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)
n. (context philosophy English) In the history of Western philosophy, the shift in philosophical attention from the classical and medieval focus on themes of metaphysics to a primary focus on themes and issues relating to human knowledge, usually considered to have occurred during the period from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes (1596-1650) through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant (1724-1804).
vb. (en-third-person singular of: lash out)
vb. (en-third-person singularwhistle Dixie)
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context archaic English) help, advice, counsel. 2 (context archaic English) decision, a plan. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To govern, protect. 2 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To discuss, deliberate. 3 (label en transitive archaic or UK dialectal) To advise.
n. (plural of hallux English)
vb. (alternative form of feel ten feet tall English)
n. 1 (context photography English) any undesired image appearing at the image plane of an optical system; either a false image of the desired object, or an out-of-focus image of a bright source of light in the field of the optical system 2 (context computing English) a copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup
n. 1 (context rhetoric English) A change from one subject to another. 2 (context pathology English) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
a. Not nephritic.
n. 1 (context gaming English) A board game packaged in a small set with instructions in booklet format and counters to be cut from sheets of paper or cardboard. 2 (context video games English) A very small minigame, typically lasting for only a few seconds.
n. (context botany English) Any plant of the genus ''Papaver'', the poppy.
vb. (context intransitive English) To become less absorbent, reflective or fluorescent upon exposure to light.
n. (news ticker English)
n. (plural of endotoxemia English)
adv. (context obsolete nonce English) In a web-like manner.
n. (context mineralogy English) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, cerium, fluorine, hafnium, iron, lanthanum, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, strontium, titanium, vanadium, yttrium, and zirconium.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: eke)
n. A dialect spoken in a particular geographical region.
Usage examples of "regiolect".
The last of the flood, two days after the lowest neaps, and wind north by east.
To build a tower on a sea rock, eleven miles from shore, and barely uncovered at low water of neaps, appeared a fascinating enterprise.
We're on neaps but, with this north-easterly, the westerly tidal stream is bound to be running faster.