nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: destitution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French destitution, from Latin dēstitūtiō (“abandoning”), from dēstituō. Pronunciation: /dɛstɪˈtuːʃən/, /dɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/, /dɛstɪˈtʃuːʃən/ 1. The action of deserting or abandoning. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Discharge from office; dismissal. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 3. The condition of lacking something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals. 4. An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.
Word: arccos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- English cos English arccos From arc- + cos. 1. Abbreviation of arccosine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: arccos (1/2ϕ)=2π/5 Example: […]with the appropriate constraint angles measured in terms of the arccoses and arctans.
Word: arcsin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sineclip. ▲ Latin sinusclip. Translingual sin English arcsin From arc- + Translingual sin. 1. Abbreviation of arcsine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: arctan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arc- + translingual tan. 1. Abbreviation of arctangent. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: tan (arctan 2/2)=1/ϕ
Word: stinginess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sting English -y English stingy Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English stinginess From stingy + -ness. 1. The property of being stingy: a lack of generosity; excessive parsimony. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonyms: cheapness, tightness, miserliness
Word: babbitt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈbæbɪt/, /ˈbæbət/ 1. Ellipsis of babbitt metal or Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition used in bearings to diminish friction”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Running while low on oil had galled the babbitt. Example: Figure 2 represents a top plan of the "Babbitting" jig, placed in or upon a cast-iron frame, preparatory to the pouring or casting of the "Babbitt" or other soft metal on to or around its journals, to form journal bearings in said cast-iron frame.
Word: babbitt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Babbitt, the surname of the American inventor Isaac Babbitt (1799–1862) who invented the alloy. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈbæbɪt/, /ˈbæbət/ 1. To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction. Labels: transitive Example: The main bearings were babbitted and line-bored. Example: The caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a negative of the interior of the frame. It has two sets of bearings, c d and e f, which are at right angles to each other, and which set in the longitudinal and transverse bearings that have been made and "Babbited" in the cast frame, and thus steady and hold it.
Word: babbitt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Babbitt, the surname of George Babbitt, the title character of the novel Babbitt (1922) by the American author Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951). The word was also popularized by the George (1898–1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) song “The Babbitt and the Bromide”, first featured in the 1927 musical Funny Face and later in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945). Pronunciation: /ˈbæbɪt/, /ˈbæbət/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”). Labels: US, alt-of, dated Example: One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired. Example: … a "babbitt" is a person full of self-confident bluster who is nevertheless a narrowminded philistine and a hypocrite.]
Word: Babbitt metal Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of babbitt metal. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: babehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-redup. Proto-Germanic *babô Proto-West Germanic *babō Old English *baba Middle English babe English babe Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English babehood From babe + -hood. 1. Babyhood. Labels: uncountable Example: There was grave doubt whether her fragile bud of babehood would resist the cold chill of that wintry world into which it had been prematurely ushered 2. The quality of being a babe (attractive woman) Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Despite the whole Yummy Mummy trend, I think a lot of women still put their babehood — the flamboyant, sexy, out-in-the-world side of themselves—under wraps when they get married and have kids and move to the suburbs.
Word: babian Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of baboon. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: babion Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of baboon. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: baby farm Part of Speech: noun 1. An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers. Labels: informal Example: But the bastard son of Fiona and Michael Duffy had been sent to a baby farm. Example: As he did a little pamphlet fell out. It was kind of pink in color. At the top it said "Rangsit Home for Babies." It was a little booklet that told all about the baby farm at Rangsit. It was printed by the government of the country where Rangsit was.
Word: baby farmer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who keeps a baby farm or does baby farming Example: In that repressive atmosphere, the “baby farmer”—usually a woman—was prepared to help an unwed mother through her time of trial . . . but only for a price. Example: But in 1926 Mrs. Nat Bass of Brooklyn, New York, felt compelled to confess her deception to her husband, and the district attorney, when the baby farmer from whom she had purchased an infant was investigated for fatally starving and beating twenty-two children.
Word: baby farming Part of Speech: noun 1. The business of keeping a baby farm. Labels: uncountable
Word: baccated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See baccate and -ed. 1. Having many berries. Labels: not-comparable 2. Set or adorned with pearls. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: bacchant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos). Pronunciation: /ˈbækənt/, /bəkant/ 1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Word: bacchant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos). Pronunciation: /ˈbækənt/, /bəkant/ 1. fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Word: bacchante Part of Speech: noun 1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal. Example: “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. […]”
Word: bacchantic Part of Speech: adj 1. Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic. Labels: not-comparable Example: The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other. Example: There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves. 2. Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus. Labels: not-comparable Example: His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite. Example: In this way the spectators were contextualized as participants in a rite (the chorus of bacchantic dancers and those assisting were originally not separated, either spatially or in their pragmatic roles), who had to perform rite (rightly) that which lay beyond them all.
Word: bacchical Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
Word: bacchic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Bacchicus. 1. Of or relating to Bacchus. Example: Near-synonyms: Dionysiac, Dionysian 2. By extension, drunken. Example: Near-synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchian; dionysiac, dionysian 3. Relating to a bacchius.
Word: bacchius Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because used in hymns to Bacchus. Pronunciation: /ˈbækiəs/ 1. A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Word: capon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪpən/ 1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table. Example: […] And then, the Iustice / In faire round belly, with good Capon lin'd, Example: […] You cannot feed capons so.
Word: capon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō). Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪpən/ 1. To castrate; to make a capon of. Labels: transitive
Word: bacciferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin baccifer (“bearing berries”), bacca (“berry”) + -ferous. Pronunciation: /bækˈsɪfəɹəs/ 1. Producing berries. Example: bacciferous plant Example: bacciferous shrub
Word: bacciform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin baca (“berry”) + -iform. Pronunciation: /ˈbæksɪfɔːm/ 1. Having the form of a berry.
Word: baccivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin bāca (“berry”) + -vorous Pronunciation: /bækˈsɪvəɹəs/ 1. Eating, or having a diet based on, berries Labels: not-comparable Example: baccivorous birds
Word: toucha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Standard English touch, as in "touching someone for money". Pronunciation: /ˈtʌt͡ʃə/ 1. A person who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return. Labels: Geordie, derogatory Example: Yer a toucha, yee just somthin for nothin aall the time!
Word: Bacharach Part of Speech: name 1. A town in the Rhine Gorge, Mainz-Bingen Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. 2. A surname from German.
Word: Bacharach Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine. Labels: uncountable
Word: tortious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːʃəs/, /ˈtɔɹʃəs/ 1. Wrongful; harmful. Labels: obsolete Example: he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […] 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.
Word: tortious Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːʃəs/, /ˈtɔɹʃəs/ 1. Misspelling of tortuous Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: Burr continued to preside over the Senate with matchless grace and dignity, addressed it finally in the farewell speech which moved his enemies to tears, and wandered off into the tortious windings of political intrigue. Example: The very existence of article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory, on the rather tortious argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States, acceptance of article 23 (which enables other states to refuse to operate the Convention in this area) ‘would have been most anomalous’.
Word: teed Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of tee Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Arianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Eponym from its chief proponent Arius, a priest in Alexandria circa 323 CE: Arian + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹɪənɪzəm/ 1. A Christological doctrine, condemned as heretical by the First Council of Nicaea, which holds that Jesus was created by God, rather than being God himself. Labels: uncountable
Word: orchidaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Orchidaceae; equivalent to orchid + -aceous. 1. Of or pertaining to orchids. Example: In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks. 2. Exotic in a rare, mysterious, alluring, or sensual way. Example: These stories were variously received. […] J. D. found them “charged with Corvonian idiosyncrasy, a jumble-jargon composed of modern slang, old English, Latin, Italian and Greek,” adding: “The Corvo vocabulary is orchidaceous.”
Word: Rolls-Royce Part of Speech: name Etymology: The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. 1. Any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.
Word: Rolls-Royce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The original company was established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. 1. A car made by this manufacturer. Example: ‘What is the most expensive car?’ she had once asked Stan. ‘A cad – Cadillac or a Rolls,’ Stan had said, and sometimes Raoul had a Cadillac, sometimes a Rolls-Royce. Example: And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly. 2. Anything that is the best of its type; the best quality product possible. Labels: UK, informal Example: the Rolls-Royce of chocolate Example: But for an aspiring animation cartoonist, getting a job at Walt Disney was like hitting the major leagues—the Rolls Royce of animation. Now here we were walking down Dopey Drive and making a right at Mickey Avenue.
Word: middlemen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of middleman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hafnia Part of Speech: noun 1. hafnium oxide, HfO₂ Labels: uncountable
Word: maladroit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”), equivalent to mal- + adroit. Pronunciation: /ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/ 1. Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept. Example: Like the maladroit boy himself, the director does not believe in warming his audience up with narrative foreplay, and it's the same story when we cut to the family home of Julio's girlfriend, whose parents allow him into her bedroom to help her look for her passport, and she gleefully wrenches her tracksuit bottoms down. Example: Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
Word: maladroit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”), equivalent to mal- + adroit. Pronunciation: /ˌmæl.əˈdɹɔɪt/ 1. Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.
Word: dodderer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dodder + -er. 1. Somebody who dodders. Example: "Take no notice of yon dodderer whatever," he said.
Word: octoroon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish octorón; compare quadroon from cuarterón (“quadroon”). 1. Someone having one-eighth black ancestry. Labels: dated, historical Example: Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes—boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,—and to call themselves Españolos, and to hold property, if they can get any. Example: There would have been no legal barrier to their union; there would have been no frightful menace to white supremacy in the marriage of the negro and the octoroon: the drop of dark blood bridged the chasm. 2. Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man. Labels: dated, historical Example: Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman
Word: debauched Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/ 1. Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent. Example: When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage. Example: He was a man made for the exteremes of life; from the most debauched of men he had become the most ascetic.
Word: debauched Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of debauch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: latitudinal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin lātitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin lātitūdō, from lātus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, latitude + -al. Pronunciation: /lætɪˈtud(ɪ)nəl/ 1. Relating to latitude. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lawmaking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From law + making. 1. The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: leafage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English leaf Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English leafage From leaf + -age. 1. The leaves of plants collectively; foliage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors. Example: She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.
Word: diluvian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin dīluō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin dīluvium English -an English diluvian From Latin dīluvium + English -an. Pronunciation: /daɪˈljuːvɪən/, /daɪˈluvɪən/, /dɪˈluvɪən/ 1. Pertaining to a deluge, or flood. Labels: not-comparable
Word: learning-disabled Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a condition that impedes learning.
Word: lighterman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lighter + -man. 1. One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter. Example: 1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs, The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122, A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […] Example: One Dobson, a lighterman, undertook, for a wager of five guineas, to swim on his back from Westminster bridge to Putney bridge in an hour and three quarters, without turning himself in the water; which he performed 19 minutes within the time.
Word: left-handedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English left-handed Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English left-handedness From left-handed + -ness. 1. The state of being left-handed. Labels: uncountable
Word: lousily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English lousy Middle English -ly English -ly English lousily From lousy + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊzɪli/ 1. In a lousy manner, poorly or vilely.
Word: vilely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English vyly, vileliche, fijlliche, villiche, equivalent to vile + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪl.li/ 1. In a vile manner, evilly, despicably. Example: We broke off diplomatic relations with Russia Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks[...] Russia vilely and suicidally attacked our state in the morning Just like fascist Germany did during the Second World War 2. Terribly, awfully. Example: The chauffeur must, as it seemed to me, have been a novice or else have lost his nerve in this disturbance, for he drove vilely on the way to the station.
Word: saurian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːɹiən/, /ˈsɔɹiən/ 1. A reptile of the suborder Sauria. Example: I took heart, however, as I recalled a conversation between Challenger and Summerlee upon the habits of the great saurians. 2. Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens. Labels: especially Example: After dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a Capronian night--that is, all but von Schoenvorts. There was less to see than to hear. From the great inland lake behind us came the hissing and the screaming of countless saurians. Above us we heard the flap of giant wings, while from the shore rose the multitudinous voices of a tropical jungle--of a warm, damp atmosphere such as must have enveloped the entire earth during the Palezoic and Mesozoic eras. Example: Good evening, fellow saurians, and welcome once again to the Tri-Sports Arena! I'm your host, Raz Charkov... 3. A lizardlike person. Labels: figuratively Example: He was one of the very few larger saurians in the émigré marshes.
Word: saurian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːɹiən/, /ˈsɔɹiən/ 1. Of or related to the members of the suborder Sauria. 2. Synonym of lizardlike or reptilian. Labels: figuratively
Word: lovableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lovable Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lovableness From lovable + -ness. 1. The property that makes someone or something lovable. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Papa is just one by himself for lovableness, goodness, kindness—oh, everything that is admirable!
Word: Wyandot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat (“islander”). Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɒt/, /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɑt/ 1. A member of a Native American people, formed from the Huron confederacy, that lived in and around Ohio.
Word: Wyandot Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Wyandot Wendat (“islander”). Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɒt/, /ˈwaɪ.ənˌdɑt/ 1. Synonym of Wyandots; a Native American people. 2. The now-extinct Iroquoian language of this people. 3. A placename: 4. A placename: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: legislating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of legislate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: like the new time Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Furiously or vigorously, repeatedly. Labels: Ireland, colloquial Example: He was running like the new time when the dog chased him.
Word: redbrick university Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of red brick university. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: redbrick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From red + brick. 1. of, or relating to a red brick university Labels: not-comparable 2. made of red brick Labels: not-comparable Example: And stolid, True Blue, Protestant Rangers in their redbrick cotadel south of the Clyde.
Word: redbrick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From red + brick. 1. Clipping of red brick university. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: inspan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in + span. 1. To yoke (oxen). Labels: transitive Example: There was no time to inspan the oxen[…] Example: He was trekking across country, and being anxious to arrive at his destination before the heat of the day he ordered his boys to inspan whilst it was still dark. They had some trouble in doing so, as the mules were very restive, but at last they managed it, and a start was made. The mules raced along like the wind, and when daylight came they saw why. In the darkness, the boys had inspanned a lion as the near wheeler. 2. To bring or force into service.
Word: Cath Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Catherine. Pronunciation: /kæθ/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
Word: Missy Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.i/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Word: Eleanor Part of Speech: name Etymology: The first known bearer was Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204), Provençal Aliénor, perhaps from Latin alia (“other”) and her mother's name Aenor, its meaning thereby said to be “the other Aenor”. This Aenor seems to come from earlier Adenordis, which might be some corruption of Adamardis, feminine form of Ademar or Adamarus, from Proto-West Germanic *Audamār, from the Proto-Germanic elements *audaz (“riches”) + *mēraz (“fame”). An Arabic origin from نُور (nūr, “light”) has also been suggested. Eleanor has often been erroneously interpreted as a variant of Helen. More at Eleanor on Wikipedia. Also see Aenor. Pronunciation: /ˈɛləˌnoɹ/, /ˈɛlənɚ/, /ˈɛlənə/ 1. A female given name. Example: Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright: / Presumptuous dame! ill-nurtured Eleanor! / Art thou not second woman in the realm, / And the protector's wife, belov'd of him? Example: When you hear a young lady called Eleanor, you think of a tall, beautiful, interesting creature directly - the very opposite of me! With my personal appearance, Eleanor sounds ridiculous - and Neelie, as you yourself remarked, is just the thing. No! no! don't say any more - - -
Word: Lizzie Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Liz + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪzi/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Word: Holy Saturday Part of Speech: noun 1. The Saturday immediately after Good Friday and before Easter. Example: Holonyms: Holy Week < Eastertime
Word: Debbie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Deborah Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English Debbie From Deborah + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛbi/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Word: micromolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + molar. 1. Describing a concentration of one millionth of a mole per litre Labels: not-comparable
Word: millimolar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlleder. French milli- English milli- English molar English millimolar From milli- + molar. 1. Having a concentration of one thousandth of a mole per litre Labels: not-comparable
Word: IPTG Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: clachan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic clachan. Pronunciation: /ˈklæx(ə)n/, /ˈklæk(ə)n/, /ˈklax(ɪ)n/, /ˈklæxɒːn/ 1. A small village or hamlet, especially in the Highlands or Western Scotland. Labels: Scotland Example: ‘Now, Penpunt, you may tell me all that passed between you and the wives of the clachan.’ Example: But if you looked south in the dusty forenoon or at hot midday, you saw the far-off glimmer of a white road, the roofs of the ugly little clachan of Kilmaclavers, and the rigging of the fine new kirk of Threepdaidle.
Word: adventurously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English auntreousliche, equivalent to adventurous + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˌædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əsˌli/, /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əsˌli/ 1. In an adventurous manner. Example: In a short time, however, philosophy gave way to humanity, and he zealously and adventurously employed his galley in saving the inhabitants of the various beautiful villas which studded that enchanting coast. Example: Having lived adventurously, fate placed the pair of them in situations which would secure their unique notch in our imaginations.
Word: accidents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of accident Labels: form-of, plural Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accidents.
Word: abominations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of abomination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: accomplices Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of accomplice Labels: form-of, plural
Word: appointments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of appointment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seltzer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A toponym from 1735–45 German Selterser (“of Selters”), after Selters, a village known for its carbonated mineral springs. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛltsɚ/ 1. Ellipsis of seltzer water. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable, usually Example: His youth, his good looks, his charm made the sinister savagery hinted in the smile the more disconcerting. He poured whiskey from a bottle into each of the two tall glasses, filled them up with seltzer, extended one toward Susan.
Word: sexual congress Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of sexual intercourse. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable
Word: cell line Part of Speech: noun 1. A biological tissue or group of individual cells that are genetically identical as a result of dividing mitotically from a single progenitor cell.
Word: Lovecraftian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. Pronunciation: /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/ 1. Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy. Example: The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger. 2. Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Example: Lovecraftian horror Example: Lovecraftian fiction
Word: Lovecraftian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lovecraft + -ian, in reference to H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. Pronunciation: /lʌvˈkɹæfti.ən/ 1. A fan of American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Example: For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.” Example: Finally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.”
Word: Lovecraft Part of Speech: name Etymology: Compound of love + craft. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌvˌkɹæft/, /ˈlʌvˌkɹɑːft/ 1. A surname.
Word: Telescopium Part of Speech: name Etymology: The constellation was named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from New Latin telescopium (“a telescope”) 1. A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.
Word: satay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Tamil சதை (catai)bor. Javanese ꦱꦠꦺ (saté)bor. Malay sateder. English satay From Malay sate (“satay”), ultimately from Tamil சதை (catai). Doublet of sosatie and shacha. Pronunciation: /ˈsæt.eɪ/, /ˈsɑː.teɪ/, /sæˈteɪ/, /sɑːˈteɪ/ 1. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.
Word: saté Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”). 1. Alternative spelling of satay. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: satai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”). 1. Alternative spelling of satay. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: reticle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin rēticulum, diminutive of Latin rēte (“net”). Doublet of reticulum, Reticulum, and reticule. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɪkəl/ 1. A transparent plate marked with a crosshair, grid, or scale which is used in an optical instrument, etc., to aid in alignment, counting, or measurement of objects being observed; also, the crosshair, grid, or scale on such a plate. 2. A master or template, comprising a pattern of lines and shapes, used in photolithography to create the tiny integrated circuits on a microchip. Example: Near-synonym: photomask (broadly synonymous in context) 3. Alternative form of reticule (“a little bag”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: On the following day Mrs. Kent went into the bed-room; and laid a reticle, which contained the money, upon her bed; and afterwards returned into the sitting-room; leaving the door between that and the bed-room open. After she had remained in the sitting-room about five minutes, she sent Miss S. for the reticle; and it was not to be found.
Word: Reticulum Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From later Latin rēticulum (“reticle”). The meaning is often wrongly interpreted as "net", which is an older meaning of the Latin root word. Doublet of reticle, reticule, and reticulum. 1. A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado. 2. Classified as two of 23 "Southern Asterisms" (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngqū) Labels: Chinese
Word: reticulum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rēticulum (“net”). Doublet of reticle, reticule, and Reticulum. 1. A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell. 2. A pattern of interconnected objects. 3. The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant. Example: As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly. 4. The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
Word: doings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doing Labels: form-of, plural 2. deeds, achievements 3. social events 4. sewage. Labels: Australia, dated, vulgar
Word: cookery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery. Pronunciation: /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ 1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned. Example: together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c. 2. A delicacy; a dainty. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale. 3. Cooking tools or apparatus. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward... Example: ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends... 4. A place where cooking is done. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt disposed to do justice to the meal, notwithstanding that the meat had been purchased, and dressed, and the pie made, and baked, at the prison cookery hard by.
Word: cookery Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of kukri. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Orion Nebula Part of Speech: name 1. A diffuse nebula visible in the night sky below Orion's Belt; it is approximately 40 light years across. It is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye and is the closest region of stellar formation to Earth.
Word: Orion's Belt Part of Speech: name 1. A bright asterism located near the celestial equator, consisting of three bright stars lined up and visibly close together. Example: [T]he hunter duly shot him with an arrow, which was embedded in his body as the stars of ‘Orion’s belt’.
Word: Triangulum Galaxy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Triangulum, a constellation. 1. A relatively nearby spiral galaxy in the Local Group, together with the Milky Way galaxy. It is at a distance of approximately 2.6 million light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Triangulum, and is also known as M33 and NGC 598.
Word: weasand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“weasand”), Old Saxon wāsendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”). Pronunciation: /ˈwiːzənd/ 1. The oesophagus; the gullet. Labels: dialectal Example: By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it. 2. The throat or windpipe. Labels: dialectal Example: […] Or cut his vvezand vvith thy knife. Example: [A]lthough the vveazon, throtle and tongue [of birds] be the inſtruments of voice, and by their agitations doe chiefly concurre unto theſe delightfull modulations, yet cannot vve aſſigne the cauſe unto any particular formation; […]
Word: weltanschauungen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weltanschauung Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Triangulum Australe Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin triangulum (“triangl”) + australe (“southern”). 1. A winter constellation of the southern sky, which has three bright stars that form a triangle. It lies north of the constellation Apus, between Ara and Circinus.
Word: pace-egg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pace egg. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: paste-egg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pace egg. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wyte Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of wite. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv. Example: [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.
Word: wyte Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of wite. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pace egg Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /peɪs ɛɡ/ 1. A hard-boiled coloured egg traditionally made at Easter, often given to relatives and friends as a token of goodwill. It was traditional to jarp with the eggs before eating them.
Word: jarp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑːp/, /d͡ʒɑɹp/ 1. The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries. Labels: Cumbria, Ireland, Yorkshire Example: Making these Easter or anytime decorated hard-boiled eggs is a tradition in northern England where they are known as paste eggs (or pace eggs as they are called in other areas). They are used in jarping competitions, in which each child holds an egg pointy end up and tries to crack their opponent's egg with one jarp, without breaking their own. Then everyone eats the eggs.
Word: jarp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑːp/, /d͡ʒɑɹp/ 1. To knock (a pace egg) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact. Labels: Cumbria, Ireland, Yorkshire, transitive Example: Many of the lads, however, have a much speedier method of either adding to their store of food or losing their egg. They jaup or jarp them together, i.e. one lad strikes his egg against that of his opponent, when one or both are broken; if only one, it is forfeited and becomes the property of the conqueror. Example: Jarping hard-boiled eggs (sometimes the painted ones, but often we didn't want to sacrifice our laboriously decorated works of art) on Easter Monday; it was like conkers – you jarped one end of your pace egg against the end of someone else's and the winner was the egg that hadn't cracked, or still had one end intact.
Word: Pasch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Pask, Paske, Paskes, from Old French pasches (modern French Pâques), from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (pasḥā), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésaḥ). Doublet of Pascha, paska, paskha, and Pesach. Pronunciation: /pæsk/, /pɑːsk/ 1. Passover. Labels: archaic 2. Easter. Labels: archaic
Word: paste egg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pace egg. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: supports Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of support Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supports Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of support Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accessories Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹiz/, /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹiz/ 1. plural of accessory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: xanthochroic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin Xanthochroi (from ξανθός (xanthós, “fair", "yellow", "golden", "blond”) and χρώς (khrṓs, “skin”)). By surface analysis, xantho- + -chroic. Pronunciation: /zænθəˈkɹəʊɪk/ 1. pertaining to people or races with light hair and pale complexions
Word: supercede Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English superceden, from Middle French superceder, from Latin supersedēre: super- (“over-”) + sedēre (“to sit”). 1. Variant spelling of supersede. Labels: misspelling, nonstandard Example: To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes, in practice, the employment of common law deeds. Example: They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
Word: xeriscape Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From 1980s Xeriscape, a term coined (and trademarked) by Denver Water. From xeri- + -scape. Pronunciation: /ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/, /ˈzɛɹ.ə.skeɪp/, /zɪɹ-/ 1. A kind of landscape design for arid regions, minimising the need for irrigation. Example: Randy looks up over the Impala and the retaining wall and the ice-clogged xeriscape above that and into the lobby of Waterhouse House, where Amy Shaftoe has her feet up on a coffee table and is looking through some of the extremely sad Cayuse-related literature that Randy bought for Avi. Example: But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.
Word: xeriscape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From 1980s Xeriscape, a term coined (and trademarked) by Denver Water. From xeri- + -scape. Pronunciation: /ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/, /ˈzɛɹ.ə.skeɪp/, /zɪɹ-/ 1. To landscape in a water-friendly manner.
Word: southbound Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *sunþ Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ Proto-Indo-European *sh₂w-én-s Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ún-teros Proto-Germanic *sunþraz ▲ Proto-Germanic *sunþraz Proto-Germanic *sunþrą Proto-West Germanic *sunþr Old English sūþ Middle English south English south English -bound English southbound From south + -bound. Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊθbaʊnd/ 1. Toward the south. Labels: not-comparable Example: The truck raced southbound, then careened into the ditch.
Word: southbound Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *sunþ Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ Proto-Indo-European *sh₂w-én-s Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ún-teros Proto-Germanic *sunþraz ▲ Proto-Germanic *sunþraz Proto-Germanic *sunþrą Proto-West Germanic *sunþr Old English sūþ Middle English south English south English -bound English southbound From south + -bound. Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊθbaʊnd/ 1. Which is (or will be) travelling south. Labels: not-comparable Example: We took the southbound train to Barcelona.
Word: sober up Part of Speech: verb 1. To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively). Example: She's in no state to go home by herself, so make sure she doesn't drink anything else, and she'll soon sober up. Example: A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.
Word: snowmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snowman Labels: form-of, plural