Wiktionary
a. (context of the hair English) In a cowlick.
n. A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
n. A hydrazine derivative and monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
n. (splat map English)
n. 1 The action of a swarm. 2 (context colloquial Canada English) A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive. vb. (present participle of swarm English)
n. One who coddles (treats with excess care).
adv. In the periosteum.
vb. (label en slang) to become angry or upset about something
n. (context biology English) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation. (Late 19th century.) (R:SOED5: page=4)
(context archaic English) avenged. v
(context obsolete English) (past participle of wreak English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: germinate)
a. Capable of being repatriated.
vb. (en-third-person singulardry out)
vb. (present participle of wog English)
n. (context Philippines English) A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
vb. (context idiomatic English) To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally
n. 1 (context obsolete English) One who study or works with the civil law. 2 (context obsolete theology English) One who rejects the moral authority of Christ but who nevertheless adheres to a moral code in line with “civil righteousness” and “good citizenship”. 3 (context obsolete English) A statesman, politician, or student of the political sciences.
n. (context chiefly in the plural English) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. 2 (context transitive figurative English) To entangle; to hamper.
a. (context dialectal or obsolete English) painful.
n. (context organic compound English) The diterpenoid carboxylic acid ''(7R,11R)-3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoic acid'' derived from chlorophyll via the related phytol
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2
n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
vb. To leave a place or a gathering while trying to avoid being seen or heard.
Etymology 1 n. 1 A ridge or low barrier. 2 A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course) 3 The texture of a piece of fabric. 4 (context nautical English) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale) 5 A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth. 6 A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. 7 A ridge on the outside of a horse collar. 8 A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip. vb. 1 To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale. 2 To give a surface a texture of wales. Etymology 2
n. Something selected as being the best, preference; choice. vb. to choose, select.
n. (cx video games English) A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the aren
v
1 To sound very loudly. 2 (context telephony English) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
vb. (en-past of: lash out)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: desecularize)
Usage examples of "desecularizes".
An thou art afeard, thou knave, thou needst never look upon my face or speak to me more!
Before leaving he took me and Lord Pembroke aside, and begged me to contrive that the two knaves should not come to his house the followifig day.
A week afterwards the knave met me as I was walking by myself, and begged me to follow him to place where we should be free from observation, as his sword had somewhat to say to mine.
I did it but to show these ignorant, prejudiced knaves how they might help each other when these cowardly caitiffs come against us with sarbacanes and poisoned shafts.
I was perfectly aware that I could put the two knaves under lock and key, but I did not want to do so.
SPAIN CHAPTER I I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna--The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order--Zavoiski at Munich--My Stay at Augsburg--Gasconnade at Louisburg--The Cologne Newspaper--My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle The greatest mistake a man that punishes a knave can commit is to leave the said rogue alive, for he is certain to take vengeance.
Two years later she married a shoemaker, by name Pigozzo--a base, arrant knave who beggared and ill-treated her to such an extent that her brother had to take her home and to provide for her.
She threw herself, crying bitterly, on a chair, entreated me to forgive her, assuring me that she was innocent, and that she was not present when the knave had given the names.
I had no reason to dread the arrival of a new companion, and all I had to do was to manage my knave.
Tiretta told me they were a pair of knaves who had won thirty or forty louis of him by means of the book, which he handed to me.
The wind continued to lash the sea into fury for the two following days, and the knave contrived to persuade the sailors who listened to him that the hurricane would not abate as long as I was on board.
The general himself must esteem you, for he cannot forget what you told him of that knave.
I told him my story, without adding that the knaves were to be arrested, and his advice delivered with philosophic calm was to make an autoda-fe of the four notes.
The knave floated his rostrum over to the lepidopter, taking a drink from a flask the slavetaker offered him.
Captain Myngs would be found no better than he is, a proud-speaking vain fool, and a knave in cheating the State and robbing merchants.