cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crystal cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal cells
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lithocyst (“siliceous structure in algae”).
synonyms: word: lithocyst
extra: siliceous structure in algae
crystal cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystal cell
lipoxeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The desertion of a host plant by a parasite to complete its development on reserve materials previously obtained from the host, as in the falling away of ergot.
lithoxyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lithoxyl.
lithospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lithospermous
form: most lithospermous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having hard, stony seeds.
battlehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlehorses
Etymology: From battle + horse.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of warhorse.
synonyms: word: warhorse
battlehorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlehorse
lumbricous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumbricous
form: most lumbricous
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an earthworm.
Draconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Draconical
form: most Draconical
Senses: examples: text: And in a Parliament held at Weſtminſter was eſtabliſhed (a) the act of the ſix articles, which was named the bloudy ſtatute, and the whip of ſix ſtrings; which drew ſo much bloud upon poor Chriſtians, and whereof Auricular Confeſſion was one of the ſtrings. The procurer of that Draconical law, together with the occaſion thereof is particularly deſcribed by our Eccleſiaſtical Annaliſt Mr John Fox; whoever was the chief doer therein, Eccleſiaftical perſons were the chief ſufferers.
ref: 1657, [Thomas Aylesbury], “An Historical Relation of the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England Concerning Confession, and the Practice Thereof by Some of the Chief Members in the Same”, in A Treatise of the Confession of Sinne, […], London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond] for Andr[ew] Crook, […], →OCLC, “Of Penitential Confession” section, page 329:
text: No, these are not imaginary grievances so sneeringly alluded to by the above (liberal and Christian?) correspondent, but real grievances, which penetrate to the hearts and souls of the sufferers, and cry shame on the land calling itself Christian, which can perpetuate or permit such Draconical and inhuman, and, above all, unchristian laws.
ref: 1853 November 4, Ed[itor], “Foreign Intelligence”, in The Jewish Chronicle, volume X, number 5 (394 overall), London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1:
text: But there is no question of politics, I am told, but of murder. Of murder? Indeed! Where, then, was murder committed? Where was it even attempted? The accusation itself dares not utter the word of a ‘commencement of execution.[’] What they talk of is a plot, a conspiracy (complot), a different thing altogether, since the most Draconical law has embodied the principle that, as long as no real attempt is made, the conspirators may have altered their mind.
ref: 1857 July 31, [Alexandre Auguste] Ledru Rollin, quotee, “Ledru Rollin and Louis Napoleon”, in Butler’s South Bucks Free Press, Wycombe and Maidenhead Journal, and Weekly Advertiser for the Wycombe Railway District, volume I, number 33, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, →OCLC, page [2], column 5:
text: At the opening of Parliament and the coming to power of Zaghloul, a Draconical law was promulgated, essentially directed against the workers’ organisations. Whilst the country as a whole directed all its forces towards liberty and independence from the English yoke, this law denies the right of the workers to meet in defence of their elementary interests, and interdicts the most sacred right of the workers, viz.: the right to strike.
ref: 1924, The Communist Review, volume 5, London: Communist Party of Great Britain, →OCLC, page 106, column 2:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of draconical (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
pluripetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluripetalous
form: most pluripetalous
Etymology: From pluri- + petalous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polypetalous.
synonyms: word: polypetalous
podetiiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more podetiiform
form: most podetiiform
Etymology: podetium + -iform
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a podetium.
Gallipolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gallipolian
form: most Gallipolian
Etymology: Gallipoli + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gallipoli.
Gallipolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gallipolians
Etymology: Gallipoli + -an
Senses: glosses: A soldier who fought in the Gallipoli campaign.
Gallipolians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallipolian
incompensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompensable
form: most incompensable
Etymology: From in- + compensable.
Senses: examples: text: Incompenſable, (lat[in]) uncapable of being recompenced.
ref: [1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Incompensable”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: In nothing, perhaps, is this tendency of ancient criticism better shown than in its attitude to the question of Faultlessness. Of course, on this question there were two parties, with many subdivisions in each. There were the extreme classics of that classic time, the wooden persons of whom Martial tells us, for whom it was enough if a thing was not “correct,” to whom a fault was a fault—indelible, incompensable, to be judged off-hand and Draconically.
ref: 1900, George Saintsbury, “‘Faultlessness’”, in A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day […], volume I (Classical and Mediæval Criticism), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, and Co.; Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II (Latin Criticism), chapter II (The Contemporaries of Quintilian), page 285:
text: Two types of “loss” are inflicted upon one who suffers personal injuries. He may suffer actual financial loss such as loss of wages or reduction in his earning capacity. And he may suffer reduction in his enjoyment of his life, through pain and suffering and inability to participate in his usual activities, whether of a temporary or permanent nature. It is clear that the latter loss is incompensable in monetary terms.
ref: 1981, C[harles] D[avid] Baker, “Remedies”, in Tort (Concise College Texts), 3rd edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, →ISBN, page 312:
text: Finally and most significantly, the plaintiffs are using the few vague and incomplete legal categories presently available in domestic law to pinpoint the role of multinational corporations and the complicit governments that allow their activities to inflict incompensable harms that can only be described as crimes against humanity.
ref: 2011, Laura Westra, “The Common Good and the Public Interest: Jus Cogens Norms and Erga Omnes Obligations in a Lawless World”, in Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Basic Collective Rights for Law and Morality – The Theory), page 73:
synonyms: irrecompensable
uncompensable
unrecompensable
antonyms: compensable
compensatable
recompensable
glosses: Not compensable.
Méliès
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Méliès.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, usually applying to Georges Méliès.
Derived terms: Mélièsian
inenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Fibrocellular tissue whose cells have the appearance of spiral vessels, as in Sphagnum.
Mélièsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mélièsian
form: most Mélièsian
Etymology: From Méliès + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Georges Méliès (1861–1938), French filmmaker, or his films.
Mount Eisenhower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, United States, renamed from Mount Pleasant in 1970.
examples: text: Diesel-hauled Canadian Pacific train in the heart of the Rockies, with Mount Eisenhower in the background
ref: 1955 June, “Dieselisation of Canadian Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 418, photo caption:
glosses: Former name of Castle Mountain, in the Canadian Rockies, in use between 1946 and 1979.
shogunally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shogunal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately for Takauji's hopes of easy consolidation of power, Godaigo once again escaped custody. This time he fled to the rugged mountains around Yoshino well to the south of Kyoto. There he established a government in exile and thus provided the incentive for a continuing struggle between the adherents of the shogunally sponsored Northern Court in Kyoto and his own loyalist Southern Court at Yoshino.
ref: 1981, James H. Sanford, “Ikkyū Sōjun: His Life and Times”, in Zen-man Ikkyū (Studies in World Religions; 2), Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Also outlined are the genres and topoi most infected by Ran, particularly those associated with the Floating World (ukiyo) – that demimonde that existed on the peripheries of the shogunally sanctioned metropoles.
ref: 1996, Timon Screech, “Introduction”, in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3, column 2:
text: After cutting his partner’s veins with a razor (with Sojun’s full consent, the record implies), Kinji turned the blade upon himself but, before he had a chance to expire, was discovered clinging to Sojun’s lifeless body by a villager passing through the shogunally administered forest where the incident took place.
ref: 1999, Gregory M. Pflugfelder, “Outrageous Spectacles”, in Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Legal Discourse), page 108:
glosses: By a shogun or shoguns.
Draconianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Draconianisms
Etymology: From Draconian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: What a store of shame and sorrow is he laying up for himself! I never much admired the vaunt of Draconianism, ‘And all this I dare do, because I dare,’ yet what but this is Lord Byron’s plea!
ref: 1819, William Gifford, letter to John Murray; quoted in Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […]; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], 1891, →OCLC, page 404:
text: This latter development is one of the most interesting of all Nazi Draconianisms. Under the Hereditary Farms Law of 1933, all farms up to 312 acres that are capable of supporting a family can never be mortgaged or sold and must be passed on undivided by the owner after his death to the eldest (in some cases the youngest) male heir.
ref: 1939 October, “Germany I: ‘We Are Living in a Fortress’”, in Fortune, volume XX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 126, column 2:
text: Keane could hardly have laid it on the line more eloquently in his press conference that week, that this was discipline rather than Draconianism. There wasn’t a trace of self-doubt from the manager over the action he’d taken.
ref: 2008 July, Graeme Anderson, “All at Sea and a Dose of the Blues”, in In Keane We Trust: The Story of a Footballing City’s Faith in One Man: A Record of Sunderland’s 2007-08 Season, Ireland: Sports-i, →ISBN, page 217:
text: But, having seen what monumentally disastrous consequences the Draconianism of their papal predecessors caused, no pope since then could possibly be excusably ignorant of how evil such Draconianism is as a result of the consequences it is all too likely to precipitate regardless of whether or not it is a punishment not exceeding the crime.
ref: 2012 April 17, Edward N. Haas, “On Secret Sins”, in What Happens in Death + a Few Related Topics, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, footnote 1, page 129:
text: The endpoint of Draconianism may not necessarily have been the destination when Hair set sail but my, he got us there in the end, didn’t he? And though I warned of it, I never really thought that what I wrote would become vital in the vain hope of upholding civil liberty.
ref: 2016, Ed Spencer, “Joined-up thought”, in The People’s Republic of Absurdia or Blighty: The State We’re In, London; Suffield, Norfolk: Sigmund Fraud Books, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of draconianism.
Draconianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Draconianism
Castle Mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada, which was renamed Mount Eisenhower in 1946, reverting to its original name in 1979.
glosses: A number of mountains with the name elsewhere.
isidiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isidiose
form: most isidiose
Senses: glosses: Having powdery, coral-like excrescences.
rhizophyllaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to those ferns whose fronds are attached to the rhizome or root.
rhodochrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhodochrous
form: most rhodochrous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a pink or rose color.
semifloscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semifloscules
Etymology: From semi- + floscule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of semifloret.
synonyms: word: semifloret
semifloscules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semifloscule
self-breed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-breeds
form: self-breeding
form: self-bred
form: self-bred
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To reproduce by self-fertilization.
Esquimalt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Capital Regional District, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
spinellose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinellose
form: most spinellose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Armed with small spines or hairs.
Shenxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Afternoon: Flew to Sian on an Ilyushin 14. Visited the five-thousand-year-old archaeological site Panpo Village—a neolithic village which has been excavated and made into a national museum.
Evening: Saw a production of the ballet White-haired Girl performed by the Provincial Ballet Troupe of Shenxi Province.
ref: 1972 March, Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, “Introduction”, in China! Inside the People's Republic, New York: Bantam Books, →OCLC, page 18:
text: In 1920, the five provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shenxi (those affected by the terrible famine of 1876-1878) suffered severe drought.[…]
In the summer of 1921, a militant nationalist from the province, Yu You-ren, launched a movement for the independence of Shenxi, supported by a “Citizens’ Assembly.” For the Guomindang, the operation had strategic as well as political interest. Shenxi, where Sun Yat-sen had looked for support in 1911 and again in 1916, offered the Canton dissidents a possible base for diversionary operations in the North, as well as for taking their enemy in the rear.
ref: 1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, translated by Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78, 85:
text: Jing and Luo do not discuss what part the landlords themselves actually played in the running of the farm; it presumably varied according to the number and extent of their other businesses, but, in general, they appear to have acted through their foremen rather than directly supervising or dealing with the other laborers. Thus, in a farm manual written for his sons by a managerial landlord from Shenxi province in the first part of the nineteenth century, the farmer is urged to check this or that activity of the foremen.
ref: 1978, Jing Su, Luo Lun, translated by Endymion Wilkinson, Landlord and Labor in Late Imperial China: Case Studies from Shandong (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 80, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 26, 307:
glosses: Synonym of Shaanxi.
synonyms: word: Shaanxi
subdiffuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + diffuse.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or imperfectly diffuse.
subeffuse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + effuse.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or imperfectly effuse.
switch-plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch-plants
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant whose leaves are absent or reduced, with green shoots acting in place of leaves.
chryseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chryseous
form: most chryseous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a golden-yellow color.
Capital Regional District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Capital Regional District
Senses: glosses: A regional district in the south of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Kunthipuzha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malayalam കുന്തിപ്പുഴ (kuntippuḻa).
Senses: glosses: A river in Palakkad district, Kerala, India, flowing through Silent Valley and Palakkad Gap, and tributary of the Bharathapuzha River.
M-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M-4s
Senses: examples: text: Iraqi security forces will start replacing their AK-47 rifles this year with the M-16s and M-4s used by U.S. troops, which will help track the weapons and cut down on theft, a senior U.S. military official said.
ref: 2007 August 9, “M-16s a step forward for Iraqi forces, says US”, in Reuters:
text: The legislation specifically bans several AR-15 style weapons by name. The weapons — semi-automatic variants of the M-4 and M-16 type weapons issued to US troops — have been used in a plethora of shootings in the past few years, including the October 27 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.
ref: 2018 December 17, Evan Simko-Bednarski and Taylor Romine, “Pittsburgh City Council to consider ban on assault weapons, bump stocks”, in CNN:
text: “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of M4 (firearm)
M-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M-4
M4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M4
PRTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PRTFs
Senses: examples: text: “To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of personnel recovery task force.
PRTFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PRTF
Bharathapuzha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil பாரதப்புழா (pāratappuḻā), Malayalam ഭാരതപ്പുഴ (bhāratappuḻa).
Senses: glosses: A river in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India that empties into the Lakshadweep Sea.
Palakkad Gap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A low mountain pass in the Western Ghats, India.
girderwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From girder + -work.
Senses: examples: text: The reconstruction of the second half of this span followed on the succeeding weekend, when the old girderwork was similarly removed and replaced with the new, the down line being restored to its original alignment.
ref: 1955 June, “Bridge Reconstruction near Harrow-on-the-Hill”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
glosses: A construction employing girders.
C-17
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-17s
Senses: examples: text: During the evacuation operation, as US Air Force C-17s began steadily arriving at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Duncan wrote that airmen from the personnel recovery task force began tracking passengers departing the airport. […] In describing the frenetic scene at the airport, Duncan writes that, moments after a C-17 cargo aircraft took off with Afghans clinging to its side, two of the Wing’s HC-130J combat rescue aircraft took off with barely any runway to spare, skimming 10 feet above the heads of the crowd that had swarmed the airport during the evacuation efforts.
ref: 2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Ellipsis of Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a military transport aircraft.
C-17s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-17
authoritative parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A parenting style, marked by high demands, high warmth, and high responsiveness.
authoritarian parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parenting style, marked by high demands, low warmth, and low responsiveness. Rules are usually forced without question.
uninvolved parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parenting style, marked by little to no warmth, responsiveness, or demands at all. Parents may provide food, shelter, and clothing for their child, but they are usually emotionally absent.
neglectful parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uninvolved parenting.
synonyms: word: uninvolved parenting
permissive parenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A parenting style marked by high warmth and responsiveness but low demands and rules; parents may be more friendly than traditionally parental.
baby-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Keep the baby-fat on your lambs; when they have lost that they have lost their growth.
ref: 1903 August 1, “Sheep Notes”, in Breeder and Sportsman, volume XLIII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 12, column 3:
text: He was of average height but a bit chunky, with a soft layer of baby-fat that made him look somewhat clumsy, though when when he got up from the clear plastic inflated armchair—which I later found it difficult to get out of—he moved with the automatic grace of an athlete.
ref: 1970, Tucker Coe [pseudonym; Donald Edwin Westlake], chapter 5, in A Jade in Aries (A Mitchell Tobin Story; 4), New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: My only hope was that somehow he wouldn’t recognize me as we passed (after all, I had gained a bit of baby-fat over the past few months).
ref: 2005, Tamra Norton, chapter 15, in Molly Mommy?, Springville, Ut.: Bonneville Books, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of baby fat.
shegoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shegoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of she-goat.
shegoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shegoat
minces one's words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mince one's words
mincing one's words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mince one's words
minced one's words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mince one's words
pinchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pinch + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: “I wouldn’t have said you were the pinchable type, Jackie. You models are too greyhoundish to nip well. Betty, now . . .” / “For God’s sake,” said the inspector irritably, “must we have a discussion of relative pinchability just now? Miss Callender . . . ?”
ref: 1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113:
text: demand qualities, characters, or meanings The expressive qualities in the physiognomy of things that elicit particular feelings and behavior, often without prior learning; for example, the pinchability of a baby’s cheek.
ref: 1979, L[awrence] Joseph Stone, Joseph Church, with Evelyn Raskin and Alexandria Church, “Glossary”, in Childhood & Adolescence: A Psychology of the Growing Person, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 571, column 1:
text: With few exceptions, the popularity of a given place has more to do with quantity than quality, and the caliber of the provender is far outweighed by the availability of parking space, the pinchability of the waitresses, and the liberality of the bartender.
ref: 1990, Jay Jacobs, “It Was a Turkey”, in A Glutton for Punishment: Confessions of a Mercenary Eater, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, pages 105–106:
glosses: The quality of being pinchable.
Barrès
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Barrès.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, usually applying to Maurice Barrès.
Derived terms: Barrèsian
greyhoundish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greyhoundish
form: most greyhoundish
Etymology: From greyhound + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Gently, gently, friend Aaron: you trot on with those long legs of yours with such a greyhoundish speed, that my trotters can’t at all keep pace with you.
ref: [1829?], A[ndrew] L[eonard] V[oullaire] Campbell, The Forest Oracle; or, The Bridge of Tresino: An Operatic Drama, […] (Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, Being a Companion to Cumberland’s British Theatre; 16), London: John Cumberland, […], →OCLC, act II, scene III, page 34:
text: I wouldn’t have said you were the pinchable type, Jackie. You models are too greyhoundish to nip well.
ref: 1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113:
text: The frescoes in the scuola had real dogs in them, too. “Which is your favorite?” she asked Min, who plumped for the scruffy white terrier gazing up at Saint Augustine as he received from Saint Jerome the news of his imminent demise. “The obvious choice,” Eva said, “though for my part I prefer the long-snouted greyhoundish one watching him baptize the Selenites.”
ref: 2020, David Leavitt, chapter 3, in Shelter in Place: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part I, pages 22–23:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a greyhound.
Saltdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the city of Brighton and Hove and Telscombe parish, Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3802).
wax-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax-eyes
Senses: examples: text: [T]he world being My Place by the fallen birch log, with the grass, the insects in the grass, the sky, the sheep and cows and rabbits, the wax-eyes and the hawks – everything Outside.
ref: 1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 11:
glosses: A bird of the genus Zosterops; a silvereye.
Swinhoe's pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swinhoe's pheasants
Etymology: Named after Robert Swinhoe.
Senses: glosses: Lophura swinhoii, a pheasant native to Taiwan.
Tyrez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Tyreez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
trash day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash days
Senses: glosses: A day for residences when waste gets picked up.
uninfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: This result justifies the negative result of the well-known Lodge's experiment to detect ether drag by rapidly rotating a heavy iron spheroid, and also predicts the uninfluence of the rotation of the earth, the sun and the Jupiter on the velocity of the ray of light passing by their edges.
ref: 1922, Japanese Journal of Physics, volumes 1-3, page 11:
text: Such experiment was devoted to reveal the influence (or uninfluence) of the terrestrial motion on the speed of light.
ref: 2013, G. Rizzi, M.L. Ruggiero, Relativity in Rotating Frames, page 156:
text: Additional advantages of postmortem imaging are its noninvasive nature, the uninfluence of radiation dosing, the reasonably brief time of execution, and the ability to detect alterations that may not be apparent on traditional autopsies.
ref: 2019, Giuseppe Lo Re, Antonina Argo, Massimo Midiri, Radiology in Forensic Medicine, page 40:
glosses: The lack or absence of influence.
uninfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uninfluences
form: uninfluencing
form: uninfluenced
form: uninfluenced
Etymology: From un- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: How a minute dose should thus affect a paralyzed nerve, while it uninfluences it in its ordinary state, is a phenomenon we cannot explain.
ref: 1869, Edwin Grant Dexter, Conduct and the Weather:
glosses: To exert no influence (on).
uninfluence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uninfluences
form: uninfluencing
form: uninfluenced
form: uninfluenced
Etymology: From un- + influence.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, this is one of the best ways to uninfluence people and lose friends.
ref: 1961, Research Needs in Executive Selection: A Symposium, page 37:
text: U.S. advertising agencies and businessmen were criticized last Tuesday (Feb. 10) for helping to "uninfluence people" in Europe and around the world, and for fostering the alienation people in other lands have for the U.S.
ref: 1970, Broadcasting, volume 78, page 72:
glosses: To remove or undo the influence of.
uninfluences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uninfluence
Huangkang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Huangkang, Hupeh, the one non-Communist association, far from being easily absorbed, declared itself to be the holy peasant association and had to be suppressed violently.
ref: 1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
text: On the afternoon of 22 August, the office cadres directly subordinate to Huangkang Prefecture, the masses on the industry, agriculture, commerce, culture and education fronts and the armymen of Huangchou County and (Chouyuan) commune solemnly rallied at the prefectural people's stadium to mark the victorious 11th party congress and first plenum of the 11th CCP Central Committee.
ref: 1977 August 24 [1977 August 23], “Hupeh Municipalities, Prefectures”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 164, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4:
text: In Huangkang Prefecture, 122 leading cadres at and above the level of Standing Committee member of county CCP committees have gone down to the basic levels. The total number of cadres, staff and workers who are participating in fighting drought and crash reaping and sowing has reached 23,700.
ref: 1978 August 3 [1978 July 28], “Hupeh Fights Drought”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 150, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page H 6:
text: Huangkang and Yunyang prefectures and Wuhan and Shihyen municipalities have fulfilled 85 percent of the autumn sowing plans for summer grain.
ref: 1978 November 21 [1978 November 12], “Hupeh Autumn Sowing”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 225, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 7:
glosses: Alternative form of Huanggang.
Dobcross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Saddleworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9906).
ankeritized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted into ankerite.
Grotton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Saddleworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9604).
SPLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: South Sudan
glosses: Initialism of Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
Twp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twps
form: twp
form: Twp.
form: twp.
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of township.
tohorah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taharah.
kevod hamet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Respect for the dead.
nivul hamet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mistreatment of a dead body.
Bakhchisarai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bakhchisaray.
Polia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A comune of Calabria, Italy.
skeleton in one's closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletons in one's closet
form: skeletons in one's closets
Senses: examples: text: Could K⁠—⁠— have seen the fruits of that ‘sherry cobbler,’ that one drink, he might better have given me a potion of strychnine in its stead. I am an embodiment of the fruits of that one drink. The bottle has been the skeleton in my closet ever since.
ref: 1871, Theo[dore] L[edyard] Cuyler, quoting a former resident of Ohio, “Preface”, in Julia McNair Wright, The Best Fellow in the World. His Haps and Mishaps. […], New York, N.Y.: National Temperance Society and Publication House, […], →OCLC, page 4:
text: "Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 9, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
text: So, Betsy’s great. I’ve known her for a while, so trust me when I say there are no skeletons in her closets.
ref: 2007, Kaelyn Christian, chapter 13, in Vegas Stakes, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 60:
text: He knew enough about politics to know that the profession attracted some of the biggest narcissists imaginable. People who felt they were entitled. And, because they spent their lives feeling entitled, they usually had skeletons in their closets. He couldn’t even count how many scandals had broken out over the last decade or so, ruining the careers of promising politicians.
ref: 2018, Peter Parkin, Alison Darby, chapter 13, in The Ascendant, Brockville, Ont.: Sands Press, published October 2019, →ISBN, page 102:
text: He’s also going to do a little digging on Matt Kline, find out if he’s got more skeletons in his closet. Anger issues, that sort of thing.
ref: 2023, Stacy Green, chapter 12, in Bone Lake (Nikki Hunt; 8), London: Bookouture, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Alternative form of skeleton in the closet.
skeletons in the closets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton in the closet
Iwagumis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Iwagumis are characterized by their puristic design. A fundame[n]tal criterion is using only one particular type of stone as decorational element.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), aquasabi.com:
text: Lighting needs to be decent to allow carpeting plants to grow well. Fortunately for short tanks, it's easy to find lighting choices. Due to the open scape format of Iwagumis, point source lighting (LED spotlights, Metal halide units) can be use to cast a shimmer as the water ripples, and accentuate shadows cast by aquascaping rocks.
ref: 2019 April 19, “IWAGUMI STYLE”, in aquascapingsupply.com:
glosses: plural of Iwagumi
oxystomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oxystomatous
form: most oxystomatous
Senses: glosses: Having a sharp or pointed mouth.
frigorifically
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: more frigorifically
form: most frigorifically
Etymology: From frigorific + ally.
Senses: glosses: In a frigorific manner.
skeleton in one's cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletons in one's cupboard
form: skeletons in one's cupboards
Senses: examples: text: Poor fools that we are—waiting for a crumb from the free man’s table! We’re none of your business! We’re just the skeleton in Europe’s cupboard.
ref: 1954, Shevawn Lynam, chapter 9, in The Spirit and the Clay, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 288:
text: Just as we ought, if we mean our faith at all, to give up being nervous about Church history, for the Church will never die because of the skeletons in her cupboards, so we ought to give up being nervous about the Bible: either defensive of it or defensive against it.
ref: 1958 November 21, Cecily Hastings, “God’s Record of God’s Work”, in Pattern of Scripture (Canterbury Books), New York, N.Y.: Sheed and Ward, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: What neither of us knew at the time was that when I set about preparing my speech, knowing now that there were skeletons in John’s cupboard, it was only natural for me to want to find them and so approach the very people who knew about them, his other friends.
ref: 1991, Gordon Stretch, “Best Man No. 5”, in Wedding Speeches (Example Speeches for Bride’s Father, Groom, Best Man and Others) (Right Way), Tadworth, Surrey: Elliot Right Way Books, →ISBN, part 5 (Speeches for the Best Man), page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of skeleton in the cupboard.
skeletons in the cupboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton in the cupboard
big fish eat little fish
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 大魚吃小魚 /大鱼吃小鱼 (dà yú chī xiǎo yú)
Senses: glosses: Bigger animals, people, and companies tend to eliminate, or at least dominate, those that are smaller.
Related terms: food chain
might makes right
pecking order
skeleton in one's house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletons in one's house
Senses: examples: text: Her cousin and her rash promise to him are the skeletons in her house: he tyrannizes over her, and she is obliged to consent to much evil, for the cousin has embarked in railway speculations, and involved the house, of which he is the manager, in very hazardous operations, and run himself personally into debt, and he claims May’s interest to shield and uphold him and to get him taken into partnership.
ref: 1854 December 2, “May and December: a Tale of Wedded Life. By Mrs. [Catherine] Hubback. […]”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1414, London: […] James Holmes, […] J. Francis, →ISSN, →OCLC, “New Novels” section, page 1459, column 1:
text: Every man seems to have a skeleton in his house of some kind or other, and we find it out to a certainty if any exists.
ref: 1863 October 3, John Shaw Billings, diary; quoted in Fielding H[udson] Garrison, “Experiences of a Medical Officer during the Civil War”, in John Shaw Billings: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1915, →OCLC, page 70:
text: Why did not the German and Austrian Governments, similarly to the English, French, Russian, Belgian, Italian and Serbian Governments, immediately after the outbreak of the war, publish their official documents relating to the war’s preliminary history in a collection of some completeness? Because they knew of the skeleton in their house, their own secret documents; […]
ref: 1922 July, Heinrich Kanner, translated by Harriet Betty Boas, “Germany Self-Convicted”, in Current History: A Monthly Magazine of The New York Times, volume XVI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →OCLC, section V (End of the War Lies), page 679, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of skeleton in the house.
epicratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Located on the surface of a craton.
pelmicrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelmicrites
Senses: glosses: A type of limestone, characterised by a micritic matrix containing abundant pellets.
conularid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conularids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conulariid.
synonyms: word: conulariid
archeocyathan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeocyathans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archaeocyathan.
nisusiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nisusiids
Senses: glosses: Any brachiopod of the family †Nisusiidae.
diastemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a diastem.
hypichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a hypichnion.
fistuliporoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistuliporoids
Senses: glosses: Any bryozoan of the family †Fistuliporoidea.
spiriferoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiriferoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spirifer.
synonyms: word: spirifer
County Down
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Down (“a county in Ireland”).
synonyms: word: Down
extra: a county in Ireland
endichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an endichnion.
fodinichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a fodinichnion.
hypichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypichnia
Etymology: From hypo- + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil preserved on the underside of a bed.
endichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endichnia
Etymology: From endo- + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil preserved entirely within a bed.
wavebase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavebases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wave base.
domichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a domichnion.
domichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domichnia
Etymology: From Latin domus (“house”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil that represents a permanent dwelling structure created by an organism.
fugichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a fugichnion.
fugichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fugichnia
Etymology: From Latin fugiō (“flee”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil formed by an organism attempting to flee from sudden burial by sediment.
cubichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cubichnion.
cubichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubichnia
Etymology: From Latin cubō (“lie down”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil formed by an organism temporarily resting.
repichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a repichnion.
repichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repichnia
Etymology: From Latin repō (“crawl”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil that represents the locomotion behaviours of an organism.
rhabdomyomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhabdo- + myomatous.
Senses: examples: text: An identical method of examination demonstrated the same property of refraction in the fibres of a tumor of a rhabdomyomatous nature preserved in the Pathological Institute of Stockholm.
ref: 1883 August 18, “Rhabdomyoma of the Orbit”, in The Medical News. A Weekly Medical Journal., volume XLIII, number 7, Philadlephia, Pa.: Henry C[harles] Lea’s Son & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Medical Progress” section, page 177, column 2:
text: The fact that uterine myomata often contain various heterotopic inclusions—comprising epithelial, cartilaginous, calcareous, osseous, mucoid, fatty and even rhabdomyomatous elements—points to their pre-natal origin.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] Roger Williams, “The Genesis of Malignant Tumours”, in The Natural History of Cancer, with Special Reference to Its Causation and Prevention, New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, →OCLC, page 145:
text: Most rhabdomyomatous tumours are either embryonic growths derived from immature myoblastic or undifferentiated mesenchymal tissue or mixed tumours in which other heterotopic tissues besides muscle are differentiated.
ref: 1948, R[upert] A[llan] Willis, “Rhabdomyoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma and Rhabdomyoblastic Mixed Tumours”, in Pathology of Tumours, London: Butterworth & Co. […], →OCLC, page 739:
synonyms: rhabdomyoid
glosses: Of or relating to a rhabdomyoma.
agrichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an agrichnion.
pascichnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pascichnion
Derived terms: pascichnial
aedificichnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Plural of aedificichnion, from Latin aedificium (“building”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: Evidence of organisms building structures outside of the infaunal realm, such as termite mounds or wasp nests.
agrichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrichnia
Etymology: From Latin ager (“field”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A systematic burrow network designed to capture migrating meiofauna or perhaps even to culture bacteria.
adenoma sebaceum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin adenōma sēbāceum.
Senses: examples: text: Adenoma sebaceum is usually congenital and occurs with nævoid conditions.
ref: 1894, Malcolm Morris, “Principles of Diagnosis”, in Diseases of the Skin: An Outline of the Principles and Practice of Dermatology, London; Paris; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell and Company Limited, →OCLC, page 44:
text: Fifty per cent of patients with rhabdomyoma also have tuberous sclerosis—a familial disease consisting of epilepsy, mental retardation, and adenoma sebaceum.
ref: 1977, J. Kent Trinkle, “Cardiac Neoplasms”, in James D. Hardy, editor, Rhoads Textbook of Surgery: Principles and Practice, 5th edition, volume 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →ISBN, part 12 (The Heart, Arteries, Veins and Lymphatics), chapter 54 (The Heart), page 1660, column 1:
text: Skin lesions include: […] the adenoma sebaceum butterfly rash on face, rarely evident before two years, but present in half by five years; […]
ref: 1997, Robert Goodman, Stephen Scott, “Assessment”, in Child Psychiatry, Oxford, Oxforshire; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, →ISBN, part I (Assessment, Classification and Epidemiology), page 20:
glosses: A cutaneous disorder consisting of angiofibromas that begin in childhood (generally present between 2–5 years of age) and appear clinically as red papules on the face especially on the nasolabial folds, cheek and chin.
dinkel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dinkel.
Senses: examples: text: Spelt or dinkel is an ancient form of wheat. Dinkel flour is marketed in several grades (kernels, white, whole-grain, etc.). It has a strong flavour and makes very good bread.
ref: 2011, Jan Hedh, Artisan Breads: Practical Recipes and Detailed Instructions for Baking the World's Finest Loaves, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of spelt.
synonyms: word: spelt