nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: keyhole limpet Part of Speech: noun 1. A member of the family Fissurellidae of marine gastropods.
Word: keyhole urchin Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of numerous clypeastroid sea urchins (sand dollars) of the genus Melitta 2. Any of various notched sand dollars of genera Rotula and Encope. Labels: dated
Word: composing frame Part of Speech: noun 1. A stand for holding cases of type when in use. Labels: dated
Word: composing rule Part of Speech: noun 1. A thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted. Labels: historical
Word: dolphin fly Part of Speech: noun 1. The black bean aphid (Aphis fabae). Labels: obsolete
Word: painted turtle Part of Speech: noun 1. A common American freshwater turtle (Chrysemys picta), with red, orange and yellow markings.
Word: cattleguard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cattle + guard. 1. Alternative form of cattle guard. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cattleguards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cattleguard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: holy bark Part of Speech: noun 1. Cascara sagrada; the bark of (Rhamnus purshiana). Labels: uncountable
Word: sleeper cabs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sleeper cab Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peg tankard Part of Speech: noun 1. An ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions.
Word: screw peg Part of Speech: noun 1. A small headless screw for fastening soles.
Word: Hansom cabs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hansom cab Labels: form-of, plural
Word: raise the wind Part of Speech: verb 1. To procure ready money by some temporary expedient. Labels: dated, informal
Word: squadron leaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squadron leader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: modulus of rupture Part of Speech: noun 1. A mechanical parameter indicating a material's ability to resist deformation under load.
Word: guest houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of guest house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lead glance Part of Speech: noun 1. The mineral galena. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: horse chestnuts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of horse chestnut Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iron sand Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ironsand (“sand with iron content”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable 2. An iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. steel filings used in fireworks. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: moon rockets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of moon rocket Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iron scale Part of Speech: noun 1. The thin film that forms on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron. Labels: uncountable
Word: torpedo tubes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of torpedo tube Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ball vein Part of Speech: noun 1. A sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles. 2. A vein of the testicle Labels: slang
Word: auction houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of auction house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disturbingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disturbing + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being disturbing. Labels: uncountable
Word: phytoextract Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phyto- + extract. 1. An extract from a plant. Example: However, the phytoextracts are normally composed of a mixture of several ecdysones, the separation of which is often very difficult. Example: After solidification, wells of 0.5 mm diameter were made with the help of a sterile cork borer and different concentrations of the phytoextracts and leachates were carefully incorporated into these wells.
Word: phytoextract Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From phyto- + extract. 1. To remove from the environment by phytoextraction. Labels: transitive Example: However, almost all removed Pb was simply washed from the soil and accumulated in the barrier, only a fraction (0.03%) of Pb was phytoextracted. Example: A plant's ability to phytoextract certain metals is a result of its dependence upon the absorption of metals such as arsenic, chromium, zinc, manganese, nickel, and copper to maintain natural function (Yadav et al., 2009; Lasat, 2002).
Word: cardinal red Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The traditional colour of a cardinal's cassock, hat, etc. 1. A bright red colour, between scarlet and crimson. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: phytoextracts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phytoextract Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phytoextracts Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of phytoextract Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: phytoextracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of phytoextract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: meeting houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meeting house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phytoextracted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of phytoextract Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: window washers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of window washer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phytoextractor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phyto- + extractor. 1. Any organism that performs phytoextraction.
Word: phytoextractors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phytoextractor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phytoremediator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, phyto- + remediator, or, by surface analysis, phytoremediate + -or. 1. Any plant used in phytoremediation. 2. A person or company engaged in phytoremediation.
Word: phytoremediators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phytoremediator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phytovolatilisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of phytovolatilization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: air traffic controllers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of air traffic controller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Adam's needle Part of Speech: noun 1. Certain species of Yucca: 2. Certain species of Yucca: 3. Certain species of Yucca:
Word: freezing workers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of freezing worker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Adam's needles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Adam's needle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coffee cups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coffee cup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chicken Kievs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chicken Kiev Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orang-utangs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of orang-utang Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tank farms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tank farm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fur farms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fur farm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sell bargains Part of Speech: verb 1. To make saucy (usually indiscreet) comments; to come onto. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete Example: Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce? Example: No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er for ſelling Bargains fam'd, / Than ſhe, to name her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let out Wind.
Word: chikuwa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 竹輪, literally "bamboo ring". 1. A tube-shaped fish-paste cake from Japan. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: dust masks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dust mask Labels: form-of, plural
Word: double letter Part of Speech: noun 1. Two letters on one shank; a ligature. 2. An item of mail requiring double postage.
Word: painted beauty Part of Speech: noun 1. Batesia hypochlora, a colourful American butterfly.
Word: painted finch Part of Speech: noun 1. Emblema pictum, a common estrildid finch of Australia. Example: The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]
Word: painted firetail Part of Speech: noun 1. painted finch
Word: crown scab Part of Speech: noun 1. A cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof.
Word: cannon cracker Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of large firecracker.
Word: cannon lock Part of Speech: noun 1. A device for firing a cannon by a percussion primer.
Word: haars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of haar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seed potatoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seed potato Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outboard motors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outboard motor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dotted lines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dotted line Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forklift trucks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forklift truck Labels: form-of, plural
Word: step grate Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of grate for holding fuel, in which the bars rise above one another in the manner of steps.
Word: step grates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of step grate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steak and kidney pies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steak and kidney pie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dipping needles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dipping needle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: personal injuries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of personal injury Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wine acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: It is found in wine grapes. 1. tartaric acid Labels: uncountable
Word: wine biscuit Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
Word: psychomanteum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by Raymond Moody in 1993 in his book Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈmæntiəm/ 1. A dark, mirrored room dedicated to communication with the spirit realm.
Word: second-growth forests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of second-growth forest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: out of heart Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Discouraged. Example: [He] perceyuing the most part of the Brytaynes and Scottes to be but newe Souldiers, taken vp of late to fil the numbers, knew that by proceeding tyme they woulde be soone out of heart, throughe watching and euill harborough, in such sort that in the ende they shoulde be easie ynough to deale with: Example: “[…] heaven knows how much longer we may have to wait. Poor Edward! It puts him quite out of heart.”
Word: discouragedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From discouraged + -ly. 1. In a discouraged manner.
Word: flower clock Part of Speech: noun 1. An assemblage of flowers which open and close at different hours of the day, thus indicating the time.
Word: unousted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + ousted. 1. Not ousted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: collar beam Part of Speech: noun 1. A horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters.
Word: dirt bed Part of Speech: noun 1. A layer of clayey earth forming a stratum in a geological formation. Example: Dirt beds are common among the coal measures.
Word: liquor of flints Part of Speech: noun 1. A solution of silica, or flints, in potash. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: crown sheet Part of Speech: noun 1. The flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or firebox of an internally fired steam boiler.
Word: crown bar Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the bars which support the crown sheet of a steam-boiler furnace.
Word: Seventh-day Adventists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Seventh-day Adventist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: supervixen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + vixen. 1. A very racy or salacious woman. Labels: colloquial Example: She has a high old time as a supervixen sashaying around in fuck-me shoes that double as fuck-you shoes. Example: Kitt plays—what else?—a supervixen who's seen and done it all. (Kitt shares another affinity with the original work: The poem was banned in Boston, the same town that in the 1960s briefly nixed her sexy shows.)
Word: supervixens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of supervixen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plate bone Part of Speech: noun 1. scapula
Word: baritone horns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baritone horn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rational symptom Part of Speech: noun 1. A symptom elicited by the statements of the patient and not as the result of a physical examination.
Word: synectic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to synectics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: synectics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek, suggesting the bringing together of apparently unrelated elements. Originally a trademark. 1. A problem-solving methodology that stimulates thought processes of which the subject may be unaware. Labels: uncountable
Word: band rotundas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of band rotunda Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrubbing brushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scrubbing brush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clothes brushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clothes brush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoe brush Part of Speech: noun 1. A brush used to apply shoe polish to shoes, work the polish in and bring up a shine.
Word: prickly poppy Part of Speech: noun 1. Any in genus Argemone of poppies, which is prickly
Word: finger bar Part of Speech: noun 1. The horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play.
Word: bastard file Part of Speech: noun 1. A half-round file or rasp (being a flat file on one side, and a round file on the other); typically having coarse teeth. 2. A file of an intermediate cut, neither very coarse nor very fine.
Word: Welsh hook Part of Speech: noun 1. Welsh glaive
Word: Welsh glaive Part of Speech: noun 1. A weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleaxe. Example: there shall not come the twang of a Welsh bow, nor the glimmer of a Welsh glaive within a fair league of its battlements!
Word: hydraulic cement Part of Speech: noun 1. A cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden underwater. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hydraulic lime Part of Speech: noun 1. quicklime obtained from hydraulic limestone, and used for cementing underwater, etc. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: hydraulic limestone Part of Speech: noun 1. A limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, underwater. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: blind boil Part of Speech: noun 1. A boil under or on the skin that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. Example: A singular species of worms, called by the natives 'Gusano del Monte'—Worm of the Woods, was found under the surface of the skin, and covered over like a blind boil. Example: Boils are common, too, amongst the natives in some parts. Mr. Gason says that a disease—Mirra—afflicts every native once in his life—sometimes at three years of age, but more frequently at fourteen or thereabouts. The symptoms are large blind boils, under the arms, in the groin, or on the breast or thighs, varying in size from a hen's egg to that of an emu's egg.
Word: monk bat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because the males live in communities by themselves. 1. The brown mastiff bat (Prompos nasutus) Labels: dated
Word: unisensual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + sensual. 1. Of or relating to a single sense (means of perception). Labels: not-comparable
Word: unisensory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + sensory. 1. Of or relating to a single sense (means of perception). Labels: not-comparable
Word: semicontact Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + contact. 1. Being or relating to a contact sport where only limited physical force is used. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ranivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin rānivorus. 1. frog-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: arachnivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From arachn- + -i- + -vorous. 1. spider-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: mellivorous Part of Speech: adj 1. Honey-eating. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nucivorous Part of Speech: adj 1. nut-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: fructivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fructo- + -vorous. 1. fruit-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: ovivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ovi- (“egg”) + -vorous. 1. Egg-eating. Labels: not-comparable
Word: seminivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sēmen (“seed”) + -vorous. 1. seed-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: stercovorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin stercus (“dung”) + -vorous. 1. dung-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: plantivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From plant + -i- + -vorous. 1. plant-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: bibliophagist Part of Speech: noun 1. A bibliophage; one who loves to read books. Labels: rare
Word: bibliophagists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bibliophagist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glossophagine Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɡləˈsɒfədʒaɪn/ 1. Of or relating to the Glossophaginae, a subfamily of leaf-nosed bats. Labels: not-comparable
Word: plasmophagous Part of Speech: adj 1. feeding on plasma Labels: not-comparable
Word: saurophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sauro- + -phagous. 1. lizard-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: Kozue Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Japanese.
Word: univorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From uni- + -vorous. 1. Liking or consuming only one kind of product. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vegetivorous Part of Speech: adj 1. feeding on vegetables Labels: not-comparable
Word: ostreophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: (Greek) ostreo- + -phagous Ostrei (Latin) genitive singular to ostreum (Latin) Alternative form of oyster 1. oyster-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: poephagous Part of Speech: adj 1. grass-eating Labels: not-comparable
Word: foliophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -phagous. 1. feeding on leaves Labels: not-comparable
Word: microphagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + -phagous. 1. Feeding on small particles. Labels: not-comparable
Word: macrophagous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From macro- + -phagous. 1. That feeds on relatively large particles or prey. Labels: not-comparable
Word: thalerophagous Part of Speech: adj 1. Feeding on fresh vegetable matter. Labels: not-comparable
Word: night monkey Part of Speech: noun 1. douroucouli (Aotus spp.)
Word: night moth Part of Speech: noun 1. Any noctuid moth (Noctuidae).
Word: Sézary syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. Sézary's disease Labels: uncountable
Word: Sézary's disease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First described by Albert Sézary. 1. A type of cutaneous lymphoma in which the affected cells are T cells that have pathological quantities of mucopolysaccharides. Labels: uncountable
Word: moon trefoil Part of Speech: noun 1. Medicago arborea, a plant with yellow flowers.
Word: T-form Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the first letter of the second-person singular pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin tu and Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. 1. A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors. Example: Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked me if I was a faculty researcher, using again the informal T-form. Example: In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents.
Word: V-form Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the first letter of the second-person plural pronoun in Romance languages; ultimately from Latin vos. 1. A second-person pronoun used in formal situations, to address unfamiliar people and superiors. Example: In the Erzin dialect, children address their parents with the V-form; to use the T-form would show a lack of respect for parents. Example: But cross-linguistically one finds that plural pronouns are predominant for the V-form. Again, there may well be a universal here that a plural address implies respect and that the singular pronoun implies a personal, i.e. intimate type of address.
Word: Pinglish Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Palestinian + English. 1. Nonstandard English spoken by Palestinians. Labels: informal
Word: Pinglish Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Persian + English. 1. Nonstandard English spoken by Persians. Labels: informal
Word: Pinglish Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Pakistani + English. 1. Nonstandard English spoken by Pakistanis. Labels: informal Example: It has been hypothesized that Pakistani ESL learners do not produce English-voiced and voiceless stops native-like word-initially. Additionally, the data is expected to reveal that Pinglish and Sindhi VOT characteristics of stops are altered as a function of the place of articulation. Example: 'You butchered two languages': Lawyer's Pinglish draws the ire of CJP Isa
Word: pampas grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of tall-growing grass: Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any of several species of tall-growing grass: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of several species of tall-growing grass: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any of several species of tall-growing grass: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any of several species of tall-growing grass: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: buffalo chips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buffalo chip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: claw away Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of claw (“to rail, revile, or scold (someone or something)”). Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: kraaled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of kraal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Saratoga chip Part of Speech: noun 1. A potato chip. Labels: US, dated
Word: Saratoga chips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Saratoga chip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plug tap Part of Speech: noun 1. A screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end.
Word: tap cinder Part of Speech: noun 1. The slag from a puddling furnace. Labels: uncountable
Word: tap bolt Part of Speech: noun 1. A bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. 2. A self-tapping bolt. Labels: informal
Word: trijunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tri- + junction. 1. A junction where three things meet.
Word: trijunctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trijunction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uropygids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of uropygid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vinegarone Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of vinegaroon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: vinegarones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vinegarone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thelyphonid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any member of the arachnid order Thelyphonida.
Word: thelyphonids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thelyphonid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoebrush Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shoe brush. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: anaesthetes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anaesthete Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moss agate Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of agate with brown, black, or green moss-like or dendritic markings, due in part to manganese oxide. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: devil's tattoo Part of Speech: noun 1. A drumming with the fingers or feet. Example: F. Hardman Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels.
Word: Scotch broom Part of Speech: noun 1. A plant of the species Cytisus scoparius. Labels: uncountable
Word: mango tilapia Part of Speech: noun 1. Sarotherodon galilaeus, a cichlid fish.
Word: olive ore Part of Speech: noun 1. olivenite Labels: uncountable
Word: snowball tree Part of Speech: noun 1. A cultivar of guelder rose with globular clusters of white, sterile flowers, Viburnum opulus.
Word: Bohemian olive Part of Speech: noun 1. Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia).
Word: tombacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tombac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shacko Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of shako. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: shackos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shacko Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shackoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shacko Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cylinder glass Part of Speech: noun 1. Sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened. Labels: uncountable
Word: crown glass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called from a crown-like shape given to it in the process of blowing. 1. An early type of window glass made by blowing glass into a hollow globe (crown) and then flattening it on a punty, reheating and spinning out into a flat disk by centrifugal force. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A variety of glass used in lenses and other optical components due to its low refractive index and dispersion. Originally crown glass was made from alkali-lime silicates with approximately 10% potassium oxide, but similar properties may be attained with other recipes. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass.
Word: pea bean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From its size. 1. Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans). 2. Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans). 3. The cowpea (Vigna unguiculata).
Word: zinc bloom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare German Zinkblumen (“flowers of zinc, zinc oxide”). 1. Hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; hydrozincite. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: scaly tetter Part of Speech: noun 1. Psoriasis. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: moist tetter Part of Speech: noun 1. Eczema. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: honeycomb tetter Part of Speech: noun 1. Favus. Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: wager of law Part of Speech: noun 1. The giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take an oath in open court that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven compurgators who would avow that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth. Labels: historical
Word: no-showed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of no-show Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: no-showing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of no-show Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: undeliverables Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of undeliverable Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lady chapel Part of Speech: noun 1. A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Word: postmodernese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From postmodern + -ese. 1. The jargon of postmodernism. Labels: uncountable Example: Moving from content to style, the introduction and too many of the articles are written in that thick postmodernese dialect that only hinders communicating with undergraduates and other mortals.
Word: subquestion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + question. 1. A question making up part of a larger question.
Word: subquestions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subquestion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multicurricular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + curricular. 1. Relating to more than one curriculum. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hornsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horn + -s- + -man. 1. One who plays a horn. 2. A snake, the horned viper (Bitis cornuta).
Word: hornsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hornsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uncalmly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From uncalm + -ly. 1. In an uncalm manner.
Word: sayableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sayable + -ness. 1. Quality of being sayable. Labels: uncountable
Word: unsayableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unsayable + -ness. 1. Quality of being unsayable. Labels: uncountable
Word: unsayability Part of Speech: noun 1. Quality of being unsayable. Labels: uncountable
Word: sayability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From say + -ability. 1. The quality of being sayable. Labels: uncountable
Word: pear gauge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called by its inventor, John Smeaton, in the mid-18th century, because it consisted in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel. 1. A kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion (creation of a vacuum) of an air pump receiver (airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum). Labels: historical
Word: Spanish black Part of Speech: noun 1. A black pigment obtained by charring cork. Labels: uncountable Example: When this cork is burnt in close vessels it forms the pigment called Spanish black. This substance is employed to fabricate not only bottle corks but small architectural and geognostic models
Word: Spanish white Part of Speech: noun 1. A powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, used as a white pigment. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any white wine of Spanish origin. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: antistarvation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + starvation. 1. Opposing or preventing starvation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: file off the serial numbers Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the practice of filing the serial numbers off of firearms in order to make their origin and ownership difficult to trace. 1. To alter identifiable details in a creative work in order to conceal its origin. Labels: idiomatic Example: […] that song belonged to Noisy when he got through filing off the serial numbers and changing the body lines. I heard it again, oh, must have been twenty, twenty-five years later, in a cabaret in Luna City. From Noisy. But he had changed it. Fixed up the scansion, given it a proper rhyme scheme, dolled up the tune. 2. To alter identifiable details in a creative work in order to conceal its origin. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work. Example: I've heard a rumor that Bujold started the Barrayar series as Star Trek fanfic, and there's enough resemblance there to make that seem very plausible to me. Suppose she did. By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.
Word: oniscidean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Oniscidea + -an 1. Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea; a woodlouse. Example: Nevertheless, these studies strongly suggest that arginine is not an essential amino acid in oniscideans. Example: The oniscidean digestive system has been extensively studied and well described in both slaters and sowbugs (Hames and Hopkin 1989; Štrus et al. 1995).[…]Frequent moulting is an important characteristic of juvenile and adult oniscideans and is related to growth, renewal of the cuticle and reproduction in mature females.
Word: oniscideans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oniscidean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antisymbolism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + symbolism. 1. Opposition to symbolism. Labels: uncountable Example: These are only a few of the absurdities of the theory of antisymbolism, but they are sufficient, one should think, to confute it. Example: These are materialism, antiformalism and antisymbolism, verification through practical results, the partisanship of science, and the need of modifying scientific dogma only by action of the political leadership […]
Word: antisymbolist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + symbolist. 1. One who opposes symbolism.
Word: antisymbolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + symbolic. 1. Opposing symbolism.
Word: antisymbolists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antisymbolist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swag light Part of Speech: noun 1. An electric ceiling light connected to a wall socket by a cord (usually decorated with a chain) from the outlet up the wall and along the ceiling.
Word: swag lights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of swag light Labels: form-of, plural
Word: red chalk Part of Speech: noun 1. An indurated clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters and artificers; reddle. Labels: uncountable
Word: chain lightning Part of Speech: noun 1. Lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked flashes. Labels: Canada, US, uncountable Example: smart as chain lightning (sharp-witted) Example: faster than a cat lapping chain lightning 2. (A person or thing that is) very fast and dynamic. Labels: US, attributive, especially, uncountable Example: Hettie was chain lightning with a six-shooter. Example: It was too late in the day; I would find that compared to a trout a bonefish was chain lightning; I wouldn’t see a bonefish; I would not get one if I did. 3. A high-proof whiskey or other spirit that has not been allowed to mature; a poor-quality or adulterated spirit. Labels: US, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: Give me a meetin where nobody cares a snap of a finger for nobody in particular, and has no interest but in a good feed, a good song, a good smoke, and chain-lightning to top it all off with. Example: Grandma said no more, but brought a bottle from the closet, and began to rub the spots with chain lightning. To Prudy’s joy and surprise, the dress was soon as clean as ever.
Word: heat lightning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called because it is common on hot summer nights and is sometimes popularly thought to be caused by heat rather storms. 1. Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting). Labels: uncountable Example: Joel Brinkley, a schoolteacher, who was a child in the 1950s, recalled a similar feeling during this era: "It seems surreal now. Every summer, when I heard heat lightning over the city and the sky would light up, I was convinced it was all over. My whole childhood was built on the notion that the Soviets were the real threat." Example: The beginning of a watery diarrheal event is said to be marked by a great deal of noise, characterized as […] rumbling (tzilelet 'rumbling sound of heat lightning in the rainy season'), […] 2. Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting). Labels: uncountable Example: The typical range at which thunder can be heard is around 24 km [...] Often, people mistakenly call lightning whose thunder is too far away to be heard "heat lightning," suggesting that the lightning somehow owes its existence merely to the heat of the day and not to a thunderstorm. Nonsense. "Heat lightning" is simply distant lightning whose thunder cannot be heard. 3. Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting). Labels: uncommon, uncountable Example: THE RAIN FINALLY CAME FROM THE DARK GREY SKIES, SOFT AND TEMPTING AT FIRST, WITH THE SOUND OF HEAT LIGHTNING HOVERING OVER THE SKYSCRAPERS! [image is of a city being rained on, no lightning visible] Example: Our windows were open, and inside the wind and rumble of heat lightning, I could hear Albert's horses nickering in the darkness.
Word: lightning arrester Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used on electrical and telecommunications systems to protect the insulation and conductors from the damaging effects of lightning. Typically, it has a high-voltage terminal and a ground terminal. When a surge travels along the power line to the arrester, the current from the surge is diverted through the arrester, in most cases to earth.
Word: lightning discharger Part of Speech: noun 1. A lightning arrester.
Word: round clam Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of hard clam.
Word: round dance Part of Speech: noun 1. A dance for couples with a whirling or revolving motion, such as the waltz or polka. 2. A repetitive, circular movement made by a foraging honey bee in process of communicating to other workers that it has located a significant and nearby food source. Example: The round dance is never performed on a comb on which there are none or only a few bees, but it always takes place in the midst of a dense throng.
Word: iron mould Part of Speech: noun 1. The yellow discoloration of cloth by rusty iron.
Word: satin spar Part of Speech: noun 1. A fine fibrous variety of either calcite or gypsum, with a pearly luster. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Denmark satin Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of lasting; a stout worsted material, woven with a satin twill, once used for women's shoes. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: uninstituted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + instituted. 1. Not instituted. Labels: not-comparable
Word: bone earth Part of Speech: noun 1. The earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of calcium phosphate. Labels: uncountable
Word: bone turquoise Part of Speech: noun 1. fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue colour, sometimes used as imitation turquoise Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: pipefittings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pipefitting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: call note Part of Speech: noun 1. The note naturally used by a male bird to call a female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as a decoy. Example: If the hunter wishes to master all of the different calls of possible use in hunting turkeys, he is confronted with the task of learning eleven. There are sex and age variations in pitch, tone quality, loudness, and inflection for most of the call notes
Word: footbank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foot + bank. 1. A raised way within the parapet of a fortification.
Word: footbanks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of footbank Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foot stove Part of Speech: noun 1. A small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet. Labels: historical
Word: tax cart Part of Speech: noun 1. A small horse-drawn sprung cart, subject to a low tax. Labels: UK, historical
Word: tax carts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tax cart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mountain cork Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of asbestos with a cork-like texture. Labels: uncountable
Word: mountain leather Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of asbestos with a leather-like texture. Labels: uncountable
Word: have a finger in Part of Speech: verb 1. To be concerned or involved in something. Labels: idiomatic, informal
Word: strike work Part of Speech: verb 1. To go on strike. Labels: India, dated Example: About nine hundred bakers, it is said, struck work on Saturday night, in consequence of their wages not being raised. Example: […] whenever they’ve got a point to gain, no matter how unreasonable, they’ll strike work. 2. To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.). Labels: dated Example: 1848, Charles Dickens, letter dated 28 November, 1848 in Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, p. 203, Come down on Friday. There is a train leaves London Bridge at two—gets here at four. By that time I shall be ready to strike work. Example: This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food. 3. To stop functioning. Labels: dated, figuratively Example: 1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9, Your books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes work, as it now or then will, I take my chance for either green-covered volume, Example: These auroras were accompanied with unusually great electro-magnetic disturbances in every part of the world. In many places the telegraph wires struck work.
Word: Mexican lac Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of dragon's blood produced by the tree Croton draco. Labels: uncountable
Word: gray silver Part of Speech: noun 1. freieslebenite Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: green marble Part of Speech: noun 1. The mineral serpentine. Labels: uncountable
Word: child groom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of child + groom. 1. A very young groom (male who is to be married). Example: In the UK, parliaments for children, satirical culture for youngsters, training for teenage fathers, support for suicidal preteens, and refuges for child grooms are all developments which betray a newly recognized maturity and agency in children […]
Word: cardinal flower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partial calque of translingual Lobelia cardinalis. 1. Lobelia cardinalis (syn. L. fulgens), a species of lobelia native to the Americas, usually with vibrant red flowers.
Word: horse leech Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of horse-leech. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: black antimony Part of Speech: noun 1. The black sulfide of antimony, Sb₂S₃, used in pyrotechnics, etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: cap money Part of Speech: noun 1. Money traditionally collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox. Labels: uncountable
Word: legal cap Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets, often with a red line down the left side. Labels: US, historical, uncountable Example: One day a middle-aged, money-making lawyer, who bought his legal cap and ink of her, asked her across the counter to marry him. Example: Through them he could see the steep bulk of buildings scaled with lights and a plankshaped bit of inky sky. He was copying memoranda on a long sheet of legal cap.
Word: lie in one's throat Part of Speech: verb 1. To lie (tell a falsehood) flatly or outright. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete Example: I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise a lodging, and say he lies heere, or he lies there, were to lye in mine owne throat.
Word: globe amaranth Part of Speech: noun 1. Certain plants of genus Gomphrena, especially 2. Certain plants of genus Gomphrena, especially
Word: poverty grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several grasses that grow in poor or sandy soil. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chain rule Part of Speech: noun 1. A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions. Example: The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.
Word: stone boiling Part of Speech: noun 1. A primitive method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it. Labels: uncountable
Word: vicing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vice Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stylometrically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From stylometric + -ally. 1. By means of, or in terms of, stylometry. Labels: not-comparable
Word: troglofaunal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From troglofauna + -al. 1. Relating to troglofauna. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stygofaunal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From stygofauna + -al. 1. Relating to stygofauna. Labels: not-comparable
Word: troglofauna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare troglodyte, and see fauna. 1. Small cave-dwelling animals that have adapted to their dark surroundings. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: ploughman's spikenard Part of Speech: noun 1. The plant Inula conyzae, (now Pentanema conyzae). Labels: uncountable
Word: Guinea corn Part of Speech: noun 1. durra Labels: uncountable
Word: threated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of threat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: threating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of threat Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: safety cage Part of Speech: noun 1. A cage for an elevator or mine lift, having appliances to prevent it from dropping in the event that the lifting rope breaks.
Word: safety tube Part of Speech: noun 1. A tube to prevent explosion, or to control delivery of gases by an automatic valvular connection with the outer air; especially, a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence.
Word: on the stump Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Campaigning for public office; on the hustings.
Word: amboynas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amboyna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Canada pitch Part of Speech: noun 1. The resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensis) Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: liquor silicum Part of Speech: noun 1. liquor of flints Labels: uncountable
Word: flying boat Part of Speech: noun 1. A fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, capable of landing on water, but (unless also equipped with wheels) not on land.
Word: parrot coal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes as it burns. 1. cannel coal Labels: Scotland, UK, dated, uncountable
Word: parrot weed Part of Speech: noun 1. A suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the poppy family, native to parts of America. It has large sinuate pinnatifid leaves and small panicled apetalous flowers.
Word: thunder tube Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Blitzrohre? 1. fulgurite
Word: air gas Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of gas made by forcing air through a volatile hydrocarbon, such as the lighter petroleums. The air is so saturated with combustible vapour as to be a convenient illuminating and heating agent. Labels: uncountable
Word: gas coal Part of Speech: noun 1. A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.
Word: gas tar Part of Speech: noun 1. coal tar Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: almond willow Part of Speech: noun 1. A willow of species Salix triandra, native to Europe and Western and Central Asia.
Word: cable buoy Part of Speech: noun 1. An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.
Word: suspension scale Part of Speech: noun 1. A scale in which the platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting upon it.
Word: quirks mode Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way. Labels: Internet, dated, uncountable
Word: policy shop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From policy (“illegal lottery”) + shop. 1. A gambling place where punters could bet on the numbers which would be drawn in lotteries. Labels: US, historical, obsolete Example: 1856, New York (State) Legislature: Senate, Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 212, In lottery and policy shops do they not generally stick up an exchange sign, and hold out “stationery sold here,” so that persons who did not understand it would suppose they sold stationery? Example: The policy-shops draw from the people, especially the poor and ignorant, hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Word: pitch coal Part of Speech: noun 1. bituminous coal Labels: uncountable
Word: trunkings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trunking Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pitch peat Part of Speech: noun 1. A black homogeneous peat with a waxy lustre. Labels: uncountable
Word: pertinaceous Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of pertinacious. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: give the mitten to Part of Speech: verb 1. To dismiss as a lover; to break up with. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: "[…]There is an accomplished and pretty young lady boarding here who gave the mitten to Mr. Fitzgammon, but she would be delighted to have Mr. Raymond accept her hand, her heart, and her fortune." Example: advising me to give the mitten to my last beau and keep company with Seth Lee
Word: bandom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From band + -dom. Pronunciation: /ˈbændəm/ 1. The condition or quality of being a band. Labels: uncountable Example: Forming out of a mutual love of the music the band were less of a gang of mates drifting into bandom than people fired by their interest in the music. Example: The confines of traditional bandom, so long seen as the only way to do it, are falling away, allowing committed lifelong musicians the freedom to actually have some semblance of a life.