nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hamadryad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”). Pronunciation: /hæməˈdɹaɪæd/, /-əd/ 1. A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled. Labels: Greek Example: One of the most interesting species of Nymphs is the Dryads, or Hamadryads, those personifications of the vegetable life of plants. Example: The hamadryades have gone, like the golden fancies of which they were engendered—morning dreams of a young world scarce awake, but full of freshness and beauty. Yet often will the thought, or rather the fancy, come across me, that this wailing but most musical noise—heard in the dim evening, when every tree has a separate sound like a separate instrument, and every leaf a differing tone like the differing notes—is the piteous lament of some nymph pent within the gray and mossy trunk whence she may never more emerge in visible loveliness. 2. A king cobra. 3. A baboon of species Papio hamadryas, venerated by the ancient Egyptians. 4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Hamadryas and Tellervo.
Word: harl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”). Pronunciation: /hɑːl/ 1. A fibre, especially a fibre of hemp or flax, or an individual fibre of a feather. Example: She pushed her fingers under the cream lace, into the ginger harl of spun glass. 2. A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, used in dressing artificial flies. Example: Should it be desired, however, to run the hackle all over the body, it may be tied on along with the peacock's harls.
Word: harl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Cognate with Middle Low German herle, Low German harle, Saterland Frisian harrel (“hemp fibre”). Pronunciation: /hɑːl/ 1. To surface a building using a slurry of pebbles or stone chips which is then cured using a lime render. Labels: transitive Example: The east side facade is of rubble, studded with small windows and mannered details, while the harled rear (south) wall forms, as completed, a towering, roughly symmetrical grouping.
Word: harl Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hɑːl/ 1. To drag along the ground. Labels: Scotland, transitive 2. To drag oneself along. Labels: Scotland, intransitive 3. To troll for fish.
Word: harl Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hɑːl/ 1. The act of dragging. Labels: Scotland 2. A small quantity; a scraping of anything.
Word: free space Part of Speech: noun 1. vacuum; a space free of matter. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, space. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Take your things up to the attic: there's some free space there. Example: How much free space is there on your hard disk? Is it full yet?
Word: seiner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From seine + -er. 1. A fisherman who uses a seine to catch fish. 2. A fishing vessel used for seining.
Word: bat for both sides Part of Speech: verb 1. To be bisexual. Labels: euphemistic 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bat, both, sides. To be a batter for both teams in an amateur cricket or baseball game.
Word: beat up Part of Speech: verb 1. To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. Labels: transitive Example: I got beaten up by thugs on my way home. Example: You don't beat people up, so that you can live in a society where nobody would beat you up. 2. To wake up earlier than. Labels: transitive Example: I wanted to beat you up this morning and make breakfast for you for once. 3. To attack suddenly; to alarm. Labels: obsolete Example: At breach of wall, or hedge surprise, / She shared i' th' hazard, and the prize: / At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage Example: On this occasion, the diligent prior o St. Andrews assembled 600 horse, with which he assailed the French, beat up their quarters, intercepted their provisions, and cut off their straggling parties. 4. To cause, by some other means, injuries comparable to the result of being beaten up. Example: He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly. 5. To feel badly guilty and accuse (oneself) over something. (Usually followed by over or about.) Labels: reflexive Example: Don’t beat yourself up over such a minor mistake. 6. To make (someone) feel badly guilty and accuse (them) over something. Example: It's getting louder and louder Every time I think about you, about you I'll be better off without you, without you I wish my heart would stop, wish my heart would stop Beating me up (whoa, oh, whoa) Beating me up (whoa, oh, whoa) Beating me up 7. To repeatedly bomb a military target or targets. Labels: WW2-air-pilots'-usage 8. To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game). 9. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. Labels: intransitive 10. To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to. Labels: dated, intransitive 11. To go diligently about in order to get helpers or participants in an enterprise. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers
Word: beat up Part of Speech: adj 1. Battered by time and usage; beaten up. Labels: slang
Word: beat up Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up. Example: Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty. 2. An act of beating up: Labels: UK, slang Example: These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties. 3. An act of beating up: Example: We gave him wedgies and did mock beat-ups. We never hurt him or intended to hurt him, but he went along with our tough guy sort of image, and took it tongue in cheek and got it. Example: Frequently on guest nights beat ups were held by the Third Term, and cadets of the First Term (and, sometimes, the Second Term) were singled out individually. 4. An artificially or disingenuously manufactured alarm or outcry, especially one agitated by or through the media. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: To the people of CQ^([Central Queensland]) the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making. Example: Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people. 5. A tree planted later than others in a plantation. Example: The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.
Word: bow out Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /baʊ aʊt/ 1. To resign, or leave, with one's credibility or reputation still intact. Labels: idiomatic Example: Jane had a long spell as chairman, but bowed out after she had a child. Example: Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. [title]
Word: fall out Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”). Example: We had a fall out, couldn't come to terms and haven't talked since. Example: I've had a fall out with Nora, one of my tenants. She's packing up and leaving at this very moment.
Word: fall out Part of Speech: verb 1. To come out of something by falling. Labels: literally Example: I opened the cupboard and a can fell out onto my foot. Example: Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out. 2. To cease to be on friendly terms. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Dave and I fell out after a long argument. Example: Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals. 3. To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation. Labels: intransitive, literally 4. To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The company fell out for an artillery drill. 5. To pass out. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 6. To turn out, happen. Labels: dated Example: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Example: I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise. 7. To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 8. To give way under someone. Labels: intransitive Example: The board he was walking on fell out. 9. To cause someone to slip and/or fall down. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, usually Example: The ground fell out from under him. Example: When she left him, his world fell out beneath him. 10. To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: When the band started, everybody fell out. 11. To depart. Labels: intransitive, slang 12. To collapse; to pass out from intoxication. Labels: intransitive, slang 13. To be shocked by something. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: far out Part of Speech: adj 1. New, radical and extreme. Labels: informal Example: We were discussing a new base for our office, but moving to Antarctica seemed too far out. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, out.
Word: far out Part of Speech: intj 1. Cool; great; an expression of support, enthusiasm, or celebration. Labels: dated, informal Example: Far out! The game has a hidden cow level. Example: What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville? 2. An expression of surprise. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, informal Example: "Far out mate, look at the size of that bloody boat," a ranger said as he arrived at work at the Royal Botanic Gardens. 3. An expression of displeasure. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, informal Example: "Far out mate, frustrated. It just didn't jump and get going early. She was back running third-last," Olive said.
Word: tailleur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tailleur. Doublet of tailor. Pronunciation: /taɪˈjɜː(ɹ)/ 1. A woman's tailored suit.
Word: flag down Part of Speech: verb 1. Use a flag or similar kind of signal to get someone's attention. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Near-synonyms: hail, signal Example: If you want a taxi in Central London, you'll have to stand in the road and flag one down.
Word: natation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₂ti Proto-Italic *(s)nāō Latin nō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin natō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin natātiōbor. English natation Borrowed from Latin natātiō. Pronunciation: /nəˈteɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act or process of swimming Labels: uncountable
Word: sandstorm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sand + storm. 1. A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air. Example: Near-synonyms: duststorm, duster (broadly synonymous), haboob Example: There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it.
Word: fishmonger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fisshemonger; equivalent to fish + monger. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃˌmʌŋɡ.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who sells fish. Labels: UK Example: If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers. 2. A shop that sells fish; a fishmonger's shop, a fishmonger's. Labels: UK, rare Example: And Susan, sure of this inevitable answer, would ask Cook to pop into the fishmonger for a nice bit of salmon, […] Example: A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought. 3. A pimp. Labels: archaic, figuratively Example: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
Word: bullet hole Part of Speech: noun 1. A circular wound or hole caused by the projectile of a firearm. Example: The car was covered in bullet holes after the gang shootout. Example: Can’t say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.
Word: on second thoughts Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Alternative form of on second thought. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
Word: smell ya later Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of smell you later. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Todd jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped. "Smell ya later!" he hollered over his shoulder. Example: "Smell ya later," Scary Mary said to all of us, waddling toward the elevators.
Word: beedie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of beedi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: heavier Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhɛviɚ/, /ˈhɛvɪə/ 1. comparative form of heavy: more heavy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: Democratic Republic of the Congo Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætɪk ɹɪˈpʌblɪk əv ðə ˈkɒŋɡəʊ/ 1. A country in Central Africa, the larger of the two countries named Congo. Capital: Kinshasa. Example: The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment facility (GEF). Example: The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
Word: hadal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French hadal, from Hadès + -al. By surface analysis, had- + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪdəl/ 1. Of or relating to the deepest parts of the ocean. Labels: not-comparable
Word: xanthamide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English xanth- Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor. Latin Ammōn Latin ammoniacusder. English ammonia Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English amide English xanthamide From xanth- + amide. 1. The amide of xanthic acid.
Word: assimilation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion. Pronunciation: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: --France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes. Example: His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work. 2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested. 3. The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging. 5. The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish. Example: Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
Word: resultant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/ 1. Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting. Labels: not-comparable
Word: resultant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/ 1. Anything that results from something else; an outcome. Example: 2022, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension And our logic is simply spatiality in the general sense — that resultant of a selection of the permanent from the unpermanent, the ordered from the unordered, by the means of the group and its underlying duality. 2. A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.
Word: pedate Part of Speech: adj 1. Having the characteristics of a foot. 2. Having feet. 3. Having deeply divided lobes.
Word: subliminally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English subliminal Middle English -ly English -ly English subliminally From subliminal + -ly. Pronunciation: /sʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nə.li/, /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nə.li/, /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nə.li/ 1. In a subliminal manner. Example: Could it be from messages on my TV which I'm getting subliminally?
Word: special effect Part of Speech: noun 1. An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage. Labels: plural, usually Example: So popular was trickwork and spectacle with nineteenth-century audiences, in fact, that hundreds of plays were written solely as vehicles for magic, special effects, or elaborately trapped settings.
Word: chipped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of chip Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chipped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪpt/ 1. Having one or more chips (small pieces) missing. Example: a chipped plate 2. Having had a microchip fitted. Labels: not-comparable Example: a chipped pet cat 3. Having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power. Labels: not-comparable
Word: post-production Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin prōductiōder. Old French productionbor. Middle English produccioun English production English post-production From post- + production. 1. The stages of film (or audio) production happening between the actual filming (or recording) and the completed product. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: vaunted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English vaunt Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English vaunted From vaunt + -ed. 1. Highly or widely praised or boasted about. Example: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards. Example: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
Word: vaunted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English vaunt Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English vaunted From vaunt + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of vaunt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pay attention Part of Speech: verb 1. To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Please pay attention to the danger signs. Example: I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
Word: idem sonans Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin idem sonāns (“sounding the same”). 1. Incorrectly spelled, but sufficiently correct to identify someone. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hastate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hastate, borrowed from Latin hastātus (“armed with a spear”), from hasta (“spear”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈhæsteɪt/ 1. Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base. 2. Of or pertaining to a spear.
Word: helve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm. Pronunciation: /hɛlv/ 1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon. Example: It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […] Example: Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves. 2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Word: helve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English hielfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiją. Probably cognate to English half, although Etymonline claims relation from halter and helm. Pronunciation: /hɛlv/ 1. To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve. Labels: transitive
Word: hetaera Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈtɪəɹə/, /hɪˈtaɪɹə/ 1. A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them. Labels: historical Example: But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest... 2. A mistress. Example: Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera. Example: Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.
Word: hilding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Likely a contraction of earlier hilderling, itself an alteration of hinderling. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪldɪŋ/ 1. A wretch, a contemptible person. Example: ‘God, eh? Which god? You whore, you loathsome hilding.’
Word: hirundine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin hirundo (“a swallow”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹʌndʌɪn/ 1. Of or relating to a swallow (the bird); of or relating to the family Hirundinidae. Labels: not-comparable Example: I have not met with these hirundine star-titles except in these two instances, and I think them both incorrect.
Word: hirundine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hirundo (“a swallow”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈɹʌndʌɪn/ 1. A member of the swallow family Example: ‘...and so, gentlemen, I believe I may confidently state that the hibernation of swallows, and of all other hirundines, is conclusively proved,’ said Mr Lamb, with a defiant glare at his audience.
Word: hythe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English hȳþ. Pronunciation: /hʌɪð/, /hɔɪv/ 1. A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port. Labels: obsolete Example: That morn to other hythe we made our way / finding the peoples that before we found, / by a broad River, and we gave it name / from the high hol'iday when to port we came. Example: On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges.
Word: hogo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French haut-goût. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊɡəʊ/ 1. A strong, unpleasant smell. Example: In short, he lookt extremely natty, / And even contrived—to his own great wonder— / By dint of sundry scents from Gattie, / To keep the sulphurous hogo under. Example: Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period. Come near. Then get a hogo you could hang your hat on. Like what? Potted herrings gone stale or. Boof! Please keep off the grass.
Word: horst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst. Pronunciation: /hɔːst/ 1. A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area. Example: The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts. Example: 1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19, Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
Word: hough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo. The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu. Pronunciation: /hɒk/, /hɑk/, /hʌf/ 1. Alternative form of hock (“the hollow behind the knee”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees. 2. Alternative form of hock (“tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hough, houȝ, hoch, howghe, from Old English hōh (“heel, hough”), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“heel”). Doublet of hoo. The regular modern English development would be /hʌf/, /haʊ/; this has been replaced by /hɒk/, originating in the compound huxen (also *hoxen), from Old English hōhsinu. Pronunciation: /hɒk/, /hɑk/, /hʌf/ 1. Alternative form of hock (“to hamstring”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Far and wide the farms were burnt over their owners’ heads, the growing crops upon the ground; the horses were houghed, the cattle driven off; while of human death and misery there was no end.
Word: hough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See hoe (“agricultural tool”). 1. Obsolete spelling of hoe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: hough Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See hoe (“agricultural tool”). 1. Archaic spelling of hoe. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, K:LV Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far! Perhaps the happieſt of the Sons of Men! Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car; Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen, Delves in his Garden, or ſecures his Pen.
Word: hough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ho, howe, hogh, from Old English hōh (“a promontory”). 1. Alternative form of hoe. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: housel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English housel, from Old English hūsl (“housel, Eucharist, the Host, a sacrifice”), from Proto-Germanic *hunslą (“sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsl (“housel”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻 (hunsl, “sacrifice, offering”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy, sacred”) (OED). The OED cites usage of the noun from the 10th to the 17th century. 19th century use is deliberately archaizing. The verb is attested from the 11th century, and in occasional usage persists into the 19th. Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊzəl/ 1. The Eucharist. Labels: archaic Example: The Holy Houſel ought to be kept vvith great Diligence and not be permitted to be ſtale, but another be alvvays hallovved anevv for Sick Men in about a Seven-night, or Fortnight, ſo as that it may not be muſty at leaſt. Example: She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs.
Word: housel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English houselen, from Old English hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”), from Proto-Germanic *hunslōną (“to sacrifice, offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Icelandic húsla (“to housel”), Old Swedish húsla (“to administer the Eucharist to”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hunsljan, “to offer, sacrifice”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊzəl/ 1. To administer the Eucharist to. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To prepare for a journey. Labels: rare, transitive Example: So housel all our hackneys that they may feel Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate.
Word: hoyden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɪdən/ 1. A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman. Labels: archaic Example: She is a hoyden, one will say. At any rate she is not a lady, another will exclaim. I have suspected her all through, a third will declare; she has no idea of the dignity of a matron; or of the peculiar propriety which her position demands. Example: her ladyship burst suddenly into the schoolroom to introduce Mr. Perriam, who, as she announced from the doorway to Maisie, wouldn't believe his ears that one had a great hoyden of a daughter.
Word: hoyden Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɪdən/ 1. Like a hoyden: high-spirited and boisterous; saucy, tomboyish. Example: Many of the country girls I met appeared to me pretty – that is, to have fine complexions, sparkling eyes, and a kind of arch, hoyden playfulness which distinguishes the village coquette. Example: At these primitive tea parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting – no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones […]
Word: hoyden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Middle Dutch heyden (“heathen, gypsy”), heidin (Modern Dutch heiden). Pronunciation: /ˈhɔɪdən/ 1. To behave in a hoydenish manner. Labels: intransitive
Word: hydraemia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydro- + -aemia. Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/ 1. thinness of the blood Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hydræmia Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/ 1. Alternative spelling of hydraemia. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hydremia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hydro- + -emia. Pronunciation: /hʌɪˈdɹiːmɪə/ 1. Thinness of the blood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I suffer from hydremia. Perhaps that’s the reason why water draws me when I should draw water.
Word: hydroponic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from hydroponics. By surface analysis, hydro- (“water”) + Ancient Greek πόνος (pónos, “work, labour”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪdɹəˈpɒnɪk/, /ˌhaɪdɹəˈpɑnɪk/, /ˌhaɪdɹoʊˈpɑnɪk/ 1. Of a plant; pertaining to or grown using hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water, without soil. Example: Sid was now living in a small commune in the Shetland Islands, where he and his fellow communards were dedicated to the growing of implausibly large hydroponic onions. Example: She had been offended because he had seen her every day for ten days, then when she’d finally obtained 50 grams of genetically enhanced hydroponic marijuana for him[…]
Word: hypaethral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros), from ὑπό (hupó) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈpiːθɹəl/, /haɪˈpiːθɹəl/ 1. Open-air, outdoor, exposed to the sky. Labels: not-comparable Example: There was a dignity in their hypaethral presence kin to summer’s first morning of taurine light in the pepper trees of Uruguay.
Word: hypaethral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος (húpaithros), from ὑπό (hupó) + αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “air, ether”). Pronunciation: /hɪˈpiːθɹəl/, /haɪˈpiːθɹəl/ 1. An ancient Greek temple that is uncovered and exposed to the sky.
Word: xanthic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. any of a class of organic sulphur-containing acids of general formula ROCS₂H
Word: hyperborean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). By surface analysis, nearly hyper- + boreal. See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi). Pronunciation: /hʌɪ.pəˈbɔː.ɹɪən/, /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈboɹ.i.jɪn/ 1. One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind. Labels: Greek, capitalized, usually Example: The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods. 2. Any person living in a northern country, or to the north. Labels: humorous, usually
Word: hyperborean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). By surface analysis, nearly hyper- + boreal. See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi). Pronunciation: /hʌɪ.pəˈbɔː.ɹɪən/, /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈboɹ.i.jɪn/ 1. Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth; or (usually humorous) to a specific northern country or area. Example: The hyperborean or frozen sea. Example: Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]
Word: hyperdulia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin hyperdūlīa, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + dūlīa, from Ancient Greek δουλείᾱ (douleíā, “slavery”), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “slave”). Pronunciation: /hʌɪpəduːˈlʌɪə/ 1. A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Word: hypergolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ol + -ic, after the model of German Hypergol and hypergolisch. Equivalent to hypergol + -ic. Pronunciation: /hʌɪpɚˈɡɒlɪk/ 1. Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer. Labels: not-comparable Example: Although the LF₂-LH₂ cryogenic combination is hypergolic, the toxicity of the fuel and the products of combustion have made the use of this system impractical. In general, the commonly used hypergolic propellants are considered conventionally storable, that is, they do not need special refrigeration equipment to keep them liquid. 2. Involving such a hypergolic agent. Labels: not-comparable Example: The chemical reaction range of hypergolic mixtures varies from slow and barely visible to an instantaneous and highly visible explosive force.
Word: hypergolic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + -ol + -ic, after the model of German Hypergol and hypergolisch. Equivalent to hypergol + -ic. Pronunciation: /hʌɪpɚˈɡɒlɪk/ 1. A hypergolic propellant; a hypergol. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hypogeum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hypogaeum, from Ancient Greek ὑπόγειον (hupógeion), a noun use of the neuter singular of ὑπόγειος (hupógeios, “underground”). Pronunciation: /hʌɪpəˈd͡ʒiːəm/, /hɪpəˈd͡ʒiːəm/ 1. An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively). Example: Contour: the unique parameters of Karen’s body – beckoning vents of mouth and vulva, the soft hypogeum of the anus. Example: There may in fact be a Punic graffiti, in the Roman alphabet, on a hypogeum in San Salvatore di Cabras dated to the era of the Constantinian imperial dynasty.
Word: galenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English galena Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English galenic From galena + -ic. 1. of, or containing galena
Word: Galenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Galen Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Galenic From Galen + -ic. 1. of, or relating to Galen, his followers, principles or practices, especially relating to vegetable preparations used as remedies. Labels: not-comparable Example: He had emerged from a tradition steeped in Galenic scholarship.
Word: Galenical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Galenic + -al. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɛnɪk(ə)l/, /ɡəˈlɛnɪkəl/, /-nə-/ 1. Of, relating to, or supporting the principles and practices of Galen. Labels: not-comparable Example: About 1540 the furibund character of syphilis began to disappear. Probably inherited immunity played a part in this as well as the fact that the Galenical physicians, stirred up by the assaults of Paracelsus, took a more active part in treatment.
Word: Galenical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Galenic + -al. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɛnɪk(ə)l/, /ɡəˈlɛnɪkəl/, /-nə-/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of galenical. Labels: alt-of
Word: hypostasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Morphologically hypo- + -stasis. Pronunciation: /haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/, /haɪˈpɑstəsɪs/ 1. A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipoſtates ^([sic – meaning Hipoſtaſis]) / Thick and obſcure doth make your danger great, […] Example: Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit). 2. The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Example: What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis? 3. The underlying reality or substance of something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges". Example: The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence. 4. The underlying reality or substance of something. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The underlying reality or substance of something. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used. 7. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I am, of course, excluding the hypostasis produced by his having lain a whole week face downward in the cellar. That, naturally, is all in the front part of the body.
Word: Galenically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English Galenic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English Galenically From Galenic + -ally. 1. using Galenic remedies Labels: not-comparable
Word: galenical Part of Speech: adj 1. galenic
Word: galenical Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Galen, the Greek physician and writer of the second century. 1. A medicinal preparation concocted mostly from herbs or vegetable matter., like those prescribed by Galen; a simple cure.
Word: galeniferous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From galena + -i- + -ferous. 1. of a mineral or deposit: that contains galena
Word: Galenism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Galen Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Galenism From Galen + -ism. 1. The principles and practices of Galen. Labels: uncountable
Word: Galenist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Galen Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English Galenist From Galen + -ist. 1. An advocate of Galenism.
Word: hypostatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ῠ̔πο- (hŭpo-) Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ) Ancient Greek ὑφίστημι (huphístēmi) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός (hupostatikós)bor. Latin hypostaticusbor. English hypostatic Borrowed from Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός (hupostatikós), from ὑποστατός (hupostatós). Equivalent to hypostasis + -tic. Pronunciation: /haɪpəˈstætɪk/ 1. Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union. Example: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, "A Præface Introductory" The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. Example: The hypostatic union, as it is called, the perfect and complete union of two whole and perfect natures in the person of Jesus Christ, underlies this apparent paradox 3. Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting. Example: hypostatic congestion, due to setting of blood by gravitation 4. Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
Word: ibrik Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Persian *ābrēkbor.? Parthian *ābrēkbor.? Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܝܩܐ (ʾaḇrēqā)bor.? Arabic إِبْرِيق (ʔibrīq)bor. Ottoman Turkish ابریق (ibrik, ıbrık)bor. English ibrik Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابریق (ibrik, ıbrık), borrowed from Arabic إِبْرِيق (ʔibrīq), possibly borrowed from Classical Syriac ܐܒܪܝܩܐ (ʾaḇrēqā), possibly borrowed from Middle Persian *ābrēk, or possibly borrowed from Parthian *ābrēk. Pronunciation: /ˈɪbɹiːk/ 1. A long-spouted pitcher, typically made of brass. 2. A Turkish coffee pot or jezve. Labels: proscribed
Word: ikey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ike + -y, representing a colloquial abbreviation of Isaac. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪki/ 1. A Jew. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur Example: My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo, Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can pick out the eye of the crow; Example: I meant to start from Barrhill, but I missed the train, and then I hung on to old Ikey-Mo, which made my alibi much better,
Word: ikey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ike + -y, representing a colloquial abbreviation of Isaac. Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪki/ 1. Having negative traits stereotypically associated with Jews; cunning, supercilious. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur Example: Clara had always been ‘ikey’ – reserved and superior. Example: What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland. He prolonged his pleased smile. Ikey touch that: homerule sun rising up in the northwest.
Word: illation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin illātiō (“logical inference, deduction, conclusion”), from illātus, perfect passive participle of inferō (“carry or bring into somewhere; conclude”), from in + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, /əˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; a conclusion, a deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Now herein there seems to be a very erroneous Illation: from the Indulgence of God unto Cain, concluding an immunity unto himself […] Example: it so orders the intermediate Ideas, as to discover what Connection there is in each Link of the Chain, whereby the Extreams are held together; and thereby, as it were, to draw into View the Truth sought for, which is what we call Illation or Inference […]
Word: imbricated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Participle adjective, imbricate + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈɪmbɹɪkeɪtɪd/ 1. Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined. Example: When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong. Example: As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […]
Word: impleach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English pleach English impleach From in- + pleach. Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpliːt͡ʃ/ 1. to entwine, entangle
Word: impostume Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French empostume, alteration of apostume (“apostume, large abscess”), from Latin apostema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστεμα (apóstema, “separation of pus into an abscess”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɒstjuːm/ 1. An abscess. Labels: obsolete Example: The great impoſtume of the realme vvas dravvne / Euen to a head: the multitudinous ſpavvne / VVas the corruption, vvhich did make it ſvvell / VVith hop'd ſedition (the burnt ſeed of hell.) Example: Jaſon Phereus [Jason of Pherae] [was] utterly forſaken of all Phyſitians, by reaſon of an impoſtume he had in his breaſt […]
Word: impostume Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French empostume, alteration of apostume (“apostume, large abscess”), from Latin apostema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστεμα (apóstema, “separation of pus into an abscess”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɒstjuːm/ 1. Alternative form of imposthume. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete