cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fishmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fishmongers
Etymology: From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger.
Senses: examples: text: If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.
ref: 1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Plato; or, The Philosopher”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 58:
synonyms: word: fishman
word: ichthyopolist
glosses: A person who sells fish.
examples: text: And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […]
ref: 1931, Grace Hegger Lewis, Half a Loaf, H. Liveright, page 225:
text: A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.
ref: 1990, Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years, Simon and Schuster, published 1995, →ISBN, page 294:
text: Cornish peppered mackerel, smoked haddock, Scottish herring and pearl-white skate wings are all laid on a bed of crushed ice at the fishmonger.
ref: 2007, Leslie Ann Bosher, To the Manor Drawn, Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's.
examples: text: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A pimp.
Hyponyms: sense: person who sells fish
alt: fishmongress
word: fishmongeress
word: fishwife
word: fishwoman
word: piscatrix
bullet hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet holes
Senses: examples: text: The car was covered in bullet holes after the gang shootout.
text: Can’t say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
glosses: A circular wound or hole caused by the projectile of a firearm.
on second thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of on second thought.
smell ya later
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Todd jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped. "Smell ya later!" he hollered over his shoulder.
ref: 1996, Sherry Shahan, Telephone Tag (A Yearling Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 16:
text: "Smell ya later," Scary Mary said to all of us, waddling toward the elevators.
ref: 2006, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Hope that pleases ya. Well, smell ya later, kid and what can I say? It was nice workin' with ya.
ref: 2006, Darren Smith, “Da Bitch Gotta Go”, in Shadow’s Bliss: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 115:
text: "Oh, yeah," Faith said. "He agreed. Da bomb." / "Smell ya later," Jason said, raising his hand as he left.
ref: 2007, Lynda Sandoval, The Other Sister (Silhouette Special Edition; 1851), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Alternative form of smell you later.
beedie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beedies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beedi.
heavier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛviɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɛvɪə/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of heavy: more heavy
Derived terms: heavier-than-air
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætɪk ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ðə ˈkɒŋɡəʊ/
Forms: form: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Senses: examples: text: The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment facility (GEF).
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
text: The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
ref: 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A country in Central Africa, the larger of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Kinshasa.
Synonyms: word: Congo
word: Congo-Kinshasa
word: Congo-Zaire
word: DRC
english: partial abbreviation
translation: partial abbreviation
word: DR Congo
word: Congo Free State
word: Belgian Congo
word: Republic of the Congo
english: names of predecessors of the modern state
translation: names of predecessors of the modern state
word: Zaire
Hypernyms: Subsahara
Related terms: Republic of the Congo
a country in Africa whose capital is Brazzaville
People's Republic of the Congo
not to be confused
Congo-Brazzaville
Republic of Congo
hadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪdəl/
rhymes: -eɪdəl
Etymology: From French hadal, from Hadès + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean.
Derived terms: hadalpelagic
xanthamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthamides
Etymology: From xanth- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of xanthic acid.
resultant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/
Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.
Senses: glosses: Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting.
resultant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/
Forms: form: resultants
Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.
Senses: examples: 2022, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension
And our logic is simply spatiality in the general sense — that resultant of a selection of the permanent from the unpermanent, the ordered from the unordered, by the means of the group and its underlying duality.
glosses: Anything that results from something else; an outcome.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.
pedate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪt
Forms: form: more pedate
form: most pedate
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a foot.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having feet.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having deeply divided lobes.
raw_tags: of a leaf
Derived terms: pedately
pedatifid
subliminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nə.li/
ipa: /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nə.li/
ipa: /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nə.li/
Forms: form: more subliminally
form: most subliminally
Etymology: From subliminal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Could it be from messages on my TV which I'm getting subliminally?
ref: 1983, Suicidal Tendencies, Subliminal:
glosses: In a subliminal manner.
special effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special effects
Senses: examples: text: So popular was trickwork and spectacle with nineteenth-century audiences, in fact, that hundreds of plays were written solely as vehicles for magic, special effects, or elaborately trapped settings.
ref: 2013, Joel Schechter, Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook, page 16:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.
Related terms: FX
F/X
SFX
S.F.X.
chipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chip
chipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: more chipped
form: most chipped
Senses: examples: a chipped plate
glosses: Having one or more chips (small pieces) missing.
examples: a chipped pet cat
glosses: Having had a microchip fitted.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power.
Derived terms: chipped rice
nonchipped
prechipped
unchipped
post-production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-productions
form: postproduction
Etymology: From post- + production.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product.
Synonyms: word: post
vaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaunted
form: most vaunted
Etymology: From vaunt + -ed
Senses: examples: text: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
ref: 2018 January 18, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
text: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
ref: 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian:
text: AmEx also recently relaunched its vaunted Platinum card, offering more travel and shopping benefits for average consumers.
ref: 2021 July 23, Paul R. La Monica, “American Express is the Dow’s top stock for 2021. Here’s why”, in CNN Business:
text: And for the past 36 years, his initials have been stamped onto every brake disc or chassis he’s assembled – part of the company’s vaunted accountability practice.
ref: 2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
vaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vaunt + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vaunt
pay attention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays attention
form: paying attention
form: paid attention
form: paid attention
Senses: examples: text: Please pay attention to the danger signs.
text: I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
glosses: To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.
Synonyms: sense: to attend
word: give heed
sense: to attend
word: pay heed
sense: to attend
word: mind
sense: to attend
word: pick up what someone is putting down
sense: to attend
word: take heed
word: attend
word: clock
word: consider
word: heed
word: let in on
word: mark
word: notice
word: pass
word: pay attention
word: privy
word: regard
word: take note
word: take notice
Hyponyms: word: listen
word: look
word: spot
Related terms: word: heads up
idem sonans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin idem sonāns (“sounding the same”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Incorrectly spelled, but sufficiently correct to identify someone.
raw_tags: of a name
Related terms: homophone
pronunciation spelling
hastate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhæsteɪt/
Forms: form: more hastate
form: most hastate
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hastate, borrowed from Latin hastātus (“armed with a spear”), from hasta (“spear”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a spear.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: hastately
semihastate
helve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: helves
Etymology: From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.
Senses: examples: text: It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]
ref: 1917, Robert Frost, "The Ax-helve":
text: Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 847:
glosses: The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
glosses: A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
helve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Forms: form: helves
form: helving
form: helved
form: helved
Etymology: From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm.
Senses: glosses: To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.
hetaera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈtɪəɹə/
/hɪˈtaɪɹə/
Forms: form: hetaerae
form: hetaeras
form: hetaira
form: hetæra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).
Senses: examples: text: But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
coordinate_terms: courtesan
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
examples: text: Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
ref: 1971, Gottfried Benn, E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings:
text: Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A mistress.
Derived terms: hetaeric
Related terms: etaerio
hetaerism
hetaerist
hilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪldɪŋ/
Forms: form: hildings
Etymology: Unknown. Likely a contraction of earlier hilderling, itself an alteration of hinderling.
Senses: examples: text: ‘God, eh? Which god? You whore, you loathsome hilding.’
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: A wretch, a contemptible person.
hirundine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹʌndʌɪn/
Etymology: From Latin hirundo (“a swallow”).
Senses: examples: text: I have not met with these hirundine star-titles except in these two instances, and I think them both incorrect.
ref: 1899, R.H. Allen, Star Names and their Meaning, page 44:
glosses: Of or relating to a swallow (the bird); of or relating to the family Hirundinidae.
hirundine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹʌndʌɪn/
Forms: form: hirundines
Etymology: From Latin hirundo (“a swallow”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘...and so, gentlemen, I believe I may confidently state that the hibernation of swallows, and of all other hirundines, is conclusively proved,’ said Mr Lamb, with a defiant glare at his audience.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
glosses: A member of the swallow family
hythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪð/
ipa: /hɔɪv/
rhymes: -ʌɪð
Forms: form: hythes
form: hithe
Etymology: From Old English hȳþ.
Senses: examples: text: That morn to other hythe we made our way / finding the peoples that before we found, / by a broad River, and we gave it name / from the high hol'iday when to port we came.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 202:
text: On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges.
ref: 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
glosses: A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port.
Derived terms: Bablock Hythe
hogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊɡəʊ/
Forms: form: hogos
form: fogo
form: hogoo
Etymology: From French haut-goût.
Senses: examples: text: In short, he lookt extremely natty, / And even contrived—to his own great wonder— / By dint of sundry scents from Gattie, / To keep the sulphurous hogo under.
ref: a. 1852, Thomas Moore, “A Case of Libel”, in The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore:
text: Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period. Come near. Then get a hogo you could hang your hat on. Like what? Potted herrings gone stale or. Boof! Please keep off the grass.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: He opened and let out a hogo of medicinal rum and beer. The bad tooth was a premolar.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: A strong, unpleasant smell.
Related terms: haut gout
horst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːst/
rhymes: -ɔːst
homophone: horsed
Forms: form: horsts
Etymology: From German Horst (“heap”).
Senses: examples: text: The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.
ref: 1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390:
text: 1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,
Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
text: Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
ref: 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, page 83:
text: Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins.
ref: 2011, James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, Physical Geography, 10th edition, page 393:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
Derived terms: horst and graben
hough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: /hʌf/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hock
Forms: form: houghs
Etymology: From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo.
The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu.
Senses: examples: text: In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Alternative form of hock (“the hollow behind the knee”).
glosses: Alternative form of hock (“tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped”).
hough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: /hʌf/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hock
Forms: form: houghs
form: houghing
form: houghed
form: houghed
Etymology: From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo.
The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu.
Senses: examples: text: Far and wide the farms were burnt over their owners’ heads, the growing crops upon the ground; the horses were houghed, the cattle driven off; while of human death and misery there was no end.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 25, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 337:
glosses: Alternative form of hock (“to hamstring”).
Synonyms: hamstring
hock
hox
Hypernyms: disable
Derived terms: hougher
Hougher
hough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: /hʌf/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hock
Forms: form: houghs
Etymology: See hoe (“agricultural tool”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hoe.
hough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: /hʌf/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hock
Forms: form: houghs
form: houghing
form: houghed
form: houghed
Etymology: See hoe (“agricultural tool”).
Senses: examples: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, K:LV
Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far!
Perhaps the happieſt of the Sons of Men!
Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car;
Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen,
Delves in his Garden, or ſecures his Pen.
glosses: Archaic spelling of hoe.
hough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
ipa: /hʌf/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hock
Forms: form: houghs
Etymology: From Middle English ho, howe, hogh, from Old English hōh (“a promontory”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoe.
housel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊzəl/
rhymes: -aʊzəl
Etymology: From Middle English housel, from Old English hūsl (“housel, Eucharist, the Host, a sacrifice”), from Proto-Germanic *hunslą (“sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsl (“housel”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻 (hunsl, “sacrifice, offering”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy, sacred”) (OED).
The OED cites usage of the noun from the 10th to the 17th century. 19th century use is deliberately archaizing. The verb is attested from the 11th century, and in occasional usage persists into the 19th.
Senses: examples: text: The Holy Houſel ought to be kept vvith great Diligence and not be permitted to be ſtale, but another be alvvays hallovved anevv for Sick Men in about a Seven-night, or Fortnight, ſo as that it may not be muſty at leaſt.
ref: 1720, Elfric [i.e., Ælfric of Abingdon]; John Johnson, “A.D. DCCCCLVII. Elfric’s Canons.”, in A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, Or Rescripts, with Other Memorials Concerning the Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Church of England, […], 1st part, London: […] Robert Knaplock […], and Samuel Ballard […], →OCLC:
text: She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The Eucharist.
housel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊzəl/
rhymes: -aʊzəl
Forms: form: housels
form: houseling
form: houselling
form: houseled
form: houseled
form: houselled
form: houselled
Etymology: From Middle English houselen, from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), from Proto-Germanic *hunslōną (“to sacrifice, offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsla (“to housel”), Old Swedish húsla (“to administer the Eucharist to”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hunsljan, “to offer, sacrifice”).
Senses: glosses: To administer the Eucharist to.
examples: text: So housel all our hackneys that they may feel Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate.
ref: 1750, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:
glosses: To prepare for a journey.
Derived terms: unhouseled
hoyden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪdən/
rhymes: -ɔɪdən
Forms: form: hoydens
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).
Senses: examples: text: She is a hoyden, one will say. At any rate she is not a lady, another will exclaim. I have suspected her all through, a third will declare; she has no idea of the dignity of a matron; or of the peculiar propriety which her position demands.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers: In Three Volumes, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, OCLC 911659634; republished [London]: D. Campbell Publishers, 1992 (Everyman's Library; 57), ISBN 978-1-85715-057-5, volume II, page 147
text: her ladyship burst suddenly into the schoolroom to introduce Mr. Perriam, who, as she announced from the doorway to Maisie, wouldn't believe his ears that one had a great hoyden of a daughter.
ref: 1897 October 16, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC:
text: It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
text: Not all ladies in my profession are as that shameless hoyden, Mrs Charke, that has brought such distress through her malicious conduct and ill repute upon her worthy father, Mr Cibber; far from it, sir.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
text: Tabitha is lighting the candles in the sconces. A great, strong, heavy girl, a hoyden, not pretty, her face distinguished only by youth, by health.
ref: 1997, Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain:
glosses: A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.
hoyden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪdən/
rhymes: -ɔɪdən
Forms: form: more hoyden
form: most hoyden
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).
Senses: examples: text: Many of the country girls I met appeared to me pretty – that is, to have fine complexions, sparkling eyes, and a kind of arch, hoyden playfulness which distinguishes the village coquette.
ref: 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, letter 22:
text: At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting – no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones […]
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, “chapter 3”, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
glosses: Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish.
hoyden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪdən/
rhymes: -ɔɪdən
Forms: form: hoydens
form: hoydening
form: hoydened
form: hoydened
Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden).
Senses: glosses: To behave in a hoydenish manner.
Derived terms: hoydenhood
hoydenism
hydraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/
Forms: form: hydraemias
form: hydræmia
form: hydremia
form: hydrohaemia
Etymology: From hydro- + -aemia.
Senses: glosses: thinness of the blood
hydræmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydraemia.
hydremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/
Forms: form: hydremias
form: hydræmia
form: hydraemia
form: hydrohemia
Etymology: From hydro- + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: I suffer from hydremia. Perhaps that’s the reason why water draws me when I should draw water.
ref: 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:
glosses: Thinness of the blood.
Related terms: hydraemic
hydremic
hydroponic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪdɹəˈpɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌhaɪdɹəˈpɑnɪk/
ipa: /ˌhaɪdɹoʊˈpɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: Back-formation from hydroponics. By surface analysis, hydro- (“water”) + Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos, “work, labour”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Sid was now living in a small commune in the Shetland Islands, where he and his fellow communards were dedicated to the growing of implausibly large hydroponic onions.
ref: 1991, Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity:
text: She had been offended because he had seen her every day for ten days, then when she’d finally obtained 50 grams of genetically enhanced hydroponic marijuana for him[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 24:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: aeroponic
geoponic
organoponic
glosses: Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without soil.
Derived terms: hydrochronic
hydroponically
hydroponicist
Related terms: aquaponics
hydroponically
hydroponicist
hydroponics
hydroponicum
hydrozone
hypaethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hɪˈpiːθɹəl/
/haɪˈpiːθɹəl/
Forms: form: hypæthral
form: hypethral
Etymology: From Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros), from ὑπό (hupó) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”).
Senses: examples: text: There was a dignity in their hypaethral presence kin to summer’s first morning of taurine light in the pepper trees of Uruguay.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Open-air, outdoor, exposed to the sky.
hypaethral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈpiːθɹəl/
/haɪˈpiːθɹəl/
Forms: form: hypaethrals
form: hypæthral
form: hypethral
Etymology: From Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros), from ὑπό (hupó) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek temple that is uncovered and exposed to the sky.
xanthic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of organic sulphur-containing acids of general formula ROCS₂H
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: xanthate
Related terms: xanthamide
hyperborean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪ.pəˈbɔː.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈboɹ.i.jɪn/
Forms: form: hyperboreans
form: Hyperborean
Etymology: From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).
Senses: examples: The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
glosses: Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
hyperborean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪ.pəˈbɔː.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈboɹ.i.jɪn/
Forms: form: more hyperborean
form: most hyperborean
form: Hyperborean
Etymology: From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).
Senses: examples: text: The hyperborean or frozen sea.
ref: 1633, C. Butler, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]
ref: 1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons.”, in The Seasons, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 167, lines 857–859:
text: You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Amongst the fish that the Nautilus frightened as it passed, I will cite the metre-long cyclopteroid with a black back and orange stomach, providing an example of conjugal fidelity rarely followed by its congeners, a huge Forsskal's stingray, a sort of emerald moray eel which has a excellent taste, big-eyed carracks whose heads resemble dogs', blennies viviparous like snakes, 20-centimetre frillgobies or black gudgeons, and Macrura with long tails and shining with a silvery glitter: quick fish that had ventured far from hyperborean seas.
ref: 1998 [1871], Jules Verne, translated by William Butcher, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, revised, illustrated edition:
glosses: Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area.
hyperdulia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpəduːˈlʌɪə/
Forms: form: hyperdulias
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hyperdūlīa, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + dūlīa, from Ancient Greek δουλείᾱ (douleíā, “slavery”), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”).
Senses: examples: text: By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 451:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
Derived terms: hyperdulic
Related terms: dulia
hypergolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpɚˈɡɒlɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ol + -ic, after the model of German Hypergol and hypergolisch. Equivalent to hypergol + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Although the LF₂-LH₂ cryogenic combination is hypergolic, the toxicity of the fuel and the products of combustion have made the use of this system impractical. In general, the commonly used hypergolic propellants are considered conventionally storable, that is, they do not need special refrigeration equipment to keep them liquid.
ref: 2016, Pasquale M. Sforza, Theory of Aerospace Propulsion, 2nd ed., Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), page 565
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: fuel
glosses: Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer.
raw_tags: of a reactant
examples: text: The chemical reaction range of hypergolic mixtures varies from slow and barely visible to an instantaneous and highly visible explosive force.
ref: 1994, Stephen K. Hall, Chemical Safety in the Laboratory, CRC Press, page 65:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Involving such a hypergolic agent.
raw_tags: of a reaction
Derived terms: hypergol
hypergolically
hypergolicity
nonhypergolic
hypergolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpɚˈɡɒlɪk/
Forms: form: hypergolics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ol + -ic, after the model of German Hypergol and hypergolisch. Equivalent to hypergol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A hypergolic propellant; a hypergol.
hypogeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪpəˈd͡ʒiːəm/
ipa: /hɪpəˈd͡ʒiːəm/
Forms: form: hypogeums
form: hypogea
Etymology: From Latin hypogaeum, from Ancient Greek ὑπόγειον (hupógeion), a noun use of the neuter singular of ὑπόγειος (hupógeios, “underground”).
Senses: examples: text: Contour: the unique parameters of Karen’s body – beckoning vents of mouth and vulva, the soft hypogeum of the anus.
ref: 1969, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
text: There may in fact be a Punic graffiti, in the Roman alphabet, on a hypogeum in San Salvatore di Cabras dated to the era of the Constantinian imperial dynasty.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 17:
glosses: An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).
Derived terms: hypogeal
galenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From galena + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or containing galena
Galenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Galen + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He had emerged from a tradition steeped in Galenic scholarship.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 53:
glosses: of, or relating to Galen, his followers, principles or practices, especially relating to vegetable preparations used as remedies.
Related terms: Galenical
Galenism
Galenist
Galenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlɛnɪk(ə)l/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɛnɪkəl/
ipa: /-nə-/
Etymology: From Galenic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: About 1540 the furibund character of syphilis began to disappear. Probably inherited immunity played a part in this as well as the fact that the Galenical physicians, stirred up by the assaults of Paracelsus, took a more active part in treatment.
ref: 1890 February, Jas[on] G. Kiernan, “Anti-syphilitics of the Sixteenth Century”, in The Medical Standard, volume VII, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: G. P. Engelhard & Co., →OCLC, page 43, column 1:
glosses: Of, relating to, or supporting the principles and practices of Galen.
Derived terms: Galenically
Galenical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈlɛnɪk(ə)l/
ipa: /ɡəˈlɛnɪkəl/
ipa: /-nə-/
Forms: form: Galenicals
Etymology: From Galenic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of galenical.
Galenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Galenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: using Galenic remedies
galenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: galenic
galenical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galenicals
Etymology: Named after Galen, the Greek physician and writer of the second century.
Senses: glosses: A medicinal preparation concocted mostly from herbs or vegetable matter., like those prescribed by Galen; a simple cure.
galeniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more galeniferous
form: most galeniferous
Etymology: From galena + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: of a mineral or deposit: that contains galena
Galenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Galen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles and practices of Galen.
Related terms: Galenist
Galenic
Galenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galenists
Etymology: From Galen + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of Galenism.
hypostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪpəˈstætɪk/
Forms: form: more hypostatic
form: most hypostatic
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός (hupostatikós), from ὑποστατός (hupostatós). Equivalent to hypostasis + -tic.
Senses: examples: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, "A Præface Introductory"
The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
examples: text: The hypostatic union , as it is called , the perfect and complete union of two whole and perfect natures in the person of Jesus Christ , underlies this apparent paradox
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
examples: text: hypostatic congestion, due to setting of blood by gravitation
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
Derived terms: anhypostatic
hypostatically
hypostatic union
nonhypostatic
ibrik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪbɹiːk/
Forms: form: ibriks
form: briki
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian *ābrēkbor.?
Parthian *ābrēkbor.?
Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܝܩܐ (ʾaḇrēqā)bor.?
Arabic إِبْرِيق (ʔibrīq)bor.
Ottoman Turkish ابریق (ibrik, ıbrık)bor.
English ibrik
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابریق (ibrik, ıbrık), borrowed from Arabic إِبْرِيق (ʔibrīq), possibly borrowed from Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܝܩܐ (ʾaḇrēqā), possibly borrowed from Middle Persian *ābrēk + Parthian *ābrēk.
Senses: glosses: A long-spouted pitcher, typically made of brass.
glosses: A Turkish coffee pot or jezve.
ikey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪki/
Forms: form: ikeys
Etymology: From Ike + -y, representing a colloquial abbreviation of Isaac.
Senses: examples: text: My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo,
Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can pick out the eye of the crow;
ref: 1906, Banjo Paterson, Wisdom of Hafiz:
text: I meant to start from Barrhill, but I missed the train, and then I hung on to old Ikey-Mo, which made my alibi much better,
ref: 1931, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 29, in The Five Red Herrings:
glosses: A Jew.
ikey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪki/
Forms: form: more ikey
form: most ikey
Etymology: From Ike + -y, representing a colloquial abbreviation of Isaac.
Senses: examples: text: Clara had always been ‘ikey’ – reserved and superior.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland. He prolonged his pleased smile. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up in the northwest.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having negative traits stereotypically associated with Jews; cunning, supercilious.
Related terms: Ikey Mo
illation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /əˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
homophone: elation
Forms: form: illations
Etymology: From Latin illātiō (“logical inference, deduction, conclusion”), from illātus, perfect passive participle of inferō (“carry or bring into somewhere; conclude”), from in + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).
Senses: examples: text: Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 2:
text: it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference […]
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: Adriaan moved to Pierce’s American illation whereby an if begets a therefore, event by event, the javelin’s flight issuing from the web of contingencies in which we may locate the javelin and the javelineer […]
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction.
Related terms: illative
imbricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmbɹɪkeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more imbricated
form: most imbricated
Etymology: Participle adjective, imbricate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong.
ref: 1851, G. F. Richardson, Thomas Wright, “Fossil Botany”, in An Introduction to Geology, and Its Associate Sciences, Mineralogy, Fossil Biology, and Palæontology, new, rev. and considerably enl. edition, London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, page 171:
text: As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […]
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Spring”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: A leaf consists of two or three pairs of pinnae, each bearing many small leaflets. These, when the plant is asleep, are directed forwards and become imbricated.
ref: 1880, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:
text: He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
text: the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.
ref: 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder, Bloomsbury, published 2003, page 50:
text: Imbricated as competitors in the international system of imperialism, such regimes were far more invested in maximising their own power than in independent workers' movements, and were perfectly willing, where they could not control them, to betray, attack, or destroy them.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
Derived terms: nonimbricated
subimbricated
unimbricated
impleach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpliːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: impleaches
form: impleaching
form: impleached
form: impleached
Etymology: From in- + pleach.
Senses: glosses: to entwine, entangle