nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: turf ant Part of Speech: noun 1. A small European ant of species (Lasius flavus). 2. red pavement ant, of western Eurasia and north Africa (Tetramorium caespitum)
Word: turf ants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of turf ant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: setting coat Part of Speech: noun 1. The finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings.
Word: setting dog Part of Speech: noun 1. A dog trained to set game; a setter. Labels: historical Example: Affectation is not confined to Man, educated Animals all have a Share: the well-broke silky-hair'd English Setting-dog a large one.
Word: mule armadillo Part of Speech: noun 1. Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo. Labels: archaic
Word: mulita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish mulita. 1. Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo.
Word: mulitas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mulita Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Buenos Ayres Part of Speech: name 1. Dated spelling of Buenos Aires: the capital of Argentina. Example: Of this particular letter he remarked only that it was in a curious envelope, that it was in a man's handwriting, that the postscript was Buenos Ayres, and the stamp of the Argentine Republic. 2. A town in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
Word: vision purple Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of visual purple. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: coticule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cōticula, from cōtis (“whetstone”) + -cula (“diminutive suffix”). 1. A Belgian variety of whetstone, containing spessartine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coticules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coticule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: potter's asthma Part of Speech: noun 1. emphysema of the lungs, once common among potters Labels: uncountable Example: A species of asthma is rather common in some parts of North Staffordshire , commonly styled " Potter's Asthma . " The symptoms are similar to those of moist asthma . The causes are referrible to the peculiar and unhealthy occupation Example: the people who worked there [the platemakers], he said, usually suffered from what is known as the potter's asthma.
Word: gathering hoop Part of Speech: noun 1. A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. Labels: historical
Word: gathering coal Part of Speech: noun 1. coal left lit and smothered in embers overnight, around which kindling wood is gathered the morning after. Labels: historical Example: The wind sighs over the upland, just like a parting soul; Get to bed with you all — I'll stay, and keep my watch by the gathering coal. Example: it is by no means uncommon for a young spinster to admit her enamoured swain after the family have retired for the night, and give him an opportunity of furthering his tender suit before the kitchen fire, which is never allowed to go out, but is packed with the gathering coal, and well happed on the top with damp peat.
Word: change wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. One of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted for one another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc.
Word: coat card Part of Speech: noun 1. A face card, picture card or court card; the king, queen, or jack. Labels: archaic
Word: barrel bulk Part of Speech: noun 1. A measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
Word: word it Part of Speech: verb 1. To bandy words; to dispute; to speak excessively or angrily. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete Example: to word it with her [a shrew]
Word: refallen Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of refall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bar shoe Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of horseshoe with a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect the frog of the foot.
Word: thumbmark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb + mark. 1. The mark left by a thumb. Example: There are dirty thumbmarks on the pages of this book.
Word: thumbmarks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thumbmark Labels: form-of, plural
Word: volcanoclastic Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of pyroclastic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: volcanoclastic Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of pyroclastic.
Word: snap flask Part of Speech: noun 1. A flask for small work, having its sides separable and held together by latches, so that the flask may be removed from around the sand mould.
Word: snap riveting Part of Speech: noun 1. riveting in which the rivets have snapheads formed by a die or swaging tool Labels: uncountable
Word: panisse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French panisse. 1. One of a portion of chickpea fries (chips), made from a kind of chickpea polenta chilled, cut into slices, dredged in flour, and fried. Example: Serve the greens alongside a pile of panisses and garnish with a sprinkling of Pecorino Romano and the remaining lemon wedges. Example: Another summer is beginning in Marseille. Heat, rocks, panisse. Packs of Vogue cigarettes and bottles of orange wine, all emptied.
Word: niru Part of Speech: noun 1. A company within the military of the Qing dynasty. Labels: historical
Word: septum pellucidum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin 1. A thin triangular vertical membrane separating the anterior horns of the left and right lateral ventricles of the brain. It runs as a sheet from the corpus callosum down to the fornix.
Word: onion fish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to its large eyes. 1. Any of family Macrouridae of fish called grenadiers. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: walking onion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because the bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth and take root some distance from the parent plant. 1. tree onion
Word: onion fly Part of Speech: noun 1. Delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.
Word: superdemocracies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of superdemocracy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: triangle spider Part of Speech: noun 1. Any spider of the genus Hyptiotes, especially the small American spider (Hyptiotes cavatus) that lives among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.
Word: rub iron Part of Speech: noun 1. An iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.
Word: initial reject Part of Speech: noun 1. An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail channels.
Word: shinobi-iri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Japanese 忍び入り (“to sneak into?”) 1. ninjutsu techniques for stealth and infiltration Labels: uncountable Example: You had so much success with shinobi-iri — but both your mind and your body have been severely strained lately.
Word: locating engineer Part of Speech: noun 1. A civil engineer who determines the best course for a road or railway by surveying the available terrain.
Word: Te Ao Māori Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Māori. 1. The Māori world, including its languages, community practices, sites of importance, etc. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: guardships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guardship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: French purple Part of Speech: noun 1. A dyestuff obtained from certain lichen known as orchella weeds, used for colouring woollen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: French red Part of Speech: noun 1. rouge (the cosmetic) Labels: uncountable
Word: platinum black Part of Speech: noun 1. A soft, dull black powder consisting of finely divided metallic platinum obtained by reduction and precipitation from its solutions. It absorbs oxygen to a high degree, and is employed as an oxidizer. Labels: uncountable Example: "In the meanwhile," remarked Carrados, "if you find the time hang heavy on your hands you might look up the subject of 'platinum black.' […] It is a chemical that has the remarkable property of igniting hydrogen or coal gas by mere contact," replied Carrados. "Think how useful that may be if you haven't got a match!"
Word: typewheel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English type Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂ Proto-Germanic *hweulō Old English hwēol Middle English whel English wheel English typewheel From type + wheel. 1. A wheel in an early telegraph or typewriter that bears the physical characters on its periphery and is used to print them onto the page.
Word: typewheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of typewheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rust mite Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including: 2. Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including: 3. Any of various small mites of family Eriophyidae that burrow in the surface of leaves or fruits usually producing brown or reddish patches, including:
Word: rust joint Part of Speech: noun 1. A joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulfur, which by oxidation becomes hard and impervious to steam, water, etc.
Word: brown spar Part of Speech: noun 1. A ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coast waiter Part of Speech: noun 1. A custom house officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. Labels: UK, historical
Word: rat-mole Part of Speech: noun 1. mole rat Labels: archaic
Word: factory leg Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, once seen in young children who worked in factories. Labels: archaic
Word: wound gall Part of Speech: noun 1. An elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish-brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.
Word: lackeying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lackey Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lackeyed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lackey Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gazeebo Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of gazebo. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: gazeebos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gazeebo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: winchat Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of whinchat. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: winchats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of winchat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: watering place Part of Speech: noun 1. A place where water may be obtained, e.g. for a ship or for cattle. Example: The station of the little watering-place was almost deserted, but a small, fat man in a fur overcoat ran forward to meet them, and greeted them warmly. 2. A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, that people visit for bathing, recreation, boating, etc. Example: "You should drop all work instantly, Challenger, and take three months in a German watering-place," said he. Example: Newry [...] cannot be described as a tourist centre, though it is only six miles from the well-known watering place of Warrenpoint. 3. A place where alcohol is sold and consumed; a bar. Labels: informal
Word: natural vowel Part of Speech: noun 1. schwa
Word: neutral vowel Part of Speech: noun 1. schwa
Word: chant royal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chant royal. 1. A complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.
Word: gadding car Part of Speech: noun 1. A gadder (machine) Labels: historical
Word: loblolly tree Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several West Indian trees with more or less leathery foliage, but otherwise dissimilar, such as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra. 2. Any of several West Indian trees with more or less leathery foliage, but otherwise dissimilar, such as Pisonia subcordata, Cordia alba, and Cupania glabra.
Word: bouncing Bet Part of Speech: noun 1. Saponaria officinalis, the common soapwort.
Word: bouncing Bets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bouncing Bet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overrun the constable Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of outrun the constable.
Word: outrun the constable Part of Speech: verb 1. To spend more than one's income; to get into debt. Labels: dated, idiomatic
Word: hypnoanalytical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hypno- + analytical. 1. hypnoanalytic Labels: not-comparable
Word: marine acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Hydrochloric acid. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: email addresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of email address Labels: form-of, plural
Word: marine metal Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships. Labels: uncountable Example: Denithorne, Sherson and Smith's patent for a new-invented white composition, called marine metal, particularly useful for sheathing of ships and other valuable purposes
Word: marine soap Part of Speech: noun 1. Soap made with coconut oil, formerly used on shipboard because of its solubility in salt water. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vis mortua Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīs mortua. 1. Dead force; force not carrying out any active work, but only producing pressure.
Word: vis impressa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīs impressa. 1. Force exerted, as in moving a body, or changing the direction of its motion; impressed force.
Word: shear steel Part of Speech: noun 1. A steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: perfectionitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From perfection + -itis. 1. Excessive perfectionism. Labels: uncountable
Word: amyle Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of amyl. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: amyles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amyle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zinc green Part of Speech: noun 1. A green pigment consisting of zinc and cobalt oxides. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Rinmann's green Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Rinman's green. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: zinc white Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partially within English and partially as a calque of French blanc de zinc after Edme-Jean Leclaire greatly improved its quality and industrialized its production in a suburb of Paris, France. 1. A form of zinc oxide powder used as an artist's pigment. Labels: uncountable Example: Such eminent and renowned scientists as Fourcroy, Berthollet and Vauquelin all enthusiastically supported zinc white, the defects of which "are so slight compared to the disadvantages of using white lead, that its adoption cannot be reasonably refused."
Word: rope pump Part of Speech: noun 1. A pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope.
Word: rope of sand Part of Speech: noun 1. Something incohesive, flimsy, disconnected or unreliable Labels: idiomatic Example: If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be detected in it, he begs to crave for them the acknowledgment that they are a chain of adamant. Example: Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand. At the slightest stress, the last least bit of cohesion flits away, and each idea flies apart from its fellows, while all clamor that he do this thing, or think this thing, in the ancient and time-honored way. He is only a clay-born; so he bends his neck. He knows further that the clay-born are a pitiful, pitiless majority, and that he may do nothing which they do not do.
Word: double base Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of double bass. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: double note Part of Speech: noun Etymology: It is double the length of the semibreve. 1. breve
Word: double quarrel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Latin duplex querēla. 1. Synonym of duplex querela.
Word: duplex querela Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin duplex querēla. 1. A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.
Word: black latten Part of Speech: noun 1. brass in milled sheets, composed of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire Labels: uncountable
Word: gross adventure Part of Speech: noun 1. The loan of money upon bottomry, i.e. on a mortgage of a ship.
Word: carry up Part of Speech: verb 1. To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. Labels: transitive Example: to carry up a wall 2. To trace back. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]
Word: free board Part of Speech: noun 1. A vessel's side between waterline and gunwale.
Word: seal manual Part of Speech: noun 1. The impression of a seal worn on the hand as a ring.
Word: least count Part of Speech: noun 1. The highest degree of accuracy of measurement that can be achieved. Example: The least count of a voltmeter is the minimum change that can be discerned.
Word: zoomusicology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + musicology. Pronunciation: /ˌzəʊəmjuːzɪˈkɒlədʒi/ 1. A branch of zoosemiotics dealing with the musical aspects of animal sounds. Labels: uncountable
Word: zoomusicological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zoo- + musicological. 1. Relating to zoomusicology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: zoomusicologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + musicologist. 1. One who studies zoomusicology.
Word: zoomusicologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zoomusicologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bunnyhop Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bunny hop. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bunnyhops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bunnyhop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fladge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phonetic shortening of flagellation. 1. flagellation (as a sadomasochistic practice), or pornography that depicts it Labels: slang, uncountable Example: One could find plenty of 'soft fladge' in British porn films […] Example: His honesty was a joy to behold: “I don't know shit about the fladge, son, but my punters can't get enough of it. […]
Word: collaboratrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin collaboratrix. 1. Female collaborator. Labels: rare
Word: collaboratrixes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of collaboratrix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ecilop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Backslang for police. 1. police Labels: rare, slang, uncountable Example: I don't want, when I go to shop, / A mix-up with the ecilop. Example: Two more patrol cars came howling into the street, dispersing the crowd. "So where's the ECILOP?"
Word: blue meanie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Introduced or popularised by the Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968). (police officer): An allusion to the colour of their uniforms. 1. A police officer. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. Panaeolus cyanescens, a kind of magic mushroom. Labels: slang
Word: blue meanies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue meanie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ducks and geese Part of Speech: noun 1. police Labels: Cockney, plural, plural-only, slang
Word: donut patrol Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the stereotype of police officers snacking on donuts. 1. The police. Labels: US, derogatory, slang
Word: thin blue line Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By analogy with Thin Red Line. “Blue” refers to the color of the uniforms of many police departments. 1. The police. Labels: collective, colloquial Example: Crime wave overwhelms thin blue line [title] Example: It followed dire warnings from the police staff associations that the possible loss of up to 40,000 police jobs would mean “Christmas coming early” for criminals, and the “thin blue line” left too stretched to cope with the inevitable risk of social and industrial unrest. 2. A flag or symbol representing the police, commonly associated with the blue lives matter movement. Example: “Obviously, you’ve seen caravans with the Trump flag in the back of pickup trucks and then the thin blue line,” Mr. DeMasi, a former police officer, said. “I think maybe people had a good intention, but it ended up giving the meaning of the thin blue line a black eye.”
Word: rozz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare rozzer. 1. The police. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: They should recruit more West Indians into the rozz.
Word: Queen's cowboy Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Labels: Canada, slang
Word: Queen's cowboys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Queen's cowboy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hobby bobby Part of Speech: noun 1. A special constable. Labels: UK, slang
Word: hobby bobbies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hobby bobby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cryptocommunist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́πτω (krŭ́ptō) Ancient Greek κρῠπτός (krŭptós)der. English crypto- Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s Proto-Italic *kommoinis Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French communiste English communist English cryptocommunist From crypto- + communist. 1. A person with communist views they do not express publicly, often to avoid negative judgment.
Word: cryptocommunist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́πτω (krŭ́ptō) Ancient Greek κρῠπτός (krŭptós)der. English crypto- Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s Proto-Italic *kommoinis Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French communiste English communist English cryptocommunist From crypto- + communist. 1. Privately adhering to communism.
Word: cryptocommunists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cryptocommunist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cryptocommunism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crypto- + communism. 1. Hidden communism; communistic views not expressed publicly. Labels: uncountable
Word: dole meadow Part of Speech: noun 1. A meadow in which several persons have a common right or share.
Word: copper finch Part of Speech: noun 1. chaffinch Labels: Devon, UK, archaic, dialectal
Word: indigo copper Part of Speech: noun 1. covellite Labels: uncountable
Word: covellitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From covellite + -ic. 1. Of or relating to covellite.
Word: covellites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of covellite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boot closer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots.
Word: boot crimp Part of Speech: noun 1. A frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
Word: catching bargain Part of Speech: noun 1. A bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Example: It seems to me that the contract in the bill mentioned, was free from any suggestion of falsehood or concealment of the truth; that it was a catching bargain by the purchaser
Word: dummy car Part of Speech: noun 1. A railroad car containing its own steam power or locomotive.
Word: turf spade Part of Speech: noun 1. A long, narrow spade for cutting and digging turf. Various forms exist; some have a side wing at right angles for easily cutting rectangular blocks.
Word: cream gauge Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument to test milk, usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
Word: cream of lime Part of Speech: noun 1. A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. Labels: uncountable 2. A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water. Labels: uncountable
Word: wash bottle Part of Speech: noun 1. A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. 2. A washing bottle.
Word: luna cornea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See Luna (“silver in alchemy”), and Latin cornea (“horn”), which it resembles. 1. horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: sculptured tortoise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the grooved patterns on its shell. 1. wood turtle
Word: red antimony Part of Speech: noun 1. kermesite Labels: uncountable
Word: Deacon's process Part of Speech: name Etymology: From H. Deacon, who introduced it. 1. A method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, such as copper sulfate.
Word: peppermint tree Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of eucalypt which yield an essential oil that smells of peppermint, especially a member of the stringybark group. Labels: Australia Example: Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street. 2. A tree of the family Myrtaceae bearing leaves that smell of peppermint, especially willow myrtle, Agonis flexuosa, often colloquially called a peppy. Labels: Australia
Word: animal charcoal Part of Speech: noun 1. A fine charcoal prepared by calcining bones in a closed vessel; used as a filtering agent in sugar refining, and as an adsorbent and disinfectant. Labels: uncountable
Word: organicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organic + -ity. 1. The quality of being organic. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Where did the new approach [of broken windows policing] go off track? The difficulty can be traced back to the categories of "honest persons" and "the disorderly." Under the broken windows theory, these categories are vested with a certain naturalness, or fixity, or organicity. It is as if the world were naturally divided into law abiders and lawbreakers.
Word: organicness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From organic + -ness. 1. The quality of being organic. Labels: uncountable
Word: nonorganics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonorganic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Negro-head Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of negrohead Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: throw about Part of Speech: verb 1. To change direction; to change from one tack to another. Labels: obsolete Example: That now vnto despaire I gin to growe, And meane for better winde about to throwe. Example: when they were got about two miles a-head, they threw about, and stood for us again 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, about. Example: When the ship entered the violent storm, all the passengers were thrown about.
Word: typefounding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From type + founding. 1. traditional printing with physical type Labels: uncountable Example: Type instruction should include a range of endeavors from metal typefounding to digital fontography.
Word: pole lathe Part of Speech: noun 1. A simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above.
Word: flint mill Part of Speech: noun 1. A mill in which flints are ground. 2. An obsolete appliance for lighting a miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light without igniting the firedamp. Labels: historical
Word: houseraising Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + raising. 1. The setting up of the frame of a house. Labels: US
Word: houseraisings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of houseraising Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wood opal Part of Speech: noun 1. A striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood.
Word: dyer's broom Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of broom, Genista tinctoria, used for dyeing yellow. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: salve bug Part of Speech: noun 1. A parasitic isopod crustacean (Aega psora). In the 19th century it was used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve, although its medicinal effects are dubious. Labels: obsolete
Word: bid hook Part of Speech: noun 1. A small boathook.
Word: mole shrew Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various shrews that resemble moles, of the genera Surdisorex and Anourosorex. 2. Synonym of short-tailed shrew, any of the genus Blarina of relatively large shrews with relatively short tails, found in North America. 3. A shrew mole.
Word: tooth powder Part of Speech: noun 1. A powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.
Word: pothanger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pot + hanger. 1. pothook (hook used to suspend a cooking-pot)
Word: pothangers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pothanger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: butter flower Part of Speech: noun 1. A buttercup. Labels: obsolete
Word: bone black Part of Speech: noun 1. A preparation containing carbonized bone, used as a pigment and a filtering medium. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: American tiger Part of Speech: noun 1. puma Labels: archaic 2. jaguar Labels: archaic
Word: slutwad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slut + -wad. 1. A promiscuous person. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: (Now, at this point I should mention that my slutwad neighbor has been throwing a party since about 7:00. It's not one you can miss either; the floors in my house are vibrating from the music.) Example: I am right and that's that, ya senile slutwad.
Word: polyhydroxyphenols Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polyhydroxyphenol Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polyflavonoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polyflavonoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mutilative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mutilate + -ive. 1. Causing or relating to mutilation. Labels: not-comparable Example: The patient engaged in self-mutilative behaviours.
Word: concession road Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because the land that comprised a row of lots that spanned the entire length of a new township was conceded by the Crown for this purpose. 1. A road laid out by the colonial government through undeveloped Crown land to provide access to rows of newly surveyed lots intended for farming by new settlers. Labels: Canada, historical
Word: concession roads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concession road Labels: form-of, plural
Word: core lanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of core lane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: extramoral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From extra- + moral. 1. Outside of morality. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dark rides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dark ride Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tunnel of love Part of Speech: noun 1. A carnival dark ride for couples in boats, either relaxing and romantic, or spooky (encouraging the couple to cling to one another). 2. The vagina. Labels: slang
Word: station pointer Part of Speech: noun 1. A surveyor's instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed.
Word: station staff Part of Speech: noun 1. An instrument for taking angles in surveying. Example: Write down in the first column, the first limit A; in the second, the number of feet, inches, and tenths, the points of sight, indicated on the station staff at A
Word: converting furnace Part of Speech: noun 1. A furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.
Word: gold amalgam Part of Speech: noun 1. A metallic alloy formed by combining elemental liquid mercury with gold, in which the mercury dissolves the gold particles, resulting in a soft paste, liquid, or solid compound.
Word: pepito Part of Speech: noun 1. A sandwich of Spanish origin and popular in Latin America, made with beef, pork, or chicken. 2. A gold nugget. Labels: archaic
Word: pepitos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pepito Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oil pulling Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional Ayurvedic folk remedy where vegetable oil is swished or held in the mouth, thereby supposedly "pulling out" toxins. Labels: uncountable
Word: oil pulling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oil pull Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gold solder Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: panel thief Part of Speech: noun 1. A thief who operates in a panel house.
Word: bargain and sale Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of conveyance by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase, i.e. the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Example: A thirteenth species of conveyance , introduced by this statute , is that of a bargain and sale of lands ; which is a kind of real contract , whereby the bargainor , for some pecuniary consideration , bargains and sells
Word: telegraph plant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because the jerking motions of the leaves are thought to resemble signalling. 1. Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.
Word: semaphore plant Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of telegraph plant.
Word: telegraph plants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telegraph plant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: semaphore plants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of semaphore plant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hairpuller Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hair + puller. 1. One who pulls the hair. Example: Compulsive hairpullers frequently have comorbid mood and anxiety disorders […]
Word: hairpullers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hairpuller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peg ladder Part of Speech: noun 1. A ladder with only one standard, into which cross-pieces are inserted.
Word: wandering Jew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The plant's name is derived from the figure of the Wandering Jew, presumably at least partly from the tendency of those plants to spread through a garden (i.e. wander). 1. Any plant of three species of spiderworts, Tradescantia pallida, Tradescantia fluminensis, and Tradescantia zebrina. Example: GCN needs donations of plants to hang in its windows...Should be plants that like a bright but sunless northern exposure...plants that are happy hanging too; like ivies, wandering jews, spider plants, philodendrons, mother-of-thousands, what have you?? Cuttings O.K., need pots and a sprayer also. 2. The plant Saxifraga stolonifera.
Word: none-so-pretty Part of Speech: noun 1. The plant Saxifraga umbrosa.
Word: none-so-pretties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of none-so-pretty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bonnet piece Part of Speech: noun 1. A gold coin of the time of James V of Scotland, bearing an image of the king's head wearing a bonnet. Labels: historical
Word: elm beetle Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various species of beetles (especially Xanthogaleruca luteola) which feed on the leaves of the elm.
Word: needle telegraph Part of Speech: noun 1. A telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.
Word: mountain antelope Part of Speech: noun 1. goral
Word: haul around Part of Speech: verb 1. To shift to any point of the compass.
Word: lace paper Part of Speech: noun 1. paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: club rush Part of Speech: noun 1. Any rush of the genus Scirpus or related genera.
Word: vicarious punishment Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cactus wren Part of Speech: noun 1. a wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.
Word: horsily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From horsy + -ly. 1. In a horsy manner. Example: Near-synonym: equinely
Word: groupiedom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From groupie + -dom. 1. The world or sphere of groupies. Labels: uncountable 2. The state or period of being a groupie. Labels: uncountable
Word: chalkpits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chalkpit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: milk knot Part of Speech: noun 1. A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.
Word: Raincouver Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of rain + Vancouver, referring to its rainy climate. 1. Vancouver (a city in British Columbia, Canada). Labels: informal Example: What would Raincouver (Vancouver) be without 400cm of rain and a flash flood on a summer day? Example: News reporters giving out the weather should have a smile in their voice, they should be making Metro Vancouver inhabitants feel good about living in "Raincouver."
Word: planetaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planetary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: water on the chest Part of Speech: noun 1. The medical condition of hydrothorax. Labels: uncountable
Word: chimney hook Part of Speech: noun 1. A hook for suspending pots and kettles over a fire.
Word: in ordinary Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In an official capacity (chiefly as a post-modifier in official titles). Example: An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. Example: The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in. 2. Out of commission and laid up; said of a naval vessel.
Word: umbrally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From umbral + -ly. 1. In an umbral or shadowy manner.
Word: circuminsession Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of circumincession. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: hubrid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hubris + -id (suffix forming adjectives). Hubris is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”). Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːbɹɪd/, /ˈhjubɹɪd/ 1. Synonym of hubristic (“overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner”). Labels: rare Example: Showing off for him, for all of them, not out of hubris — hubris? him? what did he have to be hubrid about? Example: And if it's true, maybe it doesn't only concern NLP trainers.. have you met novices in any other fields, some seem to adopt a hubrid belief of their own skills.. just a thought.
Word: Kostiantynivka Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ukrainian Костянтинівка (Kostjantynivka). 1. A city in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Kostiantynivka. 2. A village in Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Bashtanka urban hromada, Bashtanka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1782.
Word: Konstantinovka Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian Константиновка (Konstantinovka). 1. Alternative form of Kostiantynivka. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Viktor is monitoring the brigade’s area of responsibility by watching a livestream from a drone flying somewhere over the outskirts of Kostyantynivka on his smartphone.
Word: televoting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + voting. 1. A process that allows viewers to participate in a telecast through phone calls or SMS, to choose between candidates or performers to qualify or be eliminated. Labels: uncountable
Word: apicoalveolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From apico- + alveolar. 1. Articulated with the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge. Labels: not-comparable
Word: corregimiento Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish corregimiento. 1. A historical administrative subdivision of a country in certain parts of Spain and Latin America
Word: tailnumber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tail + number. 1. The registration number that appears on the rear sections of aircraft.
Word: tailnumbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tailnumber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nose art Part of Speech: noun 1. artwork found on the forward sections of aircraft (though usually not on the nose itself) Labels: uncountable
Word: tail number Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tailnumber. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: opinionizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opinionize + -er. 1. One who opinionizes.
Word: opinionizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of opinionizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pre-pone Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of prepone. Labels: India, alt-of, alternative
Word: body art Part of Speech: noun 1. The application of tattoos, piercings or jewellery to the body. Labels: uncountable 2. A type of performance art in which artists use or abuse their own body to make particular statements. Labels: uncountable
Word: shitheadedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shitheaded + -ness. 1. Quality of being shitheaded; foolishness; incompetence. Labels: uncountable, vulgar
Word: Graysonian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Grayson + -ian. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/, /ɡɹeɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. Of or relating to Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946), also known by his pen name David Grayson, an American journalist and author.
Word: bourette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bourrette. 1. A slubby yarn or fabric made of silk waste. Labels: uncountable
Word: twinkle in one's father's eye Part of Speech: noun 1. A notional look of anticipation or hope (either for sex or a child) in one's father's eyes at or around the time of one's conception. Labels: colloquial, humorous, idiomatic Example: Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: "So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye." Example: 'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye!'
Word: antisweatshop Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + sweatshop. 1. Opposing sweatshops.
Word: baby brain Part of Speech: noun 1. A state in which a new mother is forgetful, absentminded, or easily distracted. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Shortly after the birth, you may have “baby brain” and be unable to concentrate, focus, or develop a plan of action because you are so sleep-deprived. Example: “I do that sometimes too,” Amber says. “Forget stuff. I think it's because I have baby brain right now.”
Word: yatzy Part of Speech: noun 1. A dice game. Labels: uncountable
Word: linerless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From liner + -less. 1. Without a liner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: R'lyehian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From writings of the horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, named for the fictional city of R'lyeh, + -ian. 1. An artificial language created by H.P. Lovecraft.
Word: merteen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + teen. 1. A teenage merperson. Example: In the “how to make a porn video” within the video, Sprinkle plays an older mermaid who sexually initiates a “merteen” played by Sirena. Example: Realization filled the merteen's eyes with sadness.
Word: merlad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + lad. 1. A young male merperson, male equivalent of mermaid Example: The merlad and merlass watched the sphere for a moment and with a flick of their shiny tails, vanished again. Example: I have to admit, he's a handsome merlad with his beautiful brown eyes, shiny black hair, and dark brown skin, but I can't have a boyfriend.
Word: merguy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + guy. 1. A male merperson. Labels: informal Example: "I don't know. But he's still breathing, or whatever it is merguys do. We've got to try and revive him somehow," said Sabrina thoughtfully. Example: Step right up and see the merboy, merguy, merman. Where does his ding-dong go?
Word: merprincess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + princess. 1. A mermaid who is a princess. Example: Ariel is a merprincess who finds life in the sea under the protective eye of her father to be a type of imprisonment. Example: We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.
Word: merprince Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + prince. 1. A merman who is a prince. Example: We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle. Example: She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.
Word: merdaughter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mer- + daughter. 1. A mermaid daughter. Example: The Sea King's merdaughters have only one tail. Example: He does this again in Action Comics #224 (Sep. 1958) in which he meets a merman, Vul-Kor and his merdaughter, Lya-La, […]
Word: shamos Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shamash (“sexton in a synagogue”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Alternative form of shamash (“candle used to light other candles of a Hanukkah menorah”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: neurotologic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to neurotology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Harappa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ہَڑَپَّہ (haṛappah) / ਹੜਪ੍ਪਾ (haṛppā). Pronunciation: /həˈɹɑpə/ 1. A village in Punjab, in eastern Pakistan. 2. An archaeological site near the village; the ancient city excavated at the site. Example: The site, known as Harappa, contained evidence of a culture over 1,000 years older than any other yet discovered in South Asia and one which dated back to c. 2350 BCE, making it one of the four oldest centers of civilization in the world. Example: 1996, Elizabeth E. Broadrup, "Kot Diji (Sind, Pakistan)," article in Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda (editors), International Dictionary of Historic Places, Volume 5: Asia and Oceania, page 489, Now considered the first urban culture of the Indian subcontinent, the Harappan civilization was unknown to scholars until the twentieth century. Intrigued by large, earth-covered mounds at Harappa, on the Ravi River in the Punjab province of present-day Pakistan, archaeologists began excavating the site in 1921. 3. The Harappan Civilization, or Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age civilization that flourished in a large region encompassing the site. Labels: attributive Example: 1989, Amalananda Ghosh (editor), "Rangpur," entry in An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology, page 370, He declared that it was a site of the late period of Harappa culture [4.9] on the basis of certain pottery types and painted designs thereon and that 'the mere fact that the Indus culture is by this discovery pushed so far s.-e. as Kathiawar is a matter of great importance'.
Word: Mongolian spots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mongolian spot Labels: form-of, plural