carpet

en-noun

carpet (countable and uncountable, plural carpets)

→ Japanese: カーペット (kāpetto)

From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita/Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).

der

the grassy carpet of this plain

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 47:

(figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

tapijt

any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function

Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae


wave

From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “a wave”). See also waw.

cog

Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.

(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.

мексика́нска вълна́

a group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water


seraphim

/ˈsɛɹ.əˌfɪm/

From Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm), plural of שָׂרָף (śārāp̄) (often translated as "fiery ones" although meaning is uncertain); perhaps related to the root שרף (“to burn”).

Lobophora halterata, a species of geometrid moth.


canker

en-verb

canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankering, simple past and past participle cankered)

cankers (present singular third-person)
cankering (participle present)
cankered (participle past)
cankered (past)

From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).

(intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.


looper

"There ain't much to tell. I'm the king of the caddies, the greatest fucking looper who ever packed a bag."

"Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. Angie D’Annunzio: A looper? Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock."

1980, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray, Caddyshack:


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.

(specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)

teg

[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.

1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:

Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]

1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:

Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.

1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:

Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]

1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

(specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.

[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:

Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:

Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.

1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:


rivulet

From Old French riveret (“little stream”) or from Italian rivoletto, from Italian rivo, from Latin rivus.


streak

en-verb

streak (third-person singular simple present streaks, present participle streaking, simple past and past participle streaked)

streaks (present singular third-person)
streaking (participle present)
streaked (participle past)
streaked (past)

From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).

Coordinate term: flash

It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.

The fad began with a lone male running naked across the Florida State University campus several weeks ago. Students on other campuses began streaking in pairs, then groups, and were joined by some coeds.

1974 March 4, Hendrick O'Neil, “Streaking runs its course”, in UPIs 20th Century Top Stories (wire feed):


heath

en-noun

heath (countable and uncountable, plural heaths)

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From Middle English heeth, heth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).

cog

(countable) Any butterfly or moth of species:

Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.

Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath

brush-footed butterfly
brush-footed butterfly


mallow

en-noun

mallow (countable and uncountable, plural mallows)

From Middle English malwe, from Old English mealwe, borrowed from Latin malva. Compare the doublet mauve.

Gonzalo. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—
Antonio. He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed.
Sebastian. Or docks, or mallows.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 30:3-4:

Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird, / Which Phasis, or Ionia yields, / More pleasing Morsels would afford / Than the fat Olives of my Fields; / Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot, / That keep the loosen’d Body sound, / Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot, / To the just Guardian of my Ground.

1684, John Dryden, “From Horace, Epode 2”, in The Second Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 79:

1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
— Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.

The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 7, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Hallo Hallo, brain of tallow, / Guts are gone, noggin’s hollow. / Seeking sweets and marshing mallows, / Watch your back, and your candy sack.

2017 October 19, “Hallohallo”, in Circuit Break, Konami:

Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.

абэдзэкъуай

any of a group of plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae


engrailed

(heraldry) Having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards (and convex part inwards).


November moth

A moth, Epirrita dilutata, found throughout Europe and the Middle East.


inchworm

From inch + worm. So called because their gradual movement seems to be measuring the ground; compare measuring worm.

The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.


measuring worm

So called because their gradual movement seems to be measuring the ground; compare inchworm.

гу́сеница

пя́деницы крыжо́вниковой


geometer

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From Middle English gemeter, geometer, ultimately from Late Latin geōmetrēs, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure”).

(zoology) Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).


geometrid

(entomology) Any of the family Geometridae of moths


spanworm

A measuring worm or inchworm (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)


geometer moth

(entomology) a geometrid moth of family Geometridae.


geometrid moth

(entomology) Any of the various moths of the family Geometridae.


cankerworm

Either of two caterpillars, the larvae of geometrid moths, that are destructive to fruit, buds and leaves.


V-moth

(zoology) A common grey European moth, Macaria wauaria, with a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each forewing.


dropworm

The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, such as the cankerworm.


hemitheid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Hemitheidae, now considered to be the geometrid tribe Hemitheini.


macariid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Macariidae, now considered to be the geometrid tribe Macariini.


juniper worm

The larva of the juniper-twig geometer (Patalene olyzonaria), feeding upon the leaves of the juniper.


looper caterpillar

looper caterpillar (plural looper caterpillars)

The larva of any species of geometer moths (and of some species of noctuid moths) that moves with a looping gait, such as the cabbage looper.


mottled umber

A geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, found throughout much of the Palearctic region.


peppered moth

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, the common, light-coloured peppered moth stood out in the soot-covered landscape around coal plants.

2015 May 21, Victoria Schlesinger, “Backyard evolution”, in Aeon:

A light-coloured species of night-flying moth, Biston betularia.


September thorn

September thorn (plural September thorns)

(lepidopterology) The geometrid moth Ennomos erosaria.


scorched carpet

scorched carpet (plural scorched carpets)


Blomer's rivulet

Blomer's rivulet (plural Blomer's rivulets)

Named in 1832 after Charles Blomer, who had discovered the species in Britain.


black moth

Any moth of notably dark coloration, including:

Metalectra tantillus (black fungus moth)


bumblebee moth

Any of several species of moth that somewhat resemble bumblebees in coloration.

Hemaris diffinis (syn. Haemorrhagia diffinis, snowberry clearwing).


magpie moth

Any of several moths that resemble magpies in color or pattern.

Nyctemera spp. (Arctiidae), of Australasia

Anania hortulata (Pyralidae), syn. Eurrhypara hortulata), of North America;

Abraxas grossulariata (Geometridae), of North America and Europe.


scallop moth

Cepphis armataria, a North American geometrid moth.


satin carpet

Any of several species of moths, incllding:

Deileptenia ribeata, also known as the satin beauty

Ochropacha duplaris, also known as the common lutestring

Tetheella fluctuosa, also known as the satin lutestring


Portland ribbon wave

Portland ribbon wave (plural Portland ribbon waves)


sandy carpet

Perizoma flavofasciata, a geometrid moth.


Cumbrian umber

Horisme aquata, a species of moth found across Eurasia.


Alpine grassland orange

Alpine grassland orange (plural Alpine grassland oranges)

Aponotoreas insignis, a species of butterfly.


four-lined wave

four-lined wave (plural four-lined waves)

Scopula quadrilineata, a species of Canadian-American moth.


fervid plagodis

fervid plagodis (plural fervid plagodises)

Plagodis fervidaria, a species of geometrid moth.


larentiine

We report a larentiine species, Collix stellata Warren, for the first time from Korea.

2011 July 20, Sei-Woong Choi, “A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea”, in The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology:

The present study provides a first inventory of the primary type specimens of larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia.

2015 July 17, Olga Schmidt, “List of primary types of the larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia - a starting point for biodiversity assessment of the subfamily in the region”, in Biodivers Data Journal:

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.


common heath

A geometrid moth of species Ematurga atomaria, of Europe and Central Asia.


winter moth

A related species of moth, Operophtera fagata


maple pug

Eupithecia inturbata, a species of geometer moth whose caterpillars feed on maple leaves.