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Oxford English Dictionary

Realizations (251)

Shift Language Lexeme Source Target Page
#1606 English Gipsy Gipsy (male and female) → (with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement) to travel from place to place
#3056 Old English late slow — late
#2128 English cold having a low temperature → weapon that does not use explosives or fir
#1405 English glamour enchantment; magic — an attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing
#3045 Old English wolcn cloud → (in the plural) the sky, the heavens
#1605 English Gipsy gypsy (male and female) → (obsolete) a person who acts in a disreputable, unscrupulous, or deceptive manner
#2096 English soldier soldier → water soldier
#1317 English set (Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) to sit (be in a seated position) → of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates
#1405 English enchant to put (someone or something) under a spell → to fill (someone) with great delight; charmfill (someone) with great delight; charm
#601 English wood substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel — forested area
#728 English bottom lowest part of anything; bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea — (euphemistic) the buttocks
#2074 English plant to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow — an organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis
#2664 English hog hog → hedgehog
#3045 Middle English ski, skie, sky cloud → sky
#7636 English gander goose → fool, simpleton
#3845 English literally in a literal way or sense → “used for emphasis rather than being actually true”
#29 English catch to grasp, seize → to become infected
#1407 English hawk hawk (Accipiter) → hawkweed (Hieracium)
#4245 English potato sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) → potato
#4263 English nameless nameless → (rare) ring finger
#4465 English gay cheerful → gay
#4725 English falcon falcon → small cannon developed in the late 15th century
#5302 English pig pig (Sus scrofa) → (derogatory, slang) police officer
#5305 English cabbage edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves → (slang) money
#5672 English cell cell (of honeycomb) → cell (in biology)
#6151 Middle English pineapple pinecone → tropical plant, Ananas comosus
#6152 English pineapple tropical plant, Ananas comosus → hand grenade
#6306 English porcelain (rare) cowrie → porcelain
#2822 English bilberry European blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) → Vaccinium uliginosum
#5004 English chord (dated) string of a musical instrument → harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously
#6908 English turkey (originally, now obsolete) guinea fowl → bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated)
#6911 English Guinea country in West Africa → any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges
#6911 English Turkey country at the intersection of Europe and Asia on the Mediterranean → (originally, now obsolete) the guinea fowl
#2074 Old English plantian to plant, put (a seed or plant) in the ground → young tree or shrub, herb newly planted
#7858 English hog pig (Sus scrofa) → capybara
#7858 English pig pig (Sus scrofa) → capybara
#7937 English fire (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering — occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger
#7986 English humor, humour mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim → quality of being amusing, comical, funny
#8025 English silver silver → mercury
#8076 English currant raisin, small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4 mm in diameter when dried → fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red
#8231 English mallow Malva → Althaea officinalis
#8390 English Gipsy Gipsy → (obsolete, rare) to steal; to pilfer or filch
#8053 English Egyptian person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent → (obsolete) Gipsy
#8053 Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος Egyptian → Romani person
#8053 Dutch Egyptenaar Egyptian → Romani person
#4686 English blind blind → caecum (blind gut)
#6796 English eye an organ through which animals see → reproductive bud in a potato
#7203 English bee flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey → any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.
#4542 English ring round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger → finger between the middle finger and little finger
#8462 English willow willow → species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia
#9599 English white white → medieval plate armour
#525 English tongue tongue (body part) → long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake; in a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot
#8524 English conscience (obsolete) consciousness → conscience, scruples
#1055 English black lead lead, plumbum — (obsolete) tin
#8580 English gun very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol; a less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun — (military) a cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity; (military) a cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more
#8597 English glass glass (material) → magnifying glass or telescope
#8613 English radius line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center → ong bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb
#8657 English sister sister → Pleiades
#8637 English seven seven → Pleiades
#3671 English visitor someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest → (euphemistic slang) the menstrual period
#3500 English chair item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person → (often with definite article) someone who presides over a meeting, board
#3283 English compass pair of compasses (technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. As dividers, it can also be used as a tool to mark out distances, in particular, on maps) → magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction in regards to the geographic cardinal points. The structure of a compass consists of the compass rose, which displays the four main directions on it: East (E), South (S), West (W) and North (N).
#8708 English fire fire → (dermatology) a spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas
#8708 English fire fire → erysipelas
#8717 English grenade (obsolete) pomegranate → hand grenade
#8723 English skirt an article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body — an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms
#8733 English parrot parrot → (archaic) puffin
#8734 English tomnoddy fool — puffin
#8736 English puffin (now obsolete) the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.] → Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. [from 17th c.]
#4503 English bolt small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult → belemnite
#8742 English elf any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting → belemnite
#8741 English thunder loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt → belemnite
#8786 English eye organ through which animals see → a hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed
#8789 English foot biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg; specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking → basic measure of rhythm in a poem
#2544 English superior located above → higher in rank, status
#6257 English vein blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart → sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock
#8919 English vein blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart → in leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
#873 English harsh hard, solid → severe, harsh
#6153 English apple apple → pineapple
#8930 English colt young male horse → (cricket, slang) a professional cricketer during his first season
#8955 English bone Any of the components of an endoskeleton → campfire, bonfire
#1070 English cat domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet → type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar
#289 English cattle domesticated animals of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc) → small egret, Bubulcus ibis, of the heron family (Ardeidae)
#9000 English right (archaic) straight, not bent → having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines
#60 English right (archaic) straight, not bent — opposite of left
#9001 English right (archaic) straight, not bent → vertical
#9003 English straight тot crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length → angle that is equal to 180°
#6623 Anglo-Norman suite pursuit (act of pursuing) → (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive); to be suitable or apt for one's image
#9030 English columbine (archaic) pertaining to a dove or pigeon → columbine (Aquilegia)
#9031 English nightcap warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread → columbine (Aquilegia)
#9031 English bonnet type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin → columbine (Aquilegia)
#1394 English donkey domestic animal, Equus asinus, similar to a horse → fool
#2931 English beat to strike, hit → (slang, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
#2679 English snipe any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago — fool
#11 Middle English tale to calculate, count → to tell, narrate 3173
#1706 English sow female pig → wood-louse
#9050 English louse small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea → terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark
#9057 English testament solemn, authentic written instrument, by which a person declares his or her wishes as to the disposal of his or her estate and effects after death, for the benefit of specified heirs → Testament (Christianity)
#4713 English back rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly → book spine
#4713 English spine series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen → narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name
#540 English head part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs → part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline
#9078 English puff to swell with air; to be dilated or inflated → puffball
#2484 English inch unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm → geometrid (caterpillar)
#9100 English feel to use or experience the sense of touch — to experience an emotion or other mental state about
#3813 English archer one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow → (historical, obsolete) bishop (chess)
#1728 English cucumber cucumber → Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, a long, slender variety of muskmelon which resembles a cucumber in taste and inner appearance
#2678 English small small → quiet (vs. loud)
#9140 English queen female monarch; wife or widow of a king. → chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally
#1970 English crown royal, imperial or princely headdress → top of a tree
#1546 English comb toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place → structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey
#9166 English shadow shadow → to put smb. under surveillance
#9167 English shady shady → of dubious legality
#9168 English grey grey → of dubious legality
#9170 English butter soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk → flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring
#4993 English rib any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum → any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull
#9172 English cone cone (fruit) → cone (geometr.)
#739 English to lead to lead → to govern, control, rule
#9175 English vestige trace → to investigate
#2895 English yoke bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc. → (chiefly Kent, archaic) An area of arable land, specifically one consisting of a quarter of a suling, or around 50–60 acres (20–24 hectares); hence, a small manor or piece of land
#9185 English plough plough, ard → (British) Big Dipper
#9184 English dipper cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop → Big Dipper
#9186 English wain four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen → Big Dipper
#9186 Middle English wayn carriage → Big Dipper
#9186 Old English wǣn carriage → Big Dipper
#3816 English bishop an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory → chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines
#9212 Old English ēare scissors → earwig (Forficula auricularia)
#5295 English white white — (obsolete) tin
#9251 English baby very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered → a term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse; (informal) a form of address to a person considered to be attractive
#7432 English piss (colloquial) to urinate → (dated) ant
#9303 English lemon yellowish citrus fruit and a semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits → perennial herb, of species Melissa officinalis, of southern Europe
#7011 English slug any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell → habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; slow; having little motion; having no power to move oneself; inert
#7011 English snail any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell → (informal) a slow person; a sluggard.
#8449 English bypass to pass by going around → to ignore the usual channels or procedures
#1865 English circumvent to bypass → to outwit, outsmart
#9330 English duck aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet → long-necked medical urinal for men
#9368 English carrion rotting flesh of a dead animal or person → (figurative, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person
#2763 English tear to rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate → to move or act with great speed, energy, or violence
#3784 English penny bun small bun that sells for a penny → Boletus edulis
#9380 English fault (obsolete) want; lack; absence → error, mistake
#3508 Old English wanten to be necessary → to wish for or desire (something)
#4609 English Jesuit (Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus → (obsolete) A crafty person; an intriguer
#9397 English corn (Commonwealth English, but not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region → (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays
#5452 English millet proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) → durra (Sorghum bicolor)
#5926 English grain single seed of grass food crops → any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times
#5706 English fore- front, ahead → index finger
#9404 Old English standan to stand → to understand
#9404 English forstand to stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way → (UK dialectal) to understand, comprehend
#9428 English tree perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, leaves and branches → (archaic outside Christianity) a cross
#9480 English horn hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired → wind musical instrument
#1172 English sore causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive → very, of high degree
#9518 English cataclysm great flood → sudden, violent event
#9551 English kettle vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid → kettle hole, a depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it
#5482 English Luna (chiefly science fiction or poetic) the name of Earth's moon; Moon → (obsolete, alchemy) silver
#5769 French funquer, funquier to smoke, reek → to emit an offensive smell; to stink
#3746 English sit to be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks → the part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting
#4709 English Bill given name → (British, slang) police officer
#4709 English Dibble family name → (slang, British, originally Manchester) police officer, especially one serving with Greater Manchester Police
#9573 English bug bug (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera; (informal) any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest → concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
#337 English shock to subject to a shock wave or violent impact — to cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset
#9577 English full containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space availabl → to satisfy, carry out, bring to completion
#4435 English bone any of the components of an endoskeleton → with little flesh; skinny, thin
#9578 English ball solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass; object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid → (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) testicle
#9586 English mount to get upon; to ascend; to climb → to mount a horse
#9600 English mother female parent → Leonurus
#9604 English lion big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe → motherwort (Leonurus)
#9613 English alpha alpha → alpha-male
#9617 English line path through two or more points); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight → (USA) queue
#3819 English fool (historical) a jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court → (rare) chess bishop
#9638 English sugar sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink → term of endearment
#9650 English stone stone (piece of rock) → playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go
#7060 English rubber pliable material natural or synthetic → (Canada, US, slang) condom
#9673 Medieval Latin oleum oil → petroleum, oil
#9690 French pétrole petroleum → gasoline (motor fuel)
#9679 English crow bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call → Any of many plants, mostly of subgenus Ranunculus subg. Batrachium, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foo
#9710 English butter soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk → Ranunculus
#9722 English stick insects ofelongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton → any of insects the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs
#9723 English honey sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans → dear, darling
#9727 English ignore (obsolete) not to know → to deliberately not listen or pay attention to
#9759 English room (archaic) a particular portion of space; sufficient space for or to do something → separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling
#9776 English charge to load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder → to replenish energy (of a battery or a device containing a battery)
#9786 English head part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs → the source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning
#9793 English Jew member or descendant of the Jewish people → (derogatory) a miserly or greedy person; a cheapskate
#9796 English back that which is farthest away from the front — rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
#2203 English camp outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures → (obsolete) army
#4959 English hobby horse a child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse's head mounted on a stick → an activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time
#9817 Late Latin lambo, lambere to lick → lamprey (Petromyzontidae)
#474 English look to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. → evil eye
#474 Latin oculus eye → evil eye
#2791 English chameleon small to mid-size reptile, of the family Chamaeleonidae, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue → person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances
#5052 English vocation (Ecclesiastical) a divine calling to establish one's lifestyle → an occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified
#9849 English Bible main religious text in Christianity → omasium
#9849 Latin Psalterium The Book of Psalms → omasium
#9851 English honeycomb substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce → reticulum (zoology)
#9856 English bonnet type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin → reticulum (zoology)
#9857 English paunch belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one — rumen
#9857 English tripe entrails — rumen, when prepared for food
#783 English fall asleep to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep → (poetic, euphemistic) to die (often seen on gravestones)
#6588 English harvestman person who works to gather in the crops at harvest time → an order of terrestrial, non-venomous arachnids with often very long legs: Opiliones; any individual of this order
#2852 English hero hero → protagonist in a work of fiction
#3624 English fool fool → (historical) a jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court
#9880 English leper person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease → person who is shunned, a pariah
#9882 English sponge any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. → a piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic)
#7837 English stag adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult → any of numerous large beetles of the family Lucanidae, the males having elaborate mandibles resembling the antlers of a stag especially, the beetle of species Lucanus cervus.
#9894 English stigma a mark on the body → sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination
#9899 English go to go, walk → to continue
#9936 English vulgar (historical or derogatory) having to do with ordinary, common people → obscene
#9938 Latin Adam Adam → Adam's apple
#9938 English Adam the first man and the progenitor of the human race → the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence
#9999 English Saint Anthony saint → 1. medieval name for ergotism, 2. erysipelas, 3. herpes zoster
#10034 English oblivion the state of forgetting completely → (obsolete) amnesty
#10034 English amnesty forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. — act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection
#10037 Old Saxon aƀand, aband evening → the evening star, i.e. Venus as seen in the early evening
#10037 Old High German ābant evening → the evening star, i.e. Venus as seen in the early evening
#10037 Old Norse aptan evening → the evening star, i.e. Venus as seen in the early evening
#10047 English vine (especially UK) climbing plant that produces grapes → vine (any climbing plant)
#10049 English spin to rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction → to make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together
#10096 English chain series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal → unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres
#10089 English frog <animal> → leapfrog
#10132 Portuguese zebra zebra ← wild horse
#3142 English prise cost required to gain possession of something — An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort
#6433 English left-handed using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right → awkward or maladroit
#10160 English world The Universe → concerned with secular rather than sacred matters
#10161 English enlighten to supply with light → to make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to
#10161 English illuminate to shine light on something → to clarify or make something understandable
#10163 English temporal of or relating to time → of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical
#5922 English spoon an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle → any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill
#10172 English amber (obsolete) ambergris → amber
#10175 English puppet any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove → (figuratively) a person, country, etc, controlled by another.
#10181 English limb major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing) → branch of a tree
#6998 English skeleton the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals → (figuratively) a very thin person.
#10260 English mountain mountain → (fig) a mass, quantity, or amount impressive by its vast proportions
#10266 English tributary a nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute → a natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water
#10279 English slippery of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc. → A mushroom in genus Suillus, family Boletaceae, especially Suillus luteus; boletes, they have no gills, but release spores from tubes ending in open pores
#10280 English lion Panthera leo → cougar
#2843 English whale any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises → (figuratively) something, or someone, that is very large
#6670 English cinnabar deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion → bright red colour tinted with orange
#10294 English bunny rabbit → clump of dust
#1626 English brief short (size) ← brief
#166 English skirt separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs → (derogatory, slang) woman
#10299 English policeman police officer → speed bump
#10318 English marotte a jester's dummy, bauble or sceptre → obsession
#3437 English to fly to travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface → to escape, flee
#10404 English scutch to separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle → (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) to beat or whip; to drub.
#10404 English swingle to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks ← stripe, stroke, or lash
#10420 English penguin (obsolete or historical) an auk (sometimes especially a great auk) → any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage
#10420 English woggin great auk → penguin
#10440 Old Saxon fadar father → godfather
#10440 Middle Dutch vader father → godfather
#10447 English coal black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel → (slang, obsolete) money
#10447 Romani angar coal → (slang) money
#10512 English digest to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application — to separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme

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