yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
senselessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English senseless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English senselessness
From senseless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: senselessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being senseless; unsense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
They had contributed heavily to their own downfall, most glaringly with the senselessness of Chris Smalling’s red card, and they should know by now that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are not the kind of opponents to pass up these kind of handouts.
Translations:
senselessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English senseless
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English senselessly
From senseless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more senselessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most senselessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a senseless manner.
pos: adv
examples: In those moments thus spent in composing myself for sleep, I sometimes wondered in the last human occupant of the room were not a dead one. I was senselessly spookish about such things.
Translations:
standardize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French estandartder.
English standard
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English standardize
From standard + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: standardizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: standardizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: standardized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: standardized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: US and Oxford British English standard spelling of standardise.
pos: verb
Translations:
tinted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tinted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tinted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slightly colored, having tint.
pos: adj
examples: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
The Citadel is surrounded by a blue-tinted reflection nebula. The light of the nebula is actually light from the Citadel, scattered and reflected back at the station.
Antonyms: achromatic
colorless
Translations:
idiosyncratically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From idiosyncratic + -ally. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic + -al + -ly.
Base: idiosyncratic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more idiosyncratically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most idiosyncratically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an idiosyncratic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
blowsy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blows(e)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blowsy
From blows(e) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: blowsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blowsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blousy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: blouzy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: blowsey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: blowzy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
pos: adj
examples: They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c
[…] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp.
[…] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.
gloss: Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.
pos: adj
examples: Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!
The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
gloss: Unrefined, countrified.
pos: adj
examples: He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.
The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling.
Derived words: blowsily
blowsiness
Translations:
idiomatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English idiomatic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English idiomatically
From idiomatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more idiomatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most idiomatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an idiomatic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: With regard to idiomaticness; as analyzed with idiomatic meaning taken into account.
pos: adv
Related words: figuratively
literally
Translations:
piddock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown
Inflected forms:
form: piddocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas or family Pholadidae, which burrow into soft rocks.
pos: noun
Translations:
rationality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rational + -ity, from French rationalité, from Late Latin rationalitas (“rationality, reasonableness”), from Latin rationalis (“reasonable”).
Base: rational
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: rationalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being rational; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His sudden loss of rationality was brought on by excess drink.
gloss: Objective consideration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Such a discussion deserves rationality, not emotional gut reactions.
Synonyms: rationalness
Derived words: antirationality
birationality
bounded rationality
epistemic rationality
hyperrationality
instrumental rationality
irrationality
nonrationality
superrationality
ultrarationality
unirationality
Translations:
idler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English idle
English -er
English idler
From idle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: idlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.
pos: noun
gloss: One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
pos: noun
gloss: Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power through its own axle, but forms part of a gear train, supports a moving belt, etc.
pos: noun
examples: FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. […] Four run stones, Munson underrunners, 3 ft diameter. […] All with idlers and in the best condition.
Synonyms: bum
couch potato
dawdler
deadbeat
dogfucker
do-naught
do-nothing
dosser
idler
idleton
faineant
flaneur
footler
get-nothing
goldbricker
goof-off
lallygag
lollygagger
laggard
layabout
lazy ass
lazybones
lazy louse
lidderon
lie-abed
loafer
loiter-sack
lounge lizard
lounger
morepork
poop
ragabash
shirker
slacker
slow belly
slugabed
slug-a-bed
slugabug
sluggabed
sluggard
sofa spud
tarrier
truant
Antonyms: achiever
doer
dynamo
go-getter
overachiever
Related words: bumpkin
troublemaker
vagabond
lazy
shirk
scrounger
videophilia
Translations:
polenta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin polenta
Italian polentabor.
English polenta
Borrowed from Italian polenta.
Inflected forms:
form: polentas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
purslane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French porcelaine, probably an alteration of Latin porcilaca (“purslane”) (related to portulaca (“purslane”)) to assimilate it with porcelaine (“porcelain”).
Inflected forms:
form: purslanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: purslain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
gloss: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: mud purslane
purslane tree
water-purslane
wild purslane
Translations:
lang: Amharic
word: ፐርስሌን
roman: pärslen
lang: Baluchi
word: پَرپُک
roman: Parpok
lang: Bulgarian
word: ту́ченица
roman: túčenica
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 馬齒莧 /马齿苋
roman: mǎchǐxiàn
lang: Finnish
word: portulakka
lang: French
word: pourpier
lang: German
word: Portulak
lang: Hungarian
word: porcsin
lang: Hungarian
word: portuláka
lang: Kapampangan
word: saytsaytan
lang: Kapampangan
word: saitsaitan
lang: Kazakh
word: қараот
roman: qaraot
lang: Latin
word: portulaca
lang: Polish
word: portulaka
lang: Portuguese
word: portulaca
lang: Portuguese
word: beldroega
lang: Spanish
word: verdolaga
lang: Tagalog
word: kulasiman
lang: Tagalog
word: alusiman
lang: Tagalog
word: ulasiman
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سمیز اوت
roman: semiz ot
rainbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rain + bird, from the sound of their call, a beautiful liquid gurgle rising and falling like water pouring from a bottle.
Compound parts: rain
bird
Inflected forms:
form: rainbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, Centropus cupreicadus, Centropus senegalensis.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: A grey warbler (Gerygone igata).
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
owie
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ow
English -ie
English owie
From ow + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Inflected forms:
form: owies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ow.
pos: intj
gloss: A painful but minor injury.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
childish
colloquial
examples: If it's an "owie" that has the child upset, check him from head to toe for injuries.
2008, May 16, Bil Keane, The Family Circus (daily comic) in the Kokomo Tribune
Daddy! Our car has an owie! [Billy, pointing to a small dent.]
Translations:
Jacksonian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
medicine
pathology
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Jackson
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Jacksonian
From Jackson + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Jacksonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Jacksonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Jacksonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of Andrew Jackson's politics and policies, or one who admires Jackson as a historical figure.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Of or relating to American singer Michael Jackson.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the politics and policies of Andrew Jackson.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Of or pertaining to Jacksonian seizures, characteristic of certain forms of epilepsy (after John Hughlings Jackson).
pos: adj
Translations:
epileptiform
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to epilepsy, or resembling epilepsy, particularly in regard to its associated seizures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a grand mal epileptiform seizure
Translations:
rewritable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rewrite
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English rewritable
From rewrite + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to be rewritten, or written again.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
doubting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doubtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more doubting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doubting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A condition of doubt.
pos: noun
examples: A believer may be sometimes so overwhelmed with doubtings, that he may not be able to perceive an assurance in himself.
Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past doubtings all
Waits in unhope.
He had prepared such a fine pedestal for her, draped her in so many beautiful illusions. But if she was an elf, there was no keeping an elf on a pedestal. No sooner had he arranged her there nicely, than off she flopped in her elfish way, scattering the illusions he had attached to her, as it were, a Salome shedding her seven veils. So he fluttered between his beliefs and doubtings.
gloss: Full of doubt; dubious.
pos: adj
examples: Indeed, had not I appeared to the world with all possible demonstrations of authority and truth, teaching men a most holy and undeniable doctrine, sufficient to reform their manners and amend their lives, and moreover demonstrating my divine commission, by such proofs as ought to satisfy and convince the most doubting and suspicious minds; they might have had some plea and excuse of ignorance for their unbelief;
Had Keir been told two years ago that he would be involved in all these domesticities, he would have been more doubting than a doubting Thomas.
Critics, as the name clearly suggests, are very doubting of brand and firm behaviour, yet they appear to be more focused on being critical than on actually acting on their opinions.
Translations:
radially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radial
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English radially
From radial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more radially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most radially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a radial manner, outward from a center.
pos: adv
examples: Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;
Translations:
implying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: implyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: implication
pos: noun
examples: Human events are always implyings. What they are includes the implying of further events.
While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
Translations:
neurosurgery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek χειρουργίᾱ̆ (kheirourgíā̆)bor.
Latin chīrūrgiader.
Old French surgie
Old French surgeriebor.
Middle English surgerie
English surgery
English neurosurgery
From neuro- + surgery.
Inflected forms:
form: neurosurgeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any surgical procedure performed on the nervous system, especially the brain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: neuroimaging
neuroimplant
neurology
neuropathy
neuroright
neuroscience
neurotechnology
Derived words: endoneurosurgery
microneurosurgery
neurosurgeon
neurosurgical
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: neurocirurgia
lang: Dutch
word: neurochirurgie
lang: Finnish
word: hermokirurgia
lang: French
word: neurochirurgie
lang: Georgian
word: ნეიროქირურგია
roman: neirokirurgia
lang: German
word: Neurochirurgie
lang: Hungarian
word: idegsebészet
lang: Irish
word: néar-mháinliacht
lang: Portuguese
word: neurocirurgia
lang: Russian
word: нейрохирурги́я
roman: nejroxirurgíja
lang: Spanish
word: neurocirugía
lang: Tajik
word: асабҷарроҳӣ
roman: asabjarrohi
lang: Vietnamese
word: phẫu thuật thần kinh
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngoại thần kinh
suffixed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more suffixed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suffixed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
docs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: documentation
pos: noun
Translations:
menswear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English men
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English menswear
From men + -s- + -wear.
Inflected forms:
form: men’s wear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: men's wear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Men's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Derek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022.
Translations:
shrewish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shrew + -ish. Compare Middle English schrewis, shrewessh, shrewyssh (“wicked, malignant”).
Base: shrew
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more shrewish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shrewish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman).
pos: adj
examples: “For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive any thing extraordinary. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
Her part. Good grief, he realized; he hadn’t written any dialogue that included her, the slinky, breast-heavy, nipple-dilated female intelligence agent – he had only done scenes between Ziggy Trots and his shrewish wife.
gloss: Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew.
pos: adj
Derived words: shrewishly
shrewishness
unshrewish
Translations:
lang: French
word: acariâtre
lang: Tagalog
word: mataray
northwestern
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English *norþwesterne, equivalent to north + western, cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Low German nōrtwestern and Old High German nordwestrōni. Compare earlier northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern.
Compound parts: north
western
Inflected forms:
form: more northwestern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most northwestern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: north-western
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
form: northwesterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: north-western
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
pos: adj
examples: Brittany is located in northwestern France.
gloss: Blowing from that direction.
pos: adj
gloss: A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the northwest of North America.
pos: noun
examples: His most recent novels, published as Five Star Westerns, have been Northwesterns: […]
Related words: north-northwestern
west-northwestern
Derived words: northwesterner
northwesternmost
Translations:
daguerreotype
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.
Inflected forms:
form: daguerreotypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daguerreotypes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: daguerreotyping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: daguerreotyped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: daguerreotyped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
pos: noun
examples: The awakening of science to this new way of seeing the cosmos began with Johann Ritter in 1801. By 1815, scientists found that Ritter's “chemical rays” [ultraviolet rays] darkened not just silver chloride but also many other kinds of metallic salts. Between 1826 and 1837, Nicéphore Niépce, credited with taking the first successful photograph, in 1827, and Louis Daguerre, the most famous photographic innovator of his day, found that silver iodide was especially light sensitive, and they used this discovery as the basis for their early work, which even then had begun to gain international notice. By 1842, others found that when sunlight hit a gelatin emulsion containing silver iodide, soon to be called a daguerreotype plate, it induced a photochemical reaction. Practical photography was born.
gloss: The process of making such photographs.
pos: noun
gloss: A faithful or exact representation or description.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: What was most admired was the facade of the great and ancient Gothic church of St. Mary,—which was reflected with such exactness that it appeared to be a daguerreotype design; so that all the lines and contours of the innumerable ornaments which cover this facade, were distinguished with ease.
gloss: To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: [H]e scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerreotype my appearance indellibly^([sic]) and faithfully upon his mind.
Related words: daguerreotyper
daguerreotypy
Derived words: daguerreotypist
redaguerreotype
Translations:
defoliate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English foliate
English defoliate
From de- + foliate.
Inflected forms:
form: defoliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defoliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defoliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defoliated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more defoliate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defoliate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To remove foliage from (one or more plants), most often with a chemical agent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Agent Orange was used to defoliate jungle vegetation.
These leaves are the moth’s only source of food, and if left unchecked, the caterpillars can completely defoliate a single mighty tree.
gloss: Deprived of leaves; defoliated.
pos: adj
Translations:
defoliant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defoliate
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English defoliant
From defoliate + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: defoliants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agent used to defoliate plants.
pos: noun
examples: Agent Orange is a defoliant.
Translations:
delphinium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name (translingual Delphinium), from Ancient Greek δελφῐ́νῐον (delphĭ́nĭon, “larkspur”).
Inflected forms:
form: delphiniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delphinia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers; a larkspur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
gloss: A shade of blue, named for the flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
palmetto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma (“palm tree”), from Latin palma. Doublet of palmite and palmito.
Inflected forms:
form: palmettos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palmettoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
pos: noun
examples: Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.
[O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […].
gloss: A hat made of palmetto leaves.
pos: noun
gloss: A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.
pos: noun
Derived words: Bermuda palmetto
Birmingham palmetto
bush palmetto
cabbage palmetto
dwarf palmetto
Hispaniola palmetto
Mexican palmetto
Palmetto Bay
palmetto bug
palmetto skipper
Palmetto State
Rio Grande palmetto
royal palmetto
saw palmetto
saw palmetto
scrub palmetto
Sonoran palmetto
Texas palmetto
Yucatán palmetto
Translations:
rito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The young leaves of the coconut palm, used in traditional weaving in the Pacific.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Oromo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Oromo oromoo.
Inflected forms:
form: Oromos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Oromo
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a people of eastern Africa, Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
pos: noun
Translations:
undemonstrative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English demonstrative
English undemonstrative
From un- + demonstrative.
Inflected forms:
form: more undemonstrative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undemonstrative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not given to showing emotion or feelings; reserved or distant.
pos: adj
examples: It was a godsend when an undemonstrative ewe and demonstrative lamb came in.
Translations:
celeriac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From celery + -ac.
Base: celery
Affixes: -ac
Inflected forms:
form: celeriacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: celeriack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A form of celery, Apium graveolens, having an aromatic taproot eaten as a vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
heita
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eh ta
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: eita
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heit
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heitha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heito
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: het
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heyitha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heyta
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: huit
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Greeting, hello; hi
pos: intj
tags: South-Africa
colloquial
examples: I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."
‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.
‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).
Translations:
bye-bye
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of bye.
Inflected forms:
form: by-by
pos: intj
tags: alternative
rare
form: bye bye
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: byebye
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: buh-bye
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: bye-byes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: by-by
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: bye bye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: byebye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: buh-bye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Goodbye.
pos: intj
tags: childish
informal
often
examples: Bye bye! Let's play again some time!
gloss: A goodbye.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
often
gloss: Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
examples: Brush your teeth, it's time to go bye-bye.
"[H]e came to the gate of the city; and finding it shut lay him down and went to by-by!"
Translations:
fouler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English foul
English -er
English fouler
From foul + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: foulers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fouls.
pos: noun
examples: For example, several species of hydroids and bryozoans are important foulers of salmon cages in Australia (Hodson et al., 2000) and Norway (Guenther et al., 2010).
Translations:
waterbuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans waterbok, after the animal's habit of escaping to waterways.
Inflected forms:
form: waterbucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waterbuck
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.
pos: noun
Translations:
portugais
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: portugais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of gray angelfish (“Pomacanthus arcuatus”).
pos: noun
Translations:
heaviness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hevynesse, from Old English hefiġnes (“heaviness”). Equivalent to heavy + -ness.
Base: heavy
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: heavinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.
gloss: Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Firſt got vvith guile, and then preſeru'd vvith dread, / And after ſpent with pride and lauiſhneſſe, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauineſſe.
By ſo much the more ſhall I to-morrovv be at the height of heart-heavineſs.
[W]hen man ſigheth, (as the Apoſtle ſaith) as burthened vvith inviſcerate intereſts, longing to put on this pure ſpirituall veſture of Filiall love, this kind of heavineſſe of ſpirit, may be ſaid to make his love vveight in heaven; […]
gloss: Drowsiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The ſtrangeneſs of your ſtory put / Heavineſs in me.
Translations:
shootout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
card-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
poker
skating
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shoot outdeverb.
English shootout
Deverbal from shoot out.
Inflected forms:
form: shootouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoot-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decisive battle, especially a gunfight.
pos: noun
gloss: A penalty shootout.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of penalty shots during which a tied game is resolved.
pos: noun
gloss: A multitable poker tournament in which only the last player on a table goes on to the next.
pos: noun
examples: 64 players entered the shooutout tournament, and were divided into eight tables of eight players each. The winner in each table went on to the final table, also consisting of eight players.
gloss: A match in which both teams score highly.
pos: noun
Derived words: SO
Translations:
purger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English purge
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English purger
From purge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: purgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
pos: noun
examples: The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, […]
Synonyms: purgative
Translations:
biogeography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰ́φος (geōgrắphos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
▲
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
▲
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (geōgrăphĭ́ā)bor.
Latin geōgraphia
Middle French géographie
English geography
English biogeography
From bio- + geography.
Inflected forms:
form: biogeographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the geographical distribution of living things.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The geographical distribution of a particular living thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: First, any international traveler knows that many pathogenic microbes, both viral and bacterial, have distinct biogeographies.
Related words: biogeographic
cytogeography
Derived words: biogeographical
paleobiogeography
panbiogeography
phylobiogeography
Translations:
vamoose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of Spanish vamos (“we go”) or vámonos (“let's go”). Doublet of namous.
Inflected forms:
form: vamooses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vamoosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vamoosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vamoosed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vamos
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: vamoosh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: vamose
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: vamous
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: vamouse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To run away (from); to flee.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Speaking of the room in which I locked McIndoe — I will preface by saying that Mac "vamoosed that ranch" that very day and left me alone.
“Gone away,” explained Mr. MacBride. “Vamoosed. Done a bunk. Skipped with the cash.[…]”
World 6-3: Vamoose the Lava Sluice!
gloss: To depart; go away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: You can vamoose now—no question of having to get me out. We've arranged for messages.
gloss: To hurry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Some members of civil rights organizations present said they have heard that Negroes seeking housing in the [sundown] towns had been intimidated and that 'vamoose' warnings have been in vogue for the past year.
He's got a wife who'll never give him a divorce. She knows about me, but it's still understood that when she decides to go to the ranch for a week or a weekend, I've got to vamoose.
"Vamoose, you little varmint."
Antonyms: linger
remain
Translations:
necrotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more necrotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most necrotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to necrosis, particularly of tissue.
pos: adj
Translations:
neonatal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālisbor.
Middle English natal
English natal
English neonatal
From neo- + natal.
Inflected forms:
form: neo-natal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the period of time immediately following birth, or to the newborn.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The baby was placed in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Translations:
neurosurgeon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English surgeon
English neurosurgeon
From neuro- + surgeon.
Inflected forms:
form: neurosurgeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surgeon specializing in brain surgery.
pos: noun
examples: With considerable difficulty, Blake Taylor, the neurosurgeon who operated on her, stopped the bleeding.
Translations:
nightclothes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + clothes.
Compound parts: night
clothes
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Clothing worn while sleeping in bed, such as pyjamas or a nightgown, and, when worn over nightclothes, a robe.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The disturbance brought out many of the neighbors in their nightclothes.
Translations:
nightgown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nyght gowne. By surface analysis, night + gown.
Inflected forms:
form: nightgowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night-gown
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.
pos: noun
gloss: A dressing gown.
pos: noun
Related words: négligée
Derived words: nightgowned
Translations:
nightshade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, from Proto-West Germanic *nahtskadō (“nightshade”), corresponding to night + shade. Compare Dutch nachtschade (“nightshade”), German Nachtschatten (“nightshade”).
Compound parts: night
shade
Inflected forms:
form: nightshades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
pos: noun
gloss: Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
pos: noun
Related words: petit morel
petty morel
solano
Derived words: African nightshade
American nightshade
Argentine nightshade
Bahama nightshade
ball nightshade
beaked nightshade
bindweed nightshade
bitter nightshade
bittersweet nightshade
black nightshade
blue nightshade
buffalobur nightshade
climbing nightshade
common nightshade
cutleaf nightshade
deadly nightshade
enchanter's nightshade
Ethiopian nightshade
fetid nightshade
garden nightshade
green nightshade
hairy nightshade
hoe nightshade
Indian nightshade
Jamaican nightshade
lance-leaved nightshade
leafy-fruited nightshade
Malabar nightshade
melon-leaved nightshade
orangeberry nightshade
prickly nightshade
red nightshade
redberry nightshade
shrubby nightshade
silver-leaved nightshade
silverleaf nightshade
silver-leaf nightshade
small nightshade
sodaapple nightshade
spiny nightshade
sticky nightshade
stinking nightshade
tall nightshade
Torrey's nightshade
watermelon nightshade
West Indian nightshade
wetland nightshade
white-margined nightshade
woody nightshade
woolly nightshade
yellow nightshade
Translations:
nightstick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From night + stick.
Compound parts: night
stick
Inflected forms:
form: nightsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long, narrow, polelike club carried by police and security personnel, for use in self-defense.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who spends much time in bars and nightclubs, and generally indulges themselves during the night.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncommon
Synonyms: attitude-adjuster
baton
nigger knocker
truncheon
Derived words: nightstick fracture
Translations:
nuncio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Spanish nuncio,
from Latin nūntius (“envoy”).
Inflected forms:
form: nuncios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
pos: noun
examples: He was anxious to make an immediate and lasting peace with Spain; refused to receive a special embassy from the Hollanders; his ambassador at Paris was known to be on terms of intimacy with the Pope's Nuncio; […].
His ecclesiastical appointments showed how rapidly he had made his way, how supple was his mind: first of all secretary to the nunciature at Lisbon; then created titular Bishop of Thebes, and entrusted with a delicate mission in Brazil; on his return appointed nuncio first at Brussels and next at Vienna; […].
Seeing as the meeting happened at the nunciature in Washington, it could only have happened with the approval and participation of the nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
gloss: One who bears a message; a messenger.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: [O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead ſtand, not knovving vvhat to doe or ſay; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for nevv Nuntio’s from Chriſt, to aſſoil theſe benighted queſtions, and to give nevv Orders for nevv Churches.
Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio’s, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends.
gloss: Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: announce
internuncio
nunciature
Pro-nuncio
Derived words: nuncioship
nunciotist
Translations:
oleander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron.
Inflected forms:
form: oleanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Cut a small branch of oleander from a thrifty plant, place it in a vial partly filled with rain water, so that the lower end of the branch may be immersed about half an inch in the water.
Translations: