nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Zadracarta Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Zadracarta, from Ancient Greek Ζαδρακάρτα (Zadrakárta), from Old Iranian. Compare Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Persian ساری (sâri, “Sari”), a city known for its abundant citrus fruits located in former Hyrcania, and Middle Persian 𐭪𐭫𐭲 (-kirt, -gird), a suffix forming city names. 1. an Achaemenid city in Hyrcania Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: Parthyene Part of Speech: name 1. the region Parthia Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: walk-on girl Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌwɔːk ɒn ˈɡɜːl/, /ˌwɔk ɑn ˈɡɝl/, /ˌwɑk ɑn ˈɡɝl/ 1. A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event. Example: Again anticipating opportunity, Tommy Cox jets to Alaska and books Sarah Palin to be a walk-on girl at the 2009 Desert Classic final. Example: His then girlfriend, Bernice Grey was a minor model turned darts walk-on girl. Jack's checklist-life could not have got much better compared to his childhood ambitions.
Word: lay a glove on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the sport of boxing, referring to managing to hit someone with one's boxing glove. 1. To hit with a boxing glove. Example: “You were so good he couldn't lay a glove on you. You were terrific. He tired to hit you with his knockout punch but you skillfully avoided it - do you remember how his glove whistled harmlessly past your head? Example: In round three, Toxa moved in and out jabbing, scoring often with the bigger man unable to lay a glove on him. 2. To physically touch, especially in a way that causes hurt. Example: The blinking headlights in his rearview mirror indicated the driver's anger at almost being sideswiped. “Oh, get a grip on yourself,” Dave groused as he continued accelerating. “I didn't even lay a glove on ya,” he giggled. Example: “No, you needn't worry, Peres,” he'd gone on. “I wouldn't lay a glove on you. I've been meaning to tell you; you're really not my type at all. I just didn't want...Well, you know—your self-esteem and all that. You can understand, can't you?” 3. To harm (someone's) reputation, to make an accusation stick. Labels: broadly Example: It was more than an anticlimax: it was a triumph for the President. “They didn't lay a glove on him,” Robert Bennett, his lawyer, told me. “On a scale of one to ten, it was a fifteen.” Example: “The courts couldn't lay a glove on you, if that's what you did," said Silber. 4. To match, to provide with meaningful competition or be able to handle. Example: And I was dubious because I thought the problem was so huge that no small amount of money that we would put in this bill would lay a glove on the problem. Example: His team did not think that their candidate was so likeable that Romney couldn't lay a glove on him. Quite the opposite.
Word: Howland Island Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named for brothers George and Matthew Howland, who were early investors in guano mining on the island. 1. An uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km) southwest of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States. Example: By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of June 25, 1910, Ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Jarvis Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°22'30" S. and longitude 160°01' W. from Greenwich; Baker Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°13'30" N. and longitude 176°33' W. from Greenwich; and Howland Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude 0°49' N. and longitude 176°43' W. from Greenwich, as indicated upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this order, be, and they are hereby, reserved, set aside, and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for administrative purposes.
Word: Taranaki Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Māori Taranaki. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹanɛki/, /ˈtaɾanaki/ 1. A region in western North Island, New Zealand. 2. A stratovolcano in the region. 3. An epoch from 10.9 to 5.28 million years ago, a subdivision of the Neogene.
Word: Manawatu-Wanganui Part of Speech: name Etymology: From two separate Māori names. 1. A region in southern North Island, New Zealand.
Word: New Plymouth Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand. 2. A city in Payette County, Idaho. 3. An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, named after Plymouth, Massachusetts. 4. A settlement on Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas. 5. A bay in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Word: Masterton Part of Speech: name 1. A large town in the Wellington region, North Island, New Zealand. 2. A territorial authority in Wellington region which includes the town, known as Masterton District. 3. A surname.
Word: Wairarapa Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌwaɪrəˈræpə/ 1. A lake in southern North Island, New Zealand. 2. A geographical region in the south-east of the North Island, New Zealand.
Word: Tongariro Part of Speech: name 1. A volcano in Ruapehu district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. 2. A river in the North Island, New Zealand, which flows into Lake Taupo.
Word: Taupo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a shortening of Māori Taupō-nui-a-Tia (“Lake Taupo”, literally “The great cloak of Tia”). Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊpəʊ/, /ˈtaʊpoʊ/, /ˈtæopɐʉ/, /ˈtɐʉpoː/ 1. The largest lake in New Zealand, located in Waikato region on the North Island. 2. A town in Waikato, New Zealand, on the shore of the lake.
Word: Tauranga Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Māori Tauranga (“anchorage”). Pronunciation: /ˈtaʉ.ra.ŋa/, /ˈtæʊ.ɹɒŋ.a/ 1. A city in the northwest corner of the Bay of Plenty region, on the north coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
Word: acherontic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Acherontic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Parthava Part of Speech: name 1. A former empire in Central Asia and West Asia, ruled by dynasts from Parthia; the Parthian Empire; the Arsacid Empire Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: duku Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of langsat (“the tree”). 2. Synonym of langsat (“the fruit”).
Word: back-rapper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of backarapper. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Very few houses were lighted up, in consequence of a protest of the Insurance Companies. But the people contented themselves with parading the streets, and with seeing what was to be seen. As on the previous evening, the juvenile portion of the population indulged themselves ad libitum in the use of crackers, back-rappers, serpents, and squibs. How so many got into Newfoundland is a problem no one I have questioned is able to solve. Example: How I used to plague him! Once I pinned a back-rapper to his coat-tail! Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have been!
Word: back-rappers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of back-rapper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tworek Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Tworek. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: chute house Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chute + house. Pronunciation: /ʃuːt haʊs/ 1. A building that covers a chute and the material being moved on it, particularly coal
Word: red flag warning Part of Speech: noun 1. A warning issued by the United States National Weather Service that conditions are ideal for wildfires. Labels: US Example: During red flag warnings, firefighting agencies will alter their staffing and equipment resources dramatically to accommodate the increased forecast risk.
Word: red flag warnings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of red flag warning Labels: form-of, plural
Word: krimmer Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of astrakhan. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The knit constructions include the knit krimmers, the brushed knit fur prints, and knit mouton. Example: There are a number of cloths which are made with extra filling of a loopy, bouclé, or krimmer novelty yarn.
Word: esshole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of asshole (“A receptacle for ash”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They 'ad twelve sons, and there was one son called Ashypelt. He was the youngest son, and they didn't never think but very little o' Ashypelt, as 'ee was allus used to be i' the esshole under the fire, an' the brothers used to spit on 'im and laugh at 'im an' make fun of 'im an' that.
Word: essholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of esshole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unstabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of unstability Labels: form-of, plural
Word: defreaking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of defreak Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: defreaks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of defreak Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: manyhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *manyhode (found only as manyhede, manihede), equivalent to many + -hood. 1. The state or condition of being many; multiplicity; abundance Labels: rare, uncountable Example: Then shalt thou rede the blessed law of the singleness that dieth for the more holy round of manyhood, to thrive, and speechless say by what we be: — […] Example: Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.
Word: arrows of time Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arrow of time Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mutual inductances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mutual inductance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misrank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + rank. 1. To rank wrongly or incorrectly Labels: transitive Example: All alternative methods misrank these proposals, but this does not mean that all of them lead to serious error.
Word: misranked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misrank Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: misranking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misrank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misranks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misrank Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: butchier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of butchy: more butchy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: butchiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of butchy: most butchy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: meming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of meme Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: memed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of meme Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: e-address Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From e- + address. 1. E-mail address. Example: I've mailed a copy of this to uucpmap and both #E addresses. (I don't have a clean path to the AT&T gandalf; I'm trying ihnp4.) Example: #E-Address pupthy!wrs
Word: e-addresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of e-address Labels: form-of, plural
Word: EGOT Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialism, coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.ɡɒt/ 1. Four major annual US entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Example: Billions of dollars; millions of followers; EGOT status; a household name across the world.
Word: chuck up the sponge Part of Speech: verb 1. To quit; to give up; to admit defeat. Labels: dated Example: The fighting spirit of the German army is supplied by the officer and N. C. O. It has been proved that when a German soldier sees his bayonet his fighting value is finished — he "chucks up the sponge." Example: A bombing attack along a trench can only be met by a bomb defence. The bayonet is practically neglected by the Bosche, except when our men compel him to use it. He is not much good with it, and if his bomb defence fails him, usually chucks up the sponge.
Word: e-signature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From e- + signature. 1. Data used by a signatory to sign something electronically. It may involve cryptography or may simply be a name typed into a document. Labels: Internet
Word: e-signatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of e-signature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ESOP Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: Another factor is that ESOPs had a rocky beginning, which for a while made them appear sketchy. A few widely publicized companies set up ESOPs purely as defenses against hostile takeovers. 2. a company that implements such a plan Labels: broadly
Word: ESOP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of European Symposium on Programming. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ESOPs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ESOP Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PIPEDA Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Labels: Canada, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: Ferrers diagram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Norman Macleod Ferrers. 1. A diagram that shows the possible partitions of a positive integer as rows of dots.
Word: Ferrers diagrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ferrers diagram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sunomono Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 酢の物 (sunomono). 1. A traditional Japanese salad of vegetables dressed with vinegar. Labels: uncountable
Word: namasu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 膾 (namasu). 1. A Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced uncooked vegetables and meat or seafood, marinated in rice vinegar. Labels: uncountable
Word: tommytoe Part of Speech: noun 1. tomato Labels: dialectal, nonstandard
Word: tommytoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tommytoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balance bike Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of balance bicycle Labels: informal
Word: balance bicycles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balance bicycle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balance bikes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balance bike Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breakfast club Part of Speech: noun 1. A disciplinary punishment requiring a student to come to school before classes, typically to work on homework or perform busywork; morning detention. Labels: US 2. A facility to provide children with a morning meal at school, before classes. Labels: UK
Word: breakfast clubs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breakfast club Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rainbow baby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to a rainbow appearing after inclement weather. 1. A baby that is conceived after a miscarriage or other loss of a baby. Labels: idiomatic
Word: rainbow babies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rainbow baby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tomorrowness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tomorrow + -ness. 1. The property of being tomorrow, or in the future generally. Labels: uncountable
Word: E-head Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From E + -head. 1. A recreational user of the drug MDMA or ecstasy. Labels: slang
Word: E-heads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of E-head Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bobowler Part of Speech: noun 1. A large moth. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete
Word: bobowlers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bobowler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Batangas knives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Batangas knife Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cataleptoid Part of Speech: adj 1. Resembling catalepsy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: posaune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Posaune. Doublet of buccina and buisine. 1. trombone Labels: obsolete
Word: chucks up the sponge Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck up the sponge Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: posaunes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of posaune Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chucking up the sponge Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chuck up the sponge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chucked up the sponge Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chuck up the sponge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: manton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish mantón. 1. A shawl or wrap.
Word: colachon Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of colascione. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The colachon is an instrument with a body like the lute and a very long neck; its total length is about 1 ½ metres. Example: The colachon was sometimes tuned a fourth lower than the six-course mandora.
Word: colachons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colachon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: danfo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yoruba dáńfó. 1. Synonym of shared taxi, especially a minibus operated as a shared taxi. Labels: Nigeria Example: "You crazy? Look where you day go, you bloody fool!" the man screamed at me as he shoved me into the path of a danfo which barely missed me. The bus conductor, who was standing on the steps of the danfo, leaned over, struck me on the side of my head, and gave me another shove that sent me back on the sidewalk into a final collision course with yet another pedestrian. Example: Daring the consequence and to maintain his earlier position ahead of Adekunle, the danfo driver could have gone ahead to attempt hitting Adekunle's car. Danfo bus drivers often behaved that way.
Word: danfos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of danfo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unthrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unthryven, equivalent to un- + thrive. 1. To be unsuccessful Labels: intransitive, rare Example: For upon trust of Calle's promise, we may soon unthrive; […]
Word: unappoint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + appoint. Compare Middle English disapoynten (“to unappoint”). Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈpɔɪnt/ 1. To undo or reverse an appointment. Labels: transitive Example: "If Mazzilli appointed him," Costa e Silva retorted, "he is going to unappoint him."
Word: outfielding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From outfield + -ing. 1. The role of a baseball player in the outfield. Labels: uncountable Example: Statistically, outfielding is tougher to judge than infielding. Some outfielders have gone entire seasons without committing errors but haven't been particularly useful.
Word: smartman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smart + men. 1. A conman. Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago Example: The steelband movement has always had an attraction for "smartmen" — men who saw the movement as something to be exploited. These smartmen came in all guises, as the following story illustrates.
Word: smartmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smartman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wirebender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wire + bender. 1. An artisan responsible for shaping the wire structures upon which carnival costumes are created. Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago Example: Benches and tables are set up for the workers headed by professional assistants like the wirebenders on whose expertise so much of the finery of Carnival costumes depend.
Word: wirebenders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wirebender Labels: form-of, plural
Word: examination paper Part of Speech: noun 1. An exam paper.
Word: grid paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Sheets of paper with an outline grid of lines used for plotting graphs.
Word: chromatography paper Part of Speech: noun 1. Absorbent paper used to soak up colours so that they separate out into their various components. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rudening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ruden Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rudened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ruden Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: clothes stand Part of Speech: noun 1. A simple upright piece of furniture, such as a pole with pegs, for hanging clothes on.
Word: pro-build Part of Speech: verb 1. To build prior to necessity. Example: "We can't just rebuild after every disaster," Jacob continued. "We need to pro-build, with a future of climate change in mind.
Word: jackpotted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of jackpot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: concordance cosmology Part of Speech: noun 1. A model of the universe that assumes a minimum number of parameters, especially the Lambda-CDM model. Example: We show that the concordance cosmology can be resurrected using our phenomenological approach and our best-fitting model is in agreement with the PSCz observations. Example: The trouble, however, is that we do not have today a single viable alternative to the concordance cosmology.
Word: concordance cosmologies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of concordance cosmology Labels: form-of, plural
Word: befleck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + fleck. Pronunciation: /bɪˈflɛk/ 1. to cover with small spots or flecks Labels: poetic Example: The world is filled with changeful light, The clouds befleck the sky, And o’er the fields, to harvest white, The trooping shadows fly. Example: I am not of those Fairies seen Tripping by moonlight on the green, Whose dewdrop bumpers, nightly poured, Befleck the mushroom’s virgin board, […]
Word: beflecks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of befleck Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: beflecking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of befleck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: beflecked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of befleck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pignorates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pignorate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pignorating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pignorate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pignorated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pignorate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pignerates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pignerate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pignerating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pignerate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pignerated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pignerate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: renewalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From renewal + -ism. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈnuəlɪzəm/, /ɹɪˈnjuːəlɪzəm/ 1. the broader current within Christianity that emphasizes the Holy Spirit, including the charismatic and Pentecostal movements Labels: uncountable 2. a movement within Islam that considers current Islamic society corrupted and calls for a return to what are perceived as its original religious practices and precepts through broad social movements Labels: uncountable
Word: glucoronide Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of glucuronide. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: apepsias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apepsia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Vin Santo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian vin santo (literally “holy wine”). Pronunciation: /ˌvɪn ˈsɑntoʊ/, /ˌvin ˈsɑntoʊ/ 1. A wine made from grapes dried on straw mats and fermented in chestnut barrels, typical of Tuscany; often a dessert wine. Labels: uncountable
Word: starting handle Part of Speech: noun 1. a crank handle fitted to or supplied with older vehicles for the purpose of starting the engine, even if fitted with a starter motor. Labels: dated
Word: whalebone whale Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of baleen whale. Labels: dated
Word: puntilion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. 1. A pontil. Labels: no-plural, obsolete Example: These Balls were small, but exceeding thick bubbles of Glass, which being crack'd off from the Puntilion whilst very hot […] do thereby […] acquire a very porous and very brittle texture […].
Word: Pergade Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: decenal Part of Speech: noun 1. Any aliphatic aldehyde that has ten carbon atoms and one double bond
Word: abapertural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ab- + apertural. 1. Not apertural; Away from the aperture. Example: Pollen grains with 30 lacunae occur in the majority of the species examined, and show three apertural, six abapertural, twelve parapertural, six interapertural and three equatorial lacunae.
Word: bathycolpous Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of bathykolpian. Example: She was lavish in build, with great thighs but a slim waist, bathycolpous as any Homeric heroine.
Word: mammaphilia Part of Speech: noun 1. Attraction to a woman’s breasts. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: rehairs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rehair Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rehairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rehair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rehairing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rehair Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rehairing Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of rehair.
Word: rehaired Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rehair Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Ichang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 宜昌 (Yíchāng). 1. Alternative form of Yichang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The affair at Tien-chiang appears to have been a local outbreak merely, and to have no proper connection with the real revolutionary movement, which seems to be unaccountably slow in spreading up the Yang-tsze from Ichang. Example: My journey from Ichang to Wan-hsien occupied eleven days. We started on 20 February, reached Pu-tai K'ou (the boundary wbetween the provinces of Hupei and Szechwan) on the 6th, passed through the Fêng Hsiang gorge- perhaps the grandest of all the defiles- on the 8th, and beached ourselves under the walls of the city of Wan-hsien on the morning of the 12th. Here I paid off my hardy boatmen, and prepared for my overland journey to Ch'êng-tu.
Word: Quebeckish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Quebec + -ish. Compare English Quebecois. 1. Of, pertaining to, or typical of Quebec. Labels: Canada, not-comparable, rare Example: There are times when the French-Canadians in the other provinces complain that the network image is too Quebeckish, and much more on television than on radio. Example: We can say that those years saw the birth of a freewheeling discussion of education, religion, and the traditional interpretation of national history. Inevitably, the critics came to attack Quebec Catholicism and those who had narrowed it and made it peculiarly “Quebeckish.”
Word: bullering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of buller Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bullered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of buller Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: boisman Part of Speech: noun 1. A stickfighter. Labels: Caribbean Example: His great size and his ability as a boisman (stickfighter) made him immune from physical attack. Example: Commenting on his love for Talparo, the home of the formidable Talparo Tambule in Kandal troupe (a band of boismen), he said: “I have land in Talparo. I love Talparo. When I go up there, it is like a different zone. I love the bush. When I go up there, whack. I just watch around. I just lie down on the ground. I am enjoying nature. I pick oranges and portugals.
Word: boismen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boisman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stickfighter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stickfight(ing) + -er. 1. One who competes in stickfighting. Example: Most people had forgotten I had ever been a stickfighter. Example: Quickly grabbing one of the crutches, he whispered: 'If we are attacked, you just clear out. I can look after myself; I am a stickfighter. Don't worry!'
Word: stickfighters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stickfighter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stick-fighter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stickfighter. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Until then I had had no thoughts of anything but my own pleasures, no higher ambition than to eat well and become a champion stick-fighter. Example: Before he was ten years old Walter was already a champion stick-fighter.
Word: stick-fighters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stick-fighter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: contractocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contract + -ocracy. 1. The routine use of contractors to perform the functions of government rather than regular government employees, often with the implication that the contractors are ineffective and simply enriching themselves due to government corruption. Labels: pejorative, usually Example: There are several dissimilarities, however, between classical Underdevelopment Theory and some of the leading theoreticians of the contractocracy school in Nigeria. Example: The contract syndrome became so prevalent that the then Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, felt compelled to characterise the Nigerian polity in terms of a "contractocracy" : "Instead of a democracy -in which you have in operation government for the people, you have a contractocracy in which government is for contractors, by contractors and of contractors."
Word: contractocracies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of contractocracy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nothing-up-my-sleeve number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In reference to magic tricks in which the performer may have something concealed in a sleeve (or may demonstrate to the audience that they do not). 1. A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers. Example: The key schedule, however, expanding the key using an essentially one-way method, is more complex, with the binary expansions of both e and the golden ratio of "nothing up my sleeve numbers". Example: Anyway, they make the same point: “The BADA55-VPR curves illustrate the fact that 'verifiably pseudorandom' curves with 'systematic' seeds generated from 'nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers' also do not stop the attacker from generating a curve with a one-in-a-million weakness.”
Word: nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nothing-up-my-sleeve number Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bekan Part of Speech: name 1. A village in County Mayo, Ireland.
Word: diuers Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of diverse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: This kyng Edward the .ii. father to the noble kyng Edward the .iii. had .ii. bretherñ⸝ the one called Marſhall⸝ who was ryght wyld ⁊ diuers of condicions⸝ the other called ſir Aymon erle of Cane right wyse⸝ amiable⸝ gẽtle [gentle] and wellbeloued with al people. Example: And they gaue them drinke in veſſels of gold, (the veſſels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the ſtate of the king.
Word: diuers Part of Speech: adv 1. Obsolete spelling of diverse. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [The river in the Garden of Eden] novv divided into four main Streams, / Runs divers, vvandring many a famous Realme / And Country vvhereof here needs no account, […]
Word: dyvers Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of divers. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: dyuers Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of dyvers. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ouer Part of Speech: prep 1. Early Modern spelling of over.
Word: payd Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of paid. Labels: alt-of, archaic 2. Eye dialect spelling of paid. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: euil Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of evil. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: iump Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of jump. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: Sindhee Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of Sindhi. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: Sindhee Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of Sindhi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Sindhee Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Sindhi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Cutchee Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Kachchi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Cutch Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Kutch. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Jarejah Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Jadeja. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Jarijah Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Jadeja. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Kashmeer Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Kashmir. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Oude Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Awadh. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Sinde Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Sindhi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Bilochi Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Balochi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Billochi Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Balochi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Billochee Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Balochi. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Jut Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Jat. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Kutch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati કચ્છ (kacch), from Sanskrit कच्छ (kaccha, “marshland”). 1. A district of Gujarat, India.
Word: Jadeja Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati જાડેજા (jāḍejā). 1. A Rajput clan in Kutch, a district of Gujarat, India.
Word: Awadh Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अवध (avadh). 1. A historical region of Uttar Pradesh, India. Example: ‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
Word: Nasakh Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Naskh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Diwani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic دِيوَانِيّ (dīwāniyy). 1. A calligraphic style of the Arabic script developed in the Ottoman court. Labels: uncountable
Word: Han unification Part of Speech: noun 1. The assignment of a single codepoint to a Han character that may have multiple stylistic realizations. Labels: uncountable
Word: UCS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Universal Coded Character Set, a set of characters standardized in ISO 10646. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Janazah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral”). 1. A Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual. Labels: uncountable Example: The janazah, or funeral-prayers, are repeated by the priest, the people around saying Amin or “Amen.” Example: This prayer is called Janazah prayer, It is offered in a standing position. […] The Janazah prayer is a collective obligation (Fard-Kifayah) on all the Muslims of the locality of the dead person. 2. A bier or a coffin used to transport and bury the body of a dead person. Labels: uncountable Example: […] the whole are deposited in a very neat coffin — Janazah — garlanded with beautiful flowers, and covered over with a white (malmal) figured muslin. Example: Here we differ: The Janázah with a lid is not a Badawi article: the wildlings use the simplest stretcher; and I would translate the lines: The son of woman, whatso his career / One day is borne upon the gibbous bier.
Word: janazah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Janazah (“funeral prayer”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Nganning Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Anning. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: This River Nganning waters a valley called Kienchang, containing near its northern end a city known by the same name, but in our modern maps marked as Ningyuen-fu; this last being the name of a department of which it is the capital, and which embraces much more than the valley of Kienchang. Example: M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the west and that of the Puke, traversed by M. Bonin, on the east.[...]At the end of March Dr. Legendre and M. Noiret explored the porphyritic range which runs from north to south between the valleys of the Tung-ho and Yangtse separating the valley of the Nganning from the basin of Yuesi.
Word: Anning Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Anning Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 安寧 /安宁 (Ānníng). Pronunciation: /ˌɑːnˈnɪŋ/ 1. A county-level city of Kunming, Yunnan, China. Example: From Pi-chi Kuan to An-ning chou 安甯州 (now An-ning hsien) is 50 li. An-ning is a walled city lying in a valley at an altitude of 6,000 feet. In ancient days it was the T’ang-lang-ch’uan 螳螂川 (Mantis stream) of the Tien Kingdom. A small trail here branches off to the town of Wu-ting 武定, three stages to the north of K’un-ming and a distance of 210 li from An-ning. (A motorroad has now been built.) Example: CNPC’s refinery comprises one of the auxiliary infrastructures of Sino-Burma crude oil pipelines, which just entered the Industrial Park of Anning City, Yunnan Province in 2013. The pipeline stands at the windward of the “City of Eternal Spring” and upstream side of the “City of Water Shortage,” Kunming. 2. A river in Sichuan, China. Example: THE second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Sal ween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung. The Anning, the smallest of these, lies enclosed in a wilderness of tangled ranges, and its valley forms the shortest trade route between Szechuan and the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
Word: Kienchang Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Jianchang. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang. Example: On New Year’s Eve in Kienchang, Father Moran was preparing his church for Mass on the next day, a day for which his parishioners had long prepared.
Word: Kiangsi Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Jiangxi. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: But whilſt he was beſieging this City, there came, unfortunately, a new Army of Tartars from the Imperiall City of Peking , which had order to recover this Province of Kiangſi; and therefore Kinus was forced to raiſe his Siege to oppoſe their entrance by the Northern parts of the Country; Example: The next day, being the 23. of April, we came in ſight of the firſt chief City of Nanchang, which is alſo called by ſome according to the name of the Province Kiangſi, where this is ſituated.
Word: Fuchow Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈfuˈt͡ʃoʊ/, /fuːˈt͡ʃəʊ/ 1. Dated form of Fuzhou. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: The Min Kiang is a much smaller river than the above-named, but ranks high as a trade route, being the approach to the important city of Fuchow, and the centre of the southern tea trade of China.
Word: Kiukiang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ]. 1. Alternative form of Jiujiang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: On the 31st of July he arrived at Kiukiang, and in August, in company with the Rev. C. V. Hart, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, visited Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, which had been entered by Protestant missionaries but twice before, and in two days he sold 300 Portions. Example: As minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Mr. C. C. Wu. The latter became Nanking’s chief negotiator in a conference at Kiukiang, on August 24, with the Hankow left leaders, Wang Ching-wei and Sun Fo, twelve days after Chiang’s resignation. The Kiukiang conference was followed by a series of conferences at Shanghai, during the second week in September, and finally at Nanking in the middle of the month.
Word: Chinkiang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鎮江／镇江 (Zhènjiāng). 1. Alternative form of Zhenjiang. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Not content with this, Pottinger ordered the commanders to proceed up the Yangtsze and capture Nanking—the ancient capital of the empire. As a first step, Chinkiang, seventy miles lower down the river than Nanking, was occupied after a very sharp struggle. Example: Starting from Hangchow the canal goes by Kashing to Soochow, a distance of 100 miles, and thence by Wusih and Changchow through long straight stretches to Chinkiang, another 100 miles. It is here unlike our preconceived ideas of a canal—a current-less water-way barely wide enough to allow two streams of boats to pass each other—and has often a width of over a hundred feet between its sides, faced in many parts of its course with cut stone bunding.
Word: Chik Hom Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham2). 1. Dated form of Chikan. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Some conception of the density of the population may be gained from the fact that from the top of “Centipede Hill,” opposite the town of Chik-hom, three hundred and fifty villages can be seen. Example: On the other hand, when a vigorous effort is made for self-support, we are often surprised to find how it succeeds. The church of Chik-Hom in southern China is an instance. It is centrally located in that region from which goes nearly all the emigration to the United States.
Word: Shekki Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 石岐 (sek6 kei4). 1. Dated form of Shiqi: the Cantonese-derived name. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki. Example: Chan Sam had already received two receipts, one from the banking institution in Hong Kong to which he had sent his draft, and another from the broker in the market town of Shekki, which served several satellite villages including Chang Gar Bin. A courier had carried the draft from Hong Kong to Shekki.
Word: Chefoo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 芝罘 (Zhīfú). 1. Dated form of Zhifu; (dated) Synonym of Yantai. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: We left Chefoo at 2.30 P.M. on Monday, 15th December, and had a pretty rough bit of road immediately after we started. Going up a steep pass, almost due south of Temple Hill, made the mules blow in a most unsatisfactory manner. I was well done-up myself when I got to the top, and was more than pleased to rest a little and look down upon fading Yen-t'ai (the Chinese name for Chefoo), before the hills would shut it from my sight for weeks. Example: The population of Chefoo is about thirty-three thousand, of whom about six hundred are foreigners. Its trade is principally in beans and beancake, of which enormous quantities are sent to the southern ports of China.
Word: Knudsen number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Danish physicist Martin Knudsen. 1. The ratio between mean free path and aperture size used as a parameter in describing Knudsen flow.
Word: one-day Part of Speech: adj 1. lasting one day Labels: not-comparable Example: one-day conference Example: one-day cricket match
Word: one-dayer Part of Speech: noun 1. Any event lasting one day. Example: Is the conference going to be a one-dayer, or should we book a hotel room? 2. A one-day match. Labels: informal
Word: Gadarene swine Part of Speech: noun 1. A herd of swine that become possessed by demons after the latter are exorcised from men, in a parable told in each of the Synoptic Gospels, although not the Gospel of John. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: 2000 [1908, Weiser Books], R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 208, The most remarkable parallel to this spell is contained in the New Testament story of the Gadarene swine. Example: In fact, Hamsun now completes his allusion to the story of the Gadarene swine alluded to by Pauline in the previous novel. That the reader is expected to recall the Biblical story is quite evident from one simple fact: the number of sheep, according to August's rough reckoning, is "over two thousand"; the herd of Gadarene swine numbered "about two thousand."
Word: polymericity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From polymeric + -ity. 1. The quality or condition of being a polymer. Labels: uncountable Example: As noted above, coals are complex macromolecular solids of polymericity.
Word: F/L Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of flight lieutenant. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: rationably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From rationable + -ly. Piecewise doublet of reasonably. 1. Rationally, reasonably. Labels: archaic Example: By this Hypotheſis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably ſolv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine ſeveral particulars requiſite to the demonſtration of it, I might prove it more than probable, […]
Word: alcalizate Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of alkalizate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: opacousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From opacous + -ness. 1. Opacity. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: [T]hat 'tis the flaws that produce this opacousness, may be argued from this, that particles of the same Ammel much thicker if unflaw'd will appear somewhat transparent even to the eye […].
Word: Purbeck stone Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of hard limestone from the Isle of Purbeck, used for building and paving. Labels: uncountable Example: I could perceive several small winding holes, much like Worm-holes, as I have noted in some kind of Purbeck-stone, by looking on the surface of a piece newly flaw'd off […].
Word: City of Angels Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Spanish Pueblo de Los Ángeles (literally “City of the Angels”). 1. Nickname for Los Angeles: a major city in California, United States. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: patter song Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of humorous song sung at a rapid tempo, typical of comic opera, operettas, and musicals.
Word: patter songs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of patter song Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unnatural selection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Play on natural selection. 1. The selection of certain genes caused by the actions of humans, especially the intentional intervention in the breeding of plants or animals in order to preserve selected genetic traits; eugenics, selective breeding or culling. Labels: derogatory, humorous, rare, sometimes, uncountable Example: Is the startling variety of dogs, brassicas and the like, which our unnatural selection has generated, a sort of compensation, I wonder? Example: Rachel demonstrates that America's racism and its tolerance of lynching (not public health measures, as white supremacist and elitist eugenicists from Spencer to Wiggam had argued) have resulted in unnatural selection for both blacks and whites.
Word: dikgosana Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kgosana Labels: form-of, plural Example: He employed and sheltered behind Amandebele bodyguards and consumed the cattle of dikgosana and batlhanka headmen as state property vested in the royal person, rather than as mafisa ("feudal") cattle held in trust by the royals and headmen. Example: In 1906, in the wake of a triangular power struggle among the Kgosi, dikgosana, and commoners, the British helped the dikgosana gain ascendancy in the morafe by deposing Sekgoma and installing Mathiba Moremi.
Word: jab molassie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Antillean Creole jab (“devil”) (from French diable (“devil”)) + molassie (“molasses”) (from French mélasse (“molasses; treacle”)). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæb məˈlæsiː/, /ˈd͡ʒæb məˈlæsi/ 1. A traditional character in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival dressed as a devil, mostly naked and covered in molasses or grease and a colourful dye. Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago Example: A second masquerade character used in the play was the Jab Molassi, or molasses devil. At carnival he is the leaping, prancing masker, his body daubed with black or blue paint, sometimes with molasses, who threatens to besmear spectators unless they pay him off. Example: For the past three years, his forces of evil and good have waged a pitched battle in a Carnival trilogy that concluded last year in Washington, D.C. There, whorish Madame Hiroshima, wearing a two-story, 3,000 ostrich-plumed mushroom cloud, and 60 jab molassie and tassa drummers led a parade of several hundred North American peace marchers on the 40th anniversary of the Japanese bombing.
Word: roker Part of Speech: noun 1. The thornback ray.
Word: rokers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hedge warbler Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of dunnock.
Word: hedge warblers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hedge warbler Labels: form-of, plural