Vocabulary

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welter

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--verb (used without object)
1. to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
2. to roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often fol. by about)
3. to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, especially blood.
4. to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.
--noun
5. a confused mass; a jumble or muddle.
6. a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval.
7. a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about, as or as if by the sea, waves, or wind.

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brail

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--noun
1. (nautical) and of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
2. a leather binding for a hawk's wings, to prohibit flight.
--verb (used without object)
3. (nautical)
a. to gather or haul in (a sail) by means of brails (usually fol. by).
b. to transfer (fish) from a net to the hold of a ship.
4. to bind (the wings of a bird) in order to prevent it from flying.

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shoon

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--noun (chiefly British Dialect)
1. pl. of shoe.

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cockle

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--noun
1. any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heartshaped, radially ribbed valves, especially C. edule, the common edible species of Europe.
2. any of various allied or similar mollusks.
3.a wrinkle; pucker
5. a small, crisp candy of sugar and flour, bearing a motto.
--verb (used without object)
6. to contract into wrinkles; pucker
7. to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple
--verb (used with object)
8. to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple.
9. (cockles of one's heart), the depths of one's emotions or feelings.

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offal

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--noun
1. the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion
2. the parts of a butchered animal removed in dressing; viscera
3. refuse; rubbish; garbage.

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undertow

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--noun
1. the seaward, subsurface flow or draft of water from waves breaking on a beach.
2. any strong current below the surface of a body of water, moving in a direction different from that of the surface current.

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wend

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--verb (used with object)
1. to pursue or direct (one's way).
--verb (used without object)
2. to proceed or go.
--noun
1. a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.

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coy

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--adjective
1. artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
2. shy; modest.
3. showing reluctance, especially when insincere or affected, to reveal one's plans or opinions, make a commitment, or take a stand.
4. (archaic) disdainful; aloof.
--verb (used without object)
6. (archaic) to act in a coy manner.
--verb (used with object) Obs.
7. to quiet; soothe.
8. to pat; caress.

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ruck

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--noun
1. a fold or wrinkle; crease.
--verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2. to make or become creased or wrinkled.

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tawny

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--adjective
1. of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
--noun
2. a shade of brown tinged with yellow; dull yellowish brown.

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jess

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--noun
1. a short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk and attached to the leash.
--verb (used with object)
2. to put jesses on (a hawk).

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stereoscope

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--noun
1. an optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of depth or relief.

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cassiopeia

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--noun
1. Aston. a northern constellation between Cepheus and Perseus.
2. Class. Myth. the wife of Cepheus and mother Andromeda.

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cataract

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--noun
1. a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
2. any furious rush or downpour of water; deluge.
3. Ophthalm.
a. an abnormality of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens.
b. the opaque area.

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tramontana

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--noun, pl. -nas
1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

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wester

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--noun
1. a wind or storm coming from the west.
--verb (used without object)
1. (of heavenly bodies) to move or tend westward.
2. to shift or veer toward the west.

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girdle

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--noun
1. a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
2. a belt, cord, sash, or the like, worn about the waist.
3. anything that encircles, confines, or limits.
4. Jewelry. the edge or narrow band between the upper and lower facets of a gem.
5. Anat. the bony framework that unites the upper or lower extremities to the axial skeleton.
6. Architecture. an ornamental band, especially one surrounding the shaft of a column.
7. a ring made about a tree trunk, branch, etc., by removing a band of bark.
--verb (used with object)
8. to encircle with a belt; gird.
9. to encompass; enclose; encircle.
10. to move around (something or someone) in a circle.
11. to cut away the bark and camblum in a ring around (a tree, branch, etc.)

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delectation

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--noun
1. delight; enjoyment.

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tanyard

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--noun
1. an area of tannery set aside for the operation of tanning vats.

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wap

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1. whop

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buss

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--noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. kiss

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sartorial

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--adjective
1. of or pertaining to tailors or their trade
2. of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress.
3. Anat. pertaining to the sartorious.

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pard

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--noun Literary
1. a leopard or panther
--noun Informal.
1. partner; companion.

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dawdle

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--verb (used without object)
1. to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter
2. to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.
--verb (used with object)
3. to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually fol. by away).

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lollop

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--verb (used without object)
1. BritishDialect. to loll; lounge.
2. to move forward with a bounding or leaping motion.

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bedraggle

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--verb (used with object), -gled, -gling
1. to make limp and soiled, as with rain or dirt.

also can be used as adjective; see Ulysses

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souse

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--verb (used with object)
1. to plunge into water or other liquid; immerse.
2. to drench, as with water.
3. to dash or pour, as water.
4. to steep in pickling brine; pickle.
--verb (used without object)
5. to plunge into water or other liquid.
6. to be soaked or drenched.
7. to be steeping or soaking in something.
--noun
8. an act of sousing.
9. something kept or steeped in pickle, especially the head, ears, and feet of a pig.
10. a liquid used as a pickle.
11. Slang. a drunkard.

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trippant

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--adjective Heraldry.
1. (of a deer or the like) represented in the act of walking

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abstruse

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--adjective
1. hard to understand; recondite; esoteric
2. obs. secret; hidden

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abstrusities

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--noun pl. -ties
1. the quality or state of being abstruse
2. an abstruse statement, action, etc.

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scullion

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--noun
1. a kitchen servant who does menial work.
2. a low or contemptible person.

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sutler

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--noun
1. (formally) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.

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scion

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--noun
1. a descendant.
2. Also, clon. a shoot or twig, especially one cut for grafting or planting; a cutting.

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doublet

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--noun
1. a close-fitting outer garment, with or without sleeves and sometimes having a short skirt, worn by men in the Renaissance.
2. an undergarment, quilted and reinforced with mail, worn beneath armor.
3. a pair of like things; couple.
4. one of a pair of like things; duplicate.
5. Ling. one of two or more words in a language that are derived from the same source, especially when one is learned while the other is popular, as coy and quiet, both taken from the same Latin word, quiet directly, and coy by way of Old French.
6. Printing. an unintentional repetition in printed matter or proof.
7. doublets, a throw of a pair of dice in which the same number of spots turns up on each die.
8. Jewelry. a counterfeit gem made of two pieces, either of smaller gemstones, inferior stones, or glass.
9. Optics. a compound lens made of two thin lenses shaped so as to reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations.

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flitter

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flitter, n.1

(ˈflɪtə(r))

[f. flit v. + -er1.]

One who or that which flits. a.a One who changes his dwelling. b.b A fleeting thing.

   1554 Bradford in Coverdale Lett. Mart. (1564) 323 If we be flitters and not dwellers (as was Loth a flitter from Segor).    1623 tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 203 Such‥were admonished to make themselues much fairer by the goods of the soule; because those of the body were but flitters [orig. ceux du Corps ne sont que passagers].

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flit

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flit |flit|
verb ( flitted , flitting ) [ intrans. ]
move swiftly and lightly : small birds flitted about in the branches | figurative the idea had flitted through his mind.
• [ intrans. ] Brit. leave one's home or move, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.
noun Brit., informal
an act of leaving one's home or moving, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations : moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another.
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [move house] ): from Old Norse flytja; related to fleet 5 .

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wimple

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wimple, n.

(ˈwɪmp(ə)l)

Forms: 1, 3–6 wimpel, 3–5 wympel, 4–6 wymple (1, 3 winpel, 3 wempel, 4 whympel, 5 wim-, wym-, win-, wyn-, -pil, -pill, -pul, -pulle, -pyl, -pylle, Sc. wompyll, 6 wympyll, Sc. womple, 7 wimpell, 9 whimple), 4– wimple.

[Late OE. wimpel = (M)LG., (M)Du. wimpel, OHG. wimpal veil, banner (MHG., G. wimpel streamer, pennon), ON. vimpill (Sw., Da. vimpel from LG.), whence OF. guimple (mod. F. guimpe), of which the variant wimple coincided with the native form. Ultimate origin uncertain.
It is doubtful whether the senses provisionally placed together here and under the vb. belong all to the same word. In branch II there may be an onomatopœic element; for formation and meaning cf. dimple, rimple, rumple, wrimple.]

I. 1.I.1 A garment of linen or silk formerly worn by women, so folded as to envelop the head, chin, sides of the face, and neck: now retained in the dress of nuns. Also gen. a veil.
   Used loosely in early glossaries as a rendering of L. anabola, cyclas, peplum, ricinum.

   a 1100 Aldhelm Gloss. i. 4296 (Napier 112) Cyclade, .i. ueste, wimple.    a 1100 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 107/37 Ricinum, winpel uel orl.    Ibid. 125/8 Anabola, winpel.    c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Hire winpel wit oðer maked ȝeleu mid saffran.    c 1240 Ancr. R. 420 (MS. C), Sum seið þæt hit limpeð to ene wummon cundeliche forte were wimpel.    c 1250 Meid. Maregrete xlvii, Ðoru þe mitte of ihū christ, wid her wempel ho hin bond.    1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6941 Hire bodi wiþ a mantel, a wimpel [v.r. whympel] aboute hire heued.    c 1374 Chaucer Troylus ii. 110 Do a-woy ȝoure wimpil & schew ȝoure face bare.    c 1386 ― Prol. 151 Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was.    14‥ Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 601/43 Peplum, a wynpul.    c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxv. 2992 Hyre hayre in wompyll arayande.    c 1440 Gesta Rom. lxix. 317 The emperesse hydde hire face with a wympill, for she wolde not ben y-knowe.    1513 Douglas Æneis i. vii. 115 To ask supple, with thaim ane womple bair thai, With handis betand ther breistis by the way.    c 1530 Crt. Love 1102 And eke the nonnes, with vaile and wimple plight.    1560 Bible (Genev.) Isa. iii. 22 The costelie apparel and the vailes, and the wimpels, and the crisping pinnes.    1805 Scott Last Minstr. v. xvii, White was her whimple, and her veil.    1819 ― Ivanhoe xlii, Her flowing wimple of black cypress.    1879 Walford Londoniana II. 247 Three nuns with veils and whimples.

transf.    1615 Crooke Body of Man 123 A certaine smooth and slippery veyle or wimple is substrated.    1861 A. Austin in Temple Bar III. 472 Graves are the sheltering wimples Against Life's rain.

¶2.I.2 A flag, streamer. [An alien sense.]

   1656 Blount Glossogr., Wimple‥a Streamer or Flag.

II. 3.II.3 A fold or wrinkle; a turn, winding, or twist; a ripple or rippling in a stream.

   1513 Douglas Æneis ii. iv. 30 Bot thai about him lowpit in wympillis [orig. spiris] threw.    1593 Nashe Christ's T. 74 b, Be not more curious of a wimple or spot in thy vesture, then thou art of spotting and thorow-stayning thy deere bought Spyrit.

   1818 Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck xii. I. 225 A shepherd‥hates the wimples, as he calls them, of a turnpike.    Ibid. xiv. II. 22 He had as mony links an' wimples in his tail as an eel.    1845 Eliza Cook Waters i, Waters, bright Waters,‥your wimple just lulleth the minnow to sleep!    1878 Stevenson Will o' Mill, Parson's Marj., The river ran between the stepping-stones with a pretty wimple.

4.II.4 A crafty turn or twist; a wile. Sc.

   1638 Sir A. Johnston Diary (S.H.S.) 320 Notwithstanding al wyles, wimples, offers, motions, and uther letts.    1755 R. Forbes Ajax's Sp. 24 The gouden helmet will sae glance, An blink wi' skyrin brinns, That a' his wimples they'll find out Fan i' the mark he sheens.    1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxiv, There is aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew.

Hence wimple-less a., not wearing a wimple.

   a 1225 Ancr. R. 420 Ȝif ȝe muwen beon wimpel-leas, beoð bi warme keppen.

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atelier

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‖ atelier

(ˈatəˌlje)

[F. atelier, cogn. with Pr. astelier, f. astelle small plank: see astel. Cf. Sp. astillero ‘a docke to build ships on’ (Minsheu 1623), f. astilla ‘rafter, lath, chip.’]

A workshop; an artist's or sculptor's studio.

   1840 Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 33 He [the artist] arrives at his ‘atelier.’    1882 Chamb. Jrnl. 82 The great atelier where wheel and lathe were humming.

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sot

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sot |sät|
noun
a habitual drunkard.
verb ( sotted |sɑdəd|, sotting |sɑdɪŋ|) [ intrans. ] archaic
drink habitually.
DERIVATIVES
sottish |ˈsɑdɪʃ| adjective
ORIGIN late Old English sott [foolish person,] from medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot ‘foolish.’ The current sense of the noun dates from the late 16th cent.

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busk

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busk 1 |bəsk|
verb [ intrans. ]
play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in subways : the group began by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks | [as n. ] ( busking) busking was a real means of living.
• ( busk it) informal improvise.
DERIVATIVES
busker |ˈbəskər| noun
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from obsolete French busquer ‘seek,’ from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanic origin. Originally in nautical use in the sense [cruise about, tack,] the term later meant [go around selling,] hence [go around performing] (mid 19th cent.).
busk 2 |bəsk|
noun historical
a stay or stiffening strip for a corset.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French busc, from Italian busco ‘splinter’ (related to French bûche ‘log’ ), of Germanic origin.

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heartscald

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ˈheart-scald, -scad Sc. and north. dial.

[See scald n.]

a.a = heartburn. b.b fig. Disagreeable sensation, disgust, aversion.

   1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell 1266 (Jam.) What an heart-scald should this bee vnto us, that wee have so long neglected this best part.    a 1774 Fergusson Cauler Water Poems (1845) 25 Tho' cholic or the heart-scad tease us.    1822 Scott Nigel xiv, A look‥that suld give her a heart-scald of walking on such errands.    1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss, Heart-scad, any thing disagreeable or contrary to your expectation or wishes.    1886 in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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serge

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serge |sərj|
noun
a durable twilled woolen or worsted fabric.
verb [ trans. ]
overcast (the edge of a piece of material) to prevent fraying.
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French sarge, from a variant of Latin serica (lana) ‘silken (wool),’ from sericus (see silk ).

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dowdy

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dowdy, n.1 and a.

(ˈdaʊdɪ)

Also 6 doudie, 7 dowdie, 7–9 doudy.

[A deriv. of dowd.
   (It would be natural to regard the adj. as the primary form, from dowd n. with suffix -y as in need-y, etc.; but the n., being known earlier, may be a diminutive formation, as in daddy, and the adj. an attributive use.)]

A.A n. A woman or girl shabbily or unattractively dressed, without smartness or brightness.

   1581 Rich Farew. Milit. Prof., If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut.    1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 42 Dido, a dowdie: Cleopatra, a Gipsie.    1660–1 Pepys Diary 8 Mar., Among others the Duchesse of Albemarle, who is ever a plain homely dowdy.    a 1700 B.E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Doudy, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman.    1774 Anne Granville in Mrs. Delany's Corr. Ser. ii. II. 49 Her hair not‥suffered to grow too low on her forehead‥it makes all the children look like dowdys.    1883 Besant All in Garden Fair i. ii, To be gracious and sympathetic‥you must be nicely dressed; a dowdy cannot be gracious.

B.B adj. (Almost always of a woman or her dress.) Shabbily dull in colour or appearance; without brightness, smartness, or freshness.

   1676 Shadwell Virtuoso iii, Little dowdy strumpets.    1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 221 Female angels‥of a far more charming beauty than the dowdy daughters of men.    1774 Anne Granville in Mrs. Delany's Corr. Ser. ii. II. 48 A very dowdy fashion.    1865 Trollope Belton Est. i. A thick black silk dress‥not rusty or dowdy with age.    1869 ― He knew xcvii, A plain, silent, shy, dowdy young woman.    1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max xxx. 238 In your nurse's livery‥black serge, and a horrid dowdy bonnet.

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toque

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toque

(təʊk, ‖tɔk)

Forms: 6 toocke, tock, Sc. towk, 7, 9 tocque, 9 toque, (toke).

[a. F. toque (15th c. in Godef.), app. the same word as It. tocca cap, ‘tinzell cloath of Gold or siluer’ (Florio), Sp. toca a female head-dress, ‘toca or tocado, a womans kerchiefe or coife’ (Minsheu), Pg. touca a woman's coif. Ulterior origin uncertain.]

1. a.1.a A kind of small cap or bonnet worn by men and women in various countries. (In quot. 1505, a large tippet.)

   1505 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 42 Item, for vij quartaris taffetj to be ane gret tepat to the King, callit ane towk.    1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. ii. 29 The hayre of their heades is long lyke vnto womens, and pleited vnder theyr toockes, which they weare on theyr heades.    1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 244 On their heads they weare a small tock of three braces, made in guize of a myter, and some goe without tocks, and cary (as it were) a hiue on their heades.    1644 Evelyn Diary 23 Nov., The Knight Gonfalonier and Prior of the R.R. in velvet tocques.    1823 Scott Quentin D. vii, To confound our Scottish bonnets with these pilfering vagabonds' tocques and turbands, as they call them.    1864 Babbage Passages Life Philos. 366 A kind of head-dress called a toke.

b.1.b †A cushion or pad worn by women to raise up the hair (obs., quot. 1817); also, a kind of headdress (quot. 1835); after c 1880, a kind of bonnet, cap, or small hat without a projecting brim, or with a very small or closely turned-up brim.

   1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington xiii, A sort of triangular cushion, or edifice of horse hair‥called I believe a toque or a system, was fastened on the female head‥, and upon and over this system the hair was erected, and crisped, and frizzed [etc.].    1835 Ladies' Cabinet Jan. 68 Ball Dress.‥ Head-dress a white satin toque, profusely trimmed with white ostrich feathers.    Ibid. Mar. 202 The head-dress is a toque of pink terry velvet,‥the brim very deep.    1837 Thackeray Ravenswing iv, Her hats, toques,‥marabouts, and other fallals.    1881 M. E. Braddon Asph. xxvii, Her neat travelling-gown of darkest olive cashmere, and coquettish little olive-green toque.    1903 N. & Q. 9th Ser. XI. 366/1 The term ‘bonnet’, as applied to the costume of ladies, may be taken to mean either bonnets or tocques, but not hats.

attrib.    1844 West. Daily Press 29 May 3/7 The toque hat is too comfortable, too convenient, and too becoming to be lightly laid aside.

c.1.c Canad. = tuque.

   1890 S. M. St. Maur Impressions Tenderfoot 265 [He] was‥made picturesque by a red cap ‘toque’, sash and red duffel overall stockings.    1906 G. Lawrence Let. 20 Jan. in R. E. Watters Brit. Columbia (1958) 7 With his toque pulled down‥he looked for all the world like one of the small gnomes we children used to see pictures of.    1945 K. M. Haig Brave Harvest 170 They were matched by toques and mittens, and tied in with gay voyageur sashes streaming like banners against the snow.    1972 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 8 Dec. 10/4 He wore a woollen ski toque on his head.    1977 Westworld (Vancouver, B.C.) Jan.—Feb. 44/2 A few other clothing essentials to remember are an extra pair of wool socks, some wool mitts, with a waterproof outer mitt, and a woolen toque.

d.1.d A kind of tall white hat worn by chefs. In full toque blanche. orig. U.S.

   [1965 C. Klein Professional Cook ii. 28 The origin of the high white hat (la toque blanche) that has been the cook's trademark for centuries is in the monastery.]    1966 McCall's June 168/4 The symposium ended with a discussion about the shape of the chef's hat, the toque blanche.    1975 N.Y. Times 1 Nov. 18/1 The wearer of the toque blanche‥is among a handful of women now presiding over restaurant kitchens here.    1977 Guardian Weekly 9 Oct. 19/1 France's two super-gourmets‥found only 21 restaurants worth a chef's toque, their mark of at least qualified approval.    1978 R. Condon Bandicoot i. 2 His cook‥was a man of great height, made taller still by the two-foot-high, fluted toque blanche he wore to ventilate his head.    1981 Listener 17 & 24 Dec. 772/1 When the celebrated Swiss chef de cuisine‥retired‥he handed his toque to another Swiss.

2.2 toque monkey, also simply toque: the bonnet-monkey or bonnet-macaque, Macacus pileatus, a native of Ceylon (see bonnet n. 10).

   1840 Curvier's Anim. Kingd. 59 The Bonneted Macaque (Macacus sinicus) and the Toque (M. radiatus) have the hairs on the top of the head disposed as radii.    1882 Ogilvie (Annandale), Toque‥2. A name given to the bonnet-macaque.    1883 List Anim. Zool. Soc. 16 Macacus pileatus (Shaw), Toque Monkey.    1892 Pall Mall G. 28 Sept. 3/1 The Guinea baboons and the toque monkeys.

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toady

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toady |ˈtōdē|
noun ( pl. toadies)
a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.
verb ( toadies, toadied) [ intrans. ]
act in an obsequious way : she imagined him toadying to his rich clients.
DERIVATIVES
toadyish |ˈtoʊdiɪʃ| adjective
toadyism |-ˌizəm| |ˈtoʊdiˈɪzəm| noun
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the efficacy of the charlatan's remedy.

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vicereine

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‖ vicereine

(ˈvaɪsreɪn, ‖visrɛn)

Also vice-reine.

[a. F. vicereine, f. vice- vice- + reine queen.]

The wife of a viceroy; also (less usually), = vice-queen a.
   Common from c 1885.

   1823 Mrs. A. Judson Amer. Bapt. Miss. Burman Emp. Contents, Letter v. Visit of the Vice-reine. [Cf. p. 63 Her highness, the viceroy's wife, visited us.]    1833 Lady Bedingfeld in Jerningham Lett. (1896) II. 391 Residing 3 years at Brussels‥at the time that it belonged to Austria and had‥the Arch D. Mary Christine for Vice-Reine.    1882 Times 27 July 5/1 Those‥who have expressed to her Highness the Vicereine and [the Khedive] himself their sympathy.    1896 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 105 The Viceroy and the Vicereine stand before Tippoo's throne, supported‥by the leading officials.

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pillion

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pillion |ˈpilyən|
noun
a seat for a passenger behind a motorcyclist.
• historical a woman's light saddle.
• historical a cushion attached to the back of a saddle for an additional passenger.
PHRASES
ride pillion travel seated behind a motorcyclist.
ORIGIN late 15th cent. (denoting a light saddle): from Scottish Gaelic pillean, Irish pillín ‘small cushion,’ diminutive of pell, from Latin pellis ‘skin.’

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squaller

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squaller

(ˈskwɔːlə(r))

[f. squall v.1 + -er1.]

One who squalls or screams; one addicted to squalling; esp. a screaming child.

   1687 Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Squawler, Celui. qui crie.    1760 Ann. Reg. 220 Italian squallers oft disgrace the stage.    1796 Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 538, I don't mind nosegays, nor these little squallers [nightingales].    1816 M. W. Shelley in Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 62 Tell me, shall you be happy to have another little squaller?    1841 Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 24 Mothers always sent for him to calm refractory squallers.    1872 ‘A. Merion’ Odd Echoes Oxf. 42 Fifty babies too, Warranted loud squallers.

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effulgence

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effulgent |iˈfoŏljənt; iˈfəl-|
adjective poetic/literary
shining brightly; radiant.
• (of a person or their expression) emanating joy or goodness.
DERIVATIVES
effulgence |əˈfʊldʒəns| |iˈfʊldʒəns| |əˈfəldʒəns| |iˈfəldʒəns| noun
effulgently |əˈfʊldʒəntli| |əˈfəldʒəntli| |iˈfʊldʒəntli| |iˈfəldʒəntli| adverb
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from Latin effulgent- ‘shining brightly,’ from the verb effulgere, from ex- ‘out’ + fulgere ‘to shine.’

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phthisis

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‖ phthisis Path.

(ˈθaɪsɪs, ˈfθɪsɪs)

Also 6 ptisys, -is, 7–8 pthisis, 8 phthysis.

[L. (Celsus), a. Gr. ϕθίσις wasting, consumption, f. ϕθίνειν (root ϕθι-) to decay, waste away. In mod. F. phthisie.]

A progressive wasting disease; spec. pulmonary consumption: see quot. 1873

   [1525 tr. Brunswyke's Surg. L iij b/2 Dothe the parsone falle in ptisym and to outdryeng of the naturall moystnes.    1527 Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters D j. Ptisim, that is a brethe comynge of the longues.]    1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. (1586) 448 Phthisis, in greke signifieth wasting‥a consumption as we call it.    1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 728 Another kind of disease with which birds are troubled, is called the subtle disease, Pthisis.    1793 Beddoes Consumption 130 The inconsiderable number of sailors who die of phthisis.    1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 300 By pulmonary phthisis is understood a disease of the lungs which is characterized by progressive consolidation of the pulmonary texture, and by the subsequent softening and disintegration of the consolidated tissue.

attrib.    1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 157 In several towns the phthisis death-rate had undergone a notable decrease since the introduction of an improved system of sewerage.    1901 Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 2/1 A number of phthisis patients.

b.b With defining word, applied to tuberculosis of various organs.

   1846 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 92, I made an analysis of pus which was discharged with the urine in [a case of] phthisis vesicæ.    1893 Syd. Soc. Lex., Abdominal Phthisis‥1. Intestinal tuberculosis‥2. Peritoneal tuberculosis.    Ibid., Dust Phthisis, a variety of fibroid phthisis set up by‥dust‥in certain industries.

c.c fig.

   1881 J. Martineau Ess., etc. (1891) IV. 302 The delirium of passion, the grasp of cupidity, the phthisis of romance.

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debouch

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debouch, v.

(dɪˈbuːʃ, ‖debuʃ)

Also debouche.

[mod. a. F. débouche-r, in 17th c. desboucher, OF. desbouchier (13th c.), f. dé-:—des-, L. dis- (see de- I. 6) + bouche mouth. Cf. It. sboccare ‘to mouth or fall into the sea as a river’ (Florio).]

1.1 Milit. (intr.) To issue from a narrow or confined place, as a defile or a wood, into open country; hence gen. to issue or emerge from a narrower into a wider place or space.

   [1665 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 161 We have hardly any words that do so fully express the French‥ennui, bizarre, débouche‥ Let us therefore‥make as many of these do homage as are like to prove good citizens.]    1760 Lond. Mag. XXIX. 177 We saw the column of infantry debouching into Minden plain.    1812 Examiner 24 Aug. 531/2 These two companies gave the‥cavalry time to debouche.    1813 Ibid. 7 June 355/2 General Bertrand‥appearing to intend debouching from Jaselitz upon the enemy's right.    1840 Barham Ingol. Leg.: Leech of Folkestone (1877) 370 The travellers debouched on the open plain on Aldington Frith.

fig.    1839 Times 4 Oct., Mr. Labouchere debouches upon the cabinet.

2.2 transf. Of a ravine, river, etc.: To issue as at a mouth or outlet into a wider place or space.

   1834 Medwin Angler in Wales I. 168 This little stream that debouches from the lake.    1850 B. Taylor Eldorado xxii. (1862) 236 The ravine finally debouched upon the river at the Middle Bar.    1878 H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. viii. 167 Nakidino Creek, into which an important stream debouches.

3.3 trans. (causal). To lead forth into open ground; to provide an outlet for.

   1745 D. Forbes in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. IV. 355 No more than a hundred and fifty or a hundred and sixty of the Mackenzies have been debouched.    1844 W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xxiii. (1855) 190 Huge outlets which débouche the waters.

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inveigle

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(ɪnˈviːg(ə)l, ɪnˈveɪg(ə)l)

Forms: α. 6 envegel, -vegle, (-veugle), 6–8 enveigle, (6 -veighle, 7 -veygle), 7–8 enveagle. β. 5 invegel, 6–7 -vegle, 6–8 -veagle, (7 inveighle), 6– inveigle.

[In 15–16th c. envegle (rarely enveugle), app. a corruption of an earlier *avegle, aveugle, a. F. aveugler to blind, f. aveugle, OF. also avuegle:—late pop.L. aboculum, f. ab- away from, without + ocul-us eye. The word appears to have been analysed as a-vegle, and this by exchange of prefixes, made en-vegle, as in some other words: cf. enbraid = abraid, enorn = aorn, adorn; cf. esp. L. exemplum, OF. essample, ME. *esaumple, asaumple, corruptly ensample. It is probable that some analogy suggested the prefix en-, whence the Latinized in-. The stem-vowel ē is normal: cf. people = F. peuple, L. populus.]

†1.1 trans. To blind in mind or judgement; to beguile, deceive, cajole. Obs.

2. a.2.a To gain over or take captive by deceitful allurement; to entice, allure, seduce.

†b.2.b To entrap, ensnare, entangle. Obs.

c.2.c With complemental extension: To draw (any one) by guile into (to, from, etc.) action, conduct, a place, etc.; away, in; †to do something.

d.2.d In good or neutral sense: To beguile.

e.2.e colloq. To cajole one out of something.

f.2.f To force (something) upon a person by cajolery, etc. rare.

Hence inˈveigled ppl. a. (in quot. in sense ‘inveigling’), {inˈveigling} vbl. n. and ppl. a.