueltán, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl *Āzcatlān (from āzcatl (“ant”) + -tlān (“place”)), a calque of Tepecano toʹtona·rtám, from to·ʹnar (“small ant”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Jalisco, Mexico.
Totatiche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Totatiche.
Senses: glosses: A town in Jalisco, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.
public Friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public Friends
form: Public Friend
Etymology: Friend denoted a member of the Society of Friends i.e. a Quaker.
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Story [1670?–1742], a public Friend and the Recorder of the city, has also spoken of this calamity [an excessively hot summer in 1699] in his Journal, as being a scourge which carried off from six to eight of the inhabitants daily, [...in total] about 220, of whom about 80 to 90 were of the Society of Friends.
ref: 1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, page 599:
text: George Gray, a public Friend, who had come from Barbadoes early to settle in Pennsylvania, this year returned thither again in the service of the ministry.
ref: 1846, Robert Smith, editor, The Friend, volume 1, page 172:
text: [...] through the wilderness four hundred miles or more, where no public Friend had ever travelled before: the journey was perilous, but the Lord was with him; who may, in his own time, make way for his servants in those desert places.
ref: 1857, The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, page 188:
text: Because Quakers eschewed a professional ministry and formal ordination, their ministers—public Friends—operated with relatively few restrictions in comparison, for example, with conformist or Presbyterian clergy. […] A certificate amounted to a meeting's stamp of approval that the bearer was qualified to be a public Friend. For a public Friend about to embark on "truth's service," the monthly meeting provided a certificate, as the Dublin men did for Anthony ...
ref: 1997, Richard L. Greaves, God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 295:
text: As late as the 1750s the actions of Public Friends were considered to be strange, and their motivations unknowable, even sometimes to fellow Quakers. Repetitious, wide-ranging travel was dangerous and painful in this period.
ref: 2014, Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: A Quaker authorized to travel between meetings and communities to preach; a Quaker preacher (in the 18th and 19th centuries).
wikipedia: Society of Friends
Public Friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Public Friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of public Friend.
Public Friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Public Friend
public Friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public Friend
kogel mogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kogel mogel
well-brought-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-brought-up
form: more well-brought-up
form: best-brought-up
form: most well-brought-up
form: well brought up
Senses: examples: text: He strikes me as a very well-brought-up young man.
synonyms: well-mannered
well-bred
well-raised
well-behaved
polite
civilized
polished
refined
glosses: Having been taught during childhood to exhibit good manners and pleasant behaviour.
well brought up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better brought up
form: best brought up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-brought-up.
Lawman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cattanach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname.
heptuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For example, "Just Another Whistle Stop" from 5tage Fright (1970) contains a passage in heptuple meter — the aspiring dancer no doubt feels tripped or tippled every two measures.
ref: 2005, Neil Minturn, Michael J. Budds, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 101:
glosses: Synonym of septuple.
synonyms: word: septuple
heptuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptuples
Senses: glosses: Synonym of septuple.
synonyms: word: septuple
Longniddry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4476).
over-egg the pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-eggs the pudding
form: over-egging the pudding
form: over-egged the pudding
form: over-egged the pudding
form: overegg the pudding
Etymology: Of English origin.
Senses: examples: text: But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.
ref: 1839 September, Nimrod [pseudonym; Charles James Apperley], “A Hunting Tour in the Midland Counties: The Quorn: The Belvoir: And the Cottesmore”, in Craven [pseudonym; John William Carleton], editor, The Sporting Review, a Monthly Chronicle of the Turf, the Chase, and Rural Sports in All Their Varieties, London: Rudolph Ackermann, […], →OCLC, page 187:
text: The toast was drunk with tremendous applause, Mr. Jorrocks acting as fugleman—“but as we mustn't over-egg the pudding,” as the Yorkshire farmers say, we will reserve the other proceedings of the evening for another chapter.
ref: 1845, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter XVI, in Hillingdon Hall, published 1888, page 161:
text: Our established Press bosses are no fools. They know the risks, and they will be careful not to over-egg the pudding.
ref: 1960 June 22, The Earl of Arran, “The Newspapers”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 471:
text: [M]any British officials, as David Holden deduced from conversations with them in the Crescent bar in the mid-fifties, were 'afflicted with a familiar form of colonial myopia known as localitis' – […] Maybe Holden slightly overeggs the pudding.
ref: 1991, Glen Balfour-Paul, “Comparisons, without Odium”, in The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain’s Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 162:
text: If you really want to over-egg the pudding, you can, a month or so after the funeral, organize a memorial service.
ref: 2009, Virginia Ironside, The Virginia Monologues, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: Adverbs too ('she remarked, tersely') seem to over-egg the pudding or else acquire undue weight in the mouth of a supposedly artless narrator.
ref: 2010, Alan Bennett, “Introduction”, in The Complete Talking Heads, Picador, →ISBN, page 32:
synonyms: gild the lily
glosses: To embellish too much; to exaggerate.
Derived terms: overegg
over-egg
over-egged
Wadham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Wadham College, Oxford
Derived terms: Wadhamite
Nammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nammers
Etymology: From Nam + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them.
"Don't even ask. You don't want to know."
ref: 1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 24:
text: She placed the skaters at one end of the school, writing “hot guys” beside their name, and the Nammers or Vietnamese group in another corner, writing “cool kids” beside their name.
ref: 2008, S. Pomerantz, Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part, page 67:
text: For example, in Canada, Dillabough and Kennelly (2010) found that Vietnamese girls developed a subcultural style identified as the 'Nammers' associated with spandex clothing […]
ref: 2015, T. Barber, Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain, page 175:
glosses: A Vietnamese person.
Nammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nammer
nam prik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nam phrik.
lajollamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From La Jolla + -mycin, named after a place in California.
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic derived from salinosporamide A.
oxazolomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxazolomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of antibiotics derived from Streptomyces bacteria.
Derived terms: neooxazolomycin
oxazolomycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxazolomycin
curromycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curromycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of antitumor antibiotics specific to Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
curromycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curromycin
khusimone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An insect-repellent substance found in vetiver oil.
khusitone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in vetiver oil.
Related terms: khusimone
King's Sutton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kings Sutton
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP4936).
vetiverol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vetiver + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alcohol found in vetiver oil, used in perfumery.
vetivone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetivones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of sesquiterpene ketones found in vetiver oil.
vetivones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetivone
vetivene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vetivenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of terpenes found in vetiver oil.
vetivenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vetivene
Kings Sutton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of King's Sutton; this form is used on Ordnance Survey maps and for the railway station.
leasehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leasehands
Etymology: From lease + hand.
Senses: glosses: An entry-level worker on an oil rig, responsible for general labour and maintenance.
leasehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leasehand
floorhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorhands
Etymology: From floor + hand.
Senses: glosses: A junior worker on an oil rig, responsible for general labour and maintenance, usually more specialized tasks than those of a leasehand.
floorhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorhand
motorhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorhands
Etymology: From motor + hand.
Senses: glosses: A worker on an oil rig, responsible for engines and other machinery.
motorhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorhand
motoreductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motoreductor
derrickhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derrickhands
Etymology: From derrick + hand.
Senses: glosses: A worker on an oil rig, working on a raised platform from which they guide instruments in and out of the well.
derrickhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derrickhand
Bradbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bellerophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bellerophonic
form: most Bellerophonic
Etymology: From Bellerophon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This event is counterbalanced by Astolfo's encounter with the Amazons, which also constitutes an explicitly Bellerophonic anecdote.
ref: 1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto, page 97:
glosses: Of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.
LUTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LUT
MacAdams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAdams
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Carne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carnes
Etymology: Two main origins:
* As a Cornish surname, from karn (“cairn”), from Proto-Brythonic *karn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos.
* As a French surname, from the noun charnière (“hinge, joint”). Also, from chair (“flesh”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet on Gillan Creek in St Anthony-in-Meneage parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7724).
glosses: A hamlet and nearby beach in Veryan parish, on the south coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9138).
Romanian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Serbian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: Eastern Orthodox Church
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Orthodox Church
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Church
church
coordinate_terms: Greek Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church
glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Related terms: Orthodox Christianity
Georgian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Georgian Orthodox Church
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Antiochian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Antiochian Orthodox Church
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Alexandrian Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Alexandrian Orthodox Church
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church
Senses: glosses: One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.