nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: netting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English netting From net + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/ 1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […] Example: The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
Word: netting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above. 1. Urine. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Example: Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.
Word: netting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of net Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pacing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of pace Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pacing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪsɪŋ/ 1. The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing. Example: We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings, etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.
Word: brilliantly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English brilliant Middle English -ly English -ly English brilliantly From brilliant + -ly. 1. In a brilliant manner; with brilliance. Example: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot. Example: Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.
Word: bosoms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bosom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peaches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peach (also a term of endearment) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peaches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of peach Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Fates Part of Speech: name Etymology: Plural of fate. Pronunciation: /feɪts/ 1. Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis; supernatural beings who controlled the destiny of men and of the gods. Labels: Greek, plural, plural-only Example: "Oh, no!" said he, with a most imperturbable air, "I always make allowance for feminine weakness; I do not expect your mind to follow mine!" "Now, the Fates forbid that it should!" thought Henrietta. Example: 1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Through the years we all will be together / If the Fates allow
Word: attractions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of attraction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whispers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of whisper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: whispers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of whisper Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: traders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distinctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distinction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scored Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skɔː(ɹ)d/, /skɔɹd/ 1. simple past and past participle of score Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reversed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reverse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reversed Part of Speech: adj 1. Turned or exchanged to the contrary; inside out or inverted. Labels: not-comparable 2. Resupinate. Labels: not-comparable
Word: affects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of affect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: affects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of affect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: activated Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: activated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of activate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: whirled Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /wɜːld/, /ʍɜːld/, /(h)wɝld/ 1. Eye dialect spelling of world. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: whirled Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /wɜːld/, /ʍɜːld/, /(h)wɝld/ 1. simple past and past participle of whirl Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spilled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spill Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: shivered Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvəd/, /ˈʃɪvɚd/ 1. simple past and past participle of shiver Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pricked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɹɪkt/ 1. Punctured by small holes. Example: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. 2. Listening carefully. Labels: figuratively Example: Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.
Word: pricked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɹɪkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of prick Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: laughs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laugh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laughs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: inexcusable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis. 1. not excusable Example: It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.
Word: excusable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French escusable, from Latin excusabilis. 1. Possible to excuse; worthy of being excused. Example: excusable reason 2. Describing an illegal act that was committed involuntarily, for example under false information or because of a faulty device. Distinguished from justifiable, describing an illegal act that was intentional but justified for other reasons. Labels: specifically
Word: catering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/, /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/, [ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ] 1. The business of providing food and related services; foodservice. Labels: Philippines, UK, uncountable 2. The business of providing such services for special occasions. Labels: US, uncountable 3. The act of one who caters (to something). Labels: countable Example: Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.
Word: catering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/, /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/, /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/, [ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of cater Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: grips Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪps/ 1. plural of grip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grips Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of grip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: contrasted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From contrast + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of contrast Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: contrasted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From contrast + -ed. 1. Set in contrast (of two or more things). 2. Displaying or marked by contrast; contrasty. Example: Brittany was one of France's most heavily contrasted regions.
Word: differs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of differ Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dyed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /daɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of dye Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. Obsolete spelling of died. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes. Example: How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together.
Word: dyed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /daɪd/ 1. Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith. Example: Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water. Example: Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
Word: hates Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /heɪts/ 1. plural of hate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hates Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /heɪts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hates.
Word: persecuted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɝsəˌkjutɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of persecute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: giants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of giant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waxed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwækst/ 1. simple past and past participle of wax Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: waxed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈwækst/ 1. Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
Word: quartered Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: quartered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of quarter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: assumes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of assume Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: darting Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by sudden, quick movements. Example: Near-synonym: dartlike Example: Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.
Word: darting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of dart Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: darting Part of Speech: noun 1. A motion or gesture that darts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue. Example: Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on. 2. The use of darts (folds stitched on a garment). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: signified Part of Speech: noun 1. The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier. Example: Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds. Example: In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
Word: signified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of signify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: strengthening Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of strengthen Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: strengthening Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/ 1. An act or process by which something is strengthened. Example: (archaic) Example: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken.
Word: spheres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sphere Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spheres Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sphere Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subsided Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of subside Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: limping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of limp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: limping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmpɪŋ/ 1. The motion of one who limps.
Word: traps Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹæps/ 1. plural of trap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: traps Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹæps/ 1. A trap set (drum kit). Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Archaic form of trappings (“clothing, equipment; horse coverings”). Labels: alt-of, archaic, plural, plural-only
Word: traps Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɹæps/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of trap Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: uplifted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of uplift Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uplifted Part of Speech: adj 1. Lifted upwards, raised. Example: To the northeast and northwest of the uplifted area there was a belt of depression, mainly in land areas. Example: Some of the female figurines depicted women with uplifted arms while others portrayed pregnant females with uplifted arms in the process of giving birth. 2. Joyous, hopeful or inspired. Labels: figuratively
Word: ravaged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ravage Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
Word: reformed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reform Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: reformed Part of Speech: adj 1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Martin Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. Example: The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. 2. Amended in character and life. Example: a reformed gambler/drunkard/alcoholic/criminal 3. Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop. Labels: UK
Word: thwarted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of thwart Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: thwarted Part of Speech: adj 1. Frustrated, obstructed or prevented. Example: He knows I should only laugh at his desertion; and he would not like to be the one who was left, which he knows I should do for the first thwarted whim. Example: There is no blockage in their instinctive life, and when the two men fight the physical closeness is not a substitute for a thwarted sexual life.
Word: selves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of self Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of selfe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uneducated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English educate English -ed English educated English uneducated From un- + educated. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/, /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/, /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/ 1. Not educated. Example: Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.
Word: uneducated Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English educate English -ed English educated English uneducated From un- + educated. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/, /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/, /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/ 1. Someone who lacks education. Example: […] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.” Example: If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).
Word: manufactures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manufacture Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manufactures Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of manufacture Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: residing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reside Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: signifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of signify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Word: signifying Part of Speech: noun 1. signification Example: For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.
Word: transcriptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transcription Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unreasonably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English unresonably, equivalent to unreasonable + -ly, after resonably (whence reasonably) and (originally) Late Latin irratiōnābiliter. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/, /ʌnˈɹiː.z.nə.bli/ 1. In an unreasonable manner. Example: He behaved unreasonably. Example: Fye, you confine your ſelfe moſt vnreaſonably: Come, you muſt go viſit the good Lady that lies in. 2. To an unreasonable degree. Example: The team was given an unreasonably short amount of time to put together a presentation. Example: 1737, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Alderman Barber dated 30 March, 1737, in The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Edinburgh: J. Balfour, 1766, Volume 11, p. 126, Thus bishops, deans, and chapters, as well as other corporations, seldom or never let their lands even so high as half the value; and when they raise those rents which are unreasonably low, it is by degrees.
Word: argosy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik. 1. A merchant ship. 2. A merchant flotilla, fleet. Example: Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses, And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her, And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next. 3. An abundant supply, boatload. Example: The wreck was total—as total as that ever is which trusts its all to one argosy. Example: ...here smiting with irresistible force some adamantine rock of gross ignorance or cruel superstition, there shaking with its mighty voice of thunder some dread abyss where lurks the taint of covert vice, or crouches the misshapen form of monstrous irreligion, coursing through gloomy chasms and deep dark ravines, and laying bare to the glorious rays of universal and progressive intelligence the golden sands of philosophic lore and scientific research, ever widening, ever expanding, the while bearing richly-freighted argosies of accumulated lore onward through years, and ephochs, and cycles — forever onward — to the borad bosom of that illimitable ocean of perfected wisdom which, unsweapt by temporal gale, unruffled by even a transient breeze of earthly misconception or scepticism, placid and profound, sleeps forever beneath the beams of the eternal sun.
Word: IMPRS-LS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bastardy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bastardie (also as bastardrie), a borrowing from Middle French bastardie. Equivalent to bastard + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæstə(ɹ)di/, /ˈbɑːstə(ɹ)di/ 1. The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman and man or as the fruit of adultery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham. The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:— There, at your meet'st advantage of the time, Infer the bastardy of Edward's children: Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen, Only for saying he would make his son Heir to the crown;—meaning, indeed, his house, Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.
Word: beachy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English beachy From beach + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbiːt͡ʃi/ 1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand. Example: O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors! 2. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like. Example: Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. Example: ‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter [title]
Word: beardless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”). 1. Lacking a beard. Example: A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless. Example: Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find. 2. Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful. Labels: broadly Example: shall a beardless boy, Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, Mocking the air with colours idly spread, And find no check? 3. Lacking an awn. Example: beardless wheat 4. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
Word: bechance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English chance English bechance From be- + chance. Pronunciation: /bɪˈt͡ʃæns/, /bɪˈt͡ʃɑːns/ 1. To happen; chance. Labels: intransitive 2. To happen (to); befall to. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances, / Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans; / Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, / To make him moan; but pity not his moans: / Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones
Word: bechance Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English chance English bechance From be- (“by”) + chance. Pronunciation: /bɪˈt͡ʃæns/, /bɪˈt͡ʃɑːns/ 1. Accidentally; by chance. Labels: not-comparable Example: [Y]et we haue withſtood them till at the last battayle of Branxſton, where we bechaunce loſt our ſouereigne Lorde, and many noble men, but that was by treaſon of his Lord Chamberleyn, and yet I thinke we wanne the field: […]
Word: exchequers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exchequer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exchequers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of exchequer Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bedfellow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed + fellow. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ/ 1. One with whom one shares a bed. Example: Yong budding Virgin, faire, and freſh,& ſweet, / Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? / Happy the Parents of ſo faire a childe; / Happier the man whom fauourable ſtars / A lots thee for his louely bedfellow. Example: Car[azie]. / In the day I waite on my Lady when ſhe eates, / Carry her pantophles, beare vp her trayne / Sing her aſleepe at night, and when ſhe pleaſes / I am her bedfellow. / Gaz[et]. / How? her bedfellow, / And lye with her? / Car[azie]. / Yes, and lye with her. 2. An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. Labels: broadly Example: They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows. Example: Certain aspects of reprint publishing are more akin to university press publishing than to any other sector of the publishing industry, but the relationships between the two frequently create unwilling bedfellows.
Word: blastment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English blast Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English blastment From blast + -ment. 1. A sudden strike or injury; a pernicious thing. Labels: archaic Example: And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Word: blessedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈblɛsɪdnɪs/ 1. The condition or state of being blessed; holy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe. Example: It matters little to tell you of my blessedness; but my very heart was filled with the light of those radiant eyes, which were to me what the sun is to the world.
Word: blessedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English blessedly, blessidly, blestly. By surface analysis, blessed + -ly. 1. In a blessed or holy manner. Example: Therefore ſhould every Souldier in the Warres doe as euery ſicke man in his Bed, waſh euery Moth out of his Conſcience: and dying ſo, Death is to him aduantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly loſt, wherein ſuch preparation was gayned: […] 2. Happily, joyfully; fortunately. Example: We shall blessedly meet again never to depart.
Word: brawler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brawler, brawlere, equivalent to brawl + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɔːlə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɹɔlɚ/, /ˈbɹɑlɚ/ 1. One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights. Example: The world hath noted. And your name is great In mouthes of wiſeſt Cenſure. What's the matter That you vnlace your reputation thus, And ſpend your rich opinion, for the name Of a night-brawler? Giue me anſwer to it. Example: A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, ſober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach; Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous; One that ruleth well his owne houſe, hauing his children in ſubiection with all grauitie. (For if a man know not how to rule his owne houſe, how ſhall he take care of the Church of God?) 2. A beat 'em up game. Labels: informal Example: "Classic brawlers ranging from Double Dragon to Streets of Rage and even Brutal Legend created my initial seed of interest for working on one," Deighan said.
Word: -adic Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Back-formation from monadic, etc., from Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)) + -ικός (-ikós) (English -ad + -ic). Compare related adicity and Latinate -ary. The algebraic sense is by analogy with p-adic, since ℤ₍ₚ₎ equipped with the (p)-adic topology passes to the ring of p-adic numbers under the operation of completion. 1. Having a specified adicity. Labels: morpheme 2. Such that the sets x+Iⁿᴹ (where x∈M, n a non-negative integer) form a basis for the topology. Labels: morpheme
Word: last burst of fire Part of Speech: noun 1. A final effort, a final attempt before stopping. Labels: idiomatic Example: [...] in a last burst of fire, striking out at "soft" targets, like [the] stock market, power utilities, or communications centres. Example: And that's what my column is -- a futile last burst of fire at the rising tide of busybodies and mediocrity.
Word: bungle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is either: * onomatopoeic in origin (compare bumble (“to act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes”), fumble (“to grope awkwardly in trying to find something; to blunder uncertainly”)); or * from Old Norse; compare Old Swedish bunga (“to strike”), and dialectal Swedish bangla (“to work ineffectually”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * German Bengel (“cudgel; rude fellow”) * Middle High German bungen (“to hammer”) Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble. Labels: transitive Example: I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and have so repeated to them (some of the Chiefs here) half an hour ago. Example: […] talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries. 2. To act or work incompetently; to fumble. Labels: intransitive Example: Physis is nothing else but the vegetable World, the Universall comprehension of Spermaticall life dispersed throughout. […] For Physis (as I said) is not the divine Understanding it self, but is as if you should conceive, an Artificers imagination separate from the Artificer, and left alone to work by it self without animadversion. Hence Physis or Nature is sometimes puzzeld and bungells in ill disposed matter, because its power is not absolute and omnipotent. Example: [T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!"
Word: bungle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is either: * onomatopoeic in origin (compare bumble (“to act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes”), fumble (“to grope awkwardly in trying to find something; to blunder uncertainly”)); or * from Old Norse; compare Old Swedish bunga (“to strike”), and dialectal Swedish bangla (“to work ineffectually”). The noun is derived from the verb. Cognates * German Bengel (“cudgel; rude fellow”) * Middle High German bungen (“to hammer”) Pronunciation: /ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/ 1. A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder. Example: VVherefore this Religious affection vvhich nature has implanted, and as ſtrongly rooted in Man as the feare of death or the love of vvomen, vvould be the moſt enormous ſlip or bungle ſhe could commit, ſo that ſhe vvould ſo ſhamefully faile in the laſt Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that inſtead of a Plaudite ſhe vvould deſerve to be hiſſed off the Stage. Example: The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.
Word: flowerpot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From flower + pot. Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊɚˌpɑt/, /ˈflaʊəˌpɒt/ 1. A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown. Example: O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes. Example: I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.
Word: butchery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊt͡ʃəɹi/ 1. The butchering of meat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses) Example: This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine 2. A butcher's shop; a meat market. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery 4. An abattoir. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator. Example: 1901 There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. — Henry Lawson, A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek. 5. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading. 6. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: butchery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English butchery From butch + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊt͡ʃəɹi/ 1. The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: camlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chamelet, chamelot, chamlot via Old French chamelot, suffixed + -ot from Arabic خَمْلَة (ḵamla, “velvet”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.lɪt/ 1. A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She wore a sort of jacket of bright red camlet, richly braided with gold and silver lace; a fringe of which also hung from her gray petticoat, which was short enough to show her feet and ankles, whose small size was rendered more remarkable by the peculiar-shaped boot. Example: She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.
Word: camlet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English chamelet, chamelot, chamlot via Old French chamelot, suffixed + -ot from Arabic خَمْلَة (ḵamla, “velvet”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.lɪt/ 1. Made of camlet. Example: This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it. Example: With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet.
Word: Z-car Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the several early models of a police car. Labels: UK
Word: Zed-car Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of Z-car. Labels: UK
Word: uranistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See uranism. 1. Homosexual. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: carbage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from garbage. 1. Shreds and patches of cloth cut off by a tailor when cutting out clothes. Labels: uncountable
Word: carbage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of carb + garbage, or carb + -age. 1. Food that is high in carbohydrates. Labels: derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: The most important reason to avoid “carbage” like sugar, white flour, and highly processed foods is that they are foreign to our genetic makeup. Example: This is the same process that browns foods, such as bread crust. The more carbage we eat, the more glycation occurs.
Word: carbage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of car + garbage. 1. garbage in a car Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: caparison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French caparasson (Modern French caparaçon), from Old Spanish caparazón, from Old Occitan capairon. 1. The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant. Example: And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom. Example: That very year they received an order from Gustaf II Adolf of Sweden (1594-1632) for a large number of tapestries and four caparisons. 2. Gay or rich clothing. Example: What boots it, that my Fortune decks me thus / With unſubſtantial Plumes; when my Heart groans / Beneath the gay Capariſon, and Love / With unrequited Paſſion wounds my Soul!
Word: caparison Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French caparasson (Modern French caparaçon), from Old Spanish caparazón, from Old Occitan capairon. 1. To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings. Example: Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse
Word: denivelation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French dénivellation. 1. the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. depth is the distance between the cave entrance and the lowest known point reached. denivelation is less than or equal to depth 2. the difference in level between the highest and lowest part of the track, regardless of starting or ending point
Word: depositary receipt Part of Speech: noun 1. A financial instrument, issued by a bank, that may be traded as if it were a share in a foreign company.
Word: diktat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Diktat, from Latin dictātum (“that which has been dictated”), from the perfect passive participle of dictō (“dictate”). Doublet of dictate. Originally used with reference to Germany's penalties as dictated by the Treaty of Versailles. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪktæt/, /dɪkˈtɑt/, /ˈdɪktɑt/ 1. A dogmatic decree or command, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian. Example: Today, regional diktat is now supplemented (though not wholly replaced) by other means of recruiting elites. 2. A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Even Hitler's success in capturing the allegiance of the masses was due far more to this programmes of social reform than to his denunciations of the Diktats of Versailles or his belief in an expansionist future for Germany.
Word: disburden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English burden English disburden From dis- + burden. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbɜː(ɹ)dən/ 1. To rid of a burden; to free from a load carried; to unload. Labels: transitive Example: to disburden a pack animal Example: The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […] 2. To free from a source of mental trouble. Labels: transitive Example: My meditations […] will, I hope, be more […] calm, being thus disburdened. Example: He did it to disburden a conscience.
Word: disported Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disport Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: disport Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English disporten, desporten (“to take part in entertainment, sport, etc., to pass time, amuse oneself, be merry; to amuse, entertain; to cheer, console; to behave (in a particular way), deport; to be active, to busy; to relieve (someone of a task); to prevent (someone from attending)”), from Anglo-Norman desporter, Old French desporter, deporter, depporter (“to amuse, entertain; to pass time, amuse oneself; to forbear; to stop”), from Latin deportāre, present active infinitive of dēportō (“to bring, convey; to bring or take home; to carry along or down; to banish, transport”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, off’) + portō (“to bear, carry; to bring, convey”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; fare”)). The English word is a doublet of deport and sport. The noun is derived from Middle English disport, desport (“activity providing amusement, pleasure or relaxation; entertainment, recreation; game, pastime, sport; pleasure derived from an activity; source of comfort; consolation, solace; conduct, deportment; customary behaviour, manner; act, activity; departure”), from Anglo-Norman disport, Old French desport, deport (“game, pastime, sport; pleasure, recreation; disport”), from desporter: see further above. Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɔːt/, /dəˈspɔɹt/ 1. To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol. Labels: ambitransitive, dated, reflexive Example: Afterward, as appeareth by Euſtachius, there was ſome Greekes diſported themſelues herein, as he which turned Atlas for his heauie burthen in ſupporting Heauen, to Talas, that is, Wretched; Arete, Vertue, into Erate, that is, Louely; Ilaros, Merrie, into Liaros, that is, warme. Example: For my part, I love not to disport myself at the weakness of any man, or to turn his folly into laughter: for what were this, but to reflect dishonour upon the same nature, wherein he partakes with myself?
Word: disport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English disporten, desporten (“to take part in entertainment, sport, etc., to pass time, amuse oneself, be merry; to amuse, entertain; to cheer, console; to behave (in a particular way), deport; to be active, to busy; to relieve (someone of a task); to prevent (someone from attending)”), from Anglo-Norman desporter, Old French desporter, deporter, depporter (“to amuse, entertain; to pass time, amuse oneself; to forbear; to stop”), from Latin deportāre, present active infinitive of dēportō (“to bring, convey; to bring or take home; to carry along or down; to banish, transport”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, off’) + portō (“to bear, carry; to bring, convey”) (from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; fare”)). The English word is a doublet of deport and sport. The noun is derived from Middle English disport, desport (“activity providing amusement, pleasure or relaxation; entertainment, recreation; game, pastime, sport; pleasure derived from an activity; source of comfort; consolation, solace; conduct, deportment; customary behaviour, manner; act, activity; departure”), from Anglo-Norman disport, Old French desport, deport (“game, pastime, sport; pleasure, recreation; disport”), from desporter: see further above. Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɔːt/, /dəˈspɔɹt/ 1. Anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game, a pastime, a sport. Labels: archaic, countable Example: It hath beene very frequent with the Kings of England, France, and other Princes, for triall of their man hood, to runne at Iouſts, and fight at Barriers, not onely with forraigners, but with their owne valianteſt Lords and Knights, of which there are various Examples. In theſe Martiall diſports, by the very Law of Armes, theſe Subjects have not onely defended themſelves againſt their kings aſſaults and blowes; but retorted lance for lance, ſtroke for ſtroke, and ſometimes unhorſed, diſarmed, and wounded their Kings, […] 2. Amusement, entertainment, recreation, relaxation. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: And whether they were a bedde or at other maner of disportes me lyst not herof make no mencyon for loue that tyme was not as is now adayes. "And whether they were abed or at other manner of disports, me list not hereof make no mention, for love that time was not as is now-a-days." 3. The way one carries oneself; bearing, carriage, deportment. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: [Y]et have I carried myſelf towards thee in ſuch fanciful guiſe of careleſs diſport, that right ſore am I aſhamed now to entreat thy lenity ſeriouſly— […] 4. Bearing, elevation, orientation. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: ... shooting a bullet ... out of a Culverin towards the East, and afterwards another, with the same charge, and at the same elevation or disport towards the West. 5. Fun, gaiety, joy, merriment, mirth. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: dog musher Part of Speech: noun 1. a person who looks after sled dogs
Word: sled dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Any dog, such as a husky, that pulls a sled as part of a team.
Word: downcoming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From downcome. 1. Moving downwards.
Word: downcoming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From downcome. 1. present participle and gerund of downcome Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: draggled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of draggle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: draggled Part of Speech: adj 1. Soiled and wet as by dragging in the mud. Example: Then wet umbrellas began to appear, draggled skirts, and mud. Example: They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. 2. Having a limp, miserable, dilapidated appearance; bedraggled. Example: 1765, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, Letter 34, Nice, 2 April, 1765, It was near ten at night, when we entered the auberge in such a draggled and miserable condition, that Mrs. Vanini almost fainted at sight of us, on the supposition that we had met with some terrible disaster, and that the rest of the company were killed. Example: Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.