cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: coshes
Etymology: Probably from Romani košter (“stick”).
Senses: glosses: A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
glosses: A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
examples: text: There is no need here to digress on the advantages or otherwise of using a 'cosh' in schools […]
ref: 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The lore and language of schoolchildren, page 374:
text: Often, he walked around the room with the cosh in his hand, taking slashes at legs that happened to stray sideways […]
ref: 2019, John Loveday, The Boy from Rod Alley, page 115:
topics: education
glosses: The cane.
Derived terms: chemical cosh
cosh pocket
liquid cosh
under the cosh
cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: coshes
form: coshing
form: coshed
form: coshed
Etymology: Probably from Romani košter (“stick”).
Senses: glosses: To strike with a weapon of this kind.
Related terms: bludgeon
cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: more cosh
form: most cosh
Senses: glosses: cozy; snug
cosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Senses: glosses: hyperbolic cosine
cosher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coshers
form: coshering
form: coshered
form: coshered
Etymology: From Irish cuid oíche (“night's supper”) or cóisir (“banquet; festive party”).
Senses: glosses: To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of.
glosses: To treat with fondness; to excessively dote on.
glosses: To chat in a friendly way.
Related terms: cosherer
coshery
coss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: cosses
form: coss
form: cos
form: kos
form: kós
form: koss
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa.
Senses: examples: text: ... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ...
ref: 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85
text: A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 410–11:
glosses: A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
Related terms: rule of coss
couped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːpt/
homophone: cooped
Etymology: See French couper (“to cut”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased (used especially for the head or limb of an animal).
couped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːpt/
homophone: cooped
Etymology: See French couper (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coup
Related terms: coupé
cove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kōv
ipa: /koʊv/
enpr: kōv
ipa: /kəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
homophone: Cobh
Forms: form: coves
form: coving
form: coved
form: coved
Etymology: From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-West Germanic *kobō, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with Dutch koof (“cove”), German Low German Koov (“small room”), German Koben (“nook, shed”), Icelandic kofi (“hut, shack”). This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblance to the unrelated word English cave. Also unrelated to Spanish cueva, which itself is a cognate of cave.
Senses: examples: text: The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
ref: 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain:
topics: architecture
glosses: To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
cove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōv
ipa: /koʊv/
enpr: kōv
ipa: /kəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
homophone: Cobh
Forms: form: coves
Etymology: Britain ante-1570. From Romani kodo (“this one, him”), perhaps change in consonants due to lower class th-fronting, or Romani kova (“that person”).
Senses: examples: text: Don’t call Major Pendennis an old cove, if you’ll ’ave the goodness, Lightfoot, and don’t call me an old cove, nether. Such words ain’t used in society; and we have lived in the fust society, both at ’ome and foring.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 61, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: At one point, a friendly-looking sort of cove with silver hair and a grandfatherly kind of face beamed at him […]
ref: 2012, Terry Pratchett, Dodger, →ISBN, page 326:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A fellow; a man.
glosses: A friend; a mate.
Synonyms: sense: man
word: man
sense: friend
word: friend
Derived terms: Abram cove
autem cove
badge-cove
bang-up cove
bene cove
covess
covey
cross cove
diddle cove
dimber cove
dookin cove
downy cove
flash cove
flogging cove
gentry cove
kinchin cove
narry cove
nib cove
nib-cove
nubbing cove
pater cove
queer cove
rum cove
smacking cove
topping cove
wapping cove
cove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kōv
ipa: /koʊv/
enpr: kōv
ipa: /kəʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
homophone: Cobh
Forms: form: coves
form: coving
form: coved
form: coved
form: couve
Etymology: Borrowed from French couver, from Old French cover (“to hatch (eggs)”), from Latin cubāre (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
Cognates
* Italian covare
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the provident care of the tortoiſe in the generation, nouriſhment and preſervation of [h]er yooung, is vvoonderfull: for out ſhe goeth of the ſea, and laieth her egges or caſteth her ſpavvne upon the banke ſide; but being not able to cove or ſit upon them, nor to remaine herſelfe upon the land out of the ſea any long time, ſhe beſtovveth them in the gravell, and aftervvards covereth them vvith the lighteſt and fineſt ſand ſhe can get: […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Whether Creatures be more Wise, They of the Land, or Those of the Water”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 976:
synonyms: covie
glosses: Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
coved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cove
cowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: koul
ipa: /kaʊl/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /kəʉl/
homophone: cawl
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: cowls
form: cowling
form: cowled
form: cowled
Etymology: From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.
Senses: examples: text: Why cowl thy face beneath the Mourner’s hood,
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, page 269:
text: But he by wild and way […]
Rode till the star above the wakening sun,
Beside that tower where Percivale was cowl’d [i.e. became a monk],
Glanced from the rosy forehead of the dawn.
ref: 1870, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettare”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan, pages 120–121:
text: The sky was cowled with cloud, all except a narrow chink where it met the horizon.
ref: 1945, Robert W. Service, chapter 8, in Ploughman of the Moon, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 249:
glosses: To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
examples: text: When he came downstairs from the bar with the whiskies, she had found a sweater for herself and had cowled a thick raincoat over Sligo.
ref: 1964, Hortense Calisher, “Extreme Magic”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 208:
text: As the evenings got colder, he used to reach up and pull down the green baize cloth, and cowl it around himself and wear it like a kind of igloo.
ref: 1972, Edna O’Brien, Night, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, published 1987, page 70:
glosses: To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
glosses: To make a monk of (a person).
examples: text: COWL, scrape together. "Cowlin t'cinders up."
ref: 1865, William Stott Banks, Wakefield Words, page 17:
glosses: To scrape together
cowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: koul
ipa: /kaʊl/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /kəʉl/
homophone: cawl
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: cowls
Etymology: From Middle English coul, covel, from Old French cuvel (“vat”), diminutive of cuve, from Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”).
Senses: glosses: A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
Derived terms: cowlstaff
cowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: koul
ipa: /kaʊl/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /kəʉl/
homophone: cawl
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: cowls
Etymology: See caul, probably altered due to semantic association (“something covering the head”).
Senses: examples: text: According to one of his accounts—and his accounts varied with his audience—he was the seventh son of a seventh son, and born with a cowl on his face […]
ref: 1896, I. K. Friedman, “A Coat of One Color”, in The Lucky Number, Chicago: Way and Williams, page 55:
text: 1982, André Brink, A Chain of Voices, New York: William Morrow, Part 3, “Campher,” p. 331,
[…] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic.
glosses: A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
cowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: koul
ipa: /kaʊl/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /kəʉl/
homophone: cawl
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: more cowl
form: most cowl
Etymology: Borrowed from Ulster Scots coul, from Middle English cold.
Senses: examples: text: An' bitther cowl; an' min' ye I had play,
ref: 1983, William Forbes Marshall, John the Liar:
glosses: cold
cowman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowmen
Etymology: From cow + -man.
Senses: synonyms: cattleman
rancher
cowhand
cowherd
cowperson
cowpoke
cowboy
coordinate_terms: cowgirl
glosses: A man involved in a free-range cattle business, in either ownership or hired hand roles.
examples: text: One cousin was rich and had a beautiful estate; the other was poor and was overseer and cowman for his cousin.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “The Cousins' Bobtails”, in The House of All Sorts:
text: […] my cowman, who was George's successor at Road Farm […]
ref: 1961, Adrian Bell, My Own Master, Faber and Faber, page 237:
synonyms: herdsman
cowhand
cowherd
cowkeeper
glosses: A man involved in a dairy cattle or feedlot cattle business.
Derived terms: cowmanship
cowled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cowl + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She had thrown a shawl about her and, as they went together towards the tram, sprays of her fresh warm breath flew gaily above her cowled head and her shoes tapped blithely on the glassy road.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, pages 75-76:
text: Very soon I became aware that I must have got off the path, for snow-cowled shrubs lay directly in my way […]
ref: 1923, E. F. Benson, “The Horror-Horn”, in Visible and Invisible, London: Hutchinson:
text: We went out into the moonless and tortuous network of that incredibly ancient town; went out as the lights in the curtained windows disappeared one by one, and the Dog Star leered at the throng of cowled, cloaked figures that poured silently from every doorway and formed monstrous processions up this street...
ref: 1925 January, H. P. Lovecraft, The Festival, first published in Weird Tales:
glosses: Wearing a cowl; hooded.
examples: 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs, Penguin, 1978, Fit 6, p. 234,
There were […] drifts of wood-smoke blowing from cowled chimneys.
glosses: Fitted with a cowl. (of a chimney)
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Cucullated.
cowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cowl + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowl
cowpea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊpiː/
Forms: form: cowpeas
Etymology: From cow + pea.
Senses: glosses: Any of the plants in the species Vigna unguiculata, including the black-eyed pea.
cowpox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpoxes
Etymology: From cow + pox.
Senses: glosses: A pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by an Orthopoxvirus, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox.
Synonyms: word: kine-pox
Derived terms: cowpox virus
pseudocowpox
cowry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowries
Senses: examples: text: They tie [...] a string of cowry beads around their neck.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 261:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cowrie.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Macrocypraea cervus
word: atlantic deer cowry
alt: Neobernaya spadicea
word: chestnut cowry
english: Amphiperas ovum
translation: Amphiperas ovum
word: egg cowry
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: kernel cowry
taxonomic: Monetaria moneta
alt: syn. Cypraea moneta
word: money cowry
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: nucleus cowry
taxonomic: Cypraea aurantia
word: orange cowry
taxonomic: Cypraea pantherina
word: panther cowry
taxonomic: Cypraea tigris
word: tiger cowry
english: Nucleolaria nucleus
translation: Nucleolaria nucleus
word: wrinkled cowry
cox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒks/
enpr: käks
ipa: /kɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
homophone: cocks
Forms: form: coxes
Etymology: Clipping of coxswain.
Senses: examples: text: A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
glosses: A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
Derived terms: box and cox
cox box
coxie
coxless
cox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒks/
enpr: käks
ipa: /kɑks/
rhymes: -ɒks
homophone: cocks
Forms: form: coxes
form: coxing
form: coxed
form: coxed
Etymology: Clipping of coxswain.
Senses: examples: text: The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.
text: I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.
glosses: To act as coxswain for.
Derived terms: coxed
coxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cox
coxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a cox
coxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cox
coyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coy
coying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coying
form: most coying
Senses: glosses: Enticing.
coying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coy
cozens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cozen
craped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crape
craw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: craws
form: crag
Etymology: Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).
Senses: glosses: The stomach of an animal.
glosses: The crop of a bird.
Synonyms: crop
gullet
Derived terms: crawful
crawthumper
crawthumping
stick in someone's craw
craw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: craws
form: crawing
form: crawed
form: crawed
form: crag
Etymology: Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).
Senses: examples: text: The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.
ref: 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
glosses: To caw, crow.
cress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: cresses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kris.
crewel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuː.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɹuːl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: cruel
Forms: form: crewels
form: cruel
Etymology: Of unknown origin; earlier forms include crule, crewle, and croole.
Senses: examples: text: First for a May-fly: you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Derived terms: crewelwork
crewel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuː.əl/
ipa: /ˈkɹuːl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: cruel
Forms: form: crewels
form: creweling
form: crewelling
form: creweled
form: creweled
form: crewelled
form: crewelled
form: cruel
Etymology: Of unknown origin; earlier forms include crule, crewle, and croole.
Senses: glosses: To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.
hadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæd.ɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈhæd.ɹɑn/
Forms: form: hadrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “thick”) + -on. Coined by Russian physicist Lev Okun in 1962 in a plenary talk at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.
Senses: examples: text: The weak decays of b hadrons are dominated by the spectator model process whereby the b quark decays to a c quark (or occasionally a u quark) with the emission of an external W, while the non-b antiquark or diquark acts simply as a passive spectator to the decay.
ref: 1996, J. R. Batley, “Measurements of B Hadron Lifetimes at LEP”, in Michael C. Birse, G. D. Lafferty, J. A. McGovern, editors, Hadron '95: The 6th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, World Scientific, page 48:
text: One can use the lattice simulations, which do represent the rigorous consequences of non-perturbative QCD, as guidance for models of hadron structure.
ref: 2005, D. B. Leinweber, A. W. Thomas, R. D. Young, “Hadron Structure and QCD: Effective Field Theory for Lattice Simulations”, in Alex C. Kalloniatis, Derek B. Leinweber, Anthony G. Williams, editors, Lattice Hadron Physics, Springer,, page 114:
text: And hence colour, which was initially an ad hoc concept, later turned out to be an empirically confirmed reality of hadrons.
ref: 2017, Syed Afsar Abbas, Group Theory in Particle, Nuclear, and Hadron Physics, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press / Chapman & Hall), page 204:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon.
wikipedia: International Conference on High Energy Physics
Synonyms: word: hadron
Hypernyms: word: composite particle
Hyponyms: baryon
meson
Meronyms: word: quark
Derived terms: antihadron
dihadron
exotic hadron
hadrochemical
hadrodynamics
hadrogenesis
hadronic
hadronically
hadronics
hadronise
hadronization
hadronize
hadronless
hadrontherapy
hadronuclear
hadroproduction
multihadron
prehadron
technihadron
rather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: rä′thə
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: răth′ər
enpr: rä′thər
ipa: /ˈɹæðɚ/
note: r
enpr: rŭ’thə
note: r
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹʌ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹɐː.ðə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɑd̪ʱə(r)/
note: without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈrad̪ʱə(r)/
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raither
Etymology: From Middle English rather, from Old English hraþor, comparative of hraþe (“soon, early, fast”). More at rathe. Cognate with Dutch radder (“faster”), comparative of Dutch rad (“fast; quick”), German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), German gerade (“even; straight; direct”). By surface analysis, rathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Now no man dwelleth at the rather town of Damietta.
ref: 1900, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (version in modern spelling)
glosses: Prior; earlier; former.
rather
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: rä′thə
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: răth′ər
enpr: rä′thər
ipa: /ˈɹæðɚ/
note: r
enpr: rŭ’thə
note: r
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹʌ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹɐː.ðə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɑd̪ʱə(r)/
note: without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈrad̪ʱə(r)/
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: raither
Etymology: From Middle English rather, from Old English hraþor, comparative of hraþe (“soon, early, fast”). More at rathe. Cognate with Dutch radder (“faster”), comparative of Dutch rad (“fast; quick”), German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), German gerade (“even; straight; direct”). By surface analysis, rathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like some? –Rather!
text: "Do you mean to say, young man," she said frostily, "that you expect me to drink this stuff?" ¶ "Rather! Bucks you up, you know."
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
text: "Farewell, Daughter of Eve," said he. "Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?"
"Rather!" said Lucy, and then ran towards the far-off patch of daylight as quickly as her legs would carry her.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
text: "Some of us stupid old die-hards believe that there is yet room for pride in one's work, Pook," Mr Pants said with dangerous emphasis. "Oh, rather, sir. I'd much sooner walk to London Town than ride in one of those motorcars we've heard tell of, sir."
ref: 1967, Peter Pook, Banker Pook Confesses:
glosses: An enthusiastic affirmation.
rather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: rä′thə
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: răth′ər
enpr: rä′thər
ipa: /ˈɹæðɚ/
note: r
enpr: rŭ’thə
note: r
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹʌ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹɐː.ðə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɑd̪ʱə(r)/
note: without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈrad̪ʱə(r)/
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rathers
form: raither
Etymology: From Middle English rather, from Old English hraþor, comparative of hraþe (“soon, early, fast”). More at rathe. Cognate with Dutch radder (“faster”), comparative of Dutch rad (“fast; quick”), German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), German gerade (“even; straight; direct”). By surface analysis, rathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-
ref: 1973, Chester B. Himes, Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings, page 46:
text: I would rather do it by myself. I would rather, if I had my rathers, not be seen doing it.
ref: 2000, Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow, A Novel, page 280:
glosses: A choice or a preference.
rather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: rä′thə
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/
enpr: răth′ər
enpr: rä′thər
ipa: /ˈɹæðɚ/
note: r
enpr: rŭ’thə
note: r
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹʌ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
enpr: rä’thə
ipa: /ˈɹɐː.ðə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɑd̪ʱə(r)/
note: without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈrad̪ʱə(r)/
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rathers
form: rathering
form: rathered
form: rathered
form: raither
Etymology: From Middle English rather, from Old English hraþor, comparative of hraþe (“soon, early, fast”). More at rathe. Cognate with Dutch radder (“faster”), comparative of Dutch rad (“fast; quick”), German Low German radd, ratt (“rashly; quickly; hastily”), German gerade (“even; straight; direct”). By surface analysis, rathe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Until just before the pie was popped into the heat. A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped. We grinned back, but very cool. The ones who knew said nothing, rathering to die than let on they had been hustled by two negative dudes.
ref: 1984, Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man:
text: It was a plain brown dress, more or less the colour of my hair; and the walls of our kitchen being also brown, when I came downstairs again I could hardly be seen. I should have rathered a blue gown, or a violet one; […]
ref: 2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 2, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 1, page 38:
text: So you must excuse my saying anything I did: all it was, that up to the very last I had understood us all to be friendly — apart, that is, from his rathering me not there. How was I to know he would flash out so wicked?
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day:
text: "That was a killer," said Chris. "I'd rathered die in St. Bernard than spent one minute over there. I would have rathered the storm, shaking with the wind and rain hitting in the boat for an eternity than spending any time there.
ref: 2007, Mikel Schaefer, Lost in Katrina, page 323:
glosses: To prefer; to prefer to.
aviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪvieɪt/
Forms: form: aviates
form: aviating
form: aviated
form: aviated
Etymology: Back-formation from aviator.
Senses: glosses: To operate an aircraft.
Synonyms: fly
pilot
Derived terms: aviate, navigate, communicate
balboa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bælˈbəʊə/
Forms: form: balboas
Etymology: Named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa. See also Balboa.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Panama, divided into 100 centésimos
wikipedia: Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Related terms: centésimo
batik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: batiks
Etymology: From Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀).
Senses: examples: text: There were batik dresses in which mingled indigo, orange, green, vermilion, and black; dresses of velvet and chiffon in screaming colors, blood-red, sulphur-yellow, sea-green; and one black and white thing in striking combination.
ref: 1928, Nella Larsen, “14”, in Quicksand, page 162:
glosses: A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
Derived terms: batiker
batiking
batik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: batiks
form: batiking
form: batiked
form: batiked
Etymology: From Dutch batik, from Javanese bathik (ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀).
Senses: glosses: To dye fabric using the wax-resist method.
bebop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːbɒp/
ipa: /ˈbibɑp/
Etymology: Alteration of earlier rebop, nonsense syllables used in scat singing in the 1940s. Compare doo be doo be doo, doo-wop, etc.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
Derived terms: Cubop
bebop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːbɒp/
ipa: /ˈbibɑp/
Forms: form: bebops
form: bebopping
form: bebopped
form: bebopped
Etymology: Alteration of earlier rebop, nonsense syllables used in scat singing in the 1940s. Compare doo be doo be doo, doo-wop, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption.
ref: 1988 September 2, Bill Wyman, “Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash”, in Chicago Reader:
text: “The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.”
ref: 2007 November 26, Brooks Barnes, “Laugh Lines in the Hollywood Strike”, in New York Times:
glosses: To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
examples: text: Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.
ref: 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.
ref: 2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.
ref: 2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
raw_tags: with a directional preposition
Derived terms: bebopper
bitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The bitts.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bollard.
Derived terms: bitt-heads
bitt-pin
towing bitt
unbitt
bitt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitts
form: bitting
form: bitted
form: bitted
Senses: examples: to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To put round the bitts.
defence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: defences
form: defencing
form: defenced
form: defenced
form: defense
Etymology: From Middle English defencen, defensen, from Old French defenser or its etymon, Latin dēfēnsō.
Senses: examples: text: Better manned and more strongly defenced.
ref: 1656, John Hales, Dixi Custodiam:
glosses: To furnish with defences; to fortify.
bogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō′-gē
ipa: /ˈboʊ.ɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡiː
Forms: form: bogies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bogey.
glosses: Alternative form of bogie.
Derived terms: bogyman
borate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borates
Etymology: From bor(on) + -ate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion BO₃³⁻ or any of several more complex derivatives
glosses: A salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical
Derived terms: aluminium borate
ammonioborite
borated
boratian
borating
boratoan
caesium borate
cesium borate
carboborate
decaborate
diborate
fluoborate
hydroborate
hydroboration
hypoborate
inoborate
monoborate
nesoborate
orthoborate
oxoborate
pentaborate
perborate
phylloborate
polyborate
silico-borate
silicoborate
sodium terbium borate
soroborate
tektoborate
tetraborate
tetrahydroxyborate
tetraphenylborate
triborate
trimethylborate
trispyrazolylborate
tungstoborate
undecaborate
Related terms: boron
bund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
Forms: form: bunds
Etymology: From German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.
Senses: glosses: A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
glosses: A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
bund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
ipa: /bʌnd/
ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
Forms: form: bunds
Etymology: From Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).
Senses: examples: text: The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.
ref: 2006 January 24, “The Buncefield investigation - second progress report”, in Buncefield investigation (PDF), archived from the original on 14 Apr 2006, page 4:
glosses: A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
glosses: A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
examples: text: It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
ref: 1875, John Thomson, The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China, page 408:
text: A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.
ref: 2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 54:
text: RAIB said it could not find evidence to explain who built the earth bank, known as a bund, or why it was built.
ref: 2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Rogue earthwork triggered fatal washout at Carmont”, in RAIL, number 953, page 6:
glosses: An embankment.
bund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
ipa: /bʌnd/
ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
Forms: form: bunds
form: bunding
form: bunded
form: bunded
Etymology: From Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).
Senses: examples: text: Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.
ref: 2020 December 1 (last accessed), “Plant Room Waterproofing & Tanking”, in RIW:
glosses: To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
bund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊnd/
rhymes: -ʊnd
ipa: /bʌnd/
Forms: form: bunds
Etymology: Variant of bandh, from Hindi बंध (bandh); see that entry for more. Doublet of etymology 2 above.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bandh.
Derived terms: darwaza bund
durwaza bund
despite
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: despight
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English despit, dispit, from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).
The preposition is derived from Middle English dispit, itself derived from the phrase in dispit of (in despite of).
Compare typologically Russian несмотря́ на (nesmotrjá na) (< смотре́ть (smotrétʹ)); невзира́я на (nevzirája na) (< взира́ть (vzirátʹ)), презре́в (prezrév) (< презре́ть (prezrétʹ) <~ зреть (zretʹ)) (compare despite—despise relation).
Senses: examples: text: Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.
text: So thou through windowes of thine age ſhalt ſee,
Diſpight of wrinkles this thy goulden time.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 3”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Yet doe thy worſt old Time diſpight thy wrong,
My loue ſhall in my verſe euer liue young.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
ref: 1995, Billy Corgan, “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, in Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, performed by Smashing Pumpkins:
text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
glosses: In spite of, notwithstanding.
Synonyms: word: in spite of
word: maugre
word: despite
word: for all
word: irrespective of
word: notwithstanding
word: regardless of
word: without considering
word: without regard for
Derived terms: despite oneself
Related terms: word: despise
word: even though
word: nevertheless
despite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: despites
form: despiting
form: despited
form: despited
form: despight
Etymology: From Middle English despite, dispite, dyspite, dyspyte, from Old French despitier.
Senses: examples: text: to despite his opposites
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
charr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charr
form: charrs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of char (fish)
chaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: chore (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: chaws
Etymology: An unexplained variation of chewen (“to chew”). First attested in the sixteenth century. See chew for more. Cognate with Middle Dutch cauwen ("to chew"; whence Dutch kauwen), obsolete Dutch kauw (“the act of chewing, that which is chewed, chewed mass, wad of tobacco”), Middle Low German kauwen, kauen (“to chew”). Compare also Old English ġecow (“that which is chewed, food”) and *ġeċēaw (“chewing”), whence Middle English icheu (“gnawing, biting”).
Senses: glosses: That which is chewed.
examples: text: When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.
text: "YOU give him a chaw, did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 21, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
text: He […] went into the store and behind the counter and reached up and got the plug of chewing tobacco and unwrapped it and bit off a chaw.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: Chewing tobacco.
chaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: chore (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: chaws
form: chawing
form: chawed
form: chawed
Etymology: An unexplained variation of chewen (“to chew”). First attested in the sixteenth century. See chew for more. Cognate with Middle Dutch cauwen ("to chew"; whence Dutch kauwen), obsolete Dutch kauw (“the act of chewing, that which is chewed, chewed mass, wad of tobacco”), Middle Low German kauwen, kauen (“to chew”). Compare also Old English ġecow (“that which is chewed, food”) and *ġeċēaw (“chewing”), whence Middle English icheu (“gnawing, biting”).
Senses: examples: text: The trampling steede, with gold and purple trapt,
ref: c. 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Translations from the Æneid, Book 4, in The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1920, page 130
roman: Chawing the fomie bit, there fercely stood.
text: And next to him malicious Envy rode,
Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw
Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode […]
ref: 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62
text: The Man who laugh'd but once, to see an Ass
Mumbling to make the cross-grained Thistles pass,
Might laugh again, to see a Jury chaw
The prickles of unpalatable Law.
ref: 1682, John Dryden, The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition, lines 145–8:
text: […] the king he set down and twisted his head to one side, and chawed his tongue, and scrawled off something […]
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 29, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
text: Anne passed the lily. Beyond was the bed of pinks—white, clove, cinnamon. […] Anne's scissors chawed the wiry stems almost as sapless as the everlastings.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “The Orange Lily”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
qualifier: archaic or nonstandard outside dialects
glosses: To chew; grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud).
examples: text: "I home retourning, fraught with fowle despight,
And chawing vengeaunce all the way I went,
Soone as my loathed love appeard in sight,
With wrathfull hand I slew her innocent;
glosses: To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider.
examples: text: Some pikey's chawed my bike.
glosses: To steal.
glosses: To be sulky.
Derived terms: chawbacon
chawer
chaw up
chaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: chore (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: chaws
Etymology: From Early Modern English chawe, either a form of Middle English chaul, chavel, jawle, jawe (“jaw”) (whence also English jowl) which has lost the final -l, or from Middle English *chawe, *chowe, from Old English *ċēawe, *ċēowe (“jaw”), or a form of Middle English jowe, jawe (“jaw”). See jowl and jaw for more.
Senses: examples: text: all the poison ran about his chaw
ref: 2006, Hackett (Indianapolis) edition of Edmund Spenser's [1590] “Book I, Canto IV” of The Faerie Queene, page 62
glosses: The jaw.
Derived terms: chawbone
chaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: chore (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cha (“tea”).
Related terms: chees and chaws
chined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Etymology: From chine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or having, a (particular type of) chine or backbone.
examples: text: Hee's chin'd, he's chin'd, good man, he is a mourner.
ref: c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Custome of the Countrey”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 12, column 2:
glosses: Broken in the back.
chiton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtɑn/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtɒn/
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: chitons
form: chitones
form: khiton
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian 𒌆𒃰 (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian 𒄑𒃰 (kitû [GIŠ.GADA]).
Senses: examples: text: On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:
text: She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.
ref: 1998, Colette Susan Czapski, “NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support”, in Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon, editors, Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53:
text: She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.
ref: 2002, chapter I, in Nikolaos Kaltsas, editor, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, page 156:
glosses: A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
Coordinate terms: sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: chlamys
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: exomis
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: himation
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: palla
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: peplum
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: peplos
sense: other Ancient Greek costume
word: toga
chiton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtɑn/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkaɪtɒn/
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: chitons
Etymology: ]
From New Latin chiton. See above.
Senses: examples: text: In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.
ref: 1969, Sam Hinton, chapter I, in Seashore Life of Southern California, page 72:
text: The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.
ref: 1979, R. McNeill Alexander, chapter I, in The Invertebrates, page 295:
text: The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) is the largest in the world.
ref: 1996, Paul Henson, chapter I, in The Natural History of Big Sur, page 70:
glosses: Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
Synonyms: sense: mollusc
word: coat-of-mail shell
sense: mollusc
word: gumboot
sense: mollusc
word: loricate
sense: mollusc
word: polyplacophoran
sense: mollusc
word: polyplacophore
sense: mollusc
word: sea cradle
sense: mollusc
word: sea bug
Derived terms: lined chiton