yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
vassal
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Inflected forms:
form: vassals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vasal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: vasal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: vassals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vassaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: vassalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: vassaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: vassaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: vassalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: vassalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: vasal
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The manor's vassals owed first fruits and a tithe to the parish church, another 10% to the lord (including at least 50 eels), a week or two each year of service in the manor's upkeep, and service in the local fyrd.
It was superimposed on rules of conduct evolved at an earlier date as the spontaneous expression of class consciousness; rules that pertained to the fealty of vassals (the transition appears clearly, towards the end of the eleventh century, in the Book of the Christian Life by Bishop Bonizo of Sutri, for whom the knight is, first and foremost, an enfeoffed vassal ) and constituted above all a class code of noble and 'courteous' people.
gloss: Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The king ordered his vassals to join him on the crusade unless they had a written note signed by the archbishop or pope.
gloss: Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The vassals of his anger.
gloss: Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Did they, quoth you? / Who sees the heavenly Rosaline / That, like a rude and savage man of Inde / At the first opening of the gorgeous east / Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind / Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
gloss: To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To subordinate to someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: liegeman
valet
varlet
Derived words: envassal
vassalage
vassaldom
vassaless
vassalhood
vassalic
vassal-in-chief
vassalize
vassalry
vassalship
vassal state
Translations:
veal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.
Inflected forms:
form: veals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: veel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: veals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vealed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: veale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: veel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The female genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: To raise a calf for meat production.
pos: verb
examples: The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.
It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.
Derived words: bod veal
rose veal
try the veal
veal crate
veal Milanese
veal Orloff
veal Orlov
veal-skin
Translations:
vedette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian vedettabor.
French vedettebor.
English vedette
Borrowed from French vedette.
Inflected forms:
form: vedettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vidette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The enemy made no effort to pursue Marshal Blücher. On the contrary, a patrole which I sent to Sombref in the morning found all quiet; and the enemy's vedettes fell back as the patrole advanced.
My goal was Desolation Peak, the cabin where rookie vedette Jack Kerouac spent 63 eventful days in the summer of 1956.
gloss: A cabaret performer, usually the main female artist of a show.
pos: noun
examples: Josephine Baker arrived in Cuba in 1951. When this famous black American vedette arrived—she who had first enraptured Paris and later the rest of Europe—Rita Montaner played a trick on her. La Baker, as well as Cuban vedettes and rumba dancers, had conquered Europe by selling exoticism to an avid European public.
Translations:
veil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
parapsychology
pseudoscience
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.
Inflected forms:
form: veils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: veiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: veiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: veiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
pos: noun
examples: The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
gloss: Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.
gloss: A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
pos: noun
examples: [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
gloss: A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
pos: noun
examples: a nun's veil
a paten veil
an altar veil
gloss: The calyptra of mosses.
pos: noun
gloss: velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
pos: noun
gloss: A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
pos: noun
gloss: A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
pos: noun
examples: The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap.
gloss: An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
pos: noun
gloss: That which separates the living and the spirit world.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil." "So have I, for that matter," said Malone, "and in this very room."
gloss: To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm under surface
Towers veiled in silk
I guess I'm not welcome
In this house they built
gloss: To conceal as with a veil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.
Derived words: corporate veil
dance of the seven veils
draw a veil over
humeral veil
partial veil
seven-veil dance
take the veil
universal veil
veil dance
veillike
veil of Isis
veil of tears
Translations:
verbena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-. Doublet of vervain, via French.
Inflected forms:
form: verbenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -
Hidden behind a large stone urn full of verbena, Dottie watched as her enemy greeted Johnny at the door.
Translations:
vestal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Vestālislbor.
English vestal
Learned borrowing from Latin Vestālis.
Inflected forms:
form: vestals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pure; chaste.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
In emulation of her vestal whiteness.
gloss: A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin.
pos: noun
gloss: A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
pos: noun
gloss: A nun.
pos: noun
Derived words: Drury Lane vestal
St. John's Wood vestal
Translations:
vestige
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
broadcasting
media
natural-sciences
radio
television
Etymology: From French vestige, from Latin vestīgium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”). Doublet of vestigium.
Inflected forms:
form: vestiges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mark left on the earth by a foot.
pos: noun
gloss: A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra
vestiges of former population
The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end.
Her face was without a vestige of colour, but it only showed more strongly the perfect outline of her features. Pale she was, but not like a statue; it was a human paleness—passionate and painful.
Nevertheless in some cases, my original view, that the points are vestiges of the tips of formerly erect and pointed ears, still seems to me probable.
Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.
The chief remains of the Roman Calagurris are the vestiges of an aqueduct and an amphitheatre.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
gloss: A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
pos: noun
examples: Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige, often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.
This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige.
gloss: The remaining portion of a partially suppressed sideband.
pos: noun
examples: [J]ust a trace, or vestige, of the other sideband is included. In the receiver detection circuitry the vestige of the lower sideband is added to the upper sideband.
Synonyms: relic
remains
remnant
residue
trace
Related words: hint
trace
Derived words: vestigial
vestigiality
Translations:
vestigial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin vestīgium + -al. By surface analysis, vestige + -ial.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: vestigials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not fully developed in mature animals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a vestigial structure; that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Remnants of the vascular supply of lost organs may be present in the tissues of the receptacle when all external evidence of the organs has disappeared. Only rarely does the vascular supply of a vestigial organ disappear while external remnants are still present.
gloss: A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
pos: noun
Related words: vestige
Derived words: vestigial structure
Translations:
vicariously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vicarious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vicariously
From vicarious + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a vicarious manner; indirectly; as, by, or through a substitute; by proxy.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.
Translations:
vilayet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish ولایت (vilayet, “province”), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya, “province, administration”). Doublet of wilaya, wilayat, and Blighty.
Inflected forms:
form: vilayets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vilayat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: velayat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A province, particularly (historical) the first-level administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
pos: noun
Translations:
vindicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vindicātus, perfect passive participle of vindicō (“lay legal claim to something; set free; protect, avenge, punish”), from vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power”), + dīcō (“say; declare, state”). See avenge.
Inflected forms:
form: vindicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vindicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vindicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vindicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to vindicate someone's honor
As a man of vision, he understood this. Without Cerberus, humanity was doomed to an existence of groveling subservience at the feet of alien masters. Still, there were those who would call what he did criminal. Unethical. Amoral. History would vindicate him, but until it did he and his followers were forced to exist in hiding, working toward their goals in secret.
gloss: To justify by providing evidence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to vindicate a right, claim or title
The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.
Also see: United National Congress, Trinidad and Tobago
Kamla Persad Bissessar: " We have been vindicated, but it is a victory for the people"
gloss: To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
When Trump's election pulled back the curtain on the rise of the far-right in America, I'd naively assumed the Jewish left would be vindicated.
gloss: To be proven reasonable, correct, or justified.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide justification for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.
gloss: To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To avenge; to punish.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: a war to vindicate infidelity
Derived words: vindication
vindicator
vindictive
Translations:
volcanic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.
Base: volcano
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: volcanics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: volcanic heat
volcanic activity
Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea. That volcanism helped lead to the birth of the Atlantic Ocean while it also contributed to killing off as much as a quarter of all life on Earth during the event known as the end-Triassic mass extinction.
gloss: Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: volcanic tufa
volcanic ash
gloss: Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Jo rose indignified, Vanessa following in her volcanic wake.
With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.
gloss: A volcanic rock.
pos: noun
examples: The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Synonyms: volcanian
Vulcanian
Derived words: cryovolcanic
hydrovolcanic
ice-volcanic
metavolcanic
neovolcanic
nonvolcanic
postvolcanic
stratovolcanic
subvolcanic
supervolcanic
transvolcanic
unvolcanic
volcanically
volcanic ash
volcanic block
volcanic bomb
volcanic cone
volcanic field
volcanic glass
volcanicity
volcaniclastic
volcanic lightning
volcanic neck
volcanic pipe
volcanic sulfur
volcanic sulphur
volcanic wind
volcanic winter
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بُرْكَانِيّ
roman: burkāniyy
lang: Asturian
word: volcánicu
lang: Belarusian
word: вулкані́чны
roman: vulkaníčny
lang: Bulgarian
word: вулкани́чен
roman: vulkaníčen
lang: Catalan
word: volcànic
lang: Czech
word: sopečný
lang: Dutch
word: vulkanisch
lang: Esperanto
word: vulkana
lang: Finnish
word: vulkaaninen
lang: Finnish
word: tulivuori-
lang: French
word: volcanique
lang: Friulian
word: vulcanic
lang: Galician
word: volcánico
lang: Georgian
word: ვულკანური
roman: vulḳanuri
lang: German
word: vulkanisch
lang: Hindi
word: ज्वालामुखीय
roman: jvālāmukhīya
lang: Hindi
word: आग्नेय
roman: āgney
lang: Hungarian
word: vulkáni
lang: Ido
word: volkanala
lang: Indonesian
word: vulkanis
lang: Irish
word: bolcánach
lang: Italian
word: vulcanico
lang: Lithuanian
word: ugnikalninis
lang: Manx
word: volcaanagh
lang: Occitan
word: volcanic
lang: Polish
word: wulkaniczny
lang: Portuguese
word: vulcânico
lang: Russian
word: вулкани́ческий
roman: vulkaníčeskij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bholcànach
lang: Spanish
word: volcánico
lang: Swedish
word: vulkanisk
lang: Turkish
word: volkanik
lang: Ukrainian
word: вулкані́чний
roman: vulkaníčnyj
voluminous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.
Base: volvō
Affixes: -men
Inflected forms:
form: more voluminous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most voluminous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
pos: adj
gloss: Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
pos: adj
examples: I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train.
Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.
gloss: Of great volume, or bulk; large.
pos: adj
examples: Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]
gloss: Having written much, or produced many volumes.
pos: adj
examples: a voluminous writer
Related words: volumous
Translations:
vow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vowe, voue, that from Old French vut, in turn from Latin vōtum (“a promise, dedication, vow”), from vovēre (“to promise, vow”). Not related to avow. Doublet of vote.
Inflected forms:
form: vows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
pos: noun
examples: The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.
And Moses spake vnto the heads of the tribes, concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
If a man vowe a vow vnto the Lord, or sweare an othe to bind his soule with a bond: he shall not breake his word, hee shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
gloss: A declaration or assertion.
pos: noun
examples: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
gloss: A votive offering.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: There are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body mixed with them; but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the Priapi.
gloss: To make a vow; to promise.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
We do not vow that we will never sin, nor neglect a duty (nor ought we to do so).
gloss: To make a vow regarding (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The wronged woman vowed revenge.
gloss: To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
pos: verb
examples: The rebels vowed to continue their fight.
Derived words: break-vow
solemn vow
exchange vows
marriage vow
renew one's vows
take vows
vow of celibacy
wedding vow
Translations:
waif
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English weif (“ownerless property subject to seizure and forfeiture; the right of such seizure and forfeiture; revenues obtained from such seizure and forfeiture”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman waif, weif [and other forms] (compare Anglo-Latin waivum [and other forms], Medieval Latin waivium), possibly from Old French waif, a variant of gaif, gayf (“property that is lost and unclaimed; of property: lost and unclaimed”) (Norman) [and other forms], probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse veif (“flag; waving thing”), from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to oscillate, swing”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: waifs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waifs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waifing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waifed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waifed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
examples: waifs and strays
gloss: Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing—my, but how stupid he was!
Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared. / Far-wandered waif of other days, / Huddles for sleep in a doorway, / Homeless.
gloss: A very thin person, especially a young one.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: When we had done all the things there were to do, he passed out and I clung to his reassuringly solid, soft stomach—paternal, so different to the indie waifs—and cried.
gloss: A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but not persistently naturalized.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is true that Guy, Count of Ponthieu, holds fief under me, but I have no control over the laws of his realm. And by those laws, he hath right of life and death over all stranded and waifed on his coast.
Related words: waive
Derived words: waifish
waifishly
waifishness
waiflike
Translations:
wail
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: c. 1300, Middle English weilen, waylen (“to sob, cry, wail”), from Old Norse væla (“to wail”), from væ, vei (“woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai (whence also Old English wā (“woe”) (English woe)), from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.
The verb is first attested in the intransitive sense; the transitive sense developed in mid-14ᵗʰ c.. The noun came from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: wails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a noise like mourning or crying.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
gloss: To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to wail one's death
My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes
gloss: To perform with great liveliness and force.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Another outstanding surfer from Hawaii - Fred Hemmings. Fred only stands up on alternate Wednesdays, but when he does, he really wails.
At Boston's Roseland, as "the Count's band was wailing," he grabbed Mamie, an avid dancer. The "band was screaming when she kicked off her shoes and got barefooted
The band was really wailing as we quickly made our dance moves in a most provocative manner.
We had a nondenominational wedding, with a bunch of great Sufi musicians really wailing, and my wildly enthusiastic mother in attendance.
gloss: A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
pos: noun
examples: She let out a loud, doleful wail.
gloss: Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
pos: noun
examples: The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
A bird's wail in the night.
gloss: A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
pos: noun
Derived words: bewail
wailer
wail on
wailingly
Daily Wail
death wail
widow-wail
Translations:
wailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wayler, weilere; equivalent to wail + -er.
Base: wail
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wails or laments.
pos: noun
gloss: A professional hired mourner.
pos: noun
Translations:
wary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the adjective ware + -y.
Base: ware
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: warier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent
pos: adj
examples: He is wary of dogs.
gloss: Characterized by caution; guarded; careful; on one's guard
pos: adj
gloss: thrifty, provident
pos: adj
Synonyms: cautious
guarded
careful
chary
Derived words: unwarily
unwary
warily
wariness
Translations:
waster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste + -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.
Base: waste
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wastor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wastour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
pos: noun
gloss: An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: A destroyer or plunderer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
gloss: An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
pos: noun
examples: Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.
Derived words: candle-waster
oxygen waster
time-waster
Translations:
wavy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
Etymology: From wave + -y.
Base: wave
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wavier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: waviest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wavey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Rising or swelling in waves.
pos: adj
examples: wavy seas
gloss: Full of waves.
pos: adj
examples: wavy swimming pool
gloss: Moving to and fro; undulating.
pos: adj
examples: wavy bridge
gloss: Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
pos: adj
examples: wavy hair
One of the half-pay men brought me a nasty wavy dagger that had been picked up in the road. 'One of your Indian curiosities, I suppose, Dr Tulloch?' he remarked.
gloss: Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
pos: adj
gloss: Undé, in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines, especially to symbolize a river.
pos: adj
examples: Per pale erm. and az. a fess wavy gu.
Parted per fess wavy gu. and arg.; over all a lion passant sa. pierced with a dagger ppr., hafted and pommelled of the second, the haft appearing between the shoulders and the point under the belly, tending towards the hind legs[…]
On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Cool and fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Wavy like Beyoncé on a surfboard
Derived words: counterwavy
handwavy
wavy-leaved eremophila
Translations:
weaponry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weapon
English -ry
English weaponry
From weapon + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: weaponries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Weapons collectively
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The army has a wide array of weaponry.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Holy shit! Those things barely look powerful enough to run Oregon Trail, much less Earth-ending weaponry. People who work there must watch WarGames and go “One day, one day, we’ll get to play with that stuff.”
Translations:
weighty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English weighti, weghti, wighti, equivalent to weight + -y.
Cognate with Scots weichty, wechty, wichty, Saterland Frisian wichtich, West Frisian wichtich, Dutch wichtig, gewichtig, German wichtig, Danish vigtig, Swedish viktig.
Compare typologically Russian ве́ский (véskij), весо́мый (vesómyj) (< вес (ves)). Also compare the same meaning development from cognate (by borrowing) Polish waga (< ... < Proto-Germanic *wēgō): ważny (whence Russian ва́жный (vážnyj)).
Base: weight
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: weightier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weightiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: weightie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having a lot of weight; heavy.
pos: adj
examples: And so a weighty rock she aimed / With much enthusiasm
To fund the purchase, he had to sell a late Renoir, The Judgment of Paris, with its depiction of weighty ladies frolicking in a roseate garden.
gloss: Important; serious; not trivial or petty.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a weighty argument
But I have now reached a point in the progress of my narrative, when it becomes necessary to turn away from these light descriptions, to the more grave and weighty matter of the second battle with Master Tibeats, and the flight through the great Pacoudrie Swamp.
gloss: Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
pos: adj
Derived words: weightily
weightiness
Translations:
whaler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From whale + -er. In sense 1, displaced Old English hwælhunta (literally “whale hunter”).
Base: whale
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: whalers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hunts whales; any person employed in the whaling industry.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: whaleman
For a whaler's wife to have been “ 'round the Cape” half a dozen times, or even more, was nothing extraordinary.
Whalers have always overexploited their stocks, driving them to commercial extinction.[…]American whalers, operating at first from the coast and later in sea-going boats, took about 200 000 right whales in addition to humpbacks and grays.
The whalers brought a new way of life. They brought a chance for travel. Many Chamorros traveled to London and the United States. Over eight hundred Chamorro whalers settled in Honolulu.
gloss: A seagoing vessel used for hunting whales.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: whaleship
But o' Thursday t' Resolution, first whaler back this season, came in port.
Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.
The log of the Emily Morgan, an American whaler that visited Guam many times, described Spanish control:[…].
But the Golden Lion was ambushed by a Naval frigate thinking that a whaler's crew would be useful pressed men. The whaler 's crew didn't agree, and there was a bloody skirmish on shore between the press gang and the crew of the Golden Lion which caused such a scandal that from then on whalers ' men were exempt from conscription.
gloss: One who whales (flogs or beats).
pos: noun
gloss: A large, strong person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Something of unusually great size, a whopper, a whacker.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Any shark of the family Carcharhinidae; a requiem shark.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The whalers (or requiem sharks) are one of the largest and best known family of sharks. Worldwide there are 48 species in 12 genera. However, relatively few species are on the Great Barrier Reef.
2003, Mark Thornley, Veda Dante, Peter Wilson, Action Guide: Surfing Australia, Tuttle Publishing, HK, page 264,
The whaler shark family, which includes the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos),silvertip (Carcharhinus albimarginatus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus) are fast moving, territorial and have bitten divers snd surfers in the past.
You can also take a dip with lemon, whaler and other nonpredatory sharks.
gloss: A sundowner; one who cruises about.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
dated
slang
examples: the nomad, “the whaler,” it is who will find the new order hostile to his vested interest of doing nothing.
Derived words: bronze whaler
Murrumbidgee whaler
whaler's delight
Translations:
wheeze
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
Inflected forms:
form: wheezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wheezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wheezed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wheezed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wheezes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
pos: verb
examples: If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
gloss: To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.
He began to wheeze again, and tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks. Nate was laughing, too, infected by Check's contagious wheezing.
Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.
The man wheezed, his laughter like an accordion whine.
gloss: To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
pos: verb
examples: "Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land."
One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.
gloss: A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
pos: noun
gloss: An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
pos: noun
gloss: An ulterior scheme or plan.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.
The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze: it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
The Constitution cult in the US—deliberately stoked in the early twentieth century in a part as a bulwark against socialism—is a nastily brilliant wheeze by capitalism's apologists.
gloss: Something very humorous or laughable.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The new comedy is a wheeze.
You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!
gloss: A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
pos: noun
examples: At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died.
Derived words: wheeze rate
Translations:
whirlwind
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English whirlewind, whirlewynde, equivalent to whirl + wind. Compare Middle Dutch wervelwint, Old Norse hvirfilvindr.
Compound parts: whirl
wind
Inflected forms:
form: whirlwinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
pos: noun
examples: VVhile in the mean time there iſſued out on the Eaſt-ſide a ſtrong VVind, but pure and refreſhing, vvhich dividing into ſeveral parts that turned round became ſo many innocuous VVhirl-vvinds of ſincere Air, tinctured only vvith a cool refreſhing ſmell, as if it had paſſed over ſome large field of Lilies and Roſes.
And his hoofs ground the rocks to fire and dust, / His strong sides made the torrents rise in spray, / And turbulence, as if a whirlwind’s gust / Surrounded us; […]
gloss: A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Once he got that new scooter he turned into a whirlwind and damaged all the flowers.
The weeks leading up to the convention were a whirlwind of preparation and hurried activity.
swept up in the whirlwind of war
gloss: Rapid and minimal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance
So you aren't deserting the Caversham ship. They'll understand. After all, their courtship was pretty whirlwind itself.
Derived words: sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
Translations:
witless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English witles, from Old English witlēas (“senseless; witless”), from Proto-Germanic *witjalausaz (“witless”), equivalent to wit + -less. Cognate with Swedish vettlös (“senseless; witless; wild”), Icelandic vitlaus (“senseless; witless; foolish; mad”).
Base: wit
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more witless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most witless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking wit or understanding; foolish.
pos: adj
examples: Then will we march to all thoſe Indian Mines,
My witleſſe brother to the Chriſtians loſt:
And ranſome them with fame and vſurie.
To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't;
gloss: Indiscreet; not using clear and sound judgment.
pos: adj
gloss: Mindless, lacking conscious thought or the capacity for it.
pos: adj
examples: Rage warps my clearest cry
To witless agony.
Antonyms: witful
Derived words: witless wonder
witlessly
witlessness
Translations:
wrack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.
Inflected forms:
form: wracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wrake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The remains of something; a wreck.
pos: noun
examples: Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack.
gloss: Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
literary
examples: The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt?
gloss: Ruin; destruction.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack,
Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
Derived words: wrack and ruin
Translations:
wrasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Plural of dialectal (Cornwall) wrah, wraugh, wrath, from Cornish wragh (“old woman, hag; wrasse”), lenited form of gwragh.
Inflected forms:
form: wrasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the family Labridae, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are brightly colored.
pos: noun
Translations:
wreath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English wreth, wrethe (“coiled or rounded shape; decorative garland, wreath; chaplet, crown; ring”, noun), from Old English wrǣd, wrǣþ, wriþa (“bandage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist; to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”). Doublet of wreathe and writhe.
Inflected forms:
form: wreaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.
pos: noun
examples: a wreath of smoke    a wreath of clouds
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
gloss: An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.
pos: noun
examples: So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
gloss: A defect in glass.
pos: noun
gloss: An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.
pos: noun
Derived words: Advent wreath
bridal wreath
Hippocratic wreath
laurel wreath
oak wreath
olive wreath
snow wreath
wreath product
wreathwork
Yule wreath
Translations:
writhe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English writhen, from Old English wrīþan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrīþan, from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist, writhe”). Cognate with Middle Dutch writen (“to turn, twist”), dialectal German reiden (“to turn, twist, lace”), Danish vride (“to twist”), Swedish vrida (“to turn, twist, wind”), French rider (“to wrinkle, furrow, ruffle”, (< Germanic)). Compare also Lithuanian riēsti (“to unbend, wind, roll”).
Inflected forms:
form: writhes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: writhing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wrothe
pos: verb
tags: past
form: writhed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: writhen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wrothe
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: writhed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: writhes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To twist, wring (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To contort (a part of the body).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cicero (as I remember) had gotten a custome to wryth his nose, which signifieth a naturall scoffer.
She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
gloss: To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
gloss: To extort.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A contortion.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot
pos: noun
Derived words: writhingly
writhedly
writher
Translations: